Effective from September 18, 2024

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Welcome to aheartformarietta.org's Privacy Policy.  We are truly excited to have you visit, explore and interact with our website.  Thank you for choosing to use our services.

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1. Please read carefully​

At aheartformarietta.org, we deeply care about the privacy of its visitors and users.  To that end, this Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how the aheartformarietta.org website ("AHFM Website") and any other of our related services (collectively - the "AHFM Privacy Policy"), collect, use, and share your Personal Information, as well as an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information.  This Privacy Policy applies to all A Heart for Marietta ("AHFM") users, including unregistered visitors and registered visitors (collectively, "Users", "you", "your"), and to all AHFM Services, including our websites (including aheartformarietta.org and any of its subdomains, the "Website"), web applications, and related services (collectively, the "Services").  This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you may enter into with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws.

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Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information.  If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us here. 

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2. What 'Personal Information' do we collect?

User Information:  To provide you the Services, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("Personal Information").  We collect Personal Information you provide, from your use of the Services, and from other sources.  Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:

1. Information you provide us.  When you register for our Services, register to attend and/or volunteer for any of our events, subscribe to our blog(s) or newsletter(s), contribute to our ministry by donations, use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., phone, text, emails, support tickets, etc.), you may provide us with Personal Information, such as your name, email address, phone number, address, payment information (for event tickets or product purchases), information you include in your communications with us and with other users on our platform, and Personal Information contained in scanned identification documents (such as an ID card, driver's license, passport, or official company registration documents).

2. Information we collect when you use the Services.  When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors' and Users' browsing and 'click-streaming' activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor's or User's device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc.

3. Information we collect from other sources.  We may receive Personal Information about you from third-party sources, such as i) security providers, fraud detection and prevention providers for example to help us screen out users associated with fraud, ii) social media platforms, when you visit our website via a hyperlink from using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile Personal Information) and in some cases, we collect Personal Information from leads for Host Recommendations which may be provided by other Visitors and Users who enter such information using our Connect with Us form, iii) advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.

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3. Why do we collect such 'Personal Information'

We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide and operate the Services;

• To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users' common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;

• To provide our Users with ongoing assistance and technical support;

• To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

• To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new patrons;

• To analyze our performance and marketing activities;

• To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;

• To comply (when necessary) with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we may have, or with any such laws that are applicable to us.

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4. How we share your 'Personal Information'

We may share your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following manners and instances:

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4.1 Third Party Service Providers:  AHFM may partner with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own.  This includes,

• billing and payment processing services,

• fraud detection and prevention services,

• web analytics,

• website performance measurement, and

• marketing services, etc., (collectively, "Third Party Service Provider(s)").

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4.2 Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties:  AHFM may disclose or otherwise allow access to any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith believe that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.

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4.3 Protecting Rights and Safety:  AHFM may share any categories of your Personal Information described in the Privacy Policy if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of AHFM, any of our Users, any of our Event Hosts, any of our other partners, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

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4.4 AHFM Subsidiaries and Affiliated Companies and/or Organizations:  We may share your Personal Information internally within our family of companies and/or organizations, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.  For example, we may share your Personal Information with any other AHFM subsidiaries and/or affiliated companies and/or organizations, in the course of facilitating and providing our Users with our services.

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4.5 In connection with a change in corporate control:  In addition, should AHFM or any of its affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of a merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such an event.

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5. Where do we Store/Process your 'Personal Information'?

AHFM processes data about individuals across the United States, and potentially across the world. If you are outside of the United States, we may transfer your Personal Information outside of the United States.  Your security, privacy and confidentiality are our top priority and will work to maintain strict security measures with your Personal Information. 

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6. Use of cookies and other third-party technologies

We and our Third Party Service Providers use cookies and other similar technologies ("Cookies") in order for us to provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience.

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7. Communications from AHFM

7.1 Promotional messages

We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail, text messages, notifications within our platform, marketing calls and similar forms of communication from AHFM or our partners (acting on behalf of AHFM) through such means.

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If you do not wish to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify AHFM at any time or follow the "unsubscribe" or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications that you receive.

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7.2 Service and billing messages

AHFM may also contact you with important information regarding our Services, or your use thereof.  For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for any reason; reply to your support request; send you reminders or warnings regarding upcoming or late payments for your current or upcoming subscriptions; or notify you of material changes in our Services.

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It is important that you are always able to receive such messages.  For this reason, you are unable to opt-out of receiving such Service and Billing Messages unless you are no longer a user of AHFM (which can be done by deactivating your account).

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We may also contact you with service and billing-related messages and content.  you will not be able to opt-out of receiving such messages.

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8. Your rights in relation to your 'Personal Information'

AHFM believes that it is imperative that all AHFM users have control over their Personal Information.  Therefore, depending on the way you use our Services, you may have the right to request access to, receive a copy of, update, amend or delete, restrict, or object to certain uses of your Personal Information (for example, for direct marketing purposes).  Further, when we rely on your consent for processing of your Personal Information (for instance, for direct marketing) you can withdraw your consent at any time, and such withdrawal will take effect from thereon.

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If you are a AHFM user, you can access and correct a lot of your Personal Information directly through your account, or via online forms which AHFM makes available to you.  You can also exercise your rights by sending your request to getinvolved@aheartformarietta.org.  When we receive your right request, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request to protect your privacy and security.

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Before fulfilling your request, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes.  We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law (e.g., if your request is unfounded or excessive).

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Please note that permanently deleting your AHFM account erases all of your Personal Information from AHFM's databases.  After completing this process, you can no longer use any of your AHFM Services, your account and all its data will be removed permanently, and AHFM will not be able to restore your account or retrieve your data in the future.  If you contact our support channels in the future, the system will not recognize your account and support agents will not be able to locate the deleted account.

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9. Data retention

We may retain your Personal Information for as long as your User Account is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.

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We may continue to retain your Personal Information after your User Account is deactivated and/or ceases to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.

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To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we process it, and the applicable legal requirements.

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10. Security

Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by AHFM, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information or any other information that you upload, publish, or otherwise share with AHFM or anyone else.  We encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and to avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive Personal Information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.

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Furthermore, because certain areas of our Services are less secure than others, for example, since e-mail and instant messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any Personal Information on any of these areas or via any of these methods.

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11. Third-party websites

Our Services may contain links to other websites or services.  We are not responsible for such websites' or services' privacy policies.  We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third-party websites and services.

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12. Public forums and user content

Our Services offer publicly accessible blogs, and social communities.  Please be aware that any Personal Information that you provide in any such areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them.  To request removal of your Personal Information from our blogs and/or social communities, feel free to contact us here.  In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information from such areas.  For example, if you use a third-party application to post a comment (e.g., the Facebook social plugin application) while logged in to your related profile with such third party, you must login into such application or contact its provider if you want to remove the Personal Information you posted on that platform.

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In any event, we advise against posting any Personal Information (via any means) that you don't wish to publicize.

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If you upload any user content via your User Account or post it on our Website, you do so are your own risk.  We cannot control the actions of other Users or members of the public who may access your User Content, and are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we may have in place (including, for instance, password-protected areas within our Website).  You understand and acknowledge that, even after its removal by you or us, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if any third parties have copied or stored such User Content.  To clarify, we advise against uploading or posting any information which you do not wish to be made public.

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13. Updates and interpretation

We may update this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law, and to reflect changes to our Personal Information collection, usage and storage practices.  If we make any changes that we deem as "material" (in our sole good faith discretion), we will notify you (using one of the notification methods set forth in Section 7) prior to the change becoming effective.  In relation to any updated Privacy Policy, we will, as required by applicable law, notify you, seek your consent and/or take any other measures to contact you.  We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.  Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you, with respect to our Website and Services.

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Any heading, caption or section title contained herein is provided only for convenience, and in no way defines or explains any section or provision hereof, or legally binds any of us in any way.

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This Privacy Policy was written in English, and may be translated into other languages for your convenience.  You may access and view other language versions by changing your Website language settings.  If a translated (non-English) version of this Privacy Policy conflicts in any way with its English version, the provisions of the English version shall prevail.