View source for Grants:Administration/Privacy FAQ

== Why do we collect your data? ==
The Community Resources team needs to collect some personal and banking data for a few reasons: 

* to send money to grantees;
* for screening and compliance purposes under U.S. law; and
* to keep tax records about our grants and grantees.

For example, 

*we need enough grantee bank account information to wire funds. The information needed to wire funds is different for each country, and may also change depending on how funds are sent. That’s the point of the program, after all!
*U.S. law—particularly the [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-107hr3162enr/pdf/BILLS-107hr3162enr.pdf USA PATRIOT Act] and [http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/13224.pdf Executive Order 13224]—requires us to conduct a review every time we send money to make sure that we aren’t inadvertently funding activities that aren’t legally permitted (such as money-laundering or terrorism). 
*to approve an organization’s grant, [[m:Grants:PEG/Eligibility_requirements|we must determine that the organization is not-for-profit]] in order to comply with US tax regulations. In the U.S., this means we need some documentation showing the organization’s 501(c)(3) status; outside the U.S., we need some documentation showing the organization has a similar status in another country.