Privacy Policy

Introduction

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (“PRAA,” “we”, “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit praachicago.org, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through praachicago.org (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means; or
• Any third-party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and PRAA does not knowingly collect or use any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our Website, or on or through any of its features or functionality, make any donations through our Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, postal address, phone number, or email address.

If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any such information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@praachicago.org.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, phone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); and/or
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as usage details and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

We may collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us;
• Automatically as you navigate through the site (information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, browser type, operating system, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies); and/or
• From third parties, for example, our business partners and third-party payment processors.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of using our Website’s contact forms, signing up for our newsletter, using the donation pages, or enrolling in PRAA programming and classes.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
• Details of transactions when you make a payment, donation, or initiate other financial transactions on our Website. Your personal information may be encrypted and transmitted to our payment processing vendor during this process.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your browsing actions and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, logs, other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website by enabling us to, among other things, estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system may issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To operate our Website and present its contents to you.
• To facilitate your registrations for events, volunteering opportunities, or other activities or programs.
• To process your donations (the personal information you provide will be used by an authorized third-party payment processing vendor to process such payment).
• To provide you updates about our programs, events, and fundraising activities.
• To answer your inquiries about our website, organization, and other services or activities.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
• To comply with applicable federal and state law.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please unsubscribe from future communications. For more information, see the Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information section.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our partners and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (for example, to an authorized third-party payment processing vendor to process payment for donations).
• To associated parties during any merger, acquisition, or transfer of all or substantially all our assets, or during negotiations for such an event.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of PRAA or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or may not function properly.
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by PRAA to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to info@praachicago.org. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may unsubscribe by clicking the relevant link included in such email to be omitted from future email distributions.
• Do Not Track. We do not respond to “do-not-track” signals or other mechanisms that allow users to signal their preferences on the collection of their personal information over time and across third-party web sites or online services.

Your State Privacy Rights

If you are a California, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, or Utah resident, your state's laws may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.

California, Colorado, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.

California, Colorado and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:

• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose.
• Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request to info@praachicago.org.

Data Security

We use standard security measures as required by applicable law. The transmission of information via the Internet is, unfortunately, not completely secure and despite our efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of the data during transmission through our Website. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. We keep personal information for no longer than is reasonably necessary to achieve the collection and use purposes disclosed in this policy, or as is otherwise required by applicable law.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page, and we recommend that you check back here regularly for any relevant updates.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@praachicago.org.

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