Give As We Grow® Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 8, 2024
Your privacy is important to us. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because it explains our policies and practices for collecting, using, storing, disclosing, and protecting the information you supply to us on the www.giveaswegrow.org website and all related digital application(s) (the “Service”) operated by GivingTuesday (“us”, “we”, or “our”).
By accessing or using the Service, you agree to accept and comply with this Privacy Policy, as well as our Terms of Use, available here. By agreeing to these Terms of Use and to the Privacy Policy, you acknowledge and confirm that, as a parent or legal guardian, you are providing explicit consent for the children whom you authorize to access and utilize The Give As We Grow application. You also explicitly consent to Give as we Grow collecting the limited information outlined in the privacy policy for the children under your authorization who use the application.
To read the specific section of the Privacy Policy that discusses our information practices with regard to children, navigate to this section of the Privacy Policy.
Personal Information We Collect
Personal information is data that can be used to identify or contact a single person. Personal information does not include anonymous data, or data from which an individual’s identity has been irretrievably removed. We may collect the following kinds of personal information about you and about your children who are at least three years old:
- Identity Data, including names, ages, and email addresses.
- Profile Data, including usernames and passwords, as well as information about interests, preferences, feedback responses, and how you use our Service.
- Charitable Giving Data, including dates, amounts, types, and recipients of financial and other donations.
- Technical Data, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, internet service providers (ISPs), dates/timestamps, usage/login data, browser type, language, and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in type and version, operating systems and platforms and other technology on devices used to access our Service.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose.
How We Collect Information
We collect information about you and your children through direct interactions, when you provide the information to us by creating and updating accounts, corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise, or using features of our Service.
Give As We Grow (GAWG) accounts are intended to be created by adults over the age of 18. After you sign up for a “parent account,” you can manage accounts for the rest of your family. Once logged in, you will be able to create “child accounts” (player profiles) for your children who are at least three years old. Each child account will be tied to your parent account. You may also create additional parent accounts for guardians.
All accounts are password-protected. You will be able to see all of your children’s activities on our app, but each child will be able to access only his or her individual account and a summary of your family’s activity under your family profile link. Each child may also select their own avatar for use on the site. You and your children may enter donation amounts as often as you like in your own accounts and may review your dashboards in monthly or annual views. You and your children may also access age-specific resources for learning more about giving, including links to age-specific videos and apps.
We may also collect information about you and your children through automated technologies or interactions when you use our site. We may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. We may also receive technical data about you if you visit other websites using our cookies.
We may receive data about you from third parties, including, for example, providers of analytics and email services, and providers of technical, and delivery services that we use in connection with our site.
Why We Collect Information and How We Use It
We collect and process the personal information you provide about yourself and your children only when we have a lawful basis for doing so. Most commonly, we will use your personal information: when necessary to perform a service for you; when you have provided your consent to allow us to use the information in a certain way, for example, by registering for an account; or when we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. We may collect information that allows us to confirm that you are the parent or legal guardian of your child. We may use the personal information you provide about yourself and your children: to improve our service to you, including without limitation our responses to information requests and support needs; to personalize your user experience and provide the services best suited to you and your children; to track your and your children’s charitable activities over time; to provide age-appropriate videos, games, and guides related to charitable activities; to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you; and to communicate with you regarding improvements to our service, encouraging stories, and updates.
How We Share Your Information
We may share personal information with service providers so that they can assist us with: processing or managing the information; responding to your requests; delivering services to you; providing support; completing transactions; or assessing your interest in our services.
We will share your personal information only to provide or improve our services to you. For example, we may share your personal information with FableVision, the GivingTuesday Data Commons, and the National Center for Family Philanthropy, which assist with providing our services to you.
For information about FableVision’s privacy policy, visit https://www.fablevisionstudios.com/privacy-policy.
For information about GivingTuesday Data Commons’ privacy policy, visit https://www.givingtuesday.org/privacy-policy/.
For more information about National Center for Family Philanthropy’s privacy policy, visit https://www.ncfp.org/privacy-policy/.
We will not share your information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We require third parties to meet the same standards that we meet for keeping your information secure.
How We Protect Your Information
We know how important your personal information is to you, and we take seriously our responsibility to safeguard any information you provide to us. We have instituted strict technical, administrative, and physical security measures to prevent unauthorized access to, or use, modification, or disclosure of, your information.
We maintain secure data networks protected by industry-standard firewalls and password-access systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. Only authorized individuals have the right to access or disclose information you provide to us. We block attempted logins after multiple incorrect attempts.
We communicate our privacy and security guidelines to our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within GivingTuesday. For example, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a need to know.
We make every reasonable attempt to protect the personal information you share with us, but no transmission over the Internet is ever 100% secure, and no information stored electronically is ever 100% immune from attack, so we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of information you choose to provide to us.
Data Privacy for Children: Collection, use, and disclosure policy
This section of the Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from minors and children under 13 years old in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
We take extra care to protect the privacy of anyone younger than 18. We do not collect personal information from anyone younger than 18 without the consent of a parent or legal guardian, which you provide when setting up child accounts. We do not ask for more personal information from or about anyone younger than 18 than is necessary for them to participate in an activity.
1. Children Information Collection
We collect personal information from children only with verifiable parental consent. We may collect certain information from children, such as:
- Identity Data, including names and ages.
- Profile Data, including information about interests, preferences, feedback responses, and use of our Service.
- Charitable Giving Data, including dates, amounts, types, and recipients of financial and other donations.
- Technical Data, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, internet service providers (ISPs), dates/timestamps, usage/login data, browser type, language, and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in type and version, operating systems and platforms and other technology on devices used to access our Service.
We do not collect more personal information than is reasonably necessary for the purpose of the online service.
2. Parental Consent
We require verifiable parental consent before collecting any personal information from children. Parents and legal guardians are required to approve the collection of their child’s personal information by agreeing to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy prior to the child being able to access the Give As We Grow application.
3. Use of Children Information
The personal information collected from children is used solely for the operation of the App and to enhance the user experience. We do not use this information for any other purposes without parental consent.
More specifically, we may use the personal information you provide about yourself and your children: to improve our service to you, including without limitation our responses to information requests and support needs; to personalize your user experience and provide the services best suited to you and your children; to track your and your children’s charitable activities over time; to provide age-appropriate videos, games, and guides related to charitable activities; to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you; and to communicate with you regarding improvements to our service, encouraging stories, and updates.
We may use children’s personal information to communicate with them or their parents or legal guardians about their use of the App, including updates, notifications, and customer support.
4. Disclosure of Children Information
We may disclose children’s personal information to third-party service providers who assist us in operating our App and providing services, subject to confidentiality and security obligations.
We may disclose children’s personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests, such as subpoenas or court orders.
We may share children’s information with service providers so that they can assist us with: processing or managing the information; responding to your requests; delivering services to you; providing support; completing transactions; or assessing your interest in our services.
We will share information only to provide or improve our services to you. For example, we may share your personal information with FableVision, the GivingTuesday Data Commons, and the National Center for Family Philanthropy, which assist with providing our services to you.
For information about FableVision’s privacy policy, visit https://www.fablevisionstudios.com/privacy-policy.
For information about GivingTuesday Data Commons’ privacy policy, visit https://www.givingtuesday.org/privacy-policy/.
For more information about National Center for Family Philanthropy’s privacy policy, visit https://www.ncfp.org/privacy-policy/.
We will not share your information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We require third parties to meet the same standards that we meet for keeping your information secure.
GivingTuesday, as the central operator, will answer all inquiries from parents regarding all of the privacy policies and use of children’s information from any of the providers listed above. Parents can contact GivingTuesday by using the contact information provided at the end of the Privacy Policy.
5. Parental Rights
Parents or legal guardians have the right to review, update, or delete the personal information collected from their child. Parents or legal guardians have the right to consent to the collection and use of their child’s personal information without consenting to disclosure of his or her personal information to third parties. They can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact information provided at the end of the Privacy Policy.
6. Children Information and Data Security
We take reasonable measures to safeguard the personal information collected from children, including encryption, access controls, and secure storage practices.
We retain children’s personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy. Once the information is no longer required, we securely delete or anonymize it.
7. Updates to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify parents or legal guardians of any material changes and obtain their consent if required by law.
Legal Requirements
We may be required − by law, legal process, litigation, or requests from governmental authorities – to disclose your personal information. We may disclose information about you if we determine in our reasonable discretion that disclosure is necessary or appropriate for reasons of public security or safety or law enforcement. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users.
Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other, third-party websites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share information about you or your children. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
Our provision of links to these third-party websites is not an endorsement of their privacy policies or practices. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit and make your own evaluation regarding the safety and security of your information when you link to that website.
Retention of Your Information
We will retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for collecting it, including without limitation for satisfying legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Correcting, Updating, and Controlling Your Information
You can help ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, current, and complete by logging in to your account. You can change your mind at any time about how we contact you, or you can ask us to stop contacting you altogether.
Upon your verified request, we will provide you with access to any personal information we hold about you or your children. You may request that we furnish you with copies of the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, or request that we transfer this information to a third party (where technically feasible). You may request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions of your personal information. You may inquire about whether your personal information is being sold or disclosed, and to whom. You may say no to any sale of your personal information. You may request that your site accounts and user information be deleted from our site. To exercise any of these rights, please submit your request or instruction by email to info@giveaswegrow.org or by U.S. mail at GivingTuesday, 165 Court St, #107 Brooklyn, NY 11201, attn.: Privacy Specialist. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time and will notify you of the action we have taken.
Please note, however, that we may refuse to delete or erase personal information that we need to keep in order to comply with a legal obligation or defend a legal claim. If you request deletion of your personal information, we may also keep a minimal amount of the information on an in- house marketing suppression file in order to comply with any request not to receive marketing.
Cookies and Other Technologies
Our website may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. All modern web browsers support cookies, which are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We use cookies and similar technologies for storing and honoring your preferences and settings, enabling you to sign-in, providing interest-based advertising, combating fraud, analyzing how our services perform, and fulfilling other legitimate purposes.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or may not function properly. For more information about cookies and how to disable cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
‘Do Not Track’ Signals
We do not track the users of our Service over time and across third-party websites to provide targeted advertising, and therefore we do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. Some third-party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, however, so that they can tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, your web browser may allow you to set the DNT signal on your browser so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked.
Online Behavioral Advertising
The Give As We Grow app and website adhere to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. Give As We Grow and GivingTuesday do not behaviorally target advertising to children under 13 on sites that are directed to children or where GivingTuesday has actual knowledge that a user is under 13.
Contests, Sweepstakes and Promotions
Give As We Grow may offer online or in-app contests, sweepstakes and promotions. To enter these contests, sweepstakes and promotions, on your behalf or on your child’s behalf, you may be required to provide your first name and email address and/or additional information required for the management of the contest, sweepstakes or promotion.
Interactive Features and Services.
Some of the Give As We Grow Sites offer interactive features and services, such as message boards and comment boxes. For certain countries, when we have actual knowledge that a user is a child under 13 years old, we either will obtain the consent of the child’s parent/guardian before allowing the child to use these interactive features and services or use reasonable technical measures to delete all or virtually all personal information from a child’s postings before they are made public and delete such information from our records. We use the information collected through interactive features and services to enable you to participate in such features and services.
Other Data Collection and Use
We also collect information from visitors when they contact us with questions and comments. We may use this information, along with any of the other information described above, to (i) analyze use of GiveAsWeGrow.org and the Give As We Grow app and understand and improve our service offerings; (ii) prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; and (iii) for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.
We may combine information collected through the Give As We Grow Sites and apps with information we collect from other sources (e.g., social media integration services), offline records or publicly available information). It is your responsibility to provide complete and accurate information and to keep such information up to date. We are not responsible for any problem or liability arising from your failure to do so.
Lawful Basis for Processing (GDPR)
If the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) applies, our lawful basis for processing your personal information will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
When we collect your personal information when you register for a Give As We Grow account, our legal basis for the processing of that personal information is that it is necessary for your participation in the Give As We Grow. If you refuse to provide us with your personal data, you may be unable to obtain the services from us that you requested.
We also collect and process personal information about you as necessary to provide educational and other services, and/or fulfill our other legitimate interests (when not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms).
If you have any questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
GDPR Privacy Rights
If you are an individual located in the European Union, you may have additional rights available to you under applicable laws, including:
You have the right to request access to your personal information, and the rectification of inaccurate personal information concerning you. You have the right to obtain the deletion or the restriction of processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, including when the information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed, except when we are required by law to maintain or otherwise process your personal information, for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights or another person. You may have the right to request that we stop processing your personal information and/or to stop sending you marketing communications. In certain circumstances, you may have the right to be provided with your personal information in a structured, machine readable and commonly used format and to request that we transfer the personal information to another data controller without hindrance. Where our processing of your personal information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact information provided below. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before taking action on your request.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of an alleged infringement of the applicable data protection law.
U.S. Governing Law
Give As We Grow site and app are designed for and targeted to U.S. audiences and are governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the U.S. While users from countries other than the U.S. may access the Give As We Grow site and app, we make no representation that the Give As We Grow Sites and app are operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of, or governed by, other nations.
If you are located outside of the U.S., you use this Site at your own risk and initiative and you, not us, are responsible for compliance with any applicable local and national laws. Please be aware that any personal information and other information you provide to us or we obtain as a result of your use of this Site shall be collected in the U.S. and/or transferred to the U.S. and subject to U.S. law.
By using this Site, participating in any Site activities and/or providing us with your personal information and other information, you (a) consent to the transfer and/or processing of any Information to and in the U.S., (b) acknowledge that U.S. law may provide a lower standard of protection for personal data than the laws of your location and (c) understand that we shall collect, transfer, store, process and/or deal with your Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and U.S. law. Consequently, to the full extent permitted by law, you hereby waive any claims relating to the processing of your personal information or other information in accordance with this Privacy Policy that may arise under the laws and regulations that apply to you in or of any other country or jurisdiction.
Changes
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the modified version here. You are responsible for reviewing any updated version of the Privacy Policy. We will notify parents or legal guardians of any material changes and obtain their consent if required by law. By continuing to access or use our Service after any revisions are posted, you agree to accept and be bound by the revised terms.
This document is the sole statement of the Give As WeGrow App and Sites’ Privacy Policy and no summary, restatement or other version thereof, or other privacy statement or policy, in any form, including, without limitation, machine-generated, is valid. In interpreting this Agreement, the English version governs the interpretation and meaning of the obligation set forth herein. To the extent there is an ambiguity or conflict with the Privacy Policy in other languages, the Privacy Policy in English governs.
Contact Us
To ask questions or make comments about our Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us by email at: info@giveaswegrow.org or by U.S. mail at GivingTuesday, 165 Court St, #107 Brooklyn, NY 11201, attn.: Privacy Specialist.