Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective: 04/19/2024

We value your privacy. We don’t rent or share your information with anyone, ever, without your specific permission. We commit to uphold transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection of your personal information.

This privacy policy describes how Least Of These (LOT) collects and uses the personal information you provide on our website: lothope.org. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Visitors at lothope.org can browse our website without providing any personal information.

If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us via email at privacypolicy@lothope.org. 

1. What information of yours does LOT collect?

We may collect the following personal information from you.

• Contact information, such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number.
• Billing information, such as credit card number, and billing address.

Analytics / Log Files

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically collected data to personal information.

2. What does LOT do with the information that is collected and is it shared?

We may use this information to:

• Send you a newsletter
• Send you marketing communications
• Respond to your questions and concerns
• Fulfill your order 
• Send you an order confirmation
• Send you requested product or service information
• For other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information, or pursuant to your consent.

Choice/Opt-Out

You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, or you can contact us to do so at unsubscribe@lothop.org. 

Personal Information Sharing

We may share your personal information with third parties in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. We may also disclose your personal information,

• as required by law such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process
• when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request,
• to any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

3. What are “cookies” and how does LOT use them?

As with most Internet sites, our web servers utilize “cookies” to track a user’s activity within our site as well as record the IP address of each visitor to this site. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are also used to collect general usage and volume statistical information that does not include personal information.

Cookies can be removed from your hard drive. Also, depending on what type of web browser and what browser version you are using, you may be able to change the properties on your cookie file so that cookies are not used or saved. Please check with your browser provider for more information on removing cookies.

This Website Uses Google AdWords This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example signing up to our newsletter or making a donation. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network across the Internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the LOT website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt-out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Page.

4. How does linking to other sites affect my privacy protections?

Our Site includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Least Of These.

5. What type of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us at privacypolicy@lothope.org. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

Transaction Security

The personal information collected when you make a contribution or purchase items by credit card is kept for the purposes of tracking your order and to provide a receipt of the transaction. This information is stored on an encrypted, secure server managed by a third-party commercial credit card processing institution.

6. LOT reserves the right to change or amend this policy.

LOT reserves the right to change, amend, or restate this policy. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

7. Your affirmative consent to LOT’s collection and use of personally identifiable information.

By using LOT’s website, you are giving us your express consent to use all the information that we collect about you in the manner described in this policy. This includes the release of such information to third parties as described above.

8. Questions or Concerns?

If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us at privacypolicy@lothope.org