AYA Youth Collective (AYA) strives to be transparent in everything we do. The privacy of our donors and internet users is no different. AYA considers confidential and proprietary information relating to employees, youth, volunteers, donors, and community partners to be one of its most valuable assets. As a result, employees must carefully protect and not disclose to any third party any and all confidential and proprietary information belonging to AYA or its employees, youth, volunteers, donors, and community partners. This page is used to inform our website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information.

Collection of Personal Information:
AYA Youth Collective only collects personal information, such as first and last names, home addresses, email addresses if you choose to voluntarily share. Making an online donation will require AYA to collect personal information in order to process the transaction. If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. AYA uses a third-party credit card processing service called Stripe. Stripe is a best-in-class provider – more about Stripe’s Privacy can be found here.

We will not disclose or share your information with anyone except as described in AYA’s Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, AYA may be required to disclose your Personal Data to cooperate with law enforcement or other valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or government agency).

Use of Personal Information:
AYA may use personal information for the following purposes: To manage your account, to contact you in regards to your account, or to inform you of general information relating to AYA, unless you have opted not to receive such information. If you would like at any time to correct or remove personal information, please reach out via email at info@ayayouth.org.

Cookies:
Cookies are files with a small amount of data that is commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

Security:
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. Our website is protected by HHTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) which protects your data when using our website. Remember, however, that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites:
Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy:
Our website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page unless stated otherwise.

Contact Us:
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at info@ayayouth.org.