Privacy Policy

WHAT WE WON’T DO

• North Brooklyn Parks Alliance will NEVER sell, rent, trade, or transfer your personal information to outside organizations.
• Use of event attendee, volunteer, donor, or shopper information will be limited to the internal purposes of North Brooklyn Parks Alliance and only to further our mission.
• North Brooklyn Parks Alliance will not send donor or sales mailings or solicitations on behalf of other organizations.
• North Brooklyn Parks Alliance does not sell, distribute, or transfer personally identifiable information obtained online or offline from you to a third-party organization. The only exception to this is when it is necessary to share certain information for processing online registration, donation, or sale. Read more about our DONOR PRIVACY POLICY

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

• www.nbkparks.org uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.nbkparks.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly. See our TERMS OF USE page for additional information.
• North Brooklyn Parks Alliance uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.nbkparks.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
• If you register for an event, volunteer opportunity, or make a purchase form our online store we may collect personal information: name, organization/company, mailing address, billing address, phone number, email address, and/or other personal information provided by you, the user

CREDIT CARD DONATIONS

• North Brooklyn Parks Alliance processes credit card donations through our website and/or mobile forms using third-party merchants that are PCI compliant. When you submit a donation, we receive a notification of the donation amount, payment method, and the contact information you provide.
• Credit card numbers are NOT retained once processed, and we do not have access to credit card information submitted via the payment processing form.
• Third-party vendors have their own privacy policies, which govern their use of your information. Our primary credit card processing vendor is listed below with a link to their respective privacy policies: https://www.classy.org/terms/privacy/

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

• North Brooklyn Parks Alliance uses your data to maintain records of event attendance, volunteer participation, donations, or merchandise sales. To send acknowledgments, send your purchased items, mail your year-end tax statements, send newsletters, notices and direct mail pieces, and for internal marketing purposes.
• In addition to individuals that sign up to our mailing list by voluntarily providing us with their contact information on our website www.nbkparks.org or our social media channels, we automatically add registered event attendees, volunteers, donors & shoppers to our mailing list and notify them of future opportunities to engage with our organization.
• You may unsubscribe at any time, or request to be excluded from this mailing list. Send an email to info@nbkparks.org with the subject line; Remove me from your Mailing List.
• Our third-party mailing service is contractually obligated to treat the lists with confidentiality and is prohibited from transferring them elsewhere. Our primary mailing service vendor is listed below with a link to their respective privacy policies: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
• We may also use your information to track visitors to our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties

EXTERNAL LINKS

www.nbkparks.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.nbkparks.org domain, and North Brooklyn Parks Alliance is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.

MODIFICATIONS

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.