Privacy Policy
Effective Date: November 2025
This notice discloses the privacy policy for the West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc. (WVRC) and applies solely to data collected by this website. You hereby acknowledge and fully understand this privacy policy and consent to the personal data collection and use practices described in this privacy policy.
It will notify you of the following:
- How personal data is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your data.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the data.
Changes to this Notice. WVRC reserves the right to change this noticeat any time. We will notify you of any such changes by posting an updated policy on our website. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address you specified) or by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- “Personal data” means any information that identifies or can reasonably identify you as an individual (such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number, etc.).
- “Processing” means any operation performed on personal data, such as collection, storage, use, sharing, or deletion.
- “Third party” means any organization or individual other than the data subject (you) and the West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc.
Information Collection, Use, Retention, and Sharing
We collect data you voluntarily share with us through this website or through one of our partner organizations. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. Our primary goal in collecting information is to constantly improve our service to you as the user; to administer your use of our website, and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate our website.
If you respond to a survey or other question via our website, we collect certain personal data such as your name, email address, mailing address or other data that can be used to contact you or identify you as an individual.
We use your personal data to help customize advertising and content available on our website, and to conduct research for internal purposes.
We will use your data to communicate with you regarding the reason you supplied us with your data. We don’t share your information outside our organization except when it’s necessary to fulfill your request or when we have a formal data-sharing agreement with a partner, who must also protect your information.
We may use third-party service providers, such as email marketing platforms, website analytics services, or donation processors (e.g., PayPal and Stripe), to help us operate our website and communicate with you. These providers have access to personal data only as needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to use it for other purposes.
We will keep your personal data only as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy or such longer period as may be required by applicable law. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email, phone call, or mail in the future with event invitations, newsletters, press releases, educational dialogue, general business correspondence, and changes to this privacy policy.
We do not intend that children under 13 years old will use this website. We do not solicit or knowingly collect data from children under 13 years old, nor will we accept registration from them.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable data on our site. Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you have the ability to change your browser options on your computer to stop the automatic acceptance of cookies or to prompt you before accepting cookies. Please note, however, that if you don’t accept cookies, you may not be able to access all portions or features of the site. Note that this policy only covers our use of cookies and does not include the use of cookies by third parties. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to our site’s cookies.
Security
We take precautions to protect your data. When you submit sensitive personal data via the website, your personal data is protected both online and offline.
We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect online. Due to the realities of technology, no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing data is completely secure. Accordingly, we are unable to guarantee absolute security of any personal data. We shall endeavor to notify you of any breach of such personal data in a timely fashion.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We are not responsible for the content, privacy or security practices and policies of these other companies, individuals, websites and/or services and any data that you provide on or to third-party companies, individuals, websites or services are subject to those parties’ privacy policies. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable data.
Contact Us
You may review, revise and delete your personal data at any time on our site. You may also change your consent settings regarding e-mail newsletters. You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website. Every two years you will also get an email from us asking whether you wish to continue to receive our correspondence.
To exercise your rights under this notice, request additional information, or to file a complaint contact our privacy officer:
Operations Manager
wvrivers@wvrivers.org
304-637-7201
West Virginia Rivers Coalition, Inc.
3501 MacCorkle Ave SE #129
Charleston, WV 25304
