Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At Wake Up we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled securely and in accordance with applicable data protection laws applicable United States privacy laws including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and related state legislation governing data protection and consumer privacy.

This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, disclose and safeguard your personal data through our website www.wake-up.org and associated digital services.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of personal data:

• Contact information: such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number, when you subscribe to our articles, request information, attend an event, or otherwise contact us.
• Usage information (derivative data): such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, pages viewed (via cookies or analytics).
• Subscription and transactional data: records of your subscriptions, event signups, donations (if applicable) and payment method data (via our payment processor) where relevant.
• Social or third-party network data: if you link to or log-in through a social network, we may receive some public profile information.
• Communications data: any messages or feedback you send to us.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:

• To send you articles, updates and other communications about our work, events, resources and services (where you have opted-in).
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts or commitments with you (for example event registration, subscriptions, donations).
• To improve and personalise our website, services, communications and user
  experience.
• To manage our site, monitor site usage, site security and detect or prevent fraud or other unlawful activity.
• To respond to enquiries and provide support.
• To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Where we collect and process your personal data, we rely on one or more of the
following legal bases:

• Your consent – for example when you sign-up to receive our articles.
• Our legitimate interests – for example improving our website and services, managing our membership or community, analysing data to make our work more efficient, provided this does not override your rights and freedoms.
• Legal obligation – where we are required to keep or disclose your data to comply with statutory obligations.

5. Sharing Your Information

We will not sell, rent or lease your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes.

We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as email distribution providers, analytics and hosting providers, payment processors (where we handle donations or purchases). These providers are contractually obliged to keep your personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes we specify.

We may also share your information if we are required by law to do so, to enforce our rights, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organisation, our users or others.

If our organisation is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred to the new entity, subject to this Privacy Policy.

6. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy (or as required by law). If you unsubscribe, ask us to delete your data or otherwise withdraw consent, we will act promptly to honour your request except where we are required to retain the data (for example for legal or accounting purposes).

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to help us understand how you use the site, to improve your experience and to display relevant content. You will be offered the option to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

You can control browser settings to block or delete cookies; please note that this may affect some website functionality.

8. Your Rights

Under US data protection law, you have the following rights:

• To request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• To request deletion of your personal data (the “right to be forgotten”) where applicable.
• To request restriction of processing of your personal data.
• To object to processing based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
• To withdraw your consent at any time (where the processing is based on
  consent).
• To request portability of your personal data (in certain circumstances).
  If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us (see Section 11).

If you are dissatisfied with our response, United States residents, privacy complaints may be lodged with one or more of the following authorities, depending on the issue:

• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – the main federal body that enforces
  consumer privacy and data protection laws.
• State Attorneys General Offices – each state (e.g., California, Virginia,
  Colorado, etc.) has an Attorney General’s office where residents can report
  breaches of privacy laws such as the CCPA or other consumer data laws.

9. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction. However, no method of data transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Cross-border Transfers

If we transfer your personal data outside the US, we will ensure that appropriate
safeguards are in place (for example standard contractual clauses, adequacy
decisions) so that your data is protected to the standards required under US law.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to external websites operated by other parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to our website. Once you leave our site through a link, you should review the privacy policy of the other website. We are not responsible for the practices of third-party sites.

12. Children

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under 16 (or other age threshold applicable under local law) without verifiable parental consent. If you believe we have collected data from a child under this age without consent, please contact us and we will take appropriate action.

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on our website and update the “Last updated” date at the top. Your continued use of the site following any changes means you accept the revised policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or believe your data has been handled improperly, please contact us at:

Wake-Up
P.O. Box 273, Bellbrook, OH
45305
USA
Email: info@wake-up.org
Telephone: 800-475-0876