Give Essential Privacy Policy
June 4, 2020
Give Essential (“Give Essential”) has one purpose: to help essential workers who are on the front lines and are now facing personally dangerous conditions and lacking access to common items. We use information to match people who want to donate items with essential workers who need them, and we will not sell your data.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information when you interact with our websites, social media sites and handles, and email as well as any related services, sales, marketing or events (our “Services”).
This Policy does not apply to non-Give Essential websites and mobile applications that may link to the Services or be linked to or from the Services; please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.
Information We Collect
Information you give us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us. Some of the Services may include features or services that permit you to enter contact information and other information about you. We collect and store any information you enter on our Services. This includes:
Contact information when you complete forms on our website, such as to express an interest in donating items to essential workers or receiving donated items. If you are an essential worker, we ask you to provide proof of employment, such as a copy of a paycheck or email from your Human Resources team.
Email address information when subscribing to our email newsletters.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and any contact information provided.
If you choose to make a monetary donation to Give Essential, we use GoFundMe as our fundraising platform. GoFundMe may receive information that you submit on its website and treats that information according to its Privacy Policy. We may receive a copy of any contact information you submit via GoFundMe and treat that information according to this policy. We do not receive your credit card number.
Information We Collect Automatically
In Short: We collect information about your use of the Services. When you interact with the Services, certain information about your use of our Services may be collected automatically. This includes:
Details of your visits to our site and information generated in the course of the use of our site (including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use) including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, the resources that you access, and how you reached our site.
Details regarding the device you use to access our Services, including, but not limited to, your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
Information about how you interact with our ads and newsletters, including whether you open or click links in any correspondence.
Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies, as well as through your web browser or device. Give Essential relies on partners to provide many features of our sites and Services using data about your use of Give Essential and other sites. Below is a list of these partners with links to more information about their use of your data and how to exercise your options regarding tracking.
Google (Category: Analytics) - How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services
Facebook (Category: Personalized Advertising and Social Media) - Facebook data policy
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Services may not be available, work, or work as designed. You may also be able to opt out of or block tracking by interacting directly with the other companies who conduct tracking through our Services. Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. At this time, we do not alter our sites’ data collection and use practices in response to Do Not Track signals.
How We Use and Protect Your Information
In Short: We use your information to fulfill our mission of connecting essential workers and donors who can offer them supplies. We also use information to analyze trends as we grow and improve our organization. We may use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:
To complete the donor-worker matching process and improve the functioning of our organization.
To understand how our Services are being used, track site performance, and make improvements.
To create custom audiences on social media sites.
To detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal, and to comply with legal requirements regarding the provision of products and services.
How We Secure the Information We Collect From or About You
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
How We Share Your Information
In Short: The essence of our Services involves sharing essential worker information with donors so that goods may be provided to essential workers. We also share information where required by law, to protect your rights, or where required for business purposes.
We may disclose information to external parties in the following situations:
Complete the matching process: If you are an essential worker, we match your need with a donor who can assist you and share your contact information with that donor so that they can provide the items you have requested. We share only the information necessary to fulfill this purpose and do not share your essential worker verification. We do not share donor information with essential workers, but if you are a donor, the essential worker may receive some information about you if choose to communicate directly or provide contact information on a receipt included in a donation. We share essential worker and donor information with the volunteers who facilitate the email communication necessary to complete the matches.
Service Providers: We may engage the following types of vendors to perform functions on our behalf such as: advertising partners, auditing and accounting firms; professional services consultants; providers of analytics services; security vendors; and IT vendors.
Social Media Platforms: Where you choose to interact with us through social media, your interaction with these programs typically allows the social media company to collect some information about you through digital cookies they place on your device and other tracking mechanisms they place on your device. In some cases, the social media company may recognize you through its digital cookies even when you do not interact with their application. Please visit the social media companies’ respective privacy policies to better understand their data collection practices and the controls they make available to you.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
In the Event of a Change of Ownership or Corporate Organization: We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Policy.
We may share aggregated or de-identified data at our discretion, including with marketing agencies, media agencies and analytics providers. These other companies will not be able to relate this data to identifiable individuals.
Cross-border Transfer of Data
If you use our Services outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the U.S. regarding information may be different from the laws of your state or country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. By using the Services, you consent to the collection, international transfer, storage, and processing of your data.
Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Information
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email newsletter, or email us at team@giveessential.org and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence. You can learn more about ad serving companies and the options available to limit their collection and use of your information by visiting the websites for the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative. Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings and by resetting the advertiser ID on your Apple or Android device.
Please note that opting out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from other companies that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.
Special Information for Nevada Residents
Residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of their information to other companies who will sell or license their information to others. At this time, Give Essential does not engage in such sales. If you are a Nevada resident and would like more information about our data sharing practices, please email team@giveessential.org.
Changes to This Policy
We may make changes to this Policy from time to time. We will post any changes here, and such changes will become effective when they are posted. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of any changes will mean you accept those changes.
For questions about our privacy practices, contact us at:
Give Essential
team@giveessential.org