Privacy Notice

Introduction

Who we are. American Jewish Committee (“we” or “us”), the leading global Jewish advocacy organization.
What the AJC® Site does. This site (“the AJC® Site”) provides information about AJC’s mission and activities and offers opportunities to sign up for various national, regional and local events and programs (“AJC Events”) and to donate to AJC. Our provision of this information and other information on the AJC Site will be referred to as “the Services.”
What this Privacy Notice does. This Privacy Notice describes how we collect and use your personally identifying information through the AJC Site.
Personally Identifying Information. “Personally Identifying Information” (or, “PII”) is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to you as an identifiable individual. Personally Identifying Information, may include, but is not limited to, your first and last name, Social Security number, and home address. Under some privacy laws, Personally Identifying Information may include online and device identifiers such as your IP address, usage data such as your browsing history (where you came from to get to the AJC Site), protected classifications such as email address, your gender or sexual orientation, and information about your personal preferences that may be collected through cookies and other tracking devices.
Questions. For questions about this Privacy Notice and how your PII may be collected, stored, used, and shared, please contact us by email at [email protected].
Changes to this Privacy Notice. We may make changes to this Privacy Notice at any time. If and when we do, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Notice here on the AJC Site. You are responsible for periodically visiting the AJC Site and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes. Any changes that are made to this Privacy Notice will apply to both any PII that we hold prior to the effective date of the amended Privacy Notice and any PII that we collect on or after such effective date. Your continued use of the AJC Site after this Privacy Notice has been amended shall be deemed to be your continued acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Privacy Notice, as amended.

COLLECTION OF PII

Information collected when you use the AJC Site

When you sign up to donate to AJC (other than to our ACCESS program), we ask you for first name, middle initial, last name, title, company name, address, phone number, email address, credit card information, and billing name and address.
When you sign up to donate to our ACCESS program, we ask you for your first and last names, address, email address, phone number, and company name, credit card information, and billing name and address.
When you sign up to receive email updates, we ask you for your full name, email address, phone number, and street address.
When you register for an AJC Event, you will be taken to the site of our conference registration provider where we ask you for your first name, last name, and email address, and, if applicable, company name and title, home address, work phone, home phone, cell phone, credit card information and/or billing name and address.
When you sign a petition or complete a form that sends an email message to an advocacy recipient, you may provide your name, email address, street address and/or other PII.

Other PII you choose to give us.

If you email us, we will have your email address and whatever other PII you include in the email.
If you text us, we will have your phone number and whatever other PII you include in the text message.

Information collected automatically

What we collect. When you use the AJC Site, we automatically collect certain information that includes PII. This information may include:
- Online identifiers: Geo location/tracking details, mobile device type and unique mobile device identification numbers, mobile device event information (such as crashes, system activity and hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL), browser fingerprint, operating system, browser name and version, and/or personal IP addresses.
- Usage Data: Authentication data, security questions, click-stream data, public social networking posts, the web pages or sites that you visited just before or just after coming to the AJC Site, searches on the AJC Site, the pages or other content that you view or interact with on the AJC Site, and, each time you visit the AJC Site, the date and time of that visit, as well as information regarding your interaction with email messages that we send you, such as whether you open, click on, or forward a message, data on your interaction with our advertising and your interactions with our partners (conversion data).
- Information from Social Networks. When you interact with the AJC Site through a social media platform (a “Social Network”), that Social Network may collect your PII and other information about you even when you are not directly interacting with that Social Network through the cookies and other digital tracking mechanisms that it places on your devices. You should review the privacy notice and information-sharing choices of any Social Network that is connected to the AJC Site.

How we collect it
- Cookies. A cookie is a small data file that a website transfers to a user's hard drive when a user visits the AJC Site. A cookie file can contain information such as a unique ID that the AJC Site uses to track the pages visited and is a standard method of registering website user preferences. These preferences are stored in a file on your computer's hard disk drive. The AJC Site uses cookies for various purposes. Some cookies are placed by us and some may be placed by third parties.
- Cookies placed by us. These cookies may be "session cookies" which are temporary cookies that are only stored on your computer or mobile device while you are visiting the AJC Site, or "persistent cookies" which are cookies that are stored on your computer or mobile device for a period of time after you leave the AJC Site.
  - Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are essential to enable you to log in to and move around the AJC Site and to use its features. We use Google® Analytics cookies for this purpose.
  - Performance cookies: These cookies collect anonymized information about how you and other visitors use the AJC Site, for instance which pages are viewed most often, and whether you or other visitors receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies you. We use this information to improve how the AJC Site works.
  - Functionality cookies: These are cookies that allow the AJC Site to remember choices you make (such as your username) and to provide content and features tailored to your interests. For example, if you have searched for AJC Events related to antisemitism, the next time you are on the AJC Site, you may see notice about other AJC Events on that subject.
  - Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used in aggregate form to help us understand how the AJC Site is being used and the effectiveness of any marketing campaigns we may undertake, and to help us customize the AJC Site for you.
- Cookies placed by third parties

How you can control automatic collection of information on the AJC Site

Browser cookie settings and consequences. You can set your browser to accept all cookies, to reject cookies, or to notify you whenever a cookie is offered so that you can decide each time whether to accept it. Rejecting a cookie, however, may preclude you from using, or may negatively affect the display or function of, the AJC Site or certain areas or features of the AJC Site. To learn more about cookies, including how to enable cookies, change your browser settings and find and delete cookies on your hard drive, please refer to your web browser's help menus or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Links to block and delete cookies. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies on these browsers at these links:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop (Firefox)
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer)
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera)
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-webAJC Site-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy (Edge)

Opting out of Google Analytics. If you do not want your data collected with Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) to prohibit sending information to Google Analytics. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page and install the add-on for your browser. For more details on installing and uninstalling the add-on, please see the relevant help resources for your specific browser. Updates to your browser or operating system may affect the functionality of the opt-out add-on. You can learn about managing add-ons for Chrome here.
Opting out of advertising. To opt out from a list of vendors other than Google who are members of the Network Advertising Initiatives, the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising and/or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, go to http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. After you opt out, you will still receive other types of online advertising from participating companies and any type of advertising from non-participating companies, and the web AJC Sites you visit may still collect information for other purposes. If you change your computer, change your browser, or delete your cookies, you will need to renew your opt-out.
Web beacons: We may also use “web beacons” (also known as “clear GIFs” or “pixel tags”) or similar technologies, on the AJC Site and in our communications with you.

What they are. A web beacon is typically a one-pixel, transparent image (although it can be a visible image as well), that is located on a web page or in an email or other type of message and that is retrieved from a remote site to enable the verification of an individual's viewing or receipt of a web page or message.
What they do. A web beacon would help us to understand whether you came to the AJC Site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party site, measure the success of an email marketing campaign, personalize your experience, and/or improve the AJC Site’s performance generally. They might also enable us to relate your viewing or receipt of a web page or message to other information about you, including your PII.
Opting out of web beacons: You cannot decline or disable web beacons. But in many instances, web beacons depend on cookies to function properly, so if you reject cookies, our web beacons may not work.

USE (PROCESSING) OF PII

If you give a gift online:
- Your PII will be uploaded into our donor databases, which we maintain at AJC’s national office and which is hosted by our outside database service provider.
- If you provide your email address in connection with your gift, your email address will be added to our email marketing databases. Through our outside email marketing database service provider, AJC’s national office and/or your AJC regional office may use your email address to send you a variety of email communications such as (i) notices about AJC Events, (ii) newsletters from AJC about political and other developments, (iii) solicitations to support an AJC position on an issue, and (iv) solicitations to donate money to AJC.
- Your credit card will be processed through our third-party credit-card processor.
- If you consent, we may include your name and mailing address in lists that we exchange with other select non-profit organizations.
If you sign up to receive information about ACCESS:

We will send you information about ACCESS membership and programs.
Through our outside email marketing database service provider, AJC’s national office and/or your AJC regional office may use your email address to send you a variety of email communications such as (i) notices about AJC Events, (ii) newsletters from AJC about political and other developments, (iii) solicitations to support an AJC position on an issue, and (iv) solicitations to donate money to AJC.

If you register for an AJC Event:

Our conference registration provider stores the information you provide on the registration form and makes it available to us. We use it to confirm your registration and to send you emails directly and/or through that provider about the AJC Event for which you registered. Every email will offer you the chance to opt out from future emails related to that AJC Event and all other AJC Events.
In addition, our outside database email marketing service provider will store your name, mailing address, email address and phone number in their database.
If you have not opted out from future emails related to the AJC Event for which you have registered, AJC’s national office and/or your AJC regional office, through our outside email marketing database service provider, may use your email address to send you a variety of email communications such as (i) notices about AJC Events, (ii) newsletters from AJC about political and other developments, (iii) solicitations to support an AJC position on an issue, and (iv) solicitations to donate money to AJC.

If you sign a petition:

Your name and other PII that you provide on the petition will be added to our database of people who sign petitions.
In addition, our outside database email marketing service provider will store your name, mailing address, email address and phone number in their database.

If you ask to receive email updates that are not covered above:

Through our outside email marketing database service provider, AJC’s national office and/or your AJC regional office may use your email address to send you a variety of email communications such as (i) notices about AJC Events, (ii) newsletters from AJC about political and other developments, (iii) solicitations to support an AJC position on an issue, and (iv) solicitations to donate money to AJC.

Other kinds of processing

Updates. We will use your email address to send you notices about updates to the AJC Site and our Terms of Use and this Privacy Notice.
Responses. We will use your email address to respond and/or send you whatever information you have requested.
Recordkeeping. We may process your PII for the purposes of creating and maintaining databases related to the AJC Site and back-up copies of those databases.
Security. We may process your PII for the purpose of keeping the AJC Site secure and preventing fraud and other criminal activity, including, without limitation, by using Tracers to trace anyone who sends a threatening message through our “Contact Us” box.

DISCLOSURE OF PII TO THIRD PARTIES

Disclosure to third parties
- Affiliates. We may share your PII and other information with a parent company, subsidiary, joint venture, or other company under common control with us.

Disclosure for legal reasons

Safety. We may disclose your PII to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, or us; to investigate, prevent, or otherwise address suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation; to detect, prevent or otherwise address security or technical issues; or as we reasonably believe is required by law, regulation, or legal process, including, without limitation, to identify and locate anyone who sends communications to us that reasonably may be considered threatening.
Change of control. If we engage in a merger, acquisition, disposition, change of control, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding, or otherwise transfer the operations of the AJC Site that relates to your PII, we will transfer your PII to the successor entity.

Disclosure under the CCPA. The AJC Site is not currently subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). If and when the AJC Site does become subject to the CCPA, we will revise the AJC Site and this Privacy Notice to meet the CCPA’s requirements.

“Do Not Track” Signals

With some browsers, it is possible for a user to activate a “Do Not Track” signal, to indicate that the user does not want to be tracked across the websites that the user visits.
The AJC Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals. So, if you have activated a Do Not Track signal in your own browser, the AJC Site will not block tracking of your activity on the AJC Site by Google, its affiliates, and anyone else.

Storage of information

We store PII and other information that we collect through the Services on our own servers and/or on servers operated by third parties. Currently, these third-party servers are located in the United States. If, in the future, we begin to use servers that are located in other countries or in other jurisdictions, we will update this Privacy Notice.
You consent to have your PII and other information that may be collected when you use the AJC Site collected, stored and processed on servers in the United States.

Retention and deletion of PII

We will keep your PII as long as we continue to use it.
We will dispose of your PII by deleting it from the AJC Site database.

Transfer of information

We may transfer information that we collect about you, including PII, to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world to process your PII there for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice and permit our Service Providers to do so.
You acknowledge that any PII that you submit to or through the AJC Site may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of your PII by others.

Security

AJC is committed to protecting the security of your PII. To prevent unauthorized access and protect against the incorrect use of PII, AJC strives to maintain physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards. These standards are supported by security monitoring tools, documented security policies, and periodic security audits by independent experts. The AJC Site security measures include 24-hour monitoring of AJC Site activities by our hosting service provider, SSL encryption (where allowable by law), and Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified compliance by our payment Service Providers. On the AJC premises, data is stored in password-controlled servers in rooms with highly restricted physical access. Personnel are educated about the importance of safeguarding your PII and sign a statement acknowledging they will maintain the confidentiality of your PII before being granted access to it.
Nevertheless, we cannot (i) ensure or warrant the security of any PII that you transmit when you use the AJC Site or (ii) guarantee that information stored on or transmitted through the AJC Site will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. If any PII under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation, and where appropriate, we will notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.
The AJC Site may contain links or references to other sites. Please be aware that we do not control such other sites and that, in any case, this Privacy Notice does not apply to those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy notice of every site you visit.

Children

We do not knowingly collect PII from anyone under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with PII, we will take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
If you are a parent and you become aware that your child has provided us with PII without your consent, please contact us at [email protected] and we will take steps to remove such information and close the child’s account.

Your rights with respect to your PII. You can change any of your PII that you have provided to us, or ask us questions about our privacy practices, by emailing us at [email protected].

Date posted/updated. This Privacy Notice was first posted on June 30, 2023. Previous versions were posted on May 17, 2016 and July 15, 2021.