Privacy Policy
www.thefestivalofhope.org
Updated 19th August, 2022
Table of Contents
1: Privacy Policy
2: User Consent
3: Types of Personal Information We Collect
4: Information Collected Via Technology
5: How Collects Personal Information
6: How www.thefestivalofhope.org Uses Personal Information
7: When and Why Discloses Personal Information
8: Personal Information from Other Sources
9: Third Party Sites and Advertising
10: Where is the information held?
11: Safeguarding Your Personal Information
12: Opt-out Provision
13: Accessing and Correcting Personal Information
14: Changes to this Privacy Statement
15: Notification of Changes
16: A Special Note about Children
17: Cookies and Related Technologies
18: Web Links
19: The Ability of Others to View Your Information
20: Your Choices
21: Feedback
22: Security
23: Our Website
24: Service Provider Service
25: Referring Friends to www.thefestivalofhope.org
26: Surveys and Feedback Requests
27: Notice to Residents of Countries outside the United States of America
28: Communities
29: A Note about Twitter Messages
30: Face book
31: E-mail and E-mail Addresses
32: California Privacy Rights
1: Privacy Policy
This www.thefestivalofhope.org 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 www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org. This includes “Personal Information,” which is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, e-mail address, user ID number, and other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing, as well as “Anonymous Information,” which is information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information and does not permit the identification of individual persons.
2: User Consent
By accessing or otherwise using www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into and forms a part of www.thefestivalofhope.org terms of service (set forth in the terms & conditions). You expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information and Anonymous Information according to this Privacy Policy.
Your Personal Information may be processed and stored in other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Your Personal Information may, however, be used or disclosed for purposes for which you have not given your direct consent or which are permitted under applicable law.
3: Types of Personal Information We Collect
Personal Information is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. It also includes other information that may be associated with Personal Information. We collect the following types of Personal Information:
Contact Information that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name, postal addresses, email addresses, social media website user account names, telephone numbers, or other addresses at which you receive communications from or on behalf of www.thefestivalofhope.org.
Relationship Information that helps us to understand who you are and what types of offers you might like. This includes lifestyle information; location information related to your state/province, city, or neighborhood; areas of interest, the types of deals that interest you, information collected from social media interactions (such as Twitter, Facebook); demographic information (e.g., birth date, age, gender); information about persons for whom you have purchased deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards as gifts or who have bought deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards as gifts for you; and information about friends who refer you or who you have referred.
Transaction Information about how you interact with www.thefestivalofhope.org, such as the deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards you view, purchase and redeem; other information about how you use our sites, e-mail, other communications, and applications; and how you interact with www.thefestivalofhope.org merchants, business partners, and service providers.
Financial Account Information as needed to process payments for deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards that you buy, such as your credit or debit card number, expiration date, and card verification number.
Mobile Location Information to help us offer you real-time deals nearby, if you have activated one of our mobile applications and permitted your mobile or other location-aware device to transmit location data.
4: Information Collected Via Technology
As you use www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our or our service providers’ server 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, or on which of the advertisements displayed on www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, you clicked. This type of information is collected to make www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the experience with www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, to meet your special interests and needs.
We engage in remarketing to market our sites across the web. When a user visits our site, a cookie is dropped on the user. Users with this cookie may be targeted across advertising networks to receive relevant advertisements. You may opt out of this ad serving using the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page (http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp).
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 www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, to assist with ad targeting.
“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 computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services offered through www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, your web browser must accept cookies. If you choose to disable cookies, some aspects of www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, may not work properly, and you may not be able to receive our services.
We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements on www.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org. These advertisers and ad servers may use cookies and/or “Web Beacons” (which are usually small, transparent graphic images) in order to monitor information related to served advertisements. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third-party and the advertiser. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of any advertisers or ad servers.
5: How www.thefestivalofhope.org collects Personal Information
We ask you for Personal Information (including Contact Information, Relationship Information, and Financial Account Information) when you register, subscribe, create an account, purchase or use deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards, or otherwise interact with the sites or contact www.thefestivalofhope.org.
We collect Transaction Information when you use our site. For example, we may track deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards you view, purchase, or redeem, and the comments you make to the forums, bulletin boards, discussion groups, chat rooms or other methods of communication that may be offered on or through the site from time to time (collectively “Communities”), or to those related to our social media pages or accounts. We use cookies and related technologies to collect information about your computer and your interaction with the Site and our business partner websites. You can read more about cookies and other technologies in the Cookies and Related Technologies section.
We also collect Transaction Information if you contact us via telephone, email, text, postal mail, social media interaction, or other methods of communication, such as for customer support purposes. We collect information that you provide us about other people when you purchase deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards as gifts, including those persons’ Contact Information and Relationship Information. We create transaction records of your gift to those persons.
If you use a social media platform or your mobile device (or other method of communication) to interact withwww.thefestivalofhope.org and other web pages that are administered by www.thefestivalofhope.org, or the sites, the application may have a specific privacy statement that governs the use of Personal Information related to that application. For example, if you use a www.thefestivalofhope.org mobile application and your mobile device’s settings allow it; we may collect Mobile Location Information from your device. Our application may be designed to collect information even if you are not logged into www.thefestivalofhope.org application or the sites. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of your mobile device, please refer to instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.
We may receive additional Personal Information from third parties. We may use this Personal Information to enhance other information we have about you to help us better understand you and to otherwise enhance the sites or www.thefestivalofhope.org services.
6: How www.thefestivalofhope.org Uses Personal Information
www.thefestivalofhope.org uses Personal Information to: Operate and improve our sites; provide customers with offers for products and services from participating merchants, including offers based on variables such as stated and anticipated customer interests, personal characteristics, or location; facilitate orders for deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards, including their purchase and redemption; evaluate eligibility of customers for certain offers, products or services; evaluate the types of offers, products or services that may be of interest to customers; track redemption of deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards and perform other analytics; provide customer support, including to our merchants or business partners; fulfill requests for www.thefestivalofhope.org services; communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to you about www.thefestivalofhope.org and our merchants and business partners, such as www.thefestivalofhope.org news, special offers and coupons, announcements, and marketing materials; send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages service bulletins, or marketing; provide advertisements to you through the sites, email messages, text messages, applications, or other methods of communication; administer surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored by us or our partners; manage our everyday business needs such as site administration, forum management, fulfillment, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of Use or to comply with the law, and allow you to apply for a job, post a video or sign up for special offers from third parties through the site.
7: When and why www.thefestivalofhope.org discloses Personal Information
We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except to: Affiliated companies (e.g., subsidiaries and other companies owned by or controlled by www.thefestivalofhope.org) who may only use the Personal Information for the purposes described in the section above.
Our service providers who provide services for us such as sending emails on our behalf and processing payments. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them.
Merchants, but only to the extent you have purchased or redeemed deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards offered by the merchant, or participated in an offer, contest or other activity sponsored or offered through www.thefestivalofhope.org on behalf of the merchant. We may also provide merchants with Personal Information about the individuals who have purchased the merchants’ deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards, to send customized offers, to validate the purchases, to aid and troubleshoot redemption, to combat fraud, as part of legal proceedings affecting www.thefestivalofhope.org and the merchant, and to facilitate a direct relationship between merchants and customers and enable merchants to communicate electronically with customers who purchased the merchants’ deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards.
www.thefestivalofhope.org business partners or advertisers, as part of an offer, contest, or other activity that is provided by or in conjunction with www.thefestivalofhope.org and its business partners and in which you have elected to participate. For example, if you are referred to www.thefestivalofhope.org from a business partner’s website or through an invitation facilitated by or in conjunction with a www.thefestivalofhope.org business partner, www.thefestivalofhope.org may provide that business partner with Contact Information and Transactional Information to validate the referral and to support the terms of the relationship between www.thefestivalofhope.org and the business partner, which may allow such business partner to contact you directly and to advertise to you.
Effect a merger, acquisition, or otherwise; to support the sale or transfer of business assets; to enforce our rights or protect our property; to protect the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request; or as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions. We may also disclose Personal Information to defend ourselves in litigation or a regulatory action, and when required or advised to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we operate. If www.thefestivalofhope.org is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.
We encourage www.thefestivalofhope.org Merchants and business partners to adopt and post privacy policies. However, the use of your Personal Information by such parties is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to our control. We may also disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable. For example, we may provide our merchants, business partners, or other third parties with reports that contain aggregated and statistical data about our users.
8: Personal Information from Other Sources
We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies 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 through social media networks or otherwise.
9: Third Party Sites and Advertising
www.thefestivalofhope.org may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through www.thefestivalofhope.org and does not apply to these third-party websites. The ability to access information of third-parties from www.thefestivalofhope.org, or links to other websites or locations, is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such third-parties, their products, their services, other websites, locations or their content.
10: Where is the information held?
Currently, www.thefestivalofhope.org maintains and stores your Personal Information on servers located within the United States. This may not apply to www.thefestivalofhope.org’s third party providers (including, without limitation, our third party payment processors). In the event that www.thefestivalofhope.org becomes a global organization, some of the computer systems on which www.thefestivalofhope.org collects, stores, and uses the information it collects or receives may be based outside the United States. Therefore, your Personal Information may be transferred to, used, processed or held by www.thefestivalofhope.org in the United States and in other countries, including countries both in and outside the European Union, and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. You hereby consent to such use.
11: Safeguarding Your Personal Information
We will only collect and use Personal Information to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to serve our legitimate business purposes, and we will use commercially reasonable physical, managerial and technical safeguards to preserve the security, integrity, accuracy and privacy of the information you have provided. In addition, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that third parties to whom we transfer any Personal Information will provide commercially reasonable protection of that information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to www.thefestivalofhope.org, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, www.thefestivalofhope.org makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of such information on our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, managerial or other safeguards.
Notwithstanding our efforts, the Internet has inherent security risks including without limitation the risk that either hackers or individuals with criminal intent can find a way to access your Personal Information. www.thefestivalofhope.org cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your Personal Information transmitted via the Internet, Internet searches, and other Internet communications will always remain secure. If www.thefestivalofhope.org learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. www.thefestivalofhope.org may post a notice on its Site if a security breach occurs.
12: Opt-out Provision
When we first collect information about you, we will offer you the opportunity to opt-out of having your Personal Information shared with parties outside of www.thefestivalofhope.org or its third party providers (such as Organizations and our payment processors), except to the extent required by law, court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority or as otherwise required to process donations. If you choose to have your name removed from our mailing list, you can do so by contacting our Data Privacy Officer at unsubscribe@Thefestivalofhope.org
13: Accessing and Correcting Personal Information
Keeping Personal Information about you current helps ensure that we offer you the best deals available through our merchants and business partners. You can do several things to help keep Personal Information about you current. You can access, update and delete your Contact Information, Financial Account Information, and the other information you provided to use in your profile by logging into your account and accessing the “My Account” section of the Site or sending us an email atprivacy@Thefestivalofhope.org
If you want to close your account or have other questions or requests, please contact us. While we are ready to assist you in managing your subscriptions, closing your account, and removing your active profile, we cannot always delete records of past interactions and transactions. For example, we are required to retain records relating to previous purchases on the sites for financial reporting and compliance reasons.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services and to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting purposes. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at support@Thefestivalofhope.org. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
14: Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new features to our sites. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of notice on the Site prior to the change becoming effective. We strongly encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices.
15: Notification of Changes
If www.thefestivalofhope.org decides to change its Privacy Policy, it will post those changes to this privacy statement, the news page, and other places it deem appropriate so our users and service providers are always aware of what information is collected, how it is used it, and under what circumstances, if any, www.thefestivalofhope.org discloses it. If, however, www.thefestivalofhope.org is going to use user’s personally identifiable Information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on our web site for 30 days.
16: A Special Note about Children / Minors
www.thefestivalofhope.org does not permit initiation of the Service by children / minors under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, you should not access, or attempt to obtain access to the Service. If we learn that www.thefestivalofhope.org has collected information from an account initiated by a child / minor under the age of 18, we will delete that information as quickly as reasonably possible.
17: Cookies and Related Technologies
When you use our sites, we collect certain information by automated or electronic means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags and web beacons, browser analysis tools, and web server logs. As you use our sites and applications, your browser and devices communicate with servers operated by us, our business partners and services providers to coordinate and record the interactivity and fill your requests for services and information.
The information from cookies and related technology is stored in web server logs and also in web cookies kept on your computers or mobile devices, which are then transmitted back to our sites by your computers or mobile devices. These servers are operated and the cookies managed by us, our business partners or our service providers.
For example, when you visit our sites, www.thefestivalofhope.org and our service providers may place cookies on your computers or mobile devices. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return, track and target your interests in order to provide a customized experience. They also help us provide a customized experience and help us to detect certain kinds of fraud. A “cookie” is a small amount of information that a web server sends to your browser that stores information about your account, your preferences, and your use of the sites. Some cookies contain serial numbers that allow us to connect your site activity with other information we store about you in your profile or as related to your interactions with the sites.
Some cookies are temporary, whereas others may be configured to last longer. “Session” cookies are temporary cookies used for various reasons, such as to manage page views. Your browser usually erases session cookies once you exit your browser. “Persistent” cookies are more permanent cookies that are stored on your computers or mobile devices even beyond when you exit your browser. We use persistent cookies for a number of purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided (such as your user id if you asked to be remembered), and storing your preferences (e.g., the cities for which you want to be shown deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards).
Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed specific actions. When you access these pages or open email messages, the pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action to us, or our service providers. These tools allow us to measure response to our communications and improve our web pages and promotions.
We collect many different types of information from cookies and other technologies. For example, we may collect information from the devices you use to access our sites, your operating system type or mobile device model, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone of your device. Browsers routinely send these types of information to web servers. Our server logs also record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses of the devices you use to interact with the sites. An IP address is a unique identifier that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to our Site and the website you visit after you leave our Site, if this information is supplied to us by your browser.
In many cases, the information we collect using cookies and other tools is used in non-identifiable ways, without any reference to Personal Information. For example, we use information we collect about Site users to optimize our sites and understand its traffic and usage patterns. In other cases, we associate the information we collect using cookies and related technologies with Personal Information. In that case, this Privacy Statement governs how we use that information. Additionally, if the settings on your location-aware device allow us to receive Location Information, we will collect that automatically. If we associate Location Information with other Personal Information, this Privacy Statement governs how we would use that information too.
www.thefestivalofhope.org has relationships with third party advertising companies to place advertisements on our behalf onto other websites, and to perform tracking and reporting functions for our sites and our advertisements. We do not share Personal Information with third party advertising companies; however, these third parties may automatically collect information about your visit to our sites and other websites, your IP address, your ISP and the browser you use to visit this Site. They do this by using cookies, clear gifs and other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our Site and the other websites tracked by these third parties. This Privacy Statement does not cover the collection methods or use of the information collected by these third parties, and www.thefestivalofhope.org is not responsible for cookies or clear gifs in third party ads. We encourage you to review the privacy policies or statements of these third party advertising companies to learn more about their use of cookies and other technologies. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by third party advertisers, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org
18: Web Links
www.thefestivalofhope.org’s web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that www.thefestivalofhope.org is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the www.thefestivalofhope.org web site and through its contact with Service Providers and users.
19: 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 and the information you choose to publish. You understand that when you usewww.thefestivalofhope.org, certain information you post or provide through www.thefestivalofhope.org, such as your name, profile, comments, collections and reviews, may be shared with other users and posted on publicly available portions of www.thefestivalofhope.org, including without limitation, social media applications and other public for a in which you choose to participate. Please keep in mind that if you choose to disclose Personal Information when posting comments or other information or content through www.thefestivalofhope.org, this information may become publicly available and may be collected and used by others, including people outside www.thefestivalofhope.org community. We will not have any obligations with respect to any information that you post to parts of www.thefestivalofhope.org available to others, and recommend that you use caution when giving out Personal Information to others through social media networks or otherwise.
20: Your Choices
We think that you benefit from a more personalized experience when we know more about you and the kinds of deals you like. However, you can limit the information you provide to www.thefestivalofhope.org, and you can limit the communications that www.thefestivalofhope.org sends to you.
You can manage your email preferences by logging into your account through the Sites, entering the “My Account” section, and selecting “Manage Email Subscriptions.” You can also manage your subscriptions by following subscription management instructions contained in the commercial messages that we send you. You may choose to subscribe to some types of messages, and may choose to unsubscribe from others. You may update your subscription preferences from time to time. Please note that even if you unsubscribe from promotional email messages, we may still need to contact you with important transactional information related to your account and your purchases. For example, even if you have unsubscribed from our promotional email messages, we will still send you confirmations when you purchase deal vouchers, coupons, products or gift cards.
You may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. Browsers are different, so refer to instructions related to your browser to learn about cookie-related and other privacy and security settings that may be available. You can opt-out of being targeted by certain third party advertising companies online at www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp or http://preferences.truste.com/truste/
You may manage how your mobile device and mobile browser share Location Information with www.thefestivalofhope.org, as well as how your mobile browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting your mobile device privacy and security settings. Please refer to instructions provided by your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.
You may also manage the sharing of certain Personal Information with us when you connect with us through a social media platform or application, such as through Face book Connect. Please refer to the privacy settings of the social media website or application to determine how you may adjust our permissions and manage the interactivity between www.thefestivalofhope.organd your social media account or your mobile device.
If you wish to opt out of receiving offers directly from www.thefestivalofhope.org merchants or business partners, you can follow the opt-out instructions in the emails that they send you.
21: 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. Feedback or at feedback@thefestivalofhope.org
22: 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.
23: Our Website
User identification and passwords issued by www.thefestivalofhope.org are the responsibility of the user to keep safe and confidential. Users must ensure that only authorized personnel access their accounts. If for any reason you are concerned about this, please contact us at abuse@Thefestivalofhope.org. www.thefestivalofhope.org collects information about visitors to its web sites such as: length of visit, the pages visited and the referrer. www.thefestivalofhope.org may also choose to use “cookies” to help track sessions or for other administrative purposes. This information is for internal use only and helps www.thefestivalofhope.org to improve its service and marketing strategies to Users. Like most standard web site servers we may use log files. This includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track User’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses and other log elements are not linked to personally identifiable information.
24: Service Provider Service
We communicate with our Users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account we reply via e-mail or phone, in accordance with the user’s wishes and www.thefestivalofhope.org’s User communication practices.
25: Referring Friends to www.thefestivalofhope.org
www.thefestivalofhope.org may enable you to refer friends to www.thefestivalofhope.org. www.thefestivalofhope.org does not collect Personal Information about the persons with whom you share your link until they click the link and engage directly with www.thefestivalofhope.org.
26: Surveys and Feedback Requests
From time-to-time www.thefestivalofhope.org may request information from Service Providers and Users via surveys and feedback requests. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information only. Contact information will be used only to facilitate communication between www.thefestivalofhope.org and survey participants. Anonymous survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of www.thefestivalofhope.org’s services. Users’ Personally identifiable Information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users‘ personally identifiable Information for any secondary purposes.
27: Notice to Residents of Countries outside the United States of America
www.thefestivalofhope.org has representation in the United States of America. Personal Information may be accessed by us or transferred to us in the United States or to our affiliates, business partners, merchants, or service providers elsewhere in the world. By providing us with Personal Information, you consent to this transfer. We will protect the privacy and security of Personal Information according to our Privacy Statement, regardless of where it is processed or stored.
28: Communities
Our sites may contain Communities and other areas where you may be able to publicly post information, communicate with others such as discussion boards or blogs, review products and merchants, and submit media content. Prior to posting in these areas, please read our Terms of Use carefully. All the information you post will be accessible to anyone with Internet access, and any Personal Information you include in your posting may be read, collected, and used by others. For example, if you post your email address along with a public restaurant review, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. Please avoid publicly posting Personal Information. If you have questions about Personal Information posted in our Communities, please contact support@Thefestivalofhope.org
29: A Note about Twitter Messages
Information you disclose when re-tweeting messages or otherwise responding to tweets is public, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in Twitter messages or the metadata contained within such messages. The content or existence of such messages is not Personal Information.
30: Facebook
www.thefestivalofhope.org offers Facebook users the opportunity to interact with friends and to share on Facebook using Facebook Connect. If you are logged into both www.thefestivalofhope.org and Facebook, when you use the Site’s Facebook connection functions, we will link your Facebook account with your www.thefestivalofhope.org account if the email addresses match. If the email addresses do not match, we ask you if you want to link them and you must validate that you control the accounts. If you are already logged into www.thefestivalofhope.org but not logged into Facebook, when you use the Site’s Facebook connection functions, you will be prompted to enter your Facebook credentials or to sign up for Facebook. By proceeding through any of these scenarios, you grant www.thefestivalofhope.org permission to access your Facebook profile information and to use it in accordance with the Facebook terms of use and this Privacy Statement.
If you are not currently registered as a www.thefestivalofhope.org user and you use the site’s Facebook connection functions, you will first be asked to enter your Facebook credentials and then be given the option to register and join www.thefestivalofhope.org. Once you register with www.thefestivalofhope.org and connect with Facebook, you will be able to automatically post recent www.thefestivalofhope.org activity back to your Facebook wall. Please refer to the privacy settings in your Facebook account to manage the performance of your Facebook account.
31: E-mail and E-mail Addresses
If you send an e-mail to us, or fill out our “Feedback” form through www.thefestivalofhope.org, we will collect your e-mail address and the full content of your e-mail, including attached files, and other information you provide. We may use and display your full name and e-mail address when you send an e-mail notification to a friend through www.thefestivalofhope.org or the social network from which you have connected to www.thefestivalofhope.org (such as in an invitation, or when sharing your content). Additionally, we use your e-mail address to contact you on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends you a personal message) or notifications from a social network or other website with whom you have registered to receive such notifications. We may use this e-mail address to contact you, for things such as notifications of limited edition shop sales and other related information. You may indicate your preference to stop receiving further promotional communications as further detailed below.
32: California Privacy Rights
Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California can obtain certain information about the types of Personal Information that companies with whom they have an established business relationship have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. In particular, the law provides that companies must inform consumers about the categories of Personal Information that have been shared with third parties, the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the types of services or products marketed by those third parties. To request a copy of the information disclosure provided by www.thefestivalofhope.org pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, please contact us via email to privacy@Thefestivalofhope.org , or by writing us at the following address:
www.thefestivalofhope.org
Attention: Privacy Office
California Customer Choice Notice
Privacy@Thefestivalofhope.org
Please allow 30 days for a response.
Thank you for taking the time to read our Privacy Policy.
Who we are
Suggested text: Our website address is: https://thefestivalofhope.org.
Comments
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An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.