ChildFund respects your privacy and are committed to handling your personal information in a safe and responsible manner. Accordingly, we have prepared this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to ensure compliance with a shared set of practices.
It is important that you read this Policy, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal information.
This Policy describes the types of personal information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website (AGenerationAtStake.org) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Personal Information We Collect About You
“Personal Information” is information from which you or other individuals can be identified. We collect several types of Personal Information from and about users of AGenerationAtStake.org, including information about:
- How to contact you, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
- Email signup for our newsletters or alerts
- For our members program, additional information (e.g. business address)
How We Collect Your Personal Information
We collect your Personal Information directly from you when you provide it to us. This will include Personal Information you provide:
- When filling in forms on com. This includes when you sign up for more information or to interact with various tools or to be part of specific communities, and request material, further information, or services.
- When you report a problem with com or contact us for any other purpose.
- When you provide information to be published or displayed on public areas of com or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties.
We also collect your Personal Information through our use of automatic data collection technologies – see further in the “Automatic Data Collection Technologies” section below.
We may also collect or receive Personal Information about you from various third parties and public sources, including but not limited to:
- Technical Data from the following parties: analytics providers, such as Google and search information providers.
- Identity and contact data from publicly available sources.
Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with AGenerationAtStake.org, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information from and about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to com, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
“Do Not Track” – Certain laws, including that of California, require that we inform you on our response to Do Not Track signals. As there is not an industry or legal standard for responding to these signals at this time, we do not respond to them.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data we may use to improve AGenerationAtStake.org and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about preferences, allowing us to customize com according to individual interests.
- Speed up searches.
- Recognize you when you return to com
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies).A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to AGenerationAtStake.org.
- Web Beacons.Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit ChildFund, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).]
If you do not provide ChildFund with the Personal Information required to perform our contract with you or comply with our legal or statutory obligations (highlighted as such in the list above), we may not be able to provide those relevant services to you. If you consent to ChildFund use of your Personal Information and this consent forms the legal basis of our processing of that Personal Information, you are entitled to withdraw it at any time – see the “California Consumer Privacy Rights” section below for more detail.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Policy:
- To our affiliates to provide you with requested services.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of ChildFund assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of ChildFund or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Personal Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your Personal Information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising.You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
California Consumer Privacy Rights
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information collected about them. These include, in certain circumstances:
- To ask us not to process your Personal Information, including where ChildFund is using it for direct marketing purposes.
- To receive a copy of all your Personal Information held by ChildFund, to check we are processing it lawfully.
- To ask us to correct any errors in your Personal Information.
- To ask us to delete your Personal Information, including when exercising your right to object to processing (see above).
- To ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information.
- To ask us to transfer your Personal Information to another party.
- To withdraw your consent where you have provided it for ChildFund’s collection or use of your Personal Information for a specific purpose.
You may exercise these rights at any time by contacting ChildFund using the details in the “Contact Information” section of this Policy.
We may not be able to accommodate a request relating to your Personal Information in certain circumstances prescribed by law. Please contact us using the details in the “Contact Information” section of this Policy if you would like more information.
Data Retention
We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we use it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your Personal Information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. For example, all information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your Personal Information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of AGenerationAtStake.org, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to AGenerationAtStake.org. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.
We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Policy
We may revise and update this Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Website and handling of your Personal Information thereafter. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
Complaints
If you are concerned about how ChildFund uses your Personal Information, you have the right to make a complaint to the supervisory authority in your place of work or residence or the place in which the relevant infringement has taken place.
Contact Information
For more information about this website, or if you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Updated June 2022