Last updated: July 6, 2021

Who We Are 

Our website address is: https://eofaa.org.

This statement of privacy applies to Equal Opportunity For All Americans (EOFAA) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Equal Opportunity For All Americans includes https://eofaa.org. The Equal Opportunity For All Americans website is a charitable nonprofit corporation site. By using the Equal Opportunity For All Americans website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, phone number, email address, mailing address and other contact details. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. The amount and type of information that Equal Opportunity For All Americans gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, Equal Opportunity For All Americans collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to operate its website(s) and deliver the products or services, and receive donation during a visitor’s interaction with https://eofaa.org.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Equal Opportunity For All Americans and its affiliates. Equal Opportunity For All Americans may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Equal Opportunity For All Americans. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Equal Opportunity For All Americans website.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Equal Opportunity For All Americans so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Equal Opportunity For All Americans is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Equal Opportunity For All Americans website.

 Any visitor can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on https://eofaa.org, 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to https://eofaa.org, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to https://eofaa.org can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, phone number, email address, mailing address and other contact details when someone submits a contact form. Contact form submissions will be kept one year for customer service purposes. It will not be used for marketing purposes.

Email Opt-in forms

Equal Opportunity For All Americans collect personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, first name, last name and email address when a user opt-in to the email mailing list. The opt-in form provides the user with several options to select the type of email(s) to be received from EOFAA. This information will be used for email marketing purposes.

Donations and Membership Dues Processing

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may collect personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, username, first name, last name, company name, phone number, email address, mailing address, country, credit card or debit card number, credit card or debit card expiration date, credit card or debit card code (usually three digits) and password in order to process the payment. This information will not be sold nor used for marketing purposes.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans will retain a user’s personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, username, first name, last name, company name, phone number, email address, mailing address and country to send email notices to user who have made a contribution or paid membership dues.

Cookies

The https://eofaa.org may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

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. 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 for an account on our website, you opt-in to saving your name, email address and phone number in cookies along with any other  personal information provided in the 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.

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.

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.

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Analytics

https://eofaa.org does not collect analytics data.

Mode and Place of Processing the Data

Method of processing

The https://eofaa.org takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification or unauthorized destruction of the data.

The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purpose indicated. in addition to the https://eofaa.org, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of https://eofaa.org (directors, officers, research staff, committee members marketing, legal, technology team) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting companies, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors for the organization. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the corporation at anytime.

Legal basis of processing

The https://eofaa.org may process Personal Data relating to the User if one of the following applies:

• User have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations EOFAA may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-Out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection Law;
• provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligation thereof;
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the https://eofaa.org is subject;
• processing is related to the task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the https://eofaa.org;
• processing is necessary for purpose of legitimate interest pursued by the https://eofaa.org or by a third-party.

In any case, the https://eofaa.org will gladly help clarify the specific legal bases that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Place

The Data is processed at the Equal Opportunity For All Americans’ operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the transaction are located.

Depending on the User location, data transfers may involve transferring the User’s Data to a country other than their own

Retention time

Personal data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

• Personal Data for the purposes related to the performance of a contract between https://eofaa.org and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
• Personal Data for the purposes of https://eofaa.org legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes regarding the legitimate interests pursued by https://eofaa.org within the relevant section of this document or by contacting https://eofaa.org.
• EOFAA will keep your contact form data for a period of time up to 30 days. This data will be manually deleted from our email inbox.
• EOFAA will keep your email opt-in form data indefinitely. The account will be manually deleted by EOFAA if it is inactive (unopened emails) for a period of 12 months or if the user unsubscribe (opt-out) or requests the removal.
• EOFAA will keep your spam detection data while the user is active on the website. This data will be automatically deleted once the user logs out of https://eofaa.org.
• EOFAA will keep your fundraising processing data for a period up to 1 year. This data will be automatically deleted from our third party software.
• EOFAA will keep your donation processing data for a period up to 1 year. This data will be automatically deleted from our third-party software. Contributors who have created a Qgiv account on https://eofaa.org, donation processing data will be kept until the account is closed by the user or at the discretion of EOFAA .
• EOFAA will keep your membership processing data until the expiration of the membership. This data will be automatically deleted from our third-party software.
• EOFAA will keep your media indefinitely. The media will be deleted when the user makes a request for it to be removed or at the discretion of EOFAA .
• EOFAA will keep your data in a remote storage indefinitely. The data will be deleted when the user makes a request for it to be removed or at the discretion of EOFAA.

https://eofaa.org may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User have given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the EOFAA may be obligated to retain Personal Data for a long period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal data shall be deleted. Therefore the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

Who We Share Your Data With

Equal Opportunity For All Americans does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may share data with trusted partners (usps.com, fedex.com and pirateship.com) to send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Equal Opportunity For All Americans, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans shares data with Qgiv, Join It and Mailchimp to send you emails. These third party partners are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide service to EOFAA and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans shares data with WP Mail SMTP plugin that uses software to reliably deliver emails to users from https://eofaa.org.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans, will share payment transaction information with either Join It, Qgiv, Worldpay, PayPal or Stripe. The payment information may include (credit or debit card number, or bank account information), purchase amount, date of purchase, expiration date, card code and other payment information, if necessary.

Equal Opportunity for All Americans stores data with trusted partners (GreenGeeks and Dropbox) to hold User information on a server which will allow our website to run 24 hours each day or keep your data stored in remote storage. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Equal Opportunity For All Americans, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may share data with Google reCaptcha necessary for spam detection and spam protection. If the User fill out a form or register an account on our website, Google reCAPTCHA may exam personal information such as name, email address, computer ID, and other necessary information.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans may share personal data with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube if the User click on the social icon for these platforms on https://eofaa.org.

Equal Opportunity For All Americans will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Equal Opportunity For All Americans or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Equal Opportunity for All Americans; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Equal Opportunity For All Americans, or the public.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

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.

A request for an exported file or that we erase personal data must be made from Equal Opportunity For All Americans’ Contact Form.

Use by Minors

The Services are directed for any age group, but we request that a person under the age of thirteen (13) do not provide Personal Data through the Services unless permitted by a guardian.

Updates To this Privacy Policy and Notifications

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect new services, changes in our Personal Data practices or relevant laws. The “Last updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes are effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. We may provide you with disclosures and alerts regarding the Privacy Policy or Personal Data collected by posting them on our website.

Our contact information

Equal Opportunity For All Americans can be reached via Contact Form or emailed at support@eofaa.org.