Global Privacy and Cookie Policy

Last updated 1 February 2025

POLICY PURPOSE

This Global Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Policy”) outlines what to expect when we process your personal data and details your rights. Applicable data protection law, such as the European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), defines personal data as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, including what some other data protection laws define as “personal information” (“Personal Data”).

This Policy contains information about:

Why we collect Personal Data about you
What Personal Data we collect from you
How we use your Personal Data
How long we keep your Personal Data
Data sharing and third parties and where we store your Personal Data
How we keep your Personal Data secure
Your rights under applicable data privacy laws
How you can submit a complaint or contact us

We are deeply committed to your right to privacy and to ensuring the security of your Personal Data. Please read this Policy carefully to understand your rights concerning your Personal Data and how we collect, use, and process your Personal Data. If you do not agree with this Policy in general or any part of it, you should not access the humaneworld.org website or use our services. If you have any questions about this Policy or our use of your Personal Data, please contact us.

We keep this Policy under regular review. Humane World for Animals reserves the right to modify or amend this Policy at any time and for any reason. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Policy. We may translate this Policy into other languages for your convenience; however, any inconsistencies among different language versions will be resolved in favor of the English version.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR VISITORS OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

Humaneworld.org and all affiliated webpages (collectively, “Website”) are hosted and operated in the United States. If you are accessing our Website from a location outside of the United States, your connection may be through servers located in the United States, and the Personal Data you provide will be processed and securely maintained in our web servers and internal systems (or those of our processors). In accessing this Website or otherwise communicating with us from outside the United States, your Personal Data may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States in accordance with this Policy. The data protection, privacy, and other applicable laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from your country's data protection or consumer protection laws. Your Personal Data may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and law(s) applicable in the United States.

WHO WE ARE

In this Policy, “Humane World for Animals” and “we,” “us,” or “our” refer collectively to a group of affiliated organizations that share a joint mission to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering to create permanent change. These organizations include the following:

Humane World for Animals, Inc., a charitable non-profit organization headquartered at 1255 23rd Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037 USA (“Humane World”).

Humane World for Animals International, a charitable non-profit organization headquartered at 1255 23rd Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037 USA (“Humane World International”). Humane World International is the international affiliate of Humane World.

Humane World and Humane World International have affiliated organizations in several countries. These affiliated organizations include:

(1) Humane World for Animals Europe, a society without a lucrative purpose governed by the law of June 27, 1821, with its registered office at Rue Belliard 40, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, and registered with the Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises under number 0562.718.279 (“Humane World Europe”).

(2) Humane World for Animals UK, Company Number 04610194 and Charity Number 1098925, whose registered office is at Robinsons, 5 Underwood Street, London, N1 7LY, United Kingdom. Our UK Representative is Humane World for Animals UK (“Humane World UK”).

(3) Humane World for Animals India, a not-for-profit company registered under the Companies Act, 1956, having its registered office at Shop No.39, Shreeji Shopping Arcade, Sheth Gopalji Hemraj High School Compound, M.G. Road, Borivali(E), Mumbai City MH 400066, India (“Humane World India”).

(4) Humane World for Animals Mexico, a non-profit civil association established in accordance with the Mexico City laws, whose registered office is at Vicente Suárez 73, Col. Condesa, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CP 06140, Mexico City, Mexico (“Humane World Mexico”).

(5) Humane World for Animals South Africa, a trust established under the laws of the Republic of South Africa, whose address is Block B, North Park, Black River Park, 2 Fir Street, Observatory 7700, Republic of South Africa (“Humane World South Africa”).

(6) Humane World for Animals Costa Rica, a not-for-profit corporation established under the laws of Costa Rica, with corporate identification number 3-002-369166, with registered offices located at Barrio Escalante 100 MTS Este y Norte, Casa #951, San José, 11501 Costa Rica (“Humane World Costa Rica”).

(7) Humane World for Animals Canada, a not-for-profit corporation established under the laws of the Province of Québec, with its headquarters at 215 Montee de la Cote Double. Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC J7V 0H4 (“Humane World Canada”).

(8) Humane World Canada Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation established under the laws of the Province of Québec, whose registered office is at 215 Montee de la Cote Double. Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC J7V 0H4 (“Humane World Canada Foundation”).

(9) Humane World for Animals Korea, a not-for-profit corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Korea whose registered office is at 147 Yanghwa-ro, Mapo-gu, 4th Floor, 109, No. 7, Seoul, the Republic of Korea (“Humane World Korea”).

(10) Humane World for Animals Liberia, a not-for-profit corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Liberia, whose registered agent is Heritage Partners and Associates, Inc., with offices at Heritage House, 1 Heritage Drive, Congo Town, P. O. Box 10-1760, Liberia (“Humane World Liberia”).

(11) Humane World for Animals Australia, a registered Australian Public Company, Limited By Guarantee and is a registered charity with the Australian Charities & Not-for-profits Commission whose registered office is at 27 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon, New South Wales 2107 (“Humane World Australia”).

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Data Controllers

Humane World and Humane World International work together to ensure your Personal Data is processed to reflect your interests in the global efforts to end animal cruelty. This is achieved, in part, by sharing your Personal Data between both Humane World and Humane World International. For the purposes of data protection laws, Humane World and Humane World International are joint controllers of your Personal Data. This means both entities work together to decide why and how your Personal Data is processed. It also means that we are jointly responsible under the law for that processing. Please visit or browse the Website or our social media pages to learn more about how we work together.

Humane World Europe is the data controller of the Personal Data processed for purposes under GDPR (which applies across the EU member states) and the Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data, a Belgian law which supplements GDPR and extends its application in Belgium. We use EU 2021 Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of Personal Data between our EU and US affiliates, where appropriate, which require the US affiliate to protect the Personal Data of individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA) in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

For the UK, Humane World UK is the data controller of the Personal Data processed for purposes under the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA”) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation. We use UK Standard Contractual Clauses/International Data Transfer Agreements for the transfer of Personal Data between our UK and US affiliates.

WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF THE POLICY

This Policy applies to the Personal Data we process whenever you interact with Humane World for Animals, including when you visit or browse our Website, any associated subdomain, advertising, our social media pages, or otherwise interact with us.

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Our Website collects certain usage data to understand better how visitors use our Website, which includes your IP address, geolocation (i.e., the physical location of your device), URL you are coming from before visiting the Website, web browser and browsing data, browser type, device type, the fact that you are visiting our Website or clicking on our content, length of Website visit, number of page views, and other Personal Data that allows us to measure user activity and engagement. The Website logs these IP addresses, geolocation, URLs, device data such as identifier, name, and type of operating system, mobile network data, and web data such as browser type and pages accessed on the Website and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our Website. We use the fully aggregated data to measure the number of visits to our Website, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us provide a more useful and engaging online experience to Website visitors and helps us improve the quality of our content.

WE RELY ON YOUR CONSENT

Where applicable law requires it, we will rely on consent as a basis for processing Personal Data, and we will specifically obtain your consent while collecting your Personal Data on our Website.

WAYS WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The laws on data protection provide various reasons (i.e., legal allowances) for organizations to collect and otherwise process your Personal Data. We generally process Personal Data on the basis that it is necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate interests. We process data to pursue our legitimate interests in ways that might reasonably be expected and that do not materially impact your rights, freedom, or interests.

Marketing

We may send marketing materials to keep our supporters updated on Humane World for Animals’ projects, activities, news, and action alerts and to identify supporters and donors who may have an interest in and financial ability to support Humane World for Animals and particular aspects of our work. We will provide opt-outs for you in the marketing materials, or you may contact us directly with your opt-out request as provided in this Policy.

With your freely given and always revocable consent, we may upload your voluntarily provided information, such as your name, email address, city, zip postal code, and telephone number into third-party platforms that have provided us with assurances that they process your Personal Data under suitable data protection arrangements and security controls, in order to serve content-specific advertisements through these third-party platforms.

We currently participate in Facebook/Meta’s “Custom Audiences” and “Lookalike Audiences” as such third-party platforms, which enable us to display advertisements to our existing or potential supporters via Facebook/Meta or to suppress certain Humane World advertisements from our existing supporters’ Facebook/Meta feeds (e.g., an advertisement directed at signing a petition when you have already signed it). For this purpose, we provide the supporter's name, email address, city, zip postal code, and telephone number to Facebook/Meta to enable Facebook/Meta to determine if you are a registered account holder with Facebook/Meta. Your data sets are sent to Facebook/Meta in an encrypted format that are deleted by Facebook/Meta if the data set does not match with a Facebook/Meta account.

Before any of these data sets is uploaded by Facebook/Meta for the matching process, the information is hashed. Hashing is a type of cryptographic security method that turns your identifiers into randomized code and cannot be reversed. The hashed customer information, whether matched or not, is deleted by Facebook/Meta promptly after the match process is complete. We understand that hashing is not anonymization. While it provides an additional layer of data security, we implement other safeguards and measures to ensure your data is protected and handled responsibly. For more information how we protect your data, please see the section below on How We Keep Your Data Secure [hyperlink].

Depending on your settings, our advertisements may appear when you access Facebook/Meta, your Facebook/Meta feed, and other third-party websites and applications.

In Germany, prospects' email addresses are stored temporarily, and they receive a double opt-in before they are stored longer. Double opt-in occurs when a user signs up for an email marketing list, and then an email is sent out to the user, which includes a link to click on and confirm the subscription. Only after the confirmation click is completed will the user officially be added to the email marketing list.

In the EU and UK, opt-ins are needed for email/SMS and telephone requests.

Your Preferences

We will process the Personal Data you voluntarily provided to contact you regarding animal protection-related issues we feel you may be interested in, to keep you updated regarding Humane World for Animals’ programs, to extend an invitation to you to support our programs, to sign you up for our news or action alerts, to contact you via email, SMS, or post, and to enforce our Website terms and conditions. We may also send such data to the people whose e-mail addresses you provide when forwarding Humane World for Animals electronic content. When we do so, our sole intent is to enlarge our family of informed animal advocates and organizational supporters.

Every recipient of our electronic communications can quickly and easily “opt-out” of future communications by following the instructions in any communication we send or by contacting us directly.

Wealth Screening

We may collect data about you from publicly available sources to help us understand more about you as an individual and your ability to provide financial support for our charitable programs and activities, including carrying out wealth screenings, a process that uses trusted third-party partners to automate some of this work. We may use data gathered from public sources alongside the data you provide to analyze who might be willing to support Humane World for Animals financially and to understand the preferences of our supporters about events, communication, and services. By doing this, we can focus conversations we have with you about fundraising in the most effective way and ensure that we provide you with an experience as a donor or potential donor that is appropriate for you. If you do not wish Humane World for Animals to undertake this type of processing activity of your Personal Data, please contact us.

DATA CATEGORIES WE COLLECT AND OUR LEGAL BASIS

We may process your Personal Data for a variety of reasons, as described in the Data Processing Chart below:

Data Category	Purpose of the Processing	Processed by whom?	Legal basis for the processing
1. Full names of donors, potential donors, concerned supporters, vendor contacts, and emergency contacts	1) To process donations, e.g., for sending tax receipts 2) Additional outreach for donations and marketing, including re-solicitation of existing donors. 3) Data check against fraud with restricted system administrator accessibility. 4) For those contacting us regarding animal assistance, contact them for more information. 5) Vendor data: to execute service agreements and solicitations. 6) Profiling data is limited to tracking common marketing behavioral trends (e.g., the marketing channel used to collect your email address) to help us understand more about our supporter base and potential supporters. 8) Gift Aid (UK)—The name and address of supporters who have signed a gift aid declaration will be submitted to HMRC to claim gift aid on donations and the name and address of UK supporters.	Depending on how the donor/potential donor reached us, either by Engaging Networks online (based in Canada), our Donor Care team if they call or email us directly, or by our mail processor (based in the United States) if they responded to a mailed solicitation or petition. Engaging Networks hosts Humane World donation and advocacy pages. If a prospect wants to interact with Humane World and clicks to donate or take an action like signing a petition online, names, physical addresses, and email addresses are collected here. Contacts for Animal Assistance: By staff. Personal Data may be shared with law enforcement if needed. For the EU: our Donor Care teams are outsourced to third parties. We also work with consultants and vendors (in case of marketing, telemarketing and mailing campaigns). UK: We work with trusted third-party suppliers to process your information on our behalf - Elovate, DTVO, Committed Giving	Performance of a contract (processing of donations, executing service agreements) Necessary to comply with legal obligations (issuing tax receipts, checking against fraud, reporting animal cruelty) Necessary for legitimate interests (additional outreach, investigating cruelty, and assisting animals)
2. Email addresses of donors, potential donors, people contacting us for assistance with animal cruelty issues, and contacts at vendors	Same purposes	Depending on how the constituent reached us, they may have reached us through our Website, our Donor Care team if they call or email us directly, or our mail processor. Contacts for Animal Assistance: same as Line 1 above For the EU: Depending on how the constituent reached us, either by Engaging Networks online, our Donor Care teams (outsourced to third parties) if they call or email us directly, or by our consultants and vendors (in case of marketing and mailing campaigns).	Performance of a contract (processing of donations, executing service agreements) Necessary to comply with legal obligations (issuing tax receipts, checking against fraud) Necessary for legitimate interests Consent (opt-in to receiving emails)
3. Full IP addresses of donors, potential donors, and Website visitors	Our popup tool collects the IP address to customize which campaigns we show individuals. IP and country are collected to help combat spam. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store individual IP addresses but is used temporarily for geolocation.	Wisepops (based in the U.S.) processes this data. It doesn’t store any other data that would allow us to identify the individual.	Necessary for legitimate interests (deliver relevant content to Website visitors, reduce spam)
4. Physical addresses of donors, potential donors, people contacting us for assistance with animal cruelty issues, and vendor contacts,	Same As under line 1.	Depending on how the constituent reached us, either by Engaging Networks online, our Donor Care team if they call or email us directly, or by our mail processor. UK: Elovate/ Telebank/ Committed Giving – fulfillment agency/DTVO National Free Wills Network – for Free Wills information packet in the UK EU: Engaging Networks –our Donor Care teams (outsourced to third parties) if they call or email us directly, or by our consultants and vendors (in case of telemarketing and mailing campaigns). Contacts for Animal Assistance: same as Line 1 above	Performance of a contract (processing of donations, executing service agreements) Necessary to comply with legal obligations (issuing tax receipts, checking against fraud) Necessary for legitimate interests (additional outreach) To fulfill contractual obligations
5. Phone numbers of donors, potential donors, people contacting us for assistance with animal cruelty issues, and vendor contacts	Same as under line 1.	Depending on how the constituent reached us, either by Engaging Networks online, our Donor Care team if they call or email us directly, or by our mail processor. UK: Elovate/ Telebank/ Committed Giving – fulfillment agency UK: National Free Wills Network – for Free Wills information pack UK: DTV Optimise – telemarketing agency Contacts for Animal Assistance: same as Line 1 above For the EU: Depending on how the constituent reached us, either by Engaging Networks online, our Donor Care teams (outsourced to third parties) if they call or email us directly, or by our consultants and vendors (in case of telemarketing and mailing campaigns).	Performance of a contract (in the case of vendor data) Necessary for legitimate interests (additional outreach) Consent (opt-in to receiving SMS or calls)
FINANCIAL DATA
6. Bank Accounts and payment card # of donors	Bank account numbers are collected only if the payment method is EFT/ACH. They are treated the same as a credit card number, tokenized/vaulted, and not stored in any Humane World system but rather by the payment processor. Credit cards are accepted as payments but are not stored on Humane World databases. Credit card numbers are tokenized and stored by the payment processor.	WorldPay, FlexPay, and Classy Pay in the US, and PaySafe in the UK Also Committed Giving (UK) for direct debit processing. Stripe Secure Payments for the EU.	Performance of a contract (processing of donations) Necessary to comply with legal obligations (issuing tax receipts, checking against fraud) Necessary for legitimate interests (additional outreach)
Political party affiliations of donors and potential donors	Only if donors choose to have this Personal Data set included in their profiles.	Individual data entry by staff and stored internally in the U.S.	Individual Consent
Age	We use age and gender data to profile our constituents to see if marketing efforts encourage younger people to interact. See the section on Children below.	Data is stored in our internal U.S. database and used for aggregated research. Existing legacy data is also stored internally in the U.S.	Performance of a contract (processing volunteer application) Necessary for legitimate interests Consent
Gender	Market research into aggregate file statistics. .	Gender is used for market research, not segmentation or solicitation, and stored internally in the U.S.	Necessary for legitimate interests

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND COOKIES/PIXELS

A cookie is a small file sent out by a Website, accepted by the user’s browser, and may be placed on the user’s hard drive or browser file. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences, and other data. A tracking pixel generally works like a cookie, but it is not stored on the user’s device. Instead, pixels are embedded in a website, email or ad. Through such technologies, we, or a third-party, may gather data about you, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, mobile device identification number, the sites visited before and after our Website, and your interactions with our services, such as the time and date when you viewed a page, which advertisements you have re-clicked on, and whether you filled out an online form.

We Use the Following Cookies/Pixels:

“Essential” or “Strictly Necessary” cookies are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical or performance cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our Website. This helps us improve how our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting or advertisement cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We use this data to make our Website and its advertising more relevant to your interests. We may also share this data with third parties for this purpose or allow the third party to collect this data as disclosed in the Cookie Chart below:

Cookie/Pixel Name	Purpose	Set by whom	Retention period
Wisepops	This cookie helps us determine what type of data we show you on the Website. This includes: Your last visit to the Website. The campaigns you have interacted with. It allows us to not repeat the same message to you. The data is not stored on our servers or anywhere else, and it cannot be accessed by other applications or used to track you across different Websites.	Wisepops	This browsing data is stored in a cookie on your computer, which expires after 2 years.
Facebook/Meta	This cookie helps us show you content-specific and relevant advertisements on Meta’s platforms (i.e., Facebook/Meta and Instagram) based on campaigns you’ve interacted with and pages on our Website that you’ve visited.	Facebook/Meta	180 days
TikTok	This cookie helps us show you content-specific and relevant advertisements on TikTok’s platform based on campaigns you’ve interacted with and pages on our Website that you’ve visited.	TikTok	13 months from the last date it was used.
MNTN	This pixel helps us to show you content-specific and relevant advertisements through MNTN’s Connected TV platform based on campaigns you’ve interacted with and pages on our Website that you’ve visited.	MNTN	Two (2) years from the last website visit.

If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them by changing your browser settings so that cookies from the Website cannot be placed on your computer. You may set your browser to block cookies, including Humane World for Animals cookies, which are not strictly necessary while using our services. However, doing so will prevent some aspects of our services from functioning properly. You may also set your browser to block third-party cookies and allow first-party cookies, which would allow us (but not third parties) to collect the Personal Data indicated in the chart above while you are on our Website. In addition, some browsers may allow you to block certain web beacons and similar tracking codes. Please refer to your browser’s documentation if you wish to block some or all cookies, web beacons, and/or similar tools. To learn more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Google Signals. Google Signals is a service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) and is an integrated feature of Google Analytics. We use Google Signals to collect anonymized statistics in order to improve our Website. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to Google Analytics and Privacy and opt out by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. We have taken the following measures to protect Personal Data collected through Google Signals:

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google about how Google may process the Personal Data collected through Google Signals;
We have configured Google Signals to not share Personal Data with third parties and
We do not use other Google services in conjunction with Google Signals.

You can opt out of Google Signals without affecting how you visit our Website – for more information on disabling Google Signals, visit this Google support page: [insert link] Activate Google Signals on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all Websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Facebook/Meta. We use marketing pixels from the service provider Facebook/Meta (Facebook/Meta Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland; “Facebook/Meta”) on our Website. We implemented a code (pixel) for the service on our Website. This pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that loads a collection of functions allowing Facebook/Meta to track your user actions if you visit our Website via Facebook/Meta ads. These tools enable Facebook/Meta to match your user data (customer data such as IP address and user ID) with the data of your Facebook/Meta account. Facebook/Meta then deletes this data. The collected data is anonymous and cannot be viewed by us; it is only used for advertising purposes. If you are a Facebook/Meta user and are logged in to your account there, your visit to our Website is automatically assigned to your Facebook/Meta user account. For more information on the collection and use of the data by Facebook/Meta, as well as on your rights and possibilities for the protection of your privacy in this regard, please refer to the Facebook/Meta Business page about Custom Audiences, Custom audience privacy information, and to the privacy notices of Facebook/Meta at https://www.Facebook/Meta.com/about/privacy/

Wisepops: Wisepops is an on-site marketing solution that lets us display targeted campaigns such as popups and notifications to website visitors. These campaigns can be subscriptions to newsletters, promotions, and advocacy alerts. For internal targeting purposes, we collect specific details about your browsing history on websites where Wisepops has been implemented. This data helps us determine if you match a particular display scenario set by the website owner. The details include your last visit to the website and the campaigns you have interacted with. This browsing data is stored in a cookie on your computer, which expires after 2 years. It allows us to not repeat the same message to you. The data is not stored on our servers or anywhere else, and it cannot be accessed by other applications or used to track you across different websites. For more data on the collection and use of the data by Wisepops, please refer to the privacy notices at https://support.wisepops.com/article/chyhkm9j7z-data-and-cookie-policy#our_data_security_policy and https://support.wisepops.com/article/mp2ypya1np-information-concerning-cookies

TikTok: We use marketing pixels from the service provider TikTok on our Website. This pixel collects functions allowing TikTok to track your actions on our Website if you interact with it after viewing a TikTok ad. The pixel enables TikTok to match your user data (such as IP address, device information, and user ID) with the data associated with your TikTok account. TikTok processes this data to generate reports and insights for us, but we do not have access to individual user data. The information collected remains anonymous to us and is solely used to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. If you are logged into your TikTok account, your visit to our Website may be associated with your TikTok profile. For more details about TikTok's data collection and usage, as well as your rights and options for privacy protection, please refer to TikTok's privacy policy at https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy.

MNTN: We use marketing pixels from the Connected Television (TV) service provider MNTN on our website. The pixels track your actions on our Website if you interact with it after viewing a Connected TV ad. The pixels enable MNTN to match your user data (such as IP address and device information) with pages you’ve visited on our website and conversion activity (if you have made a donation, signed a petition, etc.) to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. The data collected by MNTN is non-personally identifiable (PII) based on anonymous user interactions with our Website. MNTN collects data only as it pertains to the ability to serve an ad to said user (unique user ID or IP address), and outside of that collection for a business purpose, no other PII is collected. For more details about MNTN’s data collection and usage, as well as your rights and options for privacy protection, please refer to MNTN's privacy policy at https://mountain.com/privacy-policy/.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will retain your Personal Data that we have obtained in accordance with this Policy as long as necessary for our marketing (i.e., direct, indirect, etc.) purposes or as required by law. For instance, we will store some Personal Data sets for our tax and accounting records or to be able to resolve the estate issues of certain donors.

We will remove your Personal Data from our marketing lists without delay if you ask us to do so after appropriate verification of your identity. Specifically in the EU and UK, we will not contact those who have not responded in 60 months unless they reconnect themselves with us.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

With Our Affiliates and Partners

From time to time, we may sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to our affiliates or other organizations who share a common interest for marketing purposes. When applicable, to opt out of the sale of your Personal Data, please check the “Do not share my Personal Data” option before submitting your Personal Data either by direct mail or online to Humane World for Animals. Specifically in the EU and UK, we will not sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to our affiliates or other organizations.

With Third-Party Recipients

We may disclose your Personal Data to third parties for the purposes described in this Policy’s Data Processing Chart and Cookie Chart (above). We will also disclose your Personal Data to third parties:

If we sell any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your Personal Data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets; or
If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, Personal Data held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets.

With Law Enforcement

We will share your Personal Data with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, or other organizations if legally required to do so or if we have a good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary. Examples of law enforcement agencies and public authorities with whom we may share your data may include, but may not be limited to, those described below:

Agency	Reason Why
Relevant legal or regulatory authority (any jurisdiction)	To comply with legal obligations, processes, or requests.
Agents, suppliers, contractors, auditors	Enforce our terms and conditions and other agreements, including investigations of any potential violation thereof.
Law enforcement (any jurisdiction), Data Protection Authorities Federal Trade Commission (U.S.) and similar consumer protection authorities.	Detect, prevent, or otherwise address security, fraud, or technical issues.
Relevant legal or regulatory authority (any jurisdiction)	Protect our rights, property, or safety, as well as those of our users, a third party, or the public, as required or permitted by law (exchanging Personal Data with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction).

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The Personal Data we collect from you may be processed and stored by Humane World for Animals personnel or by one of our suppliers/vendors operating outside the EEA and the UK.

CHILDREN

Except for volunteer applications, we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent and who is not a Humane World for Animals volunteer, we take reasonable steps to remove that Personal Data from our servers.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

From time to time, we may link to other websites that are not affiliated with Humane World for Animals. We attempt to link only to those websites that respect visitors’ privacy and the goals of Humane World for Animals. However, we cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party websites. Please check with these third-party websites for their specific privacy policies. If you find inoperable links or are concerned about any of the websites that we currently link to, please contact us.

Humane World for Animals hereby expressly distances itself from all content on all linked/connected pages that were changed after the link was created. This statement applies to all links and references set within our Website.

The provider of the page to which reference was made is solely liable for illegal, incorrect, or incomplete content and, in particular, for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information, not the person who merely refers to the respective publication via links.

HOW WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE

We do not transmit or store credit card data or any other payment data in any capacity.

We will do our best to protect your Personal Data, but we cannot guarantee its security when transmitted through other websites or other communication channels; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Data, we will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your Personal Data against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, access, or modification.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you have shared your Personal Data with Humane World for Animals, depending on the Personal Data we hold about you and the reason for us holding it, you have certain rights. We outline those rights and how to exercise them below. To exercise any of your rights, please contact us. Please note that for each of the rights below, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request. You may be asked to confirm your identity prior to exercising any of these rights.

Withdrawal of consent

Where you have provided your valid consent for us to process your Personal Data, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. You may also unsubscribe from marketing materials at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link provided in our electronic communications.

Access

You have the right to know whether we process your Personal Data and, if we do, to access the Personal Data we hold about you and certain Personal Data about how we use it and who we share it with to the extent provided by applicable law.

Portability

If we process your Personal Data based on our contract with you or with your consent, you have the right (i) to receive a subset of the Personal Data you provide us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format; and (ii) to request that we transfer such Personal Data to another party to the extent provided by applicable law. If you wish for us to transfer the Personal Data to another party, please identify that party and note that we can only do so where it is technically feasible. We are not responsible for the security of your Personal Data or its processing once a third party receives it.

Correction/Rectification

You have the right to require us to correct any inaccurate Personal Data held about you and to have incomplete Personal Data completed to the extent provided by applicable law.

Erasure/right to be forgotten

You may request that we erase the Personal Data we hold about you to the extent provided by applicable law.

Restriction of Processing to Storage Only

You have a right to require us to stop processing the Personal Data we hold about you to the extent provided by applicable law in the following circumstances: (i) you believe the Personal Data is not accurate, and you want us to stop processing your Personal Data while we verify its accuracy; (ii) processing your Personal Data becomes unlawful, but you want us to restrict the use of your Personal Data rather than deleting it; (iii) we no longer need the Personal Data for processing, but you require us to retain the Personal Data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to us processing your Personal Data on the basis of our legitimate interest, and you want us to stop processing the Personal Data while we determine whether there is an overriding interest in us retaining such Personal Data.

Objection

You have the right to object to our processing of Personal Data to the extent provided by applicable law. Please provide us with details as to your reasoning so that we can assess whether there is a compelling overriding interest in us continuing to process such Personal Data or if we need to process it in relation to legal claims.

Automated Decision Making

You have the right to object to decisions being made with your Personal Data solely based on automated decision-making, including profiling. We are currently not processing your Personal Data for automated decision-making.

HOW YOU CAN SUBMIT A COMPLAINT OR CONTACT US

Complaints

If you wish to submit a complaint about how we process your Personal Data, please contact us, and we will endeavor to address your request.

If you are in the EU or interact with Humane World Europe, this is without prejudice to your right to file a claim with the data protection authority in the EEA member state where you live or work or where you think we have infringed data protection laws.

If you are in the UK or interact with Humane World UK, this is without prejudice to your right to file a claim with the data protection supervisory authority in the UK (i.e., the Information Commissioner).

Contacting Humane World for Animals

If you would like to contact Humane World for Animals about correcting Personal Data, we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this Policy, please e-mail us at dpo@humaneworld.org or write to the Office of the General Counsel, Humane World for Animals, at 1255 23^rd Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037 USA.

If you are located in the UK, please use the same email address or write to Humane World for Animals UK, Robinsons, 5 Underwood Street, London, N1 7LY, United Kingdom.

If you are in Europe (outside the UK), please use the same email address or write to Humane World for Animals Europe, Rue Belliard 40, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

APPENDIX I – U.S. STATE-SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a resident of Colorado, Delaware (as of January 1, 2025), Maryland (as of October 1, 2025), Minnesota (as of July 31, 2025), New Jersey (as of January 15, 2025), or Oregon, the law in your state provides you with the following rights with respect to your Personal Data processed by us as a non-profit:

The right to confirm whether we process your Personal Data and access your Personal Data.
The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and the purposes of the processing.
The right to delete Personal Data we have about you.
The right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of Personal Data, and/or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
The right to obtain a copy of Personal Data we have obtained about you in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
If we deny your request, the right to appeal our decision.

To submit any of the above requests, you may call us at 866-720-2676 or contact us. We will endeavor to honor such requests unless such a request conflicts with certain lawful exemptions under your state’s consumer privacy law. When you exercise these rights and submit a request to us, we will verify your identity by asking you to log in to your account if you have one with us. Or if you do not, we may ask for your email address or other information required to verify your identity. We may also use a third-party verification provider to verify your identity.

To appeal a decision we have made regarding your request, you may call us at 866-720-2676 or contact us. We will respond to appeals within the timeframe required by the applicable law.

If you are a resident of California, the Shine the Light law permits you to request and obtain from us once per calendar year information about any of your Personal Data shared with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, including the categories of information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we have shared such information. This Privacy Policy describes how we may share your information for marketing purposes. To request this information and for any other questions about our privacy practices and compliance with California law, please contact us.

We do not “sell” your Personal Data to a “consumer” as defined under Nevada law.

Opt-Out Preference Signals: We are working towards enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) as an additional way for you to submit a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your Personal Data through browsers and/or browser extensions that support such a signal. Until then, you can opt out of the use of third-party cookies for personalized advertising by setting your cookie preferences on our website [link to cookie controls] or on your browser.

APPENDIX II – AUSTRALIA

This Privacy Policy also applies to the processing of Personal Data by Humane World Australia for limited categories of Personal Data.

Humane World Australia has adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988. A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.

Humane World Australia uses Personal Data for many purposes in connection with our functions and activities, including the following purposes:

provide you with information or services, such as sending information to actual or potential donors in Australia;
improve the quality of the services we offer;
internal administrative purposes;
marketing and research purposes.

Humane World Australia may disclose your Personal Data to other Humane World entities overseas while taking reasonable steps to ensure that data security and appropriate privacy practices are maintained. Humane World Australia reasonably believes that these overseas recipients are subject to a law or binding scheme that is, overall, substantially similar to the APPs.

For complaints about how Humane World Australia handles, processes, or manages your personal information, please contact us. If you are not satisfied with Humane World Australia’s response to a complaint, you have the right to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (at www.oaic.gov.au) to lodge a complaint.

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