Privacy Policy

Protecting the privacy of your personal information is important to us. We respect your right to privacy and recognize our obligation to keep information about you secure and confidential. We do not sell or share information about you with outside marketers.

Federal legislation requires us to provide you this notice about our privacy policy and offer a copy of this notice each year that you are our customer.

This notice uses the term "non-public personal information." This means personal information that identifies you and is not available from public sources.

  • We collect non-public personal information about you from the following sources:
    • Information we receive from you on scholarship applications, through correspondence, communications, and other forms;
    • Information received from schools you attend or formerly attended, or to which you have applied for admission; and
  • We do not disclose any non-public personal information about you or other current or former scholarship applicants to anyone, except as permitted by law. For example, we share such information with our contractors and agents, and to schools, as needed to administer your scholarship in conformance with the law.
  • We restrict access to non-public personal information about you to our employees who need to know the information, and to our contractors and agents, in order to provide service to you, such as processing your scholarship application. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in compliance with federal regulations to safeguard your non-public personal information.

MES Foundation has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this site. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information.

Our site's scholarship application form requires users to give us contact information, such as their name and email address. We use customer contact information from the application form to send the user information about our company. Contact information is also used to reach out to applicants when necessary. Applicants may opt-out of receiving future mailings by following instructions in the choice/opt-out section below.

This site contains links to other sites. MES is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

SMS Privacy Policy

  • MES Foundation may disclose Personal Data and other information as follows:
    • Third Parties that Help Provide the Messaging Service: We will not share your opt-in to an SMS short code campaign with a third party for purposes unrelated to supporting you in connection with that campaign. We may share your Personal Data with third parties that help us provide the messaging service, including, but not limited to, platform providers, phone companies, and other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.
    • Additional Disclosures: Affiliates: We may disclose the Personal Data to our affiliates or subsidiaries; however, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your Personal Data will be subject to this Policy. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Choice/Opt-Out

This site gives users the option for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications. This can be requested by sending an email to info@mesfoundation.org. Users may also update the contact information they previously provided by sending an email to the same address.

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with MES Foundation by contacting us at:

MES Foundation
PO Box 1296
Alfred, ME 04002
info@mesfoundation.org