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 PRIVACY POLICY (Last updated May26, 2020)

The American & African Youth Leadership Foundation (“we,” “us”) are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy relates specifically to American & African Youth Leadership Foundation(“AAYLF”) and describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through AAYLF websites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the “Websites”), through the AAYLF software applications made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices (the “Apps”), through our AAYLF social media pages that we control which are linked to this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”) as well as through HTML-formatted ALC email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, including the Websites, the Apps and our Social Media Pages, the “Services”). By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. In addition to this Privacy Policy, The American & African Youth Leadership Foundation Center’s privacy policy can be found here.

“Personal Information”is information that identifies you as an individual, including:

• Name
• Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Credit and debit card number
• Profile picture
• Internal account ID
• Social media account ID
• Medical information (including health insurance identification numbers)
• Emergency contact information

Please note that we may use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Services. If you wish to make a payment through the Services, your Personal Information may be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.

If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through the Services: We may collect Personal Information through the Services, e.g., when you register, when you make a donation, when you request information, or when you RSVP to an event.
• From Other Sources: We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as public databases; joint marketing partners; social media platforms; from people with whom you are friends or otherwise connected on social media platforms, as well as from other third parties. For example, if you elect to connect your social media account to your Website account, certain Personal Information from your social media account will be shared with us, which may include Personal Information that is part of your profile or your friends’ profiles.

We may use Personal Information:

• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters.
• To process your donation.
• To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To complete and fulfill your registration, for example, to process your event registration fee, communicate with you regarding your event and provide you with related services.
• To ensure efficient medical treatment, if needed during an event.
• To send you fundraising or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
• To personalize your experience on the Services by presenting offers tailored to you.
• To allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information, so we suggest that you read these rules carefully.
• To facilitate social sharing functionality.
• To allow you to send messages to a friend through the Services. By using this functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us with your friend’s name and email address.
• For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

• To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, credit card processing, auditing and other similar services.
• To third parties sponsors of sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions.
• To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Services.
• If you are a participant, to identify you to your team captain. This information may include: name, e-mail address, mailing address and list of donors sponsoring you.
• If you are a participant, health information may be shared as necessary with volunteer medical personnel at events.
• If you are a donor, to identify you to anyone to whom you are sponsoring and their team captain. This information may include: name, e-mail address, mailing address and donation amount.
• If you are a donor, your name and donation amount will appear on the public team page and the participant page. At the time of donation, you are given the option of remaining anonymous and your name will not publicly appear.
• If you are a donor and you donate $1,000 or more, your name and donation amount may appear in the annual list of donors.
• By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information, and may be available to users of the Services and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Services.
• To your friends associated with your social media account, to other website users and as well as to your social media account provider, in connection with your social sharing activity, such as if you connect your social media account to your Services account or log-into your Services account from you social media account. By connecting your Services account and your social media account you authorize us to share information with your social media account provider and you understand that the use of the information we share will be governed by the social media site’s privacy policy. If you do not want your Personal Information shared with other users or with your social media account provider, please do not connect your social media account with your Services account and do not participate in social sharing on the Services.
• To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

“Other Information”is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

• Browser and device information
• App usage data
• Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
• Demographic information and other information provided by you
• Aggregated information
• Occupation
• Employer
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We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services (such as the App) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
• Through your use of the App: When you download and use the App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.
• Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using the Services, as well as for online tracking purposes. We can recognize your computer to assist your use of the Services. We also gather statistical information about the usage of the Services in order to continually improve the design and functionality, understand how the Services are used and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the Services.If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer tohttp://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. However, if you do not accept these cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer and you may need to log in every time you visit the applicable Services. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
• Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.
• IP Address: Your “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels of the Services, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Services.
• From you: Information such as your location, as well as other information, such as your preferred means of communication, is collected when you voluntarily provide this information. Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services.
• By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services, (for example, we may aggregated Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).

Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it as described in “How We May Collect Other Information” section above, as well as for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.

In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the“Contacting Us” section below.

We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:

• Receiving electronic communications from us: If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails at any time. All e-mail communications from AAYLF provides information on how to unsubscribe quickly and easily, however, to opt out of receiving marketing communications from AAYLF you may also:
  1. E-mail us at donate@endchildmarriages.org; or
  2. Follow directions on a marketing e-mail communication from us; or
  3. Call (484) 356-8935; or
  4. Send a request to:AAYLF
  5. 304 W Lincoln HWY, Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.

If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress, or delete Personal Information that has been previously provided to us by you, a participant may access this information by logging into your account on the website or participants and donors may contact us by:

1. E-mail us at donate@endchildmarriages.org; or
2. Follow directions on a marketing e-mail communication from us; or
3. Call (484) 356-8935; or
4. Send a request to:AAYLF

                304 W Lincoln HWY, Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information that you have provided to us For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion (e.g., when you register or make a donation, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such registration or donation). There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed.

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Information through the Services.

The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, criminal background) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

We may change this Privacy Policy. Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at donate@endchildmarraiges.org, or please write to the following address:

AMERICAN & AFRICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

304 W Lincoln HWY 

Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320

Please note that email communications are not always secure; so please do not include credit card information or sensitive information in your emails to us.