The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation is committed to safeguarding your privacy when you visit and interact on our site. This statement explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about how the information you provide us with is collected and utilized by our foundation. This Privacy Policy statement is accessible from pages on this site.
The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation is the sole owner of and the only organization that uses the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others under any circumstances, including third-party fundraising or marketing purposes. This policy also applies to information collected offline at in-person events.
Personal Information Security
The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation takes precautions to protect your personal information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data, address, email, phone number), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the ChefWilliamPetersonFoundation.org website address.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only staff who need to access sensitive information to perform a specific function (for example, billing or donor relations) are provided access to personally identifiable information. The computers, servers and cloud where we store personally identifiable sensitive information are also secure.
Cookies
Other than the specific areas outlined in this policy, the Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation does not collect personal information about users or how they use this site. The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation also does not use the information-tracking devices made possible through “cookies,” small pieces of data that may be sent to your Web browser from a server and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Online Donations
The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation collects the following information through our secure online financial-transaction pages: name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and credit card information. This personally identifiable information is used to acknowledge receipt of your donation for tax purposes and to include you on our mailing list.
When you send a donation in honor or in memory of someone and request that an acknowledgement be sent to another individual or a family, we will use the name and address of that individual or family for acknowledgement purposes only.
Offline and In-Person Donations
The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation is the sole owner of and the only organization that uses the information collected from donors in person, through the mail or other correspondence. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others under any circumstances, including third-party fundraising or marketing purposes.
Mailing List
The Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation provides a separate online form to join our mailing list. The information we collect includes names and e-mail addresses. This information is securely stored internally and accessed only when we correspond with our mailing list periodically during the year, either via e-mail or US Postal Service (USPS).
Please contact us directly by email if at any time you wish to be removed from the mailing list or if you would like to correct or change the personal information you have previously provided to us.
Changes to This Policy
If the Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation decides to amend its privacy policy, the changes will be added directly to this online statement.
Contact Us
If you have specific questions or concerns about the Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation privacy policy, please contact us at the following addresses:
Administration
Chef William-Allen Peterson Culinary Arts Foundation
PO Box 8392
Charlottesville, Virginia 22906
Tel: (434) 296.8600 Ext. 7
Email: ChefWilliamPetersonFoundation@gmail.com
Website: ChefWilliamPetersonFoundation.org, ChefWill.org
