Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

The Hillsboro Community Foundation respects your privacy and appreciates the trust that you have in our Foundation. The following information disclosed our information gathering for this website: www.hcf-or.org.

In short: we explain what cookies are and how we use them. If you’d like to learn what information we use and store as well as how we work to keep your personal data secure, please read our Privacy Policy.

Our intention is to provide you with a safe and secure experience on our website. If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, please email us at ed-hcf@outlook.com.

You can also reach us at:
Hillsboro Community Foundation
PO Box 808
Hillsboro, OR 97123

Or by telephone at:
(503) 352-4513

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognize and remember your settings, preferences, and the way in which you use our site. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, tablet or mobile device.

When you visit our site, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies.

There are different types of cookies and below are the types HCF uses on its website.

Some cookies come directly from our website and others may come from third parties that place cookies on our site. Cookies can be stored for varying lengths of time on your browser or device. Session cookies are deleted from your computer or device when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer or device until deleted or until they reach their expiration date.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience by:

• Recognizing when you log in and restoring any preferred settings you’ve selected.
• Giving you a browsing experience that is unique to you and serves you content which we believe improves your site experience.
• Analyzing how you use our site which helps us optimize user experiences, troubleshoot any problems, and monitor our own performance.

We have four varieties of cookies which operate on our website.

1. The customizers

These cookies (also called functional cookies) allow our site to remember your preferences, helping you to customize your experience on our site. 

2. The performance improvers

These cookies from Google Analytics tell us about how you use the site and they help us to make it better. For example, these cookies count the number of visitors to our website, show us how visitors move around when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily and enabling us to optimize performance across devices and browsers used.

If you do nothing during your visit but browse, read pages, or download information, our site’s operating system will automatically record the following information about your visit.

• The Internet domain for your Internet service, such as “company.com” or “company.net” if you use a private Internet access account, or “college.edu” if you connect from a school, college or university domain.
• Whether you used a mobile device to access the website and what it was (e.g., “Apple iPhone XR” or “Google Pixel 2 XL”).
• The type of browser that you use (e.g., “Internet Explorer 11” or “Firefox”).
• The type of operating system that you use (e.g., Windows or Macintosh).
• The date and time you visit our site, and the pages you visit on our site.
• Your general geolocation at the time of access.
• The address of the previous website you visited, if you linked with us from another website.

How do you change cookie preferences or block cookies?

Within your browser, you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not.

Different browsers make different controls available to you. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use i.e. third party cookies or those from specific websites. Each browser’s website contains instructions on how you can do this. Links to instructions for common browsers are below.

• Chrome: Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
• Firefox: Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
• Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Microsoft Edge, browsing data, and privacy https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy

If you block cookies on our website, you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain functions and pages will not work in the usual way.

Changes to the Cookie policy

HCF may update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes we will let you know but please regularly check this policy to ensure you are aware of the updated version.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on June 14, 2025.