CDF Legal
Privacy Notice
Please review the terms governing use of CDF’s website and services, learn how information provided through our website is collected, used, protected, and managed, and see how we make the site usable for everyone.
Last Updated: September 2026
Privacy Notice
Your privacy matters.
CDF respects the privacy of individuals who use our website and services.
Privacy at a glance
See the full Privacy Notice below for details.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide
- Name
- Contact information
- Account or profile information
- Forms
- Registrations
- Applications
- Inquiries
- Documents voluntarily provided
- Payment or transaction-related information where applicable
Automatically collected information
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device information
- Cookies
- Website usage information
2. How We Use Information
CDF uses information for purposes including:
- operating and providing the website and services
- maintaining accounts
- processing registrations, applications, submissions, and payments
- communications and support
- administering programs and activities
- security
- service improvement
- records
- legal requirements
3. When Information May Be Shared
Information may be shared with trusted service providers that support hosting, technology, communications, analytics, and payment processing; where required by law; where necessary to protect CDF, its users, or its services; or where you authorize the sharing.
4. Sale of Personal Information
CDF does not sell personal information for monetary consideration.
6. Information Security
CDF takes reasonable measures intended to protect information submitted through the website.
No internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
7. Data Retention
Information is retained for as long as needed for the purposes described in this notice, including operational, records, and legal requirements.
8. Access, Correction & Deletion Requests
Depending on applicable law and the nature of the information, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information.
You may also unsubscribe from optional communications using the instructions included in those communications.
9. Photos, Captions & People Tags
Gallery contributors provide a name and email so the CDF team can review a submission and contact them about it. The email address is never displayed in the public gallery.
Submitted photos, captions, and people tags remain private while awaiting review. A person’s name appears publicly only when an administrator approves the photo and its tags. Tag search is available only to signed-in approved hosts and administrators; it does not create a public people directory.
Submitters must have permission to share the image and identify the people pictured. CDF may reject or remove any submission, caption, or tag. Contact CDF to request correction or removal of a published photo or name.
Uploaded images are prepared in the browser before transfer, which removes embedded camera metadata such as location details. Gallery files and records are kept in the same isolated development, staging, or production environment that received them.
10. External Websites & Services
The website may link to external websites and services that CDF does not control. Their information practices are governed by their own terms and notices.
11. Updates to This Notice
This notice may be updated from time to time. Continued use of the website following an update is subject to the current notice.
Acceptance & acknowledgement
By creating an account or using services that require acceptance, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the applicable Terms & Conditions and acknowledge the Privacy Notice.
Questions?
You can contact Community Dreams Foundation with questions about these Terms, our privacy practices, your account, or information submitted through the website.
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