Not to Be Indelicate, but …

On its Web site,VolunteerMatch walks visitors through a simple introduction of what it does and how it uses personal information collected online. It reads, in part:

“Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between VolunteerMatch and all of our users, whether they be nonprofit organizations, volunteers, volunteers with a personalized account, readers of our newsletters or other visitors to the site … We use the information we collect about you to facilitate the volunteering process and to provide information to you about VolunteerMatch ... We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your information with volunteers, nonprofit organizations or our partners, as applicable. … For newsletter subscribers, we may use our e-mail lists for sending out our newsletter and other VolunteerMatch ... communications. We do not ... sell, rent or trade our volunteer, administrator, nonprofit or general newsletter e-mail addresses to outside parties.”