Privacy Policy
Effective Date: November 15, 2016
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information Just Liberty collects about you, how your information may be used and when it may be disclosed, how your information is protected, and how you can control the use and disclosure of your information.
1SCOPE
This Just Liberty Privacy Policy applies to information provided or collected in connection with JL’s advocacy programs and campaigns, resource tools, and their associated websites that link to this Privacy Policy, which web sites include JustLiberty.org and JustLibertyAction.org (each, a “Site” and collectively, the “Sites”).
2YOUR CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The Just Liberty Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to our Just Liberty User Agreement. By using our Sites, you consent to our Just Liberty User Agreement and Privacy Policy, including our use and disclosure of your personal information as delineated in this Just Liberty Privacy Policy.
3INFORMATION WE COLLECT, HOW WE COLLECT IT, AND HOW WE USE IT
The information on our site can be accessed without our collecting any personally identifiable information from you. You can view much our content anonymously. For instance, you can access information on policy issues affecting you without giving out any personally identifiable information.
The information we gather on our Sites falls into two categories: (1) personal information, such as personal information you supply when you engage in activities like “taking action” on a policy issue, donating, registering for webinars and conferences and to receive email updates, or sharing your personal experience of a partiJLlar issue through our Share Your Story website feature, and (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our Sites.
Personally identifiable information (PII)
To use certain features on our Sites, we ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information (also referred to as PII), such as your name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number. We use this information to complete the transaction you requested, to provide you information relevant to your interests or to help improve our site. For example, we request this information when you register to receive communications from us, transmit letters seeking to influence decision-makers on a policy issue, complete an online form. We also enable you to donate to our organization through our website. If you do so, we collect your credit/debit card information (also referred to as payment card information) in addition to your name, address, telephone number and email address. From time to time we may ask volunteers for additional information to facilitate your volunteer role.
Certain of our Sites also contains a Share Your Story feature whereby you can share your experiences. Each Share Your Story feature asks you to provide specific information about your experience and to provide your contact information, including name, email address, street address and telephone number. The information we learn from you helps us better understand the criminal justice system and informs our efforts to effect policy change. In each Share Your Story feature, we provide terms addressing how we will treat your information and ask you to indicate your preferences with respect to making that information about your experiences public or otherwise sharing it. Those terms govern JL’s treatment of your story and the personal information you provide with it.
Supplemental Information We May Receive From Other Sources
We may supplement information you give us with information from other sources, for example, we may obtain your legislative district information based on the mailing address you provide us in order to make sure your message is received by the correct lawmaker.
Information Collected Through Technology
When you use our Sites, we or our service providers may collect tracking information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and pages visited on the site. None of this information, taken alone, identifies you personally; it is collected for aggregate reporting on site activity. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our websites or which pages or features get the most attention. We use this information to make our websites more useful to you.
We use “cookies” to store and sometimes to track user information. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, taking action on one of our advocacy campaigns, agreeing to be part of our advocacy network or registering on our Sites. A cookie is a small amount of code that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie contains a unique number that allows our site to recognize your computer. The “help” function on most browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you don’t accept cookies, you won’t be able to take advantage of some features on our Sites that are available to other visitors.
HTML verification: When sending email to recipients, we may place a one-pixel gif in that email to detect whether or not you viewed the email. This process does not leave any information on your computer, nor does it collect information from your computer. JL only uses this information to improve our email communications with you.
JL uses Google Analytics to collect and analyze tracking information about usage of the certain of our Sites. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and report on visitor interactions (including visitor IP addresses). Information about Google’s privacy policy and the Google Analytics program can be found here and here.
JL uses PII in a limited number of ways. We use the information to provide you with news and action alerts based on the interests you have expressed by taking action on an advocacy campaign through our Sites or through an online form that you have filled out. We also use information you have provided about specific experiences to inform our efforts to effect policy change, subject to your selected preferences concerning our use of your information. We also use the information you provide to send you email about Just Liberty advocacy issues and programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you as described in our email policies section below.
4OUR EMAIL POLICIES
Email newsletters and action alerts: You may agree to receive updates or news about JL’s activities, which will be sent to the email account you identified. If you have taken an action on a policy issue and are receiving our email updates, we may send you email about other policy issues that may be of interest to you.
5SHARING YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Sharing With Affiliated or Unaffiliated Entities
Just Liberty does not sell or rent any information provided by you via our Sites with any unaffiliated third party except in limited circumstances to provide products and services to you or in response to a request from law enforcement or as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Just Liberty is committed to your privacy even in the face of requests from law enforcement.
When you participate in one of our consumer advocacy campaigns, for example, sending a message to policy decision-makers through one of our advocacy campaign pages, we pass along certain of your personal information with your message, including your first and last name, street address and email address. Lawmakers may use this information to contact you directly about your comments on a law or policy of interest to them and you.
Under the terms governing your Share Your Story submission, we may also share certain personal information when disclosing your experience with a particular consumer issue to policymakers, fellow criminal justice reform organiztions and the media (subject to the preferences you have set when submitting your story).
Donations
Just Liberty does not share donor information with other entities.
You may be contacted by mail, phone or email to make an additional donation to Just Liberty or to subscribe to publications, books and other services.
Sharing With Service Providers
In some instances, we use third-party companies to help us provide our products and services to you, like donation processing and email delivery services for our email communications and e-newsletters. In those instances we need to share your information with them. We require that those companies agree to use the information only to deliver the product or service or to process your donation.
We use third parties to provide us with software solutions like mapping, legislative districting and other website features. These software solutions may require information like your street address to be shared with the application.
Sharing for Legal Purposes or Sale of a Business
We reserve the right to share your personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or if we determine in our sole discretion that it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected illegal activities, any violations of our User Agreement (including this Privacy Policy), or in connection with any safety or security concerns.
From time to time, JL may purchase or establish a business, or sell one or more of our businesses and your personally identifiable information may be transferred as part of the merger or acquisition, creation of a separate business to provide certain of our products and services, or sale or pledge of our assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, your personally identifiable information would be transferred as one of the business assets of JL. Information, including personal information, about donors and other users of our Sites and other products and services may also need to be disclosed in connection with a transaction in which JL or one of our affiliates, is seeking financing, investment, support or funding. If JL sells a business or engages in one of the other types of transactions noted above, personal information will be subject to the promises made in our privacy policy in effect at the time of the transfer of that information.
Mandatory Disclosure for Certain Promotional Offers, Sweepstakes or Contests
If you provide your name for a promotional offer to enter a sweepstakes or contest, and win a prize, we will post a winner’s list online, and will file your name, address and phone number with state agencies and/or otherwise disclose and/or file a winner’s list as required by law.
Third-Party Use of Aggregate, Anonymous Data
We authorize certain service providers to utilize for their business purposes and in accordance with their privacy policies aggregated, anonymous information derived from data collected when you use the products and services they support on our behalf. For example, these service providers may use this aggregated, anonymous information to report on website usage or industry trends to their customer base. None of this information identifies you personally, nor are our service providers allowed to link it any of the personally identifying information we collect from you.
6THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES
7HOW YOU CAN CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION
8CHOICE/OPT OUT
We may send you emails relating to your account. We may also send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. You may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.
Opting Out of Other Communications
JL provides you with the opportunity to opt out of receiving further communications from us.
To unsubscribe from email newsletters and action alerts, follow the instructions included in every email we send you.
When you make a donation to Just Liberty, you may be contacted by mail, phone or email to make an additional donation to our organization or to subscribe to publications, books or other services. You may opt-out of only donation related email and still receive action alerts, news and information about Texas criminal justice policy.
9SECURITY
Credit card information. Your donation will be processed using data encryption technology to help protect against loss, misuse or alternation of your sensitive credit or debit card information. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software is utilized to create an encrypted connection for the transmission of any credit or debit card information you input online via JustLiberty.org.
Personal Information. We protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls. Please keep in mind that any information you include in a message you post online to any discussion group, or other public posting area on our websites is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don’t want people to know your name or email address, for example, do not include them in any message you post publicly.
Please note, however, that email communications to our Sites or sent via a Site’s email functionality to third parties, such as email communications sent to political representatives, are not encrypted.
Any unauthorized access to Just Liberty websites or to the information collected and maintained by us should be immediately brought to our attention by contacting us via email at webmaster at JustLiberty.org. We will investigate, and, if necessary, take action to mitigate the harm from any violation of the security of your personal information of which we become aware.
In the unlikely event that we believe the security of your sensitive personal information, such as payment card information, in our possession or control may have been compromised, we will endeavor to provide required notice as soon as possible under the circumstances and, if appropriate, will post notices on the applicable JustLiberty.org Sites.
Security of Access To Your Online Account Information
If you sign up to receive Just Liberty Advocacy email, we maintain the information you provide to us (name, email address, physical address and sometimes phone number) in a secure database. In order to change that information, click here, and you will be instructed how to access your username and then receive your password by email. Then you may log on to your profile, enter your username and password and make any changes to your account information. If you want to change your password or other Advocacy account information, you may do so at any time and there is a link at the bottom of every email to help you. If you wish to change your email preferences (for example, you wish to get action alerts but not a monthly newsletter), click here.
If you have forgotten your username, we will ask you for the email address you used when you signed up for email (or an updated email address that you have previously provided to us), and we will promptly email your user name to that email address. If you have forgotten your password, we will ask you for both your email address and your user name, and we will send a password reset message to that email address.
It is your responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your user name and password and to control access to and use of your Just Liberty account. We urge you to keep your user name and password confidential and not disclose them to anyone. We also recommend that you never reuse the same password across different websites. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision.
IMPORTANT – Although we take these steps to protect your personal information, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, therefore we cannot promise or guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.
10CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
11INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY
12HOW TO CONTACT US
If you feel that we have not followed our Just Liberty Privacy Policy please let us know by sending an email to webmaster@justliberty.org. Additionally, you may contact your state or local consumer protection office, the Better Business Bureau, or The Federal Trade Commission by phone at (202) 326-2222 and online at www.ftc.gov.