This is the website of Capital City Rescue Mission.

Our mailing address is:
PO Box 1999
Albany, NY 12201

We may also be reached via email at givinghope@albanymission.com or by telephone at 518-462-0459.

Capitalcityrescuemission.org knows you care how your information is shared and used, and we are grateful for your trust that we will do so cautiously and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy.

Our Commitment to Our Donors: Capital City Rescue Mission will not sell, share, or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.

Capital City Rescue Mission is committed to respecting the privacy rights of all our supporters. To accomplish this, we commit to the following:

• We seek and record only the information that is relevant to the programs of the organization.
• Our donor files will not be exchanged with, given to, sold to, or rented to any other organization.
• Information on our partners (i.e. our mailing list or donor giving records) is only given to persons who need such information to perform their assigned duties for Capital City Rescue Mission. This includes companies who prepare mailings, analyze and append data, contact donors on our behalf, or other uses related to the fulfillment of Capital City Rescue Mission’s purposes.

Personal Information and other data we collect:

• When you register for a service or otherwise voluntarily provide such information, Capital City Rescue Mission collects personal information.
• Capital City Rescue Mission uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use capitalcityrescuemission.org services, in order to improve the quality of our services.
• org servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our services, including your IP address, country, browser type, visit duration, operating systems, and search keywords and key phrases.

Information You Provide: We will not sell or trade your personal information to any other entity in existence unless we receive written permission from you, or lacking that, provide you with an easy and user-friendly way to opt out of having your information sold or traded. We use the information that you present for such purposes as communicating with you, responding to your requests, and improving our site and services. We receive and store any information you enter on our Website or give us in any other way. You may choose not to offer certain information, but then you might not be able to benefit from our many features. When you donate or register at capitalcityrescuemission.org, we collect and store the information you provide. This allows you to auto-populate future forms with the information you provide.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Websites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses Capitalcityrescuemission.org. For each end-user to our Website, our Web server may automatically recognize available IP addresses.  We collect IP addresses of end users for internal tracking purposes only. We collect the IP address of end users to our Web pages, aggregate information on what pages end users access or visit, and information volunteered by the end user, such as e-mail addresses through our online forms.

Cookies: When you visit capitalcityrescuemission.org, like many websites, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of capitalcityrescuemission.org’s features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on. We use cookies to record past activity in order to provide better service when you return to our site. However, if you feel it is necessary, the Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Affiliated sites: We may offer some of our services in connection with other websites and their vendors.

Links: Capitalcityrescuemission.org may present links in a format that allows us to track if these links have been followed. We use this information to customize content and improve the quality of our technology.

In addition to the above stated purposes of shared personal information, your personal information may be collected for the following purposes:

• Ensuring the technical function of our network;
• Auditing, research and analysis to sustain, protect and improve our digital services; and
• Developing new services.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, or you feel that this site is not following its information policy, you may contact us at givinghope@albanymission.com.