Legal Privacy Policy

The text, images, graphics, sound files, animation, video, and/or their arrangement on our websites 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 Foundation, or any of its related, affiliated, or subsidiary companies (collectively the “Foundation”) may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of the Foundation.

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

All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated to the Foundation through this site (collectively the “Submission”) will forever be the property of the Foundation. The Foundation 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 Foundation operations. Without limitation, the Foundation will have the exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Submission of every kind and nature everywhere. The Foundation 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 accessing this site, you acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not the Foundation, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.

The Foundation 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 on this site, including use of language translation tools, may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and the Foundation may make changes or improvements at any time.

The information contained on 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. The Foundation 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. The Foundation does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use of or the result of the use of the material on this site in terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise.

You (and not the Foundation) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction. Accordingly, by using this information, you agree that the Foundation (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:

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

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

The Foundation 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, the Foundation ensures that all content is original or consults with legal counsel to ensure that the Foundation has the appropriate rights to distribute such content.

If you believe that the Foundation 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 the Foundation by including the following in an email to
info@davethomasfoundation.org:

1. 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, the Foundation will investigate your claim and consult with legal counsel to take all actions it deems appropriate, including removing the infringing or libelous material or disabling access to such material.

The terms and conditions will be governed and interpreted 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. The Foundation can revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating this posting. The Foundation’s products and services are available in many parts of the world. However, the Foundation’s site may describe products and services that are not available worldwide.

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

The Foundation respects the privacy concerns of visitors to its websites. As such, this statement describes the types of information collected when you visit our sites, how that information is used, and the third parties with whom it may be shared. For more detailed information about donor privacy and the Foundation’s use of automated decision-making tools, please see the Foundation’s Donation Refund and Privacy Policy.

Information Collected

The Foundation automatically collects certain information from its online visitors through cookies, pixels, and similar tracking technologies on its website. Such information includes, but is not limited to:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address and approximate geographic location
• Browser type and version
• Device type and operating system
• Pages visited, time spent on each page, and navigation paths through our site
• Referring website or source (i.e., how you arrived at our site)
• Behavioral signals and interactions with site content (such as clicks and scrolling)

This information is collected to help us understand how visitors use our website, measure the effectiveness of our outreach efforts, and support advertising and audience-building activities on third-party platforms.

The Foundation also collects directly identifiable information, such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, etc., when a visitor voluntarily provides such information to the Foundation through a form or other submission. This information is collected for the purpose of sending newsletters and promotional materials, planning and managing events and other fundraising activities, or any other reason described at the point of collection.

For information specific to the Foundation’s collection of voluntarily provided information as part of its Text Messaging Program, please review the Text Messaging Program Terms and Conditions within the Foundation’s Donation Refund and Privacy Policy.

Information collected by the Foundation is not sold or rented but may be shared or exchanged with select third-party tracking tools and advertising partners that place Foundation content.

The Foundation also 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 Foundation does not knowingly collect or process any personal information from children under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received such information, we will delete it promptly.

Cookies and Consent

Our website uses a consent management tool that presents a cookie notice when you first visit. You may accept or reject non-essential cookies at that time. If you reject non-essential cookies, advertising and analytics tools will not be activated for your visits; however, you may update your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings link available on our website.

Your Rights and Privacy Choices

Individuals may contact the Foundation to access, delete, or correct their personal data and information, or to opt out of the sharing of their personally identifiable information with select third parties. You also have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of targeted advertising or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. To exercise your rights under this section, please contact us at development@davethomasfoundation.org or send a letter to:

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

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. The Foundation 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 on our websites.

For example, the Foundation protects all personally identifiable information with password-protected safeguards. 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.

The Foundation reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check our website periodically for changes. Any changes will be posted on our website with an updated effective date.