PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
This Web site is owned and operated by Global Heritage Fund. Our intention
is to provide an informative tool for those interested in cultural heritage
preservation and as a means of allowing our constituency to become more
involved in our mission. We recognize that visitors to our site may be
concerned about the information they provide to us and how we treat that
information. Global Heritage Fund is committed to honoring our constituents'
privacy preferences.

To this end, the Global Heritage Fund supports the following principles:

Consumer Choice

We believe a visitor to our site is the one to best determine:

• When-and under what conditions-to provide "personally identifiable
  information" (e.g. data that may be used to identify, contact, or locate a
  person).
• When such information may be shared with other organizations.
• When to remain anonymous.

Informed Consent

If personally identifiable information is collected, we believe a visitor to
our site has the right to:

• Know when we are collecting personal information.
• Know what personal information is collected, and the purpose of collection.
• Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not personal information will be
  provided to any third parties.
• Expect reasonable steps to be taken to protect personal information from
  unauthorized use.
• Review the accuracy of personal information and update it.

PRIVACY POLICY

Your right to privacy is very important to us. We recognize that providing
us with personal information is an act of trust. Therefore, we have created
a privacy policy to protect your personal information.

This policy covers Web sites owned or operated by Global Heritage Fund. We
encourage you to take the time to read this privacy policy and those of any
Web site you visit.

Below is a summary of the Global Heritage Fund's online privacy policy.

Personal Information Collected
In general, when you visit our Web sites and access information you remain anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information to us to view our site.

There are occasions when we will ask for additional information. We do this to better understand and respond to your needs, and provide you with services that may be valuable to you. For example, personally identifiable information will be collected in order for you to become a member of Global Heritage Fund online.

Use of Information
Personally identifiable information is made available to other non-profit organizations and occasionally to for-profit organizations unless you request otherwise. Whether or not you choose to share your information will have no impact on your interaction with us. Members may choose a confidentiality option on every request for information. We will not provide any of your personal information to other organizations if you elect to keep your record private.

Security of Your Credit Card Information
We will take appropriate steps to protect your privacy. We will also protect your personal information in storage. For example, if you supply us with your credit card information to become a member or make a donation, we
encrypt the card number. Contributions may also be made by printing out the online form and mailing it to:

Attn: Member Services
Global Heritage Fund
629 Emerson Street, Suite 200
Palo Alto, California 94301 USA

or calling our Member Service Center between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PST at (650) 325-7520

Links to Third Party Sites
We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites.

Cookies
What are "Cookies"?

"Cookies" are small files sent from a Web server to your computer through your browser program. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent and persistent cookies.

A non-persistent cookie enables a Web site to temporarily keep information on your computer as you travel from one page to another on our site. This cookie is automatically deleted from your machine when you close your browser. Because these cookies are necessary to provide some functions, failure to allow such cookies may make some of the functions on our Web site unavailable to you.

A persistent cookie is kept even when you close your browser. You can manually delete these cookies using commands specific to your browser and computer system. These cookies store information that would generally not change from session to session. They also contain information that would need to be reentered by you each time you visit the Web site. For example, a common use of persistent cookies is to allow a registered site visitor to enter the site without having to specify their user-id and password.

Use of Cookies
Global Heritage Fund uses cookies for various reasons. Global Heritage Fund only reads cookies written by our site. It does not use cookies to obtain information on other Web sites that you may visit. We may use cookies to
store some history about the parts of our sites that you have visited to help you navigate our site more easily or to alert you to related pages on our site that may interest you.

How to unsubscribe from Global Heritage newsletters or our Email List If at any time you wish to stop receiving our electronic newsletter, Global Heritage, or to be removed from our email list, you can unsubscribe from that list as explained in each message. We do not share email addresses with other organizations.

Electronic Mail sent to us containing personal information You may decide to send Global Heritage Fund personally identifying information, for example, in a message containing information about your membership. We will only use this information to identify you as a member of Global Heritage Fund and to determine how to respond to the electronic mail. We will not use this information for any purpose other than to resolve the matter identified in the email.

Questions
Global Heritage Fund welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure.

If you have any questions, please contact us at comments@globalheritagefund.org.

You can help the Global Heritage Fund maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your address, title, phone number or email address. To update your membership file, email us at members@globalheritagefund.org, or write us at:

Attn: Member Services

Global Heritage Fund
625 Emerson Street, Suite 200
Palo Alto, California 94301 USA

The information you provide to us will also be covered by this policy.

Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may occasionally update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this site. A revised Privacy Policy will apply only to data collected subsequent to its effective date.

Last Revised: Jan 1, 2004

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