1. To respect the privacy of patients and staff. Apart from issues that are appropriate for discussion during meetings with staff, I should refrain from revealing any information, which I hear, see or read at the House, on private occasions.
2. I understand that the House is a place where patients receive treatment and recover. Providing volunteer service in such environment may expose the volunteers to the risk of being infected by disease. I also understand that I will attend an infection-control training program, from which I will acquire the knowledge and skills of infection prevention. I will also follow all guidelines in respect of disease prevention measures provided by the staff, in order to protect my health and that of others.
3. To provide service to the House without any guarantee of receiving compensation or employment in the future.
4. To report to the relevant staff any accidents or injuries which involve myself when providing volunteer service.
5. To dress properly and wear the volunteer identity card issued by the House, when providing volunteer service.
6. To stop participating in any on-going or up-coming volunteer activities if I do not feel well or have a fever.
7. To inform the designated staff if I am unable to show up on time, due to illness or fever, or any other reasons.
8. To be punctual at work and endeavour to provide service, or to provide prior notification if I am unable to carry out my duty, so that other arrangements can be made.
9. I also agree that during the course of providing volunteer service, I will not participate in any commercial activities.
10. I hereby declare that I have not been convicted of any child sexual-related criminal offence before a court of law.
I hereby confirm that all the data provided above is correct and is true. I have read and agreed with all the terms and conditions above.
I understand that before accepting any volunteer work, I will have to go through an interview, training and orientation activities. I also understand that Ronald McDonald House reserves the right to terminate my registration as a volunteer, under the following circumstances: (a) I fail to abide by the policies, regulations or ordinances of Ronald McDonald House, or (b) I fail to show up without prior notice, or (c) my working attitude and performance are unsatisfactory, or (d) under any conditions, the House considers that my volunteer work is not beneficial to the House.
Privacy policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. (RMHC) is pleased to provide information to all of its customers about its online privacy policy. Please be assured that RMHC uses its best efforts to protect the privacy of visitors to this Web site.
Types of Information Collected and How It Is Used
RMHC gathers personal information, such as first and last names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers, only when voluntarily submitted by you. If you make an online donation, personal information will be collected from you in order to process that donation.
With your permission, we will use personal information collected from you to send you information, such as RMHC updates or information regarding new Ronald McDonald House openings, fund-raising campaigns or major grant initiatives. If you do not elect to receive such materials, we will not send them to you.
Security of Donor Information
Donor information is stored within a donor management database within RMHC. Access to the database is restricted to personal with legitimate business need to access or modify the information contained therein.
Sharing of Personal Information
Companies may be engaged by RMHC to perform a variety of functions, such as assisting with donation collection, providing technical services for our Internet sites, etc. Such companies may have access to personal information if needed to perform certain functions. However, these companies may use such personal information only for the purpose of performing that function and may not use it for any other purpose.
Each of the RMHC Chapters around the world are separate legal entities. If you make a donation through this website and designate that it should support a local chapter, RMHC will transfer your personal information to the recipient organization in addition to maintaining your information in our donor management database. Each local chapter will have its own privacy policy and you should review those policies.
Other than as provided in this privacy policy, RMHC does not sell, transfer or disclose personal information to third parties.
RMHC reserves the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to protect the integrity of the site, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement investigation or an investigation on a public safety matter.
Access
You are in control of all personal information you provide to us online. If at any time, you would like to correct the personal information we have about you or if you would like to change your preferences for contacts from us, you can let us know by contacting us at the postal address listed below. In order to review any personal information we have about you or to ask us to delete that information or to stop further use of the information, please contact us through the address listed below. If you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, please use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our newsletter emails or contact us through the postal address listed below. It may take up to two weeks to remove you from all of our email newsletter if we have one in production when you request to be removed.
Cookies
“Cookies” are pieces of information that an Internet site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow a certain Internet site to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. Like most Internet sites, RMHC uses cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience. For example, we track the total number of visitors to our site on an anonymous, aggregate basis. We may also employ cookies so that we remember you when you return to the site. We may associate personal information with a cookie file in that instance.
Use the options in your Internet browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. Click on the “Help” section of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you disable all cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the RMHC web site.
We use Google services, such as Google Analytics, as well as other third party vendors that place first-party and/or third-party cookies on a browser across our websites. To opt out of Google tracking, please visit their opt-out page. We also use Google AdWords "remarketing" to market our sites across the web. We place a cookie on a browser, and then Google reads these cookies and may serve an ad on a 3rd party site. You may opt out of this ad serving on Google’s opt out page. If you are concerned about 3rd party cookies served by networks, you should also visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Links to Other Sites
We may offer links to sites that are not operated by RMHC. If you visit one of these linked sites, you should review their privacy and other policies. We are not responsible for the policies and practices of other companies.
Local Chapter and Ronald McDonald House Internet Sites
Each local RMHC Chapter and the local Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile programs operated by a local RMHC Chapter, is an independent organization and licensee of RMHC. Many of the local Chapters operate their own web sites. When visiting the Internet site of a local RMHC Chapter, please review the site’s privacy policy because the terms may be different from this privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy became effective on April 15, 2011. From time to time, it may be necessary for RMHC to change its privacy policy, so we suggest that you check here periodically. Rest assured, however, that any changes will not be retroactively applied and will not alter how we handle previously collected information.