Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.stvrainhabitat.org and Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley (St. Vrain Habitat) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to St. Vrain Habitat include stvrainhabitat.org and stvrainhabitat.org/restore. By using the St. Vrain Habitat website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. 

Collection of your Personal Information 

When donating, registering to volunteer, or purchasing products and services offered on our Site, St. Vrain Habitat may collect personally identifiable information, such as your: 

  • First Name 

  • Last Name 

  • Email Address 

  • Phone Number 

  • Mailing Address 

  • Shipping Address (if appropriate) 

  • City, State and Zip Code 

  • Online Payment/Credit Card (if appropriate) 

St. Vrain Habitat may also collect demographic information, such as your: 

  • Age 

  • Gender 

  • Military Status 

  • Company Affiliation 

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to volunteer, purchase products, or use services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering or purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. 

Use of your Personal Information 

St. Vrain Habitat collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested. 

St. Vrain Habitat may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other activities, solicit donations, or inform you of products or services available from St. Vrain Habitat and its affiliates. 

Sharing Information with Third Parties 

St. Vrain Habitat does not sell, rent or lease its customer list to third parties including Habitat for Humanity International. 

St. Vrain Habitat may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to St. Vrain Habitat, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. 

We do not transfer your personal information to outside parties unless we provide you with advance notice. This may be necessary due to court orders, corporate tracking of volunteer hours or grant requirements.  

St. Vrain Habitat may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on St. Vrain Habitat or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of St. Vrain Habitat; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of St. Vrain Habitat, or the public. 

Automatically Collected Information 

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by St. Vrain Habitat. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics referring to the use of the St. Vrain Habitat website. 

Use of Cookies 

The St. Vrain Habitat website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize St. Vrain Habitat pages, or register with St. Vrain Habitat site or services, a cookie helps St. Vrain Habitat to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same St. Vrain Habitat website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the St. Vrain Habitat features that you customized. 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the St. Vrain Habitat services or websites you visit. 

Security of your Personal Information 

St. Vrain Habitat secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. St. Vrain Habitat uses the following methods for this purpose: 

  • SSL Protocol 

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. 

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) these are security and privacy limitation inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed. 

Children Under Thirteen 

St. Vrain Habitat does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. 

E-mail Communications 

From time to time, St. Vrain Habitat may contact you via email for the purposes of providing information, announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from St. Vrain Habitat or click on a link therein. 

If you would like to stop receiving informational, marketing or promotional communications via email from St. Vrain Habitat, you may opt out of such communication by Clicking the UNSUBSCRIBE button. 

External Data Storage Sites 

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. 

Changes to this Statement 

St. Vrain Habitat reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy. 

Contact Information 

St. Vrain Habitat welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that St. Vrain Habitat has not adhered to this Statement, please contact St. Vrain Habitat at: 

Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley 
PO Box 333 
Longmont, Colorado 80502-0333 

Email Address: 
development@stvrainhabitat.org 

Telephone number: 
(303) 682-2485 

Effect as of 10/30/2020