Privacy Policy

Introduction: Friendship Inn has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our customers, including respecting their concerns about privacy. We understand that visitors to our website may have questions about how this website collects and uses information. We have prepared this statement to inform you of the privacy principles that govern www.friendshipinnkc.org.

This statement contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. The bottom line is that meeting your needs and expectations form the foundation of everything we do - including protecting your privacy.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or privacy concerns please send an email to info@friendshipinnkc.org.

Friendship Inn KC, Inc.
P.O. Box 3423
Kansas City, KS 66103

Browsing: This website does not collect personally identifiable information from your computer when you browse the site. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with personally identifiable information, we will not know your name, your email address, or any other personally identifiable information.

Internet Protocol (IP) Address: An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you browse the Internet. When users request a page from our site, our servers log the user's current IP address. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information about you.

Cookies: Our website uses "cookie" technology. "Cookies" are strings of text that a website may store on a user's computer. Cookies enable our website to keep track of your preferences and activities relating to the website. Our website creates session cookies for each visit in order to facilitate your visit. The session cookie expires at the end of the session.

• Use of Cookies and emails - We use a third party service provider to send marketing emails on behalf of Friendship Inn. There are no cookies in the email. However, when an email recipient clicks on a link to Friendship Inn website included in the email, a "persistent" cookie is placed on the user's computer. This cookie is used to measure the effectiveness of our email marketing efforts and better understand how our users navigate through the site. The cookie set by our service provider will remain on your hard drive 30 days after the last time you clicked on the coded link in the email, or until you delete it.

The third party service providers mentioned above are contractually bound not to use any information they gather for any purpose other than providing services to us. Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer or computer files. In addition, we do not use cookies to gather information concerning your visits to non-Friendship Inn websites. If you do not wish to receive these cookies, you may set your browser to reject the cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how to do this,) although doing so may affect your ability to perform certain transactions on our website.

Information We Collect: When we need to collect personally identifiable information from you, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. For example, if you would like to sign up to receive emails from us, we will ask you for information such as name, address, telephone number, email address.

Securing the Transmission and Storage of Information: If you use the website to make a donation to Friendship Inn we transfer you to the PayPal processing system which uses secure pages to complete your transaction. This ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen appears in the locked position. In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https."

Email: It is our intention to only send you email communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. We use a third party email service provider to send emails. This service provider is prohibited from using your email address for any purpose other than to send Friendship Inn related email. Every time you receive email you will be provided the choice to opt-out of future emails by following the instructions provided in the email, or you may opt-out by updating your online profile.

Friendship Inn Use of Information: We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company's security procedures and strict corporate policies regarding protection and use of confidential information. Because laws applicable to personal information vary by country, our business operations may put in place additional measures that vary depending on the applicable legal requirements. Information collected on the sites covered by this privacy statement is generally processed and stored in the United States.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties: Friendship Inn prohibits the sale or transfer of personal information to entities outside of Friendship Inn for their use without your approval.

How to Change Your Information: The personally identifiable information collected through this website is not accessible to you. If you believe the information you voluntarily provided us is not correct, or has changed, please send an email message to please email info@friendshipinnkc.org explaining the correction or change and provide any relevant information.

Links to Other Sites: If you choose to leave this site via links to other non-Friendship Inn websites, Friendship Inn is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of those sites, nor is Friendship Inn responsible for the cookies those sites use.

Legal Issues: This is a United States website and is subject to United States law. Friendship Inn will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to Friendship Inn guests, visitors, associates, or property (including this site,) or to others. As mentioned above, laws related to personal identifiable information vary by country. For example, personally identifiable information collected in the European Union is subject to the EU Data Protection Directive.

Privacy Policy Effective Date: The privacy policy is in effect at the time of each visit to our site. Please check our privacy policy each time you visit our website if you are concerned about how your information will be used.

Privacy Statement Changes: In the future, we may need to change the privacy statement for friendshipinnkc.org. All changes will be made here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone.