Privacy Policy

 

Arco Iris America values and honors its users’ privacy. We are committed to protecting and safeguarding your personal information. Our Privacy Policy detailed below explains how we collet and use the personal information of those who visit our website (www.arcoirisamerica.org) or use our online forms.

 

Our privacy policy governs the address arcoirisamerica.org and our communications. The site is owned and operated by Arco Iris America for the protection of its visitors and members and is effective as of January 2023.

 

Our address is:

Arco iris America

P.O. Box 59950

Potomac, Maryland 20854

 

This Policy applies to information we collect via your activity on our services, forms, and searches. It is also applicable to all website visitors, registered users, and all other users and the information we collect.

 

By accessing and using our services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. Please remember to check the policy sporadically because it may be updated if needed.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The information we collect when visiting our website may include:

• Information you provide by doing the following:
  • Accessing our website by creating a username and password.
  • Donating, which would require you to enter your name, address, and payment information.
  • Registration to any of our events.
  • Signing up for newsletters and electronic correspondence.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser-user agent string to help spam detection.

 

Contact forms

We may collect the following personal information when you directly share it with us:

• First and Last Name
• Date of birth
• Postal address
• Telephone numbers
• Email address

 

Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate our website, automatic data-collection technologies such as cookies, tags, and pixels may be used to improve our understanding on how people use our pages.

 

• Cookies (or browser cookies).A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser.

 

• Tags. All our website pages are connected to tracking by third-party analytics providers. This allows us to better understand activity, interaction, and how users move around on our site. Google Analytics is a common tool used among business websites. To learn more about how to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, please click here.

 

• Pixels. Pages of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as pixels (also referred to as clear gifs, web beacons, and single-pixel gifs) that permit UUSA, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, clicked on an ad, or opened an email and for other related website statistics 

 

Information collected by using automatic data collection technologies include:

• Details about your visits to our website, including traffic data, top pages visited, referral pages, location data, device type and browsers, and other data that is available through technologies and tools implemented on our site.
• Referral pages, such as the social media platforms that bring visitors to our website.

 

We collect this information to improve our communication technologies and deliver a more personalized experience, including by enabling us to, e.g.:

 

• Estimate our audience’s size.
• Determine which of our pages receive the most interest.
• Speed up searching.
• Provide better advertisements for our organization.

 

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

Information Disclosure: Who we share your data with

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect, or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization.
• Credit card transactions, electronic fund transfers, payments by check or money order and online financial transactions. We hire third parties to provide credit card, bank, payment and information processing services and order fulfillment services. If you decide to donate online, by phone, or through any other means, we will share your personal information with our processing service providers.
• Other nonprofits
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you receive our emails, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you or remove you from our email distribution lists. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

How we protect your data: Information security

We have designed measures to secure your personal information from accidental loss or unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. Information you provide is safely store on our secure server guarded by firewalls.

 

Payment transactions are processed by third-party payment processors. However, please note that information transmitted via the internet is not 100 percent secure, and even though we strive for excellence in keeping your information save, we cannot guarantee the security of the personal information transmitted to our platforms. We are not responsible for violation of any privacy settings or security measures implemented on our site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

 

Contact information

For any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy and our practices, please contact us at: info@arcoirisamerica.org