Privacy Policy

Last updated December 9, 2024

This Privacy Policy governs the privacy practices for Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa, accessible from www.conservationcorps.org, (our “organization,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy applies to information provided to us through your user account or collected by us or our Third-Party Providers (defined below) through our website (our “Site”), including information you provide in acquiring our services (“Services”) or donating to our organization (“Donations”) (collectively our “Information Purposes”).

At Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa, accessible from www.conservationcorps.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa and how we use it.

This Privacy Policy specifies:

What personal information do we collect about you through our Site?
How is this information used, and with whom it may be shared?
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data?
What are our security practices to protect the misuse of your information?
How can you correct any inaccuracies in the information?

Information We Collect

We are the owners of or have the rights to the information provided and/or collected through our Site for our Information Purposes. We primarily have access to and/or collect information that you voluntarily provide us, including the information you provide in setting up your user account and any information or materials you provide for the Services you acquire, Donations you make through our Site, or other direct contact from you. We do not require you to set up a user account to use our Site. However, an account is necessary to acquire certain non-public information about our Services. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” will include all personally identifiable information that is specific to you which meets the definition of applicable data protection laws as “personal information,” “personal data,” or “personally identifiable information” (e.g. name, address, phone number, email address, etc.). Except as specifically noted herein, we do not provide any Personal Information to any unaffiliated third party (i.e., not under contract with us).

Personal Information you submit includes:
- Contact Information: When you contact us through the contact form on the Services, we collect certain Personal Information, including your name, email address, phone number, city, and state of residence. Please note that not all of this information is required to be a qualified and registered user of our Services.
- Authentication Information: We have you specify a username and a password for your account.
- Other Information You Provide: Any other information you submit when you contact us through or use the Services, including any information you provide in a submission through our Contact Us form. This information is kept on record for customer service and technical support purposes, including via email exchanges made with us.
- Payment Information: We also collect certain financial information related to any Donations, including name, billing address, debit card, or credit card number.
Usage Information: We, or our Third Party Providers on our behalf, may collect information about you through your use of our Site and Services with software application tools and data files, such as cookies, web log files, IP addresses, device state information, unique device identifiers, device hardware and OS information, and information relating to your login of your user account (“Usage Information”). You may be able to control such Usage Information through the control settings on your device or browser; however, removing such Usage Information tools may impact the convenience or functionality of our Site or Services. You may be required to permit such Usage Information to log in to your user account or use our Services. Our use of Usage Information does not allow us to gather Personal Information from your device.
Tracking Information:
- Cookie Information: The Services may also use available web-based technologies to collect consumer data, such as cookies or web beacons. Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on users’ computers or devices. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the online services, pages visited, referring URL, and other traffic and usage data. We may also use cookies for purposes such as determining what features interest our users, revising our site features or operations, and so on, as further described below. For more information, see the “Your Choices” section below.
- Pixel Tags and Log Files: The Services may also use other tracking systems, such as log files and pixel tags. For example, pixel tags, sometimes called web beacons, are similar in function to a cookie and can tell us certain information like what content has been viewed. This helps us better determine what features, amenities, and portions of our Services are most desirable to our users and how they can be improved.
- Analytics Information: We may use various technologies to learn more about how visitors use the Services. In addition, we code our Services to collect information about your interaction with our features and other users for analytics purposes. We may also use analytics services and technologies to monitor your activities on our Services to better understand how our Services are used and ways to improve them. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Services. You can opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Use and Disclosure of Information

We use your Personal Information as necessary to maintain your user account. In addition, we may use either Personal Information or Usage Information that we collect, or you provide to us in order to:

Respond to any questions you ask or to respond to the reason you contacted us. We do not share your Personal Information with any unaffiliated third party, unless necessary to respond to your request.
Enhance, improve, and develop new Services and our organization for overall customer support.
Perform data analytics for our internal business purposes.
Communicate with you (via email, text, phone, or mail):
- either directly or indirectly through our marketing service provider to send you special offers or marketing information related to our organization or our Services.
- to notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy.

You have the right to unsubscribe at any time from our marketing communications, and we will promptly honor such a request.

Allow us to respond quickly and efficiently to your questions and your requests for information.
Assess our Services.
Provide our Services, including processing any Donations.
Enhance, improve, and develop new services and products for overall customer support.
Create de-identified and/or aggregate data about groups or categories of our users, monitor usage and interaction statistics on our Services, and/or through responses to our communications.
Perform data analytics for our internal business purposes, including analyzing and reporting on usage and performance of the Services and marketing materials.
Protect Our Services.
- Protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and participating in any prosecution or enforcement of laws or agreements meant to prevent or punish such activity.
- Identify bad or infringing users, prevent fraud and other unlawful activity, track the use of our Services, investigate suspicious activity, and measure and improve the operation and security of our Services and your Personal Information.
- We use Usage Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud as noted above (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Services (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Services, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). We use Usage Information to perform data analytics and analyze and evaluate the features and functionality of our Site and Services. We may also use Usage Information to process automatic crash reporting, which collects reports of crashes, other technical issues, and information relating to how our Site and Services are functioning.
- We may also use Usage Information to process automatic crash reporting, which collects reports of crashes, other technical issues, and information relating to how our Services are functioning.
Enforcing our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
To evaluate or participate in an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings.
For legal and safety purposes, such as maintaining the safety, security, and integrity of our Services, other technology assets, services, and our organization; preserving or enforcing our legal rights and property; protecting our users, our employees, and others; and complying with applicable law, other legal requirements, and industry standards.

This information may also be provided to certain third-party service providers as necessary to provide our Site and Services and related functionality and offer other Services. In addition to our data sources, third-party service providers may include software development, application and data hosting, wireless network services providers, and any digital marketing services (collectively our “Third-Party Providers”). For example, we collect data through Google analytics to track the location and number of visitors to our website. Learn about how Google uses this information. We are responsible for assuring that these Third-Party Providers comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Except for our Third-Party Providers, we will not share Personal Information or Usage Information with an unaffiliated third party without your prior authorization, unless doing so is necessary (1) to enforce this Privacy Policy, to comply with law, regulation or other legal processes or to protect the rights, property or safety of us or others, (2) to comply with a valid order or process from a public authority, (3) to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Services or the user accounts, (4) to detect or prevent criminal activity or fraud, or (5) in the event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, in which case such information may be one of the transferred assets.

Your Rights

You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. Depending on where you live, you may have certain legal rights under applicable law. For example, you may have the following rights:

Right to access – means you can ask us for a copy of any Personal Information we have about you, if any.
Right to correct – means you may ask us to change and/or correct any Personal Information we have about you.
Right to delete—means you may ask us to delete any Personal Information we have about you, and we will be happy to do so unless we are required to retain such information by law or regulation, or we have a right to retain it subject to a user agreement for our internal business purposes.
Right to transfer (portability) – means you may request a copy of your Personal Information in a commonly used and machine-readable format to be provided to you or to a third party you specify.
Right to limit – means you have the right at any time to unsubscribe to any marketing communication and any other ancillary use of your Personal Information.

You may contact us at any time about any of these rights or any concern or question you have about our use of your Personal Information.

Security

We take precautions to protect your Personal Information, including reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards. When you submit Personal Information via our Site, your Personal Information is transmitted using secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption technology. We restrict access to your Personal Information to our authorized personnel and/or Third-Party Providers as appropriate and necessary to provide our Site and Services and/or maintain your user account. However, no website, database, or system is completely secure or “hacker proof.” You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse. You are also responsible for protecting your user credentials for your account as we are not liable for any unauthorized use of such user credentials.

We keep your Personal Information if necessary to process your requests, operate our organization, and provide our Site and Services, or as long as we are legally required to do so. For as long as we have your Personal Information, we will continue to protect the privacy and security of such Personal Information, consistent with the Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Policies

We may allow you to link to third-party websites or display third-party ads on our Site. Your access to such third-party websites and/or ads (by clicking on the link or ad in our Site) may result in such third party receiving or collecting information about your systems through cookies, bots, Web Beacons, etc. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites or ads. Please consult such third-party’s privacy policy and/or data practices if you want to opt out of any data collection or retention of your information.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6501.06 and 16 C.F.R. §§ 312.1 – 312.12, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13, nor do our Services target children under the age of 13. By using our Site and Services and any user account, you represent that you are not younger than 13. Please contact us if you believe that our Site contains any information from a child under the age of 13.

Changes

By accessing and using our Services, you agree to the information use and collection terms of this Privacy Policy. We have the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time. We may not notify users individually if we change this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be effective when posted (as specified in the last updated reference above. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy frequently to stay informed regarding how we collect, use, share and process Personal Information.

Specific Laws

Notice to California Residents

Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents who have an established business relationship with us are entitled to ask us once a year for information regarding the personal data we have shared, if any, with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to submit such a request, please submit your request in writing to the address listed in the Contact Us section and include the words “Shine the Light” in your correspondence. The request must include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code and an attestation that you are a California resident. We are not responsible for requests that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.

Notice to Nevada Residents

Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A allows Nevada residents to opt-out of the “sale” of certain types of personal data. Subject to several exceptions, Nevada law defines “sale” to mean the exchange of certain types of personal data for monetary consideration to another person. If you are a Nevada resident who wishes to exercise your “sale” opt-out rights, you may submit a request to us using the contact information listed below.

Notice to Residents of US States with Data Protection Laws

The states which have enacted data protection laws, similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the Consumer Privacy Act Regulations (CPRA) include: California (as of January 1, 2023), Colorado (as of July 1, 2023), Connecticut (as of July 1, 2023), Delaware (as of January 1, 2025), Florida (as of July 1, 2024), Indiana (as of January 1, 2026), Iowa (as of January 1, 2025), Kentucky (as of January 1, 2026), Maryland (as of October 1, 2025), Minnesota (as of July 31, 2025), Montana (as of October 1, 2024), New Hampshire (as of January 1, 2025), Nebraska (as of January 1, 2025), New Jersey (as of January 15, 2025), Oregon (as of July 1, 2024), Rhode Island (as of January 1, 2026), Tennessee (as of July 1, 2025), Texas (as of July 1, 2024), Utah (as of December 31, 2023), and Virginia (as of January 1, 2023). Some or part of the rights specified in the Your Rights section above may apply to you under these laws.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

60 Plato Blvd, Suite 210, Saint Paul, MN 55107; or
info@conservationcorps.org