Inspiring hope for Vancouver Island's children with life-threatening conditions

Help Fill a Dream 25th Anniversary

Privacy Statement


Help Fill A Dream is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Help Fill A Dream Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Help Fill A Dream website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Help Fill A Dream collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Help Fill A Dream also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Help Fill A Dream. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Help Fill A Dream for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Help Fill A Dream Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Help Fill A Dream public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Help Fill A Dream does not read any of your private online communications.

Help Fill A Dream encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Help Fill A Dream so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Help Fill A Dream is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Help Fill A Dream and Help Fill A Dream family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Help Fill A Dream collects and uses your personal information to operate the Help Fill A Dream Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Help Fill A Dream also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Help Fill A Dream and its affiliates. Help Fill A Dream may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Help Fill A Dream does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Help Fill A Dream may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Help Fill A Dream may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Help Fill A Dream, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Help Fill A Dream does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Help Fill A Dream keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Help Fill A Dream, in order to determine what Help Fill A Dream services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Help Fill A Dream to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Help Fill A Dream Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Help Fill A Dream or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Help Fill A Dream; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Help Fill A Dream, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Help Fill A Dream Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Help Fill A Dream pages, or register with Help Fill A Dream site or services, a cookie helps Help Fill A Dream to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Help Fill A Dream Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Help Fill A Dream features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Help Fill A Dream services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Help Fill A Dream secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Help Fill A Dream secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Help Fill A Dream will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Help Fill A Dream encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Help Fill A Dream is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Help Fill A Dream welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Help Fill A Dream has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Help Fill A Dream at info@helpfilladream.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Who We Help

Who We Help

We help Vancouver Island families with children under the age of 18, who have a life-threatening condition.

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Dream Events

Dream Events

Help Fill A Dream is the grateful recipient of donations raised from several local events. Are you organizing an event?

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Send Us A Dream

Send Us a Dream

Are you, or do you know of a child with a life-threatening illness who has a dream they'd like filled? We can help.

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Please Donate

Please Donate

We depend on the generosity of private donors and our corporate sponsors to help the children of Vancouver Island with life-threatening illnesses.

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