Association of War Zone Contractors Privacy Policy

1. When We Collect Information

• Register or fill out forms through our website;
• Donate to our fundraising campaign;
• Sign up for our email newsletter, SMS, or other communications;
• Contact us.

2. Types Of Personal Information We Collect

• Contact details such as your name, email address, postal address, and phone number.
• Information from the forms you fill out, which may include providing us with your name, email, phone number, and postal address. Forms may also include requests for health-related information. If you complete any optional forms that include health-related information, you hereby consent for AOWC to use this information for any purpose necessary to fulfill our mission and services.
• Our website offers you the ability to interact with us by signing up for email communications, downloading content, registering for webinars or events, and through community forums.
• Financial and payment information such as credit and debit card numbers.

• Metadata and analytics for your use of our Services, including IP address, device information, date/time of visits, new or returning visits, products viewed, page response times, URL clickstreams, how long you stay on our pages, what you do on those pages.
• We may use cookies, beacons, pixel tags, and other similar technologies to collect additional information automatically as you interact with the Services and to personalize your experience with our Services. Learn more about our cookie use below.

• When you interact with our accounts on a social media platform, we may collect certain information that you or the platform make available to us such as your social media account ID, your social media ‘likes’, click-throughs to our Website, or custom interactions.

3. How We Use Your Information

• To operate and improve our website, mission and services, including compiling lists of individuals who have been impacted by their war zone contracting efforts;
• To process payments securely;
• For customer support;
• To communicate with you, including via our newsletter and SMS;
• For marketing and advertising;
• For other business and legal purposes, such as to detect and prevent fraud, to collect amounts owing to us, and to maintain business records;
• With your consent.

4. How We Disclose Your Personal Information

• Help us communicate with you. For example, we disclose your information to email service providers who assist with our email communications to you;
• Manage and optimize our Website and services, including DonorBox who assists with our fundraising;
• Provide marketing and advertising services (see ‘Use Of Cookies And Tracking.

• We may share your personal information in order to: Protect the legal rights of our organization or its members, our employees, our agents, and our affiliates;Protect the safety and security of our customers;Detect and protect against fraud;Comply with law or legal process.
• We may share your personal information as part of a business transition.We may also share your personal information with prospective acquirers of our organization in order to evaluate the proposed transaction, or in conjunction with a final transaction. That organization may use and disclose personal information for purposes similar to those described in this Privacy Policy.

5. Your Privacy Choices

• Access the personal information we maintain about you;
• Delete the personal information we maintain about you;
• Correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you;
• Opt out of certain uses of your personal information, notably:
Protect the legal rights of our organization or its members, our employees, our agents, and our affiliates;Protect the safety and security of our customers;Detect and protect against fraud;Comply with law or legal process.
• We may share your personal information as part of a business transition.
  Email marketing. You can unsubscribe to our email list by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of marketing emails;SMS marketing. You can opt out at any time by replying STOP;Tailored advertising using third party cookies. Please refer to the ‘Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies’ section below to learn how to opt out of tailored ads.

6. Use Of Cookies And Tracking Technologies

• Opting out of cookie use in our Cookie Preferences Center. You can opt out of cookies via our cookie preferences center or by clicking on the ‘Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information’ link on our website footer;
• Blocking Cookies In Your Browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.;
• Advertising Industry Opt-Out Tools. You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising online or in apps by visiting http://optout.aboutads.info;
• With Each of Our Vendors Individually. The following advertising or marketing services partners offer opt-out features that let you opt-out of use of your information for interest-based advertising or profiling:

7. Security

8. Retention

9. Information for UK and EU Residents

• Legal Basis:Under the GDPR, we process ‘Personal Data’ (as defined in the GDPR) under the following legal basis.
  
• Controller Designation:Under the GDPR, we are designated as a ‘Controller.’
• Cross-Border Data Transfers: All data is stored in the United States. As such, if you are a resident of the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we may transfer to, and store the data we collect about you, to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected, including the United States. Those countries may not have equivalent data protection laws as the country in which you provided the data. When we transfer your data to other countries, we will protect the data as described in this Privacy Policy and comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of data to countries outside the EEA, UK, and Switzerland. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data to countries that have not received an applicable adequacy decision, as well as the UK’s ‘International Data Transfer Addendum’ to the SCCs.

• Additional Rights for UK or European Economic Area Residents:In addition to the rights granted above, if you are a UK or EEA resident, the GDPR grants you the right to lodge a complaint against us with your local data protection authority. You can find your data protection authority at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en.

10. Third-Party Links On Our Website

11. Changes To This Privacy Policy