CEF Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the website https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/ (the “Site”) owned and operated by Climate Emergency Fund (“CEF” “we” or “us”) a nonprofit corporation recognized as a charitable and educational organization exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

We have established this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to explain how we use information that you may provide while visiting this Site and to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy. CEF may modify this Policy from time to time so we encourage you to check this page when revisiting the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Providing Your Information

Email Program. Submitting your personal information (including e-mail address) on the Site’s sign-up page, when you take an action or make a donation, will sign you up to receive e-mails from CEF about our programs and activities. We may also use your first name to indicate the latest actions taken on this Site. 

Phone and SMS Program. By signing up and entering your mobile or cellular telephone number, you consent to receive calls and authorize CEF to send SMS text messages about our programs and activities. Reply STOP to opt out of text messages. 

By signing up and entering your mobile or cellular telephone number, you consent to receive and authorize CEF to call you on that number. To be removed permanently from our phone list, please send your request to info@cefund.org.

Information We Collect 

A. Personal Information 

When you register, contribute, sign up to receive information or participate in events or activities, subscribe to our CEF publications, or take any other action on our Site, we may ask you to give us contact information, including your name, address, landline telephone number, mobile telephone number and/or e-mail address. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through the Site. 

B. Non-Personal Information. We may collect and store certain information that does not identify you personally, such as

  • Demographic data such as age, gender or zip code.

  • Information about your computer or mobile device that you use to access the Site, including IP address, geolocation information, device type, browser type, browser type, browser language and other transactional information.

  • Analytics and usage information about your use of the Site.

  • Traffic data and log files such as time of access, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times and referring website addresses.

  • Other information regarding your use of the Site.

B. Information through Social Media Sites

When you interact with a CEF page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, we may collect the personal information that you make available to us on that page or account including your account ID or handle. 

C. Information Through Third Party Services

We may use Google services including Google Analytics and Google AdWords, which use cookies and other similar technologies, to collect information about Site use (without identifying any specific user) and report website trends. We may also use other third party  services, which collect personal information, in connection with CEF emails and newsletter campaigns, including email delivery and click-through data. This information may be aggregated and or associated with your other personal information. 

How We Use Your Information

Personal and Non-Personal Information. We use your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to operate this Site, send you news and information about CEF’s activities, solicit your participation in and support of CEF’s activities, events, and programs, and for related uses. We use your e-mail address to send such information by e-mail and may use your telephone number to call you or leave a voice message for these purposes. 

We may use the information to communicate with you about your interactions with the Site or with CEF; send you communications about CEF activities and materials; optimize or improve the Site, our services and our programs; perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses, including purchasing patterns; and send your messages and comments, with your permission, to public officials, corporations, and others through features providing opportunities for online action.

We may transfer the information from one portion of the Site to other portions, all of which are owned and operated by or on behalf of CEF. We may combine information gathered from multiple sources into a single user record. We may also use and/or combine information that we collect off-line or that we receive from third party sources to enhance, expand, and check the accuracy of your records.

WE WILL NOT SHARE, SELL, TRANSFER, RENT, OR DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION OR ENTITY EXCEPT:  

  • To companies that assist us in maintaining this Site or with CEF’s activities, including data processing, promotion of CEF’s programs and activities, analytics, advocacy, outreach, hosting billing, social media integration, fraud prevention and other activities. However, such companies are allowed to use your personal information only for purposes of providing their services to CEF and with the strict requirement that any such company will never itself have the right to contact you for any reason; and will never have the right to transfer your Personal Information to anyone else.

  • 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; 

Information Through Social Media Sites

CEF will comply with the privacy policies of the social media platform and will only collect and store personal information that we are permitted to collect by those social media platforms. If you choose to join or log in to your CEF account with or through a social media platform, CEF and that platform may share certain information about you and your activities. With your consent, we may also share information about your activities, including what you view on the Site, with that social media platform’s users. 

Sale or Transfer of Your Information 

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 CEF’s activities, but only for purposes of providing services to CEF and with the strict requirement that any such company will never itself have the right to contact you for any reason or to use your Personal Information for any purpose other than;

  • 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; 

Security

CEF 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 CEF 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

CEF’s Operations Director is responsible for ensuring that this Privacy Policy is made available to data subjects prior to CEF collecting their personal data. CEF and its employees and partners 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. 

CEF’s Operations Director can be contacted by email at info@cefund.org.


Children

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

 

Credit Card Information; Protection of Personal Information

This Site allows you to donate directly to CEF by credit card. When you make a donation directly to CEF through this Site, we will collect credit card information from you. That information is used solely for processing your contribution; is not maintained by CEF; and is never disclosed to anyone, for any other purpose other than for processing your contribution, under any circumstances.

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 cookies to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the Site without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the toolbar on most browsers can assist. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this Site.

 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 CEF supporters.

Please note that third party vendors, including Google, may show CEF-sponsored ads on the Internet. Those third-party vendors (including Google) use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the Site. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

 

Advertising

We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other websites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the Site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies on the Site, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page. 

CEF does not use cookies to track what specific pages an individual site visitor views. Please note, however, that third party vendors, including Google and Facebook may show CEF -sponsored ads on the Internet. Those third party vendors (including Google) may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the Site. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ . Users may find out information about adjusting how Facebook targets ads to them by visiting https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217. 

 

Complaints

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

 

Links to Other Sites

The privacy policies and practices contained in this Privacy Policy do not apply to ANY external links. This Privacy Policy only applies to our Site or any future Site that we may develop. It does not cover websites that are linked to by this Site or websites for which we are not responsible ("linked-site"). These linked-sites will have their own policies and practices that may be different from ours. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices of the linked-site, especially if you provide personal information to them. 

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

CEF 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 CEF at info@cefund.org. Changes to donations, billing, and/or credit card information must be made through CEF staff and may be initiated by contacting donations@cefund.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. If we change our policies and practices, we will post the changes in our Privacy Policy so that you are always aware of them. With this knowledge, you can make an informed decision about whether you wish to provide personal information to us. 

Your Rights as a Data Subject

IF YOU ARE IN A COUNTRY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION WHILE ACCESSING THE SITE, THE FOLLOWING APPLIES TO YOU:

At any point while CEF is in possession of your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

  • Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that CEF holds about you.

  • Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that she holds about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • Right to be forgotten – you can always ask for the data maintained about you to be erased from CEF’s records.

  • Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply, you have a have a right to restrict the processing of your personal data.

  • Right of portability – you have the right to have the data held about you transferred to another organization.

  • Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

  • Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to prohibit your data from being subject to automated processing or profiling.

  • Right to judicial review – you have the right to complain as outlined below.

CEF, at your request, will confirm what information we hold about you and how it is processed. If CEF does hold personal data about you, you can request the following information: 

  • Identity and the contact details of the person or organization that has determined how and why to process your data. 

  • Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable – contact information listed above should be used first. 

  • The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.

  • If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of CEF or a third party, information about those interests.

  • The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.

  • Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.

  • If CEF intends to transfer your personal data to a third country or international organization, information about how this is done securely. The EU has approved sending personal data to some countries because they meet a minimum standard of data protection. In other cases, there are specific measures in place to secure your information.

  • How long the data will be stored.

  • Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict, or object to such processing.

  • Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.

  • How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.

  • Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.

  • The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.

  • Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.

CEF accepts the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: 

  • scan of passport page,

  • driver’s license, or 

  • other government-issued ID.