XIV. PRIVACY STATEMENT
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A. When accessing our Website, ahandtoalwayshold.org will learn certain information about you during your visit. How we will handle the information we know about you depends upon what you do when visiting our site. If you visit our site to read or download information on our pages, we collect and store only the following information about you:
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The name of the domain from which you access the Internet;
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The date and time you access our site; and
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The Internet address of the Web site you used to link directly to our site.
B. How We Use the Information We Collect
We use Personal Information submitted by you or otherwise collected through the Site and other sources for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection. Generally, we use the information you provide to us for the reason it was provided. For example, if you sign up to receive email notifications, we will contact you by email. If you provide us with information to donate, we will use the information to process your donation. Specifically, we may use Personal Information from or about you:
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to respond to your inquiries and to send you information that you request and to process your donations;
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to send you important information regarding our relationship with you or regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, and other administrative information;
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to notify you about upcoming events and donations;
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to promote our products and services and the products and services of our affiliates;
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if you choose to complete a survey, we may use the information for purposes of evaluating your feedback from the survey; and
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if we intend to collect and use Personal Information for another purpose, we may seek your permission when the information is collected.
We may use any information that does not personally identify you, your computer, or your device, for any purpose. If you identify yourself by sending us an e-mail containing personal information, the information collected will be solely used to respond to your message. The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. AND ahandtoalwayshold.org uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determine technical design specifications, and identify system performance or problem areas.
C. Our Disclosure of Your Information
The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. AND ahandtoalwayshold.org does not sell your Personally Identifiable Information. We may share your PII with third parties only as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise described at the point where we collect the information from you, including:
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to our affiliates and other organizations to process a donation or other activities described in this Privacy Policy; and
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to the companies or individuals we hire to provide services, such as website hosting services and payment processing.
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Uses and Disclosures to Comply with Laws.
In addition, we use and disclose PII collected through the Site as we believe to be necessary or appropriate:
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under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
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to comply with legal process;
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to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
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to enforce our terms and conditions;
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to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates;
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to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and that of our affiliates, you, or others; and
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to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages we may sustain.
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D. The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage for site security purposes and ensure that this service remains available to all users. The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. AND ahandtoalwayshold.org will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site unless you provide such information to us, nor will such information be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the user's approval at the time of collection.
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E. Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Information
The laws in some countries (i.e., the General Data Protection Regulation) require us to tell you about the lawful grounds we rely on to collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process your Personally Identifiable Information. To the extent those laws apply, our legal basis for processing your Personal Information supports our legitimate interests, where your fundamental rights and freedoms do not override those interests: In many cases, we handle Personal Information because it furthers our legitimate business and charitable interests. This includes:
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Providing a safe user experience on our Site;
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Customer service;
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Sending communications to you to let you know about what we are doing with your donations and to solicit additional contributions;
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Protecting users, our workers, and our property;
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Analyzing and improving our operations (e.g., optimizing the design and process of our Site); and
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Managing legal issues.
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This Privacy Policy is issued on behalf of The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. AND ahandtoalwayshold.org, as controller of your Personal Information under applicable data protection laws. A “controller” is the person or organization who alone or jointly determines the purposes for which, and how, any Personal Information is, or is likely to be, processed.
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E. California Privacy Rights
Residents of the State of California, under certain provisions of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third-party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing at The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. AND ahandtoalwayshold.org 204 S Pine St, Florence, AL 35630, info@ahandtoalwayshold.org.
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F. Third-Party Ad Server Networks
The Website may use third parties, such as network advertisers, to serve advertisements on the Website. They may use traffic measurement services to analyze traffic on the Website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to the Website and other Websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements for products and services you might be interested in. The Website's third-party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors, and traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their cookies on your computer if you choose to have cookies enabled in your browser and track certain behavioral information regarding users of your computer via a Device Identifier. These third-party cookies are set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third-party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third-party cookies and web beacons are governed by each third party's specific privacy policy, not this one.
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G. Public Forums
We may offer chat rooms, message boards, bulletin boards, or similar public forums where you and other website users can communicate. The protections described in this Privacy Policy do not apply when you provide information (including personal information) concerning your use of these public forums. We may use personally identifiable and non-personal information about you to identify you with a posting in a public forum. Any information you share in a public forum is general information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for events arising from publicly distributing any information you choose to post or share through our Website.
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H. Keeping Your Information Secure
We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your "personally identifiable information" (as the term or similar terms are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach) is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; provided, however, delays in notification may occur while we take necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity
to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time, we evaluate new technology for protecting information, and when appropriate, we upgrade our information security systems.
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I. Privacy of Children
“Personally Identifiable Information” (“PII”) is information that tells us who you are, such as name, physical address, e-mail address, and any other information the Site collects that is defined as personal or personally identifiable under applicable law.
No one under 13 may provide any PII on the Site, and ahandtoalwayshold.org does not intentionally collect PII from children under thirteen on our Site. Suppose ahandtoalwayshold.org learns that PII has been collected or received from a child under 13 on our Site. In that case, it will delete that child’s personal information from its files and the Site, by the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.
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J. Other Sites; Links
Our Website may link to or contain links to other third-party Websites that we do not control or maintain, such as in connection with purchasing products referenced on our Website and banner advertisements. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third-party Website. We encourage you to note when you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of all third-party Websites before submitting any personally identifiable information.
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K. Contact and Opt-Out Information
You may contact us at info@ahandtoalwayshold.org if: (a) you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy; (b) you wish to make corrections to any personally identifiable information you have provided; (c) you want to opt out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including emails, from our affiliated companies or us; or (d) wish to withdraw your consent to share your personally identifiable information with others. We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that we may need help to fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain benefits and features of our Website.
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L. Sole Statement
This Privacy Policy, as posted on this Website, is the sole statement of our privacy policy concerning this Website, and no summary, modification, restatement, or other version thereof, or other privacy statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post a new or revised policy to the Website.
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Contact Us
The Eden Calhoun Charitable Fund, Inc. welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy:
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Policy Updated July 2023