Everyone for Veterans Online Privacy Notice
Updated: December 19, 2023
Everyone for Veterans (“Everyone for Veterans,” “E4V,” “we” or “us”) is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that values privacy and is committed to implementing appropriate safeguards necessary to protect sensitive information and adhere to compliance obligations regarding the protection of personal information.
This Privacy Statement is required by law and informs the reader about the handling of Personal Information in connection with the services and web sites offered by Everyone for Veterans (E4V) accessible by the URL www.everyoneforveterans.org (the “Site”). This Privacy Statement will disclose what data is collected, how it is used, with whom it is shared and how it is processed and secured. Protecting the privacy of personal information is very important to us. Please read this notice carefully to understand how the personal information collected via electronic means is handled by Everyone for Veterans.
By accessing or using our website, you agree and consent to this privacy notice. This notice may change from time to time. Any changes or updates to the privacy notice are effective immediately upon posting to the website and your continued use of the website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our website.
If you wish to browse the website without providing personal information you may generally do so anonymously. There is no need to provide any personal information while browsing our website and functionality is unlikely to be affected by browser configuration settings disabling cookies. If you choose to contact us requesting assistance with services or general questions, we ask for your personal information on our Contact Us form. This information helps us process your inquiry and provide the best service possible.
This Privacy Statement is required by law and informs the reader about the handling of Personal Information in connection with the services and web sites offered by Everyone for Veterans (E4V) accessible by the URL www.everyoneforveterans.org (the “Site”). This Privacy Statement will disclose what data is collected, how it is used, with whom it is shared and how it is processed and secured. Protecting the privacy of personal information is very important to us. Please read this notice carefully to understand how the personal information collected via electronic means is handled by Everyone for Veterans.
By accessing or using our website, you agree and consent to this privacy notice. This notice may change from time to time. Any changes or updates to the privacy notice are effective immediately upon posting to the website and your continued use of the website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our website.
If you wish to browse the website without providing personal information you may generally do so anonymously. There is no need to provide any personal information while browsing our website and functionality is unlikely to be affected by browser configuration settings disabling cookies. If you choose to contact us requesting assistance with services or general questions, we ask for your personal information on our Contact Us form. This information helps us process your inquiry and provide the best service possible.
Questions
Questions regarding this Privacy Statement may be directed to our Data Protection Office using the information below.
Everyone for Veterans
PO Box 1081
Issaquah, WA 98027
[email protected]
Everyone for Veterans
PO Box 1081
Issaquah, WA 98027
[email protected]
What, When and Why
When you engage with E4V by requesting services, any personal information you provide is voluntary. We collect and use only the minimum information necessary to assist veteran applicants by connecting them with healthcare providers, offer our services, coordinate volunteer activities, respond to your concerns, or receive donations. In most cases, the information you provide is limited to personal contact information, such as name, company name, address, telephone number, or email address. We may also request more sensitive information from those benefiting from our services. Data types such as race, gender, disabilities or veteran status are understood to be more sensitive and additional care is taken to properly safeguard sensitive data. All personal data, however, is provided on a voluntary basis without obligation and is protected with industry best-practices including encryption at rest and in transit.
E4V has various programs ready to engage with the different types of visitors to our site. Visitors may include veterans, applicants, donors or volunteers. Each of these groups have different purposes and, therefore, may require different types of data appropriate for delivering those services. To assist veterans with receiving health related services, we may come to receive health related information associated with unique veteran applicants. To receive donations from donors who desire to support our programs, we may receive financial information. Volunteers who wish to engage with various support services may provide personal contact information. The protection obligations of these various data types are understood and proper reasonable safeguards are employed to protect sensitive information while in the care of E4V.
Other data, such as is common in the navigation of websites, is information that does not directly identify you as an individual but rather your browser type, IP address, the URL of the previous web site you visited, the type of operating system used, the time of day, etc. The server for the website www.everyoneforveterans.org may automatically collect these types of non-personal information from your browser when visiting this site.
E4V has various programs ready to engage with the different types of visitors to our site. Visitors may include veterans, applicants, donors or volunteers. Each of these groups have different purposes and, therefore, may require different types of data appropriate for delivering those services. To assist veterans with receiving health related services, we may come to receive health related information associated with unique veteran applicants. To receive donations from donors who desire to support our programs, we may receive financial information. Volunteers who wish to engage with various support services may provide personal contact information. The protection obligations of these various data types are understood and proper reasonable safeguards are employed to protect sensitive information while in the care of E4V.
Other data, such as is common in the navigation of websites, is information that does not directly identify you as an individual but rather your browser type, IP address, the URL of the previous web site you visited, the type of operating system used, the time of day, etc. The server for the website www.everyoneforveterans.org may automatically collect these types of non-personal information from your browser when visiting this site.
Cookies
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that may be downloaded and stored in your browser's memory when you visit the Site. Cookies are useful because they help arrange the content and layout displayed on your device and allow our web server to recognize those computers or devices that have visited our site before. Cookies perform various tasks, such as allowing our website to remember your preference settings and helping us to enhance the usability and performance of our sites and your experience using them.
This site uses session cookies to store information that you provide and to store technical information useful for your interactions with our site. For instance, they may remember your user ID and elements of your user profile upon login. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service supplied by Google, Inc. (“Google”), which utilizes “cookies” by means of which it collects non-identifying Personal Data on the visitor, which is forwarded to, and deposited on, Google servers in the United States. Google utilizes this information in order to track and examine your use of the website and to prepare reports on the activities of the website for the website operators. A visitor’s desire to avoid utilizing cookies, by selecting the appropriate configuration setting within your browser, will not have an affect on the functionality or user experience of this website.
This site uses session cookies to store information that you provide and to store technical information useful for your interactions with our site. For instance, they may remember your user ID and elements of your user profile upon login. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service supplied by Google, Inc. (“Google”), which utilizes “cookies” by means of which it collects non-identifying Personal Data on the visitor, which is forwarded to, and deposited on, Google servers in the United States. Google utilizes this information in order to track and examine your use of the website and to prepare reports on the activities of the website for the website operators. A visitor’s desire to avoid utilizing cookies, by selecting the appropriate configuration setting within your browser, will not have an affect on the functionality or user experience of this website.
Third Party Links
We have chosen to partner with additional responsible third parties to assist in providing our services. These third parties include DonorBox (www.donorbox.org) to process charitable donations and MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com) to assist with email communications. Their business policies may include different privacy statements and practices than those in use at E4V. Please be aware that when you choose to utilize the services or web functionality provided by these third parties our privacy policies no longer apply to data collection or functionality provided by their site and that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to review the policies of each site you use.
Data Protection
Any personal information provided to us is stored within a secured computing environment accessible to a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. We employ reasonable information security safeguards intended to protect personal information from unauthorized disclosure or alteration. It is not possible, however, to warrant or guarantee that any computing environment is impervious to compromise by malicious parties endeavoring to acquire sensitive information illicitly. Therefore, you acknowledge an element of inherent risk in providing your personal information. While we will utilize reasonable industry safeguards to protect your personal information, it is not possible to foresee every possible contingency or threat to data.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
The California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy notice. The law applies to businesses beyond California and requires a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy notice on the websites they operate disclosing the information being collected and any third parties with whom it is being shared.
In accordance with CalOPPA, E4V agrees to the following:
In accordance with CalOPPA, E4V agrees to the following:
- Users can visit our site anonymously
- We will provide a link to this Privacy Notice on our home page
- Our Privacy Notice link includes the word 'Privacy' and can be easily identified on the page specified above
- Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Notice Page
- Users are able to change their personal information by contacting us
- We honor Do Not Track (DNT) signals and our servers do not track, set persistent cookies or use behavioral tracking advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
- Beyond the performance monitoring involved with the non-personally identifiable information mentioned above, we do not support third party behavioral tracking.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) provides parents the right to control the data identifying their child(ren). The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online.
The Site, www.everyoneforveterans.org, does not specifically market to children under 16 years of age nor do we knowingly collect this type of information. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 16 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
The Site, www.everyoneforveterans.org, does not specifically market to children under 16 years of age nor do we knowingly collect this type of information. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 16 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
CAN-SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
E4V may collect your email address in order to:
To be in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act we agree to the following:
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can do so by using the link provided within those emails for the purpose of unsubscribing or by sending an email requesting subscription changes to us at [email protected]
E4V may collect your email address in order to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
- Perform services and to send information and updates pertaining to services
- Send additional information related to the services requested by you
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred
To be in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act we agree to the following:
- We will not use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses
- Identify marketing messages as an advertisement in some reasonable way
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters
- Monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link contained within each marketing email
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can do so by using the link provided within those emails for the purpose of unsubscribing or by sending an email requesting subscription changes to us at [email protected]
Fair Information Practices Principles
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is valuable in complying with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in compliance with Fair Information Practices, E4V will take the following responsive action, in the unlikely event a data breach occurs:
In order to be in compliance with Fair Information Practices, E4V will take the following responsive action, in the unlikely event a data breach occurs:
- We will notify those affected via email within 7 business days of discovery of the event.
- We will notify website visitors via in-site notification within 7 business days of discovery of the event.
Purchase or Sale of Business
As a business, E4V may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions (e.g. sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of E4V’s assets), customer information may be included as one of the business assets transferred. In the event that E4V intends to transfer information about you as part of the transaction, we will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on this website, providing you with an opportunity to opt out before information about you becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Compelled Disclosure
In the unlikely event that we are required by laws, regulations, or legal processes to disclose the information that you have submitted, we will comply with requests made by third-parties, including by applicable government authorities, authorized law enforcement, and courts of law having jurisdiction. Unless we are legally prohibited from doing so, we will attempt to provide you with notice that a request for your information has been made in an effort to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure. If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to submit your information to such third-parties. We may disclose the information that you have submitted as reasonably necessary, including: (a) in an emergency; (b) to comply with applicable laws and lawful requests; (c) in connection with claims, disputes, and litigation; and (d) to protect you or others from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of our services and other fraudulent activity.
Visitors Outside the United States
Everyone For Veterans and the servers hosting the www.everyoneforveterans.org website are located in the United States and are subject to the applicable state and federal laws of the United States. If you use the www.everyoneforveterans.org website, you consent to the use and disclosure of information in accordance with this privacy policy and subject to such laws.
Have questions or want to learn more?We would love the opportunity to answer any questions you have.
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