Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes DonorSearch policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information under this Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy was last updated on November 9, 2023.

A downloadable and printable version of these Terms and Conditions can be found here.

Interpretation

The words in which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

“You” refers to the individual accessing or using the Service, or the Company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

“Company” Company referred to as either “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Tedesco and Affiliates, LLC DBA DonorSearch, 11245 Dovedale Court, Marriottsville, MD. 21104.

“Application” Application means the website tool provided by the Company accessed by You on any web browser www.donorlead.net, named ProspectView.

“Affiliate” Affiliate means an entity controlled by or under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors other managing authority.

“Account” Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

“Website” Website refers to DonorSearch, accessible from www.donorsearch.net.

“Service” Service refers to the Application or the Website, or both.

“Country” Country refers to Maryland, United States.

“State” State refers to Maryland.

“Service Provider” Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. In addition, it refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, provide the Service on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Service, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

“Third-party Social Media Service” Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to use the Service.

“Personal Data” Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. For the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.

“Cookies” Cookies are small files placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that Website among its many uses.

“Device” Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

“Usage Data” Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

“Do Not Track (DNT)” Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept promoted by U.S. regulatory authorities, particularly the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.

“Business” Business for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.

“Consumer” Consumer for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), a consumer means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA, which is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.

“Sale” Sale for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s Personal Information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, we may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Email address
• Usage Data
• I.P. address

Our database consists of information on United States-based potential donors. Personally, identifiable information about potential donors from public data sources includes:

• First name and last name
• Date of birth
• Past and present real estate information
• Past financial donation history

Usage Data

Usage Data has collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., I.P. address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique I.D., the I.P. address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Information Collected while Using the Application

We use the information collected to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company’s servers and a Service Provider’s server or stored on Your device.

You can enable or disable access to this information at any time through Your Device settings. You can also enable or disable location services when You use Our Service at any time, through Your Device settings.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and improve and analyze Our Service.

You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser.

We use both sessions and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: DonorSearch

Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: DonorSearch

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Funcionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: DonorSearch

Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third Parties

Purpose: These Cookies are used to track traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these cookies to to enhance site navigation, paid advertisements, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. 

Once on Our Website, you are given the option to Accept or Decline the use of cookies. For those users who Decline, a single cookie will be used in your browser for the sole purpose of remembering your preference not to be tracked. This task must be repeated when using a different browser.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our service

Including monitoring the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account

To manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

For the performance of a contract

The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you purchased or any other agreement with Us through the Service.

To contact you

To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide you

News, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer are like those you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage your requests

To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

With service providers

We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service, to contact You, to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service or for payment processing.

For business transfers

We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

With affiliates

We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or are under common control with Us.

With business partners

We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.

With other users

When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. For example, if You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures, and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

We do not sell any personal data collected when visiting our Website for any reason.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent required to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we must retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve our Service’s functionality. We are legally obligated to retain this data for more extended periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and under this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company.
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
• Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
• Protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us. We utilize encryption on all data sent and received to our Website or application. Please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. For example, Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize its advertising network ads.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may interest you. You may opt-out of receiving any or all of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

HubSpot

For more information on the privacy practices of HubSpot, please visit their Privacy policy:

Constant Contact

Constant Contact is an email marketing sending service provided by Constant Contact, Inc.

For more information on the privacy practices of Constant Contact, please visit their Privacy policy: https://www.constantcontact.com/forward/privacy-center.

Behavioral Remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service. Our third-party vendors and we use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on Your past visits to our Service.

Twitter

Twitter Inc provides a Twitter remarketing service.

You can opt-out of Twitter’s interest-based ads by following their instructions:

You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Twitter by visiting their Privacy Policy page:

Facebook

Facebook Inc provides Facebook remarketing service.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page:

To opt-out of Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook:

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance.

You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Payments

We may provide paid products and services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).

We will not store Your payment card details, except the last four numbers used for transaction tracking. Instead, that information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors, whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.

In addition, these payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Authorize Net

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/.

This section is to supplement the DonorSearch Privacy Policy with information specific to CCPA.

Your rights under the CCPA

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law, if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

The right to notice

You must be appropriately notified of which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.

The right to access / the right to request

The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes.

You have the right to say no to the sale of personal data

You also have the right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.

The right to know about your personal data

You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following:

• The categories of Personal Data collected.
• The sources from which the Personal Data was collected.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data.
• Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data.
• The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You.

The right to delete personal data

You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data collected in the past 12 months.

The right not to be discriminated against

You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer’s rights, including by:

• Denying goods or services to You
• Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
• Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You
• Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Any request for a copy of or to change personal data must be verifiable. No information will be released or changed until the requestor is verified to be the owner of the data in question.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

To exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can email or call us or visit our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.

The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Do not sell my personal information

Suppose you wish to opt-out of the sale of and use your personal information for business purposes or interest-based advertising purposes. These potential sales are defined under CCPA law. In that case, you may do so by following the instructions below.

Please note that any opt-out is specific to the browser You use in the case of website tracking and cookies. Therefore, you may need to opt-out of every browser that you use.

Website

You can opt-out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:

From Our “Cookie Consent” notice banner or from Our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link.

The opt-out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser. You used to opt-out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

Mobile Devices

Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt-out of the use of information about the apps you use to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

“Opt-out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt-out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices.

You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third-party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, you can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked.

In addition, you can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. However, if You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please Contact Us.

Suppose We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent. In that case, we take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

We also may limit how We collect, use, and store some of the users’ information between 13 and 18 years old.

In some cases, this means We will be unable to provide certain service functionality to these users.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, we may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Our Service may contain links to other websites that we do not operate. If You click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site.

Therefore, we strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for any third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies, or practices.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service before the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date listed in this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

By phone number: 410.670.7880

By email: info@donorsearch.net