Privacy Policy

Overview

This online privacy statement (the “Privacy Statement”) describes how we treat all user data collected by Fair Start Movement during your visit to the Fair Start Movement site, both technical data that is automatically collected and voluntarily submitted data.

For purposes of this Privacy Statement, the “Fair Start Movement site” is the website whose home page is fairstartmovement.org, and includes all web pages whose domain name contains fairstartmovement.org. This is not the privacy statement for internet sites (for example, blogs, forums, or social networking sites) where Fair Start Movement has a presence that are on websites other than the Fair Start Movement site.

We may occasionally update this Statement. We will post any changes on this web page, so check back periodically. If we make material changes, we will post a notice on our home page that this Privacy Statement has been modified and provide a link to the revised statement. Any information you submit after a change has been posted will be subject to the new provisions.

User data we collect

We collect two types of user data: (1) technical data that is automatically collected from all visitors to the Fair Start Movement site (“Automatically Collected Data”); and (2) data that you voluntarily submit to us (described below under “Voluntarily Submitted Data”).

Automatically Collected Data

We automatically collect and store Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and domain names of the originating visitor’s computer on our server and may know some information you have previously provided through cookies. (See the section on “Cookies” below for more information.) We also track the number and frequency of hits per page as well as the length of the website visit, using IP addresses and/or session cookies. In addition, if you come to the Fair Start Movement site from a website link, we may also identify the source of that link.

Voluntarily Submitted Data

We may collect and store Voluntarily Submitted Data, including personal data, that you voluntarily provide, such as your name and postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and similar information, and transactional information, such as giving and action-taking history, when you participate in certain activities on the Fair Start Movement site, including, but not limited to, when you:

• Make a contribution to support Fair Start Movement;
• Sign up for our e-mail network;
• Send correspondence, place a call, or inform us about a call to a government representative, or send correspondence to a friend or to other targeted representatives through the Fair Start Movement site;
• Submit feedback or a public-interest claim;
• Participate in one of our petitions or surveys;
• Post a blog comment;
• Apply to volunteer or write for the blog; or
• Participate in any activity that requires your Voluntarily Submitted Data.

When you send correspondence to a friend, your friend’s email address is captured by us only temporarily in order to complete your send request.

Other Collected Data

We also may collect data concerning your use of the Fair Start Movement site or interest in our communications, such as by using an embedded image in an email to track whether you open our email communications and using a URL contained in an email we send to you that enables us to identify that you have taken an action using a webpage. We may use this data for a number of reasons, including taking account of your interests in our work so that you do not miss the opportunity for us to inform you about, and offer you the chance to take action concerning, the issues you care about most, and to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys.

Cookies

We collect some data through the use of cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your browser on your computer or device and either stored permanently for future access by the transferor (“Long-term Cookies”), temporarily to facilitate the transferor’s website analysis and functionality (“Short-term Cookies”), or transferred temporarily to your computer’s Random Access Memory (“Session Cookies”).

We may transfer a Long-term Cookie in circumstances in which you are notified prior to the cookie being stored. For example, when you select a “remember” option on the Fair Start Movement site, a Long-term Cookie will be stored on your browser on your computer or device solely for the purpose of automatically filling in the information you have asked to be remembered.

We may use Session Cookies whenever you visit the Fair Start Movement site for our website traffic analytics application and the site’s interactive applications, such as our online advocacy. Session Cookies last only as long as your browser session. They expire when you close your browser and are not permanently stored on your computer or device. Some of our website analysis and functionality, such as maps and videos, is provided through third-party functionality and requires the use of Short-term Cookies, which expire within one hour of being placed on your browser. Some elective, third-party media functionality on the Fair Start Movement site may also use Cookies. See the “Third Parties—Third-Party Functionality” section below.

How we use the data we collect

In addition to the uses described above, we use Automatically Collected Data to identify the source outside of the Fair Start Movement site of user traffic so that we can evaluate what content is persuading web users. We use Automatically Collected Data, including IP addresses and/or session or short-term cookies, that indicates which sections of the Fair Start Movement site are most visited so that we can perform website traffic analysis, evaluate the popularity of our different web pages, and continue to improve the site.

We use your Voluntarily Submitted Data for various purposes:

• To fulfill the request for which you specifically provided the data, including sharing the data with its intended recipient;
• To periodically communicate with you concerning our work, such as delivering information and updates and action alerts, unless you opt out;
• To indicate you as the author of any comment you post when you opt to identify yourself;
• To personalize the content that you see based on the activities that you have selected;
• To allow you to set and change user preferences;
• To offer you other ways to support the work, including soliciting additional contributions if you have not opted out of such communications;
• To confirm your contribution or registration;
• To respond to an inquiry or feedback you have made; and
• To follow up with you by email specific to an activity you have participated in or intend to participate in.

The Fair Start Movement site is hosted by servers in the United States. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, the Voluntarily Submitted Data you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By submitting your Voluntarily Submitted Data, you consent to its transfer and storage in the United States and its use in accordance with the purposes for which it was originally collected.

Third Parties

Third-party sharing

We do not sell your personal information. Generally, we do not share Automatically Collected Data, Voluntarily Submitted Data, or Other Collected Data with third parties. However, we do share such data with the third-party service providers who fulfill your orders or transactions, contact you on our behalf, process donations or newsletter signups, or facilitate some other aspect of our activities, including those service providers who collect, process, store, and transmit information we collect on this website on our behalf. These service providers have access to your Voluntarily Submitted Data solely for the purpose of providing these services to us, and they are contractually prohibited from sharing it with third parties other than subcontractors assisting them.

Finally, we may disclose and use Voluntarily Submitted Data in special circumstances when necessary to enforce our User Agreement or this Privacy Statement, or when we, in good faith, believe the law requires us to disclose it. Except as described in this Privacy Statement, we will not share your Voluntarily Submitted Data with any third party unless we first notify you and offer you an appropriate choice to consent to such further use.

Third-party functionality

To support certain functions carried out on the Fair Start Movement site, we use third-party service providers. In limited instances with respect to specific optional functions on the site, these third parties may have data collection, use, or security procedures that differ from the practices outlined in this Privacy Statement and that may impact users of those optional functions. For example, a third-party service provider may allow us to stream videos through the site on an embedded video player and, by viewing that video, you are actually accessing that service provider’s website and subject to its data collection, use, or security procedures. Please review that third party’s procedures prior to using that optional functionality.

Internet transmission

Standard email sent across the internet is unencrypted. While emails our personnel send to one another within our system are encrypted, emails that leave our system or are sent to us from outside our system, including the information in those emails and the email addresses, are not necessarily secure. We do not, and we require that our third-party service providers that have access to Voluntarily Submitted Data do not, transmit emails outside our system that contain Voluntarily Submitted Data unless that information is sent in a secure (for example, password protected) manner or we have your consent.

Your ability to choose

When you provide us with your Voluntarily Submitted Data, you can let us know that you do not wish to receive our email communications by not checking the subscription request box on the form you are completing, by unsubscribing from further email communications following receipt of an email, or by contacting us via email at hello@fairstartmovement.org.

Children

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13.

Security

The Voluntarily Submitted Data we collect about you is stored on a secure, password-protected server, and only authorized personnel have access to your information. We use industry-standard encryption technologies with respect to the receipt and transfer of Voluntarily Submitted Data you submit to us. Nevertheless, despite our best efforts, no transmission over the Internet and no data storage method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Updating your data

To update your Voluntarily Submitted Data or to make corrections, email us at hello@fairstartmovement.org.

Comments and questions

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Statement or our data collection practices, or to request that we delete your Voluntarily Submitted Data, email us at hello@fairstartmovement.org.