Privacy & Security Policy

Human-I-T, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, and its affiliates, (“HIT”, “us”, “our”, or “we”) recognizes the importance of protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes the types of personal information we collect from individuals or entities (“you”, “your”) and other people with whom we communicate and interact online, in the course of providing our donation services (“Services”) and via our website (https://human-i-t.org) and all related websites and services that enable website visitor access on our behalf (our “Sites”). This Policy also describes how we use personal information, under what circumstances we may share it and with whom, and any rights and choices you may have. This Policy does not apply to third-party sites, products, or services, even if they link to our Sites or Services, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party site with which you choose to interact.

 

1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

In most instances, we do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. You may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: 

  1. Registering for an account on our Site; 
  2. Applying for one of our programs; 
  3. Signing up for special offers from selected third parties; 
  4. Sending us an email message; 
  5. Submitting your credit card or other payment information to complete a transaction on our Site. 

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through HIT public message boards, comment sections, or reviews, this information may be collected and used by others.

 

1.1 Personal Information You Provide to Us

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, HIT may collect personal information, as outlined below:

  1. Account information including your username and password.
  2. Contact information
  3. Donation information including donation history
  4. Payment and financial information, such as
  5. Government assistance information

 

1.2 Personal Information We Automatically Collect

HIT may automatically collect the following personal information about you through your use of the Sites and Services:

  1. Browser and device data, including your IP address or device IDs, browser type, domain names; and
  2. Usage data, including your browsing history, browser type, cookie identifiers, web beacons or “pixel tags,” Internet service provider, operating system, clickstream data, timestamps of access to our Sites, device platform and version, and other similar categories of information.

 

1.3 Information Collected From Third-Party Sources

  1. We collect personal information about you from third-party sources, including our affiliates, service providers, our partners and sponsors, and other third parties, to help us provide and improve the Services. We may supplement the information that you provide with information that we obtain from these sources, including both online and offline data providers. 
  2. In addition, third parties may use tracking technologies in connection with our Services, which may include the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. The use of this functionality may involve the third-party site providing information to us. We may not control those tracking technologies, and these third-party practices are not subject to our Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third parties carefully. For example, we may provide links on the Sites to facilitate your sending a communication from the Sites, or we may use third parties to facilitate your interacting with social media sites.
  3. We also use Google Analytics on our Sites to help us analyze your use of our Sites and diagnose technical issues. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your location, the time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website. To learn more about Google’s services and how to opt-out of analytics tracking by Google, review Google’s Privacy Policy.

 

1.4 Anonymized and De-Identified Information

  1. We may create anonymous or de-identified data from personal information by removing data components that make the data personally identifiable to you or through obfuscation or other means. Our use of anonymized or de-identified data is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

2. Use of Personal Information

We may use your personal information:

  1. To provide our services, including to determine program eligibility and arrange for deliveries, and administer and process donations and to fulfill transactions;
  2. To send you information about services and programs we offer that may be of interest to you;
  3. To contact you in response to an inquiry that you sent and process and respond to your request to volunteer for or participate in our programs;
  4. To improve our operational efficiency and provide better services and programs;
  5. To develop and improve the Sites, including to better tailor the features, performance, and support of the Sites, for research, statistical, and analytics purposes, and for marketing purposes;
  6. To send you messages and information related to our donation services and programs, support and administrative messages, technical notices, updates, alerts, and other information;
  7. To deliver customized content and advertising to our customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular product or service;
  8. To detect and prevent fraud, loss, and other crime; to assist in the investigation of suspected illegal or wrongful activity; and to protect and defend our rights, interests, and property, or the rights or safety of third parties; and
  9. To enforce agreements or to comply with laws, regulators, court orders, or other legal obligations, or pursuant to legal process.

 

3. Sharing of Personal Information

We may share your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy with trusted entities, as described below:

  • Our affiliates.
  • Service providers, which include vendors, consultants, or suppliers that provide services on our behalf; analytics providers; website hosting providers; systems administrators; customer support and communications delivery; and delivery services. All service providers are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services on our behalf, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
  • Our partners or sponsors when it is necessary to provide our Sites and Services. Examples of our partners to whom we may disclose personal information for this purpose include non-profits that promote, sponsor and/or offer our Services.
  • Other third parties authorized by you, such as social media platforms, when you click on social media icons linked from our Sites. Any disclosed information will also be subject to the privacy policies of those third parties.
  • Third-party platform advertising providers, who assist us in serving advertising regarding the Services to others who may be interested in the Services. We also partner with third parties (such as Facebook and LinkedIn) who use cookies and similar tracking technologies to serve targeted advertising/content to you via the relevant third-party platform based on your profile/interests (also known as “interest-based advertising”). Your information is used by the third-party platform provider to identify your account and serve advertisements to you. While we will not share information that identifies you by name with unaffiliated third parties for their own use, such third parties may be able to identify you with sufficient data from other sources. You can control what advertisements you receive via the privacy settings on the relevant provider’s platform and you should consult the third party’s help/support center for more information.
  • Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Services. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page.
  • Successor organizations, subject to applicable law, in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other sale or transfer of all or a portion of our assets. If any such transaction occurs, the purchaser will be entitled to use and disclose the personal information collected by us in the same manner that we are able to use it, and the purchaser will assume the rights and obligations regarding personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
  • Compliance and harm prevention, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We also may provide information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud; to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization or any person; to enforce our agreements; or as otherwise required by law.

4. Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies

Our Sites use cookies and similar tracking technologies to provide a personalized online experience, for performance and analytics, and to improve our content, products, and services. A “cookie” is a small text file that a web server stores in browser software. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

The purpose of cookies is to remember the browser over time and to distinguish one browser instance (or user) from all others. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to track personal information previously entered by a web user on a site, and may record information such as a unique identifier, information you enter in a form, IP address, and other categories of data. 

For example, if you personalize HIT pages, or register with Human-I-T site or services, a cookie helps Human-I-T to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Human-I-T website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Human-I-T features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. If you choose to decline cookies, certain parts of the Site may not function properly. For information on how to disable cookies, you can refer to your browser’s settings and instructions.

 

Use of Cookies
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‍The human-I-T website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize human-I-T pages, or register with human-I-T site or services, a cookie helps human-I-T to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same human-I-T website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the human-I-T features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the human-I-T services or websites you visit.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.    You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

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Do Not Track

human-I-T understands that some users may have enabled a “do not track” feature or other mechanism intended to provide consumers with a choice regarding the collection of their personally identifiable information; however, consistent with our rights under applicable law, our Sites do not support or respond to do-not-track requests or other signals sent from a web browser.

Sale of Personal Data

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. These cookies collect information for analytics and to personalize your experience with targeted ads. You may exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal information by using this toggle switch. If you opt out we will not be able to offer you personalised ads and will not hand over your personal information to any third parties. Additionally, you may contact our legal department for further clarification about your rights as a California consumer by emailing info@human-i-t.org. If you have enabled privacy controls on your browser (such as a plugin), we have to take that as a valid request to opt-out. Therefore we would not be able to track your activity through the web. This may affect our ability to personalize ads according to your preferences.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), California consumers have the right to request:

  • the deletion of the personal information we have about them;
  • additional information about whether and how we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold personal information about them;
  • the specific pieces of personal information we have about them; or
  • that we opt them out of the “sale” of their personal information.

California consumers also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment if they exercise the California privacy rights listed above.

Storage of Personal Information

When we share your personal information with our trusted partners, they may store some of your personal information in their databases in the United States, or elsewhere in the world. If you are accessing this website from jurisdictions outside the United States, please be advised that you may transferring your personal information to us in the United States where data protection and privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws of your country.

BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.    All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.    They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

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‍This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

 

5. Updating Your Information and Communication Preferences

If you would like to update or make changes to your information, please contact us via the information set forth in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy.

If you would like to stop receiving our newsletter or other marketing or promotional messages, notifications, or updates, you may do so by following the unsubscribe instructions that appear in these email or text communications. You may also unsubscribe by contacting us via the information set forth in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. 

Please be advised that you may not be able to opt-out of receiving certain service or transactional messages from us.

6. Security and Retention

We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure and protect personal information against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, or misuse. 

Please note, however, that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with the storage and transmission of personal information. Only authorized HIT employees and our service providers are permitted to access personally identifiable information, and the authorized individuals may do so only for specific work-related purposes. HIT strives to protect your personal information; however, no method of transmission or storage of personal information is 100% secure, and we urge you to take every precaution when you are on the internet. To better protect your information, be sure to change your passwords often and use a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.If users have questions about the types of information collected on this web site or would like to request a correction of any information collected, then please contact us at info@human-i-t.org.

7. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under the age of 13 years without parental consent. No information should be submitted to our Sites by individuals under the age of 13. 

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as permitted by law. 

If you believe we may have any collected information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, please contact us using the information set forth in the “How to Contact Us” section.

8. California “Shine The Light” Law

California residents have the right to request information from HIT regarding third parties to whom we have disclosed certain categories of personal information during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes under California’s “Shine the Light” law. 

Personal information under this California law means “any information that when it was disclosed identified, described, or was able to be associated with an individual.” 

If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please contact us via the information set forth in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. You must include your full name, email address and postal address in your request so that we can verify your California residence and respond.

9. Links to Other Websites

This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

10. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date this Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the top of this page. Any changes are effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Sites. 

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that expand our rights to collect new personal information or to use differently any personal information that we have previously collected about you, we will notify you and provide you with the disclosure by posting it on our Sites and/or via email. 

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy often to stay informed of how we may process your information.

11. Email Communications & How to Contact Us

From time to time, human-I-T may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from human-I-T or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from human-I-T, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please email us at info@human-i-t.org or by phone at (888) 268-3921.