PACOLI Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 6th October 2025

PACOLI  is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you understand how your information is collected, used, and safeguarded. This Privacy Policy applies to the website https://pacoli.org and any associated services, forms, events, or communications.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information when you interact with our site:

• Personal Information you provide voluntarily — e.g. when you fill out contact/donation/member forms: name, email address, phone number, address, comments or message content.

• Technical / usage data — e.g. IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, time spent, click behavior.

• Cookies & tracking data — We may use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies to monitor and analyze traffic, site usage, preferences, and performance.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for purposes such as:

• Responding to your inquiries, messages, donation requests, or membership requests.

• Processing and managing donations, membership, or event registrations.

• Improving, operating, and maintaining the website — understanding how people use the site, and making enhancements.

• Sending you updates, newsletters, or important notices (with your consent, if required).

• Ensuring security, preventing fraud or abuse.

• Complying with legal obligations.

3. Sharing & Disclosure

We will not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to outside parties for marketing purposes without your consent. However, we may share information:

• With trusted third-party service providers (e.g. email services, website host, analytics) that help us operate the website or perform services on our behalf, under confidentiality agreements.

• If required by law, legal process, court order, or government request.

• To protect our rights, property, safety, or that of others.

• In connection with merger, sale, or reorganization, subject to confidentiality protections.

4. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies or similar technologies to:

• Store user preferences and settings.

• Recognize returning visitors.

• Analyze how our website is used (traffic, behavior) via analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics).

• Serve relevant content, improve performance, and provide personalized experience.

You can usually control cookies via your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may limit some website functionality.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws. If you request deletion, we will remove your information where feasible, unless retention is required for legal reasons.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights such as:

• Access: request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

• Correction: ask us to update, correct or complete your information.

• Deletion: request deletion of your personal data (subject to legal obligations).

• Objection or restriction: object to or limit certain processing of your data.

• Withdraw consent: if processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it (for future).

• Data portability (if applicable): obtain your data in a commonly used format.

To exercise these rights, please contact us via the contact information provided below. We may require to verify your identity before fulfilling requests.

7. Security Measures

We employ reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or storage is 100% secure. You share information at your own risk.

8. Third-Party Links & External Services

Our website may contain links to external websites or services (e.g., social media, donation processors). We do not control the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing personal information.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 13 (or applicable minimum age). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If we become aware that such data was collected without parental consent, we will delete it.

10. Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and “Effective Date” will be updated. Your continued use of the site after changes means you accept them.

11. Contact Information

If you have questions, concerns, or wish to access, correct, or delete your information, please contact us:

Email: management@pacoli.org
Address: 596 Larkfield Road, East Northport, NY 11731
Phone: 347-654-5685