Privacy Policy

The Boyne Forever Foundation (also referred to as “Boyne Forever,” “we,” or “us”) is a nonprofit organization established by Boyne Resorts to support initiatives that preserve and enhance outdoor landscapes, promote environmental sustainability, and strengthen community well-being for future generations. We are based in and do business in Michigan.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how we collect, use, and disclose personal information about you or your household. This Policy also describes the privacy rights and choices you may have, depending on your state of residence, concerning your personal information. This includes all interactions, including with our website Boyneforever.org. Our Privacy Policy can be downloaded here.

As a nonprofit organization, we are exempt from certain state data privacy laws, and given our size and constituencies, are exempt from other states’ laws, but we provide the information in this Policy, including the U.S. State Privacy Notice below, to inform you of our practices. Depending on your interaction with us, we may supplement this with additional privacy notices or disclosures.

Who Does This Policy Cover?

This Policy covers personal information we collect from you, whether online or offline. We collect this information when you visit our website or our other online presence (collectively, the “Services”), make donations, attend our events, or otherwise interact with us. In some cases, we may provide different or additional policies or notices about our information practices. We are also part of the Boyne Resorts family (for more information about Boyne Resorts’ information practices, please see Boyne Resorts’ privacy policy at boyneresorts.com/privacy-policy).

How Is This Policy Updated?

Boyne Forever may post updated versions of this Policy from time to time. Changes to this policy will be reflected by revision dates. If we have your contact information, we may contact you by email. We encourage you to review this Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us via online or offline activities. For example, we collect certain personal information when you make a donation, register for an event, sign up for a mailing list, provide information about grantees or potential grantees, participate in our surveys, engage with us on social media platforms (liking, messaging, posting, etc.), and when you communicate with us via email, phone, or mail.

Depending on the context, we may collect your name, address, phone number, email address, ZIP code, donation information, event registration information, social media identifiers, gender, information about your interests and preferences related to Boyne Forever, whether you are a Boyne Resorts employee, and any other information you choose to provide. The information you expressly provide to us will be reflected on our form and the information you fill in, what you tell us on the phone, or what you email or mail us.

In some cases, we may also collect information you provide about others, such as when you provide information about your family or make a donation to commemorate a person or event.

Information We Collect Automatically

When you access or use the Services, we automatically collect certain information about you, including:

• Device and Usage Information: We obtain information about the device you use to access our Services, and your use of our Services, including browser type, hardware, operating system, mobile network, IP address, approximate geolocation, unique device identifiers, access times, pages viewed, links clicked, browsing behavior, and the webpage you visited before navigating to our Services.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We (and our vendors) may use cookies, pixels, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your interaction with our Services, including information about your browsing behavior and other engagement with the Services. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see the “Your Privacy Rights and Choices” section below.
• Donation Transaction Information: When you donate to Boyne Forever, we collect information about the transaction, such as the donation amount and the date of donation. We may also receive this from our payment processors.

Information do We Collect from Third Parties

We may also receive personal information about you from other sources, such as from our affiliates (including Boyne Resorts), service providers, business partners, public databases, social media platforms, and other third parties. For example, if you interact with us on social media or choose to connect your social media account to our Services, we may receive information from the relevant social media platform per your settings on that platform.

How Do We Use Personal Information?

• At a general level, we use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:
• To provide, maintain, and improve our Services;
• To process your donations and event registrations;
• To communicate with you, including sending you updates, newsletters, and marketing communications;
• To respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide support;
• To analyze trends and statistics, learn more about your preferences and interactions with our Services, and improve your experience;
• To personalize the Services and provide content or features that match your profile and interests;
• To detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
• To comply with our legal, regulatory, and financial obligations;
• To manage our relationships with donors, grantors, grantees, and partners; and
• For any other purpose, with your consent.

How Do We Disclose Personal Information?

At a general level, we may disclose personal information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Policy:

• To vendors, service providers, and contractors that perform services for us, such as cloud service providers, payment processors, analytics companies, marketing firms, fraud prevention services, and operational/administrative support;
• To our affiliates, including Boyne Resorts, for purposes consistent with this Policy;
• To professional advisors, such as accountants, lawyers, tax preparers, auditors, and insurers;
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our organization;
• To comply with legal obligations, respond to government requests, or protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or others;
• With your consent or at your direction; and
• In aggregated or de-identified form that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We also do not share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

You have certain rights and choices regarding your personal information:

• Accessing and Updating Your Information: You may access and update certain information by contacting us. This may be subject to verification and may be limited by our regulatory obligations. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section.
• Marketing Communications: You can opt out of our marketing email campaigns by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails or by contacting us as described below. This does not affect notifications you may receive related to transactions or business with us.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: You can control this data collection directly.
  • Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can choose to set your browser to reject cookies or remove them. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. For more information, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • You can control cross-site advertising by visiting Your Ad Choices.
  • You can deactivate Google Analytics with its opt-out tool.

Please note that if you see one of our advertisements, it may be the product of our purchasing online advertising -- and not the product of our data collection.

• Do Not Track Signals: Some browsers transmit Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. We do not currently respond to DNT signals.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need your personal information, we will securely delete or de-identify it.

Third-Party Links and Sites

Our Services may contain links to third-party websites or services that we do not operate. This Policy does not apply to those third parties. Please review their privacy policies.

Information Security

We take commercially reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems.

Personal Information of Children

Our Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will delete it. If you are the parent of a child under 13, and you believe that we have collected Personal Information about your child, please contact us at the address below.

International Users

Our Services are hosted in the United States. If you are accessing our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your country’s data privacy laws may not apply, and your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located. It may also be transferred to other countries as permitted by the applicable law of the United States or its states or territories.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at:

Boyne Forever Foundation

Email: admin@boyneforever.org