Privacy Policy

Effective Date/Last Updated: January 1, 2023

Thank you for visiting TransYouthLiberation.org (herein referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”). We are committed to keeping our users informed as to our policies regarding the collection and use of their personal information. This policy tells you about how we collect, use, and store your information.

Please click the following links to learn more about our privacy policy:

1. General
2. What Personal Information We Collect
3. How We Collect Personal Information
4. How We Use Personal Information
5. Telephone Consumer Protection Act Compliance
6. How You Can Opt Out of Cookies
7. Security
8. How to Opt Out of Our Communications to You
9. Aggregated and De-identified Information
10. When We May Disclose Information for Legal Reasons
11. You Can Access Your Information or Make Corrections to Errors or Changes in this Information
12. California Privacy Rights
13. Cross-Border Transfer
14. Contact Us

1. GENERAL

Our privacy policy (the “Policy”) applies to www.transyouthliberation.org and all subdomains thereof and mobile applications offered by us (the “Site”) and the various services that we provide via the Site, including education and information (the “Services”). By accessing and/or using the Site and/or by providing information to us by any other means, you agree to the use of that information per the Policy.

We reserve the right to append or update this Policy at any time without notice. Please revisit this page to check for updates. Any changes to this Policy will become effective when we post the revised Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site and/or Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Policy.

2. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The phrases “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” in this Policy refers to information or a combination of information that you provide to us through the Internet or by other means, or that is otherwise obtained, that can be used to uniquely identify you. 

We may collect the following categories of personal information about you:

• Contact information: name, organization, complete address, phone number, and email address.
• Payment information: credit card number and expiration date, and billing information.
• Origin information: Information concerning how you heard about TransYouth Liberation.
• Information you wish to share, questions, comments, and/or suggestions.
• Your request to receive periodic updates; e.g. to individuals who request it, we will send periodic mailings related to specific fund-raising appeals, legislation updates, calls to action, etc.

3. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including:

• You Provide it through the Site and Services: We may collect personal information when you provide it through the Site or Services, e.g., when you sign up for email updates, newsletters or give a donation.
• Offline: We may collect personal information from you offline, such as when you sign up for emails at an event

4. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell, rent or lease your personal information to any other organization and it is our commitment to never do so. Your identity as a donor or support will always be kept confidential. Use of your information is only for internal purposes only of TransYouth Liberation and to further its mission and activities of supporting Trans youth and their families. We will use the information to

• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests,
• To send administrative information to you, for example, receipts for a donation.
• To send you communications that we believe may be of interest to you and for call to actions regarding legislation across the nation.
• Educational information

We do not store any credit card information that is used for donations. We use a third party payment processor that is compliant with all federal privacy and security laws and regulations.

5. TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE

When you provide a cell phone number to us via the Site or Services, you give your consent for us to call or text you at this number. You may be called via an automated dialer, artificial/pre-recorded message or sent a text message for updates on legislation, calls to action or educational links.. By providing your cell phone number to us via the Site or Services, you agree to be contacted at that number regardless of whether you or someone else is in possession of the cell phone when the contact is made. You may revoke your consent any time either verbally, by email or via U.S. mail.

6. HOW YOU CAN OPT OUT OF COOKIES

To clear cookies from your device on a one-time basis, simply choose ‘Settings’ within your browser, go to ‘History’, and select ‘Clear Cookies’ (or other similar functions, depending on your browser).

7. SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization in compliance with all applicable laws. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us at info@TYLNow.org.

8. HOW TO OPT OUT OF OUR COMMUNICATIONS TO YOU

Every email and text message we send you will have a link to unsubscribe from further communication with us, or you can  to unsubscribe.

At any time if you wish to opt out of any or all communications from us please email info@TYLNow.org with “Remove” in the subject field. This will remove the email from which the request is sent from our email list. If you wish to have your telephone number removed please indicate the number in the body of your email.

For instruction on opting out of the use of cookies and/or the clearing of cookies from your device on a one-time basis, please refer to the section above entitled “How You Can Opt of Cookies.” 

9. AGGREGATED AND DEIDENTIFIED INFORMATION

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary anywhere else in this policy, we reserve the right to use your personal information in any manner and for any purpose so long as we remove portions of the information that identify you or that could be used to identify you as the source of that information and aggregate it with the information of a group or category of other users, so long as that aggregated information is not linked or reasonably linkable to you. To the extent permitted by and in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, we also reserve the right to use your personal information in a “de-identified” manner, such that it cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to you.

10. WHEN WE MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION FOR LEGAL REASONS

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary anywhere else in this polic, except where we may be prohibited by applicable law, we may disclose personal information received from any source as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our Terms of Use; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

11. YOU CAN ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION OR MAKE CORRECTIONS TO ERRORS OR CHANGES IN THIS INFORMATION

If you wish to have access to information about you in our records, please contact us with your request at the e-mail address info@TYLNow.org. You may also request that we update information about you, or request correction of any factual errors that you believe may exist regarding this information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to accommodate such requests. In any event, in no event will we be able to provide you with information about you that is not readily personally identifiable in our records.

12. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California consumer, you have the following rights:

• The right to know what personal information is being collected about you.
• The right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
• The right to say no to the sale of personal information.
• The right to access your personal information.
• The right, in certain circumstances, to delete the information you have provided to us. 
• The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights.

Requests for Information and Deletion. California consumers have the right to request, up to twice in a 12-month period, that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the information listed below for the preceding 12 months. 

(1) The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
(2) The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
(3) The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
(4) The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
(5) The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
(6) The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
(7) The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

To make such a request for information, or to request that we delete your personal information, please email us at info@TYLNow.org or contact us through our main website at http://transyouthliberation.org/contact-us

Request Verification. Please note all consumer requests described above in this Section 13 are subject to verification and there may be circumstances where we do not honor your request, as permitted under the law. We may verify any request by asking for additional information, including identifying information to verify the identity of the person making the request. You are entitled to make any such request through an authorized agent. If an authorized agent is making the request, such requests are subject to the same verification process mentioned above and we may also ask for additional proof of authorization.

13. CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.

14. CONTACT US

Please feel free to direct any questions or comments regarding this Policy, including for any consumer with a disability in need of an alternate format, by emailing us at info@TYLNow.org or contacting us through our main website at http://transyouthliberation.org/contact-us