PURPOSE

The purpose of this website privacy policy is to protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information collected through the Changent website and website-related interactions, forms, and applications. This policy notifies you of the practices regarding the collection, use, sharing, choices, security, retention, and correction options around information collected or maintained about you.

AUDIENCE

The Changent Privacy Policy applies to users who have information collected by and/or stored with Changent or its authorized vendors.

POLICY:

General Notice

  • Changent is the sole owner of information collected on the www.changent.org website, email or other direct contact.
  • We only collect information (examples: addresses, zip codes, email addresses) that you voluntarily share with us.
  • We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
  • Some information, such as payment, billing, or shipping details, may be directly transmitted to authorized third-party vendors or business partners.  These third-parties are required to comply with applicable privacy laws.

Data Collected

By using the Changent website, the following information and data may be collected via online forms, order forms, donation forms, contact forms, or automated technologies.

  • Personal and contact information such as: Name, Phone numbers, physical addresses and email addresses
  • Financial information such as: Credit card number, billing and shipping addresses
  • Career information such as: Job history, employment history, and previous employment contacts
  • Website and user analytics such as: demographics, device and browser information, types of devices, operating systems, IP addresses, geographic locations, browsing behavior, time spent on pages, navigation paths, traffic source (how the user arrived at the site such as a search engine), general website interactions

Purpose

  • We will use your information to respond to you based on the reason you contacted us.
  • We may share your information with authorized business partners in order to process your request.
  • We may contact you for company-related messaging, but you can opt out of future communications.
  • Automate data helps us determine how often visitors use which parts of the site, so that we can improve our site in response to visitor usage.
  • Information such as billing, shipping or payment details is shared with third-party vendors solely for the purpose of completing your transactions.  These vendors are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose.

Consent

  • By using our website, you have voluntarily consented to our data collection practices.
  • We will not voluntarily share your information with a third party without your prior authorization, except:
    • With a partner or agent of Changent when there are appropriate assurances of confidentiality;
    • To enforce our privacy policy, to comply with law, regulation, or other legal processes or to protect the rights, property or safety of us or others;
    • With a regulator or law enforcement agency or personnel;
    • In emergency situations;
    • To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this website;
    • To detect or prevent criminal activity or fraud; or
    • If we are acquired by or merge with one or more third parties; or
    • With a secure online payment processor, authorized vendor, or merchant bank (for credit cards & e-checks) for the purpose of executing a donor transactions or other transactions.

Retention

  • Changent retains information and data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes
  • Purposes not only include immediate purposes, but also historical purposes such as keeping record of customer contacts and requests

Security

  • We take precautions to protect your information both online and offline.
  • We use high-grade encryption and the https security protocol, SSL, to communicate with your browser software. This method is the industry standard in security protocol, helping to keep your personally identifiable data as secure as possible.
  • We have implemented physical, administrative and technical safeguards and operational procedures to protect information we collect and/or maintain.
  • Transactions to and from Changent’s website are encrypted.
  • We restrict access to your information in our database to authorized users.

Accountability

  • We have appointed a Privacy Officer, Compliance Officer and Security Officer who are responsible for the protection of information.
  • We are committed to resolving any complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. If you have any questions or complaints regarding this policy, please contact us at 303-327-4275 or support@changent.org.
  • If you would like to write and send us a physical correspondence:
    • Changent
      1801 California Street, Suite 2400
      Denver, CO 80202

HIPAA

Some information we collect may be protected health information (“PHI”) within the meaning of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). To the extent applicable, we agree to comply with HIPAA and the rules issued pursuant to HIPAA.

Access

  • You can contact us at 303-327-4275 or changent.org to:
  • Find out what data we maintain about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • You may also opt out of communication on any of our email, registration or donation forms.

Cookies

We collect information about you and your use of this website through cookies. Cookies are small files that a website can store on your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping or other administrative purposes. If you are concerned about the use of cookies, you can choose to enable a feature in your browser software that will erase cookies, block all cookies or warn the user before cookies are stored or exchanged. If you reject cookies, you will only be able to view the site.

Links

  • Our website includes links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites.
  • We do not endorse and are not responsible for the operation or content of other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of each website you visit before providing them with any of your personally identifiable information.

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We may modify, alter, or update our Privacy Policy at any time. We will not notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy, so we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy frequently. When we make updates, we will update the version history below.