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Privacy Policy

You can be confident that the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center's policy on privacy is held to high standards and that we take this matter very seriously. We will not share with any third parties any personally identifiable information you supply us (including – and especially– your e-mail address). Additionally, this site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

The following privacy policy is for all pages starting with www.gnocdc.org. Our web site has many links to other web sites; once you leave our web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.

If you have questions about this policy, please e-mail info@gnocdc.org.

Information we gather

Sign-ups for Numbers Talk newsletter

When you sign up for the Numbers Talk electronic newsletter, the only information we store with your e-mail address is the date you subscribed. Your e-mail address is kept in a database, and accessing that database requires the highest level of security clearance within the Data Center team. Right after you sign up, your e-mail address is temporarily listed on our internal, password-protected web site to alert our development team to your signing up.

You can unsubscribe from the electronic newsletter, or change your e-mail address, by clicking on the "opt out" and "manage your preferences" links at the bottom of the newsletter.

We send out newsletters only every 4-6 weeks and will never share our list with any other organization. The newsletter is a distribution list, meaning that you will only receive mailings through the list that are officially from the Data Center.

When we report to our funders and other stakeholders, we will never personally identify you as being on our list. We do tell them how many subscribers we have, and, in some cases, how many from a given organization.

Technical assistance

When you submit a technical assistance request through the web site's "Ask Allison" feature, you give us basic information about you, your organization, the project you're working on, and the data you need. This information is e-mailed to all staff at the Data Center so we can best meet your needs.

As we work on fulfilling your request for information, we keep an electronic file that summarizes our interactions with you and what we did to help answer your request. Your file is stored in a password-protected area of our internal web site, and is only available to staff and consultants of the Data Center. We use the electronic files that describe our client interactions to improve the data we offer on our web site, to assist in future interactions we may have with your organization, and to assess our effectiveness in meeting the needs of the local nonprofit community.

Our independent evaluator periodically reviews the files and may make contact with you to learn more about your interactions with the Data Center. When reporting to our funders, we do not mention specific data requests, but do detail information about total number of requests we answered, how much time we spent on a typical request, and what types of requests we received.

In some cases, our technical assistance relationship with you involves data that you bring to us. If this data is not published elsewhere and is not in the public domain, then the following policy applies.

This policy establishes the conditions under which the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (Data Center) acquires, compiles and reports data received from non-published sources.

The term “data” in this document refers to data that is not in the public domain and is acquired by the Data Center through the “data provider.” The ‘data provider” is responsible for having legal rights to release the ‘data’ to the Data Center. Once the Data Center has acquired the “data”:

1. The Data Center will not release data to a third-party without prior approval from the data provider.
2. The Data Center will not share, publish or otherwise release any findings or conclusions derived from the analysis of data without prior approval from the data provider.
3. No uses of data other than those stipulated by a written agreement between the Data Center and the data provider will occur without prior written approval from the data provider.
4. Any other party granted access to data, as permitted under condition #1 above, shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this policy. Acceptance of these terms must be provided in writing by the third-party before data will be released. The release will be jointly signed by the Data Center and the data provider to indicate acceptance of these terms.

E-mail a friend

When you use the "e-mail a friend" feature on any of our data pages or articles, an e-mail is sent to the e-mail address you specify from what appears to be your e-mail address. This set-up is currently the industry standard, and makes for easier communication with your colleagues (because they recognize the e-mail address that sent the message and can easily reply back to you).

We monitor this system closely to ensure that unwanted or harassing e-mails are not relayed through this system. Several safeguards are in place, including:

1. A maximum of 5 addresses can be entered into any single "e-mail a friend" form.
2. All "e-mail a friend" correspondences are copied to the technical administrator who manually monitors them for possible system abuse.
3. The mail server is protected so it cannot be used to relay mail from other systems.

We archive (in a highest security clearance password protected area of our internal web site) the contents of all "e-mail a friend" transmissions. The only information we use for planning and reporting, however, is the combined data about what pages are most popular to be e-mailed and how many total uses of the feature there have been.

Web site statistics tracking

When you visit our web site, the pages you visit are automatically tracked by a third-party web site statistics system. We use the information we gather on site statistics to determine how people are using our site, what pages are the most popular, which search terms get people to our site, what Internet service providers are most common, what computer systems are most common, etc. We do this through "persistent cookies" that reside on your computer. The cookies that we use are anonymous (don't include any information about you) and merely serve to identify your computer as having visited pages on our web site. This information cannot identify you individually, nor can it tell us what other sites you've been to, or which ones you go to after visiting our site. There is 0ne exception: if you click a link on another site to get to a page within www.gnocdc.org, we typically record the identity of that single referring web page or search engine.

Because the web is our main contact with the local community we serve, this information is vital for helping us better tailor the web site to local needs and interests.

We very carefully chose the third-party web site statistics system we use, and are reprinting their own privacy statements below for your assurance:

HitBox (full policy):

WSS (a.k.a. Hitbox or Web Side Story) will not gather, request, record, require, or collect any Internet users' personally identifying information from Customer or from its Pages. Customer (the Data Center) agrees that it will not use the Service to track or collect personally identifiable information of Internet users. WSS may use cookies and other anonymous identifiers and may create anonymous profiles associated with cookies or other anonymous identifiers, but WSS will not associate any data gathered from Customer's site with any personally identifying information from any source. WSS will comply with all applicable privacy laws and WSS' privacy policies stated at www.websidestory.com/privacy related to its collection of data from Customer's site. Customer understands that WSS' privacy center enables individual Internet users to "opt out" of receiving WSS cookies. Customer will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Customer's websites. Customer may notify visitors to its web sites that it is using WSS' HitBox service. Customer may, if it chooses, include a link to WSS' privacy policy within Customer's own privacy policy.