The Laurice Khoury Foundation for The Support of Disabled Palestinian Students (LKF) is a non profit organization and currently filing for 501(c)(3) status. Donations received while the application is pending with the IRS may be treated as tax-deductible contributions retroactive to the date of the organization’s formation.

We collect personal information (full name, address, telephone and e-mail address) from visitors and supporters when they express interest in supporting the organization, subscribe to receive our newsletter or make a donation. We do not store your credit card information. The information collected is used to send tax receipts, thank you letters, reports and newsletters. To review your personal information, make corrections or request your information not be shared outside the organization, please send an e-mail to info@lauricekhouryfoundation.org.

If you choose to provide personal information to us, we will never rent, sell or disclose your personal information to any third party without your prior written consent unless we are required to do so by a court or a public authority or we reasonably conclude that such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the Laurice Khoury Foundation for The Support of Disabled Palestinian Students Inc. (LKF), our website, or other users of our website.

LKF values your support and the confidentiality of any sensitive information you provide to us. Credit card donations made online are processed using a secure server using industry standard encryption and for your security, LKF cannot access your credit card information.

We work with a variety of vendors who help us process data or otherwise facilitate the operation of the LKF website. For example, outside vendors may help us analyze traffic on our site, process credit card transactions, or facilitate activities such as the collection and delivery of petition signatures.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies to improve website performance, to remember user preferences and settings, and to collect analytic data. By “cookies” we mean small text files placed on to your computer by websites you visit. “Cookies” may also refer to local storage, which is a mechanism similar to cookies where the information is stored within your web browser. In some instances we place these cookies ourselves. In other instances we allow outside service providers to place these cookies, but only if those providers agree to the terms described above under “How We Work with Third-Party Vendors.” We use cookies as follows:

Website Performance

Website performance cookies allow the LKF to improve the visitor experience by making the website easier to use. For example, they may enable us to:

Determine how often and where you see our “breaking news” alerts or promotions.

Save you time when filling out a form by populating it with information you provided in previous visits.

Analytics

We use analytics tools that place cookies, in order to give us a better understanding of how people engage with our website. That in turn allows us to gauge the current performance of Website features, and to develop better content. Analytics cookies provide us with information like:

How many individual visitors we have

How many visitors are new or returning

How often visitors come to the website

What content they’ve visited

How visitors interact with particular pages or content

How Certain Content Hosts May Place Cookies and Gather Information About You

Our site is connected in a variety of ways to content residing on other platforms. We provide links to content on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and to content on other sites, such as articles posted on the sites of news organizations. Our site also features embedded media, such as videos, that are hosted on other platforms (such as YouTube) but viewable directly through the buttons we provide. When you click on links or buttons for any of these types of external content, the providers of that content may place their own cookies on your computer, access existing cookies that were set when you previously visited other websites, or otherwise gather information about you as you access their content.

To learn about how those content hosts treat the data they collect through cookies and otherwise, see their respective online privacy policies and other posted guidance.

Our Privacy & Terms may change from time to time. All updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at info@lauricekhouryfoundation.org.