Privacy Policy

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We respect your privacy and recognize that we must maintain and use your information responsibly.

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Humansofpublicservice.org is a nonprofit website run by Humans of Public Service (“Humans of Public Service”, “we”, “us”, “our”). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your personal information on our website (“Humansofpublicservice.org”). By submitting your personal information on our website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use our website.

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Overview

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We collect information from you when you visit and take action on our website. We use this information to provide the services you’ve requested.
We use cookies (such as those stored by Google Analytics) to provide a better experience and improve our website.
We will not knowingly disclose or sell your personal information to any third party, except as provided in this privacy policy.
Protecting your personal information is extremely important to us and we take all reasonable measures to do so.

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Visiting our Site

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We automatically collect and store data about your visit to Humansofpublicservice.org:
- Domain from which you access the Internet
- The operating system on your computer and information about the browser you used when visiting the site
- Date and time of your visit
- Pages you visited
- Address of the website that connects you to the Site (such as google.com or bing.com)
The information we collect about you when you visit our Site is not personally identifiable.
We use this information to understand how our Site is used, to improve the Site, and to monitor usage for security purposes.
We will not collect personal information from you without your knowledge and consent, except in a few limited circumstances as described in this policy.

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Signing up to our mailing list

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We use Airtable to manage our mailing list.
When you sign up to our mailing list using our sign-up form, your data will be transferred to Airtable and processed by Airtable.
The personal data we collect when you sign up for our mailing list includes:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Date and time when you submit the form
We use the collected email addresses of our mailing list subscribers to send emails with marketing messages, news related to our work, information about career opportunities, nominations, and resources.
We will not email you unless you consent to email communication on the Site.
You can unsubscribe from our email list by replying to our email with the word Unsubscribe.

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Submitting forms on our Site

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We use self-hosted and third-party services to handle form submissions on our Site, including Donor Box, Google Forms, and Airtable.
When you submit a form on our Site, your personal information and any other information you submit is stored securely on Google Forms and Airtable.
After you submit a form, your information is shared with relevant partners based on the interests you select in your form submission.
The personal data we collect when you submit a form includes:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your city/state
- Your race/ethnicity
- Your gender
- Your pronouns
- Your age range
- Your highest level of education
- Your veteran statusIf you speak more than one language
- Your level of governmentYour description of your career and inspiration
- Your picture and/or a recorded video discussion
- Date and time when you submit the form
- Your interest in:
  - Speaking at events
  - Participating in research
  - Subscribing to the HOPS newsletter
  - Associations, communities, and events
  - Supporting diverse teams
  - Joining a community of mentors hosted by Govern for America
We will use the information you submit to draft your narrative and prioritize our outreach to ensure we feature public servants from various races/ethnicities, ages, genders, locations, levels of government, education levels, and backgrounds.

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Donating to Humans of Public Service from our site

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Donating to Humans of Public Service from our site
When you make donations to Humans of Public Service through our site, your personal information is transferred to, and processed by, DonorBox.
DonorBox processes donation transactions using Stripe, PayPal, and Plaid as payment processors. The credit card or bank account information you supply is transmitted securely to the relevant payment processors.
The personal data we collect when you make an online donation includes:
- Your name
- Your address
- Your email address
- Domain from which you access the Internet
- IP address
- The operating system on your computer and information about the browser you used when visiting the site
- Date and time when you submit the form
- Address of the page on our website, or the third-party website that connected you to the sign-up form
If you check the ‘Subscribe to our mailing list’ checkbox, we will add you to our mailing list. Read more about how we manage our mailing list in the ‘Signing up to our mailing list’ section above.

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Google Analytics

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We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site and to gather aggregate performance metrics.
We’ve set up Google Analytics so that it doesn’t collect your full IP address.
We don’t collect any personally identifiable information using Google Analytics, and we do not combine the information collected through Google Analytics with any personally identifiable information.
Google Analytics places a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user. This cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

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Cookies and other tracking technologies

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Cookies are small text files that websites place on the computers and mobile devices of people who visit those websites. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails.
We use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to remember your preferences, enhance your online experience, and gather data on how you use our Sites to improve the way we promote our content, programs, and events.
Your use of our Sites indicates your consent to such use of Cookies.

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Third-party service providers

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We use third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us improve the user experience, manage the content on our Sites, and analyze how users navigate and use the Sites.

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Third-party service providers we use include:

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Google Tag Manager,
Google Analytics,
Donorbox,
Instagram, and
LinkedIn.

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How to opt out of the use of cookies

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Most browsers are initially set up to accept HTTP cookies. If you want to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our Site, or any other site, you can do so through your browser setting. The ‘Help’ function in your browser should explain how. Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on various browsers. You will find general information about cookies and details on deleting cookies from your machine.

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How we use the information we collect

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To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance our Services;
To communicate with you, provide you with updates and other information relating to our Services, provide information that you request, respond to comments and questions, and otherwise provide customer support;
For marketing purposes, such as developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable, or otherwise of interest to you;
To de-identify and aggregate information collected through the Services and use it for any lawful purpose;
To find and prevent fraud, and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise;
For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency; and
For other purposes, we provide specific notice when the information is collected.

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How We Share Your Information

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Affiliates

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We may share any information we receive with our affiliates for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Vendors and service providers

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We may share any information we receive with vendors and service providers retained in connection with the provision of our Services.

As required by law and similar disclosures

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We may access, preserve, and disclose your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to:
- comply with law enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena;
- respond to your requests; or
- protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety.
For the avoidance of doubt, the disclosure of your information may occur if you post any objectionable content on or through the Site.

Merger, sale, or other asset transfers

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‍‍We may transfer your information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets. The use of your information following any of these events will be governed by the provisions of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time the applicable information was collected.

Consent

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‍‍We may also disclose information from you or about you or your devices with your permission.

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Children’s Privacy

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We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under 13 years of age, and no part of our Site is directed to children.
If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of this Privacy Policy, then you may alert us at info@humansofpublicservice.org.

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Security

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We make reasonable efforts to protect your information by using physical and electronic safeguards designed to improve the security of the information we maintain. However, as our Services are hosted electronically, we can make no guarantees as to the security or privacy of your information.
No system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have questions about the security of your personal information, or if you have reason to believe that the personal information that we hold about you is no longer secure, please contact us immediately as described in this Privacy Notice.

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Right to be forgotten and rectification

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You may request that we delete your data at any time. Requests can be submitted to privacy@humansofpublicservice.org.

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You may request that we make corrections to your data at any time. You may request that incomplete data be completed or that incorrect data be corrected. Requests can be submitted to privacy@humansofpublicservice.org.

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Changes

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We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please check this page frequently for updates as your continued use of this site after any changes in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

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Effective Date

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This version of the policy is effective October 1, 2024.

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Questions

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If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or complaints related to our websites, please contact us by email at info@humansofpublicservice.org. We will do our best to resolve the issue.