Privacy Statement
Episcopal Relief & Development is committed to the privacy and security of the personal information of its donors, business partners, and website visitors. The purpose of this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is to provide you with information about how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard certain of the personal information we gather. It also describes options you have concerning your personal information. In general, our processing of personal information is designed to improve the experience of those we work with and to provide relevant information about our services, events, and promotions.
About This Policy
This Policy describes the privacy practices of Episcopal Relief & Development and its subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates (collectively and/or individually, “the Organization”, “our”, or “we”). Except as otherwise provided, it applies to our interactions with our donors and website visitors, including, but not limited to:
- Use of our websites, episcopalrelief.org and support.episcopalrelief.org (collectively, the “Site”)
- Visits to our locations or attendance at our events
- Phone and email communications
- Social media interactions on our Site and other third-party websites or applications like Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Google Sites, Vimeo, Instagram, and X
- Viewing our online advertisements or emails
Please read this Policy carefully before using the Site or submitting information to us. By accessing or visiting the Site, you indicate your understanding that the collection, use, and sharing of your information is subject to the terms of this Policy. If you do not consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Policy, please do not provide us with such information. The nature of our business requires that we gather and maintain information that is of a personal nature that you may wish to keep protected. This Policy does not apply to third-party websites accessible through our Site or other applications.
Personal Information We Collect
We may collect, or have collected, the following categories of your personal information (“PI” or “personal information”). In the event we begin collecting additional categories, we will update this list accordingly.
- Identifiers. Examples include real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
- Other elements. Examples include name, address, telephone number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number.
- Commercial information. This includes services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
- Internet or other electronic network activity. Examples include browsing history, search history, or an individual’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement.
- Geolocation data. This might include location information while using one of our apps or devices.
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, or similar information. Examples of this category may include identifiable information obtained about you while speaking with our employees on the telephone or collected by security cameras.
- Professional or employment-related information. This category includes the information in your resume(s), references, certifications, licenses, and other similar materials.
- Consumer profile. This includes inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, and behaviors.
Purposes For Which We Collect Your Personal Information.
We may collect your PI for the following business and/or commercial purposes. If, in the future, we use your PI for additional or different purposes, we will comply with applicable law with respect to those additional or different uses.
- To provide you with information that you request from us.
- To fulfill or meet the reason for which you provide us your information. For example, we may collect PI related to processing your donation.
- To contact you and/or provide you with email alerts, newsletters, event registrations, and other notices concerning our products or services, or events or news, that may be of interest to you.
- To engage in marketing activities, including to raise awareness regarding the programs for which we seek donations
- To communicate with you via social media concerning our programs and events.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, including those related to our processing of donations.
- To review, improve, and monitor our Site, applications, online services, and overall user experience, including to provide customization to meet specific needs, ensure a consistent experience, and assess trends, interests, and demands of those we serve.
- To provide customer service and engage in quality control activities concerning our products and services.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, governmental regulations, or other lawful processes.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise permitted or required under applicable law.
- To process applications for employment, as well as to evaluate and improve our recruiting efforts.
- As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security, and safety of our business, our employees, those we work with and serve, our information systems, and/or the public.
Sources of Personal Information
We may collect your PI from the following sources, among others:
- You. For instance:
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- During a website visit, when you complete a web-form, or when you visit us at events.
- If you upload or share a photo, submit a request, submit information, or post other digital content through one of our websites, applications, or via social media interactions on third party websites like Facebook or Twitter.
- If you register for an event.
- If you provide a donation or contribution.
- If you participate in a fundraising campaign.
- If you request information.
- If you apply for or inquire about employment.
- News outlets
- Social media and related services
- Cookies and other tracking technologies (as further discussed below)
Disclosing Personal Information
We may disclose the following categories of PI to the following categories of third parties:
| Categories of Personal Information Disclosed | Categories of Third Parties to Whom Disclosed |
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Identifiers Other elements Commercial information Education information Internet or other electronic network activity Geolocation data Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, or similar information Professional or employment-related information Consumer profiles |
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We do not sell or trade your PI to or with third parties and, except as described above, we do not disclose your personal information to such parties. Nor do we have actual knowledge that we have collected or disclosed personal information of minors under age 16.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
As is true of most websites and applications, the Site collects some personal information automatically and stores it in log files. This information may include your IP address, browser type, language, internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit page, operating system, and date/time stamp. We use this personal information to, for instance, improve our understanding of and analyze trends, to administer the Site, to learn about user behavior on the Site, and to gather demographic information about our Site visitors.
To monitor use of the Site and improve its quality, we may compile statistical information concerning the use of the Site through analytics services, such as those provided by Google Analytics. Examples of this information may include: the number of visitors to the Site or to sections or pages of the Site; patterns of traffic flowing through the Site; length of time spent on the Site, or in sections or pages of the Site; the other sites that refer visitors to the Site; the pages of the Site that visitors frequently use as entry and exit points; and utilization of the browser and operating systems and versions used by visitors to the Site.
We and our third-party partners and service providers may collect and track information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and devices.
We may use various kinds of software devices to collect information about use of the Site.
- Cookies. One such device is “cookies,” which are small files that uniquely identify and recognize your browser or device and automatically collect certain information from you. The Site utilizes a few different types of cookies, which are described below.
- First and Third Party Cookies. First party cookies are generally placed on your computer or device by the website you are visiting. For example, we may use a first party cookie to improve website security. Third party cookies are placed on your computer or device by a source other than the website you are visiting in order to enable third-party features such as advertising, analytics, videos, or interactive content.
- Essential or Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually set in response to actions taken by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
- Performance and Functionality Cookies. Although these are non-essential cookies, they help the website perform and function as designed. For example, performance and functionality cookies may help the website display videos, enable chat sessions, or recognize whether you visited the website before.
- Analytics Cookies. These cookies track your usage of the website. The information these cookies collect can be used for various purposes such as understanding how visitors use the website, site and content customization, or advertising and marketing.
- Advertising Cookies. Advertising and marketing cookies perform functions such as helping customize your website experience, personalizing ads based on your online activities and interests, measuring the effectiveness of ads, preventing an ad from reappearing, and serving you targeted advertisements. Information from these cookies may be shared with third parties or third parties may place these cookies on your computer or device. Advertising and marketing cookies may track your online activities.
The Site uses essential, functional, and performance cookies to function and perform as designed; analytics cookies to understand how you use the Site, improve its functionality and other related purposes; and advertising cookies to help us with our advertising and marketing activities. For instance, the Site may use cookies to:
- Customize your experience during a session or across sessions.
- Track the number of unique visitors to our Site, which enables us, among other things, to ensure the Site has sufficient capacity.
- Customize content on the Site.
- Collect anonymous statistical information about Site use, including about the amount of time a user spends on the Site, which website they navigated to the Site from, and how they used Site.
- Web beacons. We may also use web beacons to review how visitors navigate the Site.
- Social media plugins. The Site may also use social media plugins (e.g., Facebook, X, LinkedIn) to enable you to easily share information with others. When you visit the Site, the operator of the social media plugin can place a cookie on your computer, enabling that operator to recognize individuals who have previously visited our Site. If you are logged into the social media website while browsing our Site, the social plugins allow that social media website to share data about your activities on our Site with other users of the social media website. For example, Facebook Social Plugins could allow Facebook to show certain of your activities on our pages to your Facebook friends and your friends’ activities to you. We do not control any of the content from the social media plugins. For more information about plugins from other social media websites, please refer to those sites’ privacy and information sharing policies.
IMPORTANT: By using the Site, you consent to the processing of any PI provided or collected for the purposes and functions described above.
Do Not Track
“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference that you can set in your Internet search browser that sends a signal to a website that you do not want the website operator to track certain browsing information about you. Our Site detects and honors Do Not Track requests. .
Our Sites and Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit PI from children under 13 years of age. We are concerned about the safety of children when they use the Internet and will never knowingly request PI from anyone under the age of 13. If the parent or guardian of a child under 13 believes that the child has provided us with any PI, the parent or guardian of that child should contact us and ask to have this PI deleted from our files. If we otherwise obtain knowledge that we have PI about a child under 13 in our files, we will delete that information from our existing files so that it is not in retrievable form.
Security
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. These safeguards include, without limitation, (a) using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption to protect information transmitted via the Site and (b) engaging the services of a credit card payment processing vendor that maintains a robust data security program that includes encryption, firewalls, and other data security controls. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the Contacting Us section below.
Links to Third-Party Sites and Integrations
We may provide links to websites or resources outside of our Site for your informational purposes only. We may also provide links to third-party integrations. Third party integrations are websites or platforms that synchronize with our Site to provide you with additional functionality, tools, or services such as maps, sending requested information, facilitating payments, etc. One such integration is Authorize.net, which facilitates our collection of donations.
You acknowledge and agree we are not responsible for the availability of third-party sites, resources, or integrations and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, goods, services, or other materials on, available through, or provided by such sites, resources, or integrations. We are not responsible for the privacy or other practices of such sites and cannot guarantee the security of personal information that you provide, or that is collected by, such sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms and conditions on those linked sites.
Applicable Law
This Policy is governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under or out of this Privacy Policy shall lie exclusively with the state and federal courts within New York. If any provision of this Policy is found to be invalid by a court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Policy, which shall remain in full force and effect.
Notice to Site Users Located Outside the U.S.
The Organization operates in accordance with the laws of the U.S. When you access our Site from outside the U.S., we may transfer the PI that we collect from you to a location outside of your jurisdiction, including the U.S. The data protection laws in these jurisdictions may not provide you with the same protections as those of your jurisdiction. By using this Site, you acknowledge that these laws may provide a different standard of protection and you consent to the transfer of your personal data to other jurisdictions, including the U.S.
Contact Us
If you have additional questions, you may contact us by email at info@episcopalrelief.org, by phone at (855) 312-4325, or by mail at Episcopal Relief & Development, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Effective Date / Last Updated: September 12, 2024
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of changes to the policy by posting an updated copy on the Site. Please check the Site periodically for updates.
For California Residents
If you are a California resident, please read the following:
- California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by covered organizations to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. However, we do not disclose personal information to any third party for such purposes.
- If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any site where this policy is posted, California law permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. You may submit your request in accordance with the instructions in the Contact Us section above. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.
For Nevada Residents
If you are a Nevada resident, please read the following:
Under Nevada law, Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of certain “covered information” collected by operators of websites or online services. We currently do not sell covered information, as “sale” is defined by such law, and we do not have plans to do so. In accordance with Nevada law, you may submit to us a verified request instructing us not to sell your covered information. Such requests can be submitted in accordance with the instructions provide above in the Contact Us section.
