Privacy Policy

 

Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Privacy
CauseWash, LLC. ("CauseWash", "we", "us") is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. CauseWash has developed this Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") to help make sure you understand what information we collect and what CauseWash does with the information we collect. The Privacy Policy discloses the information we gather on www.CauseWash.com (the "Site"), as well as ways in which we process and, share such information and how you can correct or change such information. This Privacy Policy addresses our privacy practices relating to the general use of our Site by anyone who visits, browses, or otherwise uses the Site, or who otherwise contacts us by mail, email, social media, or telephone in connection with the services we offer (collectively, "you").

By visiting the Site, submitting information, making purchases, or using any of our products or services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and consent to having your data transferred to and/or processed in the United States. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.

The Information We Collect
CauseWash is a fundraising e-commerce platform to raise support for qualified 501(c)(3) organizations. CauseWash's core principles are that consumers can use their great purchasing power and leverage that spending to raise awareness and money for local causes they choose. The Site is intended to provide this great experience without requiring you to submit any more personal information than is reasonably necessary to use the Site effectively.

We collect the following categories of information from you:

Charities - If you establish an account with CauseWash, we will collect the name, tax ID, physical address, email address, and phone number of the person who establishes a Charity account.

Consumers - If you establish an account with CauseWash, we will collect your name, email address, mobile number, donation amount, and your selected charity. 

Web Beacons - A web beacon is a transparent image file. Web beacons enable CauseWash to track website usage information, such as the number of times a given web page has been viewed. Web beacons are invisible to you and (unlike cookies) are not placed on your computer. We may use them in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of the Site.

We may also use Web beacons to track whether you have opened an HTML email. When the email is opened, a part of the code that makes up the HTML page calls a web server to load the web beacon that then generates a record showing that the email has been viewed. Web Beacons may also recognize when the email was opened, how many times it was forwarded, and which URLs (links within the email) were clicked.

Pixel Tags - In addition, we use "Pixel Tags" (also referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to Cookies, that are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages. Pixel Tags also allow us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether e-mails have been opened to ensure that we are sending only messages that are of interest to our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a user. We do not tie the information gathered by Pixel Tags to our users’ personally identifiable information.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals - We do not currently respond to "do not track" signals or other mechanisms that might enable consumers to opt out of tracking on our Site.

Google Analytics - We use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Site. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site and Services. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit the Site, rather than your name or other personally identifying information. We do not combine the information generated through the use of Google Analytics with your personal information. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent Cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit the Site, the Cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

E-mail Communications - When you send an email to CauseWash, we may retain your email address and the contents of the email you send. 

Aggregated Information - From time to time, we may also ask you to provide us with information that is not intended to allow us to identify you personally. This information may be aggregated and used for our internal purposes for creating reports for third-party advertisers and partners, or otherwise shared with third parties for any lawful purpose, without your permission.

We also may automatically collect Site usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of users to the Site, pages visited, and similar data. This data is used in the aggregate, that is, as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that is intended to identify you personally. Aggregate information generally is collected through the use of cookies and web beacons as discussed above. This aggregate information helps CauseWash determine general usage patterns and modify the Site in order to improve your experience. This type of aggregate information may be shared with third parties at any time.

Information from Third Parties - It may be necessary, in rare cases, for us to obtain the address or other information about you from third-party sources for fraud prevention or for legal compliance, to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights of other users of the Site and our services.

How We Use Information
When you provide us with your personal information, we may use such information for a number of purposes, including:

1. To facilitate communication between CauseWash and you including, without limitation, responding to your questions or comments, sending emails concerning our products and services including upcoming events, announcements, and sweepstakes, or contacting you for feedback regarding us, advertisers, or business partners;
2. To administer your account, process sales, provide products or services to you and for CauseWash marketing and promotional activities;
3. To provide a report to a Charity to whom you have made a purchase;
4. To provide a report to a partner who is helping promote a Charity; To provide a report to our advertisers or business partners that tells them who responded to a particular offer or to facilitate the fulfillment of an order that you have made with an advertiser or business partner;
5. To provide you with important functionality changes to the Site, new CauseWash services, and to the extent permitted by law, special offers from CauseWash and reputable third parties that we think you will find valuable;
6. To customize, analyze, adjust, and improve the Site to meet our, advertisers or business partners' needs and expectations;
7. To enforce our agreements with you, prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities, for other legally permissible purposes, and generally ensure that we comply with applicable laws.

Payment and Credit Card Information
CauseWash does not collect, store, or otherwise maintain any payment method or credit card information from individuals who make purchases and donations through the Site. Purchases, including information associated with your credit card or payment method, are processed by our payment processing partner. 

Important Disclosures, Practices and Contact Information

Third-party Links - The Site may contain links to third-party websites. Please be aware that CauseWash cannot control and is not responsible for the information collection practices of such websites, which may differ from those of CauseWash. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of these websites before providing any information to them.

Data Security - We maintain a variety of safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, and disclosure. For example, we use industry-accepted tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems. We implement both physical and technological protocols to limit access to your personal information. Those employees or third parties who have access to your personal information are permitted to access and use it only to the extent necessary to fulfill their responsibilities to us, to keep the information confidential, and are not permitted to use such information for any other purpose. We keep your personal information only as long as it is required and we destroy, delete, or convert such information into an anonymous form when it is no longer required.

You should be aware, however, that CauseWash has no control over the security of other websites on the Internet that you might visit even when a link may appear to those websites from our Site. If you share your computer or use a computer that is accessed by the general public, remember to sign off and close your browser window when you have finished your session. This will help to ensure that others cannot access your personal information.

We want you to feel confident using the Site. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take commercially reasonable steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications always will remain secure. In the event of a breach of the confidentiality or security of your personal information, we will notify you if reasonably possible and as reasonably necessary so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may notify you under such circumstances using the email address(es) we have on record for you. You should also take care with how you handle and disclose your personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy - We may change this Privacy Policy, and any of our policies and procedures concerning our practices for managing personal information, at any time and without prior notice subject to applicable law. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the updated date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we only will notify you by sending an email to the email address(s) you provided to us, and by prominently posting notice of the changes on the Site. We will give you an opportunity to opt out of any materially changed Privacy Policy or alternatively, delete the information you have provided to us. We recommend that you check the Site from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies. Any changes that are made to this Privacy Policy will apply to both any personal information that we hold prior to the effective date of the amended Privacy Policy and any personal information that we collect on or after such effective date.

Contacting Us - If you have any questions about CauseWash generally, this Privacy Policy, or the Site please contact us through the Contact Us feature.

No Rights of Third Parties - This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.