Last Updated date: 11/30/2022
Impact Local, Inc. (“we,” “us,” “ours” or “Impact Local”) provides a platform that helps users discover and support nonprofit organizations through our applications and websites, including getimpactlocal.com (collectively, the “Platform”), and related services (together with the Platform, the “Services”).
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, process, store and share personal information. It also provides you with important information about your personal information rights and how to exercise them.
By using or accessing our Services, or by providing your personal information to us, you acknowledge that you accept our privacy practices and policies outlined below, and you consent that we may collect, process, store and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Definition of Personal Information
We collect, process, store and share information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household (“personal information”). Personal information does not include information publicly available from government records, or which is not personal, like anonymous, deidentified or aggregated data (even if it originally comes from personal information).
Categories of Personal information We Collect
We collect, process and store, and may share with third parties, the following categories of personal information.
Our Business Purposes for Collecting and Sharing Personal information
This section details the business purposes for which we collect, process, store and/or share your personal information.
When we use the word “share” anywhere in this Privacy Policy we mean disclose or transfer to any third party for any of the purposes in this section unless stated otherwise. Depending on laws that may be applicable to you, when we share your personal information for these purposes, it may constitute a sale of your personal information (for example, when we share your personal information in exchange for money or other valuable consideration).
Opt-Out of Our Selling or Sharing of Your Personal information for Targeted Advertising
You have the right to opt-out of our sale of your personal information or our sharing of your personal information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising or targeted advertising. For more information, see the section below called, Notice of Your Personal information Rights; Notice of Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing.
To opt out, click Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
We may share your personal information with the categories of parties listed in this section. Depending on laws that may be applicable to you, when we share your personal information with these third parties, it may constitute a sale of your personal information (for example, when we share your personal information in exchange for money or other valuable consideration).
Retention of Personal information
We retain personal information about you for as long as we deem to be necessary or advisable for the purposes described in the above section called, Our Business Purposes for Collecting and Sharing Personal information (such as providing the Services to you). This may include keeping your personal information after you have stopped using our Services; for example, we may retain your personal information to advertise to you (unless you opt-out), comply with legal obligations or resolve disputes or collect fees owed.
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat personal information that we acquire from you or third parties related to our Services or other interactions with us. This Privacy Policy does not cover the policies or practices of nonprofits or other third parties that you may access or be connected with through the Services.
Sources of Personal information
We collect personal information about you from the following categories of sources:
Nonprofits and Third-Party Services
This Privacy Policy does not apply to nonprofits or any other third-party websites, applications or services that you access or connect with through the Services. We do not have control over the privacy practices or the content of nonprofits or third parties, or their websites, applications, products or services. As such, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by or content provided by nonprofits or third parties, including, websites, applications or services linked to or accessible from or in connection with our Services. Please check the applicable nonprofit or other third-party privacy policy and terms of service when visiting any other websites, applications or services, and before providing any personal information to them. Please also make any privacy requests directly to nonprofits or third parties with respect to personal information in their control.
Personal Information of Others You Share with Us
You may not disclose the personal information of another individual to us, or make it available on the Services, unless you have the prior written consent of person who is the subject of the information and such person is 18 years of age or older. To the extent that you provide another individual’s personal information to us or use it in the Services, you acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws concerning such personal information, including:
Personal Information of Children
As noted in the User Terms, we do not knowingly collect, process, store or share personal information about children under 18 years of age. If you are a child under the age of 18, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any personal information. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 18 years of age, we will delete that data as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 18 years of age may have provided personal information to us, please contact us at info@getimpactlocal.com.
To our knowledge, we do not sell or share for cross-contextual behavioral advertising or targeted advertising purposes the personal information of children under the age of 18.
Notice of Your Personal information Rights; Notice of Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing
Subject to exemptions and limitations provided by applicable law, you have the right to:
(1) Request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information (collectively, the following constitute the "right to know"):
(2) Request a copy of the personal information you provided to us in a portable, and, if feasible, readily usable format (the “right to data portability”)
(3) Request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions under applicable privacy law (the "right to delete")
(4) Correct inaccurate or complete incomplete personal information (the “right to correct”)
(5) Direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the "right to opt out of sale")
(6) Direct us to not share your personal information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising or targeted advertising purposes (the “right to opt out of behavioral advertising”)
(7) Direct us to not share your personal information with third parties for third parties’ direct marketing purposes (the “right to opt-out of third-party marketing”)
(8) Direct us not to share your personal information for the purposes of making automated decisions, including profiling, that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you (the “right to opt out of profiling with legal effects”)
(9) Limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information to just those actions necessary to perform specific purposes outlined by law (the “right to limit use of sensitive information”)
(10) Be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under applicable privacy law
How to Exercise Your Personal Information Rights
To exercise the rights described above, you or your Authorized Agent (defined below) must send us a written request (via one of the methods described below) that (1) provides sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom we have collected personal information, and (2) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond to it. Each request that meets both of these criteria will be considered a “Valid Request.” We may ask for information to verify your identity, such as name, phone number, email and address. We will only use personal information provided in a Valid Request to verify your identity and complete your request. You do not need an account to submit a Valid Request.
We will work to respond to your Valid Request promptly within the timeframes required by applicable privacy law (usually between 15 to 45 days depending on the type of Valid Request, with the right for us to extend the response time as necessary). We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request.
You may submit a Valid Request using the following methods:
You may also authorize an agent (an "Authorized Agent") to exercise your rights on your behalf. To do this, you must provide your Authorized Agent with written permission to exercise your rights on your behalf, and we may request a copy of this written permission from your Authorized Agent when they make a request on your behalf.
In some instances, we may not be able to honor your request. For example, we will not honor your request if we cannot verify your identity or if we cannot verify that you have the authority to make a request on behalf of another individual. Additionally, we may not honor your request where not required to do so under applicable privacy laws. For example, we may deny a deletion request if the information is necessary for us to provide the Services to you or comply with our legal obligations and compliance policies. We may deny a right to know request made more than twice in a 12-month period or for information collected and disclosed more than 12 months ago. We will advise you in our response if we are not able to honor your request.
You have the right to appeal our decision to not honor your request or our refusal to take action on a request within a reasonable period of time by contacting us at the email listed above and clearly stating that the purpose of the contact is an “appeal of privacy rights.” Within 60 days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
Our Use of Cookies and other Tracking Technology
The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own cookies on your devices.
We use the following types of cookies:
Do Not Track
“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. Impact Local’s Services are not currently configured to respond to Do Not Track signals or other mechanisms that provide users the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about a user’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.
Disable or Delete Cookies and Tracking Technology
Disable or Delete Cookies from Your Browser or Device
You can decide whether or not to accept certain cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. To explore what cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser's menu.
You can also delete all cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our Services and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.
Third-Party Resources about Cookies and to Opt-Out of Cookies and Targeted Advertising
To find out more information about cookies, including information about how to manage and delete cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
You may also manage or opt-out of certain cookies collected and shared by certain of our providers:
To make choices about targeted advertisements from participating third parties, including to opt-out of receiving targeted advertisements from participating third parties, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info/choices.
The below chart summarizes the categories of personal information we have collected, disclosed, sold or shared for cross-contextual behavioral advertising (or targeted advertising) to the identified categories of third parties in the last 12 months. For more details on the categories of third parties, see the above section called, Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share Your Personal information.
Identifiers (for example, name, postal address, email address, IP address, unique personal identifiers)
Personal information (for example, name, address, telephone number, credit card number)
Characteristics of protected persons (for example, age, race, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex/gender)
Commercial information (for example, records of donations or nonprofits you viewed)
Biometric information (for example, fingerprints and voiceprints)
Internet or other similar network activity (for example, browsing history, search history, website interactions)
Geolocation data (for example, device location)
Sensory data (audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information)
Professional or employment-related information
Non-public education information
Inferences drawn from other personal information to create a consumer profile
Government identifying numbers (social security, driver’s license, state ID or passport numbers)
Complete account credentials (account log-in, financial account, debit card or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password or credentials allowing access to an account)
Precise geolocation
Racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs or union membership
Mail, email or text message contents not directed at us
Genetic data
Biometric information processing for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual
Health, sex life or sexual orientation
Security of Your Personal information
We will maintain reasonable technical and organizational safeguards for the protection of the security and confidentiality of personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure or transfer. Despite our efforts to ensure security, we cannot guarantee or warrant that your personal information will not be accessed, acquired, disclosed for an improper purpose, altered or destroyed by an unauthorized person or as a result of a breach of our security safeguards or those of our hosting provider or other vendors or service providers. We cannot ensure the security of any data transmitted to us over the internet. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure of your personal information. Therefore, we urge you to take adequate precautions to protect your personal information as well, including, without limitation, never sharing your account username or password.
International Transfer, Storage and Processing
Our Services are available in the United States only. We operate from the United States and the personal information we collect or receive is stored and processed in the United States. You consent to the transfer, processing and storage of your personal information in the United States. You also consent to the transfer, processing and storage of your personal information by us, our affiliated entities, our vendors or other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy. The United States and other jurisdictions to which we transfer or in which we process or store your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we do, we will post the revised policy in the Services with a new “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of our Services or your provision of personal information to us following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. We encourage you to visit this page regularly for any changes.
Contact Us
You may contact us with questions or concerns related to this Privacy Policy and our privacy policies and practices as follows:
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