About us Our Projects Get involved News Donate Privacy Home » Privacy PRIVACY POLICY At EMERGENCY USA we greatly value our donors and supporters, and thus we want to act with transparency and in compliance with the law as regards the personal details we request when you support us and how we use them. WEBSITE DISCLOSURE We use internal access controls so only limited personnel with a personal password have access to information. Servers that store visitor or donor information are regularly backed up and protected behind firewalls and our databases are completely closed and cannot be called from outside. All information is secured through modern security technologies like secure socket layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, and secure passwords. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA EMERGENCY USA will not, under any circumstances, share your data with other companies or organisations for marketing purposes. We may need to share limited information with our service providers, who process your data to help us send you relevant communications or process your donations and other responses. These service providers only act under our instruction and are not allowed to use your data for their own purposes or disclose it to other third parties. WHAT INFORMATION WE ASK FOR AND WHY Among the types of personal data that this website collects, there are: cookies, usage data, name and surname, email address and postal address. We do not collect “sensitive personal data” about our supporters, e.g. health status. Email address We need to be able to confirm any transactions you make on the EMERGENCY USA website by sending you an email, which is why the email field is mandatory in the web forms relating to donations and purchases. We would also like to communicate with you and keep you updated on our work and how your support is contributing. If you wish to receive these communications, you can opt in via our website. If you are already subscribed and would like to opt out of receiving future communications, you are free to unsubscribe from our mailing list or change your preferences at any time by clicking on the relevant links in our newsletter or by contacting us at info@emergencyusa.org. Postal address We ask for your postal address in order to: Set up Direct Debits and process one-off donations; Claim Gift Aid; Deliver items to you (items you have purchased); If you agreed to receive post from us, we will use your postal address to send you relevant materials on our work and activities. We will retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary, for the purpose or purposes you have consented to. COOKIE POLICY The website www.emergencyusa.org uses cookies to improve your browsing experience, to optimally manage the donation process and to collect, in anonymous form, data on use of the website by users (for example: most viewed pages, channels of origin of traffic, etc.). That allow us to provide our supporters and visitors with content of interest. We remind you that by pressing the “Accept” button present on the alert concerning the use of cookies or by interacting with the website (e.g., by scrolling down the page or by following the links in the pages), you confirm that you wish to use this website in the knowledge that we use cookies described below. This document may be updated at any time, on the basis of the technical and functional updates that we may make on this website; these updates will be valid from the date of their publication on this website. What are cookies? 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