Outdoor Alliance Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2/22/2024

Welcome to the Outdoor Alliance. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is here to help you understand how we collect, use, share, and process your Personal Data (as defined below) when using this website www.outdooralliance.org (“Website”). We also explain your choices and rights with respect to how we process that Personal Data. Please read this policy carefully.

Who We Are

This is the Privacy Policy of the Outdoor Alliance (“us”, “we”, and “our”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located at 1602 L St. NW Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036.

Collection of Personal Data

Personal data includes any information that identifies you as an individual, including your name, postal address, email address and telephone number. The personal data we collect on our Website is voluntarily submitted by you. Information you give us includes:

  • the personal data you provide when you fill out a petition or action on our Website, including your‎ name, postal address, email address, and telephone number;

  • the personal data you provide when you correspond with us by phone, email or otherwise.

Using Your Personal Data

Information we collect may be used as follows:

  • to operate, maintain, and improve our products and services;

  • to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;

  • to send information including emails and action alerts;

  • to link or combine user information with other personal data;

  • Petitions and Actions. For petitions and actions, you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information. For example, we may provide petitions, with your comments, to the President and members of Congress, other targets, or to the press. We will not share your email or address publicly, but we may transmit this information to the President and members of Congress as part of a petition. This is a standard practice used when filling out or submitting petitions. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, and state available to the press and public online.

  • As we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and

  • As described in the “Sharing of your Personal Data” section below.

Sharing Your Personal Data

Information we collect may be shared with our affiliate organizations, or with third parties who provide services such as data analysis or payment processing.

  • Affiliates. Outdoor Alliance is a coalition of national advocacy organizations (listed below). These organizations are referred to as our affiliates.  We may share some or all of your personal data with our current or future affiliates, in which case we will require our affiliates to comply with this Policy. In particular, you may let us share personal data with our affiliates, should they have a local recreation, access, or conservation issue that is relevant to you. We will not share your personal data with unaffiliated organizations.  

  • Access Fund

  • American Alpine Club

  • American Canoe Association

  • American Whitewater

  • Colorado Mountain Club

  • International Mountain Bicycling Association

  • Mazamas

  • Surfrider Foundation

  • The Mountaineers

  • Winter Wildlands Alliance

  • Third Parties. We may share your personal data with third party service providers who provide services such as data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services. These third parties are only permitted to use your personal data to the extent necessary to enable them to provide their services to us. They are required to follow our express instructions and to comply with appropriate security measures to protect your personal data.

Aggregated Data

We may collect and aggregate on an anonymous basis information about you, including information about other users, in order to identify trends, process maps, process proprietary data, and conduct market research. We may share aggregated data information with affiliates or third parties to comply with reporting obligations and for legitimate business interests. Aggregated Data will not contain information from which you may be personally identified.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website that can be used to help identify you. We use cookies to make visiting and using our Website easier. Primarily, so that you don't have to continually re-enter information and secondly, so that we can tailor your visit to your expressed preferences. We do not analyze, share or use cookies for any purpose other than making your visit to our Website simpler.

You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” facility).  Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

Your Rights

  • Opt-out. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so by writing us at info@outdooralliance.org or by clicking "unsubscribe" on any of our email messages.

  • Access. You may access the information we hold about you at any time by writing us at info@outdooralliance.org or contacting us directly.

  • Amend. You can also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies in your personal data.

  • Erasure. In certain situations, for example when the information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can request that we erase your data. 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details mentioned above. In your request, please make clear: (i) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you would like to enforce.  For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.

Third Party Websites

This site may provide links to other third party web sites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take any responsibility for the content of linked websites, or for the privacy policies of these websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party websites prior to any use.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our organization. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security protocol for establishing encrypted links between a web server and a browser in an online communication. We have a SSL certificate that can be validated by the presence of a green lock icon in the address bar. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us at info@outdooralliance.org.

Donations

Online donations are processed via EveryAction, a third party service provider, and credit card information is encrypted using SSL technology. When you make an online contribution using EveryAction, you will also be asked to submit your credit card information and certain other information required by federal or state election laws. The credit card information is used solely to process your payment and is never stored on any of our servers. The amount of your contribution and the other required information (name, address, phone number, e-mail address and other contact information) are stored in a database on EveryAction’s servers that can only be accessed by our organization.

Retention

We will retain your personal data until you exercise your right to be forgotten or your right to erasure, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Minors

Our Website is neither directed at nor intended for use by minors under the age of majority in the relevant jurisdiction. Further, we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from such individuals. If we learn that we have inadvertently done so, we will promptly delete it.

Changes to this Policy

Outdoor Alliance may revise or amend this Policy at any time at our discretion. We will never change our policies and practices to make them less protective of user information collected prior to the effective date of any changes without the consent of affected users. We encourage users to visit this page periodically to review our current Policy. The “Last Updated” legend above indicates when this Policy was last changed. Each time you visit this Website or provide us with information through the Website, by doing so you are accepting practices described in the Policy in effect at that time.  You are also accepting our specific rules or terms of use which may be posted on specific sections of the Website, including areas for making donations, signing petitions or sending emails, and taking part in our photo campaigns.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Policy, your personal information, or the practices of this Website, please contact us at info@outdooralliance.org.

Physical Address: 1602 L St NW

Suite 600

Washington, DC 20036

Phone: 202-780-9650