Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest in WomenStrong International. Use of WomenStrong-hosted websites constitutes acceptance of the terms of use and privacy policy outlined. The terms of use and privacy policy apply to the WomenStrong International website (https://www.womenstrong.org/), its member portal site (https://portal.womenstrong.org), and services offered on the womenstrong.org domain (the “Site”). WomenStrong International is the sole owner of the information collected on these websites. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

Those With Whom We May Share Your Data

We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. We occasionally enter into contracts with third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (for example, by providing customer service). The contracts prohibit these third parties from using any of your personal information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide to them.

In addition to the disclosures otherwise permitted by this privacy policy, we may disclose or report personal information, if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order or is otherwise required by law. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you, to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either.

Additionally, we may disclose personal information where we, in good faith, deem it appropriate or necessary to: identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of WomenStrong International, any individual, or the general public; maintain and protect the security and integrity of our services or infrastructure; protect ourselves and our services from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations; or assist government enforcement agencies.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically, instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our portal, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Administrators can also see and edit that information. To have your profile deleted, please email [email protected] with that request.

For users who make financial contributions on our websites, information about the contribution (name, contact information, date, and amount of contribution) are retained indefinitely. Users may request to stop receiving communications from WomenStrong by using the “Unsubscribe” button on our emails or by emailing [email protected] with the subject line, “Unsubscribe.”

As mentioned above, credit card information used to make a contribution is not retained after the contribution is processed.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Where We Send Your Data

We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. We do use third-party providers to help service you in the following ways: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We use Google Analytics to track and analyze information about the function of our websites, and you can read the Google Analytics privacy policy. We use Form Assembly to collect credit card contribution information and Stripe to process credit card contributions, and you can read their privacy policies here: https://www.formassembly.com/privacy-policy/#privacyshieldInfo and here: https://stripe.com/privacy. We will not sell, rent, or give data collected via these websites to any third party, excepting the vendors contracted by WomenStrong to complete its work.If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How We Protect Your Data

We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures, to protect your information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration. If we ask for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it through the use of encryption during transmission, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

WomenStrong takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors’ security and privacy among our employees. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information, and, using physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for business purposes only. WomenStrong is not responsible for the information collection practices of any websites to which WomenStrong’s websites link.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our WomenStrong websites, so that our users are always aware of the types of information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we would disclose it. This policy is effective as of July 1, 2020.