Effective Date: September 7, 2026
The Steven Bailey Foundation respects the privacy of individuals who visit our website, request assistance, apply for scholarships, volunteer, make donations, contact the Foundation, or otherwise interact with our programs and services. This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we may collect, how that information may be used, when it may be disclosed, and the steps we take to protect it.
The Steven Bailey Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization. We are committed to handling personal information responsibly and to maintaining privacy practices appropriate for the individuals and families we serve.
Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide through website forms, applications, email communications, donation platforms, volunteer applications, scholarship applications, assistance requests, or other interactions with the Foundation.
Depending on the nature of your interaction with us, this information may include your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, household information, property information, information concerning a request for plumbing or home-services assistance, scholarship application information, educational information, volunteer information, employment-related information, and other information you choose to provide.
We ask that visitors and applicants not submit Social Security numbers, complete bank account numbers, routing numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, medical records, or other highly sensitive information through general website forms unless specifically instructed to do so through an approved secure process.
Plumbing Assistance Applications
Individuals requesting charitable plumbing or home-services assistance may be asked to provide information reasonably necessary for the Foundation to evaluate eligibility, understand the nature and urgency of the requested assistance, communicate with the applicant, verify property or occupancy information, and coordinate possible services.
Submission of an application does not guarantee assistance.
Information submitted in connection with an assistance request may be reviewed by authorized Foundation personnel, contractors, volunteers, professional advisors, or service providers when reasonably necessary to evaluate, administer, coordinate, document, or fulfill the request.
Scholarship Applications
Scholarship applicants may be asked to provide educational, academic, personal, financial-need, residency, contact, and other information relevant to the scholarship selection process.
Scholarship application information may be used to evaluate applicants, administer scholarship awards, communicate with applicants, maintain appropriate organizational records, document charitable activities, and comply with applicable legal, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Information submitted by scholarship applicants will not be sold or used for unrelated commercial marketing purposes.
Volunteer and Employment Information
Individuals who apply to volunteer or seek employment with the Foundation may provide contact information, qualifications, experience, availability, references, and other information relevant to the applicable role.
This information may be used to evaluate suitability, communicate with applicants, coordinate activities, conduct appropriate verification, and administer volunteer or employment relationships.
Donations and Payment Information
The Steven Bailey Foundation may use third-party payment processors or fundraising platforms to accept online donations.
When you make a donation through a third-party service such as PayPal, Givebutter, Donorbox, or another payment provider, payment-card and financial information may be collected and processed directly by that provider.
The Steven Bailey Foundation does not intend to store complete credit card numbers, bank account credentials, or online banking passwords on this website.
We may receive limited transaction information from the payment provider, such as your name, contact information, donation amount, transaction date, payment status, and other information necessary for accounting, acknowledgment, donor-relations, tax-record, and compliance purposes.
Third-party payment processors and fundraising platforms maintain their own privacy policies, security practices, and terms of service.
Website Analytics, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
The Steven Bailey Foundation may use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and similar website measurement and management technologies to understand how visitors use the website, evaluate website performance, improve accessibility and usability, measure outreach efforts, identify technical problems, and protect the security and integrity of the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as the number of users and sessions, pages viewed, interactions with the website, approximate geographic location, browser type, device type, referring website, dates and times of visits, and similar technical information.
Google Analytics may use cookies or pseudonymous identifiers to distinguish visits and measure website activity.
Google Tag Manager may be used to deploy and manage approved website tags, including Google Analytics and other measurement, functionality, or security technologies. Google Tag Manager itself is primarily a tag-management system; individual technologies deployed through it may collect information according to their own configurations and privacy practices.
The Foundation intends to configure analytics and tag-management services with privacy in mind and does not intend to transmit Social Security numbers, complete payment-card information, bank account credentials, medical information, application narratives, scholarship responses, form-field contents, or other highly sensitive personal information to Google Analytics.
Where practical, the Foundation may use available privacy, consent, data-redaction, and collection controls to reduce unnecessary collection of personal information.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use cookies and similar technologies necessary for website functionality, security, analytics, accessibility, preferences, and performance measurement.
Cookies are small files stored by a web browser that may help a website remember information, maintain functionality, or understand general website usage.
Google Analytics and other approved analytics services may use first-party cookies or pseudonymous identifiers to distinguish visitors and measure website activity. The Foundation may use Google Tag Manager to control when approved analytics and other website technologies are loaded.
Where appropriate, the Foundation may implement privacy or consent-management controls allowing certain categories of analytics, advertising, or similar technologies to be limited based on user preferences.
Visitors may also manage or disable cookies through their browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality or the Foundation’s ability to accurately measure website usage.
How We Use Information
Information collected by the Steven Bailey Foundation may be used to:
- Administer charitable programs and services
- Evaluate requests for assistance
- Coordinate plumbing or home-services assistance
- Administer scholarships
- Process and acknowledge donations
- Communicate with applicants, donors, volunteers, and visitors
- Manage volunteers and employment applicants
- Respond to inquiries
- Maintain accounting, tax, legal, and organizational records
- Protect the Foundation, its applicants, donors, and website users
- Detect fraud, abuse, or security incidents
- Improve website usability, accessibility, and performance
- Evaluate outreach and program effectiveness
- Comply with applicable legal, insurance, accounting, tax, regulatory, or reporting obligations
The Steven Bailey Foundation does not sell personal information.
When Information May Be Shared
We may share information when reasonably necessary with service providers, contractors, volunteers, professional advisors, technology providers, payment processors, insurers, accountants, attorneys, government agencies, or other parties assisting the Foundation with legitimate organizational functions.
We may also disclose information when required by law, subpoena, court order, governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, property, security, or legal interests of the Foundation or others.
We seek to limit disclosures to information reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose.
Confidentiality of Assistance Requests
The Foundation recognizes that requests for charitable assistance may involve private or sensitive personal circumstances.
Information submitted in connection with assistance applications will be treated as non-public organizational information and will generally be made available only to individuals who reasonably need the information to evaluate, administer, coordinate, document, or provide assistance.
Applicants should nevertheless avoid submitting unnecessary highly sensitive information through general website forms.
California Privacy Choices — Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
The Steven Bailey Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization. Nonprofit organizations are generally not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act in the same manner as qualifying for-profit businesses.
Nevertheless, the Foundation respects the privacy principles reflected in California consumer privacy law and voluntarily maintains a policy of not selling personal information.
The Foundation does not sell personal information for monetary consideration and does not intend to share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
California residents and other individuals may contact the Foundation to request information regarding the Foundation’s privacy practices or to request that their personal information not be sold or shared.
Subject to applicable legal, tax, accounting, charitable-recordkeeping, fraud-prevention, security, insurance, and operational requirements, the Foundation will make reasonable efforts to honor legitimate privacy requests.
If the Foundation’s practices change in the future, or if applicable law requires the Foundation to provide additional consumer privacy rights, notices, opt-out mechanisms, or privacy controls, this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.
The Steven Bailey Foundation does not sell your personal information.
Your Privacy Requests
Individuals may contact the Foundation with questions regarding personal information previously submitted or to request reasonable access, correction, or deletion of information, subject to applicable record-retention, legal, tax, accounting, insurance, security, and operational requirements.
A privacy request may also include a request that personal information not be sold or shared.
Although particular statutory privacy rights may not apply to the Foundation in every circumstance, the Foundation will make reasonable efforts to respond to legitimate privacy requests consistent with applicable law and the Foundation’s legal and operational obligations.
We may need to verify the identity of the individual making a request before taking action.
Data Security
The Steven Bailey Foundation uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, electronic transmission, storage system, or internet-based service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Applicants, donors, and visitors should use reasonable care when transmitting information electronically and should not submit unnecessary sensitive information through public or general-purpose website forms.
Data Retention
The Foundation may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to administer its programs, evaluate applications, maintain donor and scholarship records, document charitable activities, maintain accounting and tax records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, protect legitimate organizational interests, or satisfy insurance and recordkeeping requirements.
Information that is no longer reasonably necessary may be deleted, anonymized, or securely archived when appropriate.
Children’s Privacy
The Foundation may administer educational or scholarship programs that benefit minors.
Where information concerning a minor is required, the Foundation may require involvement, authorization, or consent from a parent or legal guardian when appropriate.
The website is not intended to knowingly collect unnecessary personal information directly from young children.
External Websites and Third-Party Services
The Foundation website may contain links to third-party websites, donation services, government resources, educational resources, social-media platforms, technology providers, or other external services.
The Steven Bailey Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices, security practices, accuracy, availability, or content of third-party websites or services.
Visitors should review the privacy policies and terms of external services before providing personal information.
Email and Communications
If you contact the Foundation or provide an email address, we may use that information to respond to your inquiry, provide information relating to an application or donation, send administrative notices, communicate regarding Foundation programs, or provide information reasonably related to your interaction with the Foundation.
The Foundation will not sell email addresses to third-party marketers.
Form Submissions and Sensitive Information
Website forms may be used for assistance requests, scholarship applications, volunteer applications, contact requests, and other Foundation activities.
The Foundation intends to use analytics systems only to record general events such as whether a form was viewed or submitted.
The Foundation does not intend to use Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager to capture the contents of form fields, including applicant responses, email addresses, telephone numbers, financial information, scholarship essays, assistance-request narratives, or other personal information entered into Foundation forms.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance
The Foundation may collect, retain, use, or disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws, tax obligations, accounting requirements, insurance obligations, grant requirements, governmental reporting requirements, audits, subpoenas, court orders, or other lawful requests.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
The Steven Bailey Foundation may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our programs, website, technology, services, legal obligations, or privacy practices.
The current version of the Privacy Policy will be posted on this website with an updated effective date.
Contact Us
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy, privacy requests, or the Foundation’s handling of personal information may be directed to:
Steven Bailey Foundation
P.O. Box 320326
San Francisco, CA 94132
United States
Website: stevenbaileyfoundation.org
For privacy-related requests, please use the Foundation’s Contact page or another contact method published on the website.