Legal Privacy Policy

The text, images, graphics, sound files, animation, video and/or their arrangement on DTFA website are all subject to intellectual property right protection and such material from davethomasfoundation.org and any other world wide website owned, operated, licensed or controlled by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, or any of its related, affiliated or subsidiary companies (collectively “DTFA”) may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of DTFA.

Modification or use of the materials for any other purpose violates DTFA intellectual property rights. Neither title nor intellectual property rights are transferred to you by access to this site, but remain with DTFA, who owns full and complete title to the material on this site.

All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated to DTFA through this site (collectively the “Submission”) will forever be the property of DTFA. DTFA will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future DTFA operations. Without limitation, DTFA will have the exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Submission of every kind and nature everywhere. DTFA will be entitled to use the Submission for any commercial or other purposes whatsoever without compensation to you or other persons sending a Submission.

By access to this site, you acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not DTFA, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright.

DTFA does not warrant or make any representation regarding the use of the materials contained in this site in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability or otherwise. The material in this site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and DTFA may make changes or improvements at any time.

The information contained in this site is provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, all warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. DTFA does not warrant that the functions contained in the material will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. DTFA does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use of or the result of the use of the material in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise.

You (and not DTFA) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Accordingly, by using this information you agree that DTFA (including its agents, officers, directors and employees) are not liable for damages of any kind.

The following trademarks used herein are the property of Quality Is Our Recipe, LLC, used with permission:

• Adoption-Friendly Workplace
• Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (and design)
• Wendy’s Wonderful Kids (and design)

All other trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners.

DTFA respects the rights of others in the content it creates and takes claims of intellectual property infringement and libel seriously. When creating and distributing content, DTFA ensures that all content is original or consults with legal counsel to ensure that DTFA has the appropriate rights to distribute such content.

If you believe that DTFA has distributed or posted content that infringes upon your intellectual property rights or contains a defamatory statement about you, you may report such claims to DTFA by including the following in an email to: info@davethomasfoundation.org:

1. Identification, including a description, of the material you are claiming contains content that is libelous or infringes upon your intellectual property rights.
2. The location of the allegedly libelous or infringing material, including identification of the URL where the material is accessible.
3. Your company affiliation, if applicable, along with your mailing address, phone number, and email address.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the content: (i) is not authorized by the intellectual property rights owner, its agent, or by law, in the case of an alleged intellectual property infringement, or (ii) contains defamatory statements that meet the definition of libel or are otherwise offensive.
5. Your full legal name and signature.

Upon receipt of your complaint, DTFA will investigate your claim and consult with legal counsel to take all actions it deems appropriate, including removal of the infringing or libelous material or disabled access to such material.

The terms and conditions will be governed and interrupted pursuant to the laws of the State of Ohio, inside the United States of America, notwithstanding any principles of conflict of laws. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of this site. DTFA can revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating this posting. DTFA products and services are available in many parts of the world. However, the DTFA site may describe products and services that are not available worldwide.

This site may be linked to other sites which are not maintained by DTFA. DTFA is not responsible for the content of those sites.

This document describes the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (“DTFA”) policy regarding information received about you during visits to our website. For more detailed information about donor privacy, please see DTFA’s Donor Refund and Privacy Policy. The information received by DTFA is dictated by the amount and type of information received during your visit.

DTFA respects the privacy concerns of the visitors to its site and accordingly, no personal information is automatically obtained by visiting the site. However, DTFA may obtain certain non-personal information from its online visitors. Such information includes, but is not limited to, the total number of visitors to the site in the aggregate and the name of the Internet server.

There may be occasions when DTFA obtains personally identifiable information to provide the visitor with correspondence or otherwise. However, DTFA only gathers personally identifiable information, such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, etc., when a visitor voluntarily submits the same. DTFA protects all personally identifiable information with password-protected safeguards. This information is not sold or rented, but may be shared with select third parties. Individuals can opt-out by contacting the Foundation.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption obtains contact details and other personal information regarding media contacts and influencers from a variety of sources including Cision. If you wish to know more about how such information is collected and used, please refer to Cision’s privacy notice.

The security of your personal information is important to us, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. DTFA uses online safeguards and has security measures in place at its physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our website. To protect the security of your credit card information, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. This Internet encryption protocol scrambles data as it travels from your computer to our server.

To change or modify information previously provided, please contact us at info@davethomasfoundation.org or send a letter to:

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
4900 Tuttle Crossing Blvd.
Dublin, OH 43016

DTFA reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes