Privacy Policy - Resource Media

This Privacy Policy describes Resource Media’s (“Resource Media”, “we”, “our”, and “us”) practices for collecting, sharing, processing, or otherwise using personal information in our day-to-day operations, including but not limited to the site accessible at www.resource-media.org, (the “Website”), and the services, resources, tools, email services, surveys, and audiovisual content that we make available through or in connection with the Website (collectively, the “Services”). Our intention is to share information about our work in connection with non-profit public relations. Resource Media is committed to honoring the privacy of all those we work with, including visitors to our website and subscribers to our electronic newsletters. By using the Services, you (“you” and “your”) agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, found at https://www.resource-media.org/terms-of-use/. If You do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should immediately cease use of the Services.

Certain jurisdictions require that we provide additional information regarding our privacy practices and your privacy rights. You may be entitled to additional rights regarding your information in addition to the rights provided below if you are a resident of a U.S. state that has enacted consumer data privacy legislation which applies to Resource Media (including Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Oregon). For more information, please refer to the section titled “Applicable Data Privacy Laws” below.

(1) Personal Information

(a) Overview

Your right to privacy is very important to us. We recognize that providing Resource Media with your personal information is an act of trust. While we do not require registration to view our website or access information, we may collect certain information in three main forms – information that we collect from our web server logs for our Website, information provided through the use of cookies on our Website, and information that you volunteer to us. Resource Media also obtains personal information about you from third-party sources (e.g., voter information from government and commercial sources), as described below.

(b) Definition of Personal Information

As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “information” means data, information, files, and other similar materials that qualify as ‘personal information’, ‘personal data’, or other terms used in data privacy laws to refer information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, where the processing of that information is governed by data privacy laws. ‘Personal information’ and ‘personal data’ can include information such as your name or e-mail address, but can also include indirect identifiers such as your IP address or device identifier. ‘Personal information’ and ‘personal data’ do not include aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information, which is data we collect about the use of our Services, or categories of such users, unless it is linked with your other information.

We may collect information from our web server logs. Such information could include:

Your Internet protocol address
The kind of browser or computer you use
The number of links you click within the site
The state or country from which you accessed the site
The date and time of your visit
The name of your Internet service provider
The Web page through which you linked to our site
The pages of our site that you viewed

(d) Cookies

We may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server, and often includes an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. We use cookies to provide the Website to you, and for the other purposes described in this Privacy Policy. You have the ability to accept or decline certain cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.

Your browser settings may also allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, you can visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com/. We honor DNT signals such as Global Privacy Control as a valid request to opt-out of the sharing of information linked to your browser or the device that you use to access our Services. Please be aware, however, that opt-out preference tools are limited to the browser or device you are using. Further, your browser may save some information in its cookies and cache to maintain your privacy preferences, and if you clear cookies, you may remove your opt-out preferences and be required to opt out again.

(e) Personal Information Provided by You

We may collect information directly from you through various methods, including those described in this section. For example, we may occasionally ask for your feedback via surveys or other communications to better understand your interests and needs. We might also request information through online forms for grant applications and other purposes. Additionally, we may ask to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting. The categories of personal information that we may collect about you are described below:

Contact information, such as your name, email address, postal address, or telephone number.
Demographic information, such as your age, ethnicity/race, sexual orientation and gender identity, and household information.
Interaction, such as your donation history to Resource Media.
Payment information (such as your credit or debit card) provided in connection with a donation to Resource Media.
Any other information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when you email us.

(f) Information We Receive from Others

From time to time, Resource Media may also obtain personal information about you from third-party sources, including partner organizations; data cooperatives for nonprofits; commercial voter file and consumer research providers; and various federal, state, and local government entities. We may collect the following categories of information from third-party sources:

Contact information, such as your name, email address, postal address, or telephone number.
Demographic information, such as your age, ethnicity/race, sexual orientation and gender identity, and household information.
Interests, such as your engagement with other nonpartisan organizations, nonprofit organizations, and causes you may be interested in hearing about or supporting.
Jurisdiction, such as your zip code or county to help us identify your voting district or current representatives.
Voting, such as precinct, voter registration, modeled party registration, or information about your history of voting in prior elections.

(2) How Resource Media Uses Your Information

Resource Media processes your personal information in connection with providing our Services. Specifically, where permitted by applicable laws, we use your information to:

Communicate with you;
Provide you with information or advertising relating to our Services;
Personalize and develop the Services, and otherwise to advance our capacity for providing creative changes services;
Provide certain features or functionalities on the Services;
Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services, databases, other technology assets, and business;
Test, research, analyze, and develop new offerings related and unrelated to our Services;
Process your donations and solicit donations;
Comply with applicable law or any obligations thereunder, including by cooperating with law enforcement, judicial orders, and regulatory inquiries;
Perform our obligations in connection with an asset sale, merger, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction;
Fulfill any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information and/or pursuant to your consent;
Prevent fraud or to protect our or others’ rights, including by enforcing our Terms.

(3) How Resource Media Shares Your Information

Resource Media shares your personal information with service providers who help us carry out business activities, as well as partner organizations and other third parties as required or permitted by law, as specified below:

Vendors or service providers. We share your information with, and receive information from, third parties such as identification companies, cloud storage providers, security vendors, and email providers to help us to provide the Services to you, as well as for the other purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. Our service providers are required to process the information that we provide confidentially and securely.
Partner organizations. We often partner with other organizations to further our advocacy and organizational work, and bolster our respective capacities to pursue our missions. We may share your personal information with our partner organizations as part of those projects. Partner organizations are required to process the information that we provide confidentially and securely, and not to use the personal information that we provide for any purposes outside of our joint projects.

(4) THIRD-PARTY SITES

Throughout our website(s), we offer links to third party sites or other online platforms operated by third parties. Since we do not control those websites, we do not control what information they collect, and/or what they do with such information. As such, we encourage you to review their privacy policies as well. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of these sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites.

(5) How Long We Retain Your Information

Resource Media will typically keep your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you and/or for the period necessary to engage in the uses or fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. You may ask us to delete your personal information as described in the Exercising Data Subject Rights section below. Note, however, that we may retain all, or a portion of, your personal information as required or permitted by law.

(6) Changes To This Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will make the revised terms available on this page, will also revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page, and will take such other steps to notify you as required by applicable laws. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy policy to stay informed about how we are processing the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Services after the revised terms take effect constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

(7) Communications

If at any time you wish to stop receiving Resource Media’s electronic newsletters or other communications, or to be removed from our email list, you may unsubscribe from that list as explained in each message. Resource Media will not give your email addresses to other organizations; however, we may occasionally send you mailings regarding events, resources, or services by reputable third parties if we think they may be of interest to you. In such circumstances, we do not provide the organization with your information, but send the mailing ourselves.

(8) Data Security

We use certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to secure information that we process in connection with your use of the Services , such as we encrypt all data with secure sockets layer (SSL) or similar technologies when we transmit your information. Please be aware that, despite our reasonable efforts to protect your information, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Please further note that any information you send to us electronically, while using the Services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us. If any of your information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, however, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and will notify you, as appropriate, in accordance with pertinent laws and regulations.

(9) Applicable Data Privacy Laws

As of the “Last Revised” date indicated on this page, Resource Media is not subject to the data privacy laws of the European Union or the United Kingdom. If you are located outside of the United States, note that all information processed by us may be transferred, processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including, but not limited to, the United States or other countries, which may have data protection laws that are different from the laws where you live.

If you are located in Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, or Oregon, you may have certain privacy rights under the law of your jurisdiction. ‍This section describes the rights provided to users who qualify as “consumers” under the data privacy laws of those states (collectively, “State Privacy Laws”), and explains how you can contact us to exercise those rights.

Under applicable State Privacy Laws, you may have the right to know what information we have collected about, to request that we provide access, correct, or delete your information, that your information be provided in portable form, and non-discrimination for your exercise of any of the rights provided to you under law. In connection with the foregoing, Resource Media has collected the following categories of information about you from users in the last twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples
Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, e-mail address, or other similar identifiers.
Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law.	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Commercial information.	Donation histories or tendencies.
Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a websites, application, or advertisement.
Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements.
Inferences drawn from other information about you.	Profile reflecting an individual’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

In the twelve months preceding the “Last Revised” date of this Privacy Policy, we have disclosed the information above for business purposes to the following third parties:

Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as Internet service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer support partners and data analytics providers)
Business and marketing partners

We do not collect or use sensitive personal information for targeted advertising, nor do we process information for automated decision-making purposes. If we begin to do so, however, you will also have the right to restrict the use of that sensitive personal information for targeted advertising, and to restrict or opt out of the sale of that information or the processing of your information for automated decision-making purposes.

You may submit any requests to exercise your rights as specified in subsection (C) below.

(A) Privacy Rights Under Applicable Privacy Laws

Under State Privacy Laws, you have rights to request access to specific information, data portability and deletion, as described below. These rights are not absolute, and in some instances, we may decline your request as permitted by law. Resource Media may ‘share’ your information with third parties for purposes of targeted advertising. For information about exercising your right to opt out of the sale or sharing of information under State Privacy Laws, please refer to the section “Exercising Data Subject Rights” below.

(1) Access to Specific Information and Data Portability. You can request the following information about how we have collected and used your information during the past 12 months:

The categories of information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the information we collected about you.
The business or commercial purpose for which we collected your information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share the information.
The categories of information that we disclosed for a business purpose.
The categories of third parties to whom the information was disclosed for a business purpose.
A copy of the specific pieces of information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

(2) Deletion/Correction. You can request that we delete or correct the information that we collect from you.

You have the right to exercise your rights free from discrimination prohibited by law. Examples of discriminatory actions that we are not permitted to take under State Privacy Laws in response to a consumer’s lawful exercise of their rights regarding their information include:

Denying you goods or services.
Imposing additional charges on you for services or imposing penalties.
Providing you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
Suggesting that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
Otherwise retaliating against you, if you are our employee or independent contractor, or if you have applied to work for us.

(B) “Sale” and “Sharing” of Information About You

State Privacy Laws require that we notify you if we use your information for “targeted advertising”. “Targeted advertising” means selecting advertisements based on information obtained from activities of a consumer subject to State Privacy Laws across unaffiliated websites to display certain advertisements to that consumer.

In the twelve months preceding the date on which this Privacy Policy was last revised, we have shared information about you for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes as shown below. Specifically, the information about you below is used to display advertisements to you based on your activities over time and across nonaffiliated websites or online applications:

Category of Information About You	Examples	Shared With (Service Provider, Business Partners, or Other)
Identifiers.	A real name, alias, Internet Protocol address, e-mail address, or other similar identifiers.	Service providers and partner organizations.
Commercial information.	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	Service providers and partner organizations
Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a websites, application, or advertisement.	Service providers and partner organizations

You may submit your request to opt out of the sale of your information by contacting us using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page, or by emailing info [at] resource-media.org.

For information about how to opt-out of such “sharing,” please refer to the section “Exercising Data Subject Rights” below.

Residents of states with State Privacy Laws are entitled to exercise such rights once every 12-month period. We may charge a reasonable fee for excess requests in the same 12-month period, as permitted by applicable law. To exercise the rights available to you as a data subject under applicable laws, you may submit a verifiable consumer request to us by using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page.

Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your information. Your verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected information or an authorized representative, and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to ninety (90) days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

(10) Questions And Comments

We welcome comments and questions on this policy. To share feedback or to request information from Resource Media, please send an email to info [at] resource-media.org or write to:

Resource Media
9450 SW Gemini Dr # 59115

Beaverton, OR 97008-7105 USA