Disclaimer

Our Privacy Policy
effective 01/01/2004

Personal contact information we collect and what we do with it
When you are making a donation, purchasing a product, expressing an interest in referring a wish child, or subscribing to our online newsletter, we ask you for personal contact information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. We will use this contact information to provide you with information or resources you have requested, such as information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii, a receipt, or a financial report, or we will use your information to contact you to clarify or verify other information, such as an order you placed, a donation you made, or a wish child that you have referred.

We will not add your name and contact information to any mailing lists without your prior knowledge or express permission. In other words, we will always ask or inform you before adding you to a mailing list. If we do not, you will not be added. If you have agreed to be added to one of our mailing lists, such as our e-mail newsletter list or regular mailing list, then you may receive from us news about Make-A-Wish, Hawaii, and information on how you can support the organization's mission.

Personal contact information is not shared with any organization outside of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and our agents (reputable companies we use for services, such as shipping Make-A-Wish Foundation products or sending Make-A-Wish Foundation mail.

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Personal billing information we collect and what we do with it
In addition to personal contact information, we ask for billing information, such as your billing address when you make a donation or purchase.

You can view and request changes to all the information you have given us, including any mailing lists you may be on, by contacting us one of two ways:

Send a letter to:
Make-A-Wish, Hawaii
Attention: Donor Care
P.O. Box 1877
Honolulu, HI 96805

E-mail us at:
makeawish001@hawaii.rr.com

In addition, if you have subscribed to our online newsletter, you can change or cancel your subscription online.

Links to other sites
This site contains links to other sites, including ones that gather personal contact information, such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. Make-A-Wish, Hawaii, is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. However, any personal information obtained by us through other sites is treated as if it was gathered on our site, and our privacy policy applies.

Children
With respect to children, Make-A-Wish, Hawaii only collects personally identifiable contact information from children who are referring themselves as potential wish children. We contact the child's family to make an assessment of wish eligibility, but we do not share that information in any other way or with any other third parties. We do not give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information on our Web site.

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Financial transactions and our secure servers
All financial transactions on our Web site, specifically online donations and online purchases, are managed through our agent CharityWeb, which is TRUSTe certified. All transactions use an encrypted channel, take place on secure servers, and occur in real time. No financial data, such as your credit card number, is transferred via a less-secure channel, such as encrypted e-mail, for processing. Moreover, once your transaction has been completed, your credit card number is not retained.

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User Agreement

By viewing and/or using this Web site, you are agreeing to all of the terms and conditions explained below.

1. This World Wide Web site with its home page in the domains "makeawishhawaii" (the "Web site") is a complimentary information service offered by the Make-A-Wish, Hawaii at no charge to you as a user of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement. The Foundation reserves the right to change these terms and conditions any time, and you must consult the most recent version of this User Agreement (not an older cached version) each time you view the Website. Do not use the Website if you do not agree to all of the following terms and conditions.

2. You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth under the Service Marks, Copyright, and Hyperlinks sections of this Site Notice.

3. You acknowledge that the information on the Web site is provided "as is" for general information only. The Foundation makes no warranties of any kind regarding this Web site, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the server that makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.

4. You agree that you will hold harmless The Foundation and its officers, directors, and employees from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Web site or the information contained in this Web site or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed, or downloaded from this Web site or another Web site to which it is linked to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will The Foundation or the contributors of information to this Web site be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special, or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

5. You acknowledge that opinions and recommendations contained in this Web site are not necessarily those of The Foundation or endorsed by The Foundation.

6. The Foundation may provide links on the Web site to other Web sites which are not under the control of The Foundation. These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by The Foundation of the organization or individual operating the Web site or a warranty of any type regarding the Web site or the information on the Web site.

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Service Marks

1. All uses of Make-A-Wish Foundation service marks, both registered and common law, must be approved in writing by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Inquiries may be directed to comm@wish.org.

2. The marks

Make-A-Wish Foundation®
Make-A-Wish® Wishmaker®
Kids For Wish Kids®
Adopt-A-Wish®
Wishworks®
The Eyes of a Wish®
Share the Power of a Wish®
Adopt An Angel®
Light Up A Child's Life®
Stories of Light® and

Make-A-Wish images:

are registered service marks of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

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Copyright

The works of authorship contained in this Web site, including but not limited to all design, text, and images, are owned or licensed by Make A Wish, Hawaii, Inc., and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without our prior written consent, except that you may make such temporary copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Web site, and you may make one permanent printout of each page of the Web site (unmodified in form, with a copy of this Site Notice attached) to be used by you for personal and non-commercial uses that do not harm the reputation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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