Privacy Policy

Last modified: May 29, 2025

Introduction

Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are
committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may
provide when you visit the website https://dallasareahabitat.org/ (our “Website”) and our
practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
● On this Website.
● In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
● Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by
Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
● Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any
application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from
or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your
information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your
choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy
policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after
we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy
periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may
provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information
from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this
Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or provide any information
about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or
any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received
personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will
delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child
under 13, please contact us at info@Dallas-Habitat.org.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including
information:
● By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email
address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted
online or offline (“personal information”);
● That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
● About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and
usage details.
We collect this information:
● Directly from you when you provide it to us.
● Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically
may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.
● From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
● Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes
information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our
service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information, and
when you report a problem with our Website.
● Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you
contact us.
● Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data
collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing
actions, and patterns, including:
● Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and
other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the
Website.
● Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address,
operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may be only statistical data, but we may maintain
it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third
parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized
service, including by enabling us to:
● Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
● Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website
according to your individual interests.
● Speed up your searches.
● Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
● Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of
your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the
appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be
unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your
browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you
direct your browser to our Website.
● Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic
files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel
gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those
pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example,
recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server
integrity).

Collection and Use of Phone Numbers

When you provide your phone number to Company, you consent to receive SMS messages
from us related to your account, transactions, customer service, promotions, and other
notifications. We do not sell, rent, or share your phone number with third parties for their
marketing purposes.

SMS Messaging and Consent

By opting into our SMS communications, you authorize Company to send you text messages
regarding your interactions with us. Message frequency may vary depending on the nature
of your relationship with us. You may opt-in through our website, an online form, or by texting
a designated keyword to our number.

Opt-Out and Unsubscribe

You can opt out of receiving SMS messages from Company at any time by replying STOP to
any message. Upon opting out, you may receive a confirmation message, and no further
messages will be sent. For assistance, you may also reply HELP or contact our customer
support.

Message and Data Rates

Message and data rates may apply, depending on your mobile carrier and plan. we are not
responsible for any fees incurred as a result of receiving SMS messages from us.

Mobile Carrier Disclaimer

Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. While we strive to ensure
timely delivery, various factors beyond our control, including carrier outages and network
congestion, may affect message transmission.

Changes to SMS Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this SMS communication policy at any time. Any
changes will be reflected in this document, and continued use of our SMS services will
constitute acceptance of such changes.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third
parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application
providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or
other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The
information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may
collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time
and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to
provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you
have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact
the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any
personal information:
● To present our Website and its contents to you.
● To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
● To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
● To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered
into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
● To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or
provide through it.
● In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
● For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not
identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this
privacy policy:
● To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
● To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our
business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
● 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 Company’s
assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar
proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website
users is among the assets transferred.
● To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to
these disclosures.
● To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
● For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
● With your consent.
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 or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and
collection purposes.
● If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or
safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and
credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

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:
● 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 this site may then be inaccessible or
not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based
advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have
your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from
members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from
accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you
(or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password
with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the
security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of
personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any
privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make
material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through
a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified
at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and
deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy
policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our data and privacy practices,
contact us at:
info@Dallas-Habitat.org