Privacy Policy

Who we are

Remarkable Educational Assistance Foundation is A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation and an IRS-registered section 501(c)(3) charitable organization. REAF is an organization of passionate and enthusiastic supporters of education, accepting donations of funds and physical items and distributing them in hopes of making a meaningful impact on teachers and learners.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Aside from interactions you make with third party content or functions on our website, we do not make a point of sharing your data with third parties. We understand your privacy is important and know how frustrating it can be to donate to a charity only to receive a barrage of electronic or even physical spam mail, and we pledge to do our best to protect your privacy and prevent contributing to that frustrating as a result stemming from your interacting with us. Simply put: we do not sell your data, and we only share it with third parties to the extent necessary for completing transactions you initiate with us or authorize us to initiate and execute on your behalf.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information on an as-needed basis, for bona fide business purposes.

We do not collect your sensitive payment information directly as we use third party payment processing tools. As such, your payment information is only collected and handled by the third party payment processors who will be identified to you during the execution of your payment transaction, which is subject to their own use and privacy policies.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

We have a policy of limiting the sharing of your data to bona fide business purposes, and we do not make a point of sharing your data with third parties. While some elements of our site may involve the use of third party functions (e.g., videos, payment processing, etc.), it may be necessary to share some of your data in the normal course of business with them in order to facilitate the experience. In these cases, we pledge to do our best to limit the data that is shared in alignment with industry leading practices, with privacy top of mind. In addition, visitor comments that are posted on our site may be checked through an automated spam detection service, to drive the safety and security of our site and its users.