Text to Give Privacy Policy
TEXT TO GIVE PRIVACY POLICY:
The SecureGive Text To Give application and the associated SecureGive website available at app.securegive.com (“SecureGive”) are owned and operated by SecureGive (“us”, “we”, or “our”). This SecureGive Text To Give privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any information you submit to us through SecureGive Text To Give. This includes “Personal Information” which is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, and mailing address as well as “Anonymous Information” that does not permit the identification of individual persons.
USER CONSENT
By accessing or otherwise using SecureGive Text To Give, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the associated Terms of Service (set forth above) and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information and Anonymous Information according to this Privacy Policy. Your Personal Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
REGARDING CHILDREN
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use SecureGive Text To Give and we do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal Information from those who are under 13 years old. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. Thus, if we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our databases. We recommend that children between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain their parent’s permission before submitting information over the internet. By using SecureGive Text To Give, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least 13 years of age and have your parents’ permission to use SecureGive Text To Give.
COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
PERSONAL INFORMATION
In general, we collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through SecureGive Text To Give. We also collect information that you submit in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on SecureGive Text To Give. For example, our registration and login process requires you to provide us with your name, valid email address, phone number and password of your choice. When you personalize your profile and use the features of SecureGive Text To Give, we will collect any information you voluntarily provide, and we may also request optional information to support your use of SecureGive Text To Give, such as your mailing address. When you use our services to facilitate a donation or payment to the church or non-profit of your choosing, you will need to submit your credit card or other payment information so that our service providers can process your payment.
PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies who we have partnered with (collectively, “Partners”) or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other Personal Information we have collected about you.
E-MAIL AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES
If you send an email to us, or use SecureGive Text To Give services, we will collect your email address and the full content of your email, including attached files, and other information you provide. We may use this email address to contact you for things such as notifications related to your registered account or transactions through SecureGive Text to Give. You may indicate your preference to stop receiving further communications as further detailed below.
INFORMATION COLLECTED VIA TECHNOLOGY
As you use SecureGive Text To Give, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our service providers’ service logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed. This type of information is collected to make SecureGive Text To Give and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the experience with SecureGive Text To Give to meet your needs.
An “Internet protocol address” or “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. For example, we, or our service providers, may track your IP Address when you access SecureGive Text To Give. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with SecureGive Text To Give. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services offered through SecureGive Text To Give, your web browser must accept Cookies. If you choose to disable Cookies, some aspects of SecureGive Text To Give may not work properly, and you will not be able to receive our services.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent, or share the Personal Information that we collect with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.
In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us to provide you access to SecureGive Text To Give, to improve SecureGive Text To Give, to better tailor the features, performance, and support of SecureGive Text To Give. We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of SecureGive Text To Give and to help us communicate with you. Examples of such services include sending email, analyzing data, processing payments (including credit card payments), and providing customer service. We require our third-party service providers to promise not to use such information except as necessary to provide the relevant services to us. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of your personally identifiable information by such third-parties. We do not maintain responsibility for the manner in which third parties use or further disclose Personal Information collected from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy, after we have disclosed such information to those third parties. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the manners identified in this Privacy Policy, you may not use SecureGive Text To Give. Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control, we may in the future, and we may share some or all of your Personal Information with these companies, in which case we will require them to honor this Privacy Policy.
In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of ours or that acquirer’s assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect and defend our rights or property, you, or third parties. You hereby consent to us sharing your Personal Information under the circumstances described herein.
THE ABILITY OF OTHERS TO VIEW YOUR INFORMATION
Helping you to protect your information is a vital part of our mission. It is up to you to make sure you are comfortable with the information you choose to provide us. You understand that when you use SecureGive Text To Give, certain information you provide through SecureGive Text To Give, such as your name and profile information, amount and method of payment will only be shared with the third party service providers working on our behalf and to the organization you specify for your payment.
THIRD PARTY SITES AND ADVERTISING
SecureGive Text To Give does not contain links to other websites. We do not use your personal information collected through the use of Text to Give to advertise to you nor do we share it with third parties for the purpose of advertising to you.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you choose to utilize SecureGive Text to Give, any personal information you provide will not be shared or used to send you promotional communications.
However, we may send you administrative emails regarding SecureGive Text To Give, including, for example, administrative confirmations, and notices of updates to our Privacy Policy if we choose to provide such notices to you in this manner.
You may change any of your profile information by editing it in the profile settings page. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at support@securegive.com, but please note that we may be required (by law or otherwise) to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request, only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete Personal Information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives.
FEEDBACK
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You agree that any such comments and any email we receive becomes our property. We may use feedback for marketing purposes or to add to or modify our services without paying any royalties or other compensation to you.
SECURITY
We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Even though we have taken significant steps to protect your Personal Information, no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.
CONTACT AND REVISIONS
If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: support@securegive.com. This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision at our discretion, and if we make any substantial changes in the way we use your Personal Information, we will post an alert on this page. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using SecureGive Text To Give. Continued use of SecureGive Text To Give following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.