RTP Privacy Policy

This policy has been updated on and is effective as of October 28, 2024.

Rebuilding Together Peninsula (“Rebuilding Together Peninsula”) respects your privacy and preferences. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) sets forth the terms under which you share your personal data with Rebuilding Together Peninsula, what information Rebuilding Together Peninsula processes, how Rebuilding Together Peninsula collects and uses your data, and your rights with respect to understanding and modifying how it will be collected and used.

Our Commitment to Donors

We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations. This policy applies to all information received by Rebuilding Together Peninsula, both online and offline, on any Platform (“Platform”, includes the Rebuilding Together website), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.

Categories of Information We Collect and How

• Contact information: While entering your information on our website, we ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, email address, first and last name, phone number, address, state, ZIP/Postal code, and city. We may receive and retain Personal Information about you when you contact Rebuilding Together Peninsula to make a donation, sign up as a volunteer, sign up for any of Rebuilding Together Peninsula’s activities or online content (such as newsletters or message boards); or when you telephone, email, or write to us, or engage with us via social media channels. We retain this information for the period of time necessary to achieve our objectives. We utilize RingCentral to contact your phone number. SMS opt-in or phone numbers for the purpose of SMS are not being shared. 
• Credit card and billing information: When you make a donation or purchase, in addition to your contact information, Rebuilding Together Peninsula asks for your billing address and credit card or other financial services information. Rebuilding Together Peninsula uses a third-party banking agent to process your payments via a secured connection and Rebuilding Together Peninsula never retains your credit card information. Only employees who need access to your Personal Information to perform a specific job are granted access to that information, and Rebuilding Together Peninsula and our banking agent will not share your credit card/bank information with any other third party.
• Google Analytics: We utilize Google Analytics to track information on our website. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy 

Use of Your Personal Data 

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• Volunteer Registration: Your personal information is required to be able to contact you about volunteering opportunities with Rebuilding Together. 
• Donations: Your personal information is required to process your donation.
• Updates: Providing news and general information about events that are similar to those that you have already participated in.
• Donor relations: We may use the contact information you provided us to follow up about donations and solicit donations. 
• Newsletter: We may use your personal information to send you newsletters. 
• For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We Do Not Share Your Personal Information 

We do not share your personal information to third parties or other organizations. 

We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information

We do not sell your information to third parties or use your information for targeted advertisements. 

Legal requirements

Rebuilding Together Peninsula may disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law, in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency), or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: 

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security 

Rebuilding Together Peninsula takes precautions to host and maintain the Site in a secure manner and to safeguard it from unauthorized access. Neither Rebuilding Together Peninsula nor its service providers, however, can guarantee that any transmission of personal information over the internet is secure, and you use the Site at your own risk.

Your Data Rights and California Consumer Privacy Act 

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information that businesses collect about them and secures new privacy rights for California consumers, including: 

• The right to know about the personal information Right to Equality collects about you and how it is used and shared
• The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions)
• The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information
• The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights.
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information that a business has about them; and
• The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about them.