Reclaim Pride Coalition NYC

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 02/25/2025

Up First

We know that legal documents can be confusing and boring. So, we wanted to give you a quick summary of our principles when it comes to collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information (information about you).

• Reclaim Pride Coalition NYC (RPC) is an inclusive direct-action group of LGBTQIA2S+ people and their allies. We respect your request to maintain your privacy or even your anonymity, both online and in person.

• RPC is committed to centering and amplifying the voices and needs of marginalized LGBTQIA2S+ communities, and part of our mission will involve opportunities for you (if you’d like) to share information with us: 

• For example, perhaps you’ll choose to sign up for our newsletter by providing us your email address, or you’ll choose to attend a meeting in person and share your name with us.

• You also might choose to participate in actions in public places where you could be photographed or recorded by members of RPC, the media, or the general public.

• Or, perhaps you’re just browsing our website - and like browsing any website, information is exchanged between your web browser and our website (it’s just the way the internet works).

• RPC is not interested in collecting more of your personal information than you’d like to provide to us (or is necessary - for example, to operate this website). We’re not interested in using or disclosing your personal information in ways you wouldn’t expect, and we will never sell your information. 

• Fundamentally, RPC’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information is to enable you to connect with us in the ways you’d like - for example, to communicate via email, to give you a receipt if you’ve donated funds, to ship RPC shirts, and so on.

• We also take the safety of our members and our group very seriously, and may use or disclose your personal information in order to protect you, our members, or RPC.

• RPC will not cooperate with law enforcement / government requests for your personal information unless we view it as necessary for your safety and wellbeing, or ours, or we are required to do so by law. If we are notified of a legal requirement to provide your personal information, we will work with our lawyers to determine whether to comply, and, if we’re able, notify you in advance about our decision.

• You have choices about the information you provide to us:

• You may determine whether (and what) information you choose to provide to us voluntarily (for example, whether to sign up for our newsletter).

• You may be able to implement computer, browser, or telecommunication controls that will limit what information we receive as a result of using our website (for example, by using a privacy-secure browser or a VPN to obscure your IP address).

• You may request that we not photograph or video you and we will make best efforts to do so, but we may notify you that in certain settings (for example, a public group action) it will not be possible for you to participate. We also cannot control whether the media or the general public photograph or record you in such settings.

Now, onto the legal stuff.

Introduction

Reclaim Pride Coalition NYC (“RPC”, “we”, “us”, “our) has created this Privacy Policy to inform you about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information when you visit and use our website (queermarch.org) or otherwise provide personal information to us (for example, by sending us messages on social media, via email, or signing up for events during in-person meetings on paper sign-up forms).

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not visit or use our website, or otherwise provide personal information to us.

We may change this Privacy Policy periodically. The most up-to-date version of this policy is located at [URL]. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy prior to visiting and using our website or otherwise providing information to us, and we will update the “last updated” date above to reflect any updates.

Collection of Personal Information

When you visit and use our website, or otherwise provide personal information to us, we may collect the following categories of information:

• Contact Information (for example, your name, email address, phone number, social media username)

• Shipping Information (for example, your name and mailing address)

• Device / Usage Information (for example, your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address, and technical information related to the computer, device, and/or web browser you’ve used to visit our website, as well as which pages you’ve visited on our website)

• Photos and video of you (for example, if you participate in an action that is photographed or recorded)

Vendors

In addition to information that we collect directly, in using our website, third-party service providers (vendors) may collect your information, pursuant to their own privacy policies. For example, if you choose to donate to RPC or purchase merchandise from RPC, a third-party service provider may collect information such as payment information, in addition to the above categories. In turn, these service providers may provide information about you to RPC (for example, a notice that you have made a donation for a certain amount, or have completed a payment for a certain product, along with your shipping information). Please review the privacy policies of third-party service providers for more information on their collection, use, and disclosure practices.

Use of Personal Information

RPC uses your personal information for a variety of purposes including:

• Providing / improving the service you have requested (for example, providing you with access our website, adding you to a mailing list, sending merchandise you have ordered)

• Communicating with you (for example, sending you emails about upcoming events or responding to messages you’ve sent us)

• Distributing information on our website, social media, and to the press about our actions (for example, posting photos/videos of actions in which you may have participated)

• Protecting RPC, RPC’s interests, or RPC’s members, or in order to comply with applicable law

• Any other purpose for which you provide us with personal information or consent to its use

Sharing of Personal Information

RPC may share your personal information as follows or otherwise disclosed to you:

• With vendors who provide services to RPC (for example, payment processors who accept payment on RPC’s behalf for merchandise that you order from RPC, or email / newsletter platforms who send communications on RPC’s behalf)

• With anyone in order to protect RPC, RPC’s interests, or RPC’s members, or in order to comply with applicable law

Contacting RPC 

You may contact RPC at any time at info@reclaimpridenyc.org to revoke consent to RPC’s use of your personal information. In certain jurisdictions, you may have the right to request a copy of, updates to, or deletion of, any of your personal information held by RPC. In the event you make such a request, RPC will make commercially reasonable efforts to comply, subject to any obligations under the law.