Privacy Policy

 Privacy Policy

Thank you for selecting to be section of our neighborhood at HelpGuide.org International (“HelpGuide”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are dedicated to defending your non-public data and your proper to privacy. If you have any questions or worries about our policy, or our practices with regards to your private information, please contact us at contact@helpguide.org.

When you go to (“our website”), and use our services, you believe us with your private information. We take your privateness very seriously. In this privateness notice, we describe our privateness policy. We are seeking to give an explanation for to you in the clearest way viable what statistics we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to examine via it carefully, as it is important. If there are any phrases in this privateness coverage that you do now not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and services.

This privateness coverage applies to all statistics accumulated via our website, and/or any associated services, marketing, or occasions (we refer to them mutually in this privateness coverage as the “Sites”).

Please study this privateness coverage cautiously as it will assist you make knowledgeable selections about sharing your non-public records with us.

Table of Contents
What facts do we collect?
How do we use your information?
Will your statistics be shared with anyone?
Who will your facts be shared with?
Do we use cookies and different monitoring technologies?
How lengthy do we hold your information?
How do we hold your records safe?
Do we accumulate statistics from minors?
What are your privateness rights?
Controls for Do-not-track features
Do California residents have particular privateness rights?
Do we make updates to this policy?
How can you contact us about this policy?
What records do we collect?
Personal records you divulge to us
In Short: We accumulate non-public data that you supply to us such as name, address, and contact information.

We accumulate private facts that you voluntarily supply to us when expressing an hobby in acquiring data about us or our merchandise and services, when collaborating in things to do on our internet site or in any other case contacting us.

The non-public records that we gather relies upon on the context of your interactions with us and our website, the preferences you make and the merchandise and aspects you use. The non-public records we gather can encompass the following:

Name and Contact Data. We acquire your first and remaining name, electronic mail address, organization, mailing address, and smartphone number.

Information robotically collected
In Short: Some records – such as IP tackle and/or browser and gadget traits – is gathered robotically when you go to our website.

We routinely acquire sure data when you visit, use or navigate our website. This statistics does now not disclose your precise identification (like your identify or contact information) however may also consist of gadget and utilization information, such as your IP address, browser and system characteristics, running system, language preferences, referring URLs, machine name, country, location, statistics about how and when you use our internet site and different technical information. This facts is notably wanted to keep the protection and operation our website, and for our interior analytics and reporting purposes.

How do we use your information?
In Short: We manner your statistics for functions based totally on respectable enterprise interests, the achievement of our contract with you, compliance with our prison obligations, and/or your consent.

We use private statistics amassed with the aid of our internet site for a range of commercial enterprise functions described below. We procedure your private records for these functions in reliance on our reputable enterprise interests, in order to enter into or function a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our felony obligations. We point out the unique processing grounds we count on subsequent to every reason listed below.

We use the records we gather or receive:

To ship you informational communications. We may also use the non-public statistics you ship to us for the functions of sending you informational emails or newsletters. You can opt-out of our informational communications at any time.
Request feedback. We may additionally use your statistics to request remarks and to contact you about your use of our website.
For different commercial enterprise purposes. We may additionally use your records for different Business Purposes, such as facts analysis, figuring out utilization trends, figuring out the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to consider and enhance our website, articles, and your experience.
Will your statistics be shared with anyone?
In Short: We solely share records with your consent, to comply with laws, to defend your rights, or to fulfill commercial enterprise obligations.

We may also manner or share statistics primarily based on the following criminal basis:

Consent: We might also technique your records if you have given us precise consent to use your non-public statistics in a particular purpose.
Legitimate Interests: We may additionally method your statistics when it is fairly integral to gain our respectable commercial enterprise interests.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may additionally system your private records to fulfill the phrases of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may also reveal your records the place we are legally required to do so in order to comply with relevant law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court docket order, or prison process, such as in response to a courtroom order or subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet countrywide protection or regulation enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We can also divulge your statistics the place we agree with it is imperative to investigate, prevent, or take motion concerning manageable violations of our policies, suspected fraud, conditions involving practicable threats to the protection of any man or woman and unlawful activities, or as proof in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may also want to system your statistics or share your non-public data in the following situations:

Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We can also share your records with 1/3 celebration vendors, carrier providers, contractors or sellers who operate offerings for us or on our behalf and require get admission to to such data to do that work. Examples include: fee processing, facts analysis, e mail delivery, web hosting services, purchaser provider and advertising and marketing efforts. We may additionally enable chosen 1/3 events to use monitoring science on our website, which will allow them to accumulate facts about how you have interaction with our internet site over time. This records might also be used to, amongst different things, analyze and song data, decide the recognition of sure content material and higher apprehend on line activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do no longer share, sell, lease or exchange any of your data with 1/3 events for their promotional purposes.
Business Transfers. We may also share or switch your facts in connection with, or at some stage in negotiations of, any merger, sale of business enterprise assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a element of our commercial enterprise to every other company.
Who will your data be shared with?
In Short: We solely share data with the following 1/3 parties.

We solely share and reveal your records with the following 1/3 parties. We have described every birthday party so that you can also without problems apprehend the motive of our information series and processing practices. If we have processed your facts based totally on your consent and you desire to revoke your consent, please contact us.

Google Analytics and different Google services
Google Analytics is a internet evaluation carrier furnished with the aid of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google makes use of the records accrued to music and take a look at the use of our website, to put together reviews on its things to do and share them with different Google services. Google can also use the records accumulated to contextualize and customize the advertisements of its very own marketing network.

Privacy Policy

Opt Out

Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a advertising automation platform and an electronic mail advertising and marketing service. Mailchimp may additionally use the information they accumulate for inside records analytics initiatives or to meet prison requirements.

Privacy Policy

Donorbox
Donorbox is a donation platform aimed to simplify donations to nonprofits. Donorbox will gather facts that permits them to whole transactions initiated through stop users. Donorbox does no longer promote non-public facts to 0.33 parties.



Stripe
Stripe is an on-line price processor that permits us to accumulate routine and one time donations. Stripe may additionally gather facts that ought to be used to create pastime primarily based classified ads with 0.33 parties.



Do we use cookies and different monitoring technologies?
We and our companions use cookies to acquire statistics about your use of the website. “Cookies” are small records archives assigned to your browser when you go to HelpGuide which allow attention of your browser and acquire and save records about your use of the site, as described above. In addition to cookies, we and our companions use different monitoring applied sciences that gather records about your use of the Services, which includes cellular identifiers and “web beacons” which are small picture documents (sometimes referred to as “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) embedded in a net web page or e-mail commonly used to reveal pastime and ship applicable facts again to a domestic server (which can belong to the host site, a community advertiser or some different 1/3 party).

Our carrier companions may additionally use cookies and different monitoring applied sciences to accumulate records about your use of the site, together with content material you have viewed. These 0.33 events might also use this records to supply advertising and marketing on different 0.33 birthday celebration web sites primarily based on your shopping pastime on HelpGuide.

How lengthy do we preserve your information?
In Short: We maintain your records for as lengthy as vital to fulfill the functions outlined in this privateness coverage except in any other case required through law.

We will solely hold your facts for as long as it is crucial for the functions set out in this privateness policy, until a longer retention duration is required or accredited by means of regulation (such as tax, accounting, or different prison requirements).

When we have no ongoing official enterprise want to method your non-public information, we will both delete or anonymize it, or, if this is no longer viable (for example, due to the fact your private data has been saved in backup archives), then we will securely shop your private facts and isolate it from any similarly processing till deletion is possible.

How do we hold your data safe?
In Short: We goal to shield your non-public records via a gadget of organizational and technical safety measures.

We have carried out splendid technical and organizational safety measures designed to defend the safety of any non-public facts we process. However, please additionally be aware that we can't warranty that the net itself is one hundred percent secure. Although we will do our great to shield your non-public information, transmission of non-public facts to and from our internet site is at your very own risk. You must solely get admission to the offerings inside a impenetrable environment.

Do we accumulate records from minors?
In Short: We do no longer knowingly accumulate facts from or market to youngsters underneath 18 years of age.

We do now not knowingly solicit facts from or market to youngsters below 18 years of age. By the usage of the website, you signify that you are at least 18 or that you are the mum or dad or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the website. If we analyze that private data from customers much less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take practical measures to straight away delete such statistics from our records. If you end up conscious of any information we have accumulated from kids beneath age18, please contact us at contact@helpguide.org.

What are your privateness rights?
In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area, you have rights that enable you larger get right of entry to to and manage over your private information. You may additionally review, change, or request deletion of your facts at any time.

In some areas (like the European Economic Area), you have sure rights beneath relevant statistics safety laws. These may also encompass the proper (i) to request get right of entry to and acquire a replica of your private information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to hinder the processing of your non-public information; and (iv) if applicable, to information portability. In positive circumstances, you might also additionally have the proper to object to the processing of your non-public information. To make such a request, please use the contact important points at the conclusion of this policy. We will think about and act upon any request in accordance with relevant information safety laws.

If we are relying on your consent to system your non-public information, you have the proper to withdraw your consent at any time. Please notice then again that this will now not have an effect on the lawfulness of the processing earlier than its withdrawal.

If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you accept as true with we are unlawfully processing your non-public information, you additionally have the proper to bitch to your nearby records safety supervisory authority. You can discover their contact small print here.

Cookies and comparable technologies: Most internet browsers are set to be given cookies via default. If you prefer, you can typically select to set your browser to dispose of cookies and to reject cookies. If you pick to take away cookies or reject cookies, this should have an effect on sure points or services of our website.

Controls for do-not-track features
Most net browsers and some cellular working structures and cellular functions consist of a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) characteristic or putting you can set off to sign your privateness choice now not to have records about your on line searching things to do monitored and collected. No uniform technological know-how popular for recognizing and imposing DNT indicators has been finalized. As such, we do now not presently reply to DNT browser alerts or any different mechanism that mechanically communicates your preference no longer to be tracked online. If a fashionable for on line monitoring is adopted that we need to comply with in the future, we will inform you about that exercise in a revised model of the Privacy Policy.

Do California residents have precise privateness rights?
In Short: Yes, if you vicinity resident of California, you are granted precise rights related to get admission to to your private information.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) supplies California residents the following rights with regard to their non-public facts (taken from CCPA Fact Sheet):

The proper to recognize what non-public facts is collected, used, shared or sold, each as to the classes and unique portions of private information.
The proper to delete private records held via corporations and by way of extension, a business’s provider provider.
The proper to opt-out of sale of private information. Consumers are capable to direct a commercial enterprise that sells private records to quit promoting that information.
Children underneath the age of sixteen need to supply opt-in consent, with a mother or father or guardian consenting for youngsters underneath 13.
The proper to non-discrimination in terms of rate or carrier when a patron workout routines a privateness proper beneath CCPA.
If you are a resident of California, and have submitted information with the Sites or have used the Sites, you have the proper to request elimination of undesirable records that you publicly put up on the Sites. To request elimination of such data, please contact us the usage of the contact data furnished below, and consist of the electronic mail address
associated with your account and a declaration that you stay in California. We will make certain the records is now not publicly displayed on the Sites, however please be conscious that the records might also no longer be totally or comprehensively eliminated from our systems.

Do we make updates to this policy?
In Short: Yes, we will replace this coverage as essential to remain compliant with applicable laws.

We may additionally replace this privateness coverage from time to time. The up to date model will be indicated with the aid of an up to date “Revised” date and the up to date model will be wonderful as quickly as it is accessible. If we make cloth modifications to this privateness policy, we can also notify you both via prominently posting a observe of such adjustments or
by at once sending you a notification. We motivate you to evaluate this privateness coverage regularly to be knowledgeable of how we are defending your information.