Privacy Policy.
Last updated: March 4, 2024
Veteran Families for Education and Awareness ("us", "we", or "our") operates https://www.vfea.org (the "Site"). This page (“Privacy Policy”) informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. By using our Site, you are affirming that you have read and accepted our Privacy Policy. If you do not want us to collect or process your personal information in the ways described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use or access the Site.
Information Collection and Use
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, postal address, and phone number ("Personal Information").
At VFEA, we hold your privacy in the highest regard. Rest assured, we do not engage in the sale of your personal information. Your privacy is a priority, and we are dedicated to maintaining the confidentiality and security of the information you entrust to us.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("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 Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. We also integrate Google Analytics tools that won’t provide personal identities of visitors but will offer insights into visitor behavior, demographics, and engagement.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing, or promotional materials. If you do not want to receive communications from us in the future, please let us know by following the unsubscribe instructions found in any email we send.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive to improve your online user experience.
EU Residents
As referenced through this Privacy Notice, those residing in the EU may benefit from a number of rights in relation to your information that we process. Some rights apply only in certain limited cases, depending on your location. If you would like to manage, change, limit, or delete your Personal Information, you can do so by contacting us. Upon request, the Organization will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. In certain cases where we process your information, you may also have a right to restrict or limit the ways in which we use your Personal Information. In certain circumstances, you also have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information, and to obtain a copy of your Personal Information in an easily accessible format.
To the extent that such rights are mandated by the laws applicable to the individual data subject, such as all data subjects residing in the European Union (“EU”), the following rights may apply:
the right to access (GDPR, Article 15);
the right to rectification (GDPR, Article 16);
the right to erasure (GDPR, Article 17);
the right to restrict processing (GDPR, Articles 18);
the right of object (GDPR, Article 21);
and if applicable, the right to data portability (GDPR, Article 20).
You may also have a right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate data privacy regulatory authority (GDPR, Article 77)
We generally process Personal Information of those residing in the EU on the legal basis of our Organization’s legitimate interests in performing the function or service you requested. Where appropriate, we may rely on alternate legal bases, such as your consent to certain types of processing. Where we process your Personal Information on the basis of consent, we will clearly obtain your opt-in consent. Where given, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
If we process your information based on our legitimate interests as explained in this Privacy Notice, or in the public interest, you can object to this processing in certain circumstances. In such cases, we will cease processing your information unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue processing or where it is needed for legal reasons. Where we use your data for direct marketing purposes, you can always object by using the unsubscribe link in such communications or changing your preferences.
Where you have provided consent to certain data processing, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us. A withdrawal of consent will not affect the validity of our use of your Personal Information up until the point you have withdrawn your consent.
We welcome you to contact us regarding the information we have collected about you, including regarding the nature and accuracy of the data that has been collected about you, to request an update, modification, or deletion of your information, to opt-out of certain uses of your information, or to withdraw any consent you may have granted to the Organization. Please note that the rights available to you for access to your information may vary depending upon your jurisdiction. We seek to ensure all individuals are provided with the rights afforded by their governing jurisdiction.
Please note requests to delete or remove your information do not necessarily ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information posted, and removed information may persist in backup copies. If you delete or opt-out of the collection and use of certain information certain features of the Site may no longer be available to you.
We retain the information we receive about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected, pursuant to contractual or legal obligations, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we may delete your Personal Information from our systems in accordance with our data retention policies. We may retain your information and content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and audit purposes.
We take commercially reasonable efforts to secure and protect the privacy, accuracy, and reliability of your information. We implement security measures as we deem appropriate and consistent with industry standards. We will protect your information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, alteration, destruction and disclosure as required by the Rules of Professional Conduct (or other rules) applicable to our attorneys and all laws and regulations applicable to us; provided, however, that, except as provided in the immediately following sentence, we will, at a minimum, use commercially reasonable efforts to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, alteration, destruction and disclosure.
Certain Personal Information posted by you to the Site may be accessible to the general public, and we are not responsible for protecting such Personal Information from loss, misuse or unauthorized access, alteration, destruction or disclosure. For example, if you participate in a public forum on the Site, any information disclosed by you when doing so may be available to the general public. Also, since no transmission of information over the Internet or electronic storage of information is completely secure, it is possible that your information could be lost, misused or accessed, altered, destroyed or disclosed without authorization, even if we use such reasonable efforts. In providing information to us, you must assume the risk that your information could be lost, misused or accessed, altered, destroyed or disclosed without authorization. Accordingly, any information you transfer to or from Site is provided at your own risk.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Third Party Data Collection
Please be aware that the information you provide to us on external sites or platforms may be independently collected by those third-party sites. While the information we collect is governed by this privacy policy, the data collected by third-party sites or platforms is subject to their respective privacy practices. Your privacy preferences set on external sites or platforms do not impact our use of information directly collected through our site.
Additionally, it's important to note that our website may include links to other websites not under our ownership or control. We want to emphasize that we are not accountable for the privacy practices employed by those external sites. We urge you to exercise caution and review the privacy policies of other websites that might gather your personal information when you navigate away from our site.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 4, 2024 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time, and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@vfea.org.