Los Angeles Region Community Recovery Organization
Website Privacy Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
When you surf the website or use certain other site features, we may use the PII we collect from you in the following ways:
To allow us to better respond to your customer service requests.
To periodically send you relevant information via email
To follow up with you after correspondence (email or phone inquiries)
Your PII is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies downloaded to your device, click here.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow our hosting platform to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Form submissions
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Zapier for data porting.
Website visitors
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address
Third party Links & services
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies (linked below). We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
This website contains embedded maps from Google Maps, links to forms using Google Forms, and links to documents using Google Docs. Click here to learn more about the privacy policy for Google services.
This website links to Church World Service, our fiscal sponsor who manages our online donations. Click here to learn more about the privacy policy for Church World Service.
Third parties that user information may be shared with
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties user information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Request for Review or Change of User Information
Users may request to review or make changes to their personal information by sending a request via our Contact page.
Notification of changes to Privacy Policy
To be informed of when we make changes to our privacy policy, please send a request via our Contact page.
Do not track (DNT) signals
We honor DNT signals. We do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a DNT browser mechanism is in place.
Third-party behavioral tracking
We do not allow third-party behavioral tracking.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Fair Information Practices
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action in the event of a data breach:
If your information was involved and if we have your email address, we will notify you via email within seven business days.
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
CAN-SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following:
Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you may contact us via our Contact page and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us via our Contact page.
Date Effective
This privacy policy is effective as of February 21, 2022.