The M. Night Shyamalan Foundation understands that your privacy is important.  This notice describes our privacy policy.

1. Grant Application Forms

If you apply for a grant or scholarship, we require that you provide personally identifiable information, including your name, address and telephone number.  This information is necessary to process your application and to contact you.

2. Contacting Us

If you choose to send us an email through our Contact Us page, we will capture and store the information that you provide in the communication.  We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries. We will communicate with you by email or telephone.

3. Information Sharing and Disclosures

We do not collect or share personally identifiable information about your use of this site.  We do collect information about those who apply for grants or scholarships.  If you receive an award, we may disclose information about you as provided in a Grant Agreement or Award Letter.

4. Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we may gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We may use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We will not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

5. Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes.  We do not use cookies on this site.

6. Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)

Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users.  We do not use clear gifs on this site.

7. Links to Other Sites

This Web site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation.  Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

8. Changes in this Privacy Notice

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy notice and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy notice at any time, so please review it frequently.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

9. Questions or Comments

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: http://www.mnsfoundation.org/contact/index.aspx