Privacy Policy

Seattle Pride is committed to protecting the privacy of its visitors, online guests, customers, members, donors, and friends. This privacy policy governs the way we collect and use information both online and offline, and explains the types of information we collect and how we use it.

By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website.

Seattle Pride collects personal information from you when you engage in online or in person transactions such as purchases, registrations, making a donation or becoming a member. Additionally, personal information may be transmitted as part of a form submission or in connection with other programs, activities, services, or resources available on our website.

We may gather personal information that you give us, including your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and payment information.

For example, we collect personal information on our website when you:

• Create an account
• Purchase tickets
• Purchase a membership
• Make a donation
• Purchase merchandise
• Purchase or redeem a gift membership
• Fill out a “Contact Us” request
• Subscribe to a mailing list
• Request information about programs
• Participate in certain education programs (for example, when you complete an online application)
• Communicate with use through the website, including
• completion of any online forms
• In addition, we may collect personal information outside our website via:

• In person ticket or membership sales
• By phone
• On-Site (for example during an event, a visitor may choose to
• complete a form and hand it to a staff member, for example in
• connection with membership or subscription)
• Returning mail to us, such as membership renewal
• solicitations
• Completing a survey mailed to you
• Completing contact information on forms at local events
• How We Combine Personal Information
• How We Combine Personal Information

We may combine information gathered from the website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by Seattle Pride and information received from third parties into a single customer record. We also use and/or combine information that we collect offline or receive from third-party sources (e.g., contact information from government funders or grantor information) to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your customer record.

If you provide us personal information we will use this information to respond to your inquiry or request, or to fulfill your order. We may also use it to contact you to provide information about other Seattle Pride activities, programs, membership and fundraising opportunities, products and special events that may interest you. You may opt-out of having your information used by Seattle Pride for these purposes, or you may update your contact information anytime, by contacting us via the following e-mail or postal mail addresses: privacy@seattlepride.org

Seattle Pride may share your personal information, with other organizations, such as other non-profits, art institutions, or with other companies that may be of interest to you, for informational, fundraising, or related purposes. In addition, all information we do share with other institutions is provided subject to confidentiality obligations limiting the nature of the use of your information and restricting the further dissemination of your information. If you do not wish to have your name and address shared with other institutions for these purposes, you may opt out at any time by contacting us via the above email address.

In addition, Seattle Pride also engages third-party vendors in order to help us manage the website, process online and offline transactions, better respond to the needs of our visitors, and enhance our marketing efforts. This includes third-party analytics vendors such as Google Analytics and other marketing partners who serve advertisements across the Internet, offline, and sometimes on the websites on Seattle Pride's behalf. They may use information about your visits to the website and other sites to personalize advertisements for goods and services. We and our third-party vendors or partners use analytics data for a variety of purposes such as to improve the design and content of our website, to help us learn things like what pages are most attractive to all of our visitors and what promotions visitors like to see, and to gauge the success of our advertising campaigns.

Cookies

The Seattle Pride website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users, provide a better experience when you browse our website, and improve our site’s performance and usefulness. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small data file that websites can place on your hard drive when you visit. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that tracks the pages you’ve visited within that site. The cookies on this website are primarily used to recognize that a user has visited the website previously and to track user traffic patterns. Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads.

If you prefer not to receive cookies through the site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You also can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use any pages within our website. For more information about cookies, including how to set your browser to reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org