Friends Place on Capitol is committed to respecting your privacy and your preferences.
Donor Privacy Policy
In order to increase our base of support, we sometimes exchange the names and postal mailing addresses of a small portion of our supporter list with other carefully chosen, like-minded organizations. We never sell our lists for any purpose and never share any other donor personal information.
If you prefer that we do not share your name and postal mailing address, please notify us by filling out our online form, or phone us at 1-800-630-1330.
You can also write the development office at
Friends Place on Capitol Hill
c/o Development Department
245 Second Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
This policy applies to all donors, whether you make a gift online or through the postal mail.
Opt out of sharing your information with like-minded organizations.
Internet Privacy Policy
This privacy policy reflects Friends Place’s strong commitment to protecting your online privacy and any information you chose to share with us when you visit the website. (Last Reviewed: April 30, 2021)
Our privacy policy explains
A. How we use information you provide
B. How we protect information you provide
C. How we analyze web traffic on fcnl.org
D. How to unsubscribe, opt out, or correct your information
E. How we notify you about privacy policy changes
F. How to contact us
A. How we use information you provide
It is possible to visit the friendsplacedc.org websites without leaving any personally identifiable information behind. Information that you may choose to give us includes your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card information, and other information about your interests and preferences. We may obtain information from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site and send you news and information about FCNL and the issues that we work on. We will not sell this information to any third party under any circumstances. We work closely with allied and like-minded organizations and may disclose selected user information to other organizations for their use in related activities and other purposes. We may also share some of your personal information with the following affiliated groups:
- The Friends Committee on National Legislation
- The FCNL Education Fund
- Service Providers — for example, our database administrators and credit card transaction processor – for the sole purpose of helping us do our work. We may share your personal data with these service providers. These groups do not share your personal information or use it for any purpose other than as instructed by us.
Sharing of information between Friends Place, FCNL, and the FCNL Education Fund
Friends Place on Capitol Hill, an independent 501 c(3) nonprofit, is affiliated with the FCNL Education Fund and the Friends Committee on National Legislation. These three are national, nonprofit, and nonpartisan Quaker organizations working together to advance peace, justice, and environmental stewardship.
Friends Place is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports civic engagement. The Friends Committee on National Legislation is a 501(c)(4) organization and focuses primarily on nonpartisan education and advocacy on national issues such as social and economic justice, peace, and good government. The FCNL Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports research, analysis, and education. Friends Place, FCNL, and the FCNL Education Fund are separate, but affiliated, organizations. All three organizations are committed to supporting the democratic system in the United Sates and promoting greater citizen involvement in the political process. When you provide your personal information to Friends Place through the friendsplacedc.org website, we share it with FCNL and the FCNL Education Fund.
Online contributions
To make an online contribution, we ask for your credit card number and expiration date in addition to your name, address, and email address. We do not store your credit card number or any other information about your credit card.
Email articles/tell a friend
The friendsplacedc.org website enables you to email articles and information to people you know who might be interested in the work of FCNL. We do not store the email addresses or any other information about the people you contact and will not contact them as a result of your email to them. The friendsplacedc.org website does let you identify friends who will then receive information from FCNL. We will clearly indicate when FCNL intends to send information to the names you provide.
Children’s information
We believe every precaution must be taken to protect children online. In accordance with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly ask children for any information; nor do we knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children.
B. How we protect information you provide
Friendsplacedc.org uses industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. User information (although not credit card information) may remain in our database indefinitely. Permission to access your information is granted only to you and persons who need to know that information to provide services to you. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by friendsplacedc.org in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Links to other websites
This Privacy Policy covers the friendsplacedc.org, fcnleducationfund.org, and fcnl.org websites, and any microsites managed and developed by Friends Place, which may link to third-party websites. Should you choose to visit those websites, please remember that we are not responsible for their content or privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and review the practices of all websites you visit.
Other disclosure of your information
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when we have a good-faith belief release is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena); to protect our rights or property; or to protect our donors and supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct—or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.
C. How we analyze web traffic
Cookies
Friendsplacedc.org uses cookies to provide a more user-friendly service to you. The cookie—a tiny text file—does not store passwords, credit card numbers, or any type of personally identifiable information whatsoever. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your email address or any other personally identifiable information.
Server log files and other analysis tools
Friendsplacedc.org logs standard technical information, such as your IP address and the kind of browser you use. We log this information for troubleshooting purposes and to track which pages people visit in order to improve the site. We do not use log files to track a particular individual’s use of friendsplacedc.org. We may also use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with the site.
D. How to unsubscribe, opt out, or correct your information
If you want to unsubscribe from mailing lists or opt out, review, update, or correct your information, you can do so at any time by contacting us through the following methods:
Online: Let us know the type of email you want to unsubscribe from or the changes you want to make to your subscriptions or other information.
By postal mail: Send a letter with your full name and email address to
Friends Place on Capitol Hill
c/o Development Department
245 2nd St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
By telephone: Call 202-547-6000 (toll-free 800-630-1330) between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
E. How we notify you about privacy policy changes
We may revise and update this privacy policy if we change our practices, add new site features, or change existing site features. If we make substantive changes, we will post an announcement on our website home page and post the changes on this page. Your use of the friendsplacedc.org website and any microsites managed and developed by Friends Place or FCNL following such changes constitutes your agreement regarding information collected from you. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current policy and to contact Friends Place staff if you have questions.
F. How to contact us
Questions regarding this privacy policy should be sent using this online form or sent via postal mail to
Friends Place on Capitol Hill
c/o Development Department
245 2nd St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
For general questions or comments, please complete our online contact form or call 202-547-6000 (toll-free 800-630-1330) between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday.