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Privacy Policy.

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

Effective Date: October 27, 2026 · Last Updated: October 27, 2026

Privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Persevere collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit perseverenow.org, contact us, donate, volunteer, or otherwise interact with our website.

Information We Collect

  • Information you give us. We collect it only when you choose to send it:
    • Contact form: your first and last name, email address, state, the subject and message you write, and optionally how you heard about us.
    • Newsletter sign-up: your email address.
    • Volunteer application: your name, preferred name, email address, phone number, city, state, ZIP code, and optionally your LinkedIn profile. It also asks how you heard about Persevere, why you want to volunteer, the opportunities and skills you choose, your current employer and job title, your years of experience, and any additional information you share.
    • Technology demo requests: your name, work email address, organization, job title, the product you are interested in, your organization type, optionally a description of your challenge, and whether you would like updates from us.
    • Donations: donations are processed by Givebutter on our donate page. Givebutter collects your payment and contact details under its own privacy policy. Persevere does not receive or store your full card details.
  • Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you access and use our website. This includes your IP address, browser type, device, pages visited, and referring URLs, collected through Google Analytics and our hosting provider's standard server logs.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use Google Analytics, which sets cookies, to understand site traffic and improve our website. Videos on our site are hosted by YouTube. The YouTube player loads only when you press play, and YouTube's own privacy policy applies from then on.

How We Use Your Information

  • To respond to your inquiries, volunteer applications, and demo requests.
  • To send our newsletter and updates to people who sign up for them.
  • To process and acknowledge donations, through Givebutter.
  • To improve and personalize your experience on our website.
  • To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.

Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate our website and programs:

  • Google, for website hosting through Firebase and for Google Analytics.
  • Resend, which delivers form submissions to our staff by email.
  • Constant Contact, for our newsletter and for contact messages about volunteering.
  • Givebutter, for donations.

These parties are contractually obligated to keep your information confidential and secure.

Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to safeguard your data from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.

Your Choices

You can opt out of our newsletter and other marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails. You can also manage or block cookies through your browser settings. To ask what information we hold about you, or to ask us to correct or delete it, email privacy@perseverenow.org.

Links to Other Websites

Our website contains links to third-party websites, such as our program application, our social media pages, and Givebutter. Persevere is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for individuals under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children through this website. Enrollment in our youth programs happens through a separate application and is handled by our program staff.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

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