We are committed to maintaining your privacy, adapting our practices to align with evolving regulations and user expectations, and allowing you control over how we use your data. This policy, regarding how we collect and use your data to comply with the latest California consumer privacy laws from March 29, 2023, was last updated and posted here on May 21, 2024.
We will continue to update our privacy policy over time and will maintain this page, so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Community Action Marin reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating our privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will continue your acknowledgment of the modified policy, and agreement to abide, and be bound by it.
Information Collection and Use
Your information is collected and processed, based on your consent, to fulfill your purchases and/or donations, information and involvement requests, and to keep you up to date on our work and issues that are important to you, to maintain and expand our relationship with you and other supporters, and for our other legitimate purposes. See more details below.
When you visit the site, we collect your information in the following ways:
Information You Give Voluntarily
WHEN YOU SIGN UP TO RECEIVE OUR EMAILS
When you consent to receive emails from Community Action Marin you will receive messages to take action, stay informed, join us for events, and support work to promote equity and provide pathways to self-sufficiency for those in need in Marin. Additionally, we may use your information to reach out to you online through social media channels and online advertising.
WHEN YOU SIGN UP TO RECEIVE OUR TEXTS
When you provide a phone number and consent to receive our texts, you will receive messages to act, stay informed, join us for events, and support work to promote equity and provide pathways to self-sufficiency for those in need in Marin. Additionally, we may use your phone number to text you regarding emergency situations in our county.
WHEN YOU FILL OUT A PETITION OR ONLINE FORM
Throughout our website you might submit your information through various actions such as sending a message of support, signing a petition, completing a survey, registering for an event, cause marketing, peer-to-peer fundraising, and communicating with us through other forms. Information collected may include your name, email address, physical address, phone number, and other personal information you share with us.
WHEN YOU MAKE A DONATION OR PURCHASE
To make a donation or purchase, such as purchasing an event ticket, on this website, a user must first complete a donation or order form, on which the user must provide contact information (like name, email, and physical address) and financial information (like credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes, to fill supporters’ orders, generate tickets, and to provide donation receipts.
This information will be used to send a tax receipt (if a donation is made) or purchased items, and relevant materials and outreach through the mail. If we have trouble processing an order or donation, this contact information can be used to get in touch with the user. We use a credit card processing company to fulfill orders using that payment method. The credit card company does not retain, share, store, or use personal information for any secondary purposes.
WHEN YOU COMMUNICATE WITH US ONLINE
Sometimes we request, collect and/or retain information when you communicate with us online, which may include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and other personally identifiable information you share with us. For example, you may ask us to update your contact information or request information about how to make a gift through development@camarin.org.
Information We Collect Automatically When You Visit our Site
COOKIES
When you visit our site, you will be asked to consent to our use of cookies.
We use cookies, to customize content and advertising, to provide social media features, and to analyze traffic to the site. We also share information about your use of our site with our trusted social media, advertising, and analytics partners including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google Analytics.
Additionally, we use cookies to remember your billing address and gift details in your donation form. This allows you to leave the donation form and return without having to reenter this information. Your credit card information is entered once at the end of your transaction and is not stored by us in any way.
You can restrict or block access to this data at any time through your browser settings.
Third-party cookies, commonly used for tracking user behavior across websites, are being phased out by major browsers during 2024 to prioritize user privacy. Community Action Marin will continue to be committed to maintaining user privacy and responsible data collection.
LOG FILES
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track how our supporters use our site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on our website.
WEBSITE SECURITY
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our donation or order form, implemented by Engaging Networks, asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers), that information is encrypted through tokenization (uses a unique token to represent data while storing original data in a vault) by their security partner, VGS (Very Good Security). While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer will become locked and can’t be intercepted and read by someone else while the information is in transit.
Community Action Marin collects data from those we serve for the purposes of executing services. This data is collected by EmpowOR and/or CADS by CSST and follows all CCPA privacy standards.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All our supporters’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted to our offices. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an e-mail to development@camarin.org.
WEBSITE LINKS
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Community Action Marin is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18
This website is not directed to, and does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from, children under the age of 18. If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone underage, we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure such information is deleted from our system’s database, or in the alternative, that verifiable parental consent is obtained for the use and storage of such information. Anyone under the age of 18 must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this website.
Changing Your Information
OPTIONS FOR DELETING OR UPDATING PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION
There are a number of options for updating, correcting, deleting or changing how e use your personal information, We want to only send you communications to which you have agreed, and are interested in. You can unsubscribe to our communications at any time and can use the contact information below to update your preferences:
- To unsubscribe from emails, simply click the “unsubscribe” button located in the footer of any email, or contact us at development@camarin.org
- To unsubscribe from postal communications, email us at development@camarin.org
- If you wish to opt out of having your name and address shared with other organizations for the purpose of direct mail, contact us development@camarin.org
- If your contact information changes, or if you would like to be removed from our database, please contact us at development@camarin.org
DIRECT MAIL INFORMATION SHARING
We may use a mail house to send materials to our list. That company does not retain, share, store, or use personal information for any secondary purposes. If you have questions, please email development@camarin.org.
USE OF DATA FOR NON-MARKETING PURPOSES
Community Action Marin greatly respects your privacy. We do maintain and reserve the right to contact you if needed should bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, or changes in services. In certain circumstances, we may use our website, newspapers or other public means to post a notice.