During your volunteer work you’ll necessarily have occasional access to some private information. We ask that all Deerfield volunteers sign a confidentiality agreement and follow the guidelines below to protect you and all members of the Deerfield community against unauthorized use or disclosure of personal data, including email and postal addresses, phone numbers, and giving histories. Your compliance with this policy will ensure the privacy of Deerfield alumni, family, and friends is honored and protected.
- Please handle any confidential information responsibly and discreetly, and respect your fellow alumni’s right to privacy.
- The information provided to you for your volunteer work is for Deerfield-related purposes only and may not be used for other commercial, political, philanthropic, or personal advocacy or solicitations of any kind.
- Please do not share or permit access to this confidential information with any person or organization unless Deerfield authorizes it in advance.
- Please do not alter, copy, duplicate, reproduce, store in a retrieval system, or transmit this data in any form or by any means unless authorized in advance by Deerfield to do so.
- Please promptly dispose of or return any data no longer needed for your volunteer work to Deerfield. Disposal must be secure and unrecoverable: shred physical copies or permanently delete electronic data.