Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy - Effective Date: April 9th, 2024

Bridging the Gaps Between Mothers & Daughters takes data privacy seriously. This privacy policy explains who we are, how we collect, share and use Information, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

We recommend that you read this privacy policy in full to ensure you are fully informed. To make it easier for you to review the parts of this privacy policy that apply to you, we have divided up the document into sections:

Privacy for Charitable Organizations (Section 2)
Privacy for Contacts and Donors (Section 3)
Privacy for Website Visitors (Section 4).

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your Information, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of Section 14.

ABOUT US

Bridging the Gaps Between Mothers & Daughters operates a Giving Intelligence Platform (the "Services") that assists charitable organizations with timely, personalized, and effective methods of outreach to prospective contacts and donors. A reference to “Bridging the Gaps” “BTG” “we,” “us” or the “Company” is a reference to Bridging the Gaps Between Mothers & Daughters and its relevant affiliates involved in the collection, use, sharing, or other processing of Information.

PRIVACY FOR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

This section applies to the Non-Personal Information and Personally Identifiable Information we collect and process from our customers who are nonprofits, fundraisers, and marketers (collectively “Charitable Organizations”) that use our Services to research prospective contacts and donors. If you are not a Charitable Organization, the other sections of this policy may be more applicable to you and your data. In this section, "you" and "your" refer to Charitable Organizations.

a. Information We Collect

The Non-Personal Information and Personally Identifiable Information that we may collect broadly falls into the following categories:

Information You Give Us. You may give us information about you and your contacts and donors. Information is often, but not exclusively, provided to us when you sign up for and use the Services, upload your database into our platform, consult with our customer service team, send us an email, integrate the Services with another website or service, or communicate with us in any other way. The categories of information include:

Identifiers such as real name, address, email address, phone number, company, job title;
Commercial information such as purchases of the Services;
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as IP address and browser type;
Professional or employment-related information such as job title and company name; and,
Inferences drawn from any of the above information categories.

Information We Automatically Collect. Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect some of this information. Learn more in our Cookie Policy.

The categories of information include:

Device information: We collect information about the device and applications you use to access the Services, such as your IP address, your operating system, your location, your browser ID, and other information about your system and connection.
Log data: Our web servers keep log files that record data each time a device accesses those servers and those log files contain data about the nature of each access, including originating IP addresses. We may also access metadata and other information associated with files that you upload into our Services.
Product usage data: We collect usage data about you whenever you interact with our Services, which may include the dates and times you access the Services and your browsing activities (such as what portions of the Services are used). We also collect information regarding the performance of the Services.

Information We Collect From Third Parties. From time to time, we may obtain information about you from third-party sources, such as public databases, and third-party data providers.

b. How We Use the Information

We may use the Information we collect through the Services or other sources for a range of reasons, including:

To provide you with the Services.
To communicate with you about your account and provide customer support.
To market our products and/or services to you.
Through our website cookies, which you may manage through our cookie banner, to share with third-party marketing platforms to provide tailored advertising on our websites and other websites that you may visit.
To analyze website usage and improve the services offered.
For developing machine learning algorithms, market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems.
For detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity.
To enforce compliance with our Terms and applicable law, and to protect the rights and safety of our customers and third parties, as well as our own. This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us monitor the use of our Services and prevent violations.

c. How We Share the Information.

Charitable Organizations. We will never share a Charitable Organizations database of Contacts and Donors with other Charitable Organizations without your clear, opted-in consent.

Affiliates and Service Providers. We share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our products and services. These service providers are under a duty of confidentiality.

Third Party Links and websites. Our website may contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.

Third Party Marketing and Advertising Organizations. Through website cookies, which you may manage through our cookie banner, we may share your information with third party marketing and advertising partners, to provide tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit.

Disclosures Required by Law. We may be required to disclose your data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements. We may be under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information to comply with any legal obligation, to enforce or apply our Terms and other agreements, to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the protect the rights, property, or safety of others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

d. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA Individuals)

If you are from the European Economic Area, our legal bases for collecting and using your Personal Information is as follows:

The performance of your contract or to enter into the contract and to take action on your requests.
Our legitimate business interests. For example, fraud prevention, maintaining the security of our network and services, direct marketing to you, and improvement of our services.
Compliance with a mandatory legal obligation. For example, accounting and tax requirements, which are subject to mandatary retention periods. We may also collect your Personal Information to record your requests to exercise your rights and to verify your identity for such requests.
Consent you provide where we do not rely on another legal basis. Consent may be withdrawn at any time
In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements, as described above in “How We Share the Personal Information.”

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal bases on which we collect and use your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the "Contact Information" section below.

PRIVACY FOR CONTACTS AND DONORS

This section applies to the Non-Personal Information and Personally Identifiable Information we collect and process from Contacts and Donors. These terms have the following meanings:

Charitable Organizations can upload information concerning their donors, followers, or subscribers to our Services, and these individuals are considered the Charitable Organization’s “Contacts”.
A “Donor” is an individual that donates to an organization. Charitable Organizations may have Contacts who are Donors. We may also receive information about Donors from publicly available sources of information, like 990 filings, census records, social media records, and third-party data brokers. Donors may also choose to opt-in to our Services directly for the purposes of receiving communications from relevant Charitable Organizations.

If you are Contact, please note that we received your information from a Charitable Organization, and the Charitable Organization may use and share your Personal Information for their own purposes. We encourage you to refer to your Charitable Organization’s privacy policy for more information on how your Charitable Organization uses and shares your data.

a. Information We Collect

The Information that we may collect broadly falls into the following categories:

Information You Give Us. You may choose to give us information about you directly. You may provide us information in the following ways:

By using our Services.
By contacting our customer service team.
By contacting us directly through a webform, email, social media message, or otherwise submit inquiries through our websites.

The categories of information include:

Identifiers such as real name, address, email address, job title, company, or phone number;
Personal information
Commercial information such as your past donations;
Internet or other electronic network activity information;
Professional or employment-related information such as your job title, employer; and
Inferences drawn from any of the above information categories, such as your interests in different charitable causes.

The categories of information include:

Device information: We collect information about the device and applications you use to access the Services, such as your IP address, your operating system, your location, your browser ID, and other information about your system and connection.
Log data: Our web servers keep log files that record data each time a device accesses those servers and those log files contain data about the nature of each access, including originating IP addresses. We may also access metadata and other information associated with files that you upload into our Services.
Product usage data: We collect usage data about you whenever you interact with our Services, which may include the dates and times you access the Services and your browsing activities (such as what portions of the Services are used). We also collect information regarding the performance of the Services.

We generally collect this information in the aggregate to improve our services. We do not associate this information with you or your computer, unless you specifically ask us to troubleshoot any technical or security issues you have with using our websites, or we need to investigate a violation of our Terms.

Information We Collect From Third Parties. From time to time, we may obtain information about you from third-party sources, such as public databases, 990 filings, census records, social media records, and third-party data brokers.

b. How We Use the Information

We may use the Information we collect about Contacts and Donors for a range of reasons, including:

To offer our Services to you and our Charitable Organizations.
To share your information with Charitable Organizations that may be of interest to you. This is only applicable if the Charitable Organization that provided us with your information opted-in to share their information.
To communicate with you and provide customer support.
To analyze website usage and improve the services offered.
For market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems.
For detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity.
To enforce compliance with our Terms and applicable law, and to protect the rights and safety of our customers and third parties, as well as our own. This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us monitor the use of our Services and prevent violations.

c. How We Share the Information.

Charitable Organizations. We share publicly available information and information that we collect from third-party sources with Charitable Organizations that may be of interest to you. If you are a Contact and your Charitable Organization has opted into data sharing, or if you are a Donor that has directly opted into our Services, we may also share Personally Identifiable Information uploaded about you by the Charitable Organization with other Charitable Organizations that may be of interest to you.

Social Media. Our website may include social media buttons or widgets (“social media elements”). These social media elements may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media elements are governed by the privacy policy of the social media company providing the feature and/or widget.

Deidentified and Aggregate Data. We may share deidentified and aggregate data with third parties to analyze sales and customer trends. This data cannot be reasonably identified to an individual and is not Personally Identifiable Information.

d. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA Individuals)

If you are from the European Economic Area, our legal bases for collecting and using your Personally Identifiable Information is as follows:

As a processor for Charitable Organizations. As part of our contract with Charitable Organizations, we allow them to communicate with, and analyze data from, Contacts and Donors. We also provide Charitable Organizations with commercially and publicly available information obtained from Donor’s 990 filings, census records, social media records, and third-party data brokers, to provide Charitable Organizations with prospective contacts who may be interested in their cause. If you are a Contact, Charitable Organizations are responsible for the privacy and security of the Personal Information they collect from you prior to uploading them into our databases. If you are a Donor, Charitable Organizations are responsible for determining the lawful bases for processing your Personal Information and contacting you through our Services.
If you have directly opted into the Services, the performance of your contract or to enter into the contract and to take action on your requests. For example, the processing of your account registration, providing information on your interactions with our platform.
Our legitimate business interests. For example, fraud prevention, maintaining the security of our network and services, direct marketing to you where you have signed up for Services directly, and improvement of our Services.
Compliance with a mandatory legal obligation. For example, accounting and tax requirements, which are subject to mandatary retention periods. We may also collect your Personal Information to record your requests to exercise your rights and to verify your identity for such requests.
Consent you provide where we do not rely on another legal basis. Consent may be withdrawn at any time
In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements, as described above in “How We Share the Personal Information.”

PRIVACY FOR WEBSITE VISITORS

This section applies to Personal Information that we collect and process through our websites and in the usual course of our business, such as in connection with our sales and marketing activities, recruitment, and events. In this section "you" and "your" refers to website visitors.

a. Information We Collect.

The Information that we may collect broadly falls into the following categories:

Information You Give Us. If you are a website visitor, you may choose to give us information about you directly. You may provide us information in the following ways:

By contacting us directly through a webform, survey, email, social media message, or by otherwise submitting inquiries through our websites.
By attending our events or other business interactions and providing your contact details.
By entering into our sweepstakes or drawings.
By applying for a role with us.

The categories of information include:

Identifiers such as name, email address, job title, company, or phone number.
Internet or other electronic network activity information;
Employment information and job history for individuals who apply for a role with us; and
Inferences drawn from any of the above information categories.

The categories of information include:

Device information: We collect information about the device and applications you use to access the websites, such as your IP address, your operating system, your browser ID, and other information about your system and connection.
Log data: Our web servers keep log files that record data each time a device accesses those servers and those log files contain data about the nature of each access, including originating IP addresses.

We generally collect this information in the aggregate to improve the performance of our websites. We do not associate this information with you or your computer, unless we need to investigate a violation of our Terms.

b. How We Use the Personal Information

We may use the Personal Information we collect for a range of reasons, including:

Through website cookies, which you may manage through our cookie banner, we share your information with third-party marketing platforms to provide tailored advertising on our websites and other websites that you may visit.
To market our products and/or services to you.
To analyze website usage and improve the services offered.
For market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems.
For detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity.
To enforce compliance with our Terms and applicable law, and to protect the rights and safety of our customers and third parties, as well as our own. This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us monitor the use of our Services and prevent violations.

c. How We Share the Personal Information.

Third Party Marketing and Advertising Organizations. Through website cookies, which you may manage through our cookie banner, we share your information with third party marketing and advertising partners, such as Google, to provide tailored advertising on our websites and other websites that you may visit. Third Party Links and websites. Our websites may contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.

Disclosures Required by Law. We may be required to disclose your data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements. We may be under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation, to enforce or apply our Terms and other agreements, to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the protect the rights, property, or safety of others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

d. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA Individuals).

If you are from the European Economic Area, our legal bases for collecting and using your Personal Information is as follows:

Our legitimate business interests. For example, fraud prevention, maintaining the security of our network and services, direct marketing to you, and improvement of our services.
Compliance with a mandatory legal obligation. For example, accounting and tax requirements, which are subject to mandatary retention periods. We may also collect your Personal Information to record your requests to exercise your rights and to verify your identity for such requests.
Consent you provide where we do not rely on another legal basis. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements, as described above in “How Do We Share Personal Information?”
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the "Contact Information" section below.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

a. General

Marketing Opt-Out: We may use your Personally Identifiable Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any email we send. You will continue to receive service-related messages concerning our Services.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights: We have listed the privacy rights for several jurisdictions below, but we understand you may have additional rights in your jurisdiction. You may contact us directly at any time about exercising your data protection rights. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. We may ask you to verify your identity in order to help us respond efficiently to your request.

Please note that if you are a Contact for a Charitable Organization, we may also refer your privacy request to your Charitable Organization.

b. California, Colorado, or Virginia Residents

Privacy Rights. Several jurisdictions grant state residents certain rights, including the right to access specific types of Personal Information, the right to learn how we process Personal Information, the right to know whether and how we disclose or sell Personal Information, the right to correct Personal Information, the right to opt out of any sale of Personal Information or limit the use of Sensitive Personal Information, the right to request deletion of Personal Information in certain circumstances, and the right not to be denied goods or services for exercising these rights. To make such a request, please contact us at the contact information below.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information. We are not data brokers and we do not sell your personal information on the open market. However, in some jurisdictions, some of the ways we share information may constitute a “sale.”.

If you are a Donor, we may share commercially and publicly available information about you obtained from 990 filings, census records, social media records, and third-party data brokers, to provide to Charitable Organizations. You may also opt-in with us directly to discover new Charitable Organizations. To remove your Donor information from Hatch, or to make a privacy request, please contact us at the contact information below
If you are a website visitor, we use third party advertising cookies on our website in order to serve you relevant ads on other websites. You may opt out of such cookies through our cookie banner or through your browser settings. See our Cookie Policy for more information.

c. EEA Residents

EEA Privacy Rights. If you are from the European Economic Area, you have the right, under certain circumstances, to:

Access your Personal Information;
Correct inaccurate Personal Information;
Request erasure of your Personal Information without undue delay;
Request the restricted processing of your Personal Information;
Request portability of the Personal Information that you have given us; and
To object to the processing of your Personal Information, including the ability to object to automated processing and/or profiling.

If you are from the European Economic Area, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to first address your concerns and would welcome you directing an inquiry first to us per the “Contact Information” section below.

You may contact us at the contact information below for more information, or to exercise your rights. Please note that if you are a Contact for a Charitable Organization, we may also refer your privacy request to your Charitable Organization.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Any data that you provide to us may be accessed, shared or processed by our offices, located in the United States, and service providers located in the United States, if such data transfer is necessary for the specific purpose for which you submitted your data (such as the provision of goods or services under a written contract).

This may entail a transfer of your personal information across international borders. The data protections standards may differ and be lower than the standards enforced in your jurisdiction.

We maintain appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law for any information transferred internationally, including, where applicable, standard contractual clauses. For a copy of these clauses, please contact us as set forth in the “Contact Information” section below.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our websites are not directed at individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.

This may entail a transfer of your personal information across international borders. The data protections standards may differ and be lower than the standards enforced in your jurisdiction.

DO NOT TRACK

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. We do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working toward defining exactly what DNT means, what it means to comply with DNT, and a common approach to responding to DNT.

COOKIE POLICY

To make our websites and services work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. To learn more, please see our Cookie Policy.

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve the Sites. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. You may also choose to download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

You may wish to restrict the use of cookies. Please be aware that some of the features of our website may not function correctly if you disable cookies.

Most modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links for commonly used browsers may be helpful:

Personalized Advertising. We also use advertising cookies, such as Google Ads, to deliver tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit. You can learn more about how to control advertising cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the DAA’s Consumer Opt-Out link for browsers, or the DAA’s opt-out link for mobile devices. Please note that electing to opt-out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications and may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests.

CHANGE OF CONTROL

Information may be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization or other change in control. If we sell, merge or transfer any part of the business, part of the sale may include your Information.

DATA RETENTION

We may retain your Information for a period of time consistent with the original purpose of collection or as long as required to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations. We determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information on the basis of the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information being processed, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the Personal Information, whether we can achieve the purposes of the processing through other means, and on the basis of applicable legal requirements (such as applicable statutes of limitation).

After expiry of the applicable retention periods, your Personal Information will be deleted. If there is any data that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete entirely from our systems, we will implement appropriate measures to prevent any further use of or access to such data.

For more information on data retention periods, please contact us by using the information in the “Contact Information” section, below.

SECURITY PROTECTION

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. For example, when possible, we use encryption to transfer and store data. We further limit access to this data using access controls and confidentiality commitments.

However, no website, application, or transmission can guarantee security. Thus, while we have established and maintain what we believe to be reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information obtained through the websites, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

POLICY CHANGES

We may change this privacy policy at any time and from time to time. The most recent version of the privacy policy is reflected by the date located at the top of this privacy policy. All updates and amendments are effective immediately upon notice, which we may give by any means, including, but not limited to, by posting a revised version of this privacy policy or other notice on the websites. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to ensure you are familiar with the most current version.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at btginfo24@gmail.com

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Privacy Policy - Effective Date: April 9th, 2024

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