The My Way website and application is the property of United Way of Central Alabama, Inc. (“UWCA”) UWCA is committed to protecting your privacy. Except as described below, no personal information is shared, sold, rented, traded, or disclosed in any manner to third parties.
Access to and use of My Way is provided by UWCA and its affiliates. My Way and UWCA websites may be accessed via links from other websites or applications, such as your employer’s intranet. UWCA is not responsible for the information security and privacy practices of such other websites.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE
You must accept the terms of this Privacy and Security Statement in order to access My Way. By using and accessing My Way, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these terms. If you do not agree, you should not access My Way. You are agreeing to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described below.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect or track the following information from our website, application, and emails: (1) email address; (2) information knowingly and voluntarily provided by visitors or registered users in online forms, registration forms and surveys, which may include name, contact information, pledge or donation information, impact area or service interests, and other personal or community activities you choose to tell us about; (3) aggregate and user-specific information on which web pages visitors access, and (4) records of any correspondence you may have with UWCA or its affiliates. The My Way platform will also include information about you that we have from your prior interactions with UWCA or one of our affiliates, such as if you have previously donated to UWCA or volunteered with United Way Hands On.
“Personally identifiable information” is information about a natural person that is readily identifiable to that specific individual. It includes, for example, a person’s name, street address, email address, fax number, or telephone number. We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you through our website, unless you voluntarily use our site or the My Way platform to make a donation or pledge, send us an email message, participate in a survey, fill out and submit an online form, register for a volunteer activity or other event, or complete other My Way activities.
ONLINE PLEDGING
If your employer has elected to host an online pledge campaign through My Way, you will be asked to complete an online pledge form. Our pledge form could contain your name, address, zip code, email address, pledge amount, pledge type, and, if applicable, information directing your pledge to be used in a targeted service area or paid to a specified agency. If you participate in an employer-sponsored My Way pledge campaign, we will also provide the information we collect to your employer. We may also receive information from your employer about the pledge amounts necessary to reach certain donation thresholds; we do not use this information for any purpose other than presenting pledge options to you.
If you make an online pledge individually (outside of any employer-sponsored campaign), we will collect the same information as described above, but we will not share that information with your employer or anyone else unless specifically stated otherwise in this Privacy and Security Statement.
As with most online transactions, UWCA employs security measures to ensure your information is safeguarded (see “Security” below).
HOW INFORMATION IS USED
The information we collect is used for billing purposes, to complete or process your donation, and for future communications. Unless you instruct us not to, we will provide any agency you have designated to receive your contribution (if applicable) with your name, address, and the amount pledged so they may acknowledge your gift and communicate with you directly. We may also provide the designated agency with your email address.
Your email addressmay also be used to send you information related to your giving or volunteer activities or interests or agencies. You will always have the option to unsubscribe to future emails.
We will also use your information to create and manage your account and provide My Way or account-related assistance to you. The content you see on My Way will also be determined in part by the information you disclose to us.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
We may share the information we collect with other charitable organizations only as described above. We may also provide information to your employer as described above or other entities that need access to such information in connection with processing your contribution (such as credit card processing companies or other service providers). We also reserve the right to release information as required by any governmental or law enforcement agency or under a court order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
We do not receive or hold any credit card or bank account information; such information is transmitted directly to the third-party payment processor. Those processors have their own terms and conditions and privacy and information practices.
For employers hosting a My Way pledge campaign, cumulative My Way data about employee volunteer interests and activities, other expressed interests, and completed tasks or badges will also be made available to your employer, if applicable. This data is shared only to employers sponsoring a My Way pledge campaign and only as aggregate data for their employees. Your employer may use this information to initiate other workplace charitable or volunteer campaigns or programs. And as stated above, your employer will receive individual pledge information.
DO NOT TRACK REQUESTS
Our website does not respond to Do Not Track browser signals or similar mechanisms. We do not, however, track your activity outside of our website and application, and we do not allow third-party tracking on our website. No third parties collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites through our service.
SECURITY
We have established and maintain security standards and procedures to protect our users’ information. When you submit personally identifiable information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. We have installed a number of measures to protect the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information.
UWCA has created a registration and log-in process so that your personal profile is password-protected and can be accessed only by you or a person authorized by the UWCA. You should always log-out when you are done with your session so that others cannot access your account. You are solely responsible for protecting the security of your password.
For donors who pledge online, upon request, we will send an email confirmation of their pledge. Due to the nature of the internet and our lack of control over your email host, we cannot guarantee the security of this email correspondence.
We permit staff members and certain volunteers to access information you have provided to process your pledge and to perform certain administrative and business functions. UWCA staff and volunteers who have access to such information are subject to a confidentiality agreement that prohibits them from disclosing your information to third parties (except as described above) during and after their employment or volunteer work with UWCA.
If you have any questions or concerns about the security of information sent over the internet through our My Way website, please direct them to: eservices@uwca.org.
DONOR RESPONSIBILITIES
In an effort to fully protect our donors’ information, we ask that all donors follow the recommended security guidelines for protecting donor information for themselves and their employees.
We ask that any breach of private information be reported to UWCA within in 24 hours by emailing eservices@uwca.org.
My Way usernames and passwords should not be shared with any other persons.
A donor’s pledge information is considered to be private information and should be disclosed without prior consent of the donor.
We ask that any donor or confidential information be provided to us via a secure or encrypted method.
Changes to this Privacy and Security Statement
This Privacy and Security Statement may be updated from time to time. The amended version will be posted on our website and effective as of the date it is published. We will provide you notice of material changes, which notice may be by emailing you or by posting a notice or alert in My Way when you log in.
Updated: October 2025