Art4Caritas.org Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Effective October 1, 2020
Art4Caritas.org, the Friends of Caritas Cubana, Inc. eCommerce website, is hosted/powered by SquareSpace.com
Art4Caritas.org/Friends of Caritas Cubana, Inc. (hereafter “we” or “us” or “our”) values your business and we know your privacy is important to you. Accordingly, we have implemented this Privacy Notice to inform you of the personal information that we collect from you when you visit this website, or otherwise interact with us offline, what we do with your personal information and how you can exercise your privacy rights.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect information you provide directly to us, including any information related to delivery of the products you purchase, donations you make and to help improve your shopping experience. We collect information from you in a variety of ways when you interact with our websites and mobile services.
We may collect the following categories of personal information. Not all categories may be collected about every individual.
· Personal identifiers, such as name and address
· Device and online identifiers and related information, such as telephone number and email address
· Internet, application, and network activity, such as cookie IDs and browser visits
· Purchase and donation history information, such as products you have bought, or returned and donations you have made.
· Location information, such as geo-location information
HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
The Art4Caritas.org website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
· Information about your browser, network and device
· Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
· Your IP address
Squarespace requires the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
When you interact with our online services, we may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily: for example, we ask you to provide your name, contact details and payment details in order to purchase a product from us, make a donation, to set up an online account, or your email address to sign up to receive a newsletter and/or to submit enquiries to us.
If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service. This information may include your:
· Billing and shipping address(es)
· Details about your orders
· Email address
· Name
· Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.
We may ask for similar information when you contact us offline, for example, for customer service matters or to place an order.
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Other than as set forth in the Policy, under no circumstances does Art4Caritas.org sell, rent, trade or share your e-mail address with any other company. We may use the information we collect through our online services for several purposes, including to:
· Fulfill your order or requests for services and provide customer service
· Create and maintain your account
· Conduct auditing and monitoring of transactions and engagement
· Conduct marketing, that you have explicitly opted in to receive
· Conduct business analysis, such as analytics, projections and identifying areas for operational improvement
· Fulfill our legal functions or obligations
We will email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:
· You have created a Customer Account
· Your Customer Account password has been reset or updated
· You have made a purchase
· Your order has shipped
We share your contact information with Squarespace.com, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.
We will only process personal information in ways that are compatible with the purpose for which we collected it for or for the purposes you later authorize
WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH:
We may share and disclose your personal information to other third parties in the following circumstances:
· To other third-party service providers who require access to your personal information to assist in the provision of the online services, sale of our products and services, donations, and other business-related functions. For example, we partner with one or more credit card processing companies to assist us in processing your payment.
· We may also work with third party service providers (for example, MailChimp) to assist us providing targeted email campaigns. However, those companies do not retain, share, store, or use personal information for any secondary purposes.
· We may also disclose your personal information to third parties: (a) where required by law or regulatory requirement, court order or other judicial authorization, (b) in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including for the purposes of meeting national security and law enforcement requirements; (c) in connection with the sale, transfer, merger, bankruptcy, restructuring or other reorganization of a business; (d) to protect or defend our rights, interests or property, or that of third parties; (e) to investigate any wrongdoing in connection with the online services or our services; (f) to protect the vital interests of an individual; or (g)to an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice;
COOKIES & SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The Cookies Squarespace Uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of Our Services.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
The security of your personal information is very important to us.
When you enter sensitive information such as a credit card number on product order forms, SquareSpace.com encrypts that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL)
Your payment is then processed by PayPal.com an industry-leading, secure payment processor.
Please visit PayPal.com to learn more.
YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS & CHOICES
You have the following rights:
If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us hello@friendscaritascuba.org You can correct many of the details in your account by logging in to your account.
You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in the marketing e-mails we send you. Alternatively, please contact us at hello@friendscaritascuba.org Please include your complete name, e-mail address and mailing address. Note that it may take up to three business days to remove you from our marketing lists and after this point you will still receive customer service communications from us.
HOW WE LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our online services may contain links to websites and may contain links to third party plug-ins (such as social media sharing buttons) operated by other companies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy notices of such other websites. This Notice applies solely to information collected by our online services and through your other interactions with these third-party plug-ins.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our services are intended for users ages 18 and older. Accordingly, we will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from persons that we know to be under the age of 18. In addition, we will delete any information in our database that we know originates from a child under the age of 18.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post a new version on our Website, which will become effective when posted. The new policy will apply to all current and past users of the online services and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent with it. We encourage you to check this page regularly to ensure you are up to date with any changes.
HOW TO CONTACT US:
Business Hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM-5 PM EST
By email: hello@friendscaritascuba.org
By Mail:
Friends of Caritas Cubana, Inc.
81 Washington Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02140
By Telephone: 617-849-4027
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
The California Consumer Privacy Act or “CCPA” (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq.) affords consumers residing in California certain rights with respect to their personal information. If you are a California resident, this section applies to you:
Art4Caritas.org does not sell your personal information
Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to (1) request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you, (2) request deletion of your personal information, (3) opt out of any sales of your personal information, if we engage in that activity in the future, (you will be notified well in advance) and (4) not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. You may make these requests by emailing us at hello@friendscaritascuba.com. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
If we receive your request from an authorized agent, we may ask for evidence that you have provided such agent with a power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf. This may include requiring you to verify your identity. If you are an authorized agent seeking to make a request, please contact us at: hello@friendscaritascuba.org