Cookie Policy
Last updated on Sat Jan 15 2022
Our services use cookies and other similar technologies, such as local storage, to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience. Here are some of the ways that our services, including our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, and buttons, use these technologies: to log you into Citizens Action For Change.
Below we explain how Citizens Action For Change, our partners, and other third parties use these technologies, your privacy settings, and the other options you have.
What are cookies and local storage?
Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer as you browse the web. Like many websites, Citizens Action For Change, and our other services use cookies to discover how people are using our services and to make them work better.
Local storage is an industry-standard technology that allows a website or application to store information locally on your computer or mobile device. We use local storage to log you in securely for a certain period of time, until your session expires.
Why do our services use these technologies?
Our services use these technologies to deliver, measure, and improve our services in various ways. These uses generally fall into one of the following categories:
- Authentication and security:
- To log you into Citizens Action For Change.
- To protect your security.
- To let you to view content with limited distribution.
- For example, these technologies help authenticate your access to Citizens Action For Change and prevent unauthorized parties from accessing your account. They also let us show you appropriate content through our services.
- Preferences:
- To remember information about your browser and your preferences.
- For example, cookies help us remember your preferred language or the country that you are in. We can then provide you with Citizens Action For Change content in your preferred language without having to ask you each time you visit Citizens Action For Change.
- Analytics and research:
- To help us improve and understand how people use our services, including Citizens Action For Change buttons and widgets.
- For example, cookies help us test different versions of our services to see which particular features or content users prefer. We might also optimize and improve your experience on Citizens Action For Change by using cookies to see how you interact with our services, such as when and how often you use them and what links you click on. We may use Google Analytics to assist us with this. Learn more about the cookies you may encounter through our use of Google Analytics. We might also use cookies to count the number of users that are logged at a certain period of time. .
- Personalization across devices:
- By better understanding how devices are related, we can use information from one device to help personalize the Citizens Action For Change experience on another device.
- When you log in to Citizens Action For Change on a device, we associate that device with your Citizens Action For Change account. Whether or not you are logged in to Citizens Action For Change, we may also receive information about your devices when, for example, that information is shared by a partner; you visit https://www.Citizens Action For Change.org; you visit third-party websites that integrate Citizens Action For Change content.
Where are these technologies used?
We (along with third parties) use these technologies on our websites, applications, and services and on other websites, applications, and services that have integrated our services. Third parties may also use these technologies, for example, when you click on links from our websites or applications, view or interact with third-party content from within our services.
What are my privacy options?
We are committed to offering you meaningful privacy choices. You have a number of options to control or limit how we, our partners, and other third parties use cookies:
- To control cookies, you can modify your settings in most web browsers to accept or deny cookies or to request your permission each time a site attempts to set a cookie. Although cookies are not required for some parts of our services, Citizens Action For Change may not work properly if you disable cookies entirely. For example, you cannot log into Citizens Action For Change.org if you've turned off all cookie use.