Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 26, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Website and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Website. By using the Website, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Website or parts of our Website.

LA Corps (referred to as either "the LA Corps", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Los Angeles Conservation Corps, P.O. Box 861658, Los Angeles, CA 90086-1658.

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: California, United States

Device means any device that can access the Website such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Website refers to www.lacorps.org.

Website Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the LA Corps. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the LA Corps to facilitate the Website, to provide the Website on behalf of the LA Corps, to perform Websites related to the Website or to assist the LA Corps in analyzing how the Website is used.

Third-party Social Media Website refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Website.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the LA Corps, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

From Browsing our Website:

Usage Data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

From Donors:

• Your name, address, email address, physical address, telephone number and other contact information.
• Financial information including Your Credit card or debit card number, Card expiration date, Card CVV

From Job Applicants applying for a Position with the LA Corps:

• Your name, address, email address, telephone number and other contact information;
• Your resume or CV, cover letter, previous and/or relevant work experience or other experience, education, transcripts, or other information you provide to us in support of an application and/or the application and recruitment process;
• Information from interviews and phone-screenings you may have, if any;
• Details of the type of employment you are or may be looking for, current and/or desired salary and other terms relating to compensation and benefits packages, willingness to relocate, or other job preferences;
• Details of how you heard about the position you are applying for;
• Any sensitive and/or demographic information processed during the application or recruitment process such as gender, information about your citizenship and/or nationality, medical or health information and/or your racial or ethnic origin;
• Reference information and/or information received from background checks (where applicable), including information provided by third parties;
• Information relating to any previous applications you may have made to LA Corps and/or any previous employment history with LA Corps;
• Your information from publicly available sources, including online, that we believe is relevant to your application or a potential future application (e.g. your LinkedIn profile); and/or
• Information related to any assessment you may take as part of the interview screening process.

From our Contact Us Page:

• Your name, address, email address, telephone number and other contact information.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Website by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Website or when You access the Website by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Website may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the LA Corps, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with Websites available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the Websites that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those Websites.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The LA Corps may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

When You Browse the Website:

To provide and maintain our Website, including to monitor the usage of our Website.

When You Donate on Our Website:

The Corps uses a third-party service provider Givebutter to process payment information from donors on Our Website. Givebutter’s privacy policy applies while you are accessing their site to process payment. To learn more about Givebutter’s privacy protections for donors visit its website at: https://help.givebutter.com/en/articles/1726549-how-givebutter-protects-its-users-donors-and-donations.  

You can find additional information about our Uses on our Donor Privacy Policy.

When You Apply for a Position on Our Website:

When you apply for a job posted on our Website, we use Paycom as our third party provider to process applications. Paycom’s privacy policy applies while you are accessing their site to apply for our positions. You can view Paycom’s Privacy Policy by going to https://www.paycom.com/privacy/. Once we receive your information we may use that information to:

• Assess your skills, qualifications and interests against our career opportunities;
• Verify your information and carrying out reference checks and/or conducting background checks (where applicable) if you are offered a job;
• Communicate with you about the recruitment process and/or your application(s), including, in appropriate cases, informing you of other potential career opportunities at Google;
• Create and/or submit reports as required under any local laws and/or regulations, where applicable;
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes or enforceable governmental requests; and/or
• Proactively conducting research about your educational and professional background and skills and contacting you if we think you would be suitable for a role with us.
• We may process information regarding your demographics as described above where we are required to do so to meet our legal and contractual obligations, such as reporting obligations to authorities and third parties and other similar requirements.

When you Contact Us:

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.

To provide You with news and general information about Our programs, job opportunities, fundraising, and events unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Website, services, and your experience.

If You do not want this information used for purposes stated above, You may opt out of your Personal Data being used for such purposes at any time by contacting us as follows:

By email at: info@lacorps,org or donation@lacorps.org or call 213-362-9000 x267. Please put “Opt Out” in your email subject line.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The LA Corps will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The LA Corps will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Website, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the LA Corps's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The LA Corps will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Website may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Website.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

The Corps does not sell, rent or share mailing lists with other organizations or any third-party list brokers. However, in some instances we may be required to disclose Your personal data that you provide us on our Website including:

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the LA Corps may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The LA Corps may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the LA Corps
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Website or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or Websites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: info@lacorps.org or donors@lacorps.org
• By Phone: 213-362-9000
• By Mail: P.O. Box 861658 Los Angeles, CA 90086-1658

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