The Commit Partnership Website Privacy Policy

Effective Date: February 10, 2025

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how The Commit Partnership, a 501(c)(3) organization (“we” or “Commit Partnership”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you interact with our website (www.commitpartnership.org) (the “Site”).

When we say “we,” we mean The Commit Partnership, who will act as a data controller for your personal data. The address for The Commit Partnership is 3000 Pegasus Park Drive, Suite 900, Dallas, TX, 75247, United States of America. The Commit Partnership is the data controller of personal information collected under this Policy.

Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, and Oregon residents should review the Privacy Rights section of this Policy for information about rights they may have.

This Privacy Policy explains the following:

1. The Information We Collect
2. How We Use Your Information
3. How We Share Your Information
4. How We Protect and Store Your Information
5. Our Retention of Your Information
6. Opt-Out Choices
7. No Use by Children
8. Links to Unaffiliated Third-Party Websites
9. How to Contact Us
10. Privacy Rights
11. Updates to this Privacy Policy

1. The Information We Collect

We may collect information about you by the following means:

• Directly from you, such as when you provide information to us or interact with us, including when you provide a donation or subscribe to our newsletter;
• Automatically from you, such as when you utilize or interact with our Site;
• From school partners pursuant to agreements with the schools;
• From online advertising companies who may share information about the marketing and advertisements you have seen or clicked on, and other sources of publicly available data; and
• From other third party sources such as our vendors, suppliers, contractors or partners.

We may collect the following categories of information:

• Contact information and any other information you choose to include when you sign up to receive information about our organization, make a donation, or communicate with us via e-mail, mail, or other channels. This information may include name, e-mail address, company name, job title, mailing address, and phone numbers.
• Financial information if you make a donation to Commit Partnership. We will collect payment information such as your credit card number to process your transaction. We may use a third-party payment service to process payments and will retain your credit card information only for as long as necessary to process the transaction.
• Social media information, such as social media identifiers and/or interests or opinions expressed, if you engage with us directly on social media platforms.
• Employment information if you apply for employment with us or volunteer your professional services. We may collect employment information including job history and credentials or title and organization with whom you work.
• Online user activity described in the next section.
• Legally Required Information that may be required by laws that apply to Commit Partnership.

You may also provide information directly to our partners and vendors, such as when you create a profile with the partner or vendor; this Policy does not apply to the practices of our partners or vendors and we are not responsible for their actions and privacy policies or the websites that they operate. When you interact with the Site, certain information about your use of our Site is automatically collected. This includes:

• Usage details about your interaction with our Site (such as the date, time, and length of visits, and specific pages or content accessed during the visits, search terms, frequency of the visits, referring website addresses);
• Device information including the IP address and other details of a device that you use to connect with our Site (such as device type, operating system, browser type, and mobile network information);
• Location information where you choose to provide the Site with access to information about your device’s location; and
• Site usage information. We collect information about your interaction with the Site, including the pages viewed and how you reached our Site.

Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies, which may be operated by our analytics and marketing partners who assist us in serving ads or providing other services to you. Your browser may allow you to disable cookies, or the cookie providers listed may provide an opt-out tool. Also, the following websites provide useful information about cookies, and may permit you to control the use of cookies by certain third parties: http://www.networkadvertising.org and http://www.aboutads.info.Like most websites, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain website usage data. To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out of personalized ads from Google, see https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Note that, when you opt out of personalized advertising, you may continue to see online advertising on the Site and/or our ads on other websites and online services. Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our Site do not work properly.Our Site does not respond to browser do-not-track signals.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect from you for the following purposes, to:

• Provide our Site to you;
• Respond to your requests for updates, comments, and questions;
• Contact you for the purpose of raising funds for Commit Partnership;
• Process your donation transaction;
• Monitor the performance of our Site including metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns;
• Interact with you, including to notify you with updates regarding our programs and to inform you about important changes to this Policy;
• Tailor the content we display to you in our Site and communications, including advertising;
• Manage, operate, and improve the Site, including our understanding of our Site users and the effectiveness of our marketing, and diagnose or fix technology problems;
• Conduct audits, data analysis, recordkeeping, developing new programs, enhancing, improving or modifying our programs, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of fundraising campaigns and program activities, and updating and expanding our organizational activities; and
• Comply with legal requirements and industry standards, detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal, and protect the rights of Commit Partnership, you, or others.

We may use and share information in an aggregated or de-identified manner at our discretion, including for research, analysis, modeling, marketing, and improvement of our Site.

3. How We Share Your Information

• Vendors, Partners, and Service Providers. We may share information with service providers, volunteers, program partners, and other third parties that assist Commit Partnership in furtherance of its goals and that we believe need the information to perform a research, organizational, or other professional function for us such as website operation, maintenance and hosting of our Site, processing your donation, business partners, accounting, auditing, and tax services, other professional services, and others with your consent.
• Social Media. If you engage with Commit Partnership on a public, social media platform, you may be sharing your personal information with your friends associated with your social media account, to other website users, and to your social media account provider, in connection with your social sharing activity. Please note that any information you post within these public forums or social media pages may become public and may be read, collected, and used by anyone.
• Merger, sale, or other asset transfers. We reserve the right to transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, joint venture, change in ownership control, assignment, transfer, financing transaction or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Policy.
• Legal. We share information where necessary to comply with applicable law, to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government authorities or third parties, as permitted by law and without your consent when it is necessary to protect our donors, employees, or property; to enforce our Terms of Use; in emergency situations; or to enforce our rights under our policies.
• Your Consent. In addition to the other disclosures described in this section, we may also disclose your information as you expressly authorize us to do so.

4. How We Protect and Store Your Information

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Site. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

5. Our Retention of Your Information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

6. Opt-Out Choices

Email Marketing. If at any time you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us via email, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the relevant email or email us at privacy@commitpartnership.org.

7. No Use by Children

We do not knowingly or intentionally gather personal information about children who are under the age of 13. If a child has provided us with personal information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us at privacy@commitpartnership.org to have the information deleted from our records. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 13, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible and cease the use of that information in accordance with applicable law.

8. Links to Unaffiliated Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to unaffiliated third-party websites. This Policy does not apply to the practices of such other websites, and we are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of the third parties that operate or interact with those websites.

9. How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Policy or if you would like to make a suggestion about our privacy practices, please send an email to privacy@commitpartnership.org.  

10. Privacy Rights

Certain jurisdictions have specific legal requirements and grant privacy rights with respect to personal information, and we will comply with restrictions and any requests you submit as required by applicable law.If you are a resident of one of the U.S. states listed below, you may have one or more of the following rights: (1) to request additional information about our data collection, use, disclosure, and sales practices in connection with your personal information; (2) to request the specific personal information collected about you; (3) to request the deletion of the personal information we have about you, with exceptions; (4) to request a restriction on certain processing of personal information; (5) to request correction of inaccurate information; (6) to opt-out of the processing of personal information for the purpose of “profiling” in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects; and (7) to opt-out of the “selling” and “sharing” (“targeted advertising”) of personal information as such terms are defined under U.S. state privacy laws. Please note, Commit Partnership “sells” and “shares” certain personal information (engages in “targeted advertising”), as those terms are defined under certain state privacy laws. Commit Partnership’s “selling” and “sharing” relates to its use of certain cookies and similar technologies on the Site and the online identifiers, IP addresses, and internet or other similar network activity information collected through such technologies. Also, see the chart below for a description of the categories of personal information that are “sold” or “shared”/used for “targeted advertising” (as those terms are defined under certain state privacy laws) and for a description of the categories of third parties that such personal information is disclosed to. Commit Partnership does not engage in profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. You may also have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. If you are a resident of one of the following U.S. states, you have one or more of these rights:

Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, Oregon

If you are located outside these jurisdictions and seek to exercise your rights under the law of another jurisdiction, please contact us by emailing privacy@commitpartnership.org.

You may submit a request regarding your personal information by:

• Emailing us at: privacy@commitpartnership.org
• Calling us at: 214-451-0568

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. When you make a request, we may require that you provide information and follow procedures so that we can verify your identity (and the applicable jurisdiction). The verification steps we take may differ depending on your jurisdiction and the request. Where possible, we will attempt to match the information that you provide in your request to information we already have on file to verify your identity. If we are able to verify your request, we will process it. If we cannot verify your request, we may ask you for additional information to help us do so. We will respond to your request within the time period required by applicable law. However, we may not always be able or required to comply with your request, in whole or in part, and we will notify you in that event.

‍11. Updates to this Privacy Policy

‍Our Policy may change from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are material, we may provide a more prominent notice (including, email notification of privacy notice changes) for a reasonable period of time. Nevertheless, you should review this Policy from time to time to be sure you are aware of the most recent version.