ParichuteDonate Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
We at ParichuteDonate ("PDO," “Company,” “We,” “Our”) are dedicated to helping you make a positive impact. Your privacy and the security of your personal data are of utmost importance to us, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy ("Policy").
In this Policy, “you” or “your” refers to any user – whether a Nonprofit, Donor, or Browser— whose personal data we may collect and store. This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you, or that you may provide, when you visit the website (www.parichutedonate.com) or the Parichute mobile platform (severally and jointly hereinafter called, “Website”). It also includes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
· On the Website (which, as noted above, means and includes throughout this document, the Parichute mobile platform).
· In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
· Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website or download from any mobile or desktop application third-party marketplace.
· When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.
· Credit card transactions processed through the Website and Application
· Through third-party websites and applications that are used to log into the Website and Application
It does not apply to information collected by:
· Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
· Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we handle it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after any changes are made is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
2. Capacity to Contract; Children Under 16
Our Website is not intended for transactions by individuals under the age of 18 or those who are otherwise not legally capable of entering into a contract. No one under 18 may provide any information to or through the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website, register on the Website, make transactions, use any interactive features, or share any personal information with us, including your name, address, phone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use.
If you believe we may have inadvertently collected information from or about a child under the age of 16, please contact us at support@parichute.com. California residents under the age of 16 may have additional rights concerning the collection and sale of their personal information. For more details, please refer to "Your California Privacy Rights."
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
· By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
· That is about you but individually does not identify you; or
· About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
· Directly from you when you provide it to us;
· Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies; and
· From third parties, for example, our business partners.
4. Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
· Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, enrolling for or enquiring about membership to our celebrity clubs, donating or making enquiries relating to making donations to charities, subscribing to any of our other services, posting material, or requesting information.
We may also ask you for information when you enter and or win a contest, sweepstakes or promotion sponsored by us, apply to get something we are offering, and when you report a problem with our Website;
· Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
· Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete;
· Transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of those transactions. You will be required to provide credit card / debit card and other financial information while engaging in a transaction through our Website;
· Your search queries on the Website; and/ or
· Information you provide when you create a profile on the Website (or the mobile platform).
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to charities, celebrities and other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
5. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
· Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
· Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Click here for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this Website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information that we may maintain or associate with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website, connect you to the celebrities and charities, and otherwise deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
· Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests;
· Speed up your searches; and among other things; or
· Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
· 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. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access all or certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website;
· Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information; and
· Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources, or you provide to us.
6. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties, including social media platforms, advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, nonprofit partners, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about any targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
7. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
· To present our Website and its contents to you.
· To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
· To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
· To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
· To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
· To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
· To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
· To meet requests from charities and celebrities associated with the Website.
· For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties' offerings that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Advertisers could include social media platforms. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
8. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 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 business.
· To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Parichute's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Parichute about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
· To third parties such as social media platforms to market their products or services to you if you have either consented to, or not opted out of, these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
· To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a celebrity” or “email the charity” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
· For any other purpose disclosed to us when you provide the information.
· With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
· To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
· To enforce or apply our terms of use see our legal page and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
· If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection or credit risk reduction.
9. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
· Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
· Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile.
· Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address or contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send an email to support@parichute.com asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of an online donation, payment of membership fees, participation in any online game or activity or engaging in any transaction through the Website.
· Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by having your browser set to reject all browser cookies.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI's website.
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to this designated address: 500 West Putnam Road, Suite 400, Greenwich, CT 06896.
10. Accessing, Correcting and Deleting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
When you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
The user has the right to delete all personal data collected by the app. Information may be deleted from our CRM upon request to support@parichute.com. We undertake to perform the deletion within one month (30 calendar days) and will send you a confirmation once the information has been deleted. Wherever possible, we will aim to complete the request in advance of the deadline.
Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use. California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
11. Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.
California's “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write us at: 500 West Putnam Road, Suite 400, Greenwich, CT 06896.
12. Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
13. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the first page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
14. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: 500 West Putnam Road, Suite 400, Greenwich, CT 06896.
15. About ParichuteDonate
PDO provides nonprofit organizations (“Organizations”) with a fully customizable and free donation platform that checks all their online fundraising boxes (“Services”). With just a few quick clicks and uploads, organizations can design and launch their own giving platform that includes their own logos, branding and messaging. This can be embedded into their website and can be published on PDO’s giving platform.
Our platform enables Organizations to:
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Integrate seamlessly with other nonprofit management software with easy imports and exports.