This Privacy Notice explains how Welcome Home Jersey City processes information about the visitors of our website.
What This Privacy Notice Covers
This section describes Welcome Home Jersey City, what we do, and what this Privacy Notice covers.
We support refugees that relocate to Jersey City, NJ. We help with housing, translation services, tutoring, and in a number of other ways to support people who come here as refugees. We use this website to make announcements, raise funds, gather donations, and provide other services to support refugees.
In this Privacy Notice we refer to the users of this site as our “Visitors,” and we’ll refer to this website as “Site.” Visitors on this Site can read published content and interact with the Site through features such as comments, “likes,” poll/survey responses, and donations.
We put together this Privacy Notice to help our Users understand the information we collect about our Site visitors.
Information We Collect About Visitors to Our Site
We collect information about visitors to our Site in a few different ways — we collect some information automatically, and we collect any information that our Users provide to us.
Information a Visitor Provides to our Site
We’ll start with information that visitors provide directly to our Site, which primarily happens when visitors type into a text field on the Site, like a comment field or a sign-up form.
Here are the most common ways in which a visitor directly provides information to our Site:
- Subscriber Information: When a visitor subscribes to our newsletter, we collect the sign-up information, which includes an email address, first name, and last name.
- Site Comments: When a visitor leaves a comment on the Site, we collect that comment, and other information that the visitor provides along with the comment, such as the visitor’s name and email address.
- Donations: If a visitor donates to a fundraising campaign (thank you!) through PayPal or the Charitable plugin, we may collect information to process that donation, such as credit card and billing information. We may also use this information for other purposes –for example, to send marketing and other communications to our donors.
- Other Information Entered on the Site: We may also collect other information that a visitor enters on the Site–such as a contact form submission, a search query, or Site registration.
Information We Automatically Collect from the Site
We also automatically collect some information about visitors to our Site. We’ve listed examples below:
- Technical Data from a Visitor’s Computer and Etcetera: We collect the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a Site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
- Visitor Interactions: We collect information about a visitor’s interactions with the Site, including the “likes” and “ratings” left by visitors to our Site.
- Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, tally how many people visit our Site from certain geographic regions. If you’d like, you can read more about the Site Stats feature for WordPress.com sites and Jetpack sites.
- Akismet Commenter Information: We collect information about visitors who comment on our Site through the Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself, of course).
- Jetpack Site Activity: We collect visitor activities related to the management of the Site, such as login attempts/actions and comment submission and management actions. For more information, please see the Jetpack Privacy Center.
- Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a Site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Site each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on Sites. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and Site usage, and to deliver targeted ads when ads are enabled for free WordPress.com sites or when ads are enabled on a Site through WordAds or Jetpack Ads (see the “Other Tools” section below for more details).
Other Information
We also collect other information about visitors to our Sites. For example, we may upload a directory or other information about Site visitors and customers to the “backend” administrative platform for managing the Site.
How We Use Visitor Information
We use information about Site visitors in order to provide our Services. We may use our Services to, promote upcoming events, collect goods or donations, to announce volunteer opportunities.
We may also use and share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify any individual. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our services.
How We Share Visitor Information
We may share information collected about Site visitors in the limited circumstances spelled out below:
- Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose Site visitor information to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our services to our Users and their Sites, or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Notice for information about visitors that we share with them.
- Third Party Vendors: We may share Site visitor information with third party vendors who need to know this information in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services to our Users. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
- Legal Requests: We may disclose Site visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
- To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Welcome Home, our visitors, clients, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of our assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another organization, or in the unlikely event that Welcome Home goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, Site visitor information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Notice would continue to apply to Site visitor information and the party receiving this information may continue to use this information, but only consistent with this Privacy Notice.
- Information Shared Publicly: Information that visitors choose to make public is disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like visitor comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about the visitor that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like” (such as a visitor’s WordPress.com username and Gravatar).
How Long We Keep Visitor Information
If we are not legally required to keep it, we generally discard information about Site visitors when no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it on behalf of our users — those purposes which are described in the “How We Use Visitor Information” section above.
As another example, when a Site visitor views our Site we use their IP address in order to update our Site Stats with information about their visit, like what country they are in. We keep that IP address for approximately 30 days to give us time to calculate monthly Site Stats and address any issues with those counts.
Other Tools
Analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about visitors’ use of a Site and across other websites and online services, such as a visitor’s IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by those companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to visitor interests. For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org, and for more information on interest-based ads, including information about how visitors may be able to opt out of having their web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit aboutads.info/choices (US based) and youronlinechoices.eu (EU based).
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It has been modified from the WordPress Privacy Notice.