PRIVACY POLICY
Bring Back The Sun respects your privacy and preferences. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets forth the terms under which you share your information with Bring Back The Sun and how Bring Back The Sun 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 Bring Back The Sun Website located at www.bringbackthesun.org, bringbackthesun.net and any other domain names owned or controlled by Bring Back The Sun (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.
Bring Back The Sun 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). Bring Back The Sun may, by way of example, use your contact information to:
• Send you additional information about Bring Back The Sun and its programs or events.
• Process a donation or payment and provide you with a receipt or acknowledgment.
• Clarify or obtain information about a donation or about information you requested.
• Enroll you in programs, events or activities in which you elect to participate.
• Manage your account and provide you with customer service.
• Offer sweepstakes, contests, giveaways or other promotions.
• Enforce the Website terms of service.
• Perform other functions as described at the time Bring Back The Sun collects information.
Bring Back The Sun may share or sell your information with vendors, sponsors, service providers and other organizations that Bring Back The Sun uses, as well as other companies whose products and services may be of interest to you. When you sign up for a program or make a donation allocated to a local Affiliate or program, your contact information may be passed on to representatives or designees of such Affiliate or program.
If you make a donation or a purchase, or otherwise provide your information, Bring Back The Sun may contact you from time to time about opportunities to make additional donations or purchases or to provide information about services from third parties.
You always have the right to opt out of future communications from Bring Back The Sun 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:
Bring Back The Sun
145 east 92nd street
NY, NY 10128
USA
Telephone: 1-917-297-3868 TBC
Email: info@bringbackthesun.org
Credit card and billing information
In addition to your contact information, when you make a donation or purchase, Bring Back The Sun asks for your billing address and credit card or other financial services information. Bring Back The Sun uses a third-party banking agent to process your payments via a secured socket layer connection (TLS 1.2 using SHA 256 encryption) to a secured server that verifies your credit card/bank information. They return a unique tracking number only, which cannot be decrypted to obtain the payment card information, and Bring Back The Sun never retains your complete credit card number. Only employees who need access to your personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to that information, and Bring Back The Sun and our banking agent will not share your credit card/bank information with any other third party.
Other contact information
Bring Back The Sun 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. Bring Back The Sun 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 Bring Back The Sun. Like you, the recipient will always have the opportunity to opt out of receiving future communication from Bring Back The Sun.
Cookies
When you visit the Website, Bring Back The Sun may store some information on your computer or device as a “cookie” or similar file (i.e., a small piece of datum that stores information on your browser in your hard drive). Bring Back The Sun may use cookies to gather broad demographic and traffic information, to help improve the design and functionality of the Website. Cookies may also be used for “re-targeting” in advertising campaigns so that third-party vendors can display advertising to you about Habitat for Humanity or other related entities as you use the internet.
Links to other sites
This Website may contain links to other sites that may collect your personal contact information. Bring Back The Sun is not responsible for privacy practices and policies or content of these other sites.
Social media
You may engage with Bring Back The Sun through third-party social-media sites, plug-ins and applications, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. When doing so, you may allow Bring Back The Sun 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 Bring Back The Sun 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, Bring Back The Sun 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 Bring Back The Sun’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. Bring Back The Sun will notify you about material changes in the way Bring Back The Sun 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 Bring Back The Sun collects, how it’s used, with whom it may be shared, and what choices you have.
[Updated March 2017]
TERMS AND USE
This site and all digital extensions of this site using the domains www.bringbackthesun.org, bringbackthesun.net and/or any domain name owned or controlled by Bring Back The Sun. (collectively, the “Website”) provide a complimentary information service offered by Bring Back The Sun to you as a Website user, with the express condition that you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”).
Do not use the Website if you do not agree to these Terms of Service.
Content
All content available on this Website, including, but not limited to, trademarks, photographs, images, characters, names, graphics, logos, illustrations, audio clips and video clips (collectively, “Content”), is protected by copyright, trademark and other rights that are owned and/or controlled by Bring Back The Sun or by other parties that have licensed their material to Bring Back The Sun. You may use content from this Website for your own personal, non-commercial use only. You may not copy, reproduce, publish, upload, post, transmit or distribute any Content in any way without Bring Back The Sun’s express permission.
Copyright and copyright agent
Bring Back The Sun respects the rights of all copyright holders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide to Bring Back The Sun’s Copyright Agent the following information, as required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party; A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. For copyright inquiries under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please contact:
Bring Back The Sun
145 east 92nd street
NY, NY 10128
USA
Telephone: 1-917-297-3868 TBC
Email: info@bringbackthesun.org
Privacy
Bring Back The Sun respects the privacy of the visitors to the Website. Review the Privacy Policy.
Linked sites
The Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated or managed by or on behalf of Bring Back The Sun. Bring Back The Sun is not responsible for the content of any such lined-to sites. The links to these sites are for your convenience only, and you access them at your own risk.
Bring Back The Sun Humanity welcomes links to the Website. You may include on your site(s) a link to the Website, provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of you or your site by Bring Back The Sun or any Affiliate. You may not use on your site any logos, trademarks, service marks or other copyrighted materials appearing on the Website, including, without limitation, any logos, without Bring Back The Sun’s express written permission. You may not frame or otherwise incorporate into another site any of the Content or other materials on the Website without Bring Back The Sun’s prior written consent.
User-generated content
From time to time, Bring Back The Sun may allow you to communicate, submit, upload or otherwise make available comments, messages, images, audio, video and/or other content via the Website (“User Generated Content”), some or all of which may be accessible to the public. You agree that you will not submit or otherwise publish any User Generated Content that:
(a) is libelous or defamatory;
(b) is obscene, pornographic or otherwise offensive;
(c) is abusive or harmful (or threatens to abuse or harm) any person or entity;
(d) infringes another person’s or entity’s intellectual property rights or any other rights, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademark or the right of publicity or privacy;
(e) violates any law or regulation;
(f) advocates illegal activity;
(g) advertises a product or service;
(h) solicits funds or solicits goods or services; or
(i) invite to violence
By submitting User Generated Content to the Website, you grant to Bring Back The Sun a non-exclusive, sublicensable, irrevocable and royalty-free worldwide license to use, reproduce, transmit, print, publish, publicly display, exhibit, distribute, redistribute, copy, index, comment on, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works based upon, publicly perform, make available and otherwise exploit such User Generated Content, in whole or in part, in all media now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose, including, without limitation, advertising, promotional and commercial purposes, without further notice to you, with or without attribution.
You represent and warrant that your User Generated Content conforms to these Terms of Service and that you own or have the necessary rights and permissions, without the need for payment to any other person or entity, to use and exploit, and to authorize Bring Back The Sun to use and exploit, your User Generated Content in all manners contemplated under these Terms of Service.
You shall indemnify Bring Back The Sun and its subsidiaries and Affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, resulting from arising out of or in connection with our use and exploitation of your User Generated Content. You also agree not to enforce any moral rights, ancillary rights or similar rights in or to the User Generated Content against Bring Back The Sun or its licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, and agree to procure the same agreement not to enforce from others who may possess such rights.
To the extent that Bring Back The Sun expressly authorizes you to create, post, upload, distribute, publicly display or publicly perform User Generated Content that requires the use of our copyrighted works, Bring Back The Sun grants you a non-exclusive license to create a derivative work using our copyrighted works, solely as required for the purpose of creating the materials, provided that such license shall be conditioned upon your assignment to Bring Back The Sun of all rights in the work you create. If such rights are not assigned to Bring Back The Sun, your license to create derivative works using Bring Back The Sun’s copyrighted works shall be null and void.
Bring Back The Sun is not responsible for any User Generated Content or user communications published or transmitted by users of the Website. Bring Back The Sun reserves the right to edit or delete User Generated Content or user communications at any time and for any reason without any prior notice, but has no obligation to do so.
Unsolicited creative submissions/communications
Bring Back The Sun does not accept or consider creative ideas, suggestions or materials other than those Bring Back The Sun has specifically requested. If you do send or post any creative materials, including creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts or other information or if you transmit by electronic mail or otherwise, communications, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like (collectively, the “Submitted Material”), the Submitted Material will be deemed and remain Bring Back The Sun’s property. None of the Submitted Material will be subject to any confidentiality obligation on the part of Bring Back The Sun, and Bring Back The Sun will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submitted Material. Bring Back The Sun will exclusively own any now known or hereafter existing worldwide perpetual rights to the Submitted Material, without compensation to the provider of the Submitted Material.
Disclaimer
The content on and available via this Website is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Bring Back The Sun disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Bring Back The Sun makes no warranty that the functions contained in the content will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that Bring Back The Sun or the server that makes them available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.
The information and opinions expressed in bulletin boards, chat rooms or other forums conducted on this site (“Forums”) are not necessarily those of Bring Back The Sun or its affiliates or related entities or content providers, and Bring Back The Sun makes no representations or warranties regarding that information or those opinions. Bring Back The Sun and its affiliates or related entities or its content providers are not responsible or liable to any person or entity whatsoever (including, without limitation, persons who may use or rely on such content or to whom such content may be furnished) for any loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive or otherwise), injury, claim, liability or other cause of any kind or character whatsoever based upon or resulting from any content, information or opinions provided in the Website.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, in no event will Bring Back The Sun, or its present or future affiliates, be liable to you for any personal injury, property damage, lost profits, cost of substitute goods or services, loss of data, loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer and/or device or technology failure or malfunction or for any form of direct or indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages based on any causes of action arising out of any alleged failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in service, operation or transmission of the Website or any alleged computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of property and/or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of or posting of any record, content or technology, pertaining to or on the Website. You agree that this limitation of liability applies whether such allegations are for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or fall under any other cause of action, regardless of the basis upon which liability is claimed and even if Bring Back The Sun has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you also specifically acknowledge that Bring Back The Sun and/or its present or future affiliates are not liable for any actual or alleged defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other users of the Website or any other third parties.
If applicable law does not allow all or any part of the above limitation of liability to apply to you, the limitations will apply to you only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Jurisdiction
The Content and features on the Website are presented for the purpose of providing news and/or information and/or promoting programs, and other products and/or services that are or may become available in the United States, its territories and possessions. Any and all disputes, claims and controversies arising out of or in connection with your access to, and/or use of the Website, and/or the provision of Content, services and/or technology on or through the Website is governed the laws and decisions of the State of Georgia applicable to contracts made, entered into and performed entirely therein, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions.
Changes of these terms of service
Bring Back The Sun reserves the right to change these Terms of Service at any time, without notice to you. Please consult the most recent version of these Terms of Service each time you view the Website.
[Updated April 2016]