General This statement discloses the privacy practices for www.futureofphilanthropy.org, an online service of Monitor Group. We have created this privacy and security statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and security and to provide the basis for our customer relationships. These guidelines have been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, and that underlying business models are still not established. Accordingly, guidelines are subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page.   Information Collected By The Site Cookies. A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited and to allow easy access to restricted areas of the website. Cookies are used to track your individual usage patterns on futureofphilanthropy.org. Contrary to what you may have heard from other sources, cookies cannot get information from your hard drive against your will, cannot destroy files, and cannot send you viruses. IP addresses. futureofphilanthropy.org logs your IP address (the location of your computer on the Internet). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. We do not use IP address logs to track your specific session or behavior on our site, but they are used to determine aggregated patterns. Statistical analysis. futureofphilanthropy.org may perform statistical analyses of user behavior in the aggregate in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site and for product-development purposes. Monitor Group reserves the right to disclose information about your usage and demographics, provided that it will not reveal your personal identity in connection with the disclosure of such information.   Data Security To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.   Third-Party Sites futureofphilanthropy.org and Monitor Group are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which this site may link.