Privacy Policy

You may directly provide us with information about yourself, and we may invite you to do this in a number of ways:

• We may invite you to provide information about yourself if you are interested in applying to work with us.
• We may sometimes invite applications for funding, receive funding proposals, or otherwise receive information from potential grantees through our Site.

We also might collect information from you for these other reasons:

• We may ask for your feedback via surveys or other communications to better understand your interests and needs.
• We may invite you to provide your name and email address so that we can sign you up to receive updates by email and through our blog. We use a third-party provider, Mailchimp, to collect email addresses and distribute our email updates. If at any time you wish to stop receiving our electronic newsletters or other communications, or to be removed from our email list, you may unsubscribe from that list as explained in each email message.
• We may ask you to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting.
• We may use your personal information for compliance purposes, and for our internal operational improvement purposes.

We use third-party analytics tools and services, such as Google Analytics, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Website. When you visit the Website, these tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information related to your time spent on the Website. We collect and use analytics information such that it cannot reasonably be manipulated to identify any particular individual user.

We may also collect information from our web server logs. Such information could include:

• Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address
• The kind of browser or computer you use
• The number of links you click within the Site
• The state or country from which you accessed the site
• The date and time of your visit
• The name of your Internet service provider
• The web page through which you linked to our site
• The pages of our site that you viewed

We use this information to help improve your experience on the Website and to understand User preferences generally.

Additionally, we may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience on the Website.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a website, a cookie helps the website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Open Philanthropy reserves the right to share the Website’s aggregated analytics data with partner organizations, but we do not allow other organizations to place cookies on our Website. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings, this may disable some of the functionality on the Website.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires certain businesses to give California residents a number of rights regarding their personal information. We are offering these rights to you, including:

• the right to have your personal information deleted (subject to certain exceptions)
• the right to change or correct your personal information
• the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information (if applicable)
• the right to access your personal information
• the right to opt-out of the “selling” or “sharing” of personal information (if applicable)
• the right not to be discriminated against for exercising the above rights

If you are located in a jurisdiction outside the United States, please note when you provide Personal Information through the Site, you are transferring that information to the United States, whose data protection laws are not the same (although they may be similar) to those applicable in the jurisdiction where you are located. By providing your Personal Information through the Site, you are consenting to the transfer of that information to the United States as indicated above.