Privacy policy

This website collects what you type only through these three forms.

• Contact form. On the Contact page: your name, your email address, your phone number if you choose to give it, the subject you pick and your message. This website emails these to us.
• Larger gifts and naming form. On the Support page: your name, your email address, your phone number if you choose to give it, the project you are interested in and your message. This website emails these to Terrence R. Wall personally.
• Card gift form. On the Support page: the project you choose, the amount of your gift and the email address for your receipt. We pass these to Stripe to start your payment.

If you email us or write to us by mail, we receive whatever you choose to include.

Stripe processes card gifts on our own Stripe account, which is in the name Wisconsin Foundation Inc. When you select "Give by card," we send Stripe the project, the amount and your email address. Stripe fills in its payment form with your email address and keeps it with the gift record. You then pay on Stripe's own secure page.

On that page, Stripe collects your card number, expiration date and security code, the name on the card, your email address and the billing details your card requires, such as country and ZIP code. Stripe also collects information about your device to help prevent fraud. We never see your card number.

When your payment is complete, Stripe sends this website a record of it. This website uses only the amount, the date, the project, your name, your email address, a payment reference number and whether the payment has cleared. It emails you a receipt and sends us a notice of the gift with your name, email address, amount and project. For gifts of $100 or more, the notice reminds us that your recognition letter is due.

Our Stripe account also keeps a record of the gift, including your billing country and ZIP code and your card's type, last four digits and expiration date.

Stripe also uses payment information for its own purposes, such as fraud prevention and legal compliance. Stripe may offer to save your payment details with Link, its own service. Read Stripe's privacy policy (opens in new tab).

• Hosting logs. Vercel hosts this website. When you visit, Vercel receives your IP address, your browser and device type, the page you asked for, the page that linked you here and the time of your visit. Vercel uses this to deliver and protect this website. Read Vercel's privacy notice (opens in new tab).
• Our server logs. Our own server logs normally record only whether each email went out, not what it said. When something goes wrong, an error record can include details of the request that failed, such as a donor's name and email address.
• Spam checks. The contact and larger gifts forms include a hidden field that people never see. They also record how long the form was open before you sent it. This is a length of time, not the time of day.
• Rate limits. To stop repeated sending, all three forms count recent requests from each IP address. The contact and larger gifts forms also count them for each email address. These counts are kept only in temporary server memory. They are never written to a file or a database.
• The Parks page map. The map on the Parks page loads its images from the OpenStreetMap Foundation's servers. When it loads, your browser sends those servers your IP address, your browser details and the address of this website. Their privacy policy (opens in new tab) applies.

We use the information you give us to:

• read and answer your message or gift inquiry
• call you about your message, if you gave a phone number
• send the confirmation emails and receipts listed under Emails we send you below
• send you the written recognition letter the Support page promises for gifts of $100 or more
• tell you what your gift went toward and, for funds we hold for you, send the statements the Support page describes
• keep records of gifts for our accounts and for tax purposes
• keep the forms free of spam and misuse

We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not build profiles of visitors.

• After the contact form. A short email confirming that we received your message.
• After the larger gifts form. A short email confirming that your note has gone to Terrence R. Wall.
• After a card gift. A receipt with a receipt number, the date, the amount, the project and a statement that no goods or services were provided in exchange for your gift. Please keep it as your receipt.

Each form confirmation goes out only after your message has been sent to us. If this website cannot send your message to us, the form tells you it was not sent so you can try again.

Our forms do not sign you up for a newsletter or mailing list. If you would rather we not contact you again, tell us and we will stop.

These people and services receive or can see your information.

• Our people. Terrence R. Wall and the people who work with him on our behalf, who handle messages and gift notices for us.
• Our developer. The developer who builds and maintains this website can see the hosting logs and Resend's copies of the emails this website sends.
• Google Workspace. Google Workspace hosts the mailboxes where form messages and gift notices arrive.
• Resend. Resend delivers the emails this website sends, both to us and to you. It handles the full text of each email, including what you typed into a form and, for gifts, your name, email address, amount, project and receipt number. Read Resend's privacy policy (opens in new tab).
• Vercel. Vercel hosts this website and runs its forms. See What is collected automatically above.
• Stripe. Stripe processes card gifts. See Card gifts above.
• OpenStreetMap. Your browser sends the Parks page map requests to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. See What is collected automatically above.

As a private foundation, we file an annual federal tax return (Form 990-PF). It lists the name, address and total gifts of each donor who gave $5,000 or more in the year, and that part of the return is open to public inspection.

We do not sell, rent or trade your information. We do not share donor information without the donor's permission, except as this section describes or when the law requires it, such as for a court order.

This website sets no cookies, uses no browser storage and runs no analytics, advertising or social media tools.

We do not track you across other websites, so a Do Not Track signal has nothing to switch off.

Stripe sets its own cookies on its checkout page.

Our forms and card giving are meant for adults. No form asks about children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

If you think a child has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.

This website has no database and no user accounts. Your information is kept only as described here.

• Mailboxes. Form messages and gift notices stay in the mailboxes where they arrive until we delete them. There is no automatic deletion schedule. If you ask, we delete your messages, unless the law requires us to keep them.
• Resend. Resend keeps a copy of each email it sends, including its text, for 30 days.
• Stripe. Gift records stay in our Stripe account for our accounts and tax records. Stripe also keeps them under its own privacy policy.
• Vercel. The hosting logs we can see are kept for no more than 30 days, and we do not copy them anywhere else. Vercel also keeps its own records under its privacy notice.
• Spam checks. The request counts expire after ten minutes.

You can ask us to:

• tell you what information we hold about you
• correct it
• delete it
• stop contacting you

To ask, write to terrence@wisconsinfoundation.org, use the form on the Contact page or write to us at Wisconsin Foundation, 1818 Parmenter St., Middleton, WI 53562. If we need to confirm that a request comes from you, we will ask you to reply from the email address you used with us.

We cannot delete gift records that the law requires us to keep.

This website is served only over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Card details go straight to Stripe and never pass through our servers.

Access to form messages and gift records is limited to Terrence R. Wall, the people who work with him on our behalf, our developer and the service providers named under Who sees it above.

No website or email system is perfectly secure. If a problem affects your information, we will tell you as the law requires.

Some pages link to other websites, such as city park pages and Google Maps for directions. Those websites have their own privacy policies.

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this website and update the date at the top.

For privacy questions and requests, write to terrence@wisconsinfoundation.org or use the form on the Contact page.

By mail: Wisconsin Foundation, 1818 Parmenter St., Middleton, WI 53562.