This Privacy Policy applies to the website, www. mnyouthcollective.org (the “Site”) owned and operated by the Minnesota Youth Collective (“MNYC”), a nonprofit corporation that is an advocacy and social welfare organization exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
MNYC has created this privacy policy to explain how we use information that you may provide while visiting this Site and to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy. MNYC may modify this policy from time to time so we encourage you to check this page when revisiting this Site.
By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you register, contribute, sign up to receive information or participate in events or activities, sign a petition, or take any other action on our Site, we may ask you to give us contact information, including your name, address, telephone number, mobile telephone number and/or email address; or similar information for an organization that you represent. We may obtain information about you or your organization from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this Site.
We use this information to operate this Site, send you news and information about the MNYC’s activities, solicit your participation in and support of the MNYC’s activities, events, and programs, and for related uses. We use your email address to send such information by email and may use your telephone number to call you or send you a text message or phone call for these purposes.
We collect and maintain aggregate information about what pages supporters’ access or visit, which we use solely to improve the content of our website or online communications.
By providing your email address, you are agreeing to receive future periodic emails from MNYC and directly from our sister organization, Minnesota Youth Collective Education Fund “MNYCEF” (a nonprofit charitable and educational organization exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code), about those organizations’ activities and programs and those of its affiliate and partner organizations.
By providing information about your organization and listing yourself as a contact, you are (i) representing to the MNYC that you have authority to act on behalf of your organization and (ii) agreeing to receive, on behalf of your organization, future periodic mailing, and emails, from MNYC and MNYCEF.
We may also use your first name to indicate the latest actions taken on this site.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We will not share, sell, transfer, rent or disclose your individual information to any other organization or entity EXCEPT:
With our sister organization, the MNYCEF, solely to assist that organization in carrying out its mission, programs and activities. You or your organization may be contacted by the MNYCEF as a result of our disclosure of your individual information with them.
MNYC does not collect or maintain the names of, or any information about any individual who is not a resident of the United States. If you are not currently a resident of the United States, or present in the United States, please do not provide your name or any identifying information through the Site.
VOTER REGISTRATION AND VOTING INFORMATION
The MNYC makes available, on the Site, access to one or more websites operated and maintained by other organizations, to enable you to generate a voter registration form online and instructions for how to register, either online or by sending in a form that you print out. When you fill out the online form, you will be asked to provide your date of birth and either your driver’s license number or the last four digits of your Social Security Number, or other personally identifying information. MNYC and MNYCEF does not store or maintain any information that you enter online other than your name, address, phone number and email address.
Personally identifiable information collected by each organization that operates a registration tool accessible through the Site is subject to the privacy policy of that organization. PLEASE NOTE that once you mail in or electronically submit your voter registration application to a local or state election agency, some or all of the information you submit will become a matter of public record and can be inspected or used by organizations and individuals that meet the requirements of state law for such use. These requirements vary from state to state.
CHILDREN
MNYC complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. MNYC does not solicit and does not accept personally identifying information from any person under 13 years of age.
Visitors to this Site who are under 13 years of age should not use this Site except under the supervision and with the assistance of their parent or legal guardian, and should never submit any personally identifying information to the Site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not register, purchase or use services or take any actions on or through this Site.
CREDIT CARD INFORMATION; PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
This Site allows you to donate directly to the MNYC by credit card. When you make a donation directly to the MNYC through this Site, we will collect credit card information from you. That information is used solely for processing your contribution; is not maintained by the MNYC; and is never disclosed to anyone, for any other purpose other than for processing your contribution, under any circumstances.
MNYC uses industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of all of the personally identifiable information that you provide to us. Our server is located in a locked, secure environment. All supplied credit card information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment processing provider’s database.
Permission to access your personally identifiable information is granted only to you and the MNYC employees or contractors who need to know that information to provide services to you and who are required to keep the information confidential. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by this Site in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.
COOKIES AND DATA TRACKING
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Some parts of this Site may be password-protected. We may use a cookie (cookies reside on your computer and are under the control of your browser) to help us remember and process items that you purchase through this Site; and/or to compile aggregate data about visitors to the Site and their interaction with the Site for the purposes of improving the operation of the Site and/or offering better Site experiences and tools in the future.
We may also use cookies to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the Site without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the toolbar on most browsers can assist. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this Site.
We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our Site. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to the MNYC supporters.
Please note that third party vendors, including Google, may show MNYC -sponsored ads on the Internet. Those third-party vendors (including Google) use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
ADVERTISING
We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other Sites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the Site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors.
MNYC does not use cookies to track what specific pages an individual site visitor views. Please note, however, that third party vendors, including Google and Facebook may show MNYC-sponsored ads on the Internet. Those third party vendors (including Google) may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ . Users may find out information about adjusting how Facebook targets ads to them by visiting https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
AMENDMENTS AND CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We retain the right to amend or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time. By using our Site, you consent to the collection and use of the information as we have described. If we change our policies and practices, we will post the changes in our Privacy Policy so that you are always aware of them. With this knowledge, you can make an informed decision about whether you wish to provide personal information to us.
SMS Opt-Out: If you are receiving text messages from us and wish to stop receiving them, simply respond with either “STOP” or “UNSUBSCRIBE” to the number from which you received the message. Once we receive your message, you will no longer receive further text messages from us.