Privacy Statement

First Southwest Community Fund is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the First Southwest Community Fund website and governs data collection and usage. By using the First Southwest Community Fund website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

First Southwest Community Fund collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. First Southwest Community Fund also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP Code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by First Southwest Community Fund. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by First Southwest Community Fund for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the First Southwest Community Fund website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through First Southwest Community Fund public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: First Southwest Community Fund does not read any of your private online communications.

First Southwest Community Fund encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from First Southwest Community Fund so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. First Southwest Community Fund is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the First Southwest Community Fund and First Southwest Community Fund family of websites.

Use of Your Personal Information

First Southwest Community Fund collects and uses your personal information to operate the First Southwest Community Fund website and deliver the services you have requested. First Southwest Community Fund also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from First Southwest Community Fund and its affiliates. First Southwest Community Fund may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

First Southwest Community Fund does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. First Southwest Community Fund may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, First Southwest Community Fund may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to First Southwest Community Fund, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

First Southwest Community Fund does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

First Southwest Community Fund keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within First Southwest Community Fund, in order to determine what First Southwest Community Fund services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within First Southwest Community Fund to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

First Southwest Community Fund websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 First Southwest Community Fund or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of First Southwest Community Fund; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of First Southwest Community Fund, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The First Southwest Community Fund website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize First Southwest Community Fund pages, or register with First Southwest Community Fund site or services, a cookie helps First Southwest Community Fund to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same First Southwest Community Fund website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the First Southwest Community Fund features that you customized.

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 prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the First Southwest Community Fund services or websites you visit.

Security of Your Personal Information

First Southwest Community Fund secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. First Southwest Community Fund secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to This Statement

First Southwest Community Fund will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. First Southwest Community Fund encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how First Southwest Community Fund is protecting your information.

Contact Information

First Southwest Community Fund welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that First Southwest Community Fund has not adhered to this Statement, please contact First Southwest Community Fund at [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.