PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
Love Fehr LLC and its affiliates (referred to here as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) are dedicated to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.givefehr.com (the “Website”), the services, features, content (collectively the “Services”) offered by the Company and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
- On or through this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means not listed above; or
- Any third party (including any affiliates), including through any application or content (including social media) that may link to or be accessible from, or on, the Platforms. To determine how your data will be used, please refer to the privacy policies of the relevant third party. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of third parties and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
The Website is operated from the United States and the Services are only offered to users based in the United States. You should not visit or use the Website if you are located outside of the United States, as this is not intended for your use and may not be suitable for your use.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your data and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your only choice is not to use our Website/Services. By accessing or using our Website/Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website/Services after we make changes is deemed to be your acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates. If, for any reason, you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you must stop using our Website/Services immediately.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under the age of 13 may provide any Personal Information to or through the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information through any of the Website’s features/functionality, create any posts on the Website, make any donations through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features that may be available on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, and/or email address and/or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn that we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@givefehr.com.
Information We Collect
We collect the information you provide directly to us, information from third parties, and information that We collect through automated means.
We may collect the following categories of information about You or your Use of the Services:
- LOG DATA: When you visit our Website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details.
- DEVICE DATA: We may also automatically collect data about the device you’re using to access our Website. This data may include the device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, device settings, and location data. What we collect depends on the individual settings of your device and software.
- PERSONAL INFORMATION: We may collect information from you while you use these Website, including by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, and other identifying information that you choose to share with us by which you may be contacted online or offline (” Personal Information”).
4. OTHER INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT IDENTIFY YOU DIRECTLY: We may also collect information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your credit card information, gender, and other certain demographic information. This information is not considered Personal Information on its own.
You may decline to provide us with certain information. However, this will limit your ability to register for an account or use our Services. You may contribute to a bill posted to the Website (referred to as a “Fehr”) without creating an account to use our Services, but we will still need to collect other required information for compliance purposes in order to process your contribution.
How We Collect Information
Information We Collect Automatically
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns, as described above. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies, flash cookies, or web beacons. For more information on these technologies, see our DATA COLLECTION POLICY below. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include Personal Information, but we may maintain it for any of the reasons listed in HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION.
Data Collection Policy
The technologies we use for automatic data collection on these Platforms may include:
- BROWSER COOKIE: A browser cookie (also referred to simply as a cookie) is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies may result in the communication of information to or from us, to you directly, to a third party working on our behalf, or to a third party in line with that third party’s privacy policy. We might combine the data we get about you through cookies. The cookies that may be used on this Website fall into these certain categories. Please review our cookie policy for more information. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. If you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your preferences. You should also be aware that disabling cookies does not disable other types of data collection tools which we may use to collect information about how you and other visitors use our website. “Do Not Track” is a preference you can set your browser to let websites you visit know that you do not want them collecting certain information about you. We do not currently respond to, or honor, Do Not Track signals or requests from your browser. Some content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, including content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information, or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible third party directly;
- FLASH COOKIES: Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (also referred to as Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Please note: Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies; and/or
- WEB BEACONS: Pages of the Platforms, and our emails, may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and/or single-pixel gifs) that permit , for example, to count Users who have visited those pages, or opened an email, and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content on the Platforms and verifying system and server integrity).
Information You Provide Directly to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, when contributing to a Fehr, or when giving feedback about the Website;
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us through the Website;
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website; and/or
- Your search queries on the Website.
Information Provided to Us by Third-Parties
If we receive Personal Information about you from a third party (for example, our business partners, data brokers, or credit reporting agencies), we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing Personal Information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the Personal Information to us.
How We Use This Information
We may collect your information for a number of reasons, specifically:
- To enable you to access and use our Website;
- To enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our Website;
- To contact and communicate with you;
- To prevent fraud;
- For internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
- For analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our Website;
- To offer additional benefits to you, including but not limited to sending promotional information about our products/services and/or facilitating promotions;
- To provide you with information about third parties that may be of interest to you;
- To fulfill any other purpose for which your provide your information and consent; and/or
To comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
Disclosure of Your Information, Generally
We disclose information that we collect or that you provide, as described in this Privacy Policy, in the following circumstances:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of ’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by about our Website’s users is among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may continue to use your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy;
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
- With your consent.
Disclosure of Your
Disclosure of Your Information to Third Parties:
We may disclose your Personal Information to third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including but not limited to:
- Information Technology (“IT”) service providers;
- Data storage, hosting, and server providers;
- Ad networks;
- Analytics companies;
- Error loggers;
- Maintenance or problem-solving providers;
- Marketing or advertising providers;
- Professional advisors and tax preparation professionals;
- Payment systems operators;
- Identity verification systems; and/or
Sponsors or promoters of any promotion we run.
Additionally, when you contribute to a Fehr, we may share your contribution information publicly, including your name. If you do not want this information shared publicly, please be sure to make your contribution anonymously. We may also share your Personal Information to other third parties from time to time, but only with your express consent to do so.
Your use of the Website signifies your acceptance of our disclosure of your Personal Information as described above.
We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights, including but not limited to:
- Debt collectors;
- Our legal counsel and/or prospective legal counsel; and/or
- Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law.
We may disclose aggregated, anonymized, statistical data and/or non-identifying information about our Users without restriction.
Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. The following mechanisms should help to provide you with control over your information:
- TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND ADVERTISING: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent, as described above.
- DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION FOR THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING: If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes but have previously given us permission to do so, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to support@givefehr.com.
- PROMOTIONAL OFFERS FROM THE COMPANY OR OUR AFFILIATES: If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company or its affiliates to promote our own parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to support@givefehr.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may use the unsubscribe option in the footer of the email. This opt out does not apply to information provided to support@givefehr.com as a result of a Fehr contribution or other transactions where a confirmation or similar email may be sent to you.
- INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING: We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can review and change your Personal Information by logging into your account profile on the Website and navigating to the appropriate settings page or sending us an email at support@givefehr.com to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete some of your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or regulatory requirement, result in fraud, or cause the information to be incorrect.
DATA SECURITY
We take precautions, but cannot provide guarantees. We do our best to secure your data through the programming of our services and the use of security measures that we deem appropriate for the type of data provided. However, we cannot completely guarantee that no part of our system or site will ever fail or be compromised. If you ever suspect that our site or services has contributed to your personal information being compromised, please contact us at support@givefehr.com immediately so that we can investigate and try to resolve the matter.
FOR CALIFORNIA VISITORS ONLY: YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain categories of your Personal Information with third parties for their own direct marketing uses once per calendar year.
California’s “Shine the Light” Act provides that you have the right to submit a request to us at our email address in order to receive information on the categories of customer information that we shared and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year.
To obtain this information, please send an email message to support@givefehr.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line and in the body of your message.
When you exercise these rights and submit a request to us, we will verify your identity by asking you to log in to your account if you have one with us. Or if you do not, we may ask for your email address and require additional verification. We also may use a third party verification provider to verify your identity.
Once your identity has been verified, we will provide the requested information to you. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the Shine the Light requirements, and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
The fact that you have elected to exercise these rights will have no adverse effect on the nature of our Services to you, including processing fees.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page, with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website’s home page; alternatively, we may send you an email if you have provided us with an email address. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT US
If any of the items above are unclear or you have further questions/feedback, please contact us at support@givefehr.com.
13. FOR CALIFORNIA VISITORS ONLY: YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS.
- The right to request to know the categories or specific pieces of personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you. To submit a request to know, you may email us at support@Fehr.xx
- The right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected about you. To submit a request for deletion, you may email us at support@Fehr.xx.
14. MINORS UNDER 18 IN CALIFORNIA
15. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
16. SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your personal information with third parties to help us use your personal information, as
described in the Privacy Policy.
17. TRACKING TOOLS (“COOKIES”)
18. EXTERNAL LINKS
19. TRANSFER OF YOUR INFORMATION; PRIVACY SHIELD
20. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
21. CONTACT US
