Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us.

The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation is a private grant-making Foundation established in 1984 by philanthropist, entrepreneur and business executive, M. Lee Pearce M.D., J.D.. The foundation's website is located here: https://www.pearcefoundation.org

The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation Headquarters is located at:

16 La Gorce Circle
Miami Beach, FL 33141, United States

It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.pearcefoundation.org (hereinafter, "us", "we", "our", or "PearceFoundation.org"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, our website collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our website visitors use the website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of this website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to the PearceFoundation.org website may choose to interact with it in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. 

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Sharing and Usage

We will never share, sell or rent any personal information that is submitted to us by clients in relation to the provision of our services. Information submitted to us by our clients is made available only to our employees and authorized agents. This information is maintained and used only for the purpose of providing you with pertinent, relevant information about our company and in other business-related communications.

Links To External Sites

Our website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Emails From Us

If you received a mailing from us, (a) your email address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information ("opt-in"), (b) you have registered, purchased products or services or otherwise have an existing relationship with us, or (c) you have completed a contact request form on our website. We respect your time and attention by limiting the frequency of our mailings. All promotional emails include a one-click process for unsubscribing. If you unsubscribe you should no longer receive promotional emails from us.

Use of Google Analytics

In order to ensure that the content from our website remains up-to-date and engaging, this website employs Google Analytics, a web-analysis tool from Google Inc. ("Google") that enables us to optimize our website content for you. Google Analytics uses cookies that track your preferences during your visit to our websites. This allows us to simplify navigation, for example, thereby helping us to make the site more user-friendly. The information that is generated in this process (including the IP address) is anonymized, making personal identification impossible. An evaluation for reporting purposes is carried out only after the anonymization process. As a user of our websites, you always have the option of disabling cookies in your browser settings. Most browsers allow cookies as a default setting. Should you change this setting, this may disrupt certain functions of our websites. Furthermore, you can prevent Google's acquisition and processing of the information that is generated by the cookie and concerns your activity on the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing a browser plug-in. The direct link to the tool is: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Aggregated Statistics

We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we will never disclose any personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, our website uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Our website uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of  the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to our use of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time*, and in our sole discretion. We encourage site visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or phone.

*The latest update of this privacy policy was made on June 7, 2021

The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc.
16 La Gorce Circle
 Miami Beach, FL 33141
(305) 861-7702

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