Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated 01/31/24

The Internet Coalition (“IC,” “we,” or “our”) is a non-profit coalition that provides subject-matter expertise to policymakers at the state level. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data when you visit and interact with our website (the “Site”).

We collect only the personal data that you provide to us using the forms available on the Site. We use your personal data to contact you if you request us to do so. We also use analytics services to analyze the Site’s traffic.

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

Types of Data Collected-

Personal Data

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal data that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal data includes:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically via cookies when using the Site.

Usage Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Site by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site or when you access the Site by or through a mobile device.

While we use cookies to obtain this data, and while it is possible to convert this information into personal data, we use this information only to better understand statistics such as page views, unique views, and peak-volume traffic periods. We do not use this information to personally identify individuals.

Use of Your Personal Data

IC may use personal data and usage data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

  • To contact you: To contact you by email or telephone in response to inquiries or requests you submit via the webforms on our Site.

For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and to evaluate and improve our Site, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With vendors and business partners: We may share your personal information with vendors and business partners to monitor and analyze the use of our Site, respond to your requests, and
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • With your consent: If we seek to disclose your personal data for any other purpose, we will do so with your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain and use your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

IC may also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Site, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, IC may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

IC may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of IC
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Children

The Site is not for use by children under the age of thirteen (13) years and IC does not knowingly collect, store, share, or use the information of children under thirteen (13) years. If you are under the age of thirteen (13) years, please do not provide any information about yourself, even if prompted by the Site to do so. If you are under the age of thirteen (13) years and you have provided such information, please ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify IC and IC will delete all such information.

Security of Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable precautions designed to protect the information we collect from unauthorized access, acquisition, and other types of misuse. Please be aware that no data security measures can guarantee 100% security.

Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting new Privacy Policies on this page.

We will let you know via the “last updated” data at the top of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

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