Last Updated: January 2023
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between Greek Roots (“Greek Roots” “we” or “us”), the nonprofits or other volunteer organizations seeking volunteers (each, an “Agency”), and our volunteers (“users” “you” “your”). This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to help you understand how we collect, use, and disclose your information.
User Consent
By submitting Information through our services, you expressly consent to the processing of your Information according to this Privacy Policy. Your Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries where laws regarding processing of Information may be less stringent than laws in your country.
The Information We Collect
You may have accessed Greek Roots by visiting http://www.Greek Roots.org/, or through the site of one of our third-party partners with whom we have teamed to provide volunteering services (collectively, the “Services”), such as a Greek Roots co-branding partner or a corporate partner (collectively, “Partners”). This notice applies to all information you submit to Greek Roots through the Services. Please note that we cannot be responsible for the information you submit directly to third parties, including our Partners, who may have their own posted policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information. We urge you to review the policies of our Partners through whom you may access our services.
The types of information, including without limitation personal information, (“Information”) we may collect from users through the Services are:
- First and Last Name
- Email address and password
- Telephone number
- Address, City and State (optional)
- Country and Postal Code
- Birthdate
- Parent/Guardian information (if you are a minor)
- Emergency contact information
- Connection History
- Comments and feedback about volunteer experiences (optional)
- Information about your interests and skills (optional)
- Other categories of information required or requested by an Agency to register for a particular volunteer opportunity.
How We Use Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade our user Information (whether volunteer, administrator, or nonprofit users) to outside parties. We use the Information we collect about you to provide and improve the Services, facilitate the volunteering process, respond to your requests, and to provide information to you about Greek Roots and related industry topics.
Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your Information with volunteer users, Agencies, our third-party service providers, or our Partners, as applicable. We may use our email lists for sending out Greek Roots outbound communications. We also reserve the right to use your Information to send you transactional emails, and you cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails without deleting your account (by emailing us at support@Greek Roots.org).
Please note that any feedback or comments provided by you on our website or social media channels may be generally accessible by any visitor to our Web site or social media pages. Therefore, please take care when posting feedback or comments to the site, as you will forfeit the privacy of that information.
If you are a volunteer user, we may also use your Information in the following ways:
If you indicate to us that you are interested in creating a personalized account, the information we gather from you will be used to provide you with the Services and permit you to: access the account, customize your profile with skills and interests, customize outbound email services, review your connection history and/or post a resume that can be sent as an attachment to inquiries you make using the Greek Roots service.
If you indicate to us that you are interested in a particular volunteer opportunity and provide us with your Information using the Services, we will forward your Information to the Agency that listed that opportunity so that the Agency can contact you regarding your potential involvement, and, if the particular Agency (including an Agency that is a Partner) has a regional or national office or is closely affiliated with or a member of a related Agency (each, an “Affiliate”), then we may also share your Information with the applicable Affiliate. Each such Agency, however, has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information and we are not responsible for their use of your Information. For more about an Agency’s policy, please contact them directly using the contact information posted for that Agency on our Web site.
To the extent that you have provided any Information to us through our Services regarding volunteer opportunities associated with one of our Partners or have accessed the Services through a Partner, we may share your Information and connection history with the applicable Partner. Each of our Partners has its own policies regarding the collection and use of personal information, and Greek Roots is not responsible for their use of your Information. Furthermore, our Partners may collect additional information from you, independent of Greek Roots.org, in connection with the volunteer services.
Third-party Access and Use
Occasionally, we or our Partners, use third-party service providers to help provide or improve the services we offer you. Sometimes these providers have access to the Information we collect about you as a part of providing, maintaining, and improving the Services.
We share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity at a group level, rather than on an individual basis.
In the unlikely event that Greek Roots undergoes a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, the acquiring entity may use your Information subject to this Privacy Policy. In addition, in the further unlikely event that Greek Roots is adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent (a) there will be no further use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by Greek Roots and (b) reasonable efforts will be taken to ensure your personally identifiable Information on Greek Roots’s servers will be destroyed. In addition, there will be no use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by any entity that acquires assets of Greek Roots pursuant to such bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.
Due to factors beyond our control, however, we cannot fully ensure that your Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be legally obligated to disclose Information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access your Personal Information.
Children’s Privacy
Because we welcome Volunteers aged fifteen to twenty-nine, some volunteers may not have reached the age of maturity (eighteen years of age). Due to our status as a non-profit organization, we are not required to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). However, we strongly encourage our volunteers aged fifteen to seventeen to use our Services only with parental consent and supervision.
Cookies and Analytics
Cookies are tiny data files that web sites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them so that they can remember you when you visit. A cookie file contains information that can identify you anonymously and maintain your account’s privacy. Our Service uses cookies to maintain a user’s identity between sessions so that the site can be personalized based on user preferences or a user’s history. We may use information collected using third party cookies (for example, Google AdSense and DoubleClick) and Web beacons on our Services to deliver Greek Roots advertising displayed to you on third party sites. We also use cookie information to know when you return to our Site after visiting these third party sites. We also use analytics services (Such as Google Analytics, Optimizely, ClickTale, New Relic, and others) to help analyze how users use the Services. These analytics services use cookies to collect and store information such as how often users visit the Services, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Services. We also use the information from these analytics services to improve our Services and to provide reporting to our Partners regarding site activity and utilization. Please see the following links for more information about Google Analytics, DoubleClick, and Google AdSense: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ and http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
You can set your web browser to prompt you before you accept a cookie, accept cookies automatically or reject all cookies. However, if you choose not to accept cookies from this web site, then you may not be able to access and use all or part of this web site or benefit from the information and services that it offers.
Web Beacons
Pages on the Services and emails that Greek Roots sends to you may contain small image files called web beacons. Web beacons are used as a mechanism to help us track your visits to our site and whether or not you open our emails. In addition, we use several third-party services that embed web beacons on our site for similar tracking purposes. These third-party services are used to provide additional features to users, such as the ability to share content on our site with your social network.
Links
The Services contain links to other third-party sites. Greek Roots is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party sites.
How You Can Review Or Correct Your Information
If you are a volunteer with a personal Greek Roots account (through http://www.Greek Roots.org/ or a Partner’s Web site) you may review and make changes to all of your Information that we collect and maintain online by simply inputting your username and password where indicated on the applicable Service.
If you are a volunteer with a personal Greek Roots account, once you login in, you may make any changes or correct factual errors in your account by changing the information on your login page. This option is available to better safeguard your Information, subject to downtime for standard maintenance and support. You do not need to contact us to access your record or to make any changes. If you have problems changing your Information, please contact Community Services at support@Greek Roots.org.
Your Choices Regarding your Information and Newsletters & Communications
Subscriptions to Greek Roots newsletters and Opportunity Alerts are optional and Greek Roots allows Agencies, volunteers, subscribers or other users to unsubscribe from these newsletters and alerts at any time. In each newsletter we provide instructions regarding how to opt-out from receiving future newsletter mailings. You can also email us at support@Greek Roots.org to remove your name from our newsletter subscription database and ensure that you will cease receiving future newsletters from us.
We may also use our email lists for sending out other non-promotional Greek Roots outbound communications such as product enhancements, tool upgrades, or service availability. Registered members are required to receive these communications.
When you visit our Services, we and others give you the following choices about use of mechanisms for tracking, including tracking of your online activities over time and across different websites and online services by third parties. Many Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies from Greek Roots and other parties. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features of our Services. You can choose to opt-out of use of cookies by certain third-party analytics providers and advertising networks to deliver ads tailored to your profile and preferences. Many such third parties are a part of the National Advertising Initiative opt-out: https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. If you delete your cookies, use a different browser, or buy a new computer, you will need to renew your opt-out choice. While we and others give you choices described in this Privacy Policy, there are many ways Web browser signals and other similar mechanisms can indicate your choice to disable tracking, and we may not be aware of or honor every mechanism.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of Information, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in an effort to safeguard and secure the Information we collect online. If you have any questions about our data security or data retention practices, please email us at support@Greek Roots.org and we will work to provide you with the answers you require.
Changes to Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date above.
How To Contact Us
We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of the Services, or your dealings with Greek Roots. We also want to work carefully with you to resolve any disputes or issues you might have. Please send an email to support@Greek Roots.org.
Effective Date: January 15, 2019