Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products/service, or protect our rights.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

It is The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s websites choose to interact with The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation in ways that require The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s behalf or to provide services available at The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation website and have supplied your email address, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and our products. We primarily use email to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation uses cookies to help The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation identify and track visitors, their usage of The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation website, and their website access preferences. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s website, with the drawback that certain features of The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Security of your Personal Information

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Privacy Policy Change

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s sole discretion. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.