PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY:

The National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its website.  In this Privacy Policy, NCVLI refers to NCVLI staff, board members, cooperating attorneys, interns, volunteers, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep confidential information they receive as part of their assistance to NCVLI. 

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for the Website. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by the Website.  It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

When you submit personal data through the Website, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email, Website form, or other direct contact from you, but may also collect other types of information whenever you use the Website through automated means such as cookies (discussed below).  We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us, to guard against potential fraud, and to comply with laws and regulations.  We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to provide assistance to you (such as to collaborate with experts to fulfill a technical assistance request or to contact potential referral resources on your behalf) or to complete a transaction upon your request (such as submission of your online payment or donation information via a third party payment processor) or as stated below.

We may disclose information you have provided to us if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to: (1) comply with the law, government action or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property, including without limitation this Website; or (3) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (by way of example, if you provide false information or pretend to be someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of an investigation).  If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have submitted, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice (unless such notice could result in harm to others) that a request for your information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure.  We will attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given us an email address, or by postal mail, if you have given us a postal address.  If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over your information.  In addition, we may independently object to requests for access to information about users of our Website that we believe to be improper.  You may opt out by contacting us as provided below.

Your Access to and Control Over Information 

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the contact form provided on our website:

• Request that we delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information.  When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us securely.  You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees, volunteers or contractors who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing) are granted access to personally identifiable information.  The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Device Information & Usage Data

Whether or not you submit personal data, any time you visit the Website, we or our service providers may collect, store or accumulate certain device information and usage data. This information may be used in furtherance of the purposes described above with respect to personal data and also in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as optimizing the Website, generating statistics and developing marketing plans, and otherwise for general administrative, analytical, research, optimization, and security purposes.

Information to and from Social Networks

If you choose to connect to the Website through a third-party social network such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram (each, a “Social Network”), we may collect personal data from your profile on such social network, such as your name, username, and e-mail address, and we will use that personal data for the purposes set forth herein.  In addition, the Website may offer social sharing features which will allow you to “share” or “like” on a social network. If you decide to use such features, it may allow the sharing and collection of information both to and from such social network so you should check the privacy policy of each social network before using such features.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site.  A cookie is a text file placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences and help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. We use cookies to understand site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the Website and the content, offerings, or advertisements you see on the Website.  For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site.  Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, payment processors for online payments or event registration services).  However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually configure your browser to prevent this.  However, not accepting cookies may make certain features of the Website unavailable to you.

Links

This Website contains links to other sites.  Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

General Legal

All other terms governing this Privacy Policy shall be those set forth in our Terms of Use, which are incorporated herein by this reference.

You can contact us with questions or comments about this Policy by emailing us at ncvli@lclark.edu.

Changes or Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. We will post any changes on the Website, but we have no other obligation to notify you of such changes. We indicate the date of the current version of this Privacy Policy below, so you know when it was last updated.  Any changes will affect all of the information we have previously collected from you, as well as the information we collect after such changes; and such changes may include without limitation additional uses or disclosures of your information.  If any of the changes represent a material change that expands our use of personal information, the changes will be posted at least 30 days prior to taking effect and we will post a prompt on the home page of our site for users to review the new privacy policy.  If you object to the changes, please contact us as provided below and we will remove your information that we previously collected. However, your subsequent provision of information to us through any of our Websites is deemed your agreement to use of that information in accordance with the then-current Privacy Policy.

Updated January 7, 2022.