Privacy Policy

The Coastal Corridor Alliance (“Coastal Corridor Alliance,” “CCA,” or “we”) respects the privacy of our users and is committed to ensuring confidence and trust. Please review this Privacy Policy, as it describes the type of information we may collect on our website and how that information may be used and shared.

Cookies

Cookies are small bits of information stored on your computer that help us analyze activity on our website. We use cookies to improve the traffic on our site and to help tailor our operations to your needs. The information we gather includes IP addresses in order to determine visits to each page.

Beyond that, the Coastal Corridor Alliance collects no personal information without your knowledge and permission, and we don’t require any personal information to access information on our website.

Personal Information Collection, Use, and Disclosure

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

• Personal identifiers and contact information including name, mailing address, email, and telephone number.
• Information and background information related to donors, prospective, and current.
• Internet or other similar network activity including information regarding your interactions with our website and with emails you receive from us.

CCA may use your personal information for the following purposes: 

• To present our site and its contents to you.
• To receive or solicit donations. 
• To communicate with you as a prospective or current donor.
• To notify you about changes or contact you with regard to any reason you may interact with us. 
• Any purpose that is necessary for our legitimate interests, including soliciting donations, fundraising, and receiving feedback on various projects. 
• To investigate and help prevent fraud or otherwise ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our systems, services, databases, and other assets.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

CCA obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. For example, from donor forms or other forms you complete or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our website, computer systems or other platforms.
• Third parties. For example, from payment processors that separately collect credit card information from donors through our website.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

We disclose personal information that we collect or you provide for fundraising purposes as follows:

• To our related entities.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our work and services.

We may also disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as follows:

• To third party service providers who support our ability to carry out our mission, including a contractor providing community engagement assistance.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email to sign up for our newsletter, we will use your email to provide you with our e-newsletter.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To third-party analytics.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of CCA’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by CCA is among the assets transferred.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce any agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of CCA, our donors, or others.

Online Donations

We use Neon and Stripe as our secure online donation service. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated and require that you provide contact information on the Donate page. This information is disclosed only to Stripe. CCA uses it to send an acknowledgment letter of your gift, which may be used for your tax deduction purposes. We will also alert you to breaking news, upcoming events, and other important updates.

Secure Transactions

Your donation information is secure when you donate to the Coastal Corridor Alliance through Stripe (through our Neon payment gateway). Neon and Stripe protect information with SSL, which utilizes an encryption key. Your personal information is stored on Stripe servers, which are physically and electronically secured. Stripe does not directly connect its firewall-protected servers to the internet, which further protects credit card and bank information. Stripe uses your credit card information only for the purpose of processing your donation. We do not disclose this information except as required to process your Stripe donation and we do not store it once your donation has been processed.

California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected]. 

Your Privacy Choices

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Opting Out of Receiving Electronic Communications. If you no longer want to receive donor emails or marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving fundraising or marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you other messages in connection with your donations, transactions or services you receive.

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.  If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.  

Accessing, Correcting, or Deleting Your Information.  You may send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete personal information that you have provided to us, subject to certain exceptions. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete information if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement to maintain the information or cause the information to be incorrect.

Email Subscription and E-Alerts

CCA E-Alerts bring breaking news about the Coastal Corridor, upcoming event information, action alerts, and other important updates to your email inbox. To receive these emails/alerts, you can subscribe to our email list, which requires only your email address. First and last name, and other information is optional. If you are receiving emails, you may elect to unsubscribe at any time. The unsubscribe option is available at the bottom of every email we send out. You can also resubscribe at any time.

Third-Party Websites

The site may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by the Coastal Corridor Alliance. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the actions or privacy practices of third-party websites accessed from this site. Please exercise caution and review the privacy statements of other websites you access to ensure that you are satisfied with their privacy policy.

Changes to Privacy Policy

The Coastal Corridor Alliance may change this policy occasionally by updating this page. Please review this page periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes. This policy is effective from September 1, 2013 and last updated October 23, 2024.

E-Newsletter Subscription

Our monthly newsletter includes ways to help, volunteer opportunities, educational content, and the latest program developments in our work to steward natural lands and waters in the Coastal Corridor.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at Attn: Communications Team, P.O. Box 15333, Newport Beach, CA 92659; or email us at [email protected].