ChicoSol has prepared this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, protect and share information when you use the ChicoSol.org website (the “Site“). By using the Site you consent to this Privacy Policy.
When you use a Subscribe form on our site, we share your name and email with our email service provider, Mailchimp, so that we may send you our newsletter. We will not otherwise share personal information collected on this website with any other group, organization, agency, or entity, unless compelled to do so by a court order.
Personally Identifiable Information
We may collect or have access to information that personally identifies you, such as your name and e-mail address, if you choose to share such information with us.
We request your name and e-mail address when you comment on an article or submit an article for publication. Your name may be published alongside your posted comment or article. You understand that when you submit a comment on a post or an article for publication, ChicoSol may edit the material and publish the comment or article on the Site, and has an unlimited right to use this content. If you do not want your real name published, address your request to ch**********@***il.com.
If you donate to ChicoSol directly through North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) or through NVCF’s Classy, your payment information is shared with our donation processor. NVCF and Classy do not share your payment information (credit card or other account data) with us. However, NVCF/Classy shares personal information that you provided — such as your name, email, phone number and mailing address – with ChicoSol. We do not share that information with any other party.
How ChicoSol uses personal information
We may use the information you provide to contact you by email to deliver our newsletter, fundraising letters or an event invitation. We may contact you by phone if you have expressed an interest in submitting work or volunteering, or if we’re running a special campaign or want to acknowledge a gift.
Site Usage Data
This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google to track website traffic. The Web analytics services use “cookies” and other tracking technologies to help analyze how users use a Site. They do not collect personally identifiable information. The information generated by the cookie about your use of a Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by the Web analytics service.
A Web analytics service may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Site.
In the case of ChicoSol, Google Analytics collects anonymized data about visitors, allowing us to see aggregated data such as how many visitors our site receives in a day, the pages that are viewed, your IP address, and the time and duration of your visits to the Site. It does not allow us to see your name, email, or other personally identifying information about you.
Nevertheless, you can opt-out of having your visits to the Website tracked by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
When you access the Website through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile operating system and/or the type of mobile Internet browser you use.
We use diagnostic data to help us understand howpeople use the Site and to enhance our ability to meet our readers’ information needs.
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. We use MailChimp for most email communication, including newsletters.
For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
You may opt out of receiving communication from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting Us.
Other Websites
The Site may contain links to other websites. Links from our Site to other sites or content are provided for your convenience only, and you access such third-party websites or content at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a third-party website before disclosing any information to the website.
Some pages on this site may include embedded content from other websites (e.g. YouTube videos or Google forms). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
Children’s Privacy
The Site is not intended to address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Use of our Site
By using this Site, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We use information we collect for internal purposes only and will not sell, share, or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties without your permission, except as expressly disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change, modify, add and/or remove portions of this Policy at any time. All changes will take effect immediately upon posting. Please check this page periodically for changes.