Privacy Policy

Flex Fundraising, doing business as Flex Fundraising (“Flex Fundraising”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how Flex Fundraising collects and uses your personal information and data. This Privacy Policy covers all Personal Data that we receive from various sources, as outlined below. By using or accessing Flex Fundraising’s mobile application (the “Flex Fundraising App”) or Flex Fundraising’s website(s) in any way, or by engaging in transactions with Flex Fundraising through any other means, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your information in the manner described herein. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website or transact business with Flex Fundraising.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” may include any information that can be used to identify or locate you, such as your name, address, IP address, mailing address, contact information, email address or phone number and other information you may produce to us. Both federal and state law in the United States define Personal Data or Personal Information, as do the laws of Canada, the European Union, and other countries and jurisdictions. This Privacy Policy is intended to include the most expansive definition. However, please recognize that your rights related to Personal Data, and how Personal Data is defined, differs somewhat from state to state and country to country. For example, a California resident likely has different rights than a Utah resident, and each of them likely has different rights than a resident of Canada.

Changes to Privacy Policy. We review this Privacy Policy regularly and may update it from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and may also provide notice of material changes to our Privacy Policy on our website home page or through our Flex Fundraising App. If you object to any changes to this Privacy Policy, you may close your account and discontinue use of our website and services. Each time you use any service of Flex Fundraising, you agree that the current version of this Privacy Policy applies.

 

PERSONAL DATA THAT WE COLLECT:

In connection with our business, we collect and process the following categories of Personal Data of individuals:

  • Consumer contact information, primarily email addresses. Flex Fundraising also collects individuals’ names from some sources.
  • Consumer shopping preferences, purchasing history, and geolocation data (derived from merchant locations favorited and offers redeemed by the consumer on the Flex Fundraising App)
  • Inferences about personal preferences and attributes drawn from profiling (e.g., using cookies)
  • merchant contact information and employment information for merchant contacts, including merchant name and addresses, contact names, job titles, and email addresses
  • payment information for merchant accounts, such as credit card type and number. However, please note that Flex Fundraising and its employees will not have access to payment data or store such data on Flex Fundraising’s servers, other than minimal information such as the last four digits of a credit card or bank account. A third party is used for payment processing.
  • information regarding your electronic device(s), IP address and internet use
  • information regarding your use of our subscription service or other services

 

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA:

We collect Personal Data from individuals who register for and use the Flex Fundraising App, including registration information, tracking information gathered as users navigate through and redeem offers from the Flex Fundraising App, and from visitors to our website(s). For merchants and their personnel, we also collect Personal Data when you or your employer or organization registers an account with us, makes payments on their merchant account, and when you otherwise transact business with or communicate with Flex Fundraising.

Additionally, we collect Personal Data from the information voluntarily supplied by visitors from time to time through surveys, requests and questionnaires.

 

Data obtained for marketing purposes for potential customers or others. We obtain marketing data from third parties that we use to reach out to inform potential customers and others of the services offered by our organization. The Personal Data collected generally includes the email address of a potential customer or other and may also include their name and phone number. We also use the contact information provided to us by our customers to communicate information about our products and services, which may include marketing our products and services.

 

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: Flex Fundraising uses tracking technologies such as cookies to collect information from your web browser through our servers or filtering systems when you visit our website(s).

Cookies are small text files placed on a user’s computer with the user’s browser to collect standard internet log information and to enable our website to track a user’s activities on the website. We use cookies to: (1) keep you signed in on our website; (2) enable website features for you; (3) help us understand how you use our website and what products or services may be most relevant to you; (4) provide analytics to improve website performance and effectiveness; (5) store user preferences; and (6) facilitate relevant targeted advertising on advertising platforms or networks. Cookies may also be set within emails in order to track how often our emails are opened. We may share this information with our affiliates and service providers.

You can change your web browser settings at any time to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the sites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, our website may not function properly for you, and you may not be able to use some sections or functions of our websites.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may also use other web user tracking technologies, such as clear GIFs, Flash cookies, pixel tags, or web beacons.

Information collected may include but is not limited to your browser type, your operating system, your language preference, any referring web page you were visiting before you came to our site, the date and time of each visitor request, and information you search for on our sites. We can also track the path of page visits on a website and monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on our sites.

 

Information from Third Party Platforms.  If you access our website or communicate with us using your account or account credentials from a third-party owned or operated platform/service (e.g., Amazon, Apple, AWS, Facebook, Google, Shopify, Twitter, etc.), post content from our website to a social network, or use various social media features (e.g.,“Like” button), we may process certain information from the third parties, such as your username, “likes”, location, birthday, comments and reviews, preferences, network reach and influence, and any other information you provided to the third parties in connection with your account. Depending on your account and privacy settings, we may also be able to see information that you post when using these third parties whether or not you are an active customer. We may also collect Personal Data about you from our third party service providers who provide us with e-commerce and/or technical related associated with functionality and purposes of the website. The information you post or provide to third parties, as well as the controls surrounding these disclosures are governed by the policies of these third parties.

 

Personal Data of Minors. We do not actively collect or otherwise process Personal Data from minors, and children under the age of 13 are not knowingly allowed to use the Flex Fundraising App or provide their Personal Data to us.

 

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA:

We may use and process Personal Data for any purpose that is permitted under applicable data protection laws in accordance with this Privacy Policy. “Processing” of Personal Data includes collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, altering or modifying, retrieving, transmitting, disclosing or otherwise making available to third parties, deleting, and otherwise using or dealing with your Personal Data. We may process your Personal Data with or without automatic means.

These purposes include:

  • Our business purposes, including addressing customer service issues, planning and conducting marketing activities, tradeshows, responding to inquiries; conducting web analytics, and business operations and administration.
  • Purposes related to our Flex Fundraising App and other products or services. These purposes include licensing and operation of the software, remote management, customer service, system monitoring and data security. We also use the data we gather to make the Flex Fundraising App and our website more responsive to the needs of our users and visitors, to assist them as they navigate between different sections of the Flex FundraisingApp, to tailor content to their needs, and to measure traffic within the network. We use Personal Data to enable use of software features and related services, including through use of third-party service providers. We also use Personal Data to communicate with our users to inform them of software updates and enhancements, available software features and modules, and other information that may helpful or informative for our users.
  • Marketing. Flex Fundraising sends users marketing communications to inform them of new products, services, promotions, or other special events or offers that might be of interest to them, which may include information about products and services of companies that we partner with (“Special Offers”). When you register for one of our products or services, you consent to receiving communications about Special Offers. In connection with Special Offers, we may ask for contact information or other Personal Data. If you would like to stop receiving information about Special Offers from Flex Fundraising, please see the “YOUR RIGHTS RELATING TO YOUR DATA” section of this Privacy Policy below.
  • For the Protection of Flex Fundraising and Others. If Flex Fundraising, in good faith, determines that you have used the service to menace, threaten, harass, intimidate or otherwise deceptively pose as another person, or in any other way in violation of law. Simply, if you attempt to use the website or purchase or use a product for any unlawful means, you have no expectation of privacy and we may use and disclose any and all information for the protection of Flex Fundraising and others.
  • Pursuant to Law, Rule or Regulation. If required or permitted to do so by law or if, in good faith, Flex Fundraising believes that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with laws and regulations or with legal processes; (2) protect and defend Flex Fundraising’s rights and property or prevent fraud; (3) protect Flex Fundraising against abuse, misuse or unauthorized use of Flex Fundraising’s products or services; (4) protect the personal safety or property of our personnel, users of our website or the public; and/or (5) comply with tax reporting requirements, then Flex Fundraising may use and disclose any and all information as needed. The servers that serve our website automatically identify a computer by its IP address. 
  • Aggregated and de-identified data. We may anonymize data to create statistical data or system usage data, by removing all personal identifiers and/or aggregating your data with other’s data so that it is not identifiable as to any particular person. Such de-identified data may be retained and used by Flex Fundraising to improve its products and services, shared with merchants (e.g., the number of Flex Fundraising App users who redeemed offers in their location), and used for other proper purposes, provided that such retention and use is permitted by applicable laws.

 

Legal basis. We base our processing of Personal Data on the need to perform our contractual obligations under our license agreements and our legitimate activities as a provider of software and related services. We also process Personal Data to comply with applicable law and to exercise our legal rights. We may also use your Personal Data for internal purposes, including auditing, data analysis, system troubleshooting, and research. In these cases, we base our processing on legitimate interests in performing the activities of the organization.

 

HOW WE SHARE OR DISCLOSE YOUR DATA:

No sale of Personal Data. We never sell or rent Personal Data to third parties.

Third party providers featured on or linked to the Flex Fundraising App, such as merchants and vendors of products and services offered through the Flex Fundraising App, may gather Personal Data from individuals who use the Flex Fundraising App to favorite their business or redeem offers from that vendor.

 

Disclosures of Personal Data. We may disclose or share your Personal Data with other parties in the following circumstances:

 

  • Third-party service providers. We use third-party service providers (or subprocessors) to process Personal Data to facilitate your use of our products and services and in the operation of our business. This includes providing Personal Data to third parties for their processing in performing functions on our behalf, particularly the functions listed above in the “HOW WE USE YOUR DATA” section. These functions include processing payments, collecting debts, hosting software, performing security services, analyzing data, performing surveys, administering our website(s), and/or providing technical support services. These third party providers will be contractually and/or legally required to protect Personal Data from additional processing (including for marketing purposes) and transfer in accordance with applicable laws. Under certain data protection laws, we may be liable if a third party subprocessor that we have engaged to process Personal Data fails to fulfill its data protection obligations.
  • Compliance with law and protecting our legal rights. We may disclose your Personal Data to regulatory bodies if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is required under applicable laws or regulations. This may include submitting Personal Data required by tax or other governmental authorities, or lawfully requested by governmental agencies, including law enforcement and judicial authorities. We may also disclose your Personal Data in order to exercise or defend our legal rights; to take precautions against liability; to protect the rights, property, or safety of Flex Fundraising or any individual or third party; to maintain and protect the security and integrity of our information system; to protect Flex Fundraising against fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful acts; or to investigate and defend Flex Fundraising against third-party claims or allegations.
  • Corporate Transactions. If a third party acquires all or substantially all of the assets of, or ownership interests in, Flex Fundraising, whether by merger, acquisition, reorganization or otherwise, Flex Fundraising may transfer its database, including all Personal Data contained therein, to the acquiring entity.
  • Aggregated and de-identified data. We reserve the right to disclose aggregated user statistics as well as non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous usage data), in order to describe our services to prospective vendors, partners, licensees, advertisers, and other third parties.

 

STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA:

We may store Personal Data that we have collected (through the means described above) on our premises and in our information system at our facilities, in third party data centers, in the systems of third party service providers, and in cloud storage solutions. Flex Fundraising is located in the United States. Currently hosting services are provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the servers that host Users’ Personal Data are located in the United States. If Flex Fundraising transfers Personal Data from one country to another, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Agreement and the Privacy Policy, and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.

Flex Fundraising stores all information in secure physical storage facilities and cloud storage. In doing so, Flex Fundraising uses appropriate physical, organizational and technological measures to protect the Personal Data you provide to us against loss or theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. This includes limiting access on a “need-to-know” basis. Where third parties (such as AWS) are used to host our products, we use third parties who meet required privacy and security standards.

However, no electronic data transmission can be guaranteed to be secure from access by unintended recipients and Flex Fundraising will not be responsible for any breach of security unless this breach is due to its negligence. Although we are committed to employing reasonable technology in order to protect the security of our website, even with the best technology, no website is 100% secure. In transacting business with us through our website, you assume the risk inherent in transacting business online.

To the extent these providers have access to your Personal Data, we will require that they are legally or contractually committed to comply with applicable privacy laws, In the case of credit card processors, we require that they be PCI DSS-compliant. However, we cannot guarantee with certainty that the computer systems and storage systems whereon these services are offered will not be accessed by unauthorized parties. This is a risk inherent in providing any information or, or conducting any business, online. In transacting business with us through our website, you assume the risk inherent in transacting business online.

 

PERSONAL DATA SECURITY:

Flex Fundraising uses technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Data that we store, transmit, or otherwise process, against accidental or unlawful destruction or disclosure, loss, alteration, or unauthorized access. Our security controls and risk management program and processes are designed to implement appropriate technological and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks. We regularly consider appropriate new security technology and methods. Security measures implemented include:

  • Web and database servers are protected using firewalls;
  • Passwords used for account registration require minimum password strength attributes;
  • User access is tracked;
  • Role-based security is applied to system access;
  • Data encryption is used where appropriate;
  • Industry-standard security measures are used to protect the security of Subscriber data while traversing public networks;
  • Regular maintenance is performed on systems;
  • Systems are monitored for security;
  • Payment card information, such as account numbers, is processed via a third-party vendor that specializes in payment processing and has committed to PCI DSS compliance; and
  • All Flex Fundraising employees are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Data accessible through their employment; and
  • Security and privacy training for employees.

 

RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA:

Flex Fundraising processes Personal Data for a reasonable period of time to fulfill the processing purposes mentioned above. Personal Data is then archived for time periods as required or necessitated by law or legal considerations. Flex Fundraising reserves the right to delete a customer’s data, including Personal Data provided by that customer, from its system after [30 days] from the date of termination of its agreement with the applicable customer. Flex Fundraising also deletes Personal Data in response to an individual’s request, as set forth in the “YOUR RIGHTS RELATING TO YOUR DATA” section below.

Flex Fundraising reserves the right to retain usage data relating to our products and services, as well as data that has been anonymized and/or aggregated, to the extent permitted by applicable laws. With respect to any Personal Data collected by us for marketing or for our own internal purposes, we will retain that data for a reasonable time in order to fulfill those purposes.

We regularly review our retention policy to ensure compliance with our obligations under data protection laws and other regulatory requirements. We regularly audit our databases and archived information to ensure that Personal Data is only stored and archived in alignment with our retention policy.

 

YOUR RIGHTS RELATING TO YOUR DATA:

If you wish to opt out from any of the uses of Personal Data that are specified in this Privacy Policy, except in the case of legal proceedings or where your data is required for tax and transactional purposes, please contact us as described in the “Flex Fundraising’s CONTACT INFORMATION” section below. Please note that your subsequent disclosure of Personal Information to us may override prior opt-out requests. Flex Fundraising does not discriminate against those who opt out. However, opting out may prevent us from conveniently and efficiently providing further, product support services and information to you.

 

Unsubscribing to marketing communications: In particular, if we are sending you email communications of a marketing nature, an ‘unsubscribe’ option is provided in the footer of every email. You may also contact us directly to unsubscribe to marketing emails or other marketing communications, at the contact information set forth in the “Flex Fundraising’S CONTACT INFORMATION” section below. If you have agreed to receive marketing communications, you may always opt out at a later date.

 

Your California privacy rights. This section applies to California residents only.

 

  • Shine the Light law. Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of Personal Data the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. Flex Fundraising does not presently share any information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, to submit such a request, you can contact us as set forth below.

 

PRIVACY POLICIES OF OTHER WEBSITES:

Our Flex Fundraising App contains links to other websites, and our website may link to other sites as well. This Privacy Policy applies only to our business and website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy. The establishment of a link does not mean that Flex Fundraising has approved or is endorsing or recommending a third party website or vendor or has reviewed its content, products or services. Flex Fundraising is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of Web sites whose links are found on the Flex Fundraising App.

 

FLEX FUNDRAISING’S CONTACT INFORMATION:

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or your Personal Data that we hold, would like to cease receiving marketing materials from us, have any complaints, or would like to exercise any of your other rights related to your Personal Data, please contact us:

Addresses:

Orem, Utah

E-mail:             contact@flexfundraising.com

Phone:             425-374-9401

 

Last updated: January 5, 2021