Privacy Policy

When you use our website, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including your name, email address, phone number, organization or school affiliation, areas of interest, and information you provide through contact, volunteer, partnership, food assistance, media, or other inquiry forms.

If you sign up to receive updates, we may also collect your email address and communication preferences.

Basic technical information may also be collected automatically when you visit the website, such as browser type, device type, pages visited, referring website, and general usage information through website analytics technologies.

C.H.O.W. Wagon may use the information we collect to:

• Respond to questions, requests, and inquiries.
• Connect individuals and organizations with appropriate C.H.O.W. Wagon programs or resources.
• Process volunteer, school, community partnership, media, and other interest requests.
• Provide information about programs, events, opportunities, and organizational updates.
• Improve our website, services, communications, and outreach.
• Maintain appropriate organizational and program records.
• Comply with applicable legal and administrative requirements.

We do not sell or rent your personal information.

When you make a donation through our website, your payment may be processed through a secure third-party payment provider.

C.H.O.W. Wagon does not intentionally collect or store complete credit card or banking information through standard website forms. Payment providers may collect information necessary to process your transaction according to their own privacy and security policies.

If you choose to receive email updates from C.H.O.W. Wagon, we may use your contact information to send organizational news, program information, volunteer opportunities, fundraising communications, and other relevant updates.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in those communications.

We may still contact you regarding a specific request, inquiry, donation, registration, or other transaction you initiated.

We may share information with trusted service providers that help us operate our website, communications, CRM, email, forms, analytics, donation processing, or other organizational systems.

These providers receive information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf.

We may also disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, or security of C.H.O.W. Wagon, our website visitors, or others.

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to help the site function, understand how visitors interact with our website, and improve the user experience.

Third-party analytics or technology providers may also use cookies or similar tools according to their own privacy policies.

You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings.

C.H.O.W. Wagon serves children and families through its charitable programs; however, this website is not intended to collect personal information directly from children under the age of 13 without appropriate parent, guardian, school, or organizational involvement.

If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been submitted improperly, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect information submitted through our website. However, no website, electronic transmission, or digital storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, donation platforms, social media services, or other external resources.

C.H.O.W. Wagon is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third-party services. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any external websites they visit.

You may contact us to request that we update or correct personal information you have provided to us or to ask questions about how your information is being used.

You may also unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

C.H.O.W. Wagon may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, or legal requirements.

The effective date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was most recently updated.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or C.H.O.W. Wagon's privacy practices, please contact:

C.H.O.W. Wagon

Email: info@chowwagon.org

Website: www.chowwagon.org