Good
Neighbors USA. PRIVACY POLICY
October 1, 2017
This policy describes what personal information we collect and how we use it.
Good
Neighbors USA. (“Good Neighbors USA,” “we,” “us,” or “our”)
operates to serve all site visitors. That goal powers all of the decisions we
make, including how we gather and respect personal information. This privacy
policy (this “Privacy Policy”) exists to be as clear and straightforward
as possible, because we know that you (“You,” “user,” “site user,” or
“valued user”) care about how information you provide to us is used
and shared. Our aim is for you — a valued user of our site — to always
feel informed and empowered with respect to your privacy on Good Neighbors USA.
This Privacy Policy applies to all information received by Good Neighbors USA,
both online and offline, on any Platform, (“Platform”, includes the Good
Neighbors USA website, mobile applications, social media, and Good Neighbors
USA -associated linked sites), as well as any electronic, written, or verbal communications.
Our
Commitment to Our Donors ("Donor Privacy Policy")
We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or Personal Information with
any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other
organizations. This Donor Privacy Policy applies to all information received by
Good Neighbors USA, both online and offline, on any Platform, as well as any
electronic, written, or verbal communications.
Acceptance of Terms
By visiting Good Neighbors USA and/or using our Services, you agree to the
terms (“Terms”) of this Privacy Policy and our accompanying Terms of
Use. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use
(collectively, this “Agreement”), please do not use the Good Neighbors USA website.
Capitalized
terms not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning set forth in
our Terms of Use ("Terms of Use").
The
Information We Collect
Good Neighbors USA collects information when you visit our website, create an
account, edit your account information, or use features on the platform to
donate to a charity. Some of this information is technical information
automatically logged by our servers. Outlined below are the types of information,
both directly from you and indirectly through the collection of information by
third-party service providers (together, “Partners”) that we specifically
collect.
You
authorize us to use, store and otherwise process any personal information which
relates to and identifies you, including (but not limited to) your name and
address, to the extent reasonably necessary to provide the services which are
available through our website, our Partners, successors, assignees, associates,
sub-contractors, or other third parties.
1. Personal Information ("Personal Information")
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information means any information
or set of information that identifies or could be used by or on behalf of Good
Neighbors USA, or any of our Partners to identify a natural or legal person.
Personal Information does not include information that is encoded, aggregated,
anonymized, or publicly available information that has not been combined with
non-public Personal Information.
Examples of different purposes for which we may collect Personal Information
include, but are not limited to:
· The registration process for Registered Users;
· Use of areas of the Good Neighbors USA website, in which you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, username and password, falling under the registration process for Registered Users (“Registration Process”);
· Donations made directly to Good Neighbors USA and to Good Neighbors USA made through resources including the Paypal Inc. from which we collect Personal Information such as your name, billing address, and e-mail address, if you have not already provided these details. We collect information about your donation, including the amount of your donation. The Paypal Inc. privacy policy can be reviewed here:
· Job applications;
· Surveys. Periodically, Good Neighbors USA may invite you to participate in completing online surveys. If you have created a Good Neighbors USA account, information we collect from these surveys may be associated with you personally;
· Contact you regarding your donation(s), as to the quality of the service, as well as any potential errors that may have occurred;
· Voluntary submissions to Good Neighbors USA requesting information about our products and services, signing up to receive information from us, or sending us an e-mail;
· E-mail subscriptions. Good Neighbors USA may also compile a subscription list to which you voluntarily submit your name, mailing address, and/or email address. The purpose of such a subscription list would be to send you periodic updates to subscribers on matters of interest, provided you will have the ability to opt out of further communications in accordance with procedures described in each such update.
2. Non-Personal/Other
Information
In addition to the Personal Information, we and our Partners may collect
additional information that does not personally identify you (“Other
Information”). Other Information may include information collected:
a. From
Your Activity. Information that we or our Partners may automatically
collect when you visit, access, and/or use the Platform, including, but not
limited to your IP address, Internet service provider, browser type and
language, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time
spent on particular pages, which sections of the Good Neighbors USA or Partner
website you visit, number of links you click while on the
Platform, search terms, operating system, general geographic location, and
technical information about your mobile device.
b. From
Cookies, JavaScript Tags. Information that we or Partners
automatically collect using technical methods, including but not limited to
cookies (“Cookies”), JavaScript tags, web beacons, pixel gifs, Flash cookies,
and other locally stored objects. Cookies are small packets of data that a
website stores on your computer’s hard drive so that your computer will
“remember” information about your visit. We may use both session cookies (which
expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on
your computer until you delete them) to enhance your experience using Good
Neighbors USA and to allow us and our Partners to collect Other Information.
You may be able to disable cookies and/or other locally stored cookies by
disabling them in your browser or on your device. Please consult your Internet
browser’s documentation for information on how to do this and how to delete
persistent cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from us, Good
Neighbors USA may not function properly. We use JavaScript tags to trigger a
sequence of events that includes viewing a first-party cookie (or setting that
cookie if it does not already exist) and to help us tailor and optimize Good
Neighbors USA.
c. Do Not Track (“DNT”). Good
Neighbors USA assumes no responsibility for responding to “Do Not Track” web
browser signals. Consult external website polices regarding their responses to
DNT signals.
Partners
Partners include, but are not limited to:
Google Analytics. Good Neighbors USA uses Google Analytics, a web
analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics
uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the
website analyze how users use the site. The Other Information generated by the
cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be
transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the
website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and
providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do
so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s
behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by
Google. 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 this website. By using this
website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the
manner and for the purposes set out above.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends
without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google
Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more
information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all
websites you use, visit this Google page.
a. Google Analytics. Good Neighbors USA uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses Cookies to help the website analyze how users interact with the Platform. Other Information generated by the Cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 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 this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit Google Ad Settings. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
b. AddThis. Good Neighbors USA uses AddThis, a web analytics and sharing service provided by Oracle Corporation. AddThis uses Cookies to help the website analyze how users visit the site and to provide a suite of tools for users to share, follow, view, recommend, and interact with content provided by Good Neighbors USA. Other Information generated by the Cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by AddThis. To opt-out of data collection from AddThis, please visit AddThis’ Privacy Policy page and follow instructions to “Opt Out.”
c. Interest Based Advertising. Good Neighbors USA incorporates remarketing by utilizing third party vendors (such as Google) to display content specific advertisements to visitors who have previously visited the Good Neighbors USA site and/or expressed interest in the Good Neighbors USA products when such visitors go to other websites that also incorporate similar remarketing tools. Good Neighbors USA and other third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on a User’s past visits to the Good Neighbors USA site.
The Information Collected by or Through Third-Party Advertising Companies
We may share Other Information about your activity on the Platform with third
parties for the purpose of tailoring, analyzing, managing, reporting, and
optimizing advertising you see on the Platform and elsewhere. These third
parties may use Cookies, pixel tags (“pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “pixel gifs,”
or “clear gifs”), and/or other technologies to collect such Other Information
for such purposes. Pixel tags enable us, and these third-party advertisers, to
recognize a browser’s Cookie when a browser visits the site on which the pixel
tag is located in order to learn which advertisement brings a user to a given
site.
Search Engines and Other Sites
Search engines and other sites not affiliated with Good Neighbors USA, such as
archive.org or google.com, may crawl the Site and make available to the public
publicly-available content and postings from the site. The Site may also
contain links to other websites. Good Neighbors USA is not responsible for the
privacy practices of such other websites. Good Neighbors USA encourages its
visitors and users to be aware of such search engines and other sites when they
leave the Site and to read the privacy statement of each website they visit.
How
We Use and Share the Information
We use Personal Information and Other Information to provide you Services,
process your donations, solicit your feedback, inform you about our products
and services, personalize communications and fundraising appeals that we
believe will be of interest to you, and to improve our Services to you.
We may also use and/or share Personal Information, Other Information, and User Content as described below:
· All of your User Content on the Platform will be publicly viewable and shareable by other users both within and outside the Platform.
· We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include providing technical assistance and customer service. These other companies will have access to Personal Information and Other Information only as necessary to perform their functions and to the extent permitted by law.
· In an ongoing effort to better understand visitors to our site and our products and services, we may analyze Other Information in aggregate form in order to operate, maintain, manage, and improve our products and services. This aggregate information does not identify individuals personally. We may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents, and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our products and services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
· We may share some or all of the Personal Information and Other Information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, or other companies under common control with us.
· We may use charity logos, marks, mission statements, or other identifiers provided by a Registered User when updating a Charity Profile on the Good Neighbors USA Website to continue the normal course of Good Neighbors USA business.
· As we develop our businesses, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Personal Information and Other Information may be part of the transferred assets.
· To the extent permitted by law, we may also disclose the Personal Information and the Other Information: (i) when required by law, court order, or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory agency; or (ii) whenever we believe that disclosing such information is necessary or advisable, for example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Good Neighbors USA or others.
Accessing
and Modifying Information and Communication Preferences
Upon request, Good Neighbors USA will grant individuals reasonable access to
Personal Information that we and our agents hold about them. For example,
visitors to the Platform who have provided Personal Information to us may
review and/or make changes to the same by contacting Good Neighbors USA. In
addition, individuals may manage their receipt of marketing communications by
clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of any Good Neighbors
USA marketing e-mail or by following the instructions found on the Platform. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such requests in a timely
manner. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to
completely remove or modify information in our subscription databases.
How We Protect the Information
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect Personal Information and Other
Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration,
or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is
impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we
guarantee that the information that you supply will not be intercepted while
being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. In particular, e-mail sent
to or from the Platform may not be secure, and you should, therefore, take
special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail
Important Notices to Non-U.S. Residents
Our Platform and our servers are operated in the United States. If you are
located outside of the United States, please be aware that any Personal
Information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By
using the Platform and by providing us Personal Information in any manner, you
consent to this transfer and our use of the information and data provided by
you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If
you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us as
described in the “How to Contact Us” section below. We will investigate your
question, respond to your inquiry, and attempt to resolve any concerns
regarding your privacy question.
Links to External Websites
Good Neighbors USA’s website or any externally-facing communications from Good
Neighbors USA (from any Platform, online or offline, verbal, written, or
electronic) may contain links to third-party websites. Good Neighbors USA has
no control over the privacy practices or the content of those websites and is
therefore not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those
third-party websites. You should check the applicable third-party privacy
policy and terms of use when visiting any other websites.
Children
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of
13 through the Services. If you are under 13, please do not give us any
Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their
children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing
their children to never provide Personal Information through the Services
without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the
age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us, and we
will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
California Residents
Except with respect to Charity Representative Users as discussed above, it is Good
Neighbors USA ‘s policy not to disclose any personal information we collect to
third parties for direct marketing purposes under any circumstances. However,
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 requires that all California residents be
afforded the option to exercise your choice of whether your personal
information may be shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes or
not, as well as to receive information specified in the statute if your
personal information is disclosed to third parties for direct marketing
purposes. Accordingly, if you are a California resident and you wish to inform Good
Neighbors USA whether you permit or refuse the sharing of your personal
information with third parties for direct marketing purposes, or if you wish to
request certain information if your personal information were to be disclosed
to third parties for direct marketing purposes, please contact us as described
in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this
Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please be
aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of the Personal
Information and Other Information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect
at the time we collect the information. Please refer back to this Privacy
Policy on a regular basis.
How to Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Good Neighbors
USA via:
· e-mail at info@goodneighbors.us with “PRIVACY POLICY” in the subject line; or
· postal mail to: Privacy Administrator, Good Neighbors USA, 131 N Tustin Ave Ste 204 Tustin, CA 92780
Our intent is to promptly reply to every message we receive. This information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments. We also may file your comments to improve our services in the future.
Document Record Retention and Destruction Policy
A. GENERAL POLICY STATEMENT
1. It is the policy of Good Neighbors USA to retain all documents based on Good Neighbors USA’s record retention schedule. When the retention period is complete, documents will be destroyed.
2. Except as otherwise indicated, documents shall be retained for the number of years indicated in Part C.
3. Good Neighbors USA is to maintain complete, accurate and high-quality records in storage for the duration of the time periods provided for in this policy. Once any such time period is complete, the records are to be destroyed.
4. Industry technical reports and educational articles are excluded from this policy. Such documents may be maintained in the Good Neighbors USA library for such time as they are deemed of academic and research value in the discretion of the CFO.
5. The Secretary shall be responsible for authorizing, overseeing, and ensuring that records are destroyed pursuant to this policy.
B. EXCEPTION FOR INVESTIGATIONS AND LITIGATION
1. No documents will be destroyed if they are relevant to the investigation of any matter within the jurisdiction of a federal department, agency, or other official investigation. It is a crime for anyone to knowingly destroy documents with the intent to obstruct the proper administration of any investigation or proceeding under the jurisdiction of a federal agency.
2. No documents will be destroyed if they are relevant to litigation when Good Neighbors USA is a party in the case or expected to become a party or when Good Neighbors USA has received a subpoena.
C. RECORD RETENTION GUIDELINES
1. General Corporate Records
a. Articles of Incorporation and amendments Permanently
b. Bylaws Permanently
c. Meeting Minutes Permanently 2
d. Patents, trademark registrations, copyright registrations Permanently
e. Property records (including leases, deeds, easements, rights of way, appraisals, costs Permanently
f. Membership applications Minimum Membership term, plus 1 year* *Departing members have the right to request their application be destroyed 1 year after dropping. The term also applies to applications that are not accepted.
g. Correspondence relating to member discipline matters Membership term plus 5 years
h. Contracts (not otherwise specified herein) Life of Contract plus 3 years
i. Event Registration Records 3 years past event
2. Accounting, Finance and Tax Records
a. Income tax returns and filings Permanently
b. Audit reports of accountants Permanently
c. Cash books Permanently
d. Charts of accounts Permanently A chart of accounts is a listing of the names of the accounts that a company has identified and made available for recording transactions in its general ledger) e. Federal, state and local tax bills and statements 3 years
e. Schedules, ledgers and other supporting documentation for financial statements and tax forms 7 years
f. Bank reconciliations 3 years
g. Checking records, including account statements, check register and canceled checks (see exception below) 3 years
j. Accounts payable and receivable 7 years 3
k. End-of-year financial statements Permanently
l. Budget 3 years
m. Banking records, including deposit and withdrawal records, bank statements 3 years
Expense accounts and approvals 3 years
p. Invoices to members, customers and vendors 7 years
3. Insurance
a. Insurance records Permanently
b. Accident reports 7 years
c. Appraisals 7 years
4. Letters and Correspondence, General Guidelines
a. Letters Kept for One to Twelve Months, Then Destroyed
i. Unimportant letters, form letters, and notes that require no acknowledgment or follow-up.
ii. Letters of general inquiry and replies which complete a cycle of correspondence and have no value after possible reference from the correspondent within a reasonable period of time.
iii. Letters requesting specific action such as name or address change, complaints which have no further value after changes are made or action taken.
iv. Similar letters of various types which might be referred to shortly after they are received or written but which soon cease to have value unless further immediate correspondence ensues.
b. Letters to Be Kept One to Three Years
i. Letters relating to the establishment of credit/credit turn-downs.
ii. Letters applying for employment with Good Neighbors USA. 4
iii. Memoranda and reports about expense accounts which have limited value after the voucher is approved.
iv. Collection letters that have limited value after the account is paid.
v. Letters to which members or others may make reference for more than a year.
vi. Electronic mail ("Email") and any files attached thereto, provided that the subject matter of such Email and/or attached files are not covered by some other provision of this policy.
c. Letters to Be Kept for the Life of the Principal Document that It Supports
i. Letters that constitute all or part of a contract or that are important in the clarification of certain points in a contract.
ii. Letters denying liability of Good Neighbors USA.
