If Americans Knew - Privacy statement (EU)

This privacy statement was last updated on 8/30/2020 01:05:18, and applies to citizens of the European Economic Area. Click here for our US privacy statement.

n this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://ifamericansknew.org. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

• we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
• we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
• we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
• we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
• we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.

If you have any questions, please contact us.

1. Purpose, data and retention period

1.1 We use your data for the following purpose:

Contact - Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms

For this purpose we use the following data:

• Name, Address and City
• Email address
• Telephone number

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Consent obtained

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for the following number of months: 12

1.2 We use your data for the following purpose:

Payments

For this purpose we use the following data:

• Name, Address and City
• Email address
• Financial data
• IP Address
• Telephone number
• Other: Browser, Operating System

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Consent obtained

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.3 We use your data for the following purpose:

Newsletters

For this purpose we use the following data:

• Name, Address and City
• Email address
• IP Address
• Telephone number

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Consent obtained

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for the following number of months: 12

1.4 We use your data for the following purpose:

Compiling and analyzing statistics for website improvement.

For this purpose we use the following data:

• IP Address

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Consent obtained

Retention period

Upon termination of the service we retain this data for the following period: 6 months.

2. Sharing with other parties

We only share or disclose this data to processors for the following purposes:

Processors

Name: Stripe
Country: United States
Purpose: payment processor

Name: PayPal
Country: United States
Purpose: payment processor

Name: The Soft Edge, Inc.
Country: United States
Purpose: advocacy

3. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy. 

Google may not use the data for any other Google services.

The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.

4. Security

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

5. Third party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.

6. Amendments to this privacy statement

We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

7. Accessing and modifying your data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

• You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
• Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
• Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person.

8. Submitting a complaint

If you are not satisfied with the way in which we handle (a complaint about) the processing of your personal data, you have the right to submit a complaint to the Data Protection Authority.

9. Contact details

If Americans Knew
P.O. Box 81
Menifee, CA 92586
United States
Website: https://ifamericansknew.org
Email: privacy@ifamericansknew.org
Phone number: 202-631-4060

Annex

Newsletter & emails

If you have subscribed to our newsletter or if you are a member of our website (you can log in), if you have donated on our website, or if you have filled out a form on an action alert there is a good chance you will receive emails from us. We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you. To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system. This website can send emails through a 3rd party sending service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters. No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to track website traffic. Collected data is processed in such a way that visitors cannot be identified.

Website Security

Third parties

This site may be using third-party cloud storage to store backups of its audit logs where personal information is collected.