Effective as of January 20, 2009.
Animal Advocates Alliance, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (“Animal Advocates Alliance” or “we” or “us”), which has adopted a set of Privacy Principles (the “Principles”). Animal Advocates Alliance has implemented those Principles in this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”), which describes how we collect, use and share personally identifiable information (“PII”) we obtain online from and about individuals located in the U.S.
Animal Advocates Alliance’s web site (http://www.animaladvocatesalliance.org) and all other related web sites owned or controlled by us (collectively or individually the “Site”) are general audience web sites, and we do not knowingly collect PII from children under 13 years of age.
Our Privacy Policy applies to “Visitors,” which means that you simply browse the Site and “Members,” which means that you have registered with Animal Advocates Alliance. The term “User” refers to a Visitor or a Member. By using our Site, you signify your agreement with all the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site.
From time to time Animal Advocates Alliance may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law, our PII collection and use practices, the features of our Site or technology. If we make revisions that change the way we collect or use your PII, Animal Advocates Alliance will post those changes in this Privacy Policy and the effective date will be noted at the beginning of such Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Site after Animal Advocates Alliance posts a revised Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. Therefore, you should review it periodically so that you are up to date on our most current policies and practices. If Animal Advocates Alliance materially changes its practices regarding collection or use of your PII, your PII will continue to be governed by the Privacy Policy under which it was collected unless you have been provided notice of, and have not objected to, the change. In the event the last e-mail address you provided to us is not valid or is not capable of delivering the notice to you, Animal Advocates Alliance’s dispatch of an e-mail containing the notice to that e-mail address shall nonetheless constitute effective notice.
A. COLLECTION: COLLECTION OF PII BY ANIMAL ADVOCATES ALLIANCE
1. General. When Animal Advocates Alliance collects PII, such as your full name, email address and/or phone number, from you it is because you are voluntarily submitting PII to us in order to register as a Member or because you want us to furnish you with services or information. We may also obtain PII from reputable third parties.
Members can change their Registration Data (as defined below in Section A(1)a) at any time and can control how Animal Advocates Alliance communicates with them.
Animal Advocates Alliance collects information from you at several different points on the Site in the manner set forth below:
(a). Member Registration: In order to access certain information and services on the Site, you must first become a Member by completing our member registration form. During the registration process you will be required to provide registration data, which may include PII such as your name and e-mail address (such information is the “Registration Data”).
(b). Information and Site Updates:
Unless a User has opted out of receiving such e-mails during the registration process, Animal Advocates Alliance may occasionally send Users who provide us with their e-mail addresses information about, Site updates and other offerings via e-mail. We may also send information about offerings of our partners that we think may be of interest to our Members. To opt out of receiving these e-mails from us please contact Animal Advocates Alliance as provided below.
2. Cookies. Cookies are small bits of information that the Site places on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on our Site and enable Animal Advocates Alliance to make your visits to our Site more enjoyable. Information about your activities on our Site and other non-PII about you may also be used to limit the online ads you encounter to those we believe are consistent with your interests.
Third party advertisements displayed on our Site may also contain cookies set by Internet advertising companies or advertisers. Animal Advocates Alliance does not control these cookies and visitors to our Site should check the privacy policy of the Internet advertising company or advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies. Please refer to Section B (Notice) below for more information on third party advertisements.
You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. However, without cookies you may not have access to certain features on our Site.
B. NOTICE: ANIMAL ADVOCATES ALLIANCE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH NOTICE ABOUT ITS PII COLLECTION PRACTICES
When you voluntarily provide PII to Animal Advocates Alliance, we will make sure you are informed about who is collecting the information, how and why the information is being collected and the types of uses Animal Advocates Alliance will make of the information.
At the time you provide your PII, Animal Advocates Alliance will notify you of your options regarding our use of your PII, including whether we will share it with outside companies (See Section C (Choice) below). This Privacy Policy describes the types of other companies that may want to send you information about their products and services and therefore may want to share your PII, provided you have given Animal Advocates Alliance permission to do so (See Section D (Use: Animal Advocates Alliance’s Use of PII) below).
Animal Advocates Alliance’s Site may be linked to Internet web sites operated by other companies. Some of these third party web sites may be co-branded with a Animal Advocates Alliance logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by Animal Advocates Alliance. Animal Advocates Alliance’s Site may also carry advertisements from other companies. Animal Advocates Alliance is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to our Site or for the privacy practices of third party or national Internet advertising companies. Once you leave Animal Advocates Alliance’s Site via such a link or by clicking on an advertisement, Animal Advocates Alliance’s Privacy Policy no longer applies and you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party or advertiser web site to determine how they will handle any PII they collect from you.
C. CHOICE: ANIMAL ADVOCATES ALLIANCE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH CHOICES ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR PII
Animal Advocates Alliance will not use the PII you provide to us for purposes different from the purpose for which it was submitted, or share your PII with third parties that are not affiliated with Animal Advocates Alliance, unless we obtain your permission.
D. USE: ANIMAL ADVOCATES ALLIANCE’S USE OF PII
Animal Advocates Alliance will use your PII provided under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Provided you have given us permission, Animal Advocates Alliance may also share your PII with advertisers and business partners that are not affiliated with Animal Advocates Alliance, but would like to send you information about their products and services. For example, Animal Advocates Alliance may share your PII with the companies who may have special offers or promotions that might be of interest to Animal Advocates Alliance Users. However, you will always have the opportunity to instruct us not to share your information with third parties when PII is collected. Moreover, we will never share your credit card information with third parties except those Animal Advocates Alliance uses to perform tasks (such as donation fulfillment and payment processing) required to complete donations you make through the Animal Advocates Alliance Site.
Animal Advocates Alliance may share your PII with outside contractors or agents who help us manage our information activities but they may only use your PII to provide Animal Advocates Alliance with a specific service and not for any other purpose.
There may be instances when Animal Advocates Alliance may disclose PII without providing you with a choice in order to protect the legal rights of Animal Advocates Alliance or their agents and contractors; to protect the safety and security of visitors to our Site; to protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or to comply with the law or legal process.
E. SECURITY: ANIMAL ADVOCATES ALLIANCE PROTECTS THE SECURITY OF PII
Animal Advocates Alliance uses reasonable measures to safeguard PII in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. In addition, Animal Advocates Alliance uses reasonable methods to make sure that PII is accurate, up-to-date and appropriately complete. However, no security system is impenetrable. Animal Advocates Alliance cannot warrant or guarantee the security of its servers, nor can it guarantee that information that you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to Animal Advocates Alliance over the Internet.
F. ACCESS: HOW TO ACCESS, CORRECT OR DELETE YOUR PII
We will take reasonable steps to correct any PII a Member informs us of in writing is incorrect. If for any reason you want Animal Advocates Alliance to stop using your PII, Animal Advocates Alliance will honor that request; however, Animal Advocates Alliance will retain any record of your PII that is necessary to comply with applicable federal, state or local law. Keep in mind, moreover, that there may be residual information that will remain within Animal Advocates Alliance ‘s databases and other records, which may or may not contain such PII.
If you would like to communicate with us about this Privacy Policy or Animal Advocates Alliance’s collection or use of your PII, or request Animal Advocates Alliance delete your PII, please contact Animal Advocates Alliance at:
Via E-mail:
info@animaladvocatesalliance.org
Via Mail:
Animal Advocates Alliance
137 N. Larchmont Blvd. #708
Los Angeles, CA 90004
G. REMEDIES AND COMPLIANCE: HOW TO CONTACT ANIMAL ADVOCATES ALLIANCE ABOUT PRIVACY CONCERNS
If you have concerns regarding privacy, your use of the Animal Advocates Alliance Site, or the collection and use of PII, you may contact Animal Advocates Alliance at: info@animaladvocatesalliance.org and a representative will address your concern.
