Privacy Policy

Who we are

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has established this privacy policy to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and confidentiality. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices that apply to www.lawyerscommittee.org.
Note that this site may contain links to other sites. The Lawyers’ Committee is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware
when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that
collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by this Web site.

Effective Date: August 15, 2025

What is this Privacy Policy?
This is the website privacy policy of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (“the
Lawyers’ Committee”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This website privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”)
applies to the Lawyers’ Committee and all its owned websites (lawyerscommittee.org,
prepparents.org, 866ourvote.org, 8449nohate.org, thefuturewedeserve.org), together hereafter
referred to as the “Site.”

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Lawyers’ Committee Terms of Use (the “Terms”)
and sets forth the Lawyers’ Committee websites’ current policies and procedures with respect to
the Personal Information of all visitors to the Site (“you” or “your”). “Personal Information”
means any information that relates to you as an individual and could reasonably be used to
identify you. Your continued use of the Site indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and
of the collection, use, disclosure, management, and storage of your Personal Information as
described below.
If you have any further questions beyond what is detailed in the scope of this Privacy Policy, you
may contact us at: privacyrequests@lawyerscommittee.org.
If you do not consent to the Privacy Policy as detailed above and in the ensuing
paragraphs, please discontinue use of the site immediately by closing the browser tab.

Collection and Use of Personal Information
Personal Information
The Lawyers’ Committee will collect Personal Information directly from you, including your full
name, phone number, email address, home address, credit card information, and any other
information you provide to us, solely when you voluntarily provide it to us, including in the
following instances:

• When you submit a donation via our Donate page.
• When you create or update an account on our Site.
• When you fill out our Site forms (e.g. our “Contact Us” page, our surveys, our petition
  forms).
• When you sign up for an event or volunteer opportunities hosted by the Lawyers’
  Committee and posted on our Site.
• When you apply for a job listed on our Site.
• When you sign up for our marketing communications (e.g. our newsletter, action alerts).

During normal browsing, the Site may automatically collect information including:

• User behavior: pages visited, time spent on each page, bounce rates, and navigation
  paths.
• Traffic sources: how visitors found the Site (e.g., organic search, direct, referral, social
  media).
• Generalized geographic data: general location (city, country) based on IP.
• Device and browser details: including browser, IP address, operating system, screen
  resolution, and type of device (desktop, mobile, tablet).
  Please note that the information we automatically collect may be collected through cookies and
  other tracking technologies such as pixels that are placed on our Site.

Why We Use This Information
We may use the information we collect to:

• Provide you with the Site. We may use your Personal Information to make available the
  Site, to receive services in connection with the provision of the Site or administration of
  our organization, to create or update your account, to fulfill our contractual obligations
  and to provide you with services you request (i.e., submitting a donation, signing up for
  an event or applying or a job). While we do contract with a third-party vendor for the
  purpose of donation collection, we will use this information only for the purposes of why
  they were submitted.
• Market our services to you. We may use your Personal Information to send you
  communications about our services and events. We may do so through various methods,
  including email and social media. Please note that you can opt-out of receiving marketing
  communications by following links provided in the messages or by contacting us directly
  using the contact information below.
• Evaluate employment applications. We may use your Personal Information collected
  directly from you to evaluate job applicants.
• Communicate with you. We may use your Personal Information to communicate with
  you and respond to your inquiries and requests using any of the contact methods you
  voluntarily provide to us (such as email, mail or telephone).
• Comply with the law and exercise our rights. We may use your Personal Information
  as reasonably necessary to assess and ensure compliance with applicable laws, legal
  requirements, and company policies; to protect our assets or to investigate or defend
  against any claims of illegality or wrongdoing (including to obtain legal advice or to
  establish, exercise or defend legal rights); and in response to a court order or judicial or
  other government subpoena or warrant.
• Manage our Site. We may use your Personal Information to enable, analyze and improve
  our Site for usability and accessibility, authenticate you, track pages viewed or messages
  opened, to personalize your browsing experience, and to provide you with tailored content.

We may also aggregate, anonymize, or otherwise use your Personal Information without
identifying you for any purpose permitted by applicable law.
You may decline to share certain information with us, in which case we may not be able to
provide you with our services.

When We Share Your Personal Information
We may disclose your Personal Information, to be used only for legitimate purposes in keeping
with this Privacy Policy, to:

• Service providers. We may disclose your information to third-party vendors who
  provide services in support of our business operations, such as donation processing,
  marketing management, and data analytics.
• Professional Advisors. We may also disclose your Personal Information to our
  professional advisors such as our attorneys, accountants, and insurance providers.
• Parties involved in a dissolution, sale, or bankruptcy. We may disclose your information
  to relevant third parties in the event of a dissolution, the Lawyers’ Committee is sold to a
  third party, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy.
• Law enforcement or other governmental entities. We may disclose your information if
  required to do so by law or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to
  comply with the law, prevent unlawful activity, defend our rights, or maintain security.
• Other third parties with your consent. We may disclose your information to any other
• third party where you have provided consent to such disclosure.

Our Election Protection Hotline
When you contact our Election Protection Hotline, we may collect and store limited categories of
your Personal Information, including your name and phone number, to provide our voter support
services. We may share such limited categories of Personal Information with third party partners
in our network to provide our voter support services that you request.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or maintain any information from any person younger than 13
years of age. No portion of our site is designed in any way to attract any person younger than 13.
If we do inadvertently collect any information from a person younger than 13 without verifiable
parental consent, we will promptly delete the information. If you are under 13 years of age, then
please do not use or access the services at any time or in any manner. By continuing to use our
Site, you are acknowledging that you are over the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and
discover that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please
contact us using the contact information below to request that we delete the information from our
systems.

Visitors from Outside the United States
The Lawyers’ Committee operates in the United States, and any Personal Information collected
pursuant to this Privacy Policy may be accessed from and/or stored by Company, or those acting
on Company’s behalf, in the United States. If you use the Lawyers’ Committee’s services from
outside the United States, you acknowledge that your Personal Information may be transferred to
or accessed from the United States, and consent to such transfer or access.
External Links to Third-Party Sites
This Site may contain links to other sites. You understand that the Lawyers’ Committee is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites, this also applies to any site
that claims a partnership or relationship with the Lawyers’ Committee. We encourage our users
to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every
website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to
information collected by this Site.
Data Retention
We retain information as long as it is reasonably necessary to provide our products and services,
and for other purposes including to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed,
resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, or enforce our Terms or
other agreements.
Security
The Lawyers’ Committee has put in place administrative, technical, and physical safeguards
designed to protect all data under our supervision. However, it must be understood that data is
never 100% guaranteed safe on the internet and breaches can happen at any time. We therefore
cannot guaranty and do not warrant the absolute security of your Personal Information. If you
reside outside the United States, please note the Personal Information we collect about you may
not be subject to the same level of protection of Personal Information as it would be in the
jurisdiction in which you reside. You may contact us at privacyrequests@lawyerscommittee.org
to learn more about the safeguards that apply to your Personal Information and to request a copy
of such safeguards. Please also contact us immediately at this email address if you believe that
there has been a breach of data from our Site.

By acknowledging this Privacy Policy and continuing to use our Site, you acknowledge that data
cannot be 100% secure on the internet, and you have consented to provide your information
regardless of this fact and have done so at your own risk.

Updates to our Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy over time as standards change and as new laws and
regulations are introduced. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy each time you visit the
Site, as things may have changed between now and the next time you visit. Changes made will
not be applied retroactively to Personal Information already collected, unless required by law.
When we make any update to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you via the email you have
provided, or by posting a notice on the Site.

Contact
As explained above, we may use your email address or other Personal Information to market our
services to you. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications by following links
provided in the messages or by contacting us directly using the contact information below.
Please contact us with any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our use
of your Personal Information by email at privacyrequests@lawyerscommittee.org or by mail at
1500 K Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005.