Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 14, 2018.

This Privacy Policy sets forth the terms of our practices with respect to your information, including our collection and use of information you submit to us or we collect through our website www.gainfactchecker.org and any related mobile website (collectively, the “Site”). By using the Site, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure and storage of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

  • Responding to Your Requests:
    You may give us your personal information so we can send you newsletters and other communications you request. You can control whether or not you want to continue to receive our newsletters from the Site by following “unsubscribe” instructions within the emails.
  • Social Networking Sites:
    We may offer services that allow you to share information about our Site or its content with third-party social media networking sites such as Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, and others. If you engage with our Site through third-party social networking sites, you may be allowing us to access to certain information stored on those social networking sites, such as your public profile, list of friends, followers or connections, etc. The information we have access to from the social networking sites varies by website and is controlled by your privacy settings on that website. Any information we collect with respect to your use of functionality with social networking sites shall be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  • Technical Usage Information:
    When you visit our Site, we collect usage information sent to us by the device you use to access the Site, which tells us how you are using the Site. We use tracking technologies such as cookies and web beacons to collect usage information.

Uses and Retention

We use the information we collect to:

  • respond to your requests, such as answering your questions or sending you newsletters;
  • provide customer service;
  • personalize your experience by providing content on the Site; and
  • improve the Site.

Disclosure

Information collected on the Site may be shared with:

  • Service Providers:
    We may disclose your information to service providers who help with our operations, and we only share information with them in connection with the services they are contracted to provide us.
  • Legal and Law Enforcement:
    We may disclose your information in response to a legal requirements or a valid request to do so by law enforcement, governmental agencies or authorized third-parties, including complying with the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  • Change of Control:
    We may disclose your information with organizations or business entities that acquire our organization or a majority of our assets.
  • Ad Networks:
    We may use third-parties to provide us with services such as advertising, data collection, analytics or marketing. Such third-parties may view, edit or set their own cookies or other tracking technologies on our Site. The use of these technologies by these third-parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Privacy Policy. For more information about such third-party ad servers, including how to opt-out of such targeted advertising, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
  • Information You Share on the Site:
    If the Site permits you to post information or content on the Site, such as making comments on blog posts or interacting with the Site through social networking sites, this information may become public. We cannot prohibit or control third parties’ use of any information you make public, so please do not post sensitive information on or through the Site.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies and other tracking technologies on the Site for a variety of purposes and to enhance your experience on the Site.  Cookies are text files placed in your device’s browser to store your preferences.  They help us understand how you use the Site and to improve content by telling us how users react to content on the Site.

We, and our advertising networks or third-party service providers, if applicable, may use cookies to measure the effectiveness of any advertisements displayed on our Site.  We also may use web beacons (or clear .gifs) or similar technologies, which are small pieces of code placed on a Site or in an email, to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a Site or email. We use web beacons to count visitors to a web site or determine how many people are opening our newsletters.

You are free to decline or block tracking technologies if your browser permits you to do so, but note that doing so may prevent certain of the Site’s features from working as intended.

Notice to California Residents

California Residents have the right to request a list of all third-parties to which our Site has disclosed certain personal information during the preceding year for those parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please send a request by email at [email protected] or by mail at Grow America’s Infrastructure Now, PO Box 65582 Washington, DC 20035-5582.

In all such requests, please use the subject line “Your Privacy Rights” and include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code.

Do Not Track Signals

We do not currently respond to Do Not Track signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We may adopt a standard once one is created, and will include such new policy in this Privacy Policy at such time it is adopted.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any third-party sites.

Security

We maintain reasonable security measures to protect your personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure. No measures are fail proof, however, and we do not accept responsibility for any personal information that is compromised.

Children’s Privacy

The Site and the Site’s content are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information via our Site from users under the age of 13.  Please contact us if you learn we have inadvertently collected information from a user under the age of 13 and we will delete it from our records.

International Transfer

Our Site is based in the United States, so your personal information will be processed in the U.S.  The United States’ data protection laws may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. If you use the Site or otherwise submit your information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the United States.

Updates

At our sole discretion, we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. You should check the Site frequently for updates. Your continued use of the Site after the Privacy Policy has been revised shall constitute your acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy, as revised.

Contact Us

If your questions are not answered online, you may email us at [email protected].