Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 28, 2026

The George W. Donaghey Foundation ("the Foundation," "we," "us") is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN 71-0201619) that supports the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. This policy covers our website, donagheyfoundation.org, and our student profile site, profile.donagheyfoundation.org (together, "our sites"). It explains what we collect, how we use it, and your choices.

Questions or requests about this policy: hello@donagheyfoundation.org.

Information you give us

Student profiles (profile.donagheyfoundation.org)

Students considering the Donaghey Scholars program can create a free profile. We use it to show each student the steps and deadlines that apply to them, and to send reminders. Depending on how far you get, we collect:

About you: first and last name, email address, and mobile phone number.
Where you are in school: whether you're in high school, transferring, or already at UA Little Rock; your school; graduation year; college credit hours (transfer and current students); unweighted GPA range; ACT or SAT range (optional); and whether you've applied to or been admitted by UA Little Rock.
A few more details: groups or programs you belong to, intended major (optional), interest in study abroad (optional), a parent or guardian's email (optional), and how you heard about us (optional).
Your choices: whether you've agreed to receive text messages, and whether you've unsubscribed or told us you're no longer interested.

We don't ask for your date of birth, Social Security number, or financial information.

Your details are saved as you go. Your name, email, and phone number are saved when you finish the first step, even if you don't finish the rest. That way we can help you pick up where you left off.

Our staff's notes. Foundation staff may add notes, a priority rating, and progress updates to your profile to help them support you. Your profile page shows only your own details. It doesn't show staff notes or ratings.

The website (donagheyfoundation.org)

The alumni archive and Scholar Spotlight form: name, high school, major, graduation year, degrees, email, phone number, location, employer, a short bio, and an optional photo. Alumni archive and Scholar Spotlight entries may be published on the website. Published entries show your name and story. We don't publish your email address or phone number.
Email: if you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever your message contains.

How we use your information

To create and maintain your profile, and to show you your next steps and key dates.
To send you emails about the Donaghey Scholars program, deadlines, and your profile, including a link to confirm your email address and sign-in links.
To send text reminders, only if you opt in (see "Text messages").
To send key dates and deadlines to a parent or guardian, only if you give us their email, and only after you confirm your own email address.
To let our staff follow up with students who might be a good fit, especially near deadlines.
To maintain the alumni archive and respond to messages.
To understand which outreach works, including ads (see below), and to improve our sites.
To keep our sites secure and prevent spam and misuse.

Text messages (SMS)

If you check "Text me deadline reminders" on your profile, we'll text you reminders about deadlines and your next steps.

Opting in is optional. You can create a profile without agreeing to texts.
We don't send texts until you've confirmed your email address.
How often: message frequency varies, usually a few messages a month around key dates.
Message and data rates may apply.
To stop, reply STOP at any time. You'll get one confirmation, and then no more texts. Reply START to resume. For help, reply HELP or email hello@donagheyfoundation.org.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

We don't sell, rent, or share your mobile number or text-messaging consent with third parties or affiliates for their marketing. We share your number only with the messaging provider that delivers our texts, and only for that purpose.

Google Analytics and other tools on our sites

We use cookies and similar technologies to understand how our sites are used:

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (both sites) record pages visited, how you arrived (for example, from a search or an ad), the device and browser you use, your approximate location (city level), and actions such as clicking an application link, submitting a form, or starting a profile. On the profile site, we strip sign-in links and other private details from page addresses before anything is sent to Google. Google's use of this data is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Metricool (website) measures visits, so we can see which outreach channels and social media posts bring people to the site.
Webflow (website) hosts the site and handles its forms. Its optimization feature may personalize or test page content.
Cloudflare Turnstile (website) checks that form submissions come from people, not bots.
Vimeo (website) delivers our embedded videos and may set its own cookies when you play one.
Essential cookies (profile site) keep you signed in and remember your progress through the form.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The website works without them. The profile site needs its essential cookies to keep you signed in.

Advertising: Google and Meta

We advertise the Donaghey Scholars program on Google (including through Google Ad Grants) and on Meta (Facebook and Instagram).

When you click one of our ads, the link includes a click identifier from the ad platform (such as Google's "gclid" or Meta's "fbclid") and labels that name the campaign. If you then create a profile, we store these with your profile, so we know which campaigns help students find us.
We may tell Google and Meta that an ad click led to a sign-up. We send only the click identifier and the type of event (for example, "registered"). We don't send your name, email, phone number, school, or any other details about you. Meta receives this from our server through its Conversions API. We don't place a Meta pixel on our sites.
Google Analytics may tell Google Ads when an ad visit leads to an action on our website, such as clicking an application link.

Google's and Meta's own policies govern how they use ad data. You can manage ad personalization at myadcenter.google.com and in your Facebook or Instagram ad preferences.

Who we share information with

We don't sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it with anyone for their own marketing.

We share information only:

With service providers that run our sites and messages for us: Webflow (website hosting and forms), Railway (profile site hosting and database), Resend (email delivery), our text-message provider, Google (analytics and ads, as described above), and Meta (ad click reports only, as described above). They may use the information only to provide their services to us.
With our authorized staff and contractors, who use it to support students and run the program. Every staff action in the profile system is logged.
With UA Little Rock's Donaghey Scholars Honors Program staff, to help you through admission and the application.
With partner programs (for example, a community organization you tell us you belong to): only total counts, never your individual details.
When the law requires it, or to protect the safety of our users or the public.

Students and young visitors

Our sites are written for high school and college students who are considering the Donaghey Scholars program, and for their families. Profiles are meant for students of high school age and older. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, email hello@donagheyfoundation.org and we'll delete it.

Student profiles are private. They aren't public and aren't shown in search engines. A parent or guardian you list receives only key dates and deadlines, and can unsubscribe at any time.

How long we keep information

Student profiles: if you become a Donaghey Scholar, we keep your profile indefinitely as part of our alumni records. Otherwise, we keep it for 3 years after your expected graduation year. Either way, you can ask us to delete it at any time.
Alumni archive entries: as long as the archive exists, or until you ask us to change or remove them.
Emails you send us: as long as we need them to respond, or as the law requires.
Analytics data: according to the retention settings in our Google Analytics account.

Your choices

Unsubscribe from program emails with the link in any email. We'll still send sign-in links if you request them.
Tell us you're no longer interested from your profile page, and we'll stop sending program messages.
Stop texts by replying STOP.
See, correct, or delete your information, including your whole profile and its message history, by emailing hello@donagheyfoundation.org. You can also update your profile answers yourself on your profile page. We may need to confirm your identity before making a change.

Security

We use reputable service providers, encrypted connections (HTTPS), sign-in links that expire instead of passwords, and access limited to authorized staff. Staff actions in the profile system are logged. No website can guarantee complete security.

Links to other websites

Our sites link to other websites, including UA Little Rock's application pages. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we aren't responsible for their practices. Applications to the Donaghey Scholars Honors Program are submitted to and handled by UA Little Rock.

Notice to California residents

This section adds to the rest of this policy for California residents. As a nonprofit, the Foundation is generally not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We still offer California residents the disclosures and rights below, and we follow the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) and California's law on content posted by minors.

What we collect, where it comes from, and why

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information, as California law defines them:

Identifiers. Examples: name, email address, mobile number, parent or guardian email; ad click identifiers and cookie IDs. Source: you; your browser; the ad you clicked. Purpose: your profile, messages and reminders, follow-up, measuring outreach. Disclosed to: service providers; Google and Meta (click IDs and cookie IDs only).
Education information. Examples: school, graduation year, GPA range, test score range, credit hours, application status, intended major. Source: you. Purpose: showing you your path and deadlines, and deciding which students need follow-up. Disclosed to: service providers; UA Little Rock's Donaghey Scholars staff.
Characteristics and group membership. Examples: programs or organizations you say you belong to. Source: you. Purpose: partner program credit (reported only as counts). Disclosed to: service providers.
Professional information (alumni). Examples: employer, degrees, bio, photo. Source: you, through the alumni form. Purpose: the alumni archive. Disclosed to: published on the website (without email or phone).
Internet and device activity. Examples: pages visited, links clicked, referring page, device, browser. Source: your browser, through cookies and Google Analytics. Purpose: improving our sites and measuring outreach and ads. Disclosed to: Google; Metricool; service providers.
Approximate location. Examples: city, from your IP address. Source: your browser. Purpose: analytics. Disclosed to: Google.
Inferences. Examples: our staff's priority rating and notes, and your engagement status. Source: us. Purpose: helping staff decide whom to contact before deadlines. Disclosed to: no one outside the Foundation.

We don't collect sensitive personal information as defined by California law, such as Social Security, driver's license, or financial account numbers, precise geolocation, or health information. We don't use any personal information to infer characteristics about you beyond what's described above.

Selling and sharing

We don't sell personal information, and we never accept money for it. We have no actual knowledge of selling or sharing the personal information of anyone under 16.

Some of our analytics and advertising, described in "Google Analytics and other tools" and "Advertising: Google and Meta" above, could be treated as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law. That includes cookies set by Google and reports to Google and Meta that an ad click led to a sign-up. You can opt out of it at any time:

Email hello@donagheyfoundation.org with the subject "Do not share," or
Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser. We treat the signal as an opt-out request for that browser.

Your rights

California residents may ask us to:

Know what personal information we've collected about you, where it came from, why we collected it, and whom we've disclosed it to.
Get a copy of that personal information.
Correct inaccurate personal information.
Delete your personal information, subject to exceptions the law allows.
Opt out of sharing, as described above.

To make a request, email hello@donagheyfoundation.org. We'll confirm we received it within 10 business days and respond within 45 days. If we need more time, we'll tell you, for a total of up to 90 days. To protect your information, we'll verify your identity by confirming that you control the email address on your profile or alumni entry. You can use an authorized agent if you give them signed, written permission, and we may ask you to confirm your identity directly. We won't discriminate against you for using these rights.

Minors under 18: removing what you posted

If you're under 18 and live in California, you can ask us to remove content or information you posted on our sites, such as an alumni archive or Scholar Spotlight entry, or your profile answers. Email hello@donagheyfoundation.org, and we'll remove it from public view or delete it. Removal may not be complete if someone else copied or reposted it. You can also edit or delete your own profile answers on your profile page.

"Shine the Light"

California Civil Code §1798.83 lets California residents ask which personal information a business shared with third parties for their direct marketing. We don't share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing. You can still email hello@donagheyfoundation.org to ask.

Do Not Track

Browsers' "Do Not Track" setting has no common standard, so our sites don't respond to it. We do honor Global Privacy Control, as described above. Third parties such as Google may collect information about your online activity over time and across different websites when you use our sites, as described in "Google Analytics and other tools" and "Advertising: Google and Meta."

How you'll hear about changes

If we change this policy, we'll post the updated version on this page with a new effective date. If a change significantly affects how we use your profile information, we'll also email you.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here and update the effective date. If a change significantly affects how we use your profile information, we'll tell you by email.

Contact

The George W. Donaghey Foundation
Little Rock, Arkansas
hello@donagheyfoundation.org