Privacy Statement

Your privacy matters to us.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information secure. This Privacy Policy governs the URL www.nonhumanrights.org and electronic communications sent out by the NhRP.

Information you voluntarily provide

The NhRP collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you complete any of our online forms, such as when you make a donation, sign an action alert, subscribe to our newsletters, or sign up for SMS alerts. Information may include your full name, mailing address, mobile phone number, email address, and any other information collected in our online forms.

Other information

The NhRP website also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information may include your IP address and domain names. The NhRP logs these IP addresses and domain names, and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us provide a more useful and engaging online experience to site visitors, and helps us to improve the quality of our content.

Cookies

The NhRP uses cookies to make results available for your on-site searches. Cookies are not used for any other reason on this site. A cookie is a small file that is sent out by a website, accepted by the user’s browser, and placed on the user’s hard drive. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed, and then choose which cookies you want to accept. The NhRP does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to the NhRP.

Google Analytics advertising features

The NhRP uses the following Google Analytics Advertising Features on our website: Demographics and Interests Reporting, Geography, and Site Behavior. We use this information to help deliver more relevant information to you based on your location, past interactions with our site, and demographic information. We do not store this information in an individually identifiable format, and we do not share this information with third parties.

If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features, you may do so here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Linking

We may offer links to other websites. Please note: When you click on links to other websites, we encourage you to read their privacy policies. Their standards may differ from ours. The NhRP makes no warranties regarding the data collection and privacy policies of these other websites.

How we will use your information 

We will use the information you voluntarily provide to keep you updated on our work and opportunities to get involved, let you know about issues or events we think you’ll be interested in, and invite you to support our work in the form of donations. Every recipient of our electronic communications can easily “opt out” of future such communications by following the instructions at the bottom of any electronic communication we send. You are also welcome to email us at info@nonhumanrights.org to 1) request to review/update your personal information 2) ask us to unsubscribe you from our emails or 3) ask us to completely delete your information from our records.

How we will protect your information

The NhRP is extremely careful and protective of the information we gather through our website and online forms. Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information we obtain. Our web server is located in a locked and secure environment. Our secure server is encrypted to protect your personal and financial information.

The NhRP does not rent, sell or trade any information we receive from you from our website and online forms. Please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to third-party service providers that we engage with to support our activities. We take reasonable measures to ensure that any personal information collected, used, disclosed, or otherwise processed by us or by these service providers on our behalf is protected and not used or disclosed for purposes other than as directed by us and only for the time that we enlist in their services.

If you would like to review or update your personal information at any point, please go to our secure, password-protect supporter portal here. You will be able to make changes to your contact details and review your contribution history.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to protect our users and to accommodate a changing environment. The changes to our Privacy Policy will be deemed to be effective from the date of posting on our sites unless we specify otherwise. We recommend that you check the Privacy Policy when you visit our Sites to be sure that you are aware of and understand our current policy. We will not make any retroactive material changes in how we handle previously collected Personal Information unless you allow us to do so, or unless we are legally required to do so, and in such a case we will make efforts to inform registered visitors of information on material changes to this Privacy Policy via email.

Contacting the NhRP

If you’d like to contact the NhRP about personal information we might have on file, or have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@nonhumanrights.org.

Updated June 23, 2021