Privacy Policy

The Children's Nature Institute (CNI) values your privacy and does not share your personal information with anyone outside of our office staff and occasional volunteers. With your permission, we may use this information to contact you with about upcoming CNI walks, events, or donation opportunities. You are free to let us know how we should use your information or request removal from our contact list at any time by sending e-mail to or by calling (213) 746-2966.

Personal Information

You can visit www.childrensnatureinstitute.org or any CNI-hosted Web site without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. However, to access certain features, such as signing up for a Family Walk or making a donation, you may have to submit personal information such as your name, address, phone, and e-mail. This information will be stored at our office in order to identify you and your preferences regarding use of your information (such as whether or not to receive the Family Walk calendar). To make donations we may also ask you for your credit card or other information necessary to make a payment. This payment information will be used immediately and never stored on our servers.

Information security and quality

We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personally identifiable information. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures, such as using industry accepted encryption for transmission of credit card information, to help keep your information secure, accurate, current, and complete.

Web site traffic information

When you arrive at or leave any CNI hosted Web site, we automatically receive the Web address of the site that you came from or are going to. We also collect information on which pages of our Web site you visit while you are on our hosted site, the type of browser you use and the times you access our hosted sites. We occasionally use this information to try to better understand visitor preferences and activity, but this information contains nothing personally identifyable about you beyond the IP address of your internet connection.

Cookies

We do not currently use cookies. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies.

Disclosure to third parties

We will only share personally identifiable information with a third party when required by law to do so. Our current policy is to never share personal information with other companies, and we will ask your explicit permission to share personal information if this policy ever changes.

Links to Other Web Sites

CNI's hosted sites may occasionally contain links to other Web sites. CNI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Notification of Changes

This privacy statement was last updated on August 14, 2006. Please visit this page from time to time and check for any updates.

“Donor Bill of Rights”

CNI believes in the rights of donors and subscribes to the Donor Bill of Rights. This statement of rights was developed by the following organizations: American Association of Fund Raising Counsel (AAFRC), Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE). The full text of the Donor Bill of Rights is as follows (see http://www.afpnet.org/ethics/ethics_and_donors):

Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

• To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
• To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization's governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
• To have access to the organization's most recent financial statements.
• To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
• To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
• To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
• To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
• To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
• To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
• To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.  

Questions regarding this statement

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to or

The Children's Nature Institute
1910 Magnolia Ave, #403
Los Angeles, CA 90007