AAUW Coachella Valley Branch PRIVACY POLICY

Please read this entire policy. By continuing to use AAUW’s websites, you confirm that you understand and accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use AAUW websites. If you wish to purchase any AAUW products or services without use of an AAUW website, you may contact AAUW by phone at (800) 326-2289.

Introduction
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), an organization advancing gender equity through research, education, and advocacy, is one of the nation’s leading voices promoting equity and education for women and girls and empowering them to reach their highest potential. What began in 1881 as a group of 17 like-minded women has grown into a robust grassroots network of committed members, supporters, local branches, and college and university partners across the United States.

Information regarding the American Association of University Women (AAUW) can be found on our website at www.aauw.org/about.

To assist us in achieving the above goals, we collect and process certain information you provide. We work hard to be good stewards of your information. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can control how we update, manage, export, and delete your information.

How We Make Changes To This Policy
When AAUW Coachella Valley Branch updates its Privacy Policy, it will post the changes on this page. If you continue to use our website after those changes are in effect, you agree to the new policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide a more prominent notice or get your consent, as may be required by law.

What AAUW Coachella Valley Branch collects and how
Anonymous and Aggregated Web Traffic Log Information
IP address, time, date, pages accessed, files downloaded, operating system, and browser version are collected and stored in log files. These log files are automatically purged after 60 days. AAUW Coachella Valley Branch’s websites also use cookies for session management, personalization, and analyzing user behavior. AAUW Coachella Valley Branch’s electronic newsletters may contain web beacons to measure the effectiveness of our communications. This type of information is collected and shared on an anonymous, aggregated basis.

Personal Information (non-financial)

With a user’s consent, AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may collect all or some of the following types of personal information:

  • first and last name
  • physical street address including city, state, zip/postal code
  • phone number(s)
  • email address
  • professional and educational history, including AAUW Coachella Valley Branch fellowships and grants
  • demographic information, including your birthdate, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, position, title, salary, affiliation
  • username and password
  • subject of inquiry

AAUW Coachella Valley Branch collects information that users provide when using online services, including, but not limited to:

  • AAUW Coachella Valley Branch website registration
  • AAUW Coachella Valley Branch membership application
  • Event registration, including online and in-person conferences, webinars, and community events.
  • Subscriptions to AAUW Coachella Valley Branch products and programs, including online learning products. Race and other demographic information may be required by a government agency that has provided grant funding for the opportunity to fulfill AAUW Coachella Valley Branch’s obligations. The option to provide or decline to provide race and demographic information is voluntary.
  • Subscriptions to and the download of digital communications, including newsletters, public policy Action Alerts and petitions, and research reports.
  • Content contribution to AAUW Coachella Valley Branch when users “Share a Story” or comment on a blog.
  • General questions, comments, and requests via “Contact AAUW Coachella Valley Branch.” We also may collect email addresses of those who communicate with us directly via email.
  • Nimble/Community Hub
  • AAUW Coachella Valley Branch Work Smart Online and AAUW Coachella Valley Branch Salary Negotiation Facilitator Training registration.

Financial Information
AAUW Coachella Valley Branch collects financial information to fulfill orders for products or services. When you join AAUW Coachella Valley Branch as a member, donate, register for an event, receive a financial stipend, or pay your dues electronically, standard credit card information – card number, card type, expiration date, etc. – is collected through a third-party payment processor who is compliant with Payment Card Industry data security standards. The third-party payment processor provides AAUW Coachella Valley Branch, and we retain the last four digits of your credit card number to issue applicable refunds and identify transactions.

Donors
We will not trade, share, or sell a donor’s personal information to anyone else or send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations unless we have the donor’s specific permission to do so.

What AAUW Coachella Valley Branch does with the information we collect
AAUW Coachella Valley Branch processes your information to provide the products and services you request from us.

AAUW Coachella Valley Branch exists to benefit its members and users and through the support of its constituents. Processing your information for the purposes described is necessary for us to conduct business with AAUW Coachella Valley Branch. When AAUW Coachella Valley Branch uses your information, we attempt to balance our legitimate business interests and the necessity of processing your information with how such processing impacts you.

If you have any questions or concerns about how AAUW Coachella Valley Branch processes your information, please email us at connect@AAUW Coachella Valley Branch.org or call (800) 326-2289.

We will ask for your consent before using your information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy.

AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may share information with third parties, including those in the following categories:

  • affiliates of AAUW Coachella Valley Branch
  • conference registration and event service providers
  • payment processors
  • bulk digital communications and postal mail manager
  • online learning and communities manager
  • customer relationship management platforms
  • Work Smart Online promotional partners

AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may work with selected third parties to provide certain features on the Website, such as social sharing functions. This privacy policy does not govern any information you provide to third parties. Such third parties have privacy policies that govern how they may collect, use, and disclose the information you provide.

Specific AAUW Coachella Valley Branch vendors may ask you to consent to their processing of your information when such processing is subject to their privacy policy. We encourage you to review such policies closely and be sure that you agree to them before providing your consent.

Some AAUW Coachella Valley Branch websites may provide links — including any link through an online banner advertisement — to other sites on the Internet. These other sites are maintained by third parties, over which AAUW Coachella Valley Branch exercises no control. The appearance of any such third-party links is not intended to endorse any particular company or product. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to the AAUW Coachella Valley Branch websites, you do so entirely at your own risk, and the information you submit to them will be governed by their privacy policy, not that of AAUW Coachella Valley Branch. AAUW Coachella Valley Branch is not responsible for the services, content, conduct, or handling of materials by any third-party advertisers appearing on an AAUW Coachella Valley Branch website.

As part of our promotional efforts for Work Smart Online, AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may share information collected from Work Smart Online registrants with select promotional partners, including local AAUW Coachella Valley Branch Branches and outside organizations. AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may contact you with the option to opt in to receive more information from our promotional partners. Disidentified registration data and demographic information may be shared with promotional partners on an aggregated basis.

What are cookies and how does AAUW Coachella Valley Branch use them
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, AAUW Coachella Valley Branch uses cookies and other online tracking technologies, such as pixel tags and web beacons, to store and sometimes track your information. These technologies

  • provide you with personalized content based on your use of our websites;
  • enable you to use our website by remembering and using contact information more easily;
  • allow AAUW Coachella Valley Branch to evaluate, monitor, and analyze the use of our websites and their traffic patterns to help improve our websites and services, and
  • assist AAUW Coachella Valley Branch in learning what advertising results in traffic to our websites.

The types of technologies we use include:
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies enable AAUW Coachella Valley Branch to identify your browser as a unique user. Cookies may involve the transmission of information from AAUW Coachella Valley Branch to you and from you to AAUW Coachella Valley Branch. Cookies may also be used by another party on AAUW Coachella Valley Branch's behalf to transfer information to us in accordance with their privacy policy. Some cookies are “persistent cookies” used each time you access AAUW Coachella Valley Branch’s website. Other cookies are “session cookies.” Session cookies are used only during a specific browsing session. AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may use a session cookie, for example, to remember that you have already navigated through a particular menu. We may also use “analytics cookies” that allow web analytics services to recognize your browser or device and, for example, identify whether you have visited our website before, what you have previously viewed or clicked on, and how you found us. This information is provided anonymously for statistical analysis only. Analytics cookies are usually persistent cookies.

You may disable browser cookies or set your browser to warn you when a cookie is being sent. When you disable cookies, you may lose some features or functionality. Remember, also, that disabling cookies is browser-specific. For example, if you use both Microsoft Edge and Chrome, you will need to disable cookies in each browser.

Pixel Tags
AAUW Coachella Valley Branch also employs a software technology known as a pixel tag or Web beacon. A pixel tag is a line of code placed on AAUW Coachella Valley Branch’s websites or in emails, which allows us to analyze advertising and the general usage patterns of visitors to our websites. Pixel tags help AAUW Coachella Valley Branch manage our website by informing us what content or promotions are effective. Unless you consent, we do not collect personally identifiable information from you using pixel tags. You may not disable pixel tags.

Indirect Collection (Social Networking)
AAUW Coachella Valley Branch’s websites use third-party plugins that allow sharing of web pages and social networking platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We use the ShareThis plugin to allow you to easily share information from our website on various social networking platforms, email, or text messages. You control when you share information from our website using the ShareThis plugin. When you use social networking platforms and plugins, you share your information with them; their privacy policy applies to disclosing that information. In addition, they may be able to collect information about you, including your activity, or may notify your connections on the social networking platform about your use of the website. Such services may allow your activity to be monitored across multiple websites to deliver more targeted advertising. Please note that their privacy policies apply, and we encourage you to read them. We may add new social networking plugins and buttons to our website from time to time.

Indirect Collection (Analytics)
Our websites use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, which are web analysis services offered by Google, Inc., to help AAUW Coachella Valley Branch analyze how users interact with our sites. You can learn more about these products from Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. AAUW Coachella Valley Branch also makes use of Google AdWords, another offering that uses cookies and remarketing technologies, to deliver relevant information and advertisements to users who have previously visited AAUW Coachella Valley Branch websites. You may opt out of using such web analytic products by downloading the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.” We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to analyze the use of our website. We do not transfer personal information to Google Analytics.

AAUW Coachella Valley Branch may retain the non-identifying information derived from our use of cookies, web beacons, Google Analytics, and other similar technologies for up to twenty-six (26) months.

Choices you have about your information
If you are a registered user of an AAUW Coachella Valley Branch website or an AAUW Coachella Valley Branch member. In that case, you may review, correct, and change your personal information and communication preferences by logging into the website and visiting your account profile page.

If you are a member and would like to correct, update, or deactivate your personal information in our database, please also email [email protected] or call (202) 785-7700.
To unsubscribe from promotional emails and other digital communications from AAUW Coachella Valley Branch, select the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email from AAUW Coachella Valley Branch or contact us directly at [email protected]. You may also send an email to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal information that you have provided to AAUW. Please note that we may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

AAUW Coachella Valley Branchvendors, including those described in this Policy with whom you engage directly, should provide information on reviewing, correcting, or changing your personal information or communication preferences within their systems.
Our websites do not support “Do Not Track” (DNT) codes, which are used in web browsers' privacy preferences.

How does AAUW Coachella Valley Branchprotect your information?
We value the safety and security of your personal information. AAUW Coachella Valley Branchhas appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information we hold from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to employees or vendors who have a genuine business purpose to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach. When legally required, we will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach.

AAUW’s policy on children’s information
This Privacy Policy includes information applicable to residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and users accessing the AAUW Coachella Valley Branchwebsites from within the EEA. If you are an EEA resident, this Privacy Policy provides you with information regarding your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
AAUW Coachella Valley Branchis the data controller for the personal information collected from its members and customers. AAUW Coachella Valley Branchcan be contacted at any time at
American Association of University Women
1310 L Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005
(800) 326-2289
[email protected]

Transfer of Personal Data
AAUW Coachella Valley Branchand our websites are based in the United States, and regardless of where you access these websites, the information collected as part of that use will be transferred to and maintained on systems located in the United States. Additionally, in limited circumstances, it may be necessary for AAUW Coachella Valley Branchto require the transfer of personal information from a third-party entity within the EEA to the United States for AAUW Coachella Valley Branchto provide requested services to a customer in the EEA. In any such circumstance, AAUW Coachella Valley Branchwill ensure that the transfer of information is made per Article 49 of the GDPR, in that it will be done only to perform a contract with you or to implement pre-contractual measures taken at your request. Should it otherwise be required for AAUW Coachella Valley Branchto receive personal data from another entity within the EEA, to ensure there is an adequate level of protection for the rights of a European person based on the United States data protection laws, AAUW Coachella Valley Branchwill make use of either the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework or contractual data protection clauses and similar legal mechanisms to safeguard the transfer, use, sharing, and retention of personal data from the EEA in any such circumstance.

Your Rights
The GDPR provides certain privacy rights, including the right to access, correct, or update your personal information. You may also request to have your information deleted. However, we may retain information for backups, prevention of fraud and abuse, satisfaction with legal obligations, or other ongoing legitimate interests. You have the right to receive a copy of your information in a structured, machine-readable format. You may decline to share specific personal data, preventing us from providing you with some features and benefits. You can object to our processing based on legitimate interests if you are an EEA resident.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights granted to you by the GDPR, contact us via email at [email protected] or mail to the address set forth above, or you may submit the GDPR action form available on AAUW’s websites.

Right to Lodge a Complaint
If you are an EEA resident, and you believe that AAUW Coachella Valley Branchhas infringed your rights under the GDPR, please contact us by emailing [email protected] or calling (202) 785-7700. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, including in your applicable Member State.

Sensitive Information
AAUW Coachella Valley Branchrequests that persons to whom the GDPR applies to do not volunteer any personal data considered sensitive by the GDPR, including racial or ethnic origin or sexual preference, even if a field exists for such information to be voluntarily provided. AAUW Coachella Valley Branchis required by certain governmental agencies in the United States to inquire about some sensitive information in relation to particular services it provides, but the disclosure of such information is always voluntary for the individual concerned.

For Our Members/Customers in California
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our website visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Please state in the request that you are a California resident.

To make such a request, please contact us at:
American Association of University Women
1310 L Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 785-7700
[email protected]

Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or need to contact the AAUW Coachella Valley Branchto exercise your rights as a data subject under the GDPR, please contact the AAUW Coachella Valley Branchat [email protected] or (202) 785-7700.