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Action Now Initiative Privacy Notice

Updated: December 1, 2022

Introduction and Scope

At Action Now Initiative (“ANI,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), we understand and respect your need for privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes how we collect, use, process, share, store, and delete personal information we have about you; what rights and choices you may have with respect to your information; how you may contact us; and how we protect your personal information when you:

  • Visit Action Now Initiative website, https://actionnowinit.wpengine.com/ (our “Site”);
  • Engage in the educational initiatives and call-to-action campaigns organized by ANI or use other related applications offered by ANI (collectively, “Services”); and/or
  • Interact with us in any way, including providing your information in our opt-in contact form, engaging with our advertisements, providing testimonials or stories for campaigns, participating in surveys, or registering for, attending, or otherwise partaking in our events (collectively, “Marketing Activities”).

Information We Collect

The information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the choices that you make, your location, and applicable law. The sub-sections below describe the information we collect about you and how we collect it. We only retain information for so long as it may be relevant for the purposes identified in this Policy unless a longer period of time is required by law.

A. Information You Provide Directly to Us

We collect the following information directly from you when you use our Site and/or Services:

  • Contact information – You provide us with your contact information when you enter information in our opt-in contact form. This information may include your full name, email address, physical address (including zip code), and phone number.

  • Professional information – You provide us with your professional information, including your company name and industry, when you attend our events.
  • Testimonial information – You may choose to provide a story or testimonial through our Site or Services. This information may include your (full or partial) name, zip code, as well as your opinions or perspectives.
  • Interest areas – You provide us with the topics you are interested in through our opt-in contact form or by participating in surveys, such as criminal justice, democracy, energy and climate, healthcare, higher education, housing, immigration, and public finance.
  • Marketing information – When you take an action on our Site or use our Services, such as by clicking on one of our ads, opening our emails, submitting a story or testimonial, signing up for a newsletter or other information, or using our templates to contact your legislator, we collect information about your marketing preferences and interests.

B. Information We Receive from Third Parties

We receive the following information about you from third parties and/or ANI partners that provide services or support our business operations.

  • Legislative district – We receive information about your state and federal Legislative District, based on the ZIP code you provide us.

C. Information We Collect Automatically

We use software like Google Analytics on our Site which automatically collects the following information about you, your device, and your usage of our Site:

  • Website Usage information – We collect information about your usage and behavior on our Site and/or Services, such as your browsing history of the content you have visited on our Site, including how you were referred to our Site via other websites. We may also collect your IP address and related information.

  • Device information – We collect information about the type of device you use when you access our Site including details of your computer or mobile, such as the unique device identifier, unique advertising identifier, and browser used to access our content.
  • Cookies and Analytics Information – We collect information through the use of “cookies,” which are small text files that store information on your browser or device. We use cookies to administer the Site and Services, monitor site usage and trends, analyze how you use the Site and Services, and maintain security. For more information, please refer to ANI’s Cookie Notice. We also may collect other information provided to us through analytics services.

How We Use Information

We limit our use of your personal information to the purposes described in this Notice. ANI uses collected information in the following ways:

  • Communicate with you about our Services – We use your contact information, professional information, interest areas, and marketing information together with information received from third parties to share educational information and call-to-action campaigns related to pending or current legislation, contact you about events, and send you updates or campaign engagement opportunities via email or SMS.

  • Market and promote our Site and Services – We use your contact information, professional information, testimonial information, interest areas, and marketing information together with information received from third parties for our Marketing Activities according to your preferences, such as communicating with you via email or SMS with your consent, or to promote the Site and Services. We also use website usage information to infer interest areas based on your interactions with cause-related advertisements. Please see the “Your Privacy Choices and Rights” section below to learn how to manage your communication preferences.
  • Provide our Site and Services – We use your contact information, professional information, interest areas, marketing information, website usage information, legislative district, device information, geolocation information, and anonymized statistical information to provide, operate, monitor, maintain and administer our Site and Services.
  • Provide and improve necessary functionality – We use your website usage information, device information, geolocation information, and anonymized statistical information to provide the necessary functionality required for you to use our Site and Services.
  • Promote the security of our Site and Services – We may use your contact information, professional information, interest areas, marketing information, website usage information, legislative district, device information, geolocation information, and anonymized statistical information to investigate and prevent malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and enforce our terms and policies.
  • Legal, regulatory, safety, and compliance purposes – We may use your contact information, professional information, interest areas, marketing information, website usage information, legislative district, device information, geolocation information, and anonymized statistical information for purposes of compliance with laws or regulations and to review compliance with applicable usage terms.
  • Other purposes – We process your contact information, professional information, testimonial information, interest areas, marketing information, website usage information, legislative district, device information, geolocation information, and anonymized statistical information for other purposes about which we notify you in advance or for which we receive your consent (such as in the event of a corporate sale, merger, or acquisition).

How We Share Information

ANI shares your personal information with third parties as required by law and as part of our Services. We do not sell personal information to third parties for their independent business use. For example, we do not sell personal information to third parties for their own marketing and advertising purposes. We only share personal information on a need-to-know basis where appropriate safeguards and contractual arrangements are in place and as described below.

A. Third-Party Service Providers

We share your information with third-party service providers such as suppliers, vendors, business partners, advertising partners, and consultants to operate our business and provide you with our Site and Services. These third-party service providers require access to your information to support our operations and delivery of Services. The third parties that ANI shares your information with include:

  • Professional services advisors to protect and manage our business interests;

  • Cloud hosting providers to provide data storage and processing services;
  • Corporate and information technology service providers to facilitate business operations and communications;
  • Companies such as Google Analytics and Capitol Canary to help us with our analytics and perform analysis of our Marketing Activities and Services; and
  • Any other suppliers, sub-contractors, partners, vendors, and other service providers acting on our behalf.

These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide services to ANI. These third-party partners may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to gather information about your activities on our Site to deliver our Services and Marketing Activities to you. We do not use cookies or other tracking technologies so third parties can serve ads to you about their own products or services. We may use and disclose aggregate information that does not identify or otherwise relate to an individual for any purpose unless we are prohibited from doing so under applicable law.

B. Legal or Public Authorities

We only disclose personal information when disclosure is:

  • Reasonably necessary to comply with any applicable law or regulation;

  • Required by law to comply with a legal process, or government request;
  • Necessary to enforce our agreements and this Notice;
  • Necessary to protect the security or integrity of our Site and Services;
  • Necessary to protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of ANI, you, or the public as required or permitted by law; or
  • Necessary to respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose information to assist in preventing the death or serious bodily injury of any person.

Where required or permitted by applicable law, ANI protects personal information by requesting protective orders or confidentiality agreements, redacting personal information from documents prior to production or disclosure, or other legally permissible means.

C. Corporate Affiliates

We may share or transfer information to any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with ANI, whether by ownership or otherwise (“Corporate Affiliate”), in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. Any information relating to you that we provide to our Corporate Affiliates will be treated by those Corporate Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Notice. Personal information may be part of the transferred assets. You may be notified thereafter of any such change in ownership or control through email or other means as applicable.

D. Corporate Partners

We engage with several partners, such as third-party advertising networks and integration services partners. We may share personal information with them to support our Services, such as sending email marketing campaigns. Please see our Cookie Notice for more information about how you can turn off tracking technologies for our advertising partners.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

When you visit our Site or interact with our Services, we use cookies and similar technologies such as pixels, alone or in conjunction with cookies, to automatically collect certain technical information from your browser or device. For more information about how we use cookies and to learn how to manage cookies, please see our Cookie Notice.

How Long We Retain Information

We retain the information we have about you for only so long as it is relevant to fulfill our legal and contractual obligations; support business operations; develop our Site and Services; resolve disputes; enforce our rights; and for other legitimate business purposes described in this Notice, unless otherwise required by law. If you would like us to delete your information, please see “Your Privacy Choices and Rights” below.

How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the information that we have about you from loss, theft, and unauthorized use, access, modification, or destruction. We also require partners and third-party service providers acting on our behalf or with whom we share your information to maintain security measures in accordance with industry standards.

Notwithstanding our security safeguards, it is impossible to guarantee absolute security in all situations. If you have any questions about the security of our Site and Services, please contact us as described in the “Contact Us” section. For your own security, please do not send any confidential personal information to us outside of our Site or Services.

Third-Party Services, Applications, and Websites

Our Site and Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by ANI. Certain third-party services, applications, or websites used to navigate to and from our Site and Services have separate user terms and privacy notices that are independent of this Notice.

ANI requires partners and third-party service providers acting on our behalf or with whom we share your information to provide appropriate security measures in accordance with industry standards and in compliance with this Notice, contractual obligations, their privacy and security obligations, and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. However, we are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, or the privacy and data security practices of third parties outside of the personal information we receive from or transfer to them. We do not investigate, monitor, or check these websites for accuracy or completeness. We recommend carefully reviewing the terms and privacy notices of each third-party service, website, and/or application prior to use.

Cross-Border Transfer of Your Personal Information

ANI does not conduct business outside of the United States. If you access the Site or Services from outside of the United States, ANI may transfer Personal Information it collects to the United States and other countries where ANI or its business associates conduct business. We have safeguards in place to protect your Personal Information when it is transferred to other countries, where required by law. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

A. Privacy Choices

You have certain choices and rights available when it comes to how we collect and use your personal information. Below is a summary of those choices and rights and how to exercise them.

  • Opt-out of marketing communications: You may opt-out of receiving any marketing communications from us in the following way:
    • Email: You may opt-out of email communications by clicking on “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any email. You may also respond to any automated email with “Unsubscribe” or related language and you will be unsubscribed from future communications from ANI.

B. Privacy Rights

Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights in connection with your personal information that we obtain. These rights may include, but are not limited to:

  • Right to Know the categories and specific pieces of your personal information we have collected in the previous 12 months.

  • Right to Deletion of your personal information we have collected.
  • Right to Request Information about the collection, sale, and disclosure of your personal information from the previous 12 months.
  • Right to Opt-out of the Sale of Personal Information we have collected about you.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination for exercising any of your rights.

You may exercise these rights, to the extent they apply to you, by contacting us at [email protected].

We may need to collection additional information to verify your identity and residence, and we may not be able to 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.

We fulfill requests within 45 days of receiving your request. Please note that your request may be limited in certain cases, for example if complying with your request would conflict with:

  • Federal, state, or local law;
  • Regulatory inquiries;
  • Subpoenas; or
  • Exercising or defending legal claims.

Minimum Age Requirements to Use Our Services

ANI’s Site and Services are not directed to children under 13. To use ANI’s Site and Services, you must be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal information in your jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us as described in the “Contact Us” section below. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without verification or parental consent, we take steps to remove such information.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We periodically review and update this Notice to describe new Services or changes to our practices. You can determine when this Notice was last revised by referring to the “Updated” date at the top of this Notice. We encourage you to review the Notice whenever you interact with us to stay informed about our privacy practices and the ways that you can help protect your privacy.

If we make significant changes to this Notice, we will notify you through a prominent notice on our Services or via email address or phone number you have provided. If you do not agree with the privacy practices disclosed in the Notice, we recommend you stop using our Site and Services.

Contact Us

To submit questions about this Notice or to update or request changes to your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

Appendix A: California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)

Updated: September 6, 2022

Additional provisions applicable to processing personal information of California residents.

Scope and Applicability

This Appendix A (“Appendix A”) applies to California residents and outlines your rights and choices with respect to the processing of your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). This Notice does not apply to ANI employees or job applicants. This Appendix controls to the extent it conflicts with any provision in the main body of the Privacy Notice (“Notice”). Capitalized terms not defined in this Appendix are defined in our Notice.

Data Collection, Use, and Sharing

The CCPA requires that we tell you whether we collect any categories of personal information as classified under the CCPA, and whether we share this information with selected recipients for specific purposes.

A. Categories of Information

We collect the following categories of information as classified under CCPA:

  • Personal identifiers – We collect your name, email address, physical address (including ZIP), and phone number.
  • Personal information – We collect your contact information and physical address.
  • Professional information – We collect your company name and industry.
  • Internet or other network activity information – We collect browsing and search history, information collected from cookies and similar technologies, and analytics data.
  • Geolocation information – We collect your IP address when you use our Site.
  • Other inferences drawn from personal information – We draw inferences from the ads you click regarding interest areas to understand your preferences, characteristics, or predispositions.

Please see the “Information We Collect” section in our Notice to see the full description of the information that we collect.

Publicly Available Information: Personal information does not include publicly available information. For purposes of this paragraph, “publicly available” means information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records.

B. Sharing Information

We share the information collected with service providers such as suppliers, vendors, business partners, advertising partners, and consultants to operate our business and provide you with our Site and Services.

We partner with third parties, such as Google Analytics and Capitol Canary, to help us with our Services and Marketing Activities. These third-party partners may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to gather information about your activities on our Site to deliver our Services and Marketing Activities to you. We do not use cookies or other tracking technologies so third parties can serve ads to you about their own products or services.

C. Using Information

We collect and use your personal information to:

  • Interact with you;
  • Provide our Services;
  • Conduct internal research and development;
  • Improve the quality and safety of our Site and Services; and
  • Detect security incidents and prevent fraud.

Please see the “How We Use Information” section in our Privacy Notice for a full description of how we use your personal information.

Your CCPA Rights

The CCPA grants California consumers certain rights in connection with the personal information we collect, as described below.

  • Right to Know: You have the right to know the categories and specific pieces of your personal information we have collected in the previous 12 months.
  • Right to Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information we have collected.
  • Right to Request Information: You have the right to request information about the collection, sale, and disclosure of your personal information from the previous 12 months.
  • Right to Opt-out of the Sale of Information: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information we have collected about you.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising any of your CCPA rights. We do not treat anyone differently for exercising any of the rights described above.

Exercising your Rights

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, see the “Contact Us” section in this Appendix A. You may also authorize an individual to submit a verifiable consumer request relating to your personal information.

We verify your request by asking you to provide certain identifying information, such as your email address. We cannot respond to your request if we cannot verify your identity and/or authority to make the request on behalf of another and confirm the personal information relates to you. Submitting a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.

If you wish to use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, you must provide the authorized agent with written permission signed by you, the consumer. We may deny a request from an authorized agent if the agent cannot provide ANI with your signed permission demonstrating that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf.

We fulfill requests within 45 days of receiving your request. Please note that your request may be limited in certain cases, for example if complying with your request would conflict with:

  • Federal, state, or local law;
  • Regulatory inquiries;
  • Subpoenas; or
  • Exercising or defending legal claims.

Contact Us

To submit questions about this Notice or to exercise your CCPA rights, please contact us at [email protected].

Cookie Notice

Updated: September 6, 2022

Action Now Initiative (“ANI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a nonpartisan organization that supports the mission of Arnold Ventures to maximize opportunity and minimize injustice through social welfare, public service, political advocacy, and social impact activities. ANI uses cookies and other tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our Site and Services. This Cookie Notice (“Notice”) includes information on how we use cookies and how to manage cookies. It also describes the different types of cookies we use in connection with our Site, (actionnowinitiative.org), Services, and Marketing Activities. To learn more about our data privacy practices, please read our Privacy Notice. Capitalized terms not defined in this Notice are defined in our Privacy Notice.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that store information on the browser of your device when you visit a website. These text files are read by websites and help identify your computer when you return to a website. Cookies enable us to analyze how our Site is used and to monitor Site performance so we can improve and manage the Site.

We use:

  • Persistent cookies that last until you or your browser deletes them or until they expire.
  • Session-based cookies that last only while your browser is open on your device and are deleted automatically once your browser is closed.
  • Third-party cookies that are served by another party on our behalf.

How We Use Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to:

  • Administer and improve our Site and Services
  • Monitor Site usage and trends
  • Analyze users’ movements around the Site and Services
  • Maintain site security and prevent forged attacks

Specifically, we use the following types of cookies:

  • Third Party Cookies: We partner with third party service providers on our Sites and Services to provide forms by which you may: (1) contact your local legislators, (2) use our pre-written email templates; and (3) securely and safely engage in ANI’s call-to-action campaigns. Our partners may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies that collect your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, duration of visit, content viewed, and other click-stream data.

To learn more about the privacy practices and opt-out mechanisms for third parties that we use, please visit the following sites:

  • Privacy Policy – Capitol Canary
  • Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track and optimize our Site’s performance, Services, and Marketing Activities. Through Google Analytics we may capture information such as time spent on a page, how you navigate our Site, and other session and user information. To learn more about the privacy practices and opt-out mechanisms that we use for analytics purposes, please visit the following sites:
  • Privacy Policy – Google

How to Manage Cookies

You can block or disable cookies or other tracking technologies on your device at any time by changing your preferences or options menu in your browser(s). You can also reject or delete the cookies that are stored on your device. You can still use our Site if you block or delete our cookies, but your ability to access certain Site features may be limited. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block and delete cookies, please visit aboutcookies.org.

We use information collected from cookies before they were disabled, and we stop cookies from collecting any further information if you disable one or more cookies.

Changes to Our Cookie Notice

We periodically review and update this Notice to describe new cookies or changes to our practices. You can determine when this Notice was last revised by referring to the “Updated” date at the top of this Notice. We encourage you to review the Notice whenever you interact with us to stay informed about our privacy practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

If we make significant changes to this Notice, we will notify you via a prominent notice on our Site or Services, release updates, or via email address associated with your account. If you do not agree with the privacy practices disclosed in the Notice, we recommend you stop using our Site and Services.

Contact Us

To submit questions about this Notice or to update or request changes to your personal information, please email [email protected].