About Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (“RCFP”)

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’ ProJourn Initiative (“ProJourn,” “we,” or “us”) operates the ProJourn website located at www. projourn.org and any content or services available via such site or successor site (“Website”). Data collected by ProJourn is subject to the following privacy policy.

Scope of this Policy

This privacy policy applies to:

ProJourn (“ProJourn,” “we,” or “us”)
ProJourn’s online properties, including our website and our social media handles; and
ProJourn’s pro bono programs (collectively, as applicable, our “Programs” or “Services”).

This privacy policy applies when you interact with us through our Programs or Services. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Services or be linked to from the Services. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version.

Personal Information we collect

We collect personal information that you provide to us directly, from the devices you use to interact with us, and from third parties such as our partner organizations, fundraising list providers, and referrers. We may combine personal information from the Programs and Services together and with other personal information we obtain from our records.

Personal Information you give us

You may provide the following personal information to us directly:

Contact and professional information, including name, email address, telephone number, and job title, as well as company name and size.
Demographic information.
Content you may include in survey responses.
Information contained in your communications with us.
Information you make available to us via a social media platform or by commenting on or responding to content posted online.
Information provided in connection with donations to us.
Information you submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us.
Information you submit to us via our hotline or donation forms.
Any other information you submit to us.

Personal Information we collect automatically

We and service providers working on our behalf (e.g., Google Analytics) may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following personal information from the device you use to interact with our Services (e.g., website), including:

Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our website, app, and electronic newsletters.
Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.

Personal Information we collect from other sources

We may collect the following personal information about you from third-party sources:

Contact and professional information, demographic information, and other information provided by other non-profit organizations with which we partner..
Information from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.
If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other person’s names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person. You agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us their contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We may inform any other person you invite that you gave us their information in the invitation email.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use any of the personal information we collect for the following purposes:

Service and Program operations: To provide you with our pro bono programs, send program-related communications, and conduct fundraising and general operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits.
Service improvement: To improve our Services, including understanding the effectiveness of our Services and how they are being used.
Security: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.
Legal compliance: To comply with legal processes, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests, and to comply with applicable legal requirements.

We may use and share information that we aggregate (compile to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identify (strip information of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) at our discretion.

How We Share Your Personal Information

We may share any of the personal information we collect with the following recipients:

Partner Organizations We may share information with our partner organizations, such as the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Service providers: We engage vendors to perform operational functions on our behalf, and they may receive personal information about you from us or collect it directly, which includes:
- Supporting Service functionality, such as vendors that support event registration and registration, client service and client relationship management, freight services, list cleansing, postal mailings, and communications (email, fax).
- Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that assist us in the creation of our financial records.
- Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance.
- Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response and service notifications.
- Payment technology vendors, such as our credit card payments processor.
- Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation.
- Email and fundraising vendors, such as entities that support distribution of emails and assist us with our fundraising efforts.
Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the safety of our employees, our customers, or other individuals.

Security

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the personal information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Personal Information

Email Unsubscribe: If you do not wish to receive emails from us, such as our updates, and wish to opt out of future emails, please contact us. Please note that any updates or other automated email messages you receive from us will include an option to opt out of future email communications.

Do Not Track: Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. The personal information collection and disclosure practices and the choices that we provide to you will continue to operate as described in this privacy policy, even if a Do Not Track signal is received.

Other Important Information

Data retention

We may store personal information about you for as long as we have a legitimate operational need for it.

Cross-border data transfer

We may collect, process, and store your personal information in the United States. The laws in the United States regarding personal information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.

Information about children

The Services are intended for persons over the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected personal information from anyone younger than the age of 13, we will delete that information.

Contact information, submitting requests, and our response procedures

Contact

If you have questions with respect to the personal information to which this privacy policy applies, please reach out to us.

Verification

Verification: We must verify your identity before responding to your request. We verify your identity by asking you to provide personal identifiers that we can match against information we may have collected from you previously. We may need to follow up with you to request more information to verify your identity.

We will not use personal information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.