Privacy Notice
Last Updated and Effective Date: October 23, 2026
This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) applies to personal information that Nine Dean Institute, Inc., a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects on this website or otherwise, including offline. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information and the choices you have related to your personal information.
Personal Information We Collect
We may collect personal information about you in different ways, including as follows:
Contact Information, such as your first and last name, email address, or other contact information that you provide to us, for example when you sign up for updates, register for an event, or contact us.
Donation Information. If you make a donation, we collect your name, contact information, donation amount and date, and any dedication or message you include. Payments are processed by our third-party payment processor. We do not receive or store your full payment card number.
Device and Internet Browsing Information, including information automatically collected about your browsing activity, IP address, unique device identifiers, cookie identifiers, device and browser settings and information, and Internet service provider information. We may also collect information about when and how you access and use our website, such as the date and time of your visit or use, how you navigate and what you search for on our website, the pages visited, the types of content you interact with, and the frequency and durations of your activities. See Cookies and Related Technologies below.
Other Personal Information that you may voluntarily choose to provide to us.
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information to carry out our charitable mission and operate our organization, and for purposes that may be disclosed to you at the time you provide your personal information. Below is more information on how we may use your personal information:
• Deliver and improve our programs, events, and website.
• Process donations, send acknowledgments and tax receipts, and maintain donation records.
• Administer, operate, and manage our organization.
• Conduct analytics.
• Connect with you (e.g., addressing your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback).
• Enforce our policies and agreements.
• Comply with legal or regulatory obligations, including tax and charitable reporting requirements.
• Establish or exercise our rights.
• Security purposes, i.e., to protect your personal information processed or held by us.
• Statistical purposes.
• Defend against legal claims.
• Manage our relationships.
• Send newsletters, event invitations, and updates about our work, and occasional requests for support, where you have signed up or otherwise agreed to receive them. You may unsubscribe at any time.
• Obtain advice or assistance from professional advisors, including lawyers, accountants, IT or public relations/marketing advisors.
• For other reasons as permitted by law.
How We Disclose Personal Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information, including donor information, to anyone. In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Notice, we may disclose personal information we collect to the third parties described below, in the following situations:
Related Organizations. We may share personal information with nonprofit and community organizations, research partners, event organizers, and others involved in our research, education, and events, including to coordinate these activities. We do not share donor information or your contact information with any for-profit organization, including organizations that share the Nine Dean name, without your consent.
With Law Enforcement or As Needed for Litigation or Enforcement. We may share personal information to cooperate with law enforcement, participate in a legal process, for legal compliance, or as otherwise required by law. We may share your personal information to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against legal claims, to investigate, prevent, or act on possible illegal activities, threats to the safety of persons or property, or a violation of our policies.
Service Providers. We may share your personal information with service providers, who may help us to run our website, process donations, send emails, provide technical support, and/or assist with our provision of services. These include our website host, payment processor, and email provider. Service providers may use your information only to perform services for us.
Professional Services. We may share personal information with our professional service providers, such as auditors or lawyers.
Mergers, Affiliations, or Dissolution. If we merge or affiliate with, or transfer our assets to, another nonprofit organization, or if we dissolve, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to confidentiality protections and applicable law.
Cookies and Related Technologies
Our website uses automatic data collection technology and other services such as “cookies,” “web beacons,” “tags,” and other similar technologies. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your device so that your device will “remember” information when you visit a website. Web beacons and tags are small strings of code that are used in conjunction with a cookie and that allow us to record activity on the website. A web beacon allows us to capture certain additional types of information about a visitor's actions on a website, such as a visitor's cookie number, device and browser information, the time, date, duration and number of page views, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed.
When you use our website, these technologies may record and collect personal information, such as information that identifies your device, tracks your use of our website and collects certain information about you and your browsing activity. This information may include information that identifies your device, IP address, browser type and language preferences, and information about referring and exit pages and URLs, keywords, date and time, what sections of a website you visit, and other similar information concerning your use. This information is used for the purposes mentioned above and to help us serve you better by improving the design of the website. We also use the technologies mentioned above to improve functionality of the website and your experience.
When you first visit, a cookie banner lets you accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, though some site features may not work. Our website does not currently respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
Your Choices
Email. You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time using the link in any email or by contacting us.
Cookies. You can manage cookies through our cookie banner or your browser settings, as described above. Please note that disabling cookies may limit certain functionalities of our website, as further described in the Cookies and Related Technologies section above.
Access, Correction, and Deletion. You may ask us to access, correct, or delete personal information we hold about you by contacting us at the address below. We will respond as required by applicable law. We may need to keep certain records, such as donation records, to meet legal and tax obligations.
Children
Our website is not directed to children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
Notice to Non-U.S. Residents
We are based in the United States, and, regardless of where you use our website or otherwise provide information to us, the information may be transferred to and maintained on servers located in the U.S. Please note that any information we obtain about you will be stored in accordance with U.S. privacy laws, regulations, and standards, which may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence. By using our website, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in the U.S.
How We Protect and Retain Personal Information
No method of internet transmission or electronic storage is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee its security. If we are required to inform you about a security incident, we will do so electronically, in writing, or by phone, as the law permits.
We keep your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes in this Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. This includes the purposes of satisfying legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information. We also weigh the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information, the purposes for which we obtained the personal information and whether we can meet those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version on this page and change the “Last Updated and Effective Date” at the top. If we make a material change, we will post a notice on our website before the change takes effect and, where we have your email address and the change affects you, we may also notify you by email.
Contact Information
If you have questions, comments, or complaints about our privacy practices, wish to make a request under Your Choices, or need to access this Privacy Notice in a different form due to a disability, please contact us at info@ndinstitute.org. We will try to address your requests and provide you with additional privacy-related information.