Habitat for Humanity Capital Region (“Habitat Capital Region”) respects your privacy and preferences. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets forth the terms under which you share your information with Habitat Capital Region and how Habitat Capital Region collects and uses your information. This Privacy Policy applies when you make a donation, register for an event, purchase a product, or otherwise provide us with information via the Habitat Capital Region Website located at habitatcr.org, habitatlansing.org, and any other domain names owned or controlled by Habitat Capital Region (the “Website”) or in another manner, such as via telephone, email, regular mail, social media, texting, mobile applications, at a special event, in response to a solicitation or face-to-face.
Personal contact information collected; what Habitat Capital Region does with it
Habitat Capital Region may request from you, or you may volunteer to provide, your contact information, including your name, mailing address, phone number(s), social media handles and email address(es). Habitat Capital Region may, by way of example, use your contact information to:
- To send additional information about Habitat Capital Region and its programs or events.
- To process donations or payment and provide supporters with a receipt or acknowledgment.
- To clarify or obtain information about a donation or about information requested.
- To enroll clients and supporters in programs, events, or activities in which they elect to participate.
- To keep a record of donations made and actions taken by our supporters and our communications with them
- To send our supporters marketing information about our projects, fundraising activities and appeals where we have their consent or are otherwise permitted to do so
- To fulfill contractual obligations entered into with supporters
- To support volunteers, such as during build or fundraising events
- To manage supporters’ accounts and provide customer service
- To offer sweepstakes, contests, giveaways or other promotions
- To enforce the Website terms of service
- To perform other functions as described at the time Habitat Capital Region collects information.
If you make a donation or a purchase with Habitat Capital Region, or otherwise provide us your information, Habitat Capital Region may contact you from time to time about opportunities to make additional donations or purchases or to provide you information about upcoming programs.
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We want to ensure that we are able to communicate with you in ways that you are happy with, and to provide you with information that is of interest.
If you wish to change how we communicate with you, or update the information we hold, then please contact us at info@habitatcr.org or call us at 517-374-1313 (to amend your preferences for any communication channel).
You always have the right to opt out of future communications from Habitat Capital Region and/or our vendors, sponsors and service providers, either at the point of collection, as instructed in communications you receive, via the links below, or by contacting us by mail or email:
Habitat for Humanity Capital Region
1941 Benjamin Drive
Lansing, MI 48906
USA
Email: info@habitatcr.org
Credit card and billing information
In addition to your contact information, when you make a donation or purchase, Habitat Capital Region asks for your billing address and credit card or other financial services information. Habitat Capital Region uses a third-party banking agent to process your payments via a secured server that encrypts your credit card/bank information. Habitat Capital Region and our banking agent will not share your credit card/bank information with any other third party, nor will we retain your credit card/bank information.
Other contact information
Habitat Capital Region may ask for contact information for people other than yourself, including, for example, names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of others to whom you send information or in whose honor or behalf you are making a donation or purchase. Habitat Capital Region uses this information to send notifications or information you requested and/or to inform the recipient of your donation or purchase, as well as to contact the recipient from time to time to inform them of other opportunities and information about Habitat Capital Region. Like you, the recipient will always have the opportunity to opt out of receiving future communication from Habitat Capital Region.
Cookies
How and why we use cookies: Cookies are used to enable us to improve our services by, for example:
- remembering if you are logged in so you can move around the website without having to log in again on each page (for example if you are in checkout);
- measuring how many people are using each page of the website and for how long so that we can try to improve the quality of our website;
- enabling you to view content shared on social media or sharing sites, such as YouTube or Twitter.
How to manage and delete cookies: If you wish to restrict or block the cookies set by the Habitat Capital Region website, you can do this through your computer or device’s browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may affect the functionality of the Habitat Capital Region website.
If you visit our website as an anonymous visitor (e.g. you switch off cookies), Habitat Capital Region may still collect certain information from your browser, such as the IP address (which uniquely identifies a computer or other internet device).
Links to other sites
This Website may contain links to other sites that may collect your personal contact information. Habitat Capital Region is not responsible for privacy practices and policies or content of these other sites.
Social media
You may engage with Habitat Capital Region through third-party social-media sites, plug-ins and applications, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. When doing so, you may allow Habitat Capital Region to access certain information from your profile (e.g., name, email address, photo, gender, birthday, location, list of friends/contacts, whom you follow and or who follow you, your ‘likes,’ etc.). When you provide information to Habitat Capital Region through an application, on the Website, or on social networking platforms, it may be viewable by other users of these sites and, in such instances, Habitat Capital Region is not responsible for, and cannot prevent, use of the information by third parties. Some applications, sites and plug-ins allow you to control what data and information you share. For more information about how they treat your information, refer to their privacy policies, settings and terms of use.
Minors
It is Habitat Capital Region’s policy not to solicit knowingly any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. Children under 13 are not authorized to make a donation or purchase, sign up for an event or program, or otherwise provide any personally identifiable information without consent from a parent or legal guardian.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time. Habitat Capital Region will notify you about material changes in the way Habitat Capital Region treats your information by posting a notice on the Website or by contacting you directly. You will always have access to the most current policies regarding what information Habitat Capital Region collects, how it’s used, with whom it may be shared, and what choices you have.
[Updated October 2022]