The Waterbearers, Inc (“The Waterbearers,” “us,” or “we”) respects your privacy, and we are committed to protecting your personal information as described in this privacy policy.
The privacy policy covers The Waterbearers’ treatment of personally identifiable information that The Waterbearers receives through our website www.thewaterbearers.org and when you use The Waterbearers Services. This policy also covers The Waterbearers’ treatment of any personally identifiable information that The Waterbearers affiliates and business partners share with The Waterbearers or that The Waterbearers may collect on a partner’s site.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Waterbearers does not own or control or to people that The Waterbearers does not employ or manage, such as volunteers or fundraisers.
Information Collected and Use
The Waterbearers only collects personally identifiable information when you register for an account with The Waterbearers, when you use certain products and services of The Waterbearers, and when you enter promotions, fundraise or donate directly through The Waterbearers third-party platforms Classy.org and PayPal.
When you register or contact The Waterbearers, we may ask for your name, email, address, country and any questions regarding our unique services, which are confidential and not shared with anyone outside our organization.
The Waterbearers also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, The Waterbearers cookie information and the page you requested. You can disengage cookies from your computer preferences if you do not want to share this information.
The Waterbearers uses information for three general purposes: customizing any advertising content you see on our pages, fulfilling your requests for certain products and services, and contacting you about specials that may interest you.
Protection of Information and Disclosure
The Waterbearers may disclose potentially personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations.
(i) need to know that information to process it on The Waterbearer’s behalf or to provide services available at The Waterbearers’ websites, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside your home country; by using The Waterbearers website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
The Waterbearers will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying information to anyone. The Waterbearers will only send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when we have your consent to share the information. We may need to share your information to provide the product or service you requested. Unless we tell you, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide beyond what is necessary to assist us.
Email Communication
Suppose you are a registered user/donor to The Waterbearers websites and have supplied your email address. In that case, The Waterbearers may occasionally email you about new features, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Waterbearers and our Services. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
Your ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
The Waterbearers allows you to edit your account information and preferences with The Waterbearers at any time. All newsletters and emails contain an unsubscribe link, allowing you to manage the emails you receive.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Waterbearers uses cookies to help The Waterbearers identify and track visitors, their usage of The Waterbearers website, and their website access preferences.
The Waterbearers visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Waterbearers websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Waterbearers websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Changes to our policy
The Waterbearers may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and at The Waterbearers’ sole discretion. The Waterbearers encourages visitors to check this page for changes to its Privacy Policy frequently. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
If you have any questions or concerns about privacy, you can contact us by email at info@thewaterbearers.org or mail us at
The Waterbearers
1601 N Sepulveda Blvd #212
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, US
Effective May 25, 2018