This policy explains what personal data we collect and why we collect it.

The Center for Nonprofit Law’s belief in data security and privacy

The Center for Nonprofit Law respects your privacy. We believe in transparency and want to ensure that all users can clearly see what personal information we collect, what we do with it, and what choices and rights you have.

Contact Forms

When visitors contact us through our contact form on the website, we collect the data associated with the contact form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you submit personal data in a contact form, it will be used to fulfill any requests that you have. Any data submitted through contact forms will not be sold or shared with any third party unless we are required to do so by law.

Media

When images and documents are submitted to our firm through email, text, or a secure user portal, our firm will save and store these items for a set term limit of 10 years in accordance with PLF guidelines.

Cookies

By viewing our website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run efficiently.

If you use our contact form on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our client portal page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 1 day.

We use Google Analytics to assess the performance of our website. This service may ask you to set a third-party cookie.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect basic information about your visit. This may include pages you viewed, referring sites, and some information about your browser and device. This will be used to improve user interfaces and experiences on our site.

Additionally, this website collects personal data to power our Squarespace site analytics. This may include information about your browser, network, device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, your IP address, and details about your use of this website such as clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Who we share your data with

Google Analytics and Squarespace Analytics are both third parties and will collect and store basic information about your visit. We do not share this information or any other information that we gather from you on our site with any other third party unless required to do so by law.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Your contact information will be used only to contact you directly about services for which you have inquired. We will not sell or share information that you submit with a contact form with any third party unless required to do so by law.

How we protect your data

Our contact form collects your information via SSL and it is delivered to us via email. Email is not secure, so please do not transmit any private information via the form. If we determine that you have sent us private information, we will remove this immediately from our servers.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use automated decision making or profiling systems.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Web pages you view while on this website

Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.