Introduction
Advocacy Accelerator is committed to safeguarding your privacy online.
Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.
What is Personal Data?
Personal data can be anything that allows a living person to be directly or indirectly identified. This may be a name, an address, or even an IP address. It includes automated personal data and can also encompass pseudonymised data if a person can be identified from it.
What’s Sensitive Personal Data?
Sensitive personal data is data being in ‘special categories’ of information. These include trade union membership, religious beliefs, political opinions, racial information, and sexual orientation.
What information do we collect?
You can access our web site www.advocacyaccelerator.org without disclosing any of your personal data. However, we collect some personal information as provided by you in newsletter subscription forms.
We also collect non-identifying information to help us understand more about how our site is used.
Third Parties
Like many websites, Advocacy Accelerator uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard disk through your web-browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google’s Privacy Policy – http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ and for the purposes set out above. You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Our website also uses interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others. If you choose to “like” or “share” information from this website through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service. If you are a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your visits to this site with other Personal Information
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you go to other websites from here, we advise you to be aware and read their privacy policy.
Use of Personal Information
Advocacy Accelerator uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise.
If you indicated that you are interested in receiving regular information about Advocacy Accelerator’s campaign work we will send you communications regarding Advocacy Accelerator’s work and activities, either electronically or otherwise. In addition, we may send you direct mail that we feel may be of interest to you.
We comply with all laws to which we are subject. With respect to personally identifiable information you provide to us, we will only disclose it to the extent that we, in good faith, believe that applicable law requires it.
Access, update or delete your data
If you have created an account on our website, you can access, correct or delete your personal data by logging in to your user account and making the necessary changes through your account profile settings. You should promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
You can also request to help via email, at [email protected].
Protection of Information
Advocacy Accelerator is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the individual identifying information that you provide to us.
Advocacy Accelerator makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information, including credit card information, by using high grade encryption and https security protocol to communicate with your browser software.
This method reflects industry standard security protocol and makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to intercept your credit card information, whilst protecting your privacy.
Children
Our website is not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect data on children.
If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us at [email protected]. We will delete such information from our files within a reasonable time.
Consent
By using any of our Applications, you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding privacy while using our Applications, or have questions about our practices, please contact us via email at [email protected].