Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 02/20/19

Thank you for visiting the Row New York (“RNY”) website and reviewing our privacy policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information RNY collects from you when you visit our website, www.rownewyork.org, participate in our programs, or make a donation. This Privacy Policy also explains how RNY may use and disclose such information, as well as your ability to control certain uses of it. By accessing or using this website, you agree to the terms in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not access or use the website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

There are two ways we may obtain information about you: (a) information you provide to us directly; and (b) information that we automatically collect. This includes information that identifies you personally whether directly (i.e., your name) or indirectly (i.e., information about your online use of this website).

A. Information You Provide

RNY collects information when you choose to share it with us, either on your own behalf or as a parent or guardian of a prospective or current participant in our programs. This may include when you submit a registration form, make a donation, make a purchase from our online store, provide us with an academic transcript, or otherwise communicate with or contact us.

• Information You Provide About a Participant In Our Programs. We may collect information about you or about a participant in our programs, including, but not limited to a participant’s name, contact information, biographical information, emergency contact information, academic information, medical information, rowing and athletic experience, income information, and professional or employment-related information.
• Information You Provide When You Make a Donation. If you donate to RNY, you will be asked to provide your name, billing contact information (such as your address and email address), and payment card or other payment information (such as via Venmo or payments by check). Our third party payment processor processes your online payment.
• Information You Provide When You Make a Purchase. If you make a purchase from our online store, you will be asked to provide your billing and contact details and your payment card information. Our third party payment processor processes your online payment.

B. Information Automatically Collected

Whenever you visit or interact with the website, we or our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, or other storage technologies to automatically or passively collect or receive certain information about your online activity.

• Use of Third Party Analytics and Tracking Technologies. We may use third-party analytics and tracking tools to better understand who is using the website, how people are using the website, how to improve the effectiveness of the website and related content and to help us or those third parties serve more targeted advertising to you across the Internet via interest-based advertising. These tools from Google, Facebook, or other third parties, may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, or other storage technologies and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. They may also combine information they collect from your interaction with the website with information they collect from other sources. We do not have access to, or control over, these third parties’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies.
• Your Choices. To understand your choices for receiving more relevant advertising provided across other websites and online services, please review the information below:
• To learn more about such interest-based advertising, and to opt-out of such collection and use for interest-based advertising by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) participating companies, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info. Even if you opt-out, you still may receive advertising that is not customized.
• If you wish to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
• The website may use “cookies,” which are small data files transferred by a website to your computer’s hard drive and may be used to identify your computer. You may adjust your device or Internet browser settings to limit or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features of the website. Please refer to your device’s settings or your Internet browser’s “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your device or browser from receiving cookies. Our system may not recognize Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers.

INFORMATION USE

RNY may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes:

• To administer our educational and athletic programming, including by sharing, as needed, the information you provide with our program staff and administrators who oversee your participation in our programs;
• To respond to, contact, and communicate with you when necessary, including in response to your submission of a program registration form or donation through our website;
• To fulfill your online store order;
• To review usage of our website and conduct analyses to enhance or improve our website and offerings;
• To contact you with information, newsletters and promotional materials from RNY;
• To use your data in an aggregated non-specific format for analytical and demographic purposes;
• To receive payments from you; and
• For other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or otherwise with your consent.

In addition, RNY or its third-party service providers may use information collected through your use of the website to deliver interest-based ads through Facebook, Instagram, or other social media platforms, as well as to deliver advertising to individuals with similar interests as you. For more information or to learn how to exercise choices on interest-based advertising, see “Information Automatically Collected” above.

INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH OTHERS

RNY does not trade or sell donor information collected online or offline. We share your personal information as described below.

• Service Providers: We may share your information with our third-party service providers if the disclosure will enable them to perform a professional, organizational, or technical support function for us, such as but not limited to, communicating with you, processing your program registrations, online store purchases, and donations, processing payments, providing analytics and interest-based advertising services or maintaining our records.
• Legal Matters; Safety: We may access and disclose your information to respond to subpoenas, judicial processes, or government requests and investigations, or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law. We may disclose your information to protect the security of our website, servers, network systems, and databases. We also may disclose your information as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of any legal document or contract related to our programs and services, or the rights of any third party.
• Transfer of Organizational Assets: In the unlikely event of a merger with another entity, the information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity.
• Other: We also may share your information as disclosed to you at the time of collection.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

The RNY website links to other websites. Other Internet websites and services have their own privacy and data collection practices. Please note that once you click on one of these websites, you leave the
Row New York website and Row New York has no control over or responsibility for the privacy policies or data collection activities at another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements at those websites as you visit them.

REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, or otherwise revise portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes. If we change the Privacy Policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us at info@rownewyork.org or by mail to:
Row New York
Attn: Operations Department
252 W 37 Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10018
United States of America