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The Jed Foundation respects your right to know how we collect and user your personal information. We have adopted and implemented this privacy policy as part of our commitment to protecting your personal information from misuse.

What information does The Jed Foundation collect?

The Jed Foundation websites (including “jedfoundation.org,” “halfofus.com,” “transitionyear.org,” “ulifeline.org,” “loveislouder.com,” “jedcampus.org,” and “lawlifeline.org”) may offer you registration forms, or other forms that ask users to provide contact information or demographic information.

The Jed Foundation may also gather anonymous information, which may be used by us or shared with third parties. This is information that does not personally identify you, but that may be helpful for improving the services we offer.

From time to time, we may use the standard “cookies” feature of major browser applications that allows us to store data about your visit. Cookies help us learn which areas of our site are useful and which areas need improvement. We do not set any personally identifiable information in cookies, nor do we employ any data capture mechanisms on our web site other than cookies. You may configure your web browser to prevent cookies from being set on your computer.

What does The Jed Foundation do with collected information?

We may use the contact information that you provide to us by filling out forms on our website to send you information about us and our services. The Jed Foundation may use your IP address (the number assigned to your computer while it is on the Internet) to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our site.

The Jed Foundation may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Jed Foundation or its subsidiaries or affiliates; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Jed Foundation or the users of The Jed Foundation, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Jed Foundation or the public.

Links to Other Sites

The Jed Foundation websites contain links to other sites. If you choose to visit other sites, The Jed Foundation is not responsible for another site’s privacy practices or content.

Security

This Jed Foundation’s sites have reasonable safeguards that are consistent with industry practice in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you.

Children’s Guidelines

The Jed Foundation respects the sensitive nature of children’s privacy online. We are a general audience site, and do not direct any of our content specifically at children under thirteen (13) years of age. If The Jed Foundation knows that a user is under age 13, we will NOT deliberately:

  1. collect online contact information from that user without prior parental consent, except where used to respond directly to the child’s request;
  2. collect personally identifiable offline contact information from that user without prior parental consent;
  3. give that user the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior parental consent;
  4. distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information of that user without prior parental consent;
  5. entice that user by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.

Access to your Profile

The Jed Foundation gives you the following options for reviewing, changing, or removing your information from our database in order to stop receiving future communications or to no longer receive our service:

  1. You can send email to: info@jedfoundation.org
  2. You can send mail to the following postal address:

    The Jed Foundation
    1140 Broadway, Suite 803
    New York, NY 10001

Contacting The Jed Foundation

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with The Jed Foundation, please feel free to contact:

The Jed Foundation
1140 Broadway, Suite 803
New York, NY 10001
info@jedfoundation.org