Privacy

The Gentle Barn Foundation understands and shares your concern regarding the privacy and confidentiality of personal information submitted both on and off the Internet. The Gentle Barn Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy, and employs various methods to assure the confidentiality of your personal information.

Postal addresses

The Gentle Barn Foundation collects the applicable information submitted by the donor, including the donor’s name and mailing address. This information becomes part of The Gentle Barn Foundation’s mailing list, which allows The Gentle Barn Foundation to contact supporters directly. The Gentle Barn Foundation does not sell, rent, or exchange donor names or mailing addresses with other entities.

Email addresses, telephone numbers, and data submitted via Internet

While The Gentle Barn Foundation does collect telephone numbers and email addresses provided to us by our supporters for contact purposes, it does not sell, rent, or exchange email addresses or telephone numbers with any other entities. To protect the data you submit to us via the Internet, secure forms and encryption technology are in place for transactions on our website.

When you become a supporter and/or donor of The Gentle Barn by either donating to us or visiting us at one of our events you are opting into our communication channels. We reserve the right to reach out by phone, email, mail, or text messaging with promotional materials and information about our organization. You may opt out at any time for any or all communications channels by email us at help@gentlebarn.org. For email specifically there is an unsubscribe link provided on each email and for Text Messages you may reply to any with the phrase "STOP" and you will be removed from those respective channels.

Cookies / Tracking Technology

The Gentle Barn Foundation’s website may use cookie and tracking technology depending on the features offered. Cookie and tracking technology are useful for gathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the website, and understanding how visitors use the website. Cookies can also help customize the website for visitors. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology, however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information. Aggregate cookie and tracking information may be shared with third parties.

Third-party websites

The Gentle Barn Foundation’s website contains links to third-party websites. Though we carefully choose our third-party links, we cannot be responsible for the content of these sites, or their privacy policies. Since we cannot control third-party sites (and Web content may change after being reviewed by The Gentle Barn Foundation), please read the individual privacy policies posted on these sites prior to use.

Updated October 2015