PRIVACY POLICY 

INTRODUCTION 

The purpose of this privacy policy (“Policy”) is to provide you with information about the information/data we collect from you when you visit this website so you can decide whether you want to access this website. 

This policy describes the types of information we collect about you when you visit the Empower Now Project (listed as ENP hereafter) website located at www.empowernowproject.org (“Site”), how we use that information, and the options available to you about how we use your information. Your privacy is very important to us. By visiting or using the Site, using our online resources, and/or contacting us via the Site (collectively “Services”), you agree to the provisions of this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, you may choose not to use or access the Site or Services. 

Information We Collect, How We Use It, and How We Share It 

PERSONAL INFORMATION 

We don’t collect personally identifying information from you except for what you share with us via the “Contact Us” page. If you identify as a survivor of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking (survivor), we won’t share what you tell us via the Contact Us page with anyone else without your permission or unless we are required by law. 

The only personal information that the ENP collects via our website is information that is submitted in a message to us through the “Contact Us” page, accessed via https://www.empowernow.org/contact. The Empower Now Project will not disclose personal information of survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking (survivor) to any person or entity for any reason without your written, informed consent unless ENP is compelled to provide it by court order or law, and only then after using the full extent of the legal system to resist disclosure. For these purposes, “personal information” means the name, email address, phone number, IP address, or any other information that could be identified. 

LOG DATA: GOOGLE ANALYTICS AND COOKIES 

We use Google Analytics™ to measure and analyze the use of our website, so some information about your usage on our site could be shared with Google. We may share aggregate trends and data from Google Analytics outside of ENP; however, none of this information will be individualized nor will it be combined or cross-referenced with any other information or data. 

When you visit www.empowernowproject.org, we automatically collect certain information and analytical data related to your use of the Site and Services through a program called Google Analytics.™ Google Analytics collects information such as users’ IP address (which may contain location information), how often the Site is visited, what pages users visit when they do so, and what other sites users were using prior to coming to the Site. 

Empowernowproject.org uses this information to monitor and analyze use of the Site and to know which pages are most often accessed, to increase our Site’s functionality and user-friendliness, to better tailor it to our visitors’ needs, and for the Site’s technical administration. Log data information or any information that we access through Google Analytics will not be compared, associated, or combined with personal information you share with us; however, log data, such as IP address, by itself, may be personally identifiable information. 

Although Google Analytics plants a persistent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google (not by ENP). Google's ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is restricted by the Google Analytics’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. ENP’s Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies or tracking technologies by Google Analytics or any other business partner. Google Analytics makes its own policies regarding confidentiality and information usage and sharing of IP addresses that it logs. To read the privacy policy of Google Analytics, please go to their website here: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ 

If you do not want your IP address to be logged by Google Analytics when using www.empowernowproject.org, you may want to use a computer at a public library or other location that is not affiliated with your personal computer’s IP address. 

ENP shares log data information, such as those statistics gathered through Google Analytics, with third parties for industry analysis, grant-reporting, and other purposes. However, we will not compare, associate, or combine log data with any personal information you share with us. Note that certain log data, such as IP Address, by itself, could be personally identifiable information. 

Tracking Technologies and Cookies 

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include: 

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?" available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_

  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. 

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below: 

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent CookiesAdministered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

  • Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT 

When required to by law, we may share information that we collect with law enforcement. However, we will only do so after exploring all options in order to protect your privacy. 

We may disclose your information to the government, law enforcement, or other parties when appropriate to protect our rights, to cooperate in investigations of fraud or other illegal or inappropriate activity, or if compelled by court order, though only after using the full extent of the legal system to resist disclosure (i.e., using a motion to quash). 

We will make reasonable efforts to contact a website user before providing information to the party that requests it. We will also make all reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of a survivor’s personal information, if it is known to us as such, in accordance to our obligations under confidentiality laws. 

YOUR RIGHT: OPTING OUT 

The less you share, the less we know, so limit what you share with us when you contact us or choose not to use this website. 

Although the Contact Us page asks for personal information, such as your name, phone number, and email address, you are only required to put in your name, subject, and message. You can choose to use a pseudonym and not share personal information in your message. Phone number and email address are optional fields, and you can choose to not provide this information. 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES 

We may link to other websites, but we don’t endorse those websites or their privacy policies. Read their privacy policies for information on how they collect, use, and share your data when you visit those websites. 

Our site includes links to other websites (“third-party websites”). The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of an affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of that third party’s privacy or information security policies or practices. 

We do not exercise control over third-party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information from you. Please be aware that when you enter a third-party website, any information you provide is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of that third-party website. 

POLICY CHANGES 

If anything changes, we’ll let you know here! 

Unless stated otherwise, our current policy applies to all information that we collect about you through the TechSafety.org website and Services. 

CONTACT INFORMATION 

To contact us with your questions or comments regarding this Policy or the information collection and dissemination practices of the Site and Services, please contact us at: 

Empower Now Project 
P.O. Box 1088 
North Kingstown, RI 02852 
team@empowernowproject.org