INTERNET PRIVACY STATEMENT

At Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. (“Renaissance Charitable”)¹, we value the trust you have placed with us and we want you to know that we will protect the privacy of the information that you share with us. The personal information we collect from you will be handled with care.

The objective of this Privacy Statement is to disclose and explain the types of information we collect, use and share, and explains the privacy choices that are available to you.

This Privacy Statement applies to potential donors, current donors, and all others associated with a Renaissance Charitable Gift Fund Account, Charitable Gift Annuity Account, or other Renaissance Charitable Account such as grant advisors, grant recipients, charities, successors, beneficiaries, investment advisors, annuitants, etc. (each referred to herein as "you").

How We Collect Information About You

We collect personal information about you in a number of ways, including:

  • Account Applications. We collect information from you in order to provide services to you when you open an account with Renaissance Charitable. The information collected may include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, Social Security number, date of birth, advisors, and similar contact information. We use this information to respond to inquiries, administer the account, and recommend program offerings that we believe may be of interest to you.
  • Transaction Information. When you open an account with us, we collect and maintain personal information about contributions, grant recommendations, etc. relating to the account. This information allows us to administer the account and to inform you of other offerings we believe may be of interest to you.
  • Third-Party Information Providers. We may collect information about you from third parties to verify your identity, or to better understand your charitable goals.
  • Website Usage. When you visit our secure Client Center, we may use devices known as "cookies," graphic interchange format files (GIFs), or other similar web tools to enhance your web experience. These tools enable us to recognize you when you return to our site, and to maintain your web session while you browse throughout the site, as well as help us provide you with a better, more personalized experience. By themselves, cookies do not identify you as an individual by name or account number; they merely recognize your browser. If you prefer not to accept cookies, you may adjust your browser settings to notify you when a cookie is about to be sent, or you may configure your browser to refuse cookies automatically. However, if you turn off cookies, or refuse to accept a request to place a cookie, some features and services on this Website may not function properly and the information you receive when you visit this Website may not be as relevant to you or tailored to your interests.

How We Use and Share Information We Collect

Within Renaissance Charitable and among our service providers such as third-party vendors, we restrict access to your personal information to those who require it to provide our services to you. For example, we have entered into an arrangement with Renaissance Administration LLC to provide administrative services.

We do not sell or share your personal information to any outside firm or entity so that they can independently market their own products and services to you.

We may share the personal information that we capture with government agencies or other regulatory bodies and law enforcement officials (for example, for tax reporting or for reporting suspicious transactions) to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws or valid legal processes.

We take precautions to ensure the information we collect about you is protected and is accessed only by authorized individuals or organizations. Companies we use to provide support services are not allowed to use information about you for their own purposes and are contractually obligated to maintain strict confidentiality. We limit their use of information to the performance of the specific services we have requested.

We restrict access to personal information by our employees and agents. Our employees are trained about privacy and are required to safeguard personal information.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information.

Using Your E-Mail Address

We may use your e-mail address to send the following types of e-mail messages to you:

  • Updates and Valuable Offers. We may send you e-mail account updates, offers for our products and services, requests for enrollment, as well as valuable offers from our business partners.
  • Regularly Scheduled E-mail Newsletters related to Renaissance Charitable products or services in which you are enrolled or newsletters that you have elected to receive.
  • Account Service Information. We may send you e-mail service notifications that are related to your account(s) or products and services in which you are enrolled. These include e-mails that provide account information, answer your questions about a product or service, facilitate or confirm a sale, or fulfill a legal or regulatory disclosure requirement.
  • Optional Messages. You may also choose to receive other types of e-mail messages from us, including additional alerts and notifications beyond those noted above.

Your Communication and Privacy Choices

We respect the choices that you make regarding your privacy. You may request that we no longer send you direct marketing e-mails and/or offline offers or promotions.

If you have received certain marketing e-mails from us but you no longer want to receive them, you may follow the unsubscribe instructions on our website. Please note that even if you choose not to receive future direct marketing e-mails and/or offline offers or promotions, we may continue to send you service notifications, via e-mails or offline means, about your account(s) and related products and services. Such notifications may also provide account information (including information about servicing communications based on your customer status), answer your questions about a product or service, facilitate or confirm a sale, or fulfill a legal or regulatory requirement.

Securing Your Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use. Do not use e-mail to send us any personal information, since it would be unencrypted and can be read by anyone who receives or intercepts it.

Updating Your Information.

If you wish to correct or update your personal information, please use your User ID and Password to log in to our home page. You will then have access to your personal information and can correct or update it.

We are committed to keeping accurate, up-to-date records to help ensure the integrity of the information we maintain about you. If you identify an inaccuracy in this information, or you need to make a change to it, please contact us promptly by calling 866-803-0389.

Contact Us with Questions

If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, please call Customer Service at 866-803-0389.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

Renaissance Charitable reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time by posting revisions on this Website. Such changes will be effective upon posting.



1) Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. is a United States public charity described in §§501(c)(3), 509(a)(1) and 170 (b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. Renaissance Charitable Gift Fund is a name we use to describe one of our Donor-Advised Fund programs. Renaissance Charitable and RCF are names we use for the combined programs and services of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.