In order to successfully carry out its mission, Petersburg Community Development Corporation relies on trusting relationships. This trust must extend to our professional partners, the communities that we serve and all those interested in our mission, including our website and SMS messaging patrons. With this privacy policy, we intend to ensure the protection of any voluntarily offered personal information in a manner that fosters valuable, trusting and long-standing relationships.​

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This privacy policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, practices, or actions of any third parties. If you submit personal information to any third-party website or SMS messaging program, your information will be governed solely by their privacy policies (if any).

Petersburg Community Development Corporation may amend this policy without notice to you, and such amendments will become effective when posted on info@petersburgcdc.org.​

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What Information We Collect

When you visit our website or use our SMS messaging, you may disclose two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose (collected on an individual basis) and site usage information (collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse the site).

Personal information you knowingly disclose may include:

 

Credit Card Information: When you donate to Petersburg Community Development Corporation, standard credit card information is collected through a third-party payer that is required to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards. The third-party payer provides us with, and we store, the account holder, card type, last four digits of your credit card number, card expiration date, and the authorization code. Online donors are added to our mailing lists. You may opt out at any time by emailing info@petersburgcdc.org.

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Email Information: If you choose to correspond with us via email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. You may opt-out at any time. You may also request an opt-out by emailing info@petersburgcdc.org. We do not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside of Petersburg Community Development Corporation.

Site usage information: Petersburg Community Development Corporation does not separately monitor your personal activity on our site. We do track (via Google Analytics, which utilizes cookies) collective, anonymous user data to evaluate the effectiveness of our website.

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SMS Information: If you choose to correspond with us via SMS messaging, we may retain the content of your SMS messages together with our responses. You can opt-in by replying with a response to our initial SMS message. To opt-out, simply reply “STOP” to any SMS message you receive from us. By opting in, the frequency of messages will be up to 2 messages per month. Your initiated SMS exchange with us may increase the frequency.  SMS messaging is not shared with 3rd parties.

 

How Your Information May Be Used

Petersburg Community Development Corporation uses personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our service and charitable activities. We may use your personal information for:

• sending you information about offered programs and services

• responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests such as to process donations and/or send you information about upcoming properties;

• profiling supporters to identify shared interest and connections;

• internal purposes, such as data analysis to enhance or improve our website and to identify usage trends.

Information Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or if such action is necessary to (a) fulfill your requests (e.g. third-party service providers such as payment processing, email delivery, website hosting, data analysis, etc); (b) protect and defend our rights and property, the website, the users of the site; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the site, us, or third parties.

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Tracking Technologies and Cookies

 We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

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• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
   

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

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We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
 

• Necessary / Essential Cookies
   

Type: Session Cookies
 

Administered by: Us
 

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
 

• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
 

• Functionality Cookies
   

Type: Persistent Cookies
 

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
 

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

 

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data 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 Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

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If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

 

Effective Date of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 8, 2024.

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

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• By phone number: 410-793-1913