Privacy Policy

Last updated August 27, 2025

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to information you provide to Neighborhood Development Center through our website located at ndc-mn.org (the “Site”), including when you communicate with us or otherwise interact with us through our Site. This Policy describes the types of personal information we may receive, how we may use and disclose the information, and certain rights and options you may have. Use of our Site is also subject to our Terms of Use, which are available at the link here. Application for or receipt of our services may also be subject to additional privacy notices or policies that are made available to you at the time of information collection.

This Policy does not apply to or discuss how we handle donor information.

By providing us with personal information or otherwise accessing or using the Site, you expressly consent to the information-handling practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, please do not use the Site or provide us with your information.

Important Information About This Policy

 While we always aim to provide complete and transparent information about how we process your personal information, we reserve the right to amend or update this Policy from time to time or to create additional policies in order to accurately reflect changed circumstances or new legal requirements. As a result, it is important that you read this Policy closely so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal information.

To assist us in ensuring that we can provide the most accurate information possible, we ask that you check this Policy for updates. We also ask that where we have an ongoing relationship with you and any of the data you have provided becomes no longer accurate that you keep us informed of this so we can amend our records accordingly.

NDC is a not-for-profit corporation in the State of Minnesota organized under IRS regulation 501(c)(3) and a member of Build from Within Alliance (“BFW Alliance”). This Policy shall not be interpreted to apply to BFW Alliance nor any other authorized BFW Alliance members other than NDC. For information regarding BFW Alliance, please visit https://www.bfwalliance.org/

Information We Collect

For the purposes of this Policy, “personal information” is any information that identifies, relates to, or can be used to contact a particular individual.  Most of the personal information we collect, such as from website visitors, clients we serve, partners in our community, is from or about individuals acting in a business or commercial capacity. The types of personal information we collect include the following categories:

• Contact information – first name, last name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number.
• Marketing information – details regarding informational and promotional materials you may have requested or received from us, your receipt of promotional communications, and information on your marketing or communication preferences.
• Communication information – copies of communications and inquiries you have submitted to us, including through features available on our Site.
• Device and usage information – details regarding how and when you use our Site, including the device used to connect to our Site, your IP address and device identifier, the frequency and duration of your usage, the pages you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about your interaction with our Site.
• Volunteer, intern, and job applicant information – If you apply to volunteer or work for NDC, your resume, cover letter, employment history, educational background, any other information you provide during the application process, details regarding your availability, skills, interests, and any previous volunteer or internship experiences, information necessary to conduct background checks.

We also collect this information from our prospective volunteers, interns, and job applicants when they apply for or indicate interest in a position with us.

Please note that we may aggregate or anonymize the foregoing types of information such that they are no longer capable of identifying you, in which case they are not considered “personal information.”

1. Automatically Collected Usage and Device Information

Like most websites, our Site uses various technologies to automatically collect information about visitors.  Those technologies include:

• Cookies. Cookies are small text files that a website transfers to a visitor’s device for recordkeeping purposes.  We use cookies to personalize visitors’ experiences on our website, provide content that we believe may be of interest, track visitor trends and patterns, engage in marketing and advertising, and otherwise analyze our Site traffic.   For further information about cookies, including how to refuse cookies, please visit allaboutcookies.org.  Please note that if cookies are disabled, you may not be able to enjoy certain features of our Site.
• Log Files and Device Identifiers. We use log files to track actions occurring on the Site and collect data about visitors, including IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, and device identifiers.
• Web beacons and other technologies. Our Site may also use “pixels,” “tags,” “gifs,” or “web beacons.” These technologies are small pieces of code that run when a website/application page or email is loaded. They are used to monitor the behavior of the visitor or email recipient—such as what icons were clicked or whether links in an email were opened—and gather analytics.  For example, when you open our Site homepage, a pixel may run and generate information based on the visit, and then this information is processed by us and/or our vendors. Pixels work in conjunction with cookies to let us know what portions of our Site are of interest to you and to help us provide you with tailored information from our Site. IF YOU TURN OFF COOKIES, PIXELS, TAGS, AND WEB BEACONS MAY STILL DETECT CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR INTERACTION WITH OUR SITE AND DISREGARD ANY COOKIE-PROHIBITIVE MARKERS OR SIGNALS. Note, the social media, marketing, and analytics vendors we engage that supply us pixels, tags, web beacons, cookies, or similar tracking technologies collect your personal information instantaneously and simultaneous to our collection of such information.
• Our Site may also use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics.  You can find more information about how data is collected and processed in connection with the Google Analytics service here.  You can also read Google’s privacy policy here.

The information collected through these technologies may be combined with personal information or aggregated with other information on Site visits.

1. Information from Other Sources

We may obtain both personal and non-personal information about you from affiliates, vendors, suppliers, and other third parties and add it to other information we have collected. For example, we may receive information about you from our operational partners with whom you have a relationship. We, and the third parties we engage, may combine information we collect from you over time, and across our services, with information obtained from other sources.

1. Information from Social Media

If you interact with us on any social media platform: (i) depending on your social media privacy settings, the personal information that you submit on the social media platform may be read, collected, or used by us as described in this Policy, and (ii) where we respond to any interaction with you on social media, your account name/handle may be viewable by any and all members or users of our social media accounts.  Social media platforms operate independently from us and we are not responsible for the personal information that you choose to submit or link on any social media platform.  We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings of any social media platform with which you interact to help you understand their privacy practices.

How We Use Personal Information

We (or service providers acting on our behalf) may use your personal information for the following purposes:

• Responding to your inquiries and communicating with you, including about our organization and our services.
• Engaging in fundraising, and planning future fundraising activities, events, and services.
• Providing and optimizing your experience with our Site and ensuring that we present our content to you in the most effective manner.
• Sending you promotional or informational communications and materials, tracking your marketing preferences, and for our internal marketing purposes.
• Preventing and detecting fraud, financial crime, hacking activities, security breaches, and other unlawful activities in connection with the Site.
• Enforcing our agreements with our business partners, partner organizations and others, complying with our legal or regulatory obligations, and defending or advancing legal claims.
• Notifying you about changes to our Site or material changes to this Policy.
• Providing you with surveys or otherwise soliciting feedback from you.
• To evaluate and process your application for employment, volunteer, or internship opportunities with NDC, including verifying your identity and qualifications and to ensure compliance with legal and organizational requirements.
• To coordinate and manage your participation in volunteer or internship activities, including scheduling, training, and performance evaluation.
• To comply with applicable laws and regulations, including employment and labor laws.
• Performing other functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection or to which you otherwise consent.

For more information about your options relating to your personal information and your communication preferences, see “Choices About the Collection and Use of Personal Information” below.

Disclosure of Personal Information

When the information we collect about you is aggregated, anonymized, or otherwise does not identify you, we may use and disclose that information for any purpose to the extent permitted by applicable law.

In addition, we may disclose your information to the following types of individuals or entities:

• Business partners, service providers, and third-party vendors we engage to help us administer our organization and services, including our interactions with you. For example, we may disclose your personal information to our IT and system administration providers, cloud hosting providers, payment processors, and insurance providers.
• Regulatory and governmental authorities, law enforcement agencies, and courts, as necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information, or to otherwise protect our rights.
• Analytics vendors in order to understand our Site traffic and usage patterns and optimize our Site.
• Our professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants, our board of directors, and other similar advisors.
• Buyers or other successors prior to or in the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as a part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, where the information is among the assets being transferred.
• Other parties for any purpose we disclose at the time you provide the information or with your subsequent consent.

Protection of Personal Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. Please be aware that despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to or use your personal information. No transmission of information over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warranty the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Your Choices About Personal Information

We respect your right to make choices about the ways we collect, use, and disclose your information.  We try to offer you meaningful choices regarding your personal information. Some choices you have regarding personal information include the following:

• Emails – As required by applicable laws, to the extent we ever send you promotional emails, you can opt-out of receiving such emails from us by clicking the “opt out” (or similar) link in any such promotional emails and following the instructions provided.

• Cookies – Depending on your browser or device, you may have the option to set the browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, notify you when a cookie is set, or delete cookies. Each browser and device are different, so we recommend you evaluate the tools and settings available in your browser or device, as well as any available instructions for the same.  Please note that if you disable or delete cookies, you may not be able to access or use certain features of the Site.

• Google Analytics – As discussed above, we use Google Analytics in connection with the Site. If you would like to refrain from having your data collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an opt-out browser that you can use.  You can find more information on how Google uses information it collects here.

• Declining to Provide Information – You can choose not to provide us with information we may request through our Site, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our Site, request information about our services, or initiate other transactions with us

• Do Not Track Mechanisms – Please note that our Site does not honor “Do Not Track” signals, and such signals will not impact the operation of this Site.

In addition to the above, you may contact us using the details provided at the end of this Policy with any questions about the choices relating to your personal information.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. Such websites have separate privacy policies that you should review. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for the content of linked websites or those companies’ data-handling practices.

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is a general audience site and is not directed at, or intended for use by, children under the age of 13 years. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under age 13.  Should we discover that a child under the appropriate age provided his or her personal information, we will use that information only to respond to that child and inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving such information.

Changes to this Policy

Please note that we may change this Policy from time to time.  If there are changes to our Policy, we will post them here and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document. Continued use of this Site after any changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.  Accordingly, we encourage you to check the Policy periodically for updates.

How to Contact Us

For questions or more information about our privacy practices, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by using the contact information provided below:

Neighborhood Development Center

Attention: NDC

625 University Avenue

Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104

651-291-2480