PRIVACY POLICY

Information We Collect

We collect information in two ways: information you give us directly, and information collected automatically as you use the Site.

Information you provide to us may include:

• Your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number
• Payment and billing information when you make a contribution, processed through our third-party payment processor
• Information you submit through account registration, the Ambassador program, surveys, advisory votes, or other forms on the Site
• Any messages or information you send us directly, such as through our contact form or email

Information we generate about you may include:

• Your contribution history, which we create and maintain based on the payments you make

Information collected automatically may include:

• IP address, browser type, and device or operating system information
• Pages viewed, time spent on the Site, and general browsing activity
• Information collected through cookies and similar technologies, described in Section 4 below

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Process and record your contributions, including recurring monthly contributions
• Create and manage your member account and provide access to member communications and advisory votes
• Communicate with you about your contributions, our programs, and the Foundation's progress
• Administer the Ambassador program and other member initiatives
• Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including tax-related recordkeeping required of a 501(c)(3) public charity
• Understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity

How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We may share information with:

• Service providers who help us operate the Site, process contributions, and manage member communications — for example, our payment processor, which handles contribution transactions on our behalf and maintains its own privacy and security practices
• Legal or regulatory authorities, where we are required to do so by law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of CRWN, our members, or others
• Other parties, only with your consent

A list of our contributors, other than aggregate figures we may publish (such as total membership counts), is not made public. Where a contributor requests to remain anonymous, we will not disclose their identity except as required by law.

Cookies, Tracking Technologies, and Do Not Track

The Site may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to help it function properly and to help us understand how visitors use the Site. Most browsers allow you to control or disable cookies through your browser settings; doing so may affect how some parts of the Site work. General information about cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" signal. Because there is currently no common industry standard for how websites should respond to these signals, the Site does not currently respond to Do Not Track browser signals, and third-party services linked from the Site may collect information about your browsing activity in the manner described in their own privacy policies.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy — including maintaining accurate contribution and tax records as required by law for a 501(c)(3) public charity — and no longer. This is distinct from the permanence of the endowment itself: while CRWN's endowment principal is designed to exist in perpetuity, your personal information is not retained indefinitely simply because the Foundation is. When personal information is no longer needed for the purposes described in this policy, or upon a valid deletion request consistent with Section 7, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify it, subject to any records we are legally required to retain.

If CRWN Foundation were ever to dissolve, any personal information we hold would be handled consistent with our governing documents and applicable law, which require that the Foundation's charitable assets transfer to another qualified 501(c)(3) organization. Any transfer of personal information in that circumstance would be limited to what is necessary to continue serving that same charitable purpose, and would remain subject to the protections described in this policy.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Choices and Rights

You may:

• Opt out of non-essential email communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in those emails
• Request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, subject to our recordkeeping obligations as a nonprofit organization
• Contact us with any privacy-related request or question using the information in Section 11

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under applicable state privacy laws. We will honor requests consistent with those laws to the extent they apply to CRWN Foundation.

Children's Privacy

The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take steps to delete it.

Third-Party Links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, including our payment processor and other partners. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies directly.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal or operational reasons. We will post any revised policy on the Site and update the effective date above. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how CRWN Foundation handles your information, please reach out through our Contact page.