PRIVACY POLICY

Information We Collect

We may collect a variety of information about you and your devices from various sources, as described below.

Information You Provide to Us

Registration Information. If you sign up for an account, register to use any of our Online Resources, or sign up for emails or other updates, we may ask you for basic contact information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, username, and phone number. We may also collect certain demographic information including age, gender, interests, income, and marital status.

Communications. If you contact us directly, we may collect additional information from you. For example, when you reach out to our customer support team, we may ask for your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other contact information so that we can verify your identity and communicate with you. We may also store the contents of any messages or attachments that you send to us, as well as any information you submit through any of our forms or questionnaires.

Events. If you register for an event that we host, whether in-person or online, we may collect relevant information such as your name, address, title, company, phone number, and email address, as well as specific information relevant to the event for which you are registering.

User Content. We allow users of our Online Resources to share their own content with others. This may include posts, comments, reviews, and other user-generated content. Unless otherwise noted when creating such content, this information may be shared publicly through our Online Resources.

Payment Information. If you make a purchase through the Online Resources, your payment-related information, such as credit card and other financial information, may be collected by our third-party payment processor on our behalf.

Information We Receive from Other Sources

We may receive information about you from other sources, including third parties that help us update, expand, and analyze our records, identify new customers, and detect or prevent fraud. We may also receive information about you from social media platforms; for example, when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. Information we receive from third parties is governed by the privacy settings, policies, and procedures of the relevant organizations, and we encourage you to review them.

Information Combining, Aggregation, and Analysis

We may combine and use data analysis to interpret your information and predict how likely you are to be interested in or responsive to a particular campaign or fundraising communication. If we conclude that you have the potential to support our efforts at a higher level, or interest in supporting our efforts at a higher level, we may collect additional publicly available information about you and combine and analyze that information into a donor profile.  This allows us to engage with you in a customized manner that is responsive to your supporter interest.

We commonly look at and combine information from public information resources, and other data sources that you chose to make available publicly on your social media channels, to give insight into your philanthropic interests and ability to support us. In addition, we may use trusted third-party companies, such as Blackbaud, that analyze and measure available information to assess affluence. This helps us understand more about your interests and level of potential engagement or donation. You may opt out of your data being combined and analyzed for prospect research by contacting us as described in the Your Choices section.

In some instances, we may combine personal information with device information or location information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as personal information as long as it is combined. We may also aggregate non-personal information collected from you and other users, as well as device information or location information, to produce general statistics that cannot be linked to you or any specific user.  We use that information to help provide you with a better experience on our Online Resources, to improve services, and to analyze and understand how our Online Resources are used.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We will only collect and process personal information about you if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases include situations where you have given consent, and our legitimate interest in operating, managing, and promoting our organization, maintaining our relationship with you, and protecting our organization and Online Resources (provided that such processing does not outweigh your rights and freedoms). Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to decline or withdraw your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal information, please contact info@defar.org.

We may use the information we collect:

1. To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance our Online Resources.

2. To understand and analyze how you use our Online Resources and develop new products, services, features, and functionality.

3. To facilitate purchases of products or services that you order.

4. To host events.

5. To allow you to share content with other users of our Online Resources.

6. To evaluate and process applications for jobs with us.

7. To communicate with you, provide you with updates and other information relating to our Online Resources, provide information that you request, respond to comments and questions, and otherwise provide user support.

8. For marketing and advertising purposes, including developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be relevant, valuable, or otherwise of interest to you.

9. To detect and prevent fraud, and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise.

10. For compliance purposes, including enforcing our rules, terms, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.

11. For other purposes for which we provide notice at the time the information is collected.

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How We Share the Information We Collect

Service Providers. We may share any information we collect with service providers retained in connection with the provision of our Online Resources. These companies are only permitted to use this information to help us provide our Online Resources, not for their own purposes.

Our Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and representatives as needed to provide our Online Resources.

Other Users. Content you post, including comments, may be displayed to other users of our Online Resources as appropriate.

Our Vendors. We use analytics services to collect and process certain analytics data. We also work with third-party advertising vendors. These services and vendors may also collect information about your use of other websites, apps, and online services. 

Fundraising. 

As Required by Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to (a) comply with law enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena, (b) respond to your requests, or (c) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety. In particular, we may disclose relevant information to the appropriate third parties if you post any illegal, threatening, or objectionable content on or through the Online Resources.

Events. We may share your information with event vendors or co-sponsors to facilitate the events for which you register.

Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may transfer your information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another organization or in which we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets. The use of your information following any of these events will be governed by the same general provisions of this policy.

Consent. We may also disclose your information with your permission.

Your Choices

If you wish to remain anonymous, but want to donate online and receive a tax-deductible receipt, please donate to us through a trustworthy online charity website.

You may send anonymous donations simply by sending a money order to us at the address found at the bottom of this section. However, if you do not provide your name and address we will be unable to send you a tax-deductible receipt.

Please contact us, using the contact information at the end of this section, if you would like to (a) review your personal information, (b) request corrections to your personal information, or (c) request deletion of all or a portion of your personal information.  We will consider each such request as required by applicable law.

Ability to Opt Out.  You may restrict our internal and our external use and sharing of your personal information by contacting us via the contact information at the end of this section. For example, you may request (a) that we no longer communicate with you regarding our programs, (b) that we not share your information for targeted advertising, and (c) that we not share your information with other organizations.  You may opt out at any time, and the option to opt out applies to both online and offline donors.  Please include your full name, address, phone number, and e-mail address in your opt-out request, and indicate how you would like your information restricted.

Text message communications. To opt out of text messages, simply reply STOP to any text message received from us. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary.

Our Communications. From time to time, you may receive marketing or other informational emails from us. You can unsubscribe from our promotional and informational emails via the link provided in the emails. Users may continue to receive administrative messages from us after opting out of receiving promotional messages from us.  Administrative messages are necessary to service use accounts.

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18.  We do not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 18 to provide us with their personal information without verifiable parent or guardian consent. If you are under 18, do not send any information about yourself to us, such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address, unless you have your parent’s or guardian’s permission. In the event we learn that we collected personal information from anyone under the age of 18, and do not have a parent or guardian’s consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.  In accordance with certain state laws, minors under the age of 18 may remove or request and obtain removal of content and information that they provide.  If you believe we might have information from or about anyone under the age of 18, or if you wish to remove or request and obtain removal of such content and information, please contact us at info@defar.org.

Changes to this Policy

We will post any adjustments to this policy on this page, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted. If we make material changes, we may notify you via a notice posted on our website or via another method. We encourage you to read this policy periodically to stay up to date on our privacy practices.