PRIVACY POLICY

Information collected and processed by the IRC

In all cases, we collect personal information about you in accordance with the principles outlined in this Policy and applicable law.

Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: In addition, as with other Internet sites, our web server can automatically recognize certain information about your device when you visit our website. This information includes your browser type and operating system; web pages on our website that you view; links you click; your device’s IP address; the length of time you visit our website; and the referring URL, or the webpage that led you to our website. Please see the “How we use ‘cookies’” section below for more information. If you consent to our collecting that information, we would use it to help diagnose problems with our server, to improve the content of our website, and for our online marketing efforts.

We may share your information, including personal information, as follows:

Affiliates. We may disclose the information we collect from you to our affiliates or subsidiaries; however, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your personal information will be subject to this Policy.

Service Providers. We may disclose the information we collect from you to vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf, such as hosting our website. We require that all service providers hold information in strict confidence.

We may also share information in the following circumstances:

Business Transfers. If we are or may be acquired by or merged with another organization, including a non-profit or a for-profit entity, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another organization, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected about you to the other organization.

In Response to Legal Process. We may disclose the information we collect from you to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.

To Protect Us and Others. We may disclose the information we collect from you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms and Conditions or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may share aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified information with other entities for research or similar purposes.

How and why will we use your personal information?

Your personal information, however, provided to us, will be used for the purposes specified in this notice. The IRC may use your personal information:

• to provide you with services, products, or information you have requested;
• to provide services to our beneficiaries;
• to provide further information about our work, services, activities, or products (where necessary, and only where you have provided your consent to receive such information);
• to answer your questions/ requests and communicate with you in general;
• to analyze and improve our work, services, activities, products, or information (including our website), or for our internal records;
• to report on the impact and effectiveness of our work;
• to run/administer our website, keep it safe and secure, and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;

Additional Information for Residents of Colorado, Delaware, and Oregon

If you are a resident of Colorado, Delaware, or Oregon you have various rights with respect to your personal information, the information we have about you, and the context in which it was obtained. We may choose to extend these rights to you even if we are not required to do so.

To the extent we have collected information about you, and subject to certain limitations, these rights include:

• Right to access/know – You may be entitled to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which we collected the information, the business or commercial purposes of collecting the information, the categories of third parties with whom we have shared the information, and the categories of personal information that we have shared with third parties for a business purpose. In some instances, you may have the right to receive the information about you we have collected in a portable and readily usable format. Before providing any of this information, we must be able to verify your identity. If you are a resident of Oregon, you may have the right, subject to certain conditions and at our option, to obtain a list of specific third parties, other than natural persons to which your personal data has been disclosed.
• Right to data portability – Subject to certain conditions, you may be entitled to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you in a portable, and to the extent feasible, usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
• Right to correct –Subject to certain conditions, you may have the right to notify us through the “Submitting Privacy Requests” section at the bottom of this Privacy Policy to correct any mistakes in your personal information or update your preferences; however, we may not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. We may delete the contested personal information as an alternative to correcting the information if the deletion of the personal information does not negatively impact you, or you consent to the deletion.
• Right to deletion – Subject to certain conditions, you may be entitled to request that we delete personal information about you. Before deleting information, we must be able to verify your identity. We will not delete personal information about you when the information is required to fulfill a legal obligation, is necessary to exercise or defend legal claims, or where we are required or permitted to retain the information by law.
• Right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information – We currently do not sell personal information to third parties. We may share personal information about you with service providers as permitted by law with your consent, which you can modify at any time by sending your request via email to [email protected]. You may also authorize another person acting on your behalf to opt out of the processing of your personal information on your behalf.
• Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information – We do not collect your sensitive personal information, and therefore do not offer this option. Under Colorado law, you also have the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information. Under Delaware and Oregon law, you also have the right to not have your sensitive personal information, or the sensitive personal information of a known child, processed unless you have provided consent. Because we do not collect your sensitive personal information, we do not offer these rights.

We do not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of these rights.

These rights do not apply to pseudonymous data if the information necessary to identify the individual is kept separately and is subject to controls that prevent access to the information. Pseudonymous data is personal data that can no longer be attributed to a specific individual without the use of additional information, if the additional information is kept separately and is subject measures to ensure that personal data is not attributed to the specific individual. 

Data solely retained for data backup or archive purposes is principally excluded from these rights until it is restored to an active system or next accessed or used for a sale, disclosure, or commercial purpose. 

Please note that depending on your jurisdiction, we are only obligated to respond, free of cost, to personal information requests from the same consumer up to two times in a 12-month period. Depending on your jurisdiction, after you have exceeded the applicable number of requests, we have the right to charge a reasonable fee for fulfilling the request. In addition, under the applicable state privacy law, and for the protection of your personal information, we may be limited in what personal information we can disclose.

We will maintain all of your consumer data rights requests for at least 2 years. This information will not be used for any other purpose except to review compliance processes; it will not be shared except as necessary to comply with a legal obligation. 

You may also be entitled to request in writing a list of the types of personal information that we have disclosed to a third party for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding year and to whom that information was disclosed. 

How we use "cookies"

Visitors should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by our website using "cookies."  Cookies are small text files that a website can use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate visitors’ ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will facilitate content improvements.

Cookies are not programs that come onto a visitor’s system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning to the visitor a unique number that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If a visitor does not want information collected using cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. For more information about how to disable cookies, refer to the “help” or “customer support” section of your specific browser application.

We also use clear GIFs, which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your device, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Site to, among other things, track the activities of Site visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about website usage. We and our service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

We use cookie and other online tracking technology to improve visitors’ online experience and facilitate their visit within our site, to better understand how visitors use our website, and to assist us with our online marketing efforts.

We use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate usage of our Site. We use these tools to help us improve the performance of our Site and our user’s experience on our Site. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSOs), to perform their services. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Links to third-party sites

In order to provide certain services and materials, our website may allow you to “click” over to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to Welcome.Rescue.org. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites, even if our name and logo appear on the screen.  We recommend that you review the privacy policies on third-party sites before you use any services or programs they offer.