Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy.
This privacy policy was updated in February 2024
We are committed to protecting your privacy.
To make your experience on this website and our email lists more convenient, the Asterisk Alliance may gather information from you. We maintain the privacy of your information using security technologies and adhere to policies that prevent unauthorized use of your personal information.
What personal information do we collect, and how is it used?
We collect personal information from visitors when they register to join our organization, subscribe to an email list, or make a contribution. Such information may include your name, address, email address, phone number. The personal information we collect is always voluntarily submitted by you. This information is used by us to communicate with you. In certain circumstances we may share your information with third parties as described below in “Protecting Your Privacy.” If you would like to review any personal information we have collected or request corrections, please contact us.
If, for any reason, you would like to be removed from our email lists, you can unsubscribe by simply clicking the unsubscribe button in the footer of an email.
We may also monitor and track information such as visitor usage patterns of our website. We compile this information into a statistical aggregate that we use for internal purposes.
Protecting Your Privacy
As part of our commitment to ensuring the privacy of our visitors, email subscribers and donors, we do not sell names or any other personally identifiable information about our online visitors and donors.
We may provide personal information to third parties on a confidential basis to enable such third parties to perform certain tasks, such as maintain a membership database or send email alerts and/or newsletters, on our behalf. These third-party providers are committed to protecting the privacy of our members and subscribers and will utilize your information to provide the services for which we contract. We may share aggregate information about website usage and traffic patterns, stripped of any personally identifiable information, to third parties to comply with various reporting obligations.
When you contribute to the Asterisk Alliance online, the payment is processed by a third party, such as PayPal. Please note your submission of financial and other personal information to the payment processor is subject to its privacy policy rather than ours. Friends of the Earth never has access to your financial information.
Data Security
The data we gather on our website is stored on servers at a secure third-party site whose server network uses industry-standard methods to protect the confidentiality and integrity of personal information. We use a central managed hosting provider to ensure continuous monitoring, data backup and incident management based on escalation procedures and communications protocols, threat monitoring and response (e.g. SQL injection attacks, brute force attacks, etc.), as well as steps to ensure continuing PCI DSS compliance. All data and transmissions are secured and encrypted in transit using current security best practices.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on your computer and that can be used to help identify you when you visit our website. We use cookies to make visiting and using our website easier and to be able to track and analyze aggregate site visitor behavior.
Links to Other Sites
This website provides links to several other third-party websites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take any responsibility for the content of linked websites, or for the privacy policies of websites we link to. Since we do not control these websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third-party websites prior to any use.
Privacy Policy Changes
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time. We maintain the option to change this privacy policy 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.
