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Privacy Policy

The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) respects your right to privacy and is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. We pledge to never sell our list to any unaffiliated group or individual. We may share our list with our sister organization CCAN Action Fund. Text messaging opt-in data and consent will not be sold or shared with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.  We may share data with third party service providers for the purposes of conducting our essential operations of organizing and communications, as further described in the section on Service Providers below. We have created the following privacy policy to inform you about the ways in which we collect and use this information. 

CCAN does not collect any information from you without your knowledge and permission. In order to use some of the tools and functions, however, such as the online action center, you must enter some identifying information. CCAN does not disclose this information to anyone except 1) to identify you, as described in the following three paragraphs, to those you contact through our website and 2) to manage our website and database with the help of third-party service providers. 

Information you provide CCAN is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated staff.

Online Activism

To send a message from our online action center to government officials and other decision-makers you must identify yourself by name, address and email address. CCAN includes this information when we send your message. This is necessary for your message to be effective, and in the case of many government officials it is required. Additionally, when using “tell your friend” pages to forward an action alert, you must enter your name, your email address and the email address(es) of anyone you are sending it to. CCAN includes your name and email address when we send your message.

Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics, Facebook conversion tracking, and Google Tag Manager, which collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information. If you’d like to opt out, click here to see Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web and click here for instructions on opting out of Facebook pixel.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and transferred to your device. We use cookies to collect information in order to improve our services for you.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.

If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on. 

If you’d like to opt out of internet advertising, click here for the National Advertising Initiative’s opt out program.  

Service Providers

We work with trusted third-party service providers to help us operate our programs, manage our supporter relationships, and communicate with you. 

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf, such as: 

  • Donor and constituent relationship management 
  • Email and text message communications
  • Online donation and payment processing
  • Event registration and ticketing
  • Website hosting and analytics

These service providers are contractually obligated to use your information only to provide services to us, to maintain its confidentiality and to handle it in accordance with applicable data protection laws. They are not permitted to sell your information or use it for their own independent marketing purposes. 

Other Places Information May Be Requested

In addition to information you enter when sending messages to friends and decision-makers from CCAN’s website, you may submit information directly to CCAN for purposes including donating, subscribing to email updates or entering a contest. CCAN will not disclose this information to any unaffiliated group except in accordance with any rules you agree to, and, as described above, to manage our website and database with the help of service providers.

Communications from CCAN

If you have opted to receive any of our publications by email you are able at any time to unsubscribe by following the directions that appear in the email itself or by contacting CCAN at info@chesapeakeclimate.org. If you are receiving text messages from us and wish to stop receiving them, simply respond with either “STOP” or “UNSUBSCRIBE” to the number from which you received the message. You will not receive further text messages unless you opt back in.

Secure Transactions

When you donate or submit a payment to CCAN via our website, your credit card information is encrypted and transmitted via a secure connection. CCAN uses your credit card information only for the purpose of processing your donation. We will not disclose this information except as necessary to process your donation and we do not store it once your donation has been processed.