Privacy Policy | Greenlight America

PRIVACY POLICY

Greenlight Action and Greenlight America are committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. This privacy policy is designed to inform you about the ways in which we collect data about you, how we use it, your privacy rights, and your ability to make choices about your personal information.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Organization (referred to as either "the Organization", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to the 501(c)(4) organization Greenlight Action and our 501(c)(3) Greenlight America, 2045 W Grand Ave Ste B, #31638, Chicago, Illinois 60612.
Service refers to the website and any forms that we may provide access to.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Organization. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Organization to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Organization, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Organization in analyzing how the Service is used.
Site refers to Greenlight America, accessible from greenlightamerica.org as well as other forms hosted on third-party platforms to facilitate advocacy, event RSVPs, and other interactions with the Organization and our Service.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

How we collect and use your data

We collect two basic kinds of data: Personal Data and Usage Data.

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Your data is stored on a secure database on secure servers and is accessible only by designated staff or approved vendors, as described in this policy. This information enables us to provide you with updates on our work and opportunities to get involved in our campaigns and to support our work.

The Organization may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates or informative communications related to campaigns and other Organization activities.
To provide You with news, opportunities, and general information about other services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already engaged in or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, campaigns, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent, such as with coalition partners that are part of the campaign you are engaging in
With third parties that you are contacting through our forms: If you take action on our Site that involve third parties, such as submitting comments to a government agency or to the office of an elected official, your comments and identifying information become subject to their privacy rules, and may also be recorded or published in accordance with public records policies. The Organization is not responsible for the privacy practices of any such third party.

From time to time we supplement data on individuals in our database with information from publicly available sources or third-party vendors for the purpose of improving our communications. We may use this information to customize your experience online and offline. For example, we may send you opportunities to take action or attend events in the city, state, or region in which you reside, or prepopulate a form on our website for your convenience.

You may contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us. To do so, please use our Contact Us page. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Under certain circumstances, the Organization may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

We also use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service.

A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can remove, block, or disable cookies using the settings in your web browser. However, if You do not accept cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

For more information on cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at www.allaboutcookies.org

Certain sections of our Service and our emails may also contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Organization, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.

Links to Other Sites

The privacy policies and practices contained in this Privacy Policy do not apply to ANY external links. This Privacy Policy only applies to our Site or any future Sites that we 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 that may be different from ours. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices of the linked-Sites, especially if you provide personal information to them.

Children

We do not solicit and 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 identifiable information to the Site.

Your rights and choices

Users retain the right to reject cookies and can do so through their cookie settings or by using a browser plugin.

Recipients can opt-out of email or text communications via the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of all Organization emails or the QUIT command via text messages.

Additionally, you can request to be removed from any email, phone, text, or mail communications by emailing Comms@greenlightamerica.org

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, use our Contact Us page.