Website Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy and take our responsibilities seriously. You can explore most of our website without giving us any information about yourself. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) provides you with information concerning our practices and procedures as they relate specifically for information we collect from the website and the use of our fundraising solution.
By visiting our website or utilizing our fundraising platform and technology, you are accepting the practices described herein. We may update this Policy from time to time, so please check this Policy periodically for changes.
Collecting your personal information as a website visitor
We do not collect any personal information about you on our website unless you choose to provide it to us voluntarily, including by completing a registration form, donating, or signing up to receive our emails. If you become a registered participant or volunteer, we collect personal information including name, email address, mailing address, phone number and a valid credit card of your choice. All credit card information is securely stored with our third-party payment partner and processor, and not within the Pedal the Cause database. Your information will be used to create an account that will provide you access to future reports related to your event and pay any applicable registration fee and/or cover any minimum fundraising guarantees should you not reach your indicated minimum fundraising at the close of our annual campaign. You will be provided with a secure User ID and password to access your personal profile. Do not share your password with anyone. Our website assigns a personal identification number and sends it to your computer in the form of a small text file, called a “cookie.” The use of this cookie allows you to visit password-restricted portions of our website for which you have security access. This is a temporary cookie and is deleted after you close your browser each time you visit our website.
Collecting your personal information as a registered participant or volunteer
When you register for Pedal the Cause as an individual or a member of a team, we collect personal information including your name, email address, phone number, and physical address. This information will be used to create an account that will provide you access to view and manage your fundraising results. You will be provided with a secure User ID and password. All personal information is available to us. When you pay for your registration fee, guarantee your minimum fundraising amount, or donate, we will collect information including credit card type, card number, card expiry date and billing address. We do not maintain any credit card information within our fundraising platform and all payment processing is done confidentially through the payment partner and processor. Please contact us for any transaction disputes.
Collecting your personal information as a donor
When you donate to an individual or team, we collect personal information including your name, email address, phone number, and physical address. All information is available to Pedal the Cause. We do not maintain any credit card information on our website and all payment processing is done confidentially through our payment partner and processor. Please contact us for any transaction disputes.
Use of personal information
We will not sell, license, transmit, or disclose your personal information outside of Pedal the Cause, unless you expressly authorize us to do so.
Security of your Personal Information
We restrict access to personal information collected about you on our website to our staff. While no website can guarantee security, we maintain a number of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that are designed to protect your personal information collected via our website. We protect our databases with various physical, technical, and procedural measures and we take steps to restrict access to your information by unauthorized persons.
Deletion of Your Personal Information
You have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. We will respond to your request to remove data within 30 days. You may request that your personal information, event specific participation, or fundraising results viewable by the general public to be removed. We may elect to store your data until it is no longer necessary to conduct our annual audit of our nonprofit financials. We reserve the right to anonymize your records removing all personal identifiable information but allowing us to maintain accuracy for total participation and event registration types, total members for a specific team, and aggregate fundraising event totals. In the event we are unable to complete your request, we will let you know that we are unable to do so and why. Depending on the location from where you access the Pedal the Cause site, you may have additional rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of certain data covered by this Privacy Policy and exercise all other rights set forth in Articles 15-22 of the GDPR.
SMS terms and conditions
When you opt-in to the service, we will send you a message to confirm your signup.
By opting into messages, you agree to receive recurring automated marketing and informational text messages from Pedal the Cause for Pedal the Cause. Automated messages may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system to the mobile telephone number you provided when signing up or any other number that you designate.
Message frequency varies, and additional mobile messages may be sent periodically based on your interaction with Pedal the Cause. Pedal the Cause reserves the right to alter the frequency of messages sent at any time to increase or decrease the total number of sent messages. Pedal the Cause also reserves the right to change the short code or phone number where messages are sent.
Message and data rates may apply. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider. Your wireless provider is not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Your consent to receive marketing messages is not a condition of purchase.
Carriers
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Cancellation
You can cancel any time by texting "STOP". After you send the SMS message "STOP", we will send you a message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed and no more messages will be sent. If you would like to receive messages from Pedal the Cause again, just sign up as you did the first time and Pedal the Cause will start sending messages to you again.
Info
Text "HELP" at any time and we will respond with instructions on how to unsubscribe. For support regarding our services, email us at info@pedalthecause.org.
Transfer of Number
You agree that before changing your mobile number or transferring your mobile number to another individual, you will either reply “STOP” from the original number or notify us of your old number at info@pedalthecause.org. The duty to inform us based on the above events is a condition of using this service to receive messages.
Privacy
If you have any questions about your data or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@pedalthecause.org.
Messaging Terms Changes
We reserve the right to change or terminate our messaging program at any time. We also reserve the right to update these Messaging Terms at any time. Such changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued enrollment following such changes shall constitute your acceptance of such changes
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at 9288 Dielman Industrial Drive, St. Louis, MO 63132, 314-787-1990, or at info@pedalthecause.org
The Privacy Policy was last updated and posted on February 14, 2024.