I. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW DO WE USE IT?

• Information You Provide To Us Directly: We or our service providers may collect the following personal information from you when you use our Services:
  • Contact Information, such as your first and last name, email address, and phone number when you sign up for our mailing list or complete our contact us form. 
  • Bail Information, such as information about the individual that requires bail, the bail amount and bail type, case-related information, as well as any additional information you submit to us, if you request our services.
  • Financial Information, such as your credit card or other payment information when you make a donation to or purchase merchandise from Bail Project.
  • Professional or Employment Related Information, such as your resume, employment history, cover letter, and additional materials you may upload when applying for a position at The Bail Project.

We may combine any of this information with information collected from third party sources, such as third parties we partner with to provide our services.

• Information We Collect From Social and Digital Networks: We may receive information about you when you interact with us through various social media, for example, by liking our Facebook page, following us on Twitter or Instagram, or watching our content on Vimeo or YouTube. The data we receive is dependent upon your privacy settings with such social and digital networks and subject to each network’s respective privacy policies.
• Information We Collect Through Third-Party Providers: We may receive information about you from your disclosures to third-party providers or collected by third-party providers through your interaction with their services/products. The information that may be provided to us by third parties is: full name, age, gender, primary address, marital status, demographic and relationship information (e.g., has children, spouse full name), ratings and scores (e.g., net worth, income, total assets, sales volume, holdings, propensity to give score, affiliation).
• Information We Collect Automatically: As further described in Section II below, we may collect information such as your IP Address, browser type, information above your device, location, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, and how you interact with the links and Services through our use of cookies and other tracking technologies on the Services. We use this information to personalize your experience and the Services, and to improve our services. 
• Publicly Available Information: We also collect publicly available information in connection with providing the Services.

We may use some or all of the information listed above to: 

• Operate, maintain, and enhance our organization and our Services;  
• Communicate with you, such as to send you email messages, newsletters, and to follow up with you to offer information about The Bail Project;
• Process your requests;
• Prevent fraudulent activity and for other security purposes; and
• Comply with our legal and compliance obligations. 

We may also use your information pursuant to your consent, as permitted by law, as we may notify you, or as otherwise described to you in this Privacy Policy or at the point of collection.

II. HOW DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGY?

We and our third-party partners may automatically collect information about you when you use the Service, as further explained below:

• Cookies. A cookie is a piece of information that a web server may place on your computer when you visit a website. A cookie will give us information about how you use the Services (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click, how frequently you access the Service, and other actions you take on the Service).
• Tracking Technology. We may also collect or receive information about your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, information about your device, location, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, and how you interact with links on the Service, and other such information. We also use this information to personalize your experience on the Service and to analyze the use of our Site by visitors in order to improve the Service.
• Third-Party Analytics Service Providers. We use third-party service providers’ respective analytics tools to collect information about the use or related to the use of the Service. These third-party analytics service providers collect information such as how often users visit the Service, what other websites users visit when they do so, and what other websites users viewed prior to coming to this Service. We use the information we receive from the third-party analytics service providers to improve our Service and personalize the experience. One third-party Analytics service provider we use is Google Analytics, which collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other information that can directly identify you. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.  You may learn more about  “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” by visiting https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• Do Not Track. Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our Users, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser at this time, as we believe that there is no consistent industry standard for how to respond to Do Not Track browser settings.

The only way to completely “opt out” of the collection of any information through cookies or other tracking technology is to actively manage the settings on your browser or mobile device.  Please refer to your browser’s or mobile device’s technical information for instructions on how to delete and disable cookies, and other tracking/recording tools. (To learn more about cookies and related technologies, and how you may opt-out of some of this tracking, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org).

III. WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?

We may share your personal information with:

• Third-party vendors and other service providers that perform services on our behalf, as needed to carry out their work for us, which may include managing our email forms and providing mailing services, providing tax and accounting services, providing our donations and store platforms, web hosting, providing analytic services, security management services, recruitment services, providing payment processing services or procuring and reporting grants.
• Third parties who partner with us to help provide our services such as other nonprofit organizations, funders, and supportive service providers.
• The public when you provide feedback or user content on our social media sites.
• Other parties in connection with an organization transaction, such as a merger, sale of the organization’s assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our organization by another organization or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings.
• Third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of The Bail Project, our clients, and employees.

We will notify you if we share personal information with third parties not described here. 

IV. WHAT CHOICES DO YOU HAVE?

You can opt out of receiving our promotional emails. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications. We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests. You may not opt out of Service-related communications (e.g., transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices).

You can control certain cookies and tracking technologies. As further described in Section II above, you can opt out of the collection of information through cookies or other tracking technology through the settings on your browser or mobile device. Note that if you use your browser settings to disable all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) your experience with the site may be negatively impacted. In addition, selections you make regarding your cookie preferences are device-specific and browser-specific, meaning that you should update your preferences on each device you use and within each browser.

V. HOW DO WE STORE AND PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?

We will use commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal data at all times that your information is collected through our website. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems. If any personal data under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

VI. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register as users of the Service. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under 18, please contact us via our contact form. 

VII. WE ARE A U.S. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

We are a United States (“U.S.”) non-profit organization, and process the personal information we receive in the U.S. If you are accessing the Site from outside of the U.S., please be aware that information collected through the Site may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Please note that the data protection laws in the United States may be different than the laws in your region. Your use of our Services (including providing us with any of your information) therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of information about you in the U.S. and other jurisdictions as set out in this Privacy Policy.

VIII. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES

The Service may integrate with or contain links to other third-party sites and services. We are not responsible or liable for the practices employed by third party websites or services embedded in, linked to, or linked from the Service and your interactions with any third-party website or service are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies.

IX. INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

We may include applications on the Services from third-party social media platforms, which allow users to interact with and/or share content, or like our posts on these platforms. Your interaction with these third-party platforms normally allows them to collect some information about you through cookies or other tracking technologies they place on your device. In some instances, these platforms may place cookies on our Service that allows it to recognize you even when you do not interact with their program. Please visit these third-party platforms’ respective privacy policies to learn more about their data collection practices and your privacy rights and controls they make available to you when you interact with such platforms.

X. CALIFORNIA “SHINE THE LIGHT” LAW

California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2023 will receive information about 2022 sharing activities). At this time, we do not share personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, if we do so in the future, we will give you choices prior to sharing your information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and you have questions about our practices and your choices regarding sharing of information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please contact us using the information below.

XI. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time we may make changes to our Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy as required by law. We will also post an updated copy on our Site. Please check our Site periodically for updates. Your continued use of our Services, means that you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set out in the updated Privacy Policy.

XII. HOW TO CONTACT US

Please contact us with any questions regarding our Privacy Policy via our contact form or at:

The Bail Project
PO Box 750
Venice, CA 90294
(323) 366-0799