Thank you for visiting our website and reviewing our online privacy policy. We care about the treatment of your personally identifiable information and your privacy.

This online privacy policy ("Policy") describes Water For People privacy practices for visitors to our website located at www.waterforpeople.org ("Site"), including what types of information we gather and track, how we use the information, and with whom we share the information.

This Policy covers only privacy practices with respect to information and data we collect online and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline. Please review our Donor Privacy Policy for more information about how we handle your personally identifiable information related to gifts and donations. Your use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of this Policy and your consent to the practices it describes.

The Site is managed by Water For People, located in Colorado, United States of America.

If you have any questions regarding this Policy, you may contact us at:

7100 E Belleview Ave, Suite 310
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
[email protected]
720.488.4590

Your Privacy
We are committed to respecting your privacy and recognizing your need for appropriate protection and management of your personal information (referred to as "personally identifiable information" or "PII" for short), such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and interests, that you share with us. The purpose of this Policy is to let you know what personally identifiable information we may collect from you when you visit our Site, how we use such information, and the choices you have regarding the use of, and your ability to review and correct, your personally identifiable information.

How We Collect Your Information
You can visit many of our web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. When you visit our Site, we log general data, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the name of the web page from which you entered our Site, which pages you visit on our Site, the actions you take during your visit to a particular page (for example, any links on which you click), and how much time you spend on each page. Your IP address is not linked to your personally identifiable information, and you will remain anonymous unless you voluntarily tell us who you are. If you choose to register with us or use certain features and functions of our Site, we ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information. Whether or not you elect to provide personally identifiable information is completely your own choice.

How We Use Your Information
The non-personally identifiable information we collect is used to monitor use of and improve our Site, as well as for internal analysis. In particular, IP addresses are used to diagnose problems with the server on which this information is stored, analyze trends and statistics, administer our Site, track visitors’ movement, gather information to improve visitors’ online experience, and facilitate their site visit. We may use your personally identifiable information for our own business and administrative purposes, such as responding to your questions or comments and identifying areas of user interest.

Updating or Removing Your Information
You have the right to exercise these rights:

• The right to access the personal data we hold about you
• The right to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• The right to request deletion of your personal data
• The right to restrict or object to how we use your data
• The right to receive your data in a portable format
• The right to withdraw consent at any time
• The right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority

To update or review your contact information and preferences, please visit our self-service Supporter Hub. If you wish to opt out of postal mail, email communications, or remove your data, please contact us.

Use of and Disclosure to Third Parties
Water For People will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information.

We use third parties to provide certain services for our Site, including administrative support, such as securely processing credit card transactions. In connection with providing these services, we may share your personally identifiable information with these third parties. In addition, these third parties may collect certain personally identifiable information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, interests, and, if you elect to use certain services, like making an online donation or purchasing Water For People merchandise, your credit or debit card information. Third parties retained by us to collect this information have implemented measures to collect this information and to ensure that your information is kept in a secure manner. Although we endeavor to select only reputable companies that share our commitment to user privacy, we are in no way responsible for the actions or policies of these third parties. In the unlikely event of a request for personally identifiable information from a court or law enforcement agency, we will comply with all lawful requests.

In certain instances, we may also disclose your personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, us, or others.

Other Websites
Our Site contains links to third-party websites that are provided for your convenience. We do not endorse nor are we responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies and terms of use that govern those websites when you visit them.

We may use "cookies" to track the online movements of our visitors. "Cookies" are small text files a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate and speed up the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and the delivery of customized content. Many consider the use of cookies to be industry standard. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that will allow you to deny or accept the cookie feature. If you do so, however, some areas of some pages within our Site may not function properly. We use "cookie" technology only to obtain non-personally identifiable information from our online visitors in order to improve visitors’ online experience and facilitate their visit within our Site.

International Data Transfers
If you are accessing this Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located. By using our Site, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States.

Privacy of Children
Our Site is directed towards adults, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 through our Site.

Security
To prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information, we have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial measures to safeguard and secure the information we collect through our Site. However, no data or information transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information and cannot be responsible for loss, corruption, or unauthorized acquisition of information or data submitted to our Site, or for any resulting damages.

Donor Privacy Policy
At Water For People, we respect and protect the privacy of our donors. We encourage our donors to read the Donor Privacy Policy to understand how we treat donor information. The Donor Privacy Policy is in addition to the Website Privacy Policy on this page.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Policy. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the bottom of this Policy. For material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the Site. We will not materially alter the use of your personally identifiable information without contacting you directly and seeking your consent.

Term Definitions
Site: www.waterforpeople.org

PII: Personally Identifiable Information, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, and interests shared with Water For People.

Cookies: Small text files a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate and speed up the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and the delivery of customized content.

 

Last updated June 2025.