Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 14, 2024

The National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to this Victims’ Rights Advice website (“Website”). In this Privacy Policy the terms “NCVLI”, “we” and “our” each refer to NCVLI, NCVLI staff, board directors, interns, students, volunteers, contractors, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep confidential information they receive as part of their assistance to and work with NCVLI.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by the Website. It details the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the Website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect against the misuse of your information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

When you access the Website or submit information through the Website, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We have access to/collect information that you give us via email, Website form, or other direct contact, and we may also collect other types of information whenever you use the Website through automated means such as cookies. We will not sell or rent this information.

We will use your information to respond to you, to guard against potential fraud, and to comply with laws and regulations. Information that you have provided for the purpose of seeking advice will be shared with volunteer attorneys who have signed up to answer questions submitted through the Website.

We may disclose information you have provided to us if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to: (1) comply with the law, or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property, including without limitation this Website; or (3) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public. If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have submitted, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice (unless such notice could result in harm to others, or we are constrained by law from so doing) that a request for your information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure. In addition, we may independently object to requests for access to information about users of our Website that we believe to be improper.

Device Information & Usage Data

Regardless of whether you submit personal data, any time you visit the Website, we or our contractors may collect, store or accumulate certain device information and usage data. This information, including demographic information, may be used in furtherance of the purposes described above with respect to personal data and also in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as optimizing the Website, generating statistics and developing marketing plans, and otherwise for general administrative, analytical, research, optimization, and security purposes.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

At any time you can do the following by contacting us via the contact form provided on the Website:

• Request that we delete any personally identifying information we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your information.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the Website, your information is protected both online and offline to the best of our ability.

Wherever we collect sensitive information it is encrypted and transmitted to us securely. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https'' at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only staff, board directors, interns, students, volunteers, contractors, and consultants who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Where We Store Information

NCVLI is located in the United States. NCVLI will therefore transfer, process and store your information in the United States, which may not provide the same level of protections as the laws of another country. Please be aware that by accessing the Website and by giving us your information, you consent to such transfer.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a text file placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences, help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. We use cookies to understand Website and Internet usage and to improve or customize the Website and the content, offerings, or advertisements you see on the Website. 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 information on our site.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually configure your browser to prevent this. Not accepting cookies may make certain features of the Website unavailable to you.

Links

This Website contains links to other sites not owned by NCVLI. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. 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 information.

General Legal

All other terms governing this Privacy Policy shall be those set forth in our Terms of Use, which are incorporated herein by this reference.

You can contact us with questions or comments about this Privacy Policy by emailing us at ncvli@lclark.edu.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time; review it frequently. We will post any changes on the Website, but we have no other obligation to notify you of such changes. The date of the current version of this Privacy Policy is noted in the “Effective Date” above. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will affect all of the information we have previously collected from you, as well as the information we collect after such changes; and such changes may include without limitation additional uses or disclosures of your information. If any of the changes represent a material change that substantially expands our use of personal information, the changes will be posted at least 30 days prior to taking effect and we will post a prompt on the home page of our site for users to review the new privacy policy.

Our Sites and Children

If you are under 13, do not provide your personal information. Please ask your parent or guardian to fill out the questionnaire on your behalf. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child (who is under 13) has provided us with personal information, please contact us to have your child’s information removed.