This notice explains how The Plunk Foundation (also “we”, “us”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information when you visit our website, attend our events, make donations, or interact with us in other ways. 

 

Who We Are

The Plunk Foundation is a U.S. non-profit organization committed to protecting your privacy. The scope of our mission is currently focused on helping communities in the U.S., but as we grow, that may change, and we will update our notice when it does.  This notice explains how we collect, use, share, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, donate, register for events, or interact with us.

 

Our Mission

Our mission is to build a global hub of leaders united by a shared vision: a world where everyone has the freedom to live and thrive with digital privacy and safety.​

We empower everyone to take control of their digital identities and protect what matters most. Because privacy is more than protection—it’s freedom.

It’s a big mission—so we are starting by advancing digital privacy for women, children, veterans, and underserved communities.

 

Our Privacy Principles

• Data Minimization: We collect only what is necessary for our mission.

• Purpose Limitation: Your data is used only for defined, legitimate purposes.

• User Control: You can access, correct, delete, and restrict the use of your data.

• Security: We protect your data.

• Transparency: We tell you what we do with your data and how we protect it.

• No Sale or Rental of Data: We will never sell or rent your personal or donor data.

 

What We Collect

We may collect:

• Name and contact details

• Donation and payment details (via secure, third-party processors)

• Website usage data (cookies, IP address, device/browser info)

• Event or volunteer registration details

We do not collect sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or health data, except as required for compliance or donations.  Some automatic data collection (e.g., device or cookie data) may occur when you use our website. See below. 

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California requires us to present this information in a certain way so… if you live in California or are curious about what California regulators want to know, see this Notice of Collection. 

 

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• To process donations and send tax receipts

• To manage event or volunteer participation

• To support and survey community needs 

• To send updates, thank you’s, or essential communications

• To improve our website and services

• As needed for legal, reporting, or security reasons

We do not use your data for advertising or profiling.

 

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or share your data with marketing companies or data brokers.

We only share your personal data when necessary and when we have a legitimate basis:

• With trusted third-party service providers (donation platforms, payment processors, email & event software) under contract 

• To comply with legal obligations or protect our rights or our user’s safety

• With your explicit consent, if relevant

Links to other websites contained on our website and in our materials are governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review those policies before sharing personal data. 

We currently use Givebutter for donations and Wiz as a website host. Below we list the current URLs for their privacy policies and the emails to which data deletion requests may be sent.   

Givebutter: https://givebutter.com/privacy; support@givebutter.com

Wix: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy; dpo@wix.com 

 

How We Protect Your Data

We use reasonable security measures to protect your information. However, no online system is completely secure. By using our services, you accept these risks.

 

How Long We Keep Data

We keep your personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described above, unless longer retention is required by law.

 

Your Choices/Rights

Regardless of where you live, we will honor your choice to:

• Know what data we collect about you

• Access, correct, or delete your data

• Opt out of sharing/sale (we do not sell or share for marketing)

• Limit the use of sensitive data (if we ever collected it, you will know as we get separate consent when we directly collect it)

• Appeal decisions about your privacy rights

To exercise your rights, email dpo@goplunk.org or use our website’s contact form. We will verify and respond to requests promptly and as required by law.

 

International Data Transfers

Even though we have not yet expanded our mission globally, we do our best to ensure compliance with international data protection laws.  If you access our site or provide information from outside the the United States of America (U.S.), your information data may be processed and stored in the U.S. 

We ensure data is transferred to the U.S. with standard contractual clauses and by  processing data only with a legitimate interest.  See Sharing your Information for those processing reasons or as the privacy pros say, “legitimate interests.”  

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You can contact our Data Protection Officer or EU/UK representative at dpo@goplunk.org. 

 

Cookies

We use essential cookies to ensure the site operates properly and basic analytics. You can choose to block cookies, but some site features may not work.  We disclose this on our cookie banner. Yay, Captain Compliance, for helping us manage our cookies for free!  You can change the optional cookie settings anytime in your web browser, also.  

We do not use cookies for advertising or profiling.

 

Children’s Data

We do not knowingly collect data from children under 18 without parental consent. Please contact us if you believe a child’s information has been provided improperly.

 

Changes

We review and update this notice at least annually. Changes appear on this page with the latest effective date.

 

Questions or Concerns?

Contact us anytime:

• Email: dpo@goplunk.org

• Address: Plunk Foundation, 6457 Glenway Avenue STE. 202, Cincinnati, OH 45211-5233
   

We take privacy seriously and will never discriminate against you for exercising your rights.