PRIVACY POLICY

Updated August 6, 2021

Donation Town (referred to as “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to respecting your privacy and we have created this privacy policy to explain how we use the information that we collect through your use of www.donationtown.org (the “Website” or “Site”).   Please read this policy and familiarize yourself with its contents as the policy will govern your use of this Website.  AS A CONDITION OF YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY.

Questions

If you have questions about this policy, please contact us at  info(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)donationtown.org.

Collection, Use, and Sharing of Your Information

When you use this Website, you may choose to provide information about yourself.  For example, to schedule a donation and/or to access some areas of this Website, you must first register and during this process you may be asked to provide information that could include name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and other identifying information.  Whether or not you choose to provide the information we request is entirely up to you.  However, if you choose not to provide the information which we request, you may be unable to schedule a donation through this Site, access certain areas of the Site, or obtain some of the information offered by the Site.

We also automatically collect information relating to your interactions with us and our Website, including device type, browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Site, time and date of visit, and other information we collect through the use of cookies, web beacons, server-side tracking, and similar technologies.  See the “Digital Advertising & Analytics” section of this privacy policy to learn more about the use of this information and the choices available to you.

We may use your information for any lawful purpose, including to fulfill your donation request; to respond to your inquiries; to communicate with you about your interest in donating to charitable organizations in the future to VVA or other entities with which we provide services to and otherwise  and otherwise to send marketing materials that may be of interest to you; to operate and improve our services; to operate, personalize, and improve the Site, including for advertising and analytics purposes; to prevent and detect fraud; to comply with the law and maintain the security of the Site; or with consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is collected.

We may share the information we collect with other parties, including with third-party vendors that perform services on our behalf, such as hosting providers or email service providers; with third-party organizations for their own marketing purposes; as part of a corporate sale, merger, or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets, including as part of a bankruptcy proceeding; pursuant to a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, or other legal process or as otherwise required by law, or to protect our rights or the rights of third parties; or with your consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.  We may share de-identified or aggregated information at our discretion.

By signing up on our Website and providing your information, you are expressly consenting to receive communications from us and from any charitable organizations that we may provide with your information.  In addition, you expressly consent to be contacted in any manner including via email, direct mail, telephone or SMS text messaging, even if your information is listed on the National Do Not Call registry or a similar registry.  If you do not agree to these terms, then do not use our Site.

Email Opt-Out

To opt-out of receiving emails from Donation Town or from having your information disclosed to third-party charitable organizations, please contact us at info(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)donationtown.org. We will promptly place you on a suppression list for this Site and will no longer provide your information to charitable organizations. Please note that we may still communicate with you regarding Site maintenance or changes to this privacy policy or to provide any requested information.

Accessing and Updating Your Information

To access or update information that you have provided to us, please contact us at  info(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)donationtown.org.

Links to Other Websites

The Website may contain links to other sites, including charitable organizations’ websites.  Any such links are an accommodation to the respective third-party site owners and for your convenience.  We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any linked sites.  Please note that other sites will have their own privacy policies that may differ from this policy and that control your use of those sites.  We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site that you visit.

Security

This Website has security measures in place intended to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information we collect.

Changes

We reserve the right to modify the terms of this privacy policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice on this page.  YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THOSE CHANGES.