Privacy Policy

The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union and the NHCLU Foundation (collectively, “NHCLU”) have a long history of being at the forefront of protecting individual privacy, and we are particularly committed to protecting the personal information that you provide and entrust to us when using the NHCLU’s websites. This online privacy statement (the “Privacy Statement”) describes how we treat all technical user data that is automatically collected by the NHCLU during your visit to the NHCLU Site.

For purposes of this Privacy Statement, the “NHCLU Site” is the website whose home page is www.nhclu.org, and includes all web pages whose domain name contains www.nhclu.org. This is not the privacy statement for internet sites (e.g. blogs, forums or social networking sites) where NHCLU has a presence that are on websites other than the NHCLU Site. Further, this is not the privacy statement for the websites of any other ACLU websites or affiliates, and you should refer to the privacy statements on those affiliates’ websites or contact those affiliates to learn the manner in which they treat information you provide to them through their websites (or provide to them in any manner other than through the NHCLU Site).

The NHCLU may occasionally update this Statement. We will post any changes on this web page, so be sure to check back periodically. Any information that you submit after a change has been posted will be subject to the new provisions.

We automatically collect and store Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and domain names of the originating visitor’s computer on our server and may know some information you have previously provided through cookies. We also track the number and frequency of hits per page, as well as length of website visit, using IP addresses and/or session cookies. In addition, if you come to the NHCLU Site from a website link, we may also identify the source of that link.

How We Use the Data We Collect

We use anonymous data to identify the source of user traffic (for example, uvm.edu, or aol.com), but we are not able to use this data to identify individual users. We use data on which sections of the NHCLU site are most visited, so that we can evaluate the popularity of our different Web pages and continue to improve the site. We do not link any anonymous data with personal data you may provide us.

We use your personal data to fulfill the request for which you specifically provided the data. If we want to use the data in any other way, we will ask you. Otherwise, we will disclose personal data only when it is necessary to enforce this online privacy statement, or when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to disclose your personal data to third parties.

Children

We do not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13.

Cookies

We collect some data through the use of cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred  to your computer’s hard drive and either stored permanently for future access by the transferor (“Long-term Cookies”) or temporarily to facilitate the transferor’s website analysis and functionality (“Short-term Cookies”) or that are transferred temporarily to your computer’s Random Access Memory (“Session Cookies”).

We may use Session Cookies whenever you visit the NHCLU site for our website traffic analytics application and the Site’s interactive applications, such as in our online advocacy. Session Cookies last only as long as your session on the NHCLU. They expire when the session ends and are not written onto your computer’s hard drive.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at (603) 225-3080.