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Privacy Policy

 

Pennsylvania Policy Center is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your online information. Some information is collected automatically when you visit us online to maintain the safety and security of our websites and to help improve their usability and contents. You may choose to share other information with us when you try to interact with the site such as when you register for events, subscribe to email lists, and make donations. This policy describes how we collect and use your information online.

If you have further questions about our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: info@pennpolicy.org

US Mail:

Pennsylvania Policy Center
922 N. 3rd Street
Harrisburg, PA 17102

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY ON OUR WEBSITE

Like most organizations, when you use our website, Pennsylvania Policy Center collects non-personally identifiable data in an aggregated and anonymous form. This data may include your IP, domain, URLs visited, and the date/time you visited them. We use this information to generate aggregate reports, which summarize our website traffic, which we use to improve our site and its usability for our visitors. We do not attempt to track individual users, and we do not link the web log information to any other database with the purpose of identifying individual website users.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Pennsylvania Policy Center does not collect personal information about website visitors without their consent. In cases when such information is requested to provide a service or respond to an inquiry, visitors only need to provide the minimal information necessary to interact with us. Typically, personal information is collected to allow us to respond to inquiries and requests, or to allow you to comment on one of our blog posts, register for events, make online donations, or register for informational electronic mailing lists or databases.

It is our policy never to share, trade, sell, or otherwise disclose personal information to third parties without a person’s informed consent, except (a) where required by law (e.g. through subpoena, warrant, or other legal process), or (b) to third-party service providers that host services that we use in our interactions with you, such as event registration services, email distribution providers, or online donation processing tool providers.  We work to ensure that these companies are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

We use contact information that you voluntarily provide through sign-up forms and other actions to send you newsletters, policy updates, event invites, action alerts, and other communications directly from us or from partners and affiliates working on campaigns that we promote and co-lead. We will never sell or share your personal information for other purposes.

When requested, and where possible, Pennsylvania Policy Center will delete personal information from current operational systems.

WEBSITE TOOLS

We may make use of web beacons. Pages of our website and the HTML-based emails and newsletters we send to you may contain small electronic files that permit us to count the users who have visited a particular page or opened an email and clicked through links. Web beacons allow us to collect information about you when you open our emails, such as your IP address, your browser or email client, and other details.  We use these tools to help improve our website and other materials.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

Pennsylvania Policy Center’s website contains links to third-party sites. We assume no responsibility for the information practices of websites a user is able to access through ours.  Pennsylvania Policy Center encourages all web visitors to review the privacy policies and statements of all externally linked websites.

SECURITY

Pennsylvania Policy Center has in place administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the information that is under our control. We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving sensitive personal and financial data from our site. Please note, however, that security breaches can occur even if reasonable steps are taken to prevent such breaches; for example, we cannot guarantee that information provided through our sites will not be accessed without authorization on our servers or intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Please contact us if you believe there has been any breach of the security of our sites.

CONSENT

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and electronic communications, and not to any information collected offline.  By using our site, you consent to this privacy policy.

10DLC & TOLL-FREE / EMAILS

Pennsylvania Policy Center (PPC)  is committed to protecting your privacy online. This 10DLC & Toll-Free/ Email  Policy is in addition to and supplements all other privacy and data security obligations of PPC, including our operations, employment, and website privacy policies (collectively, our “Privacy Policy”). It describes our obligations and practices of how we collect and use customer consent and opt-ins for our texting and/or email services and programs.

This 10DLC & Toll-Free Privacy Policy applies to emails and SMS and MMS texts from PPC.

Categories of Collected Information 

We will collect your name, phone number, and indication of consent to receive emails and texts (SMS and MMS).

How We Use the Collected Information 

In addition to providing the services and complying with our Privacy Policy, we use the information to confirm consent to receive texts (SMS and MMS).

With Whom We Share the Collected Information 

Opt-in information, including an indication of consent to receive texts and emails, will not be shared with any third party, except: (1) with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf (and who will not use such information for their own purposes); (2) if we believe disclosure is required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation or to comply with law enforcement or legal process; and (3) with our partners engaged in advocacy campaigns that are sponsored by Pennsylvania Policy Center or Pennsylvanians Together.

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices and applicable law. We suggest that you periodically review the Privacy Policy for amendments.

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