General Principles

    Fenton Pride Collective (“Fenton Pride” or “we” or “us” or “our”) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a charitable mission of advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) people in the Fenton, MI area. We carry out our mission through hosting events, providing services, and serving as a leading voice in education, advocacy, and research relating to LGBTQ+ people.

    We offer programs and services to LGBTQ+ people within this website at FentonPride.org (this “Website”) and. Fenton Pride Collective welcomes you to support our mission by making a donation to Fenton Pride Collective (“Donations”). This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) provides our general privacy terms and also specifically explains our information collection and use practices relating to the following: (i) the Website and (ii) any Donations you may make to us.

    You should know a few things about our privacy practices. If you are a in need of a safe place to talk, you can use our Contact Form or email us and be assured that we do not disclose any information you share with us except in the limited number of circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, such as a situation in which someone might be hurt. Unless otherwise required by law, we will not disclose sensitive information you share while using the Contact Form or emailing us to parents, legal guardians, or other individuals. Please read further below about circumstances where we may disclose personal information.

    You should also know that, in addition to the information you knowingly provide to us, we may collect certain information automatically from your use of the Website, including internet protocol (“IP”) addresses, de-identified web browser information, internet service provider (“ISP”) data, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, location, and click data, and a unique identifier associated with your browser or device. Some of this information that is automatically collected is later passed along to third parties like Google and Facebook to increase awareness about our services, to attract new volunteers, and to encourage more funding.

    Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you want to learn more about the information collection, use, and disclosure practices for various aspects of Fenton Pride Collective (e.g., the Website and/or Donations), use the links above to jump to the relevant section of the policy. Fenton Pride Collective strongly respects your privacy; we will not share your personal information except as disclosed in this policy.

    This Privacy Policy is subject to change, so you are encouraged to review it from time to time. We reserve the right to alter, modify, update, add to, subtract from, or otherwise change this Privacy Policy. Any changes will become effective upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise. We will post any changes on this page, and update the “Last Updated” date at the bottom, so be sure to check back periodically to stay aware of any changes.

    By using the Website or by making a Donation, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

    Information Collection, Use, and Disclosure

    Fenton Pride Collective’s Website

    Information Collection

    During your use of the Website, you may be prompted to provide personally identifiable information, including your name, location, and email address. We also may collect certain information automatically from your use of the Website, such as IP addresses, de-identified web browser information, ISP data, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, location, and click data, and a unique identifier associated with your browser or device.

    A cookie is a small text file sent by a web server to a user’s browser that is used for authentication, record-keeping, and tracking a user’s activity on a website. Although we may use cookies on this site, we do not link them to personally identifiable information.

    Volunteer applicants may also submit personally identifiable information to this Website when applying to work with Fenton Pride Collective. We may collect information including name, address, email address, phone number, birthdate, URLs, education information, employment information, social media account handles, and other information those individuals provide to us as part of their applications. Volunteer applicants may also be prompted to enter information such as confirmation of ability to work in the U.S., confirmation of their requirement for a visa, race, age, gender identity, employment information, education information, disability status, medical information, financial information, veteran status, familial status, sexual orientation, and information related to personal references.

    Information Use

    We use the information we collect about you to provide this Website and our Services. We may also use your information to improve our Services, contact you when necessary, provide anonymous reporting internally, and fulfill your requests. For applicants, volunteers and employees, we use their personally identifiable information to make staffing decisions, as appropriate and as permitted by applicable laws.

    We also provide certain information to third-party service providers to optimize the Website’s functionality and improve our Services. For example, we work with third-party service providers, such as Google and Facebook, to analyze your use of the Website and to provide advertising services where we deliver advertisements to you regarding Fenton Pride Collective’s services and events on our website and on third-party sites. We only partner with entities like Google and Facebook to advertise Fenton Pride Collective’s Website and Services, to increase awareness about our services, to attract new volunteer counselors, and to encourage more funding. The analytics data we collect is used to help us improve the functionality of the Website, Crisis Services, and Donations.

    You may receive an initial email after you sign up for emails on the Website. We may also communicate with you in response to your inquiries as necessary. From time to time, we may send you announcements and newsletters about Fenton Pride Collective, LGBTQ+ people and mental health, and related issues. You may unsubscribe from the mailing list in order to stop receiving them.

    Fenton Pride Collective may occasionally conduct promotions such as sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, and other promotions. Participation in these promotions is voluntary, and you have a choice of whether or not to disclose any of your information relating to those promotions. In the course of operating any of those promotions, we may collect additional information from you. Please refer to the terms and conditions regarding a particular promotion for additional information.

    Information Disclosure

    We may use third-party service providers to perform services on our behalf, including administering announcements and newsletters. These service providers are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. Any use and sharing of information gathered through promotions and newsletters will be disclosed to you during the sign-up process.

    We may also disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties if we believe disclosure is necessary: (i) to comply with the law, including in response to a subpoena, court order, government request, or other legal process; (ii) to protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Fenton Pride Collective, our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, volunteers, representatives, other related parties, or the individuals we serve; (iii) to enforce our Terms (including this Privacy Policy); (iv) in connection with a sale, merger, or or corporate reorganization of Fenton Pride Collective or our affiliates, or the transfer of any of our operations, or (v) to address fraud, security (physical or cybersecurity), technical issues, or to operate or improve this Website or our infrastructure systems.

    Advertising

    As stated above, the information we may provide to Google, Facebook, and other advertising providers may include your IP addresses, web browser information, ISP data, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, location, click data, and a unique identifier associated with your browser or device. This information is primarily used to analyze trends, to administer the Website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. However, this information may also be used by third parties such as Facebook to serve you certain advertisements as part of their re-targeting practices.

    How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals

    We do not respond to DNT signals.

    Abuse and Imminent Threat Reports

    If your communications indicate that a minor or vulnerable dependent adult has been or is currently being subjected to emotional or physical abuse or neglect, we may report this to the applicable state agency or other authority, which may include disclosing information relating to the particular situation, and may include personal or sensitive information you disclose to us.

    We may also make a report to an appropriate party, and make any disclosures we reasonably believe necessary, to prevent another person’s death or serious injury. Unless otherwise required by applicable law (including in response to a subpoena that we reasonably believe is valid), we will not disclose personal or sensitive information to parents, legal guardians, or other individuals.

    Research and Innovation

    We may use information, including the content of conversations to create, or permit a third-party researcher or partner to create, aggregate information, that does not include names or other personal identifiers, for the purpose of and the advancement of advocating for the LGBTQ+ community, and to produce statistics and metrics that will help us and others better understand and analyze the impact of our Services. We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information and content of conversations with our partners, researchers, or third parties for these purposes only; we will never share personal information for commercial purposes. We may also publicly publish the results of our research efforts, including statistics and metrics, such as in research reports and other briefs, and otherwise provide information about our innovation efforts and use of our services. Individual users will not be linked or identified by sharing this aggregate information.

    Advocacy

    We are passionate about saving LGBTQ+ lives, and our work involves various efforts, such as advocating for laws that protect LGBTQ+ youth from conversion therapy and advancing LGBTQ+-inclusive suicide prevention policies in schools. The information we collect can be used as valuable evidence in supporting these efforts. We may use and disclose personal and sensitive information, in an anonymized form without using names or personally-identifying information, for these purposes, including using this information in amicus briefs, litigation, legislative testimony, and other activities.

    To the extent that you use our Website, please see our information collection and use practices disclosed above.

    Donations

    Information Collection

    When we collect donations, we may collect information including name, email address, birth date, phone number, billing address, financial information, education information, employment information, age, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and any other information that you provide to us while making a donation or is necessary to complete the donation. We may also use third-party sources to collect additional information about donors.

    Information Use

    We may use service providers to verify and process your payment. Except as may be required by law, we will not otherwise share your personal information without your permission. We will not send you charitable solicitations from outside entities on their behalf. To the extent that any donations are processed by means of a third-party service provider for initiatives benefiting Fenton Pride Collective, we will only engage with providers who confirm they will not share your contact information with other nonprofit organizations, marketers, or any other third party. We may also verify your personal information with third parties in the course of processing a gift, event registration, or other related donor activity. By making a donation, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy.

    Other Information Disclosure

    We may also disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties if we believe disclosure is necessary: (i) to comply with the law, including in response to a subpoena, court order, government request, or other legal process; (ii) to protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Fenton Pride Collective, our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, volunteers, representatives, other related parties, or the individuals we serve; (iii) to enforce our Terms (including this Privacy Policy); (iv) in connection with a sale, merger, or or corporate reorganization of Fenton Pride Collective or our affiliates, or the transfer of any of our operations, or (v) to address fraud, security (physical or cybersecurity), technical issues, or to operate or improve this Website or our infrastructure systems.

    You may voluntarily remove your name and/or contact information from our internal marketing and communication lists (i.e., “opt out”) by contacting us in writing at info@fentonpride.org. We may identify you by name as a donor in our annual report and other public documents. You may choose to have gifts listed in public as “anonymous” by contacting us in writing at info@fentonpride.org or by marking “anonymous” at the time of your donation. You must request removal if you do not want your name to potentially appear in public as a supporter, and in limited circumstances we may need to disclose your name if required by law. Please note that Fenton Pride Collective reserves the right to contact you regarding gifts even after you have removed yourself from marketing and communications lists.

    Donor List Exchanges

    We also may share donor names, email addresses, and mailing addresses with other nonprofit organizations in exchange for the names, email addresses, and mailing addresses of their donors.

    We never sell our donor lists. We only occasionally exchange them with nonprofit groups, under the following conditions:

    • At no time and under no circumstances will we trade, sell, exchange, or otherwise make our donor lists available to political parties, campaigns, or political action groups, and we will not buy or otherwise secure lists from those groups.
    • Donors will be informed of their right to remove their name from lists to be exchanged and those requests will be promptly honored.
    • We control the exchange of any lists by dealing directly with the nonprofit organization or by securing the written agreement of a third-party broker to adhere to our policy on this matter.
    • Lists would be exchanged for a one-time use only and may not be used for any other purpose (e.g., telemarketing, phone solicitation, etc.). 
    • No information will be shared about a donor’s giving history.

    If you are a donor and wish to “opt out” of these exchanges, or if you have any questions, feel free to email us at info@fentonpride.org. This opt-out will not affect any exchange occurring prior to your opt-out (and it may take a number of weeks for the opt-out to be processed for paper mailings);  we encourage you to contact the third party organization directly if you no longer wish to receive their information.

    To the extent that you use our Website, please see our information collection and use practices disclosed above.

    Children Under 13 Years of Age

    As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, The Trevor Project is not subject to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). However, we take children’s privacy seriously, and we encourage users and their parents to review this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service to understand our information collection practices.

    Your Choices Regarding Personal Information

    You have certain choices concerning our collection, use, and sharing of personal information about you. For example, if you have requested marketing email communications from us (e.g., newsletters) but do not wish to receive further information, you may “opt out” of receiving these by following the instructions contained in those email messages. If any of your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire to receive email communications from us, you may edit or delete your information by unsubscribing from the mailing list. At any time, you may also change your browser cookie settings.

    Certain laws enable individuals to request information concerning whether their data has been disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. We never share your data with third parties for their own marketing purposes, but the information we share with Facebook may be used to deliver you certain advertisements; this is solely to increase awareness about our services, to attract new volunteer counselors, and to encourage more funding.

    International Transfers

    We are based in the United States. Use of our Services outside the United States is not permitted. While we do not actively service or target international users, if you are an international user, the information you submit to us and that we automatically collect as a result of your using the Website will be transferred to the United States, where the privacy and data protection rules may differ from those in your country.

    Information Security

    We are committed to maintaining your confidence and trust, and we take security measures to protect your information. However, no transmission or electronic storage of information is guaranteed to be secure. We therefore urge you to always use caution when transmitting information over the internet. Despite all of Fenton Pride Collective’s security procedures, the internet is not a perfectly secure environment, and Fenton Pride Collective cannot guarantee protection from intruders or interceptors. You further agree to use our Website and submit information at your own risk. You agree that Fenton Pride Collective has no liability regarding unauthorized access to our Website.

    Interpretation of Privacy Policy

    The terms “or” and “including” and similar terms will be interpreted non-exclusively to mean “and/or” or “including, but not limited to” or the equivalent, respectively.

    Contact Us

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

    Fenton Pride Collective
    P.O. Box 384
    Fenton, MI 48430

    info@fentonpride.org

    Effective March 16, 2025