This privacy policy describes the Winchester-Frederick County Law Enforcement Foundation, Winchester Fire and Rescue Foundation, and the Winchester Parks Foundation’s (hereinafter referred to as “Foundations”) information gathering and dissemination practices.

Your Donation Supports

The Foundations are committed to protecting your privacy and providing technology that gives you the most secure and safe online experience. When you visit our website online, you remain anonymous, as we do not require registration to view our website or access information.

Your personal information will not be sold, rented, traded, or otherwise shared with third parties. We use your information only for the limited purposes of communication and for overall systems administration. Information that you provide to us by filling out online forms is located on a secure server. We have put into effect appropriate procedures to safeguard and secure information that we collect online.

In addition, our site uses the Google Analytics web analytics service. Information recorded by Analytics includes information such as how you arrived at our site (including the URL you came from, if you arrived from another site), your network name, your browser type, which type of Internet browsing device you are using, the country, state, and city where your server is located, and the pages that were viewed during your visit to our site.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this website is restricted by the Google Privacy Policy. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google’s programs.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this website is restricted by the Google Privacy Policy. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google’s programs.

Donations

Information collected is held in strict confidence and is only used by the Foundations appointed staff and committee members necessary to facilitate the project funding or scholarship awarding process.

Links to Other Sites

This website contains links to other websites. We do not endorse, approve, certify or control external websites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness or correct sequencing or information located on such sites. We encourage our users to use caution when leaving our site and read the privacy policies on each website.

Use of Cookies

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by the browser you used to access our websites. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. Please note, if you disable cookies, the performance of Council websites may be affected, and you may not be able to access certain areas on our websites. More information about cookies and how you can delete and disable them can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Specific cookies we use and what we use them for on our website includes:

• Google Analytics-The Council uses Google Analytics to understand how people use our websites and to make them better. Google Analytics may collect the IP address assigned to you when you access our website, but we do not combine that data with any other data to which we have access to personally identify you. You can access Google’s privacy policy and learn how to opt-out at https://policies.google.com/privacy and you can change your preferences or opt-out of Google Ads at https://adssettings.google.com.

Policy Changes

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time. Users are encouraged to review this policy periodically. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.