Privacy Policy

United Peace International, Inc. (“UPI”, “we”, “our” or “us”) adopted this policy (the “Privacy Policy”) to reflect our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information. Please carefully read this Privacy Policy before you provide any Personal Information to us.

This Privacy Policy is effective July [∙], 2023 (“Effective Date”).

1.HOW THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

UPI is a 501(c)(3), U.S. non-profit organization headquartered at 2680 N 1st St Suite 250, San Jose, CA 95134 USA. We are committed to promoting peace and education and developing solutions to address the world’s most pressing solutions. Our Privacy Policy applies to the personal information provided to us (“Personal Information”) when you browse this website, making donations, sign up for a newsletter, register for an event, or otherwise provide us with information (“Services”) via the website located at https://www.unitedpeaceinternational.org/ or any other domain names owned or controlled by us (the “Website”). It also applies to Personal Information you may provide us via telephone, e-mail, regular mail, social media, texting or in response to personal communication. But if a particular Service refers or links to a different privacy policy—not this Privacy Policy—then that privacy policy applies.

This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information, including Personal Information, that we may collect from or about you, our practices for using, disclosing, maintaining, and protecting such information, as well as the choices available to you regarding our use of your information.

2. CONTACT US

If you have any questions regarding the Website or our Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

E-mail: info@unitedpeaceinternational.org
Phone number: 1-408-645-5532; or
In writing to: 2680 N 1st St Suite 250, San Jose, CA 95134 USA

For more information about how to exercise your privacy rights, please see Section 10 below.

3.CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The Effective Date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Unless applicable law prevents or a revision is needed to protect your privacy in connection with our Services or the security of the Website, we will notify you via e-mail about any material change that reduces your privacy right in advance so that you have time to review the changes before they are effective. Any prior version of this Privacy Policy will apply until the Effective Date. Your use of our Services after the Effective Date means that you accept the Privacy Policy as revised.

4.PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

To comply with certain data protection laws, we are required to disclose specific information regarding the categories of Personal Information we collect, and your rights with regard to that Personal Information. The following Table 1 identifies the categories of Personal Information we collect, and specific information as required by those laws.

5. SOURCES FROM WHICH WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect Personal Information from variety of sources, which include:

Directly from you, such as when you:
- Make a donation to us,
- Submit your information on our Website,
- Subscribe to our newsletter.
From your browser or device used to access our Website;
Our Service Providers;
Third parties that you direct to share your information with us.

6. HOW WE PROTECT AND RETAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take reasonable measures, including physical, technical and organizational measures, designed to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, unavailability, and destruction. In determining these measures, we take into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. We restrict access to your Personal Information to our employees, Affiliates, and Service Providers who need access to provide our Services to you or perform their job functions. We have procedures to manage personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are required to do so under applicable security breach laws.

Although we take precautions intended to help protect the Personal Information, no system or electronic data transmission is completely secure. Any transmission of your Personal Information is at your own risk and we expect that you will use appropriate security measures to protect your Personal Information.

We may suspend your use of all or part of the Website or our Services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. You understand and agree that we may deliver electronic notifications about breaches of security to the e-mail address that you provide us.

If you believe that your Personal Information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately using one of the mechanisms in the Contact Us Section (Section 2) above.

Our Personal Information Retention Policy

We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

The criteria used to determine our Personal Information retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide Service to you;
Whether we have a legal obligation to retain the Personal Information (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them);
Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (for example, for statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory obligations).

7. PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Generally, we use the Personal Information we collect from or about you to introduce our non-profit activities, provide more meaningful information about our activities, to process your donations, to maintain and improve the Services and for other lawful purposes. More specifically, we use Personal Information to:

Administer the Website, including providing system maintenance and responding to your requests and inquiries.
Perform the Services, including processing your donation to us, to issue and send receipts and thank you letters, and providing our newsletter subscription services to you as requested.
Manage Events, including those that UPI sponsors or co-sponsors, and to prepare and send invitations to such events, and to provide information on the activities, products, and services of corporations that donate to or sponsor UPI.
Notify of Our Activities, including to send UPI’s business plans, activity policies, and other decisions, as well as various activities and research details.
Improve the Services, including identifying and repairing bugs in the Services or developing new features.
Prevent, detect, and fight illegal or unauthorized activities, including addressing suspected or detected unauthorized and illegal activity on or through the Website or our Services, as well as detecting and addressing security incidents.
For legal compliance, such as to enforce or exercise our rights, audit our and Service Providers’ compliance with applicable law.

8. HOW WE USE OR DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Generally, we use or disclose information, including your Personal Information that you provide us to the banking and other financial institutions that assist us in processing the donations you provide us (“Service Providers”) for the purpose of processing the donation, and our Affiliates and Service Providers for the purpose of improving your experience with the Services for lawful purposes.

We do not sell your Personal Information or share your Personal Information for purpose of targeted advertising.

With our Affiliates and Services Providers

Our Affiliates and Service Providers help us to operate and improve the Services. Our Affiliates and Service Providers support technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, analytics, user care, and securing our data and systems, and addressing cybersecurity threats.

For corporate transactions

We may transfer your Personal Information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy, or other change of ownership or control.

When required by law

Applicable law may require us, our Affiliates, and our Service Providers to disclose your Personal Information when we believe necessary to (i) comply with legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government investigation or other legal requirement, (ii) help prevent or detect crime, including cybersecurity attacks, and (iii) respond to lawful requests from law enforcement and government regulators.

To enforce legal rights

We also share information: (i) if we believe that disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit, (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and you legal rights or the legal rights of other interested parties, (iii) to enforce our agreements with you, and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

With your consent or at your request

We may ask for your consent to disclose your Personal Information with other third parties as may be necessary to provide you our Services or as may be requested by you. When we do, we will make clear why we need to disclose your Personal Information.

9. OUR USE OF COOKIES

We use cookies and other data tracking technology to collect and use Personal Information about you. We also may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you and/or your device(s) when you use our Services.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer’s hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the lifetime of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as User settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Websites and certain Services.

Cookies that we set on the Websites are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by any other party are called third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality on or through the Websites, such as analytics, marketing automation and customer support. The parties that set third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the Websites and also when it visits certain other websites.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. You also can opt-out of certain cookies using the following link: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some features of the Websites may not work properly without cookies. To learn more about cookies generally, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.

Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a User does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s User. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including us, do not respond to DNT signals.

Why do we use cookies and other tracking technology?

Some cookies are required for the Websites to operate. Other cookies enable us to track your interests, to enhance the experience of the Websites and our Services.

The types of cookies used on the Website and why they are used are:

“Strictly necessary” cookies are required to allow us to deliver the Website to you.
“Performance” or “Analytics” cookies help us to collect information about how you interact with the Website and help us analyze and improve the Website. Performance or analytics cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser until you delete them.

10. EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

If you would like to exercise one or more of your privacy rights, please contact us using one of the mechanisms in the Contact Us Section (Section 2) above. If you choose to exercise your privacy rights under this Privacy Policy using either the Toll-Free Number or E-Mail mechanism, please note the following:

Call us at 1-408-645-5532. Please tell us in which U.S. state you are a president and that you would like to exercise your privacy rights; or
Send an e-mail to info@unitedpeaceinternational.org. Please include “Privacy Rights” in the subject line.

We are committed to providing you control of your Personal Information and maintain to the fullest extent of your privacy rights under applicable law. If you exercise any of your privacy rights explained in this Privacy Policy, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights.

11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We respect the privacy of your child and we want to share with you our policies regarding children under the age of sixteen (16). We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of sixteen (16).

If we learn that a child under the age of sixteen (16) has improperly provided us with information, we will notify the child’s parent or legal guardian and thereafter delete the child’s personal information from our records.

12. CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

This section provides information about your privacy rights about the Personal Information we collect from you as a California resident when you access the Website or use the Services, and the choices you can make regarding your rights.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, in addition to the rights outlined above, you may be entitled to the privacy rights described below under the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). California residents under the CPRA have the right to:

Request the—
- Categories of Personal Information collected;
- Categories of sources from which Personal Information is collected;
- Business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing (for targeted advertising) Personal Information;
- Categories of third parties to whom Personal Information is disclosed;
- Categories of Personal Information sold or shared (for targeted advertising), if any;
- Categories of third parties to whom Personal Information was sold or shared (for targeted advertising);
- Categories of Personal Information disclosed for a business purpose;
- Categories of persons to whom Personal Information was disclosed for a business purpose.
Opt-out to the sale or sharing (for targeted advertising) of Personal Information.
Equal services (i.e., no retaliation or discrimination practices for exercising your CPRA rights).
Limit the use of Sensitive Personal Information to that necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer.

To be clear, we do not sell or share your Personal Information for targeted advertising or otherwise. For more information, please review Sections 4, 7, and 8.

How to Submit your Request to Exercise Your CPRA Rights

If you are California resident and would like to exercise one or more of your CPRA rights, please contact us using one of the mechanisms in the Contact Us Section (Section 2) above.

If you choose to exercise your CPRA rights under this Privacy Policy using either the Toll-Free Number or E-Mail mechanism, please note the following:

Call us at 1-408-645-5532. Please tell us in which U.S. state you are a president and that you would like to exercise your privacy rights; or
Send an e-mail to info@unitedpeaceinternational.org. Please include “California Privacy Rights” in the subject line.

13. NON-U.S. CONSUMERS

Any individual located in or resident of a member of the European Union and Switzerland who wishes to inquire or submit a complaint regarding their Personal Information collected and maintained by us should first contact our Privacy Officer at info@unitedpeaceinternational.org with “GDPR Privacy Rights Inquiry/Complaint” in the subject line.

If you do not receive timely acknowledge of your complaint regarding your privacy rights under the GDPR< or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit http://www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and to file a complaint. This service is provided free of charge to you. If your Privacy Shield complaint cannot be resolved through the above channels, under certain conditions, you may invoke binding arbitration for some residual claims not resolved by other redress mechanisms.