The use of this website including donation forms, fundraising campaign and event websites and related online tools constitutes acceptance to these Terms and Conditions as at the date of your first visit to our site. The Riverside Foundation for Health Care reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice. Your continued used of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions as modified.
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OWNERSHIP
This website, its contents, and all associated copyright is owned by Riverside Foundation for Health Care. You acknowledge and agree that all of the content and features available on this Site – especially, but not limited to, text, programs and software, databases, photos, movies, sounds, music, presentation and logos – are protected by copyrights, rights protection database, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other rights and property laws. The content and materials available are either exclusively owned and controlled by The Riverside Foundation for Health Care or used under license. These conditions apply to all content and all elements available on this website.
PERMITTED USE
As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Riverside Foundation for Health Care that you will not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.
LINKS
This site may contain links to other websites. The lined sites are not under the control of Riverside Foundation for Health Care and the Riverside Foundation for Health Care is not responsible for the contents of any linked site. If you use visit any lined site, you do so at your own risk.
CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
We are committed to following all rules and regulations regarding tax receipting as set out but the Canadian tax authority, the Canada Revenue Agency. Your donation is greatly appreciated. Please note all donations are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Your online donation, ticket sale or any other Ecommerce transaction will be processed instantly once you have completed our online donation from through a secured payment system. Our donation form is on web pages that are secured using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. The SSL encrypts your personal and payment information.
Donor Bill of Rights
The Donor Bill of Rights was created by the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel (AAFRC), Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The Victoria General Hospital Foundation endorses and abides by the principles outlined in the Bill of Rights.
Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. To ensure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the nonprofit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:
- To be informed of the organizations mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their internal purposes
- To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organizations governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities
- To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements
- To be assured their gifts will be used for the purpose for which they were given
- To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition
- To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law
- To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature
- To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organizations or hired solicitors
- To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share
- To feel free to ask questions when making a donations and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers