Privacy Policy

The American Legion
Privacy Policy

Effective May 28, 2022

The  American Legion knows you care about your privacy. This Privacy Policy  ("Privacy Policy," “Policy,” or Agreement) explains how The American  Legion National Headquarters (“The American Legion,” “we,” “our,” or  “us”) collect, use, share, and secure your personal information.

THE AMERICAN LEGION PRIVACY POLICY OVERVIEW

1. This Privacy Policy Is An Agreement Between You And The American Legion

This  Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms & Conditions of Use  and applies to the information we obtain about you through your use of  The American Legion website (the “Site”) and all other The American  Legion websites, social media outlets, and mobile applications  (collectively, the “Services”). You can review a full listing of The  American Legion’s Services at the following link: http://www.legion.org/onlineservices.  Please review our Privacy Policy carefully before using the Services.  By using the Services you are agreeing to the collection, sharing,  security, and uses of your information described in this Privacy Policy.  If you do not agree to the full terms of our Privacy Policy, you are  not permitted to use Services.

2. What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

The  American Legion collects certain personal information from and about  you when you use the Services. This Privacy Policy describes the  information we collect, and how we use, share, and secure that  information.

3. Will The Terms Of This Privacy Policy Ever Change?

Yes.  The American Legion reserves the right to modify our Privacy Policy at  any time, in our sole discretion, and with or without notice to you. We  may contact you in the event of changes to this Privacy Policy, but we  are not always required to do so and so you should review the terms of  our Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed of any changes and  ensure your continued agreement.

Modifications to the Policy are  effective upon our posting of the amended Policy to our Site. The terms  of the current Policy supersede all previous notices or statements  regarding our privacy practices and the terms and conditions that govern  the use of the Services. You may determine the date the Policy was last  amended and the current Terms by referring to the “Effective” date  shown at the top of this Policy.

4. Who Is Eligible To Use The Services?

Because  of the nature of our business, our Services are not directed to minors.  Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998  (COPPA), The American Legion does not knowingly collect personally  identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without  parental consent. If we learn that personally identifiable information  of a child under the age of 13 has been submitted via or appears on or  within Services, The American Legion will take all action necessary to  comply with our responsibilities under applicable legal requirements,  which may include deletion of any such information.

HOW WE COLLECT & USE YOUR INFORMATION

1. What Information Does The American Legion Collect About Me, And How Is It Used?

The  American Legion may collect information about you in a variety of ways,  including: (i) information you submit to us; and (ii) information we  collect about you through your use of the Services.

We may use the  information we collect from and about you in a number of ways,  including: (i) to provide and operate the Services; (ii) to provide  customer services such as support; (ii) to deliver member benefits;  (iii) to improve the Services for you and other users; (iv) to provide  support and notify you about updates to the Services; (v) to inform you  about The American Legion and related events, benefits, and  opportunities; (vi) for marketing purposes; (vii) for internal review;  and (viii) to fulfill and provide Services at your direction.

We  may store the information we collect about you indefinitely, but  information generally will be retained only for as long as necessary to  fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected or as  required by law. Except as described herein, we do not share, sell,  rent, or otherwise disclose your private, Personally Identifiable  Information to third parties. We do not provide the Services to minors,  and we do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information  from children.

The American Legion may collect the following types of information about you:

A. Personally Identifiable Information

“Personally  Identifiable Information” refers to information about you that, with  reasonable efforts, may be used to identify you, such as your: first  name, last name, gender, birth date, city, state, zip code, addresses,  locations, email address, and phone number.

Personally  Identifiable Information may also include your computer or mobile  device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address or other unique device IDs.  The American Legion may link the information it records about you using  your IP address and tracking technologies to Personally Identifiable  Information The American Legion collects about you via the Services. The  American Legion may use this information for its own marketing and  advertising purposes.

In addition, The American Legion reserves  the right to use IP addresses and other tracking technologies to  identify a user when The American Legion: (i) feels it is necessary to  enforce compliance with The American Legion Terms & Conditions of  Use; (ii) to protect The American Legion, the Services, or our websites,  software, customers, or others; or (iii) when The American Legion  believes in good faith that the law so requires.

In order for us  to provide you with certain Services, it may be necessary for The  American Legion to obtain and share Personally Identifiable Information  with others. You are not required to provide us with Personally  Identifiable Information, and you can decline this transfer of  information to The American Legion at any time. However, if you choose  to withhold Personally Identifiable Information, please be aware The  American Legion may not be able to provide you with Services that may be  dependent upon the collection of Personally Identifiable Information,  such as certain personalized or enhanced services.

B. Registration & Services Account Information

In  order for you to take advantage of certain Services, we may require you  to complete a registration form and create a user account (“Services  Account”). As part of this registration form, we may require you to  provide certain Personally Identifiable Information, including your  name, city, state and email address. To allow you to express yourself  beyond just the information collected during registration, you may also  provide additional information, such as an account screen name. In  addition, you may choose to include photos of yourself or other images  of your choosing in your Services Account profile. You can control how  this information is displayed and used by accessing your Services  Account profile on our website.

C. Payment Information

The  American Legion may request information from you when you make  purchases through the Services, including your contact information (such  as name and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit  card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing  purposes and to fulfill your order. If we have trouble processing an  order, your purchase contact information is used to get in touch with  you.

D. Promotions & Sweepstakes Information

If  you register for our promotions or sweepstakes, The American Legion and  our partners may send you emails or other correspondence regarding the  contest for which you registered, and other contests, promotions, and  sweepstakes. Further information regarding your choices as to how we  collect, use, and share your Personally Identifiable Information is  provided below.

E. Newsletters & Correspondence Information

If  you elect to receive any of our publications, including our  newsletters, or if you provide your email address to us, we may send you  emails about a variety of topics such as events, new products, sales,  promotional offers from our affiliates or other selected business  partners, and employment opportunities.

If you send us  correspondence via email, the postal service, or other form of  communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information  contained therein and use this information to respond to your inquiry  and/or provide notifications to you.

Except as described in this  Agreement, The American Legion does not share, sell, rent, or otherwise  disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties. If  you do not wish to receive notifications from The American Legion or our  partners, you may unsubscribe according to information provided within  the correspondence, or by contacting us using the information below.

F. Public Sources & Other Information

We  may also receive information about you from other sources, such as The  American Legion’s agents, vendors and service providers, and from  publicly available sources. For example, we may receive information from  third parties when we process credit card payments made by you for  events or membership.

In addition, all information about you made  available in any public or open forum, such as in a member forum or on a  social network, will be considered public information for the purposes  of this Policy. Any content or information you choose to share with or  provide to third parties using or related to your use of the Services is  nether private, nor confidential. You should not hold any expectation  of privacy with respect to information you share to third parties, and  should review applicable policies pertaining to such third parties, if  any. The American Legion is not responsible for any content or  information you share with third parties. If you do not want the  information to be public, please do not post it.

G. Unique Identifiers

The  American Legion may obtain information from you via a Unique  Identifier, whether or not you establish a Services Account with The  American Legion. When you install Services on a mobile device, Services  may initiate a unique identifier account which it may associate with  that mobile device (the “Unique Identifier”). The American Legion may  associate the Unique Identifier with your mobile device and may link the  Unique Identifier to you.

H. Analytics & Aggregate Information

We  may also collect general, non-personal, statistical information about  you through your use of the Services. This information may include: (i)  website traffic data detailing how many visitors access specific content  within Services; (ii) for how long you access certain content; and  (iii) hyperlinks you access via the Services. This information presents  an overview of our users’ aggregated demographic, preference, and usage  habits and allows us and third parties to modify our Services and to  offer and optimize the provision of targeted information, promotions,  offers, or discounts on products and services based on user traffic and  behavior. We may group this information into aggregate data in order to  describe the use of the Services to third parties, such to reveal  website traffic data or in response to government requests.

The  Services may also use certain web analytics services provided by Google,  Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze  information about the Users of the Services and how Users use the  Services. Using Google Analytics, the Services may collect data about  you and your use of the Services via Google advertising cookies and  anonymous identifiers, in addition to data collected through standard  Google Analytics implementation. This data may include demographic,  interest-based, and other information about you. The Google Analytics  and related services utilized by the Services may include: Google  Analytics Advertising Features, Remarketing with Google Analytics,  Google Display Network Impression Reporting, DoubleClick Platform  integrations, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, and  similar services offered by Google and its partners (the “Google  Services”). By using the Services, you consent to the processing of data  about you by Google and Google’s partners consistent with their general  practices and practices in relation to the Google Services. More  information about how data is collected and processed in connection with  the Google Analytics service may be available at: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Information  generated by cookies about your use of the Services (including your IP  address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers. Google  may use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the  Services, compiling reports on Services activity for Services operators  and providing other services relating to Services activity and usage.  Google may also transfer this information to third parties where  required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the  information on Google's behalf.

You may be able to opt-out of the  Google Services through Google Analytics’ available opt-outs for the web  (which may be available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/),  through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or other available  means, including the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) consumer  opt-out, which may be available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.  You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings  on your particular browser. Please note, however, that if you disable  cookies or opt-out of certain services, you may not be able to use the  full functionality of the Services.

I. Third-Party Advertisements

The  American legion may utilize the services of third-party advertising  companies, including Google and others, to serve ads to you when you use  our Services or other sites across the Internet, or to perform  remarketing services. These third parties may collect information about  your visits to certain pages of our Services and may use technology like  cookies to store information about your use of the Services. The  information collected may be reported back to us, and we may link this  information to Personally Identifiable Information we have collected  about you. This information allows us to track which other websites have  linked visitors to our Services, what pages of our Services are used by  and are of interest to visitors, so we may provide better, more  targeted advertising regarding our business and Services. More  information about interest-based advertising and similar practices may  be available at https://thenai.org/opt-out/.

J. Cookies, Web Beacons, And Other Tracking Technologies

As  with many other websites, software services, and mobile applications,  The American Legion may automatically collect certain non-personally  identifiable information and data through the use of “cookies,” “web  beacons,” and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small pieces of  data used by websites and software services to identify repeat users,  facilitate the user's ongoing logins and access to a software service or  website, and facilitate use of the software service or website. Web  beacons are transparent pixel images that are used in collecting  information about website usage, email response and tracking.

We  use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to provide the  Services, enhance functionality on our website (e.g., user ID and  password prompts, and event registrations), and aggregate data about  traffic to our Services. These cookies may be delivered in a first-party  or third-party context in connection with one of our Service Providers.  The American Legion  may also use cookies and web beacons in  association with emails delivered to you by The American Legion. Our  Services may also capture technical information about visits to and  users of our Services, such as: Internet domain names and host names, IP  addresses, browser and operating system information, clickstream  patterns, access information, user-agent, HTTP referrer, last URL  requested by the user, client-side, and server-side clickstream. We may  use this information to analyze general traffic patterns and to perform  routine system maintenance.

You have many choices with regards to  the management of cookies on your computer. All major browsers now allow  you to block or delete cookies from your system. To learn more about  your ability to manage cookies and web beacons, please consult the  privacy features in your browser.

K. Do Not Track

The  American Legion does not currently employ a process for automatically  responding to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals sent by web browsers, mobile  devices, or other mechanisms that may provide consumers a choice  regarding the collection of Personally Identifiable Information about an  individual consumer’s online activities. As is commonly the case with  many other mobile applications and websites, third parties (e.g.,  advertisers) may be able to collect Personally Identifiable Information  about your online activities over time and across different websites or  online services when you use Services.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

1. How Does The American Legion Share My Information With Others?

The  American Legion does not share, sell, rent or otherwise disclose your  Personally Identifiable Information to third parties without your  consent except as described in this Agreement, including for the  following purposes and circumstances: (i) we have your authorization;  (ii) the disclosure is required by relevant law or law enforcement;  (iii) the disclosure is reasonably related to the sale or other  disposition of all or part of our business or assets; (iv) the  Personally Identifiable Information to be disclosed is publicly  available; (v) the party to whom the disclosure is made controls, is  controlled by, or is under common control with The American Legion; (vi)  the disclosure is in our sole discretion about users who we believe are  engaged in illegal activities or are otherwise in violation of our  policies, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order; (vii) the  disclosure is reasonably necessary for the establishment or maintenance  of legal claims; (viii) the disclosure is to Service Providers (as  defined below) or other businesses to perform certain services for The  American Legion; (ix) the disclosure is to persons or entities for whom  we are providing services, provided the disclosure is consistent with  the purpose for which the Personally Identifiable Information was  obtained; (x) the disclosure is necessary for business entity or legal  structure changes for The American Legion, or if The American Legion is  acquired by or merged into or with another entity, or if The American  Legion enters bankruptcy, provided that such entities agree to be bound  by the provisions of this Privacy Policy; (xi) for facilitating Services  and its services and to store data on third party owned and operated  servers; (xii) to collect, hold and manage your personal information  through cloud-based or hosting services or a third party or a party  affiliated or connected to The American Legion, as reasonable for  business purposes, which may be located in countries outside of your  jurisdiction; (xiii) to share with companies or organizations connected  or affiliated with The American Legion, such as subsidiaries,  sister-companies and parent companies; or (x) the disclosure is  consistent with the purpose for which the Personally Identifiable  Information was obtained.

If The American Legion becomes aware  that any authorized party is improperly using or disclosing your   Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify that party and take  commercially reasonable steps to end or correct s