PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: August 18, 2024

INTRODUCTION

This website, anewpolicy.org, and any other websites we own and operate that link to this Policy, and the related content, platforms, services, products, and other functionalities offered on or through our services (collectively referred to as the “Sites”), is operated by A New Policy PAC (“A New Policy PAC,” “Our,” “We,” or “Us”).

We are committed to protecting your privacy online. By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as an added statement on our homepage or by email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Sites to stay informed about our privacy practices and the ways you can protect your privacy.

OUR COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Personal Information” is data or information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person, such as:

• Name
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Credit and debit card number
• IP address

Personal information does not include information considered de-identified under applicable law.

We collect personal information using the methods described below:

PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

We collect the information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect the information that you provide to us when you fill out a form, send us an email, sign up to receive email or text message updates, request information, sign a petition, sign up to volunteer, create an account, participate in a contest or promotion, make a donation or purchase, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, or otherwise interact or communicate with us.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM THIRD PARTIES

We may also receive information from third parties, such as affiliates and partners, including, but not limited, to the following:

• Other A New Policy organizations, such as A New Policy, Inc.;
• Other individuals who interact with our Sites, such as when others refer you to our Sites;
• Social media, such as when someone engages with our social media networks, or other social media networks that may share our information;
• Service providers performing services on our behalf, such as marketing providers and payment processors that may collect personal information on our behalf and often share some or all of this information with us;
• Partners, such as organizations or entities that align with our mission and partner with us on programming and/or services; and
• Other sources, such as publicly available sources, third-party service providers, as well as other sources.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT

We and our third-party affiliates and partners may collect information automatically when you access the Sites, read our emails and/or texts, or otherwise interact with us. This information may be collected through tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, pixels, or other related technologies. This may include:

• Information about your device, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, device manufacturer, type or model, operating system, date and time of access, and unique IDs that allow us to identify you when you engage with our Sites;
• Information about how you access and use our Sites, such as how you got to our Sites, which pages you visited, what links you clicked, the frequency of your visits, and other browsing behavior;
• Location information, such as a general geographic location that we or our third-party providers may derive from your IP address or other relevant information; and
• Analytics information that our third-party providers may use to help us understand how our Sites are being accessed and used.

If you would like to disable cookies or prevent the collection of cookies, you may consult your browser’s settings and options. You may find your browser type below to go directly to the browser user guide to learn how to disable or erase cookies.

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Safari

However, blocking all cookies may negatively impact the functionality of some websites. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use Personal Information:

• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you updates by e-mail or text-message. (For information about how to unsubscribe from certain e-mails, please see the “Choices and Access” section below.).
• To communicate with you about A New Policy PAC and things that may be relevant to your interactions with us. For example, we may communicate with you regarding upcoming events, new partnerships, or information about our activities.
• To send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.
• To process, or direct the processing of, your donation or payment.
• To send you communications from like-minded partner organizations that we believe may be of interest to you.
• For our business purposes, such as data analysis, enhancing our website, improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our programs.
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION IS DISCLOSED

Your Personal Information may be disclosed to the following third parties in the following ways:

• We may share information your voluntarily provide us with our affiliates and partners (such as A New Policy, Inc., and other partner organizations).
• We may share your information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, donation and payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, credit card processing, auditing services and other similar services to enable them to provide services.
• With your consent, we may share your information with like-minded organizations that may send you communications.
• To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

SECURITY

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control.

YOUR CHOICES

• Mobile Notifications. A New Policy PAC may, from time to time, send you mobile notifications or text messages containing news, updates or promotions from the company or from our partners. You may discontinue your receipt of such notifications at any time by unsubscribing using a link provided in a recieved text message.
• Email. A New Policy PAC may, from time to time, send you emails for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, marketing or promotions. If you do not want to receive such emails, you may unsubscribe from our emails using the “Unsubscribe” link contained in such emails.
• Cookies. You may opt out of the use of new Cookies, disable Cookies and delete Cookies by changing the settings on your browsers on your computer(s). You may opt out of the use of Cookies on your mobile device by changing your device’s settings. Please note that rejecting cookies will limit your ability to use various features of our website.
• Correction or Deletion. You may ask to correct, update or deactivate your personal information with our Sites and communications systems at any time by contacting us at privacy@anewpolicypac.org.

HOW YOU MAY ACCESS OR CHANGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to review or update your Personal Information that has been previously provided to us, you may contact us at privacy@anewpolicypac.org.

In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. We are not responsible for changing information from the databases of third parties with whom we have already shared your Personal Information

THIRD-PARTY SITES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which this Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.

DONATIONS

We use a third-party service provider (the “Payment Service”) to process your donations. If you wish to make a donation using the Site, you will be directed to a webpage that is hosted by the Payment Service (or its service providers) and not by us (the “Payment Service Page”). Any Personal Information that you provide through the Payment Service Page will be collected by the Payment Service rather than by us, and will be subject to the Payment Service’s privacy policy rather than this Privacy Policy.

Please note that this policy does not address the collection and use of information through the Payment Service Page or the privacy or information practices of the Payment Service. We have no control over, and shall not be responsible for, the Payment Service’s use of information collected through the Payment Service Page.

USE OF SITE BY MINORS

The Site is not intended for children under the age of thirteen (13).

We do not knowingly, directly or passively, collect information from children under the age of thirteen (13). To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any Personal Information on this Site.

If you believe that we may have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen, please contact us at privacy@anewpolicypac.org to request deletion of that information.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@anewpolicypac.org.

Please note that email communications are not always secure, so please do not include sensitive information in your messages to us.