Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

RAD Advocates is the controller of the information described below.

RAD Advocates, PO Box 1054, Littleton, CO 80160-1054 · info@radadvocates.org

2. What we collect

When you give us information. If you donate, we collect your name, email address, postal address and the amount, together with any dedication or gift-recipient details you choose to add. Payment card details go directly to our payment processor and never reach our systems. If you comment, we collect the name and email address you enter, your comment, and a one-way scrambled form of your IP address that cannot be turned back into an address. Your email address is never published. If you use one of our forms, you provide that information to the form provider, who passes it to us.

When you simply read the site. We use Google Analytics, which records which pages are read, roughly which part of the world the request came from, and which site referred you. Our host keeps short-lived server logs, and an automated service screens comments and requests for spam.

3. Cookies

Google Analytics sets two cookies so it can recognise a returning browser. If you choose the option to save your details when commenting, your browser stores them so the form is pre-filled next time. We use no advertising cookies, retargeting pixels or social media trackers.

You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser, install Google’s opt-out add-on, or read the site in a private window. None of this stops the site working.

4. How we use it

To process and record donations and meet the record-keeping obligations of a charitable organization; to publish and moderate comments; to answer enquiries; to send receipts and notifications; to understand in aggregate which pages are read; to prevent spam and abuse; and to comply with the law.

For readers in the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area, we rely on performance of a contract for donations and requests you initiate, legal obligation for financial records, our legitimate interests in moderation, security and running the site, and consent for analytics cookies and optional email. You may withdraw consent at any time.

5. Email from us

Our emails record approximately when a message is opened and which links in it are followed. We use that to understand which messages are useful and to identify delivery problems.

When a message is opened, a geolocation provider derives a general location — state and country only — from the IP address. The IP address is then deleted and is not retained.

Every campaign email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect for all of them. Messages sent in response to something you have done — a donation receipt, a reply to an enquiry — are not campaign email and are not covered by that link.

6. Who else sees it

We share personal information only with the service providers who need it to run the site: a payment processor, an email delivery service, a form provider, an analytics provider, a spam-filtering service, our hosting and infrastructure providers, and the host of our podcast audio. Each receives only what its function requires, and each is bound to use it only for that purpose.

We may also disclose information where the law requires it, or to establish or defend legal claims.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Colorado Privacy Act.

We are based in the United States and our providers may process information there or elsewhere. Transfers from the UK or the EEA are made under standard contractual clauses or an equivalent lawful mechanism.

7. How long we keep it, and how we protect it

We keep information only as long as it is needed for the purposes above and for any period the law requires. Donation records are kept for the period applicable to a charitable organization’s financial records. A comment and its associated details are deleted when the comment is removed.

We maintain safeguards appropriate to the information involved, including encryption in transit, keeping payment card data out of our systems entirely, storing comment IP addresses only in scrambled form, and limiting administrative access.

8. Children

This site is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13, and we will delete any that we discover. Please do not submit a child’s full name, school or case details in a comment or a message to us.

9. Your rights

You may ask us to confirm what we hold about you, to provide a copy, to correct it, or to delete it. Residents of Colorado, California and other states with comprehensive privacy laws, and individuals in the UK and the EEA, have these rights under their own legislation, along with the right to object to or restrict certain processing and to appeal a decision we make. We do not treat anyone differently for exercising them.

Write to info@radadvocates.org or to the address above. We will confirm your identity from information we already hold and respond within the time the law allows. Readers in the UK and the EEA may also complain to their supervisory authority.

10. Changes

We may update this Policy. The effective date at the top of this page shows when it last changed.