Welcome to The National Center for Public Policy Research!
(Hereinafter referred to as “The National Center”).
The National Center values your privacy and the protection of your personal data. This privacy policy describes what information we collect from you, how we collect it, how we use it, how we obtain your consent, how long we keep it in our databases and, if necessary, with whom we share it.
By using the website, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. Your use of the website is also subject to our terms and conditions. In this privacy policy, the words “website” refers to The National Center website, “we”, “us”, “our” and “The National Center” refers to The National Center for Public Policy Research and “you”, “donor” and “user” refers to you, the user of The National Center.
This privacy policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. This privacy policy has been prepared and is maintained in accordance with all applicable national and international laws and regulations and, in particular, with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the Washington DC data protection regulations.
- GENERAL INFORMATION
The personal data of the users that are collected and processed through the website:
- https://myprojectaccess.org/
Will be under responsibility and in charge of:
- The National Center for Public Policy Research.
- General Email: [email protected]
- TYPES OF INFORMATION GATHERED
The information we collect from our users helps us to personalize and continually improve the user experience on the website. These are the types of information we collect:
Information You Give Us. You can provide us with information when you visit the website, subscribe to our newsletter, make a donation and/or contact us through our contact form or contact information. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with the following information:
- Name
- Email Address
- Any additional information relating to you that you provide to us directly or indirectly through our website or online presence such as ‘cookies’.
The National Center will not collect any personally identifiable information about you, unless you provide it.
Information Collected Automatically: By visiting the website, you may automatically provide us with the following information:
- Your IP address
- Referring URLs
If you access the website through a mobile phone, we will collect the following information:
- Mobile device ID
- IP address
Payment data: Your payment information will be processed by the payment processors available on the website (Stripe, Donorbox, PayPal), which will process and store your data securely and for the sole purpose of processing the payment of donations. The National Center reserves the right to contract any payment platform available on the market, which treats your data for the sole purpose of processing the payment of donations.
See the privacy policy of Stripe, Donorbox and PayPal here:
- https://stripe.com/privacy
- https://donorbox.org/privacy
- https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
GOOGLE Analytics. We use Google Analytics provided by Google, Inc. of the United States (“Google”). These tools and technologies collect and analyze certain types of information, such as IP addresses, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, feature usage metrics and statistics, media access control address (MAC address), unique mobile device identifiers and other similar information through the use of cookies. The information generated by Google Analytics (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. We use GOOGLE Analytics data collection for data analysis, marketing purposes and to improve the website.
Please consult Google’s privacy policy here:
Social Media: On our website you will find links and functions linked to different social networks, where you can share your information. It is advisable to consult the privacy and data protection policy of each social network used on our website.
- Instagram: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy
- YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
Contact information: We may access some personal information about the user, such as name and email address, when the user or any third party communicates with us through our contact information. Personal information provided through our contact information is not stored on any The National Center server and will be stored on the respective server of our email service.
- HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA
Personal data provided by users through the website will be kept for the time necessary to offer our website, process donations and/or until the user decides to unsubscribe to our newsletter or requests the deletion of their data. The National Center may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, The National Center may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority. Once the retention period expires, personal data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
- HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION.
In general, we use the information we collect primarily to provide, maintain, protect and improve our current website. We use personal information collected through our website as described below:
- Process payment of donations.
- Display relevant advertising within the website.
- Understand and improve your experience on our website.
- Respond to your comments or questions through our contact information.
- Send you emails through our newsletter related to The National Center content.
- Marketing purposes of The National Center.
- HOW DO YOU GET MY CONSENT?
By using the website, making a donation, subscribing to our newsletter, contacting us through our contact form or contact details and providing us with personal information to communicate with you, you consent to our collection, storage and use of your information on the terms contained in this privacy policy. You may withdraw your consent by sending us your request via the contact information. You can withdraw your consent by sending us your request via the contact information.
- HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
Users’ personal information is an important and fundamental part of The National Center. Under no circumstances will we sell or share information with third parties that has not been previously authorized by the user or owner of the personal data. We share user information solely and exclusively as described below:
Third-Party Service Providers. We use the services of third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf and through our website. Examples include creating and hosting the website, processing payments (Stripe, Donorbox, PayPal), sending emails, analyzing data (Google Analytics), displaying ads on the website, providing marketing assistance, and delivering search results and links.
These third-party services and tools may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use that information for other purposes. Information shared with these third-party services will be treated and stored in accordance with their respective privacy policies and our privacy policy.
Email marketing: We use the information provided by users to conduct marketing campaigns and send relevant information to our users. By providing us with your e-mail address, you authorize us to use your information for e-mail marketing. We will use third party services to conduct email marketing, so we may share your email address with some of these third parties for the sole and exclusive purpose of sending emails through email marketing and in accordance with our privacy policy.
Business Transfers. In the event that The National Center creates, merges with, or is acquired by another entity, your information will most likely be transferred. The National Center will email you or place a prominent notice on our website before your information becomes subject to another privacy policy.
Protection of The National Center and others. We release personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements, or protect the rights, property, or safety of The National Center, our users or others.
With Your Consent. Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when personally identifiable information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
Anonymous Information. The National Center uses the anonymous browsing information collected automatically by our servers primarily to help us administer and improve the website. This information is not personally identifiable.
- PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you provide through the website. We restrict authorized access to your personal information to those persons who have a legitimate purpose to know that information and to those persons you have authorized to have access to that information. The National Center follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once The National Center receives it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while The National Center strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
- RIGHTS
Users who provide information through our website, as data subjects and data owners, have the right to access, rectify, download or delete their information, as well as to restrict and object to certain processing of their information. While some of these rights apply generally, others apply only in certain limited circumstances. We describe these rights below:
- Access and portability: to access and know what information is stored in our servers, you can send us your request through our contact information.
- Rectify, Restrict, Limit and/or Delete: You can also rectify, restrict, limit or delete much of your information.
- Right to be informed: Users of our website will be informed, upon request, about what data we collect, how it is used, how long it is retained and whether it is shared with third parties.
- Object: When we process your information based on our legitimate interests as explained above, or in the public interest, you may object to this processing in certain circumstances. In such cases, we will stop processing your information unless we have compelling legitimate reasons to continue processing it or where it is necessary for legal reasons.
- Revoke consent: Where you have previously given your consent, such as to allow us to process and store your personal information, you have the right to revoke your consent to the processing and storage of your information at any time. For example, you may withdraw your consent by updating your settings. In certain cases, we may continue to process your information after you have withdrawn your consent if we have a legal basis for doing so or if your withdrawal of consent was limited to certain processing activities.
- Complaint: If you wish to file a complaint about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority. Users can exercise all these rights by contacting us through the contact information or the contact page.
- Rights related to automated decision-making, including profiling: website users may request that we provide a copy of the automated processing activities we conduct if they believe that data is being unlawfully processed.
Users or owners of the personal information they provide through the website may exercise these rights over their personal information at any time and without any limitation by sending us their request through our contact information.
- CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION
We meet the requirements of data protection regulations, regarding the protection of the personal data of minors. Although the website is available for all ages, we do not collect any information from children under 13 years of age without the respective permission of their parents or legal guardians. If you become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information without the permission of a parent or legal guardian, please contact us. If we become aware that a minor has provided us with personal information without parental or legal guardian permission, we will take steps to delete that information.
- THIRD PARTIES
Except as otherwise expressly included in this privacy policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information that The National Center collects from you. If you disclose your information to other persons or third parties, whether they are other The National Center affiliates providing the services displayed on the website, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to these third parties. The National Center does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. The National Center is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites, including those linked to our website through affiliate content. Please check the privacy policies of these third parties before sharing or disclosing your personal information.
- CONTACT US
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy and the handling and security of your data, please contact us through the contact information below:
The National Center for Public Policy Research.
General Email: [email protected]
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
List rentals and exchanges: The National Center for Public Policy Research periodically permits other appropriate non-profit organizations to mail certain lists of our donors, primarily through list exchanges as a means of obtaining new donors to support National Center programs. These exchanges are on a one-to-one basis, for one-time use, and require the consent of either the president or chairman of The National Center.
Only names and addresses are provided in such exchanges. All other data is kept in the strictest confidence.
To ensure that donors are not sent more mail than authorized, every list The National Center ships contains unique markers permitting use to be tracked. The National Center will take legal action for compensation, damages and legal fees for any unauthorized use of any of its donor lists.
If you are a National Center donor and you prefer that your name and address not be included in such list trades or rentals, you may inform us by e-mail. Please include your name and address.
To be removed from mailing lists: If you wish to be removed from our mail solicitation lists, please click here. Please include your name and mailing address in your e-mail correspondence. For name/address changes or other concerns, please click here.
These requests also may be facilitated by writing us at: National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20001, or faxing us at (301) 498-1301, or calling (202) 507-6398.
To ensure that we respect the wishes of our donors, all requests must be made either by the donor or a legally-appointed representative of the donor. If you are a donor’s legal representative, include a copy of your Power of Attorney when e-mailing, faxing or writing us on the donor’s behalf. If we do not receive this documentation, we have no way to know if a person purporting to be speaking on a donor’s behalf has the permission of the donor to do so.
Those who wish to continue receiving solicitations from The National Center, but wish to reduce either the frequency of such mailings or specify specific times of year they wish to receive them, may inform us of their wishes using any of the means indicated above.
Additional information: The National Center also periodically (at least annually) provides in written appeals to donors the opportunity to express their preference with regard to sharing their contact information with other organizations. Internally, confidential donor information is protected in numerous ways: 1. Only personnel with direct fundraising responsibilities have access to our donor database; 2. The National Center has software that records details on every list exported from our database, including the identity of the staff member accessing the list; 3. All National Center employees are required to sign a legally-binding non-disclosure agreement as a condition of employment; 4. The National Center’s database contains a mixture of “decoys,” including paid monitors; family, friends and associates of The National Center; donor volunteers permitting us to track unauthorized use. These decoys, some of whom are only known to the president of The National Center, provide regular reports to the president on the mail they receive; 5. Any employee found sharing confidential donor lists without authorization will be terminated immediately and will face legal action.
The National Center will not divulge ANY information about a donor’s giving history to anyone other than the donor, the donor’s legally-appointed representative, or government agencies as required by law.
Telephone solicitations: The National Center for Public Policy Research does not conduct telephone solicitation efforts, so there is no need to contact us if you do not wish to be telephoned as part of a National Center telephone solicitation campaign.
Legal notice: All privacy policies are subject to laws, subpoenas, government regulations and court orders, and also are subject to change.
COOKIE POLICY
This cookie policy explains how and why cookies and other similar technologies may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit:
(Hereinafter referred to as “The National Center”).
The information collected through cookies will be under responsibility and in charge of:
- The National Center for Public Policy Research.
- General Email: [email protected]
This cookie policy should be read together with our privacy policy and our terms and conditions.
By using the website, you accept the use of cookies by The National Center, in the terms contained in this policy.
- WHAT ARE COOKIES?
“Cookies” are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognize your device and remember if you have been to the website before. Cookies are a very common web technology; most websites use cookies and have done so for years. Cookies are widely used to make the website work more efficiently. Cookies are used to measure which parts of the website users visit and to personalize their experience. Cookies also provide information that helps us monitor and improve the performance of the website.
- COOKIE SETTINGS
If you do not want cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some cookies and to alert you when a cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’, ‘tool’, or ‘edit’ section. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies, including strictly necessary cookies, you may not be able to access or use all or parts of the functionalities of the website.
If you want to remove previously-stored cookies, you can manually delete the cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the website from placing further cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
We provide the links for the management and blocking of cookies depending on the browser you use:
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
In cases where you access the website through an iOS or Android mobile device, please follow the instructions below to delete or block cookies on your device:
- COOKIES WE USE
We use the following cookies on our website:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
| muc_ads | .t.co | Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Advertisement |
| personalization_id | .twitter.com | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Advertisement |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | session | Advertisement |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 5 months 27 days | Advertisement |
| _gcl_au | .nationalcenter.org | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | Analytics |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes | Advertisement |
| _ga_* | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _ga | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days | Advertisement |
| __utma | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Performance |
| __utmc | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to enable interoperability with urchin.js, an older version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits. It is deleted when the user closes the browser. | session | Performance |
| __utmz | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site. | 6 months | Performance |
| __utmt | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit the request rate. | 10 minutes | Performance |
| __utmb | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 minutes | Performance |
| _ga_* | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _gid | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| li_sugr | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | 3 months | Advertisement |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | 1 year | Advertisement |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | 1 day | Functional |
| _gat_UA-* | .nationalcenter.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| _fbp | .nationalcenter.org | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | 3 months | Analytics |
| ln_or | nationalcenter.org | Linkedin sets this cookie to registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website for internal analytics. | 1 day | Analytics |
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | 1 month | Functional |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | .linkedin.com | Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | 1 month | Analytics |
| bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. | 1 year | Advertisement |
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | 5 months 27 days | Functional |
| centerVisitorId | js.center.io | Center sets this cookie to track the individual sessions on the website, which is data used for lead generation as a part of marketing purposes. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Advertisement |
| CONSENT | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | 2 years | Analytics |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | never | Advertisement |
| yt.innertube::requests | youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never | Advertisement |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | never | Advertisement |
| yt.innertube::nextId | youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never | Advertisement |
| centerVisitorId | golddust.lpages.co | Center sets this cookie to track the individual sessions on the website, which is data used for lead generation as a part of marketing purposes. | never | Advertisement |
- PURPOSES OF OUR COOKIES
Our cookies are used for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary: These cookies are essential for the website to perform its basic functions.
Security: We use these cookies to help identify and prevent potential security risks.
Analytics and Performance: Performance cookies collect information on how users interact with our website, including what pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our website functions and to understand how users interact with them.
Advertisement: These cookies are used to display relevant advertising to visitors using the website, as well as to understand and report on the effectiveness of ads served on our website. Advertisement cookies track details such as the number of unique visitors, the number of times specific advertisements have been shown and the number of clicks the advertisements have received. These cookies are also used to create user profiles, such as showing you ads based on content you have viewed on our website or other websites. These cookies are set by the website and trusted third party networks such as YouTube and are typically persistent in nature.
GOOGLE Analytics. We use Google Analytics provided by Google, Inc., USA (“Google”). These tool and technologies collect and analyze certain types of information, including IP addresses, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, feature use metrics and statistics, usage and purchase history, media access control address (MAC Address), mobile unique device identifiers, and other similar information via the use of cookies. The information generated by Google Analytics (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. We use the GOOGLE Analytics collection of data to enhance the website and platform and improve our service.
- CONTACT US
If you have questions or concerns about this cookie policy and the handling and security of your data, please contact us through our contact page or via the contact information below:
The National Center for Public Policy Research.
General Email: [email protected]
Media Email: [email protected]