Privacy Policy

How We Use the Information We Collect

We use the personal information collected on or through the Site or a Microsites for the following purposes:

Transactional Information

We use Transactional Information to complete your requested transaction, verify your identity and to prevent fraud. We also use your phone number and/or email address to contact you if there is a problem with the transaction, and we use your email address to confirm your donation and/or purchase. This information is necessary to fulfill your order or donation transaction.

If you donate or make a purchase using a credit card, your credit card information is processed by our contracted merchant service providers. Through a third-party platform we use, we can access the last four digits of your credit card, the date and time of the transaction, and the amount.

Service Information

We use Service Information to provide to you the functionality of the features on the Site or Microsites that you are using. This includes, for example, registering you for an event you request to participate in, including you in our list of electronic newsletters or text messages you subscribe to, sending you action alerts you have requested, and analyzing your responses to surveys you have completed.

Advocacy Information

We use Advocacy Information to deliver and bring your messages to the attention of the policy and/or decision makers you choose to contact about the issues that concern you. We also keep copies of action alerts you send to policy and/or decision makers, which we may quote and publish on our Site and which are identified by the author’s initials and/or city/state. This helps advance our advocacy objectives and efforts.

Cookie Information

We use Cookie Information to the extent necessary to operate the Site or Microsite and offer the functionality of its features to you. We also use Cookie Information to remember your preferences and settings (e.g., to determine if you previously used our advocacy service and auto-populate certain information fields to make it easier for you to join future actions). In addition, Cookie Information is used to measure how you interact with our Site or Microsite and collect analytic data, to test and improve our Site or Microsite, to provide users with a more relevant and meaningful experience, and to reach out to you through personalized advertisements on third-party websites, based on your previous visits to our Site or Microsite. For further information about how we use Cookie Information, please see the Earthjustice Cookie Policy.

Personal Information in General

Other than described above, we may use your personal information

1. to ensure the security of our Site or Microsite,
2. as necessary to comply with applicable law and regulations (including, where applicable, laws outside your country of residence),
3. to cooperate with public and government authorities (including, where applicable, authorities outside your country of residence),
4. to cooperate with law enforcement, and
5. for other legal reasons (e.g., to exercise or defend legal claims, enforce applicable contractual terms and conditions, or otherwise protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others).

How We Share the Information We Collect

We may share the personal information collected on or through the Site or a Microsite as follows:

• With our service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us. These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, credit card and payment processing, advocacy platforms sending your advocacy messages directly to, or connect you by phone with, policy and/or decision makers’ offices, order fulfillment, security consulting, fraud prevention, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service or related benefits, email delivery, auditing, and other services. Our service providers process your personal information on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this policy.
• With event sponsors or organizers, to register you for events you choose to participate in.
• With third parties to permit them to send you marketing communications, to the extent permitted by applicable law and, where required, based on your consent. We share email address lists with third parties to generate custom audiences of known supporters and others who may be interested in supporting us. These custom audiences are used to deliver targeted content, including advertisements, on digital platforms such as social media, search results pages, other websites, and mobile applications. We also exchange our mail and/or email address lists with like-minded organizations — many of which we represent through our environmental legal and advocacy work. As we are a nonprofit, it is important for us to reach others who may be interested in our work and expand our wonderful community of supporters like you. This is usually done through a third party that consolidates various organizations’ mail and/or email lists for use by us and sister nonprofits.
• With public and government authorities or courts, to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law and regulations, to cooperate with the authorities (including law enforcement) or for other legal reasons (e.g., to exercise or defend legal claims, enforce applicable contractual terms and conditions, or otherwise protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others).
• In connection with a sale or business transaction, in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization or assets.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We keep your personal information for as long as necessary to accomplish the uses described in this Policy and as consistent with applicable law.

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our services);
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); and
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

When we are no longer using your personal information and there is no legal requirement that we keep it, we will either delete or depersonalize it so you cannot be identified.

Children’s On-Line Privacy

Our Site or Microsites are not directed to children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you are a parent and believe your child is receiving Earthjustice communications and you don’t want them to, or if you believe we are collecting your child’s personal informationn, please contact us.

Links To Other Sites

Our Site or Microsites may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for other websites’ content, cookies policies or privacy policies. Please be aware when you leave our Site or Microsites. We suggest you read the privacy policies of these other websites, which may collect your personally identifiable information.

Your Choices Regarding Your Information

You have choices about your data and how we collect, use or disclose it. We want to send you only the communications to which you have agreed. You can unsubscribe at any time.

• If, at any time, you would like to revoke your consent (where applicable) or otherwise opt-out of email communications from Earthjustice, you can do so through the online Member Center, or by contacting us by mail, phone, or email.
• If, at any time, you would like to revoke your consent (where applicable) or otherwise opt-out of postal communications from Earthjustice, you can do so by filling out our mail preference form, or by contacting us by mail, phone, or email:

• If, at any time after you opt-in to receiving mobile message, you would like to revoke your consent (where applicable) or otherwise opt out of receiving mobile messages from Earthustice, please text STOP to 43428 or contact us at the mail address, phone number or email address above.
• If, at any time, you wish to revoke your consent (where applicable) or otherwise opt out of having your name and address shared with other organizations, please contact us at the mail address, phone number, or email address above.

You can control cookies and other automatic data collection and storage through your browser and/or mobile device settings. Please check your software or device manufacturer’s instructions and/or read our Cookie Policy to learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies. If you are located in the EU/EEA or in the United Kingdom, please also see the EU/EEA/UK Supplemental Privacy Statement for additional cookie and personal data collection consent information.

You can contact us at the mail address, phone number or email address above to:

• Request we share with you the information we have collected about you. This will take about 30 days; and
• Request we correct or delete your information.

Changes To This Policy

Earthjustice reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any obligation, to modify or correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the Site or Microsite, including its terms of use and privacy policy.

If our information practices or privacy policy change in the future, we will update our privacy policy to notify you of the changes. Please check back at our Site or Microsite periodically. We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do, we’ll post any changes on this page. If the changes are significant, we may provide a more prominent notice or ask for your consent, if required by law.