Effective as of September 9, 2024.
This Online Privacy Statement describes how we treat user data collected during your visit to the
CAIR site. The CAIR site is CAIR.com and includes all web pages whose domain name contains
CAIR.com or www.CAIR.com. This is not the online privacy statement for other CAIR websites
that don’t contain these domain names unless those websites link directly to this Online Privacy
Statement. Neither is it the online privacy statement for other websites (e.g. blogs or social
networking sites) where CAIR has a presence, such as CAIR pages on Facebook. Finally, this is not
the online privacy statement for the websites of any CAIR affiliate organizations. In all of those
cases, site-specific privacy terms apply, and are posted accordingly.
Privacy and the Internet
The Internet, generally speaking, is not a private place. As you visit websites, use search engines, and
conduct business on the Internet, many different companies and organizations are gathering
information about your online behavior by tracking your searches, visits, and transactions, and then
by matching that data with other information about you. There are some things you can do to
prevent your information from being collected. We encourage you to read our Easy Steps Everyone
Can Take to Protect Their Digital Privacy to help protect your privacy online.
CAIR takes many steps to protect your privacy when you visit the CAIR website. In order to
advance our advocacy and outreach programs and provide a feature-rich experience, we do allow
some tracking to take place. How and when we do so is explained below.
Our Collection and Use of Information About You
Passively Collected Data
Like most websites, we may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from
your browser when you visit CAIR.com. The information that we collect with these automated
methods may include your IP address, cookie information, browser type, system type, and the
referring URL.
We use this type of information to measure and improve the performance of our site. On occasion
we also access this type of information to investigate or maintain the stability and security of our
site.
Voluntarily Submitted Data
Certain pages on the CAIR site may invite you to share personally identifying information, such as
your name, address, email address, or telephone number. Sharing that information will allow you to
make a donation, join our email list, sign a petition, or participate in other similar online activities.
We may use that voluntarily submitted data to:
- Fulfill your orders or transactions.
- Contact you about other CAIR activities or news, or about opportunities to support the work of
CAIR.
In the case of petitions, display your first name, last initial, city, and state on petition forms that
you sign.
In the case of blog comments, post your comment and, if given, your name.
When We May Share Your Information With Other Organizations
When we give you an opportunity to voluntarily submit information about yourself, we may give
you the option of indicating that you permit us to share that data with other parties such as CAIR-affiliated organizations, coalition partners, or specific legislators. We will not share your data with
such parties unless you have indicated that you permit us to do so.
To help facilitate our membership growth, we may also use your name and mailing address in blind
exchanges with other nonprofit organizations. Learn more about how this type of exchange helps
our work, while limiting disclosure of your information: https://www.CAIR.com/address-share.
However, you may choose not to participate in this type of exchange by visiting our contact page
and submitting a request to opt out.
Our Email List
If you sign up for our email list, we may collect data by using an embedded image to track whether
you open our email and by using a URL that enables us to identify that you have taken an action,
such as clicking a link in an email or signing an online petition.
This allows us to build a more effective advocacy program, to inform you about the CAIR issues
you care about most, and to make it simpler for you to sign petitions and fill out surveys.
How We Work With Third-Party Service Providers
We work with a variety of trusted third-party service providers who help us operate our organization
and deliver services. For example, outside service providers may help us analyze traffic on our site,
process credit card transactions, or facilitate activities such as the collection and delivery of petition
signatures. To the extent that any service provider has access to personally identifiable data about
you, we require that service provider to promise that it will keep that data confidential and use it
only for the purpose of carrying out the functions we have engaged it to perform. That is true both
as to passively collected data and as to voluntarily submitted data.
In some instances, we may agree to allow a service provider to take aggregated and anonymized data
about activity on the CAIR site and use that data for other purposes such as improvement of the
vendor’s products or benchmarking for the vendor’s other clients. But we won’t agree to that unless
we believe, in each instance, that the data won’t be recombined with other information to create any
record about you as an identifiable individual.
Our Use of Cookies
We use cookies to improve website performance, to remember user preferences and settings, and to
collect analytic data. By “cookies” we mean small text files placed on to your computer by websites
you visit. “Cookies” may also refer to local storage, which is a mechanism similar to cookies where
the information is stored within your web browser. In some instances, we place these cookies
ourselves. In other instances, we allow outside service providers to place these cookies, but only if
those providers agree to the terms described above under “How We Work with Third-Party
Vendors.”
We use cookies as follows:
Website Performance
Website performance cookies allow the CAIR to improve the visitor experience by making the
website easier to use. For example, they may enable us to:
Determine how often and where you see our “breaking news” alerts or promotions.
Save your time when filling out a form by populating it with information you provided in
previous visits.
Registration
If you are visiting our website as a registered user, for example, when you manage your subscriptions
for our email lists, we place cookies in your browser that allow our website to recognize that you are
logged in.
Analytics
We use analytics tools that place cookies, in order to give us a better understanding of how people
engage with our website. That in turn allows us to gauge the current performance of Website
features, and to develop better content. Analytics cookies provide us with information like:
How many individual visitors we have
How many visitors are new or returning
How often visitors come to the website
What content they’ve visited
How visitors interact with particular pages or content
In addition, if you click on a link in an email we send to you, for example, to sign a petition, a cookie
may be generated that enables us to identify that you have signed the petition.
How Certain Content Hosts May Place Cookies and Gather Information About You
Our site is connected in a variety of ways to content residing on other platforms. We provide links
to content on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and to content on other sites,
such as articles posted on the sites of news organizations. Our site also features embedded media,
such as videos, that are hosted on other platforms (such as YouTube) but viewable directly through
the buttons we provide. When you click on links or buttons for any of these types of external
content, the providers of that content may place their own cookies on your computer, access
existing cookies that were set when you previously visited other websites, or otherwise gather
information about you as you access their content.
To learn about how those content hosts treat the data they collect through cookies and otherwise,
see their respective online privacy policies and other posted guidance.
To learn how you can minimize the information about you collected by these types of content hosts,
please see our Easy Steps Everyone Can Take to Protect Their Digital Privacy.
Security Measures and Data Transmission
We have taken physical, electronic, and managerial measures to safeguard the information we
collect. We work to ensure data accuracy and protect against unauthorized access to, and improper
use of, information we collect online.
Information that can be readily linked to you personally, such as your name and address, is stored on
secure servers and is not publicly accessible (unless, as discussed above, you have chosen to have us
disclose information about you when you have signed a petition or submitted a blog comment).
Additionally, all data transmitted to and from our website, including credit card numbers, are
encrypted using industry standard measures to provide an additional level of security.
Procedure When We Update This Statement
Our privacy statement may change from time to time. We will post privacy statement changes on
this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice on our
website. We will also keep prior versions of the Online Privacy Statement available for your review
in this section.
Revisions:
September 9, 2024
Procedure for Updating Your Personal Information or Preferences
If you wish to withdraw or change personal information you shared with us previously or adjust
personal preferences, such as your preferences regarding email lists, you may contact us to update
our records. You have the following options to do this:
Send e-mail to: mydata@cair.com and include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.
Send mail to our address: CAIR, 453 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington DC, 20003
To send us any other feedback, please visit: http://www.cair.com/contact-us.htm