Privacy Policy

Washington Progress Alliance (“WPA”) is the legal name for the Washington State Non-Profit Corporation that provides content branded under Progress Alliance of Washington and First Mile Circle. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to the content, information, and services via our website www.washingtonprogress.org, www.firstmilecircle.org, and any other website and/or platform (collectively the “Site” or “Services”) of WPA or its related organizations. This Privacy Policy does not alter in any way the Terms of Use ("Terms").


ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY

The Site may be used by our donors and site-visitors (collectively “You”, “Your” or “Yours”) subject to the terms in this Policy. Please review the Privacy Policy before using the Site or any WPA Services. If You do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use any WPA Site.


RESERVATION OF RIGHTS

We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy, the Site, and the Services we offer at any time to reflect changes in our organization, practices, or to keep current with relevant laws or industry standards. Your access to and/or use of the Site and our Services will be subject to the most current version of this Privacy Policy posted on the Site at the time of your access or use. We recommend that you check the Site regularly for any changes to this Privacy Policy. You are solely responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy prior to use of WPA Sites or Services.


INFORMATION WE COLLECT

For purposes of this Policy “Personal Information” means information that individually identifies you, such as your name, financial information associated with payment for a donation, address, telephone number, or email address. Personal Information does not include Aggregate Information, which we collect automatically about the use of the Site or Services. “Aggregate Information” means collective data that relate to a group or category of website visitors or service users, from which individual identities or characteristics have been removed. This Policy does not restrict or limit our collection and use of Aggregate Information. 

This Policy applies to your Personal Information whether you give it to us by phone, mail, in person, over the internet through a computer, mobile device or other means. We collect the information you voluntarily provide to us including, without limitation, the information you enter if you send us an email, complete a form embedded or linked on the Site, view content on the Site, or submit or post content to the Site.

We may also automatically collect certain information when you use the Site including, without limitation, your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query, the address of a referring site, and your activity on the Site, to be used in the aggregate only.

We may also receive Personal Information from third parties about their users, and may combine this information with other Personal Information we maintain about you. If we do so, this Privacy Policy will govern the combined information.

The Site may allow users to make transactions. Data will be securely stored by our third party donation processor when a transaction is made, including the date and type of purchase made, your credit card number, expiration date, billing address, and CVV or security code number.


HOW WE USE INFORMATION

Personal Information may be collected and used by WPA in connection with the following:

  • Communicating with you by email, postal mail, telephone, or other means about information, activities, or services you might be interested in.

  • Processing donations or contributions of any kind.

  • Distributing receipts and thank you letters for donations.

  • Record-keeping of engagement with WPA.

  • Purposes related to fundraising operations.

  • Registration for sites or services such as e-newsletters, event RSVPs, etc.

  • Surveys, metrics, and other analytical purposes.

  • Managing our business operations.

  • Enforcing our Terms of Use.

  • Performing functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

We will not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies, organizations, or individuals. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances:

  • We have your consent. 

  • We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf (i.e. our credit card processor). When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

  • We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of WPA, our members, or the public.

  • As part of a transfer of our assets, for example in the event of a merger or acquisition.

We take reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Our Site hosting provider applies security updates routinely and monitors to address known security issues, consistent with industry standards. 

Please be aware, however, that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. To mitigate this risk, you should use secure usernames and passwords and carefully protect them from disclosure, and implement updated internet security and virus protection on your computer.

WPA has no control over other sites that are linked to ours and we cannot tell you how those sites will treat your Personal Information. If you have any questions regarding how the organizations use your Personal Information, please review those organizations’ privacy policies or contact them directly.

We may retain Personal Information for as long as we have a business need for it or as applicable laws, regulations, or government orders require us to retain it. Additionally, the Site may enable you (or other users) to save information, including information that you have made public or allowed certain users to access or see.


TRACKING & COOKIES

We may use standard Internet technology to track your use of the Site and Services. We also may include web beacons in promotional emails or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize and deliver targeted communications, and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online content, programming, or other activities.

We use a standard feature of browser software called a cookie to help us understand how visitors interact with our Site and to improve the quality of our service. A cookie assigns each visitor a unique string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We may use cookies to identify the interests, preferences, and behaviors of visitors, to measure user traffic or other analytics, or to improve our Site functionality. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can prevent or delete cookies by adapting your browser settings, but this can affect the functionality of the Site.

FEEDBACK

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, or any of the content found on our Site, please send them to info@washingtonprogress.org. 

Last updated: January 2024