Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 11, 2024
ICAR Collective (“we,” “our,” “us,” or “ICAR”), is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating trauma healing in Israel, respects your privacy and recognizes the importance of protecting your personal information. We have prepared this Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) to help you understand important information about ICAR’s privacy practices. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices in connection with our collection of your personal information through all our online website properties and any content delivered by ICAR through our website and applications, including, but not limited to, our blogs, events, donation, and social media pages (collectively, the “Site”), as well as information provided by you through other methods of communication such as the phone, in-person meetings, emails, or mailings (collectively, “Other Communications”). “You” or “your” refers to any person using the Site or communicating with ICAR through Other Communications.
This Privacy Policy describes the kinds of personal information from or about you that we (or our service providers acting on our behalf) may gather via the Site or through Other Communications, how we use, share and protect such information, and how you can manage your preferences concerning our uses and sharing of such information.
This Privacy Policy forms part of our online Terms and Conditions of Use. Please read each document carefully. By visiting the Site or communicating with ICAR through Other Communications, you consent to our collection, use, processing, and sharing of personal information about you as described in this Privacy Policy and in our Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not use the Site or otherwise provide us with your personal information. You may decline to provide any personal information to ICAR, but please understand that you may then be unable to register on our Site or participate in activities or services offered by ICAR.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Effective Date” above, so please check back periodically to stay aware of any modifications. Your use of the Site, or continued voluntary engagement with ICAR through Other Communications, after changes have been posted will constitute your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and any changes.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
We may collect three types of information that users provide when interacting with our Site or through Other Communications:
- Personal Information – information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, home and seasonal mailing addresses, personal and work email address, and telephone number. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information also is treated as personal information.
- Anonymous Information – information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, an individual.
- Aggregate Information – we may use personal and de-identified or anonymous information to create a third type of information, aggregate information, meaning information about groups or categories of individuals that does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual.
User Provided Information
For example, we collect the following types of information when you provide it directly to us or through Other Communications:
- Information you provide when you register for an event or activity, apply for a job, contact us, or engage in any other method of submission, such as your first and last name, personal and work email address, full work, home and seasonal mailing addresses, home, work and/or mobile telephone number, work and employment histories, and any other information, preferences, content, files or media you submit as part of that form.
- Transaction information you provide when you make a donation or pay for an event or activity, such as your first name, last name, full mailing address, telephone number, and payment information.
- Information you provide in forums on our Site and applications, such as your posts, images, videos, documents or any other materials shared.
- Information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post, or similar functionality, where we are permitted by applicable law to collect this information.
- Information we obtain from a third party, such as a site or platform provider, about your use of our applications.
- Location information, including location information provided by a mobile or other device interacting with our Site or applications (including through beacon technologies), or associated with your IP address, where we are permitted by law to process this information.
- Activity information about your use, and the use by any person(s) you authorize through your account, of our Site and applications, such as the content you view or post, how often you use our services, and your preferences.
Tracking Data & Cookie Policy
We make limited use of cookies and other online tracking technologies to understand visitor activity on our Site, and to hold certain information about your visits to help improve your experience while using the Site.
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your web browser. Cookies can be divided into two different types: session and persistent. Session cookies are temporary and typically expire or are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain stored on your computer after you close your browser until they expire or are deleted. ICAR may use both session and persistent cookies in connection with providing our Site.
You may instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, part of the Site may function differently and not as well, and you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
The types of cookies we may use are:
- Session Cookies. We may use session cookies to operate our Site and for security purposes.
- Persistent Cookies. We may use persistent cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as web beacons or pixels, to understand behavior on the Internet. Although we use the services of third parties in connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use personal information about the users of our Site for their own purposes. None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Site.
Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Site will use cookies when you log on to the Site. For more information about how to manage your cookie preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt out or block some or all cookies. If you do not wish to receive advertising cookies, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative website (networkadvertising.org/choices) or the Digital Advertising Alliance website (aboutads.info/choices).
Website Performance Analysis
We may use Google Analytics, provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics cookies help us improve our website by providing us with aggregate statistics on how many users visit it, which parts of the site are viewed the most, the city or regional location of those users, device type, and browser. These cookies do not identify you personally.
If you prefer to prevent Google from collecting data generated by cookies relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data, you can download and install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Website Advertising
We also use cookies to allow you to share content directly on social networking and sharing sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. For example, you may want to share content from our website to one of your social networks. We do not control the settings of these third-party cookies, so we suggest you check the relevant third-party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
You may also block cookies by activating settings on your browser that allow you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies, including essential cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Site. Session cookies expire when you close your browser or shut down your computer. Persistent cookies used for the purposes described above will expire when that purpose is no longer required, such as when a survey closes. You can find out more about how to block cookies in specific browsers at aboutcookies.org.
How We Use and Share Personal Information
Uses of Personal Information
We use personal information submitted by you or otherwise collected through our Site and other sources for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We collect and use your information to operate the Site and manage the services you request, including newsletter subscriptions, broadcast emails, webinar and event registrations, processing donations, and registration for activities or opportunities. It also includes alerting recipients on our email list of upcoming events, fundraising campaigns, programs, and news so they may stay current on new developments related to ICAR. We may use your personal information to confirm donations, registrations, or other actions you take on our Site, and for related customer service needs. We may periodically contact you with offers, surveys, and information about our services or those of our subsidiaries, grantees and affiliates, your subscription, legal notices, or other important information. ICAR may communicate with you via email, mailings, phone calls, and social media messaging. If you are a registered user, you may update your user profile to remove your name from our email recipient list.
If we intend to collect and use personal information for another purpose, we may seek your permission at the time the information is collected. For example, if you register for one of our events, we may ask your permission to share your personal information with other event attendees to encourage participant interaction at the event.
We may use information that is not personally identifiable to analyze the design and functioning of our Site in order to make improvements, and we may use such information in the aggregate to analyze Site usage.
Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell, rent, swap, or trade your personal information. We may share your personal information when it is necessary for any of the following reasons:
- To protect our rights or property, or the safety of our employees or others.
- To comply with any court order, legal process, or to respond to any governmental or regulatory request.
- To transfer information in the event of a merger, transfer of assets, or other organizational restructuring.
- To prevent, or take other action regarding, actual or suspected illegal or fraudulent activities or potential threats to the physical safety or well-being of any person.
We also use trusted third-party service providers and other organizations to help support our mission by collecting, storing, processing, or sharing personal information on our behalf, such as to complete your donations and other payments to ICAR. We engage third parties to support our operations and business needs, including vendors in areas such as credit card and payment processing, cloud storage, customer support tools, data collection platforms, product development tools, IT and security services, marketing tools, relationship management platforms, and analytics tools.
Your Choices Regarding the Personal Information We Collect
We will honor your choices regarding our collection, use, or sharing of your personal information. For example, if you receive email communications from us, such as newsletters, but no longer wish to receive them, you may opt out by following the instructions in those emails. If you signed up for an event or otherwise on our Site, you may request at any time that we deactivate your account. You may also choose what information you supply when creating an account, registering for events, or otherwise interacting with us through the Site. At any time, you may change your browser cookie settings, or contact us to deactivate your account and stop receiving marketing or other communications, at info@icarcollective.org.
Information Security
Our Site uses appropriate procedures to help ensure the security of your personal information and to protect it from unauthorized access and disclosure. In particular, when we ask you to enter credit card information, we use industry-standard security protections, encryption, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transmission, and secure servers for information storage.
ICAR is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust, and we take reasonable security measures to protect your information, including appropriate physical, technical, and administrative controls. However, no security system is impenetrable, and no transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore urge you to always use caution when transmitting information over the Internet.
Children’s Information
The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information about children under 13 through the Site, unless it is provided by a parent, guardian, or other adult seeking our services on behalf of a child.
International Transfers
We are based in Israel. Information you submit to us, and information we automatically collect as a result of your use of the Site, will be transferred to Israel, where privacy and data protection rules may differ from those in your country. By using our Site, you consent to the international transfer to, and storage of, your personal information in Israel.
Third-Party Links
When you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform, such as through our applications, that information may be separately collected by the third-party site or platform. The information we collect is covered by this Privacy Policy, while information collected by the third-party site or platform is subject to that platform’s own privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on a third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of information we collect directly through our applications.
Our Site and applications may also contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us, and we have no responsibility or liability for the content, actions, or policies of those third-party sites. Including a link to a third-party site does not constitute an endorsement of its content, actions, or policies. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site or applications, and to read the privacy policies of any other sites that may collect your personal information.
We May Change This Notice
From time to time, we may change our privacy practices and this Privacy Policy because of changes in relevant legal or regulatory requirements, our business practices, or our efforts to better serve your needs and those of our other users. Notice of such changes will be given in the manner described in our Terms and Conditions of Use, and a revised Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or practices, or wish to change your preferences concerning our use or sharing of your information, please contact us at:
ICAR Collective
Email: info@icarcollective.org
