Effective date: June 5, 2024
RINS strongly believes in protecting the integrity and privacy of personal information gathered from our supporters and others through all our communication channels and from visitors to our website. The protection of your privacy is of great importance to us.
Consent
By accessing our website and/or submitting your personal information to us, you are agreeing that: (1) you will abide by the practice described in this Policy, and (2) RINS may use the information in accordance with this Policy. Further, if you reside outside the United States, you understand and agree that your personal information may be processed in countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
Information We Collect and Why
The information we may collect includes information you provide us directly, as well as information provided by third parties or automatically through your use of our website. This information enables us to improve our work, communicate with you about our programs, respond to your inquiries and provide support, fulfill your requests and donations, and for other donor service purposes. We also use information to improve our understanding of your interests and better tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you.
Information We Collect Directly From You
Personal information collected may include your name, postal address, telephone number(s), email address(s), or other information. We also request that you provide us with additional personal information, such as credit card information, on our online donation pages to properly enable donation transaction processing.
Information We Collect Automatically
We may automatically collect the following information about your use of our website through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies: your domain name; your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; the length of time and number of times you visit our site and or use our services; and the referring URL, or the webpage that led you to our site, and the following: access time, browser type, device ID, domain name, IP address, page views, pages visited and referring URL.
How Personal Information is Shared
We may share your information, including personal information, as follows:
Communication with You
If you contact us directly, we receive your name, email address, and message contents, and any other information you may provide. We use this information in order to respond to your inquiry.
Social Media Users
We invite you to post content on our social media services, including your comments, pictures, and any other information that you would like to be available. If you post your own content, your posting may become public, and we cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy. We have no control over how any social media service uses or discloses the personal information it collects about you. For information about how they may use and disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult their respective privacy policies.
Third-Party Websites
Our website and social media posts may contain links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices or content of these other websites.
Service Providers
We may disclose the information we collect from you to third party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform functions on our behalf such as collecting donations.
In Response to Legal Process
We also may disclose the information we collect from you in order 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 also 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 of Use or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
You May Always Change Your Preferences by Contacting Us
Email Opt-Out Procedures
We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You may opt-out of such communications by sending an email to info@rins.org requesting to be removed from our email lists. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails, we may still send you e-mails about any services you have requested or received from us.
Questions or Complaints
Direct questions about the privacy aspects of our services or to make a complaint, please contact us at info@rins.org or the contact form.
Children Under 13
Our services are not designed for children under 13. If we are made aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems.
Changes to This Policy
This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on our website at www.rins.org/privacy-policy. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Site.