Lone Pine Foundation
Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets forth the privacy practices of the Lone Pine Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) with respect to our collection, use, sharing, and disclosure of Personal Information, including, but not limited to, Personal Information collected through this website (the “Website”), how it is used, and the circumstances under which it may be shared and disclosed.  This Privacy Policy constitutes a legally binding agreement between you and the Foundation that conditions your use of the Website, where and as permitted by applicable law.

If you are a California resident, please read our Privacy Notice for California Consumers below.

1. Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Website and during our ordinary business activities, the Foundation may collect or ask you to provide certain nonpublic personal information (“Personal Information”) in order to help us manage our relationship with you and serve your needs.  The Personal Information we may collect from you may include personally identifiable information including names, residential or business addresses, or other contact details, signature, nationality, tax identification or passport number, date of birth, place of birth, photographs, copies of identification documents, or other personal information.

2. Sources of Personal Information

We may collect Personal Information from:

• Your communications with us;
• Your grants from us;
• Your use of our Website;
• Services providers;
• Affiliates;
• Your agents and representatives; and
• Government entities and other governmental sources and records, and other publicly available information.

3. How We Use Personal Information

We use Personal Information for the following business purposes:

• To provide our services;
• To process your requests and inquires;
• To offer new services;
• To process grants;
• For relationship maintenance;
• To confirm your identity;
• To communicate with you;
• To improve the Website;
• To protect the security and integrity of the Website;
• To prevent or investigate fraud or other unlawful activity, and detect security incidents; and
• To comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements.

4. How We Share Personal Information

Your privacy is important to us.  The Foundation does not disclose any Personal Information to nonaffiliated third parties, except to service or manage a client’s account or as permitted by law.  We do not sell any Personal Information.

5. How We Protect Personal Information

The Foundation seeks to carefully safeguard Personal Information.  We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that Personal Information is kept secure and safe from any loss or unauthorized disclosure or use.  We restrict access to our client’s Personal Information to employees requiring that Personal Information to provide our products or services. 

6. Use of Cookies

We may send text files (e.g., “cookies” or other cached files) or images to your web browser to collect and/or store information on your computer.  Such text files and images are used to support the operation of our digital offerings and for the technical convenience to store information on your computer.  We may use information stored in such text files and images to customize your experience on our Website and to monitor use of our Website. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie.  Many web browsers also allow you to block cookies.  If you block cookies you may not be able to access certain parts or use all features of our Website.  You can disable cookies from your computer system by following the instructions on your browser or at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact the Foundation at support@lpcap.com or 203-618-1400.

Privacy Notice For California Consumers

Last updated: March 2023

This notice contains disclosures required by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). Terms defined in the CPRA have the same meaning when used in this notice. This notice is only relevant to California residents (“consumers” or “you”). If you are a California consumer with a disability and cannot access this Privacy Policy for California Consumers in this format, please call 1-888-Pine-222 or email compliance@lpcap.com and a paper or electronic version of this notice will be made available to you.

Information We Collect.  In the past 12 months, we have collected and shared for a business purpose the following categories of personal information (“Personal Information”):

Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available, de-identified/ aggregated, or subject to HIPAA or GLBA.

We collect Personal Information from the following categories of sources: 

• Your communications with us;
• Your grants from us;
• Your use of our website;
• Services providers;
• Affiliates;
• Your agents and representatives; and
• Government entities and other governmental sources and records, and other publicly available information.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit or sell Personal Information from anyone under the age of 16 without the prior consent of a parent or guardian.

Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information.  We may collect or use Personal Information for one or more of the following purposes:

• Providing you with information about our services;
• Providing you with performance and other updates;
• One or more of the following business purposes:
  • Performing services (for us or our service provider or contractor) such as providing grants;
  • Auditing related to our interactions with you;
  • Legal compliance;
  • Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
  • Debugging;
  • Internal research for technological improvement;
  • Internal operations;
  • Activities to maintain and improve our services; and
  • Short-term, transient use, such that the personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about you. 

Sharing Personal Information.  We may disclose Personal Information in one or more of the categories identified above to:

• Service providers, including but not limited to: administrators, lenders, banks, brokers, auditors, law firms, consultants, and placement agents;
• Affiliates;
• Business partners;
• Legal or government regulatory authorities as required by applicable law;
• In connection with a potential business transfer; and
• Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose such information in connection with services we provide to you.

In the past 12 months, we have not sold Personal Information to third parties.

Length of Time. We will keep your Personal Information for as long as necessary to comply with our regulatory obligations.

Rights of California Consumers.  The CPRA provides a California consumer the following rights, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

• The right to request: (a) the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we collect about you; (b) the categories of sources from which we collect your Personal Information; (c) our business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling or sharing your Personal Information; (d) the categories of Personal Information disclosed for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed; (e) the categories of your Personal Information (if any) that we have either sold, shared, or disclosed.
• For certain categories of Personal Information, the right to request a list of what we disclosed to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes in the past 12 months and the names and addresses of those third parties.
• The right to request that we delete your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions.
• The right to opt out of our sale(s) (if any) of your Personal Information.
• The right to request we correct any inaccurate Personal Information maintained about you.
• The right to limit our use of your sensitive personal information to only use that is necessary to perform the services expected or provide the goods reasonably expected.
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CPRA rights.

You may submit requests relating to your exercise of CPRA rights to us via:

Phone (203) 618-1400

or

email compliance@lpcap.com.

You may only make a verifiable request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. All verifiable requests must provide (1) enough information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative and (2) sufficient detail that allows us to properly evaluate and respond to it.

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Questions

If you have questions regarding this Notice, please contact us at compliance@lpcap.com.