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Privacy Statement
Haitian Alliance for Community Action, Inc. (HACA) created this Privacy Statement to let you know we respect your privacy preferences and to disclose our information collection and sharing practices. Whether you provide us with your personal information via our website or in another manner (e.g. telephone, regular mail or face-to-face), we strive to honor your privacy preferences.
By accessing and/or using the website, you have agreed to 1) abide by the practices described in this Privacy Statement, and 2) the transfer, processing and maintenance of your personal and sensitive information in the United States of America.
Your personal information: The personal information we collect may include, but is not limited to, your name, postal address, zip code, telephone number, organization name, e-mail address, credit card, bank information or billing information. You will be asked to provide your personal information when making donations, requesting communications, applying for volunteer opportunities and/or in connection with other HACA business (whether it is via the web site, e-mail, direct mail or telephone communications).
Sharing or selling of your information: HACA will never intentionally share or sell your e-mail addresses, phone numbers or financial information with any other organization.
If you are under 18, please do not send/submit any information about yourself to us.
Donations: For credit card transactions, electronic fund transfers, payments by check or money order and on-line transactions, HACA hires third parties to provide information processing services. If you choose to make an application for volunteering, donate on-line, by phone or through the mail, we will share your personal information with our processing service providers. We require all third-party service-providers to hold personal information in strict confidence. While we believe these other companies are upstanding and will treat your personal information responsibly, we do not own or control them and cannot guarantee your privacy.
Information Security: Only designated employees have access to hard copies of your personal information. All on-line transactions are done on a secure server.
*This means that information entered on the transaction page is encrypted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) before transmission. On secure pages, a “closed” lock symbol is displayed in the bottom part of your browser screen and the website address in the address bar at the top of the browser screen starts with an “https” instead of an “http”. Donation pages are verified by Paypal and transactions are processed using a Paypal business account.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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:
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact forms
Cookies
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
How long we retain your data
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.
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