Privacy Policy

1. Forms

Throughout our website, we have forms that allow you to send information to us to help guide you in a directed way e.g. requesting more information on our non-profit, volunteering, or donating. These forms help us correspond with you. Your form is not stored in the website database, but is forwarded to the email account of the person that will best help you. Your information is never sold or distributed.

When you subscribe to our newsletters we collect only your email address so that we can correspond with you. Your email address is not stored in our website database, but is placed in our Mailchimp database (the application we use to send our newsletters and campaigns) for our mass emails we distribute to people who have opted in. You can always request that we remove your email from these lists, or “unsubscribe” from the bottom of the email itself.

2. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track visitors on this site.

Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data.

In order to be compliant with the new regulation Google included a data processing amendment.

The data we collect will be processed anonymously and “Data sharing” is disabled.

We don’t use other Google services in combination with Google Analytics cookies.

3. Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp for our newsletters and campaigns. Mailchimp is one of the best marketing and email automation services available and is GDPR compliant. They have a campaign builder that makes it easy to create email templates. In Mailchimp, we store only your email address provided to us when you opted in. If you need to be removed from the list, please contact us or “unsubscribe” from the bottom of the email.

4. Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one month.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

5. How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one month.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

6. What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.

7. Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

We take great measures to make sure our site is secure, and routinely scan for malicious injections into our site.

Changes to the privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.