This Privacy Policy describes how afins.group (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit the Site.
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to accept your donation, and process any petition you have signed. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
Device information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
- Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using, log files, or tags. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor PayPal.
Donation information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to collect your donation, to process your payment information, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, and screen donations for potential risk or fraud.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor PayPal.
Petition information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: your name, mailing address, email address, phone number and signature.
- Purpose of collection: to process your signed petitions.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
Customer support information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: your name, email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
Newsletter information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: your email address.
- Purpose of collection: to send you our newsletters.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our Site we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue
Text Marketing and notifications
We do not participate in text marketing of any kind.
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 17. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
- We use PayPal to collect your donation. You can read more about how PayPal treats your Personal Information here: www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/how-does-paypal-treat-personal-data-help343#.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, 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.
Behavioral Advertising
We do not participate in behavioral advertising of any kind.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering processing donations and petitions, and sending you our newsletter.
Retention
When you provide your Personal Information through the Site, we will retain it for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
Automatic decision-making
We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Our processor PayPal uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
- Temporary deny-list of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This deny-list persists for a small number of hours.
- Temporary deny-list of credit cards associated with deny-listed IP addresses. This deny-list persists for a small number of days.
Selling Personal Information
Our Site DOES NOT sell Personal Information.
Your rights
If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.
If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address below.
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We DO NOT use cookies on our Site.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Contact
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or o go to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) website (www.ftc.gov/idtheft or www.identitytheft.gov) and complete an ID theft complaint form and place a fraud alert on your credit report.
Last updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2024