Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and recognize that we must maintain and use your information responsibly.

ThirdSectorCap.org is a nonprofit website run by Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc. (“Third Sector”, “we”, “us”, “our”). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your personal information on our websites (Site), including the Third Sector website (“thirdsectorcap.org”), (and forms owned by us). By submitting your personal information on our websites, you agree to the terms in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use our website.

Overview

• We collect information from you when you visit and take actions on our website. We use this information to provide the services you’ve requested.
• We use cookies (such as those stored by Google Analytics) to provide a better experience and improve our website.
• We will not disclose or sell your personal information to any third party, except as provided in this privacy policy.
• Protecting your personal information is extremely important to us and we take all reasonable measures to do so.

You can browse ThirdSectorCap.org without submitting your personal information to us. However, there are a number of circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your personal information.

Here are the most common ways in which we collect your personal information: 

• When you sign up to receive e-mail newsletters from us;
• When you download publications and articles from us;
• When you register for and participate in our programs, activities, initiatives, and events;
• When you request information or assistance;
• In conjunction with your employment inquiries or applications;
• When you participate with social media accounts involving Third Sector properties;
• When you participate in communities and other interactive services;
• In conjunction with any verification of your account information;
• In conjunction with investigations into any activity that may violate the law or the website’s terms and conditions;
• When you communicate with us through the website; and
• In conjunction with any other place on the website where you knowingly volunteer personal information.

The personal information we collect:

Visiting our Site

• We automatically collect and store data about your visit to thirdsectorcap.org:
  • Domain from which you access the Internet
  • Operating system on your computer and information about the browser you used when visiting the Site
  • Date and time of your visit
  • Pages you visited
  • Address of the website that connects you to the Site (such as google.com or bing.com)
• None of the information we collect about you when you visit our Site is personally identifiable.
• We use this information to understand how our Site is used, to improve the website, and to monitor usage for security purposes.
• We will not collect personal information from you without your knowledge and consent, except in a few limited circumstances as described in this policy.

Signing up to our mailing list

• We use Constant Contact to manage our mailing list.
• When you sign up to our mailing list using our sign-up form, your personal data will be transferred to Constant Contact and processed by Constant Contact.
• The personal data we collect when you sign up to our mailing list includes:
  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Domain from which you access the Internet
  • IP address
  • Operating system on your computer and information about the browser you used when visiting the Site
  • Date and time when you submit the form
  • Address of the page on our website, or the third-party website that connected you to sign-up form
• We use the collected email addresses of our mailing list subscribers to send emails with marketing messages, news related to our work, information about career opportunities, and resources.
• We use the personal data we collect to understand how people sign up to our mailing list and to improve the experience of signing up to our mailing list.
• We will not email you unless you consent to email communication on the Site.
• Every automated email will include a link to manage your preferences or unsubscribe. You can also unsubscribe from our email list here

Submitting Forms on our Sites

• We use a combination of self-hosted and third-party services to handle form submissions on our Site, including WordPress, Gravity Forms, and Constant Contact.
• When you submit a form on our Site, your personal information and any other information you submit is stored securely on WordPress and by our third-party service providers.
• After you submit a form, your information is shared with relevant staff members based on the information you submit.
• The personal data we collect when you submit a form includes:
  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your contact reason
  • Your message
  • IP address
  • Date and time when you submit the form
• We will use the information you submit to respond to your inquiry or provide you with access to requested resources or services.

Applying for a Job with Third Sector

• If you decide that you wish to apply for a job with us, you may submit your contact information, demographic information, and your resume online. We will also collect the information you choose to provide in your application and on your resume, such as your education and employment experience. We use this information to process your job application.
• Applicant records will be securely preserved for the duration of employment for successful candidates and a period of up to three years from the date of submission for unsuccessful candidates unless requested otherwise or mandated by law.

Donating to Third Sector from our Site

• When you make donations to Third Sector through our Site, your personal information is transferred to, and processed by, DonorBox.
• DonorBox processes donation transactions using Stripe and PayPal as payment processors. The credit card or bank account information you supply is transmitted securely to the relevant payment processors.
• The personal data we collect when you make an online donation includes:
  • Your name
  • Your address
  • Your email address
  • Domain from which you access the Internet
  • IP address
  • Operating system on your computer and information about the browser you used when visiting the Site
  • Date and time when you submit the form
  • Address of the page on our website, or the third-party website that connected you to sign-up form
• If you check the ‘Subscribe to our mailing list’ checkbox, we will add you to our Constant Contact mailing list. Read more about how we manage our mailing list in the ‘Signing up to our mailing list’ section above.

Google Analytics

• We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site and to gather aggregate performance metrics.
• Google Analytics does not collect your full IP address.
• We don’t collect any personally identifiable information using Google Analytics, and we do not combine the information collected through Google Analytics with any personally identifiable information.
• Google Analytics places a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user. This cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Third-party service providers

We use third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage the content on our Site, and analyze how users navigate and use the Site.

Third-party service providers we use include:

• Google Tag Manager,
• Google Analytics,
• Google Ads,
• LinkedIn,
• Eventbrite,
• Donorbox,
• Salesforce,
• Constant Contact

We Are Committed to Protecting Your Personal Information

We do not sell or rent personal information to others, unless we are required to do so to conform to an applicable law or to protect the safety of Third Sector, our affiliates, the users of our website, or the public. We use your information only for the limited purpose of sending you updates and useful information about our services, programs, resources for the field, enhancing the site operation, for statistical purposes, and for overall systems administration.

Cookies

Like many websites, we use “cookies,” which are small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We use cookies to track use of our Website and online services. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make it easier and/or relevant for your use. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies.

Like some websites, we may also use web beacons or flash cookies. A web beacon or flash cookie (also known as an “action tag” “tracer tag,” or “single-pixel GIF”) is an invisible graphic on a web page or e-mail newsletter that is programmed to collect non-personally identifiable information about your use of a given website or newsletter, e.g., whether you opened the e-mail. Like cookies, web beacons allow Third Sector and its technology providers to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis and provide personalized services to you. We do not share or provide personally identifiable information we may collect through such web beacons, such as names or e-mail addresses, without your permission.

Controls For Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

Children’s Personal Information

While our website may be viewed by children, our site is not specifically dedicated to children, and we do not actively solicit information from children. Children under the age of 13 are required to obtain permission from a parent or guardian prior to providing any personal information.

General Data Protection Regulation

The Website is published in the United States and is subject to laws of the United States. If you are located in a country outside the United States and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States.

Questions and comments should be directed to Tyler Lewis, Managing Director of Communications, at tlewis@thirdsectorcap.org.

Third Sector
6 Liberty Square #2319
Boston, MA 02109
Phone: (617) 690- 8096
E-mail: tlewis@thirdsectorcap.org

To unsubscribe from e-mail updates from Third Sector or to delete your contact record, email communications@thirdsectorcap.org

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us to keep your personal information for longer than twelve (12) months past the termination of the user's account.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Third Sector reserves the right to amend the Terms of Use at any time, without any reason, without notice to you. Any changes will be published here, and you should check this website to access our most current Terms of Use. We will publish a “last updated” date at the bottom of this page. 

If you have questions or comments about this policy, or  to request access to, modification of, or deletion of the personal information we collect from you,  you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO), Tyler Lewis, Managing Director of Communications, at tlewis@thirdsectorcap.org. or contact us by post at: Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc. 6 Liberty Square #2319 Boston, MA 02109.

Last updated: October 23, 2023