Privacy Policy

We are committed to respecting the privacy rights of all visitors to our website. The following information details Mercy Corps' collection, protection, and use of the data we receive from visitors to this website.

Our General Policy

Mercy Corps recognizes the importance of protecting information we may collect from visitors to our site. We maintain appropriate security measures to keep this information private.

If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet for the purposes of correspondence or subscribing to our email newsletter, then it is our intent to let you know how we will use such information.

Mercy Corps will remove your name from our mailing list, email list or telephone solicitation list at any time, at your request. We will not sell, rent or trade your email address to a third party.

Email Updates

We use a third-party email marketing platform to deliver emails. This company employs techniques for tracking open rates and click-throughs that use email addresses as an identifier.

You will be given the option to remove your name from our email list at the bottom of each email update. And, again, we will not sell, rent or trade your email address to a third party.

Use of Third-Party Software and Advertising Services

We also use third-party services to better understand the needs of people who visit our site. These services tell us information about technical aspects of our visitors' computers and some demographic information. We use this information to improve our content and structure, leading to a better user experience.

We do not receive or request any personally identifiable information from you unless you provide it.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Spam filter

To help us filter out spam we use a service called Honeypot, and Akismet. For more information about those filters, please follow the links to each.

If you would have additional questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us via email at donorservices@mercycorps.org or 1-888-842-0842.