Amazon Conservation Association is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Identification Information (“PII”).

This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding PII that we collect through (a) websites operated by us (the “Websites”), (b) the social media pages that we control (the “Social Media Pages”), (c) HTML-formatted email messages that we send, and (d) any other form of communication such as mailed correspondence and verbal communications at events or by phone (collectively, the “Services”). By providing PII to us or using the Services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

PII We May Collect

PII is any information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person, including:

• Name
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Credit and debit card number
• Country of legal residence
• IP address
• Social media accounts

Please note that we may use a third-party payment service to process donations made through the Services. If you wish to make a donation through the Services, your Personal Information may be collected by that third party and not by us and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.

How We May Use PII

• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters, donation receipts, and requested information.
• To send administrative information to you, such as information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To complete and process your donation and provide you with related customer service.
• To provide our marketing and communications materials via email, social media, and postal mail.
• To share fundraising appeals through online and offline channels with you.
• To allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your PII, and you should read these rules carefully.
• For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products and services, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our nonprofit or other activities.
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable laws, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of our 2 affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How PII May Be Disclosed

• To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
• To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
• Publicly, when you make a donation, unless you specifically request that we not publicly it.
• To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable laws, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

OTHER INFORMATION

Other Information We May Collect

“Other Information” is information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

• Browser and device information
• Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
• Demographic information and other information provided by you or gathered through marketing lists
• Aggregated information
• Organizational affiliations

How We May Collect Other Information

We and our third-party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your devices, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language and Internet browser type and version. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
• Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited and anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively and to personalize your experience while using the Services. We also use the information to continually improve the design and functionality of the Services, to understand how they are used and to assist us with resolving questions about them. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/managecookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept these cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer and you may need to log in to a donation page every time you visit.  We may use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, in connection with the Services. Such services may use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze generalized information about use of the Services and to report on activities and trends. They may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. For information regarding Google Analytics, go to http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions
  of users (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about use of the Services and response rates.
• IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the pages visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels of the Services, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Services.
• From you: Information such as your preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide it.
• By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular postal code.

How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as PII under applicable law, then we may use it for all the purposes for which we use and disclose PII. We may combine Other Information with PII. If we do, we will treat the combined information as PII as long as it is combined.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

SECURITY MEASURES TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

Amazon Conservation uses reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect PII within our organization. These measures include limiting access to your PII to a limited number of staff members; securing storage of physical PII; utilizing cybersecurity measures such as using firewalls, anti-virus software, two-step authentication sign-ins, and email and messaging encryption, as well as performing risk assessments, updating software regularly, educating employees on cybersecurity and PII handling matters; and having processes and procedures in place to manage PII and securely dispose of old PII.

Unfortunately, no system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

You have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your PII for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:

• Receiving marketing-related emails from us, including our quarterly newsletter, by following the instructions
  contained in each such email and newsletter.
• Our sharing of your PII with affiliates for their direct marketing purposes, by contacting us as provided immediately below.
• Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt-out.

You also have access to your PII that we have collected and may review, correct, update, suppress, and/or delete it.

You may contact us to exercise these choices at:

info@amazonconservation.org

or:

Amazon Conservation Association
1012 14th Street NW, Suite 625
Washington, DC 20005

If you write to our postal address, please include your email address. In your request, please also make clear what PII you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your PII suppressed or deleted from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your PII. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the PII associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.

We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any donation transaction that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion.

USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we request that these individuals not provide PII through the Services.

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Your PII may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country. This Privacy Policy does, however, comply with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We ask that you not send or otherwise disclose to us any sensitive PII (e.g., social security numbers, information related to political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy. The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the footer of this Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

info@amazonconservation.org

or:

Amazon Conservation Association
1012 14th Street NW, Suite 625
Washington, DC 20005

Please direct any questions to the attention of the Philanthropy and Communications Director. Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.

Updated October 25, 2024

Donor Privacy Policy

Amazon Conservation is committed to upholding the highest level of privacy of our donors and contributors. We never share, sell, trade, or rent Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of our donors. Unless indicated by the donor, gifts to Amazon Conservation will be publicly acknowledged as a way to encourage more support for conservation and to recognize donors’ significant contributions.

Policy

This Donor Privacy Policy supplements Amazon Conservation’s general Privacy Policy to apply specifically to donors.

Amazon Conservation follows the industry-recognized Donor’s Bill of Rights, created by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and the Giving Institute: Leading Consultants to Non-Profits.

Amazon Conservation never shares, sells, trades, or rents PII of our donors to or with any other entity unless specifically requested to do so by the donor. Amazon Conservation publicly acknowledges gifts as a way to encourage more support for conservation and to recognize donors’ significant contributions, but donors can request anonymity at any time (see below).

Amazon Conservation does not send mailings or appeals to our donors on behalf of other organizations.

This policy applies to all information received by us, both online and offline, through any of our Services described in our Privacy Policy (including but not limited to Amazon Conservation’s websites, social media pages, and computer applications), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications. Examples of PII include:

• Name
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Credit and debit card number
• Country of legal residence
• IP address
• Social media accounts

If any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ PII will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation and will not be shared with others for their own commercial purposes. The privacy of PII that is provided by a donor through a third-party service provider is governed by the service provider’s privacy policies. Amazon Conservation does not store donor credit card or online payment information. We also never store donor passwords related to third-party donation services that require a login to process recurring donations.

Amazon Conservation publicly acknowledges donors in some printed and electronic materials (such as on its annual impact reports and on its Changemakers page on its website) as a way to encourage more support for conservation and to recognize donors’ significant contributions. No individual donation amount is published; however, a donor may appear at a certain giving level to showcase their level of support. A donation to Amazon Conservation signifies a donor’s comfort with their names being shared publicly unless the donor requests otherwise. Donors can always request their support to be made anonymously, to not be included in our materials, or to be removed from any past, current, and future materials by contacting the organization through the information below. Amazon Conservation provides an annual check-in for current donors to inform our charity of any desires to change their privacy preferences.

For any questions about Amazon Conservation’s donor privacy policy, please contact Ana Folhadella, Philanthropy and Communications Director, at info@amazonconservation.org or 202-234-2356 or at the address below.

Amazon Conservation Association
1012 14th Street NW, Suite 625
Washington, DC 20005

Updated October 25, 2024