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Effective Date: May 20, 2022
Thank you for visiting Altruize.com and/or Altruizeapp.com (collectively “Site”) and/or Altruize App (“App”). Your privacy is important to us. Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between Altruize and all of our users, whether they be a nonprofit or other volunteer organization verifying volunteers’ submitted requests (each, an “Agency”), volunteers, volunteers with a personalized account, readers of our newsletters or other organizations and visitors to this Website. This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout Altruize governing our online information security practices.
By submitting Information through our Site and App and/or our Web Services on Partner sites, you agree to be bound contractually by the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your information according to this Privacy Policy and you agree to the Altruize Terms and Conditions located at Altruize.com/terms-of-service (the “Terms and Conditions”).
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, upon prior notice to you by email, and by thereafter posting amended terms on this Site and App. Your continued use after such notice, indicates your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy. You should check this Privacy Policy periodically for modifications by referencing the Effective Date posted above.
You may have accessed Altruize directly by visiting our Site and/or App, the corporate home page of which is located at Altruize.com, the Altruior through the Website of one of our third-party partners with whom we have teamed to provide verifying services and/or prizes and incentives, such as (a) an Altruize co-branding partner; or (b) a corporate partner or (c) Nonprofit partner (collectively, “Partners”). This notice applies to all information you submit to Altruize through the Altruize Site and App. Please note that we cannot be responsible for the information you submit directly to third parties, including our Partners, who may have their own posted policies regarding the collection and use of your information. We urge you to review the policies of our Partners through whom you may access our services.
You can access many sections of our Site and App without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. We will not collect any personally identifiable information from you unless you voluntarily submit such information to us. Therefore, if you do not want us to obtain any personally identifiable information about you, do not voluntarily submit such information to us. However, in certain sections of this Site and App, we may invite you to create an account, login through a third party social networking service, contact us with questions or comments, volunteer, request to build applications and submit product feedback. Due to the nature of some of these activities.
We may collect personally identifiable information that you submit such as, but not limited to, login credentials, full name, email address, physical address, birth date, telephone number, zip or postal code, organization name, EIN, and organization website. We may also collect additional personally identifiable information that you voluntarily transmit with your communications to us.
In no way limiting the generality of the foregoing, you may have the option to submit the following types of information on our Site and App, which may or may not be personally identifiable information, and that may change from time to time:
The Site and App may track the total number of visitors to our Site and App, the number of visitors to each page of our Site and App, the aggregate number of users that click on a certain volunteer listing, search terms, IP address, browser type, the aggregate number of volunteers from particular cities, states or provinces, zip or postal codes and other aggregate and anonymous information.
We may analyze the data we collect. Such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in anonymous and aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. For example, we may use this aggregate information to provide volunteer information in your area.
If you decide to use a social networking service to sign in, you are using other services like Facebook Connect. These services give us a token that allows social features on the site, and this token is stored on our third party hosting provider’s servers. The respective sign in services have privacy settings and policies that let you control your preferences. By default, those services use a cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for this Site and App to recognize when you return to the Site and App. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this feature.
General, Site and App Improvement and Personalization
In general, we use the personally identifiable information collected on our Site and App to help us understand who uses our Site and App and how it is used, to personalize your experience, to assist you in using our Site and App and to improve our Site and App. We also use the non-personally identifiable information collected automatically by our servers primarily to help us administer and improve our Site and App.
We reserve the right to use your Information to send you emails regarding system downtime and/or the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions, and you are not permitted to opt out of receiving these email messages.
We do not sell or rent our newsletter email addresses to outside parties.
If you become a registered member of our Site and App, we may use your information to send you a welcoming email that may confirm your username and password. We may send you electronic newsletters, contact you about online services, related information and news items that may be of interest to you, such as product enhancements, tool upgrades, volunteer project or other civic engagement recommendations, or membership news and provide you with targeted feedback. If you decide you no longer want to receive these communications from us, we will provide you with an option to “opt-out” and change your preferences.
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as “traffic data” so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. We will not use your IP address to attempt to identify your personal information.
A Referrer is the information passed along by a web browser that references the Web URL you linked from, and is automatically collected by our web server as “traffic data”. We reserve the right to use this information to identify broad demographic trends that may be used to provide information tailored to your interests. You will not be personally identified from this information.
System information that we collect as part of “traffic data” includes time, the type of web browser being used, the operating system/platform, and CPU speed. This information is sent automatically by your web browser when you are connected to a web site. We reserve the right to use this information for purposes of identifying broad demographic trends and may be used to provide information appropriate for your computer system. You will not be personally identified from this information.
You may share content from this Site and App with your friends using social networking services and such social networking services may collect and use your information as set forth in their own privacy policies. We may provide the aggregate information that we collect to our third party partners that collect data regarding volunteer activities on this Site and App but such information will not personally identify you. We may provide your personally identifiable information and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our Site and App and related services to you solely as necessary to provide our Site and App and services to you. We may disclose your personally identifiable information when we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, or when we deem it appropriate or necessary to provide such information to law enforcement authorities. We will not sell, rent, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except that we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which Altruize participates or to an assignee.
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user’s computer. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of this application if you do so. We use cookies to facilitate necessary functionality within the application, including but not limited to user authorization; as well as for collecting information necessary for debugging purposes and continued optimization of the application.
You do not need to log into a third party social networking service to use this Site and App. You may visit Altruize.com without providing a user name or any other personal information. You can delete cookies stored on your computer by following the instructions for deleting cookies in your browser.
The Site and App may provide links to other Websites or resources over which Altruize does not have control (“External Websites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Altruize of those External Websites. You acknowledge that Altruize is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that Altruize is not responsible for the content of such External Websites. Your use of External Websites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked-to External Websites.
We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Altruize may use password protection and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, WE CANNOT ENSURE OR WARRANT THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU TRANSMIT TO US, AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Although we will use reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information (including credit card information, if applicable), transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. We will have no liability for disclosure of information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. In addition, we will release specific information about you to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of security or a physical threat to you or others.
Please note that if you give out personally identifiable information online, such information can be collected and used by third parties. Although we strive to protect our users’ privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of information you post on this Site and App. You disclose such information at your own risk.
Our computer systems and some of the computer systems of our third party service providers are currently based in the United States, so your personal data will be processed by us in the United States where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. As a visitor from outside the United States, by using the Site and App you agree to this Privacy Policy and you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection of that required in the European Union or certain other countries, and to the processing of that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via altruize@Altruize.com
We, or our Partners, may employ independent contractors, vendors and suppliers (collectively, “Outside Contractors”) to provide specific services and products related to our Site and App and the services we offer, such as hosting and maintaining our message boards or chat rooms and developing applications for our Website and email services. These Outside Contractors may sometimes have limited access to information collected on our Website, including your personally identifiable information, in the course of providing products or services to us. Access to your personally identifiable information by these Outside Contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary in order for the Outside Contractors to perform their limited function for us. We also require that these Outside Contractors (i) protect the privacy of your personally identifiable information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and (ii) not use or disclose your personally identifiable information for any purpose other than providing us with the products or services for which we contracted.
If you have a copyright infringement claim regarding any materials posted on our Site and App, you are directed to file a copyright infringement notice with us by sending a written communication that includes substantially the following information (please consult your attorney or review § 512(c)(3) of the United States Copyright Act to confirm the accuracy of these requirements):
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
(v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:
DMCA Complaints
Altruize, INC
635 Third Street
Beloit, WI 53511
Please also note that under § 512(f) of the United States Copyright Act, any person who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation that activities or materials are infringing a copyright may be subject to liability.
If you elect to send us a counter notice, to be effective it must be a written communication provided to our designated agent that includes substantially the following (please consult your attorney or review § 512(g)(3) of the United States Copyright Act to confirm the accuracy of these requirements):
(A) A physical or electronic signature of the user.
(B) Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
(C) A statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
(D) The user’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the user consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the user’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that the user will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:
DMCA Complaints
Altruize, INC
635 Third Street
Beloit, WI 53511
Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability.
Please also be advised that it is our policy to terminate users’ access to and use of this Site and App in appropriate circumstances, where such users are repeat copyright infringers.
