PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

Hope for a Cure for ALZ, Inc. is an Ohio nonprofit corporation recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Organization,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) that respects the privacy of visitors, donors, volunteers, event participants, subscribers, and other users of our website <https://hopeforacureforalz.org/> and related online features that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information through the Site and related online interactions.

Article 1 — Information We Collect

I. Information You Provide to Us. We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you interact with the Site, make a donation, register for an event, sign up to volunteer, subscribe to communications, complete a form, contact us, or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include:

A. Contact Information, including name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, organization, and related contact details.

B. Donation Information, including donation amount, frequency, campaign designation, tribute or memorial information, billing details, donor preferences, and related transaction information.

C. Volunteer and Event Information, including registration details, availability, interests, emergency-contact information, accessibility or dietary requests, attendance records, and other information relevant to volunteer activities or events.

D. Communications Information, including the contents of messages, inquiries, feedback, survey responses, or other communications you send to us.

E. Other Information, including [SPECIFIC DATA CATEGORIES].

II. Payment Information. Donations and other payments made to the Organization through the Site may be processed by Paypal. We may receive transaction confirmations, limited payment-related information, and donor details, but we do not intend to store complete payment-card numbers through the Site unless expressly stated at the point of collection.

III. Information Collected Automatically. When you use the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information, including:

A. Internet protocol (“IP”) address, device identifiers, browser type, operating system, referring pages, pages viewed, date and time of access, approximate location derived from technical data, and Site usage information.

B. Information collected through cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, software development kits, local storage, and similar technologies.

C. Analytics and performance data collected through [ANALYTICS/COOKIE VENDORS].

IV. Information from Third Parties. We may receive information from third parties, including donation platforms, event-registration services, email platforms, social-media platforms, publicly available sources, partner organizations, and service providers, where permitted by law and consistent with the third party’s applicable terms.

Article 2 — How We Use Information

I. Organizational Purposes. We may use information for one or more of the following organizational purposes:

A. To operate, maintain, personalize, and improve the Site.

B. To process donations, issue receipts, maintain donor records, and administer fundraising campaigns.

C. To register individuals for events, volunteer opportunities, programs, trainings, seminars, or other activities.

D. To communicate with donors, volunteers, subscribers, applicants, participants, and other constituents.

E. To send newsletters, updates, event notices, fundraising communications, and other information about our mission and activities through our email platform, Gmail.

F. To respond to inquiries, requests, complaints, or support needs.

G. To manage surveys, campaigns, petitions, outreach, and community engagement activities.

H. To analyze Site traffic, measure the effectiveness of communications, and improve programs and services.

I. To maintain the security, integrity, and availability of the Site and our systems.

J. To detect, prevent, investigate, or address fraud, unauthorized activity, misuse, security incidents, or legal violations.

K. To comply with applicable legal, tax, accounting, charitable-solicitation, reporting, governance, and recordkeeping obligations.

L. For any other purpose described at the time information is collected or with your consent.

II. No Sale of Donor Lists. Unless expressly disclosed at the point of collection, we do not sell donor lists or exchange donor personal information for commercial marketing purposes.

Article 3 — Donations and Fundraising

I. Donation Processing. Donations submitted through the Site are processed by Paypal, which may collect, process, and store payment and transaction information in accordance with its own privacy and security practices. We encourage donors to review any privacy terms presented by the donation processor at the time of donation.

II. Donor Records. We may use donor information to process gifts, provide tax receipts and acknowledgments, maintain contribution records, administer recurring donations, respond to donor requests, and communicate about our mission, campaigns, programs, and events.

III. Recurring Donations. If you establish a recurring donation, we or Paypal may use your information to process recurring charges, manage changes to your donation preferences, and provide confirmations or notices related to the donation arrangement.

IV. Tribute and Memorial Gifts. If you provide information about another person in connection with a tribute or memorial gift, you represent that you have authority to provide that information, and we may use it to administer the tribute or memorial designation and related acknowledgment.

Article 4 — Volunteer, Program, and Event Registrations

I. Registration Information. We may collect and use registration information to administer volunteer opportunities, events, programs, trainings, or community activities, including scheduling, eligibility, attendance, communications, safety planning, and accommodations.

II. Sensitive or Special Information. If we request health, accessibility, dietary, emergency contact, background check, or similar information, we will use that information for the purpose for which it was provided and as otherwise permitted by law.

III. Photography and Media. If events or programs involve photography, video, or recordings, any applicable media-release terms will be provided separately or at the point of participation.

Article 5 — Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Technologies

I. Use of Cookies and Analytics. We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the Site, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the Site, measure engagement, improve content, prevent fraud, and support outreach activities. These technologies may be provided by [ANALYTICS/COOKIE VENDORS].

II. Types of Technologies. The Site may use one or more of the following technologies:

A. Essential Technologies necessary for Site functionality, security, forms, donation processing, and user-requested services.

B. Analytics Technologies that help us understand Site performance, traffic patterns, and user interactions.

C. Preference Technologies that remember user settings or choices.

D. Outreach or Measurement Technologies that help measure the effectiveness of email, fundraising, or awareness campaigns.

III. Your Choices. You may be able to limit cookies through your browser or device settings. If you disable certain technologies, some Site features may not function properly. Where legally required, we will provide any additional consent, opt-out, or preference-management mechanism applicable to the technologies used on the Site.

Article 6 — Email, Newsletters, and Other Communications

I. Email Communications. If you subscribe, donate, register, volunteer, or otherwise provide your email address, we may send you administrative messages, receipts, confirmations, newsletters, event notices, fundraising appeals, and other communications related to our charitable mission.

II. Email Platform. We may use Gmail to manage email lists, send communications, track engagement, and maintain subscription preferences.

III. Opt-Out. You may opt out of non-transactional email communications by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication or by contacting us at the mailing or email address identified below. We may still send administrative, transactional, donation-related, legal, or service-related messages as permitted by law.

Article 7 — Text Messaging

I. SMS Practices. We do not use SMS, DMS, or other text-messaging platforms to initiate communications with website visitors.

II. Consent and Opt-Out. If we offer SMS or text messaging, we will send such messages only in accordance with applicable law and any consent or opt-in process presented at enrollment. You may opt out of text messages by following the instructions provided in the message or by contacting us at the mailing or email address identified below. Message and data rates may apply.

Article 8 — How We Share Information

I. Service Providers. We may share information with vendors, contractors, consultants, and service providers that help us operate the Site, process donations, manage events, send communications, conduct analytics, maintain records, provide security, host data, or perform other services on our behalf.

II. Donation, Event, and Program Partners. We may share information with payment processors, event platforms, program partners, venues, co-sponsors, volunteer coordinators, and similar parties when reasonably necessary to administer donations, events, programs, volunteer activities, or services you request.

III. Professional Advisors and Compliance. We may share information with attorneys, accountants, auditors, insurers, financial institutions, other professional advisors, and regulators or governmental authorities when necessary for legal, tax, charitable-registration, governance, audit, or compliance purposes.

IV. Legal and Safety Purposes. We may disclose information when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to comply with law, legal process, or governmental request; to protect our rights, property, personnel, donors, volunteers, participants, or the public; to investigate fraud, misuse, or security incidents; or to enforce applicable terms and policies.

V. Organizational Transactions. If we undergo a merger, consolidation, restructuring, transfer of assets, collaboration, fiscal sponsorship change, or similar organizational transaction, information may be transferred or disclosed as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards where required.

VI. With Consent. We may share information with your consent or at your direction.

Article 9 — Children’s Privacy

I. Children’s Audience Status. The Site is intended for adults age 18 and older.

II. Children Under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the Site unless we have implemented a legally appropriate parental-consent or guardian-consent process. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without required consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

III. Programs Involving Minors. If we operate programs, events, or volunteer opportunities involving minors, we may collect information from a parent, guardian, school, sponsoring organization, or authorized adult as necessary to administer the program, protect participant safety, and comply with applicable requirements.

Article 10 — Security

I. Security Measures. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

II. Limitations. No website, transmission, storage system, or electronic communication is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other security incidents will never occur.

III. User Responsibilities. You are responsible for taking reasonable precautions when using the Site, including safeguarding any account credentials, using secure networks, and promptly notifying us of suspected unauthorized activity.

Article 11 — Retention

I. Retention Period. We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including donation administration, program operations, communications, legal compliance, tax and accounting obligations, charitable records, dispute resolution, security, and legitimate organizational purposes.

II. Retention Criteria. In determining retention periods, we may consider the nature of the information, the context in which it was collected, operational needs, legal requirements, limitation periods, audit obligations, donor preferences, and the need to maintain accurate nonprofit and charitable records.

III. Deletion or De-Identification. When information is no longer needed, we may delete it, aggregate it, de-identify it, or retain it in accordance with applicable recordkeeping obligations and backup or archival procedures.

Article 12 — Your Choices and State Privacy Rights

I. Access, Correction, and Deletion Requests. Depending on where you reside and subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information we maintain about you.

II. Opt-Out Rights. Depending on applicable law and our practices, you may have the right to opt out of certain targeted advertising, profiling, sale, sharing, or marketing activities. We do not knowingly sell personal information in the ordinary commercial sense, but some analytics or outreach technologies may be treated differently under certain state privacy laws.

III. Donation and Communication Preferences. You may contact us to update donor preferences, request that we limit certain communications, or change subscription settings.

IV. Submitting Requests. To submit a privacy request, contact us at the mailing or email address identified below. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling the request. If you use an authorized agent, we may require evidence of the agent’s authority and may request that you verify your identity directly with us.

V. Non-Discrimination. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights available under applicable law.

VI. Limits and Exceptions. Privacy rights may be subject to legal limits, exemptions, identity-verification requirements, retention obligations, and exceptions for security, fraud prevention, nonprofit operations, legal compliance, and the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Article 13 — Data Breach Notice

I. Incident Response. If we discover a security incident involving personal information, we will investigate and take steps we determine are appropriate under the circumstances, including efforts to contain the incident, assess the scope and risk, restore system integrity, and comply with applicable notice obligations.

II. Ohio Notice. For Ohio residents, if a breach of the security of computerized data results in personal information being accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person and the access and acquisition causes or is reasonably believed will cause a material risk of identity theft or other fraud, we will provide notice in the most expedient time possible and not later than 45 days after discovery or notification of the breach, subject to law-enforcement needs and measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the system.

III. Other Jurisdictions. If residents of other states are affected, we will evaluate and provide any notices required by applicable state breach-notification laws.

Article 14 — Third-Party Websites and Services

I. Third-Party Links. The Site may reference or provide access to third-party websites, platforms, forms, donation pages, event-registration pages, social-media pages, or other online services that we do not control.

II. Separate Practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. Those third parties may collect, use, disclose, and retain information under their own policies and terms.

III. No Responsibility for Third Parties. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services.

Article 15 — International Users

I. United States Operations. The Site is operated from the United States. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

II. Cross-Border Transfers. By using the Site or providing information to us, you consent to the transfer, processing, and storage of information in the United States and other locations where our service providers operate, subject to applicable law.

Article 16 — Updates to This Privacy Policy

I. Policy Changes. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or organizational operations.

II. Effective Date. The effective date at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when it was last updated.

III. Material Changes. If we make material changes, we may provide notice by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site, sending a notice to the contact information we have on file, or using another method reasonably designed to provide notice.

Article 17 — Contact Us

I. Privacy Contact. If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

HOPE FOR A CURE FOR ALZ, INC.

P.O. Box 24292

Cleveland, OH 44124

hope4alz@gmail.com

Attn: Robert Arnoff, President