Last revised on Friday, June 5, 2026

Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay, NFP (WLC) is committed to respecting your privacy and security. We provide this Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy and security practices, and to inform you about the way your information is collected and used.  Please read the following to learn more about our privacy practices (the “Privacy Statement”).

This Privacy Statement applies to our interactions with you across various platforms, including the below (collectively the “Services”):

Websites and Mobile Applications: This includes any interaction you have with our websites and any associated mobile applications (the “Website“).

Events: When you attend events where we participate or present, we may collect personal information from and about you.

Donation & Volunteer Services.  When you donate to WLC, we collect personal information from you.

Phone, Text, Chat and Email Communications: Personal information may be collected when you communicate with us via phone, text, chat, or email, such as call logs, email addresses, and the content of the communications.

Online Forms: Personal information is collected when you complete online registration, online applications or inquiry forms.

Social Media: We collect likes, comments, and direct messages through interactions on our social media pages and other third-party social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and X.

Online Promotions and Emails: If you view our online promotions or emails, we may collect information about your interaction with these communications, such as click-through rates and preferences.

Joint Marketing Arrangements:  We may participate in joint marketing arrangements and may receive personal information about you from such partners.

Authorized Service Providers: We may also collect information through third-party service providers who are authorized to act on our behalf, including marketing firms and payment processors.

As further described below, we collect personal information directly from you, automatically through your use of the Services, and from other, third-party sources. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may combine the information we collect from publicly available or third-party sources with information you provide.

While the personal information we collect varies depending upon your use of the Services and our interactions with you, in general, we may collect the following personal information directly from you:

Contact Information. When you contact us, we will collect your name, email address, phone number, postal address.

Donation Information. When you make a purchase, you are required to provide financial and bank information. We utilize third party Payment Providers and such information is securely processed and stored by our Payment Providers. For more information regarding the payment processor’s privacy practices, please review the policies provided by such provider.

Account Information. When you register for an account with us, we collect your name, email address, password, and any other information used in connection with accessing your account.

Volunteer Information.  When you register to volunteer with us, we collect information about you related to the volunteer opportunity, including your contact details and background check information.

Communications and Interactions. When you submit a form, send email, text message, call, or otherwise communicate with us and with members of our team, we collect and maintain a record of your contact details, communications, and our responses.

Responses and Feedback. If you participate in our surveys or questionnaires, we collect your responses and feedback, such as user satisfaction or other information related to your use of the Services, and any other information you so choose to provide.

Marketing, Fundraising and Promotions. If you receive marketing communications from us, we collect your email, name, phone number, preferences. If you participate in promotions we offer, we collect your name and other information related to the activities available through the Services.

Preferences. We also may collect information about your preferences, including communications preferences.

We and our third-party providers automatically collect personal information related to your use of the Website, including using cookies and other similar technologies. The personal information we may automatically collect includes the below categories of information (collectively, “Usage Data”):

Device and Browsing Information. When you visit the Website, we may collect IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, date/time stamps, operating system, language, device type, unique ID, Internet service provider, referring and exiting URLs, clickstream data, and similar device and browsing information.

Activities and Usage. We also collect activity information related to your use of the Website, such as information about the links clicked, searches, features used, items viewed, time spent within the Website, your interactions with us within the Website, and other activity and usage information.

Location Information. We may also collect or derive location information about you, such as through your IP address. If you choose to enable location-based sharing with us through your device settings, we may collect precise location information to provide content that is more relevant to your location and to otherwise improve your interactions with the Website. You may turn off location data sharing through your device settings. 

Video Viewing Data.  We may collect internet protocol (IP) address and your activity and history regarding your interactions with videos contained on the Website.

For more information about our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see the “USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES” section below.

In addition, we may collect and receive personal information from third parties, such as business partners, joint marketing arrangements, and public databases. We may combine this information with personal information we collect directly from you, and use it to generate inferences about your preferences, behavior, or other characteristics, as permitted by applicable law and to utilize in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

We use your personal information for various purposes, including:

Providing Information or Services. To fulfill your requests for information or services, such as facilitating events, sending you informational materials, and providing related support services.

Program Operations and Coordination. To administer programs and events and coordinate with partner and sponsoring organizations.

Transaction Management. To manage and fulfill transactions, such as tracking and processing payments.

Website and Support. To allow you to maintain your account with us, provide and operate the Services, communicate with you about your use of the Services, respond to your inquiries, and to otherwise run our day-to-day operations.

Analytics and Improvement. To better understand how users’ access and use the Website and participate in events, and for other research and analytical purposes, to develop the Website and future events and their features, and for internal quality control and training purposes.

Communicate With You. To respond to your inquiries and to send you requested materials and newsletters, as well as information and materials regarding the Services. We also use this information to send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

Marketing, Fundraising and Promotions. For marketing, fundraising and promotional purposes. For example, to send you information about the Services, such as newsletters and other marketing content that you sign up to receive.  If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mails from us, you may opt out at any time by following the unsubscribe directions in the email or contacting us.  If you opt out of a promotional e-mail, we may still send you transactional and administrative emails about this privacy notice or about the products or services you have purchased.

Targeted Advertising. To deliver personalized content and advertisements, including through the use of cookies and similar technologies, and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.  Please see below for further information regarding how to exercise your right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information and targeted advertising. 

Security and Protection of Rights. To protect the Services and our business operations, and to protect our rights or those of our stakeholders; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, and other misuse; where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or act regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party, or violations of our terms and conditions.

Compliance and Legal Process. To comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process; or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a governmental authority.

Auditing, Reporting, and Other Internal Operations. To conduct financial, tax, and accounting audits; audits and assessments of our operations, privacy, security and financial controls, risk, and compliance with legal obligations; our general business, accounting, record keeping and legal functions, and to maintain appropriate business records and enforce company policies and procedures.

General Business and Operational Support. To assess and implement mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, bankruptcies, and other business transactions such as financing, and to administer our business, accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.

We may share your personal information for the purposes described above and as follows:

Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may disclose the personal information we collect to our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries to operate our businesses. We may also partner with other businesses to offer our services, and we may disclose personal information to those business partners as necessary to facilitate your orders or requests.

Vendors and Service Providers. We may disclose the personal information we collect to service providers who perform functions on our behalf, such as IT and website hosting, marketing and fundraising, marketing research providers, customer support, data storage, analysis and processing providers, auditors, consultants, and legal counsel.

Joint Marketing and Co-Sponsored Programs. We may partner with other organizations, sponsors, service providers, or community partners to offer events, programs, educational resources, fundraising initiatives, promotions, or other jointly sponsored activities. In connection with these collaborations, we may collect personal information from or share personal information with our partners as necessary to administer the activity, communicate with participants, evaluate program effectiveness, and, where permitted by applicable law, provide information about related products, services, programs, or opportunities that may be of interest to you.

Grant and Funding Reporting. We may share information with grantors, funders, or government agencies as required to maintain program funding, demonstrate outcomes, or comply with reporting obligations.

Business Partners, Including Advertising Partners and Analytics & Marketing Partners. We may also disclose your Usage Data to marketing and advertising networks, data analytics providers, and other companies who provide marketing or analytics services on our behalf. For more information see the Use of Cookies And Other Technologies section below.

Reservation and Payment Providers: We provide the ability to make reservations and purchases as a part the Services. When we do, we may use third-party services for reservations and payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
For more information regarding RSVPify, please visit: https://rsvpify.com/privacy/

In Support of Business Transfers. If we or our affiliates are or may be acquired by, merged with, or invested in by another company, or if any of our assets are or may be transferred to another company, whether as part of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding or otherwise, we may disclose or transfer the personal information we have collected from you with or to the other company. We may also disclose certain personal information as necessary prior to the completion of such a transaction or other corporate transactions such as a financing or restructuring, to lenders, auditors, and third-party advisors, including attorneys and consultants.

Compliance and Legal Obligations. To comply with our legal and compliance obligations and to respond to the legal process. For example, we may disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, and other lawful requests by regulators and law enforcement, including responding to national security or law enforcement disclosure requirements.

Security and Protection of Rights. Where we believe doing so is necessary to protect us, our rights and property, or the rights, property, and safety of others. We may also disclose personal information related to litigation and other legal claims or proceedings in which we are involved, as well as for our internal accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.

Aggregate and Deidentified Information. Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Statement, we may use, disclose, and otherwise process aggregate and deidentified information related to our business and the Website with third parties for quality control, analytics, research, development, and other purposes.

Other Disclosures. We may disclose personal information in other ways not described above, but will notify you and, where legally required, obtain your consent.

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you’ve visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
 
We and our third-party providers use cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies to collect Usage Data. We may allow third parties to collect this Usage Data on our behalf and to retain and use this Usage Data themselves. We use this Usage Data to, for example, analyze and understand how you access, use, and interact with us through the Website, to identify and resolve bugs and errors in the Website, to assess, secure, protect, optimize, and improve the performance of the Website, for marketing, fundraising, and advertising purposes, analytics purposes, and to personalize content in the Website. We may also aggregate such information to analyze trends, administer the Website, and gather broad demographic information. 
 
We use the term “Business Partners” to refer to our Third-Party Advertisers, Marketing Partners, and Analytics Providers, as detailed below:

Third Party Analytics & Marketing Partners.  We use third party tools, which are operated by third party companies, to analyze ad traffic and usage of the Website. These tools collect data about your interaction with the Website via the cookies and through the standard implementation.

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help us analyze traffic patterns and improve our Services. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect Usage Data about your interactions with the Services. This information is transmitted to and stored by Google. We use Google Analytics for internal analytics purposes only and do not use Google Analytics or any other service for targeted advertising or interest-based advertising. For more information on how Google processes information collected through Google Analytics, please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You may opt out of Google Analytics data collection by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

HubSpot. We use HubSpot, a customer relationship management (“CRM”), marketing automation, and analytics platform, to help us manage our website, communications, and customer relationships.  When you visit our website, HubSpot may collect Usage Data automatically through cookies and similar tracking technologies. We use this information to understand how visitors use our website, improve website performance and user experience, analyze trends, measure the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, and maintain the security of our services.  If you submit information through a form on our website, subscribe to communications, request information, or otherwise interact with us, we may use HubSpot to store and manage the information you provide.

Cross-Device Tracking. We and our providers may use the information we collect about you within the Website and on other third-party websites and services to help us and these third parties identify other devices that you use (e.g., a mobile phone, tablet, other computer, etc.) to interact or engage with us or the Services.

Currently, the Website does not recognize all “Do-Not-Track” requests. You may, however, disable certain tracking by disabling cookies at your browser level.

We take information security very seriously and use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. Unfortunately, no security system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information and cannot assume liability for improper access to it.

WLC recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of children. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have inadvertently received personal data from a child under the covered age without verified consent, we will take commercially reasonable efforts to promptly delete that information. Parents or legal guardians who believe that their child’s personal information has been submitted to us are encouraged to contact us so we can take appropriate steps.

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect changes to our privacy practices, and when we do, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Statement. If we make material changes, we will provide prominent notice (such as through a notice or banner or, where feasible, via email). Your continued use of our Services after the “Last Updated” date constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the changes, you should immediately stop using our Services.

If you are visiting our Website from the European Union or other region outside of the United States or otherwise contacting us from outside of the United States, please be aware that your personal information will be transferred to, stored or processed in or outside of the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries may differ and may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. We will protect your privacy in accordance with this Privacy Statement. By using our Services, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to our facilities in the United States and to those third parties with whom we share our facilities as described in this Privacy Statement.

For your convenience, we may provide links to other websites and web pages that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any websites or pages not under our control and we do not endorse any of these websites or pages, the services or products described or offered on such sites or pages, or any of the content contained on those sites or pages.

Personal Information is retained no longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which is was provided, unless a longer retention period is required (such as under applicable contracts with clients or business partners) or permitted or required by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

To contact us with questions regarding our data privacy practices, you can contact us via

privacy@womensleadershipcenter.org