Through websites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the “Websites”), through our social media pages and apps located at:

https://www.facebook.com/HumanRightsInChildbirth/

https://www.instagram.com/human_rights_in_childbirth/

https://twitter.com/birthhumanright

https://www.pinterest.com/birthhumanright/

http://humanrightsinchildbirth.tumblr.com/

(our “Social Media Pages”),

through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy, and through offline interactions with you. Collectively, we refer to the Websites and our Social Media Pages, as the “Services”).

Through the Services

We collect Personal Information through the Services, for example, when you sign up for a newsletter, register an account to access the Services, or make a purchase.

Offline

We collect Personal Information from you offline, e.g., when you attend one of our events, provide us with Personal Information over the phone, or contact customer service.

From Other Sources

We receive your Personal Information from other sources, for example:

–          publicly available databases

–          joint promotional partners, when they share the information with us;

We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you.  If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests.

To provide the Services’ functionality to you and providing you with related customer service, or to register you to attend events.

To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests (such as membership requests), when you contact us via one of our online contact forms or otherwise, for example, when you send us questions, suggestions, compliments or complaints, or when you request a quote for or other information about our Services.

To complete your transactions, especially your donations, and provide you with related customer service.

To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions and policies.

We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or to comply with a legal obligation.

Providing you with our newsletter and/or other promotional materials

To send you promotional related emails, with information about our services, new campaigns and other news about our organization or events that we believe may be of interest to you.

We will engage in this activity with your consent or where we have a legitimate interest.

Aggregating and/or anonymizing Personal Information

We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.

Accomplishing our business purposes

For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services;

For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements;

For fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft;

For developing new campaigns and services;

For enhancing, improving, or modifying our current campaigns and services;

For identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users;

For determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users; and

For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’ interests;

We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or because we have a legitimate interest.

To our third party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us.

These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, e-mail delivery services, credit card processing, and other services.

By using the Services, you may elect to disclose Personal Information

On message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.

To comply with applicable law and regulations.

This can include laws outside your country of residence.

To cooperate public and government authorities.

To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is important

These can include authorities outside your country of residence.

To cooperate with law enforcement.

For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders or provide information we believe is important.

For other legal reasons.

To enforce our terms and conditions; and

To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.

In connection with a sale or business transaction.

We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization or its assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). Such third parties may include, for example, an acquiring entity and its advisors.

Through your browser or device

Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.

Using cookies

Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.  We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used and assist us with resolving questions regarding them.  We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services.

Using pixel tags and other similar technologies

Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our promotional campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.

IP Address

Your IP address is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider.  An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited.  Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.

In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information.  If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information.  For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a donation, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such donation). Finally, we are not responsible for removing or suppressing information from the databases of third parties with whom we have already shared your Personal Information, or limiting their use of your Personal Information.