Your Privacy is Important to Us.
The Arc Minnesota & Arc's Value Village's (The Arc) privacy policy includes using every reasonable effort to avoid disclosing confidential, privileged or nonpublic information about you. This is to insure your information is kept private. Exceptions to our privacy policy are listed below.
Information Collection, Use and Sharing
When you create an online profile with The Arc, we require certain information from you to complete your registration. This information may include your name, address, e-mail address, user groups, etc. Examples of when The Arc will require certain information from you include if you sign up to volunteer, register to participate in one of our events or make a financial donation to us. Any and all information you provide The Arc is used solely by The Arc. We may share information with other trusted parties, if needed, to complete your requests, to improve your experience with us and for internal business purposes.
The Arc is the sole owner of information collected about you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
The Arc will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization. Exceptions include to agencies, affiliates, contractors, advisors, service providers or in our discretion to investigate or prevent fraud, illegal activity or misuse of our website.
When you complete an online profile with The Arc, we require you to provide certain information such as your name and email address. Completion of an online profile also gives The Arc permission to send you electronic communications. Electronic communications may be sent by email and/or text and include newsletters, social media posts, events requiring registration, etc. The Arc sends electronic communication to our supporters. This includes donors, volunteers, members and other business contacts.
Information we send may also include The Arc's community investments, financial reporting, mission results, strategic goals, news, events, donation requests, volunteer options and related opportunities. Information sent to you is what you have expressed interest in. You can opt-out of email and/or text communications from us at any time. You can also provide The Arc with additional information about you, although it is not required.
The Arc may collect your IP or Internet Protocol address. Collection of your IP address allows us to best meet your communication request. When you click on a web link or send us an email, you are doing so through the Internet. The Internet automatically gives our computer system the address where it should send information to you. This is called the IP address and does not contain any specific information about you.
The Arc utilizes Cookies or Session Cookies when you visit our web platforms. Cookies track and count the number of times someone visits our website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
When you visit The Arc's website, we automatically receive the URL of the website from which you came and the website to where you wish to go. This is because of communications standards on the Internet.
The Arc receives the IP address of your computer, the server you use to access the Internet, your computer operating system and the type of web browser you are using, such as Chrome, Microsoft Edge, etc. The Arc also receives the name of your internet service provider or ISP, like Century Link. Xfinity, etc. The Arc may use this information to analyze trends and help us improve our services. We do not generally link this information to you in any way.
The information The Arc automatically gathers, like the number of website visitors and how often they visit, is used only to gather numbers, not personal information. This data helps us determine how many visitors use our website, what parts they are accessing and what information they find helpful. The data provided with this information collection allows us to continuously improve our site to meet community needs. The Arc also may provide aggregated statistical information, never information about you personally, to our partners about how our visitors use our website.
Your Access To and Control Over Your Information
You can "opt-out" of having your personal and identifiable information used for The Arc's communication purposes. To access, update or delete information about you, you can do the following at any time:
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- "Opt-out" of having your personally identifiable data used for communication purposes.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
- Contact us directly to complete any changes you wish to your data.
You may select to opt-out to receive any future communications from The Arc. This includes any of our text and e-mail communications, registrations or pledge forms. To do so, contact us directly using the contact information provided at the bottom of this page.
Links
This website contains links to other websites. The websites you connect to from The Arc's website and our partners' websites, have their own privacy policies. The Arc is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of all websites and any affiliate agencies before providing them with your personal and identifiable information.
Security
The Arc has put in place reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures. These procedures are designed to protect and secure information we collect online for reasonable and foreseeable risk.
However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee communication between you and The Arc will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. THE ARC MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA COMMUNICATIONS OR THAT THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER(S) OR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT THE ARC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH ACCESS.
We encrypt customer data in transit and at rest, provided that the customer uses their default domain or a custom domain with an SSL certificate.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy
By using this website (www.volunteerforarc.org), you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about The Arc's privacy policy, please contact us at (833) 450-1494.
Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to this URL. Please return and check it regularly to ensure you are aware of our privacy policy at all times. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of our website and our use of your personal and identifiable information shall be governed by The Arc's most current privacy policy.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at volunteernow@arcminnesota.org.
By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you acknowledge that when responding to an opportunity sponsored by The Arc or one of our community partners, your registration information will be shared with us and our community partners. This sharing of information is for the purposes of facilitating and coordinating you or your group's volunteer placement and for reporting volunteer impact data back to the community
