Universal City, Texas

Tri-County Friendship Foundation

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Purpose

At Tri-County Friendship Foundation (www.3cff.org), we value your privacy. To put that into practice, we take reasonable steps toward protecting your privacy and managing your information.

This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, where it comes from, how it’s used, and how it is stored.

This Privacy Policy also includes information to help you understand how your choices can change the collection and usage of certain information and how you can contact us with questions or concerns.

By using this Website, contacting us, or providing any personal information, you signify your consent to this Privacy Policy, agree to comply with its terms, and consent to our collection and usage of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy in all cases subject to applicable law.

Scope

This Privacy Policy at www.3cff.org applies only to our website at www.3cff.org (the “Website”), visitors, and users. It does not apply to any information we collect through channels, online or offline, other than this Website, such as phone, email, or mail operations concerning our operations, products, or services, as well as non-website marketing contacts with you.

For your convenience, this Website may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party website or service, and you should review the privacy policies of those sites before using them because other websites may not treat information collected online in the same manner as we do. Those privacy policies may include information about viewing, editing, downloading, or removing information or opting out of certain practices. We are not responsible for those websites’ privacy practices, advertising, products, or content.

 Updates and Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page at www.3cff.org.

If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our website often for this and other important announcements and updates.

Problems/Questions

If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, contact us at admin@3cff.org.

What Information We Collect

This section includes a general description of the type of information we may collect about you. Those who wish to communicate with us but do not wish to provide personally identifiable information through the Website may contact us through the address or phone numbers provided on our Website or through our online chat function.

Information you provide to us

We collect some information that you provide directly to us through this Website.

We collect contact information you provide, including:

  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone Numbers
  • Email Address

We collect this information with your consent to perform any contract you may have with us and in service of our legitimate business interests.

We do not seek to or intentionally collect any financial information that you provide directly to us.

We do not seek to or intentionally collect other information that you provide directly to us.

We do not seek to or intentionally collect other identifying information that you provide directly to us.

We do not seek to or intentionally collect any usage-related information that you provide directly to us.

We do not seek to or intentionally collect sensitive information that you provide directly to us.

Information we collect about you

Even if you do not submit personal information through the Website, we gather navigational information about where visitors go on the Website and information about the technical efficiencies of our Website and services (such as time to connect to the Website or time to download pages). This information allows us to see which areas of our Website are most visited and helps us better understand the user experience. This data helps us improve the quality of the Website by recognizing and delivering more of the features, areas, and services our visitors prefer.

In gathering information, we may collect personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information (such as domain type, browser type and version, service provider and IP address, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click-stream data). We collect this information to perform any contract you may have with us and to serve our legitimate business interests.

We may also create and use electronic records to compile statistics about how our visitors collectively interact with our Website by collecting, aggregating, and using information from or about you, such as data about the type of browser and operating system used, which web pages you view, the time and duration or your visits to our Website, the search queries you use on this Website, whether you clicked on any items or links on the Website, whether you have clicked on any links in any emails sent from us or third parties on our behalf, whether you have chosen to opt-out of certain services or information sharing, and whether you have viewed or ordered certain products or services, to improve our products and services. We collect this information to perform any contract you may have with us and in service of our legitimate business interests.

We may obtain information about you from outside sources. For example, we may obtain commercially available information about you from third parties, such as credit information to prevent fraud, or purchase email lists from third parties for advertising and marketing purposes. We collect this information to perform any contract you may have with us and in service of our legitimate business interests.

If you access the Website using a device, we may collect the following device data:

  • Device Type
  • Operating System
  • Unique device identifiers
  • Device settings
  • Geo-location data
  • IP addresses
  • Browser type
  • Browser ID
  • Clickstream data
  • User workflow progress
  • Other (text field)

We collect this information to perform any contract you may have with us and to serve our legitimate business interests.

We do not seek to or intentionally collect other information about you ourselves or from third parties.

How We Use Personal Information

We collect personal information so that we can:

  • Operate and improve our website
  • Operate our business
  • Improve our goods and services
  • Communicate with you
  • Ensure compliance with law

Operate and improve our website

Here are some examples of what we mean by operating and improving our website:

  • Keep the Website running
  • Personalize your website experience
  • Provide support and respond to questions from users and Website visitors
  • Maintain security of information and data
  • Address network functioning, engineering, and troubleshooting issues
  • Preventing fraud
  • Process payments
  • Grant access to the Website
  • Register user accounts
  • Attribute content to the right person

Improve our website

  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Personalized experiences
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Learn about users’ needs
  • Track traffic patterns and Website usage
  • Customize our recommendations and promotions to you

Operate our Business

Here are some examples of what we mean by operating our business:

  • Keep the Tri-County Friendship Foundation running
  • Provide our offers
  • Comply with legal requirements
  • Fulfill orders and deliveries
  • Recruit team members
  • Administer our business and keep proper records
  • Engage in a sale of all or part of our business

Improve our goods and services

Here are some examples of what we mean by improving our goods and services:

  • Develop new products, services, or features
  • Measure, support, and improve our offerings
  • Analyze trends and research to improve our products and services

Communicate with you

Here are some examples of what we mean by communicating with you directly or through one of our partners:

  • Provide customer service
  • Email you, mail you, or contact you in other ways you approve, such as phone or text
  • Provide updates and other information relating to the Website
  • Send you marketing messages
  • Send surveys
  • Launch and operate promotions
  • Suggest products or services of interest
  • Contact you for research or informational purposes
  • Enable online registration and provide customer service concerning registration
  • Email newsletters

Ensure compliance with the law

  • Preventing fraud
  • Investigate atypical usage
  • Investigate claims and/or legal actions, violations of law or agreements, and compliance with relevant applicable laws and legal process
  • Comply with law
  • Preventing fraud and reduce credit risks
  • Cooperate with police and other governmental authorities when subject to judicial or administrative process (such as a subpoena) or as provided by law
  • Respond to civil or criminal investigations, claims, or lawsuits
  • Respond as we believe is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss
  • Protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to the Website or the public
  • Resolve disputes

How We Share Personal Information

We do not share your personal information outside the Company except as required by law or as disclosed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Location of Personal Information

We must, of course, store and process your data somewhere.

We store or process your data only in the United States.

How We Secure Information

We believe in providing a safe and secure experience for all of our online visitors. To that end, we have implemented security measures to protect the information collected from you. We maintain reasonable physical and electronic safeguards designed to limit unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information and to protect you against the criminal misuse of that information.

While we use these security measures to protect your information, please remember that no data transmitted over the Internet or stored and used for business purposes can ever be completely secure. No security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee:

  • that your information will only be viewed by approved people
  • that information you share will remain private
  • that information you share will not become publicly available

You can reduce the chances of these things happening by using a strong password, by not re-using passwords, and by protecting your devices against viruses and other malware.

Business Transactions

If we sell our assets or merge with another company, or if our company goes out of business, user information used by the business will be one of our assets that might be transferred to our successor. You consent to that successor’s use of your information, subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Access and Choice

A2P Messaging Opt-Out

By providing your phone number, you consent to receiving automated text messages from Tri-County Friendship Foundation related to updates, services, promotions, or other notifications. Message and data rates may apply.

To opt out of receiving automated marketing or promotional text messages at any time, reply with “STOP” to cancel. You may also reply with “HELP” for assistance. After opting out, you may receive a final confirmation message acknowledging your request.

Opting out of automated messages does not mean all communication will cease. We may still send critical non-promotional messages related to your account, such as:

  • Account status updates
  • Transaction confirmations
  • Security notifications
  • Other essential service-related communications

If you have any questions or concerns, contact us at admin@3cff.org or mail your request to P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148.

You have choices about the information we collect.

If you do not agree with how we might use your personal information, your first and best step is not to submit any of that information to us.

If you do not want to receive our emails, including those with information or promotions, you can unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link, responding with “unsubscribe,” or contacting the “help” email address below.

If you do not want to receive other marketing materials from us or if you do not want us to share your personal information with other entities as described in this Privacy Policy, please send us your name, address, and email address, together with a statement that you want to opt-out from information sharing or receiving materials (or both).

Please send your information and request to admin@3cff.org or send your information and request to P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148

Children’s Personal Information

This Website is not intended for use by children under 13. Children under 13 may not use or submit any information to the Website, and their guardians should not permit them to do so. The Company does not seek to or intentionally collect personal information from children under 13. If such a child or their guardian alerts us, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information as quickly as possible.

JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC PROVISIONS

The provisions in the following sections reflect the requirements of various legal jurisdictions that may apply to some users but not others. Because our users may access the Website from anywhere, we exert a meaningful effort to comply with all the laws we are subject to. If you are not the intended subject of a particular section, then those terms will not apply to you or your website usage.

US State Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of one of the US states below and the Website processes personal information about you subject to privacy laws specific to your state, you have certain rights with respect to that information, in all cases subject to state law. Some state privacy laws are relatively new, so the correct interpretation of these laws is not yet settled in some cases. In those cases, we will make a good-faith effort to comply with the law.

COLORADO

This section applies only if you are a Colorado resident and we (1) (A) do business in Colorado or (B) produce products or services that are targeted to Colorado residents and (2) (A) during a calendar year, control or process personal data of at least 100,000 Colorado residents or (B) control or process personal data of at least 25,000 Colorado residents and derive revenue or receive a financial benefit from the sale of personal data.

You have the following rights:

  1. A right of knowledge – you may ask that we confirm whether or not we are processing your data.
  2. A right of access—You may ask to access the personal data we are processing or to receive a copy of the personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
  3. A right of correction—You may correct inaccuracies in your data, considering the nature of that data and the purposes of processing that data.
  4. You have the right of deletion. You may ask that we delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
  5. A right of opt-out – you may opt out of the processing of the personal data for purposes of (1) targeted advertising, (2) the sale of personal data, or (3) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. You also have the right to opt-out using a universal opt-out mechanism that meets the technical standards the state attorney general will establish.
  6. A right to appeal—You have the right to appeal a company decision not to fulfill any of these requests.

We have the following related obligations, subject to applicable law:

  1. Timely response to your requests.
  • We must respond to your requests without undue delay, but in all cases, within 45 days of receipt.
  • We may extend the response period once by 45 additional days when reasonably necessary, considering the complexity and number of your requests, so long as we inform you of any extension within the initial 45-day response period and explain the reason for the extension.
  • If we decline to act on your request, we have to inform you without delay, but in all cases and at the latest within 45 days of receipt of the request, including the justification for declining to act and instructions for how to appeal our decision.
  • We will generally provide information in response to your requests without charge, up to once annually per user.
  1. Appeal mechanism.
  • We must establish a process for you to appeal our refusal to act on a request within a reasonable period after you receive our decision not to act.
  • We have to make the appeal process conspicuously available, similar to submitting requests to initiate action. You may appeal our decision by replying to our decision or by creating a new request for an appeal.
  • Within 45 days of receipt of an appeal, we have to inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
  • We may extend the response period by once by 60 additional days when reasonably necessary, considering the complexity and number of your requests, so long as we inform you of any extension within the initial 45-day response period, together with the reason for the extension.
  • If the appeal is denied, we will also provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or another method through which you may contact the state attorney general to submit a complaint.

Under Colorado law, you can opt-in to process your data for targeted advertising or the sale of personal data on the terms described in detail in this privacy policy. Even after you provide opt-in consent, you may withdraw your consent by using the opt-out procedures described in this privacy policy. This disclosure will also be included where you can opt in as described in this paragraph.

We do not “sell” personal information as defined by Colorado law, and we do not process your personal data for targeted advertising.

Please make any of your requests under Colorado law, as applicable, using one of these methods: admin@3cff.org; P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148

CONNECTICUT

This section applies only if you are a Connecticut resident and we (1) (A) do business in Connecticut or (B) produce products or services that are targeted to Connecticut residents; and (2) during the prior calendar year, controlled or processed the personal data of (A) at least 100,000 Connecticut residents; or (B) (i) at least 25,000 or more Connecticut residents and (ii) we derived over 25% of our gross revenue from the sale of personal data.

You have the following rights:

  1. A right of knowledge – you may ask that we confirm whether or not we are processing your data.
  2. A right of access—You may ask to access the personal data we are processing or to receive a copy of the personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
  3. A right of correction—You may correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of that data and the purposes of processing that data.
  4. You have the right of deletion. You may ask that we delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
  5. A right of opt-out – you may opt out of the processing of personal data for purposes of (1) targeted advertising, (2) the sale of personal data, or (3) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
  6. You can appeal against a company’s decision not to fulfill these requests.

We have the following related obligations, subject to applicable law:

  1. Timely response to your requests.
  • We must respond to your requests without undue delay, but in all cases, within 45 days of receipt.
  • We may extend the response period once by 45 additional days when reasonably necessary, considering the complexity and number of your requests, so long as we inform you of any extension within the initial 45-day response period and explain the reason for the extension.
  • If we decline to act on your request, we must inform you without undue delay, but in all cases and at the latest within 45 days of receipt of the request, including the justification for declining to act and instructions for how to appeal our decision.
  • We will generally provide information in response to your requests without charge, up to once annually per user.
  1. Appeal mechanism.
  • We must establish a process for you to appeal our refusal to act on a request within a reasonable period after you receive our decision not to act.
  • We have to make the appeal process conspicuously available, similar to submitting requests to initiate action.
  • Within 60 days of receipt of an appeal, we have to inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
  • If the appeal is denied, we will also provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or another method through which you may contact the state attorney general to submit a complaint.

We do not “sell” personal information as defined by Connecticut law, and we do not process your personal data for targeted advertising.

Please make any of your requests under Connecticut law, as applicable, using one of these methods: admin@3cff.org; P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148

UTAH

This section applies only if you are a Utah resident and we (1) (A) do business in Utah or (B) produce products or services that are targeted to Utah residents; (2) earn at least $25 million in annual revenue; and (3) during the prior calendar year, controlled or processed the personal data of (A) at least 100,000 Utah residents; or (B) (i) at least 2 5,000 Utah residents and (ii) we derived over 25% of our gross revenue from the sale of personal data.

You have the following rights:

  1. A right of knowledge – you may ask that we confirm whether or not we are processing your data.
  2. A right of access—You may ask to access your personal data we are processing or to receive a copy of the personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
  3. A right of deletion – you may ask that we delete personal data provided by you.
  4. A right of opt-out – you may opt out of processing personal data for purposes of (1) targeted advertising or the sale of personal data.

We have the following related obligations, subject to applicable law:

  1. Timely response to your requests.

We must respond to your request without undue delay, but in all cases, within 45 days of receipt.

We may extend the response period by 45 additional days when reasonably necessary, considering the complexity and number of your requests, so long as we inform you of any extension within the initial 45-day response period and the reason for the extension.

If we decline to act on your request, we must inform you without undue delay, but in all cases and at the latest within 45 days of receipt of the request, including the justification for declining to take action and instructions for how to appeal our decision.

Generally, we will provide information in response to your requests without charge, up to once annually per user.

We do not “sell” personal information as defined by Utah law or process your personal data for targeted advertising.

We do not process sensitive personal information as defined by Utah law.

Please make any of your requests under Utah law, as applicable, using one of these methods: admin@3cff.org; P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148

IOWA

This section applies only if you are an Iowa resident and we (1) (A) do business in Iowa or (B) produce products or services that are targeted to Iowa residents; and (2) during the prior calendar year, controlled or processed the personal data of (A) at least 100,000 Iowa residents; or (B) (i) at least 25,000 Iowa residents and (ii) we derived over 50% of our gross revenue from the sale of personal data.

You have the following rights:

  1. A right of knowledge – you may ask that we confirm whether or not we are processing your data.
  2. A right of access—You may ask to access the personal data we are processing or to receive a copy of the personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
  3. A right of opt-out – you may opt out of the sale of personal data.

We have the following related obligations, subject to applicable law:

  1. Timely response to your requests.

We must respond to your request without undue delay, but in any case, within 90 days of receipt.

We may extend the response period by 45 additional days when reasonably necessary, considering the complexity and number of your requests, so long as we inform you of any extension within the initial 90-day response period and explain the reason for the extension.

Suppose we decline to act on your request. In that case, we must inform you without undue delay, but in any case, within 90 days of receipt of the request, including the justification for declining to act and instructions for how to appeal our decision.

We will generally provide information in response to your requests without charge, up to twice annually per user.

  1. Appeal mechanism
  • We must establish a process for you to appeal our refusal to act on a request within a reasonable period after you receive our decision not to act.
  • We have to make the appeal process conspicuously available, similar to submitting requests to initiate action.
  • Within 60 days of receipt of an appeal, we have to inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
  • If the appeal is denied, we will also provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or another method through which you may contact the state attorney general to submit a complaint.

We do not “sell” personal information as defined by Iowa law.

We do not process sensitive personal information as defined by Iowa law nor process your data for targeted advertising.

Please make any of your requests under Iowa law, as applicable, using one of these methods: admin@3cff.org; P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148

VIRGINIA

This section applies only if you are a Virginia resident and we (1) (A) do business in Virginia or (B) produce products or services that are targeted to Virginia residents and (2) (A) during a calendar year, control or process personal data of at least 100,000 Virginia residents or (B) control or process personal data of at least 25,000 Virginia residents and derive over 50 percent of our gross revenue from the sale of personal data.

You have the following rights:

  1. A right of knowledge – you may ask that we confirm whether or not we are processing your data.
  2. A right of access—You may ask to access the personal data we are processing or to receive a copy of the personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to an extent, technically feasible, readily usable format.
  3. A right of correction—You may correct inaccuracies in your data, considering the nature of that data and the purposes of processing that data.
  4. You have the right of deletion. You may ask that we delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
  5. A right of opt-out – you may opt out of the processing of personal data for purposes of (1) targeted advertising, (2) the sale of personal data, or (3) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
  6. You can appeal against a company’s decision not to fulfill your request.

We have the following related obligations, subject to applicable law:

  1. Timely response
  • We must respond to your request without undue delay, but in all cases, within 45 days of receipt.
  • We may extend the response period once by 45 additional days when reasonably necessary, considering the complexity and number of your requests, so long as we inform you of any extension within the initial 45-day response period and explain the reason for the extension.
  • If we decline to act on your request, we have to inform you without delay, but in all cases and at the latest within 45 days of receipt of the request, including the justification for declining to act and instructions for how to appeal our decision.
  • We will generally provide information in response to your requests without charge, up to twice annually per user.
  1. Appeal mechanism
  • We have to establish a process for you to appeal our refusal to take action on a request within a reasonable period after your receipt of our decision not to take action.
  • We have to make the appeal process conspicuously available, similar to submitting requests to initiate action.
  • Within 60 days of receipt of an appeal, we have to inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
  • If the appeal is denied, we will also provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or another method through which you may contact the state attorney general to submit a complaint.

Please make any of your requests under Virginia law, as applicable, using one of these methods: admin@3cff.org; P.O. BOX 2914 830 North BLVD, Universal City, TX 78148

Updated: March 5, 2025