Privacy Policy
Rahab’s Sisters is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal data. This privacy statement establishes how information gathered about you from your visit to our Website will be used by this Website's operators. The purpose of the Privacy Policy is to help you understand what information Rahab’s Sisters (RS) collects about you when you visit its main website (rahabs-sisters.org), access its mobile applications, and receive emails from RS. By using or receiving any of RS' websites, mobile applications, or emails, you signify your acceptance of this Online Privacy Policy.
Occasionally, RS may make changes to this policy. If RS makes changes, we will indicate it to you by changing the date at the bottom of this Online Privacy Policy. Your use of any RS website, mobile applications or continuing to receive emails following the posting of changes to these terms will constitute your acceptance of those changes.
RS respects the privacy of our Guests, volunteers, clients, sponsors, partners, donors and community members. We do not sell any information for any purpose.
By law, all credit card information we receive is kept confidential and secure. All online transactions are secure.
What Data is Collected?
If you read or download information:
We may collect and store information for statistical purposes. For example, we may count the number of visitors to the different sections of our site to help us make them more useful. The information collected may include such items as the name and domain of the host from which you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using or your browser software and operating system. This information does not identify you personally.
If you send email to our website:
By sending us an electronic mail message, you may be sending us personal information (i.e., your name, address, email address, etc.). We may store the name and address of the requester in order to respond to the request or otherwise resolve the subject matter of your email. You should know that email is not necessarily secure against interception and may be subject to the disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act or other legal disclosure requirements.
If you provide personally identifying information collected from emails and web forms:
By sending us an email (electronic mail message) or filling out a web form, you are sending us personal information (i.e., your name, address, email address or other information you voluntarily provide). We store this information in order to respond to or process your request.
Information transmitted by user is not secure from interception:
We take several measures to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us when you use our website. However, there is a possibility that information transmitted to us over the Internet may be intercepted by a third party.
If you choose to send us an email, or fill out an online form on our website, you should know that the information is not necessarily secure against interception, and may be subject to the disclosure requirements or other legal disclosure requirements.
How and Why?
We collect data for the following purposes:
To provide our services to you.
To improve our website and enhance user experience.
To communicate with you regarding our services, updates, and promotions.
We use the collected data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our services.
To communicate with you.
To analyze website usage and improve our offerings.
Data Retention
We retain your information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you choose not to provide us with your name or other information, it may be impossible for us to refer, respond to the issue you are inquiring about.
Information Sharing
Rahab's Sisters does not sell or rent your personal information. And specifically, any phone numbers collected for SMS consent will not be shared for marketing purposes.
However, we contract with third-party vendors in order to provide certain services including donation processing, analytics, client management, program services, volunteer management, distribution and customization of RS' email newsletters, and may need to share your personal information with these vendors to accomplish these functions where we are lawfully permitted to do so, or to government agencies where required by law. RS requires third-party vendors to protect the privacy of RS' online visitors and to keep all information secure and confidential and prohibits them from using or sharing such information except as specifically described in their agreements with RS.
Opting Out
If you voluntarily provide information in connection with a RS service, programs, or purchase, except as required by Public Records Act requirements, you may opt out of having this information shared with other organizations by sending a request via email to development@rahabs-sisters.org or via postal mail to Rahab’s Sisters, Attention: Development, PO Box 90234, Portland, OR 97290
Children under 13 years of age
RS does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information. We may refuse to process, or continue to process, the child’s personal information until we receive this evidence of consent or authorization.
Links to Third-Party Websites
Our website also contains links to information located on websites maintained by other public agencies and private organizations. Once you access an individual document that links you to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of the website containing that document.
UPDATED ON: July 1, 2024