This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Safer Chemicals Healthy Families collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (“You” or “User”) of its website currently located at https://saferchemicals.org (the “Website”).
What information may you be asked to provide when you use the Website?
Personally Identifiable Information
When using our Website, as appropriate, you may be asked to voluntarily enter your name, e-mail address, mailing address or phone number. This may occur when you:
- Subscribe to get emails from us;
- Voice your support through an advocacy action, such as a petition;
- Make a donation;
- Submit a comment; or
- Fill out any other form.
You may, however, visit our Website without entering contact information.
What information may be automatically collected when you use the Website?
Non-personally Identifiable Information
When you visit the Website, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families may collect certain information automatically from the device you use to browse the site. This may include:
- Your device’s IP address and corresponding location information;
- The date and time you visited the Website;
- Your browser type, operating system and mobile device type, if applicable;
- Your bandwidth speed;
- Web pages you were visiting immediately before and after you visited the Website;
- Web pages that you view and links that you click on within the Website;
- Standard server log information; and
- Information collected through cookies.
Cookies
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families uses Google Analytics to serve “cookies” to enhance User experience with the Website. A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your computer so that the Website can recognize you and keep track of your preferences. Use of cookies help measure aggregate web statistics, such as collecting the number of Users to the Website, the number of repeat Users and the most popular webpages. Safer Chemicals Healthy Families also uses Facebook Ads, whereby information is sent to Facebook that you visited the Website and then Facebook may serve you advertisements based on your visit to the Website. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, however, some parts of the Website may not function properly.
Information about how Google uses information collected from sites that use its services is located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may opt out of participating with Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To pass on your support for our campaigns to decision-makers, including the federal government (which may retain your contact information in the federal record);
- To personalize and improve your experience;
- To improve our website;
- To send periodic emails;
- To identify and thwart hackers and comment spammers; and
- To diagnose and troubleshoot technical problems.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, please email info@saferchemicals.org with the Subject: Unsubscribe or click on the unsubscribe link in the email you receive.
How does Safer Chemicals Healthy Families protect user information?
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families adopts appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to help protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission or storage system is guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Does Safer Chemicals Healthy Families disclose any of your information to outside parties?
When you take an advocacy action on our Website, such as signing a petition, we will send your name and contact information to the target of the action on your behalf. If we’ve partnered with another organization on the campaign, we may send the list of signers from our Website to that group so that they can aggregate it with other lists of signers before giving it to the action target. We do not sell or trade your personally identifiable information to outside parties. Your information may be accessible to trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Website or conducting our campaigns, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our Website policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for other uses. Safer Chemicals Healthy Families may share personally identifiable information about a User upon the User’s consent.
The third-party service providers that may have access to your information through your interaction with our site currently include:
- Action Network
- Akismet
- Google Analytics
- Google Cloud
- Google Site Search
- Google Webmaster Tools
- it
- Mailchimp
- Stripe
Each of these service providers may have its own privacy policy.
What does this policy apply to?
This policy applies to personal information that we collect through our Website at saferchemicals.org or site-embedded functionality. If you click on a link to another website from our Website, the policy will not apply to the information collected on that website.
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our Website and not to information collected offline.
Embedded Content
This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, 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.
Visitors from Outside the United States
Our offices and data processing equipment are located in the United States. If you visit our Website from another country, please be aware that information you provide to us or that we obtain through your use of the Website may be processed in the United States and will be subject to United States law. United States privacy and data protection laws may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence.
Your Consent
By using our Website, you signify your consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@saferchemicals.org.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. The date at the bottom of this page indicates when the Privacy Policy was last updated. Changes become effective upon posting. Your continued use of the Website after the Privacy Policy has been modified means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of any modifications since your last visit.
This policy was last modified on December 3, 2019.