Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the website disabilityvoicesunited.org (“Site”), owned and operated by Disability Voices United (DVU), a nonprofit organization recognized as a charitable and educational organization exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

DVU 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. DVU 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.

Information We Collect
When you register, contribute, sign up to receive information or participate in events or activities, 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. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this Site.

How We Use Your Information
We use this information to operate this Site, send you news and information about DVU’s activities, solicit your participation in and support of DVU’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 voice message 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.

We will not share, sell, transfer, rent, or disclose your individual information to any other organization or entity EXCEPT:

  • To companies that assist us in maintaining this Site or with DVU’s activities, but only for purposes of providing services to DVU and with the strict requirement that any such company will never itself have the right to contact you for any reason;
  • To comply with applicable law or legal requirements (for example, a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or to protect our supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records.

Submitting your personal information (including email address) on the Site’s sign-up page, when you take an action or make a donation, will sign you up to receive emails from DVU. We may also use your first name to indicate the latest actions taken on this site.

Security
DVU 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 those DVU 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.

Data Protection Officer
The DVU Chief Operating Officer is responsible for ensuring that this Privacy Policy is made available to data subjects prior to DVU collecting their personal data. DVU employees and assistants who interact with data subjects are responsible for ensuring that this Privacy Policy is drawn to the data subject’s attention and their consent to the collection of their data is secured. The DVU Chief Operating Officer can be contacted by email at info@dvunited.org.

Children
DVU complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. DVU 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.

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 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 DVU supporters.

Your Rights as a Data Subject 
At any point while DVU is in possession of your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

  • Right of access
  • Right of rectification
  • Right to be forgotten
  • Right to restriction of processing
  • Right of portability
  • Right to object
  • Right to object to automated processing, including profiling
  • Right to judicial review

Complaints
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being stored or used by DVU, or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority and DVU’s data protection office whose contact information is provided above.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
DVU complies with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. As part of that Act, all registered users of our Site may make any changes to their information at any time by contacting DVU at info@dvunited.org.

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.