Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit, fulfil or make a request from https://www.getlocalsupport.org (the "Site").

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

Additionally when you make a request or attempt to make a request through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, address, payment information, email address, phone number, and type of help you're looking for. We refer to this information as Request Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Request Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Request Information that we collect generally to fulfil any requests placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for pick-ups and drop-offs, and providing you with invoices and/or request confirmations). Additionally, we use this Request Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our requests for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimise our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we partner with volunteer associations and organisations to provide approved volunteers for your needs and they require access to your information to fulfil your request. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in request to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an request through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an request through the Site, we will maintain your Request Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in request to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact by filling out the form available at https://www.getlocalsupport.org/contact.