Community Conversations is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging the civic divide and stopping the spread of disinformation.
The organization will be referred to as “we,” “our,” or “the organization” throughout this document.
We have created this privacy policy to explain how they use the information that you may provide while visiting our websites or social media pages and to demonstrate our firm commitment to internet privacy. We may modify this policy from time to time so we encourage you to check this page when revisiting our websites or social media pages. By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use for this site.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
When you share your email, take our survey, or take any other action on our site, we may ask you to give us contact information, including your name, address, occupation, employer, telephone number and/or email address. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site, send news and information to you about our work and the impact of polarization in our public discord, solicit your participation in our programs, events and activities, and obtain and confirm RSVPs to events and programs. We use your email address to send such information by email.
Community Conversations will not provide your email address or any of your personal information to any other person or organization, for any purpose, except:
to protect our rights or property, or to protect our supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records.
Submitting your personal information including email address on this page may sign you up to receive emails from Community Conversations.
For petitions and surveys you’ve signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information – for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to elected officials and legislators, other targets, or to the press. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to elected officials or legislators as part of a petition. In no case will we disclose your email address or phone number without your specific permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, and state available to the press and public online. We may also use your first name to indicate the latest actions taken on this site.
CHILDREN
Community Conversations complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Community Conversations does not solicit and does not accept personally identifying information from any person under 13 years of age. Visitors to this site who are under 13 years of age should not use this site except under the supervision and with the assistance of their parent or legal guardian, and should never submit any personally identifying information to the site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not take our survey or take any actions on or through this site.
COOKIES AND DATA TRACKING
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Some parts of our websites may be password-protected. We may use cookies (cookies reside on your computer and are under the control of your browser) to help us remember and process items that you purchase through this site; and/or to compile aggregate data about visitors to the site and their interaction with the site for the purposes of improving the operation of the site and/or offering better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use cookies to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the website without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the tool-bar on most browsers will tell you how to do that. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this site.
We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to Community Conversations supporters.
URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an id—we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser’s address bar when you access the page.
ADVERTISING
We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other sites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us will be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies on the site, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The privacy policies and practices contained in this Privacy Statement do not apply to ANY external links. This Privacy Statement only applies to our site or any future sites that Community Conversations may develop. It does not cover sites that are linked to by this site or sites for which we are not responsible (“linked-sites”). These linked-sites will have their own policies and practices which may be different from ours. We therefore encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices of the linked-sites, especially if you provide personal information to them.
CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
Community Conversations complies with the California Online Privacy Protection Act.
CHANGES TO POLICY
We retain the right to amend or otherwise update this Privacy Statement at any time. By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of the information as we have described. If we change our policies and practices, we will post the changes in our Privacy Statement so that you are always aware of them. With this knowledge, you can make an informed decision about whether you wish to provide personal information to us.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, you may contact us by:
E-mail: [email protected]
