What information do we collect from you?

In brief: As part of providing information about our programs, projects, and activities to you, or facilitating your donations we may collect information, including personal information about you.

As part of providing information about our programs, projects, and activities to you, or facilitating your donations, we may collect information, including personal information, about you or your business. Personal information is data that can be used to identify you. The information includes but is not limited to:

• Name
• Email address
• Other information you disclose when you ask us a question about our Website or our programs, projects, and activities
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• Technical information about your use of our site including IP address, device identifier, and viewing information
• Geo-location information telling us from where you are accessing the Website

How do we collect information from you?

In brief: We collect information from you directly when you enter it into a form on our website. We collect information from you indirectly and automatically through the use of cookies and log files.

Direct Collection

We collect much of the information listed above directly from you when you submit it on our Website. This includes information you share on the Get in Touch/Contact US page and links of our Website.

Indirect Collection - Cookies and Other Technology

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, we use cookies and other online tracking technologies to store and sometimes track information about you. We may use these technologies to:

• Provide you with personalized content based on your use of our site
• Enable you to more easily use our site by remembering and using contact information, donation information, and registration information
• Evaluate, monitor and analyze the use of our site and its traffic patterns to help improve our site and services
• Assist us with ad reporting functions such as to learn which ads are bringing users to our Website

The types of technologies we use include:

Cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies enable us to identify your browser as a unique user. Cookies may involve the transmission of information from us to you and from you to us. Cookies may also be used by another party on our behalf to transfer information to us in accordance with their privacy statement. Some cookies are "persistent cookies." They are used by us each time you access our Website. Other cookies are called "session cookies." Session cookies are used only during a specific browsing session. We may use a session cookie, for example, to remember that you have already navigated through a particular menu, or that you have entered in age information for a portion of a site that is restricted by age. We may also use "analytics cookies" that allow web analytics services to recognize your browser or device and, for example, identify whether you have visited our Website before, what you have previously viewed or clicked on, and how you found us. This information is provided anonymously for statistical analysis only. Analytics cookies are usually persistent cookies.

Log Files. Like most standard website servers, we use log files. Log files track Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. We utilize this information to analyze trends, administer the site, prevent fraud, track website navigation in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Social Networking. The Website permits you to use a third party social networking platform such as Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. These plug-ins allow you to follow us on those services. When you use social networking platforms and plugins, you share your information with them and their privacy notice applies to their disclosure of such information. In addition, they may be able to collect information about you, including your activity or may notify your connections on the social networking platform about your use of our Website. Such services may allow your activity to be monitored across multiple websites for purposes of delivering more targeted advertising. Please note that their own privacy polices apply and we encourage you to read them. We may add new social networking plugins and buttons to our Website from time to time.

What choices do you have about the collection of information about you?

In brief: You can always choose not to submit information. You can disable cookies in your browser. You can choose not to use social networking plug-ins. You can opt-out of our newsletters and other informational emails.

Direct Collection. If you do not want to share your information, you can choose not to participate in a particular activity.

Cookies. You may disable browser cookies in your browser or set your browser to warn you when a cookie is being sent. You may lose some features or functionality when you disable cookies. Remember, also, that disabling cookies is browser specific. For example, if you log on using Google Chrome, you must also disable cookies in Safari if you use that browser at a different time.

Social Networking. If you do not want to share your information, you can choose not to use social networking plug-ins.

Newsletter and Recurring Emails. To ensure that you will not receive recurring emails from us unless you choose to, such as newsletters, event updates, other informational emails, or opportunities to volunteer, to sponsor a child or classroom, or to donate, we will provide you with simple instructions on each such email from us for you to let us know that you have chosen to stop receiving such emails from us.



Do Not Track. Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. While the United States Federal Trade Commission has endorsed DNT, our Website does not support DNT codes.

Google Analytics. You may opt-out of Google Analytics collection by downloading the browser plugin “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” here.

How do we use your information?

In brief: Our main goal in collecting information is to comply with laws related to charitable donations, to improve the site, and to provide you with the best possible experience on the site. For example, by using the information we collect, we can provide you with an easy to use and readily available forum to ask questions about our programs, projects, activities, or donations.

We may use your personal information to:

• Answer questions you may have about our programs, projects, activities, or donation opportunities
• To provide you with further information regarding HLC, our programs, projects, activities, and opportunities to donate
• If you make a donation, to enable us to properly receipt your donation as required or permitted by law, · To allow us to record and report HLC activities as required by law and otherwise to manage and develop our operations and activities to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and
• To protect you and HLC against error and fraud by Personalize online content so that is applies to you and your interests
• Make our organization, services and Website better
• Compile, analyze and do research on our users' demographics and behavior
• Detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal

We use, and share location data only to provide and improve our service, to track and report or register information about the origin of donations, and as required by law.

Who is collecting your information?

In brief: We collect your personal information and may use third party service providers to assist with that collection.

When you are on our site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with us our online donation processor and our other service providers. Although we generally operate the Website and collect the information, we may engage third party service providers to assist us in that collection.

Other websites to which we link may collect personally identifiable information about you when you visit those sites. The information practices of other websites linked to our websites are not covered by this privacy notice.

With whom do we share your information?

In brief: We share your information with companies who assist us in providing services, when we need to protect our Website or information and if we reorganize our organization. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. These are some of the ways that your information may be disclosed:

Service Providers

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, delivering, or mailing, website development and operation, answering customer questions about charitable work, donations or services, sending postal mail or email, analyzing website use, processing payments, providing investor information and processing data. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are contractually prohibited from using that information for any other reason.

Charitable Donations

As a charitable organization we are required to report information on donations to the International Revenue Service, the State of Kansas and other governmental authorities and regulators.

Data in the Aggregate

We may disclose “blinded” aggregated data and user statistics to prospective partners and other third parties. Blinded data is data that does not identify an individual person.

Other

We also may disclose your information in special cases. For example, when we believe that we must disclose information to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use, or may be causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other website users or customers and their information, or anyone else who may be harmed by such activities. We may disclose, access or monitor your personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service and improve our organization and our information security.

If we restructure our organization, confidential user information may be transferred to another charitable organization. Donor and site visitor information may be one of the transferred assets and may be disclosed in connection with negotiations relating to a proposed restructuring or transfer. In such case, the transferred information may become subject to a different privacy notice.

How can I control my personal information?

In brief: We offer you choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information.

You may contact us at info@HLCGlobal.org you wish to view, edit, or delete your personal information from our database, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.

If you believe that any inaccurate or inappropriate information has been obtained or provided to others through your use of this Website, you should contact a representative at HLCGlobal.org.

How do we protect your information?

In brief: We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect your information. The Website does not use encryption except where noted.

Financial Information

We do not currently collect financial information on the Website. Payment processing information is collected by our payment processor Network for Good. See our payment processor's privacy policy and terms of use for information on how they protect payment information.

Other Information

Because information sent through the Internet travels from computer to computer throughout the world, when you give us information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Except as specifically stated, this site does not use security encryption measures. Information that you disclose by use of this site (as with any site that is non-secure), by posting a message or using e-mail, potentially could be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties or use of such information by third parties for their own purposes, legal or illegal. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

We have reasonable safeguards in place to protect your information, and we have taken the following security measures:

• Encryption and Transport Layer Security (TLS) - We use TLS encryption when transmitting Personally Identifiable Information through the Website An icon resembling a padlock is displayed in most browsers during TLS sessions. The URL for a secure page will begin with https:// or the padlock symbol, depending on your browser. Alerts and reminders sent to your mobile device are not encrypted. Personally Identifiable Information collected from secure webpages is encrypted in transit and in storage pursuant to industry standard and internal security protocols.
• Secure Storage - We deploy reasonable and appropriate industry standard physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your Personally Identifiable Information in storage.
• Confidentiality Agreements - To protect the security and privacy of your information, we utilize industry standard confidentiality agreements to require vendors, partners, and other third parties to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
• Limit Employee Access - We limit access to your Personally Identifiable Information to those employees who reasonably need access to such information in order to improve our Website and process your information appropriately.

Your Nevada Privacy Rights

In brief: Nevada privacy law allows you to opt-out of the sharing of personal information with third parties.

Opt-Out Requests

Nevada law (SB 220), permits customers in Nevada to opt-out of the sale of certain kinds of personal information. A sale under Nevada law is the transfer of this personal information to third parties for monetary consideration so these third parties can then re-sell or license the sold information. HLC does not sell your personal information to third parties as defined in Nevada law. If you are a Nevada resident and wish to opt-out of the sale of your personal information should we change our practices in the future, you must send a request by e-mail at info@ HLCGlobal.org]. Make sure to state that you are a Nevada resident.

Your Privacy Rights in Other States

In brief: Nevada privacy law allows you to opt-out of the sharing of personal information with third parties.

We are monitoring new state privacy laws that will be effective in the future including the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, and the Utah Consumer Privacy Act. Please check back for updates as we may update this Privacy Notice to address those laws.

For Residents of the European Union

If you are a European Union resident, the GDPR may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal data (“GDPR rights”). This section describes additional information concerning GDPR rights.

GDPR Principles.



We are committed to following the GDPR principles for personal data processing.

• Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency. We will only process personal data in such a manner as would reasonably be expected, and will be transparent in its processing of personal data.
• Purpose limitation: We will process personal data only for the specific purpose it was collected.
• Data minimization: We do not collect or process more personal data than reasonably required.
• Accuracy: We take reasonable steps to confirm that any personal data held is both adequate and accurate.
• Storage limitation: We do not store personal data for longer than necessary or required.
• Integrity and confidentiality: We take reasonable steps to protect the integrity, security and confidentiality of personal data.

Legal Basis for Processing.

We will only process personal data when it has a legal basis for doing so. These may include:

• Consent: the data subject has consented to the use of the personal data.
• Contract: processing of the personal data is necessary to fulfill a contractual obligation.
• Legal obligation: A legal, regulatory, or judicial process requires processing of such personal data.
• Vital interests: Someone’s life, health or security depends on the processing of such personal data
• Public task: The processing of such personal data is necessary to carry out a task in the public interest
• Legitimate interests: processing the personal data serves a legitimate interest, as determined by an appropriate assessment, such as the improvement of our services or operations.
  

Transfer of Personal Data.

HLC and Website is based in the United States and, regardless of where you access the Website, the information collected as part of that use will be transferred to and maintained on servers located in the United States. The European Commission has determined that the US lacks an adequate level of protection for personal information of EU data subjects.

Although there is risk in transmitting your information to a country that does not have adequate protection, HLC does take steps to secure your personal data.

Your Choices.

The GDPR provides you with certain privacy rights. If you wish to access or update your personal information, contact us at the address or number above. You may also request to have your information deleted, although we may retain information for backups, prevention of fraud and abuse, satisfaction of legal obligations or other ongoing legitimate interests. You may decline to share certain personal data, in which case we may not be able to provide you with some features and benefits.

Right to Object.

If you are an EU resident, you have the right to object to our processing that is based on legitimate interests by contacting us at the address or number above.

Right to Lodge a Complaint.

If you are an EU resident and you believe that HLC has infringed your rights under the GDPR, please contact us by sending message to us under the "Get in Touch" option on our webpage or calling us at: (913) 837-2495.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in your applicable Member State.

Who do you contact with questions or concerns about our Privacy Notice?

If you need further assistance, please send an e-mail with your questions or comments to info@HLCGlobal.org or write us at:



Henry M Louis Center for Global Transitional Justice

Attn: Privacy Coordinator

7111 W. 151st Street, Suite 328

Overland Park, KS 66223

Other provisions

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to or write us: info@hlcglobal.org email or you may contact us via regular mail at:

Henry M Louis Center for Global Transitional Justice

Attn: Privacy Coordinator

7111 W. 151st Street, Suite 328

Overland Park, KS 66223

Make sure to state that you are a California Resident.



Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. While the United States Federal Trade Commission has endorsed DNT, our Website does not support DNT codes. However, except in the case of analytics cookies, remarketing and other features of Google Display Advertising described above, our Website limits tracking to the internal uses described above. Except in the case of analytics cookies, remarketing and other features of Google Display Advertising described above, our Website does not track your use across multiple websites, however, other websites to which we link may. Please review their privacy policies to understand how you may be tracked.