Privacy Policy

Last Modified 7/14/2020

Introduction

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to this website, www.holidaybettertogether.org, and all websites, social media sites, mobile applications, and other services that expressly reference and/or incorporate this Policy (collectively, the “Site”). The Site is owned, operated, licensed or controlled by Holiday Helping Hands, Inc. d/b/a Better Together Foundation (“Company,” “we,” “us”).

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Site and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Site.
• In email, text, chat, and other electronic messages between you and this Site.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company that does not expressly incorporate this Policy (including any affiliates and subsidiaries), or any unrelated third party website; or
• any third party (including any affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

International Users

This Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on or via our Site from residents of the United States. If you are visiting our Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using or visiting our Site, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number (“personal information”); and/or
• about your internet connection, your IP address, the equipment you use to access our Site, and usage details.

If you are applying for a grant on this Site, personal information may also include data to determine your eligibility for a grant, including but not limited to, bank statements, paycheck stubs, medical information, medical bills, housing information, police reports, death certificates, utility bills, court orders, receipts, rent/mortgage statements, invoices, and school transcripts.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through tags, beacons, pixels, and cookies.
• From third parties.

Information You Provide to Us.

The information we collect on or through our Site may include:

• Information that you provide by applying for a grant.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Usage Details, IP Addresses and Cookies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, geographic location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

Some of the information we collect automatically is statistical data, and does not identify any individual. We use Google Analytics to measure and understand our users’ engagement on the Site. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your geographic location, preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Site.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Site may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Site. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. Examples include but are not limited to ad retargeting, Google remarketing by participating in AdSense, and Bing re-messaging by participating in AdCenter. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices about How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixels, tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Links to Other Sites

This Site links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by Company. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Site and its contents to you.
• To process your grant application to our Company.
• To provide you with information that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To notify you about changes to our Site or any services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Site users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Grant Applications

With respect to grant applications, we will hold your application information (and the personal information contained in it) on file for a limited period of time, whether or not you are offered a grant. We, and our contractors or service providers, may collect, save, process and use your personal information for the purpose of considering you for a grant for a limited period of time (not exceeding two years after submission of any modification to your application). At any time you may revoke consent with effect from the date such revocation is notified to us at info@holidaybettertogether.org except that personal information may be retained for longer than the above two years if required by law.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may also send us an e-mail at info@holidaybettertogether.org to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Data Security

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Site and third-party websites. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Site.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Site or on or through any of its features on the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Site or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@holidaybettertogether.org

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to alter, modify, update, add to, subtract from or otherwise change this Policy at any time, which will become effective as of posting on the Site. We will use your personal information in a manner consistent with the Policy in effect at the time you submitted the information, unless we receive your consent to the new or revised Policy. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at info@holidaybettertogether.org