Your Merchant Account and Gateway provider will require you to publish Privacy Policy and Terms statements for online transactions and it is best practice (and in California, the law) to explicitly detail how personal information collected online will be stored and used.
A Privacy Policy describes how you will/may use personal information collected. The Terms statement describes the nature and expectations of the "sales contract".
Default statements are available for your use. The default Terms statement is already posted as a link in the footer on all pages of your event site. Be sure to review these generic terms and conditions and edit as needed.
The Privacy Policy must be reviewed and approved by someone on your team before it will display on your site because the default policy includes two declarative statements which may not be true for your organization:
When reviewing the default Privacy Policy text, pay special attention to these elements:
The California Consumer Privacy Act applies to any business, including any not-for-profit entity that collects consumers' personal data, which does business in California, and satisfies at least one of the following thresholds:
- Has annual gross revenues in excess of $25 million;
- Possesses the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices; or
- Earns more than half of its annual revenue from selling consumers' personal information.
- We are confident that the vast majority of our customers do not meet these criteria, so we included this statement in the default text: “[organization_name] does not meet any of these criteria and is thus exempt.”
- To honor the intent of providing transparency in the Privacy Policy, the default text includes the declarative statement (in two places): “[organization_name] does not sell, rent/lease or share any of its supporter lists and/or personal data to any third parties.”
Obviously, if either of these statements are inaccurate for your organization, you’ll need to replace the default text with your own Privacy Policy.
To view and/or edit the default Privacy Policy and Terms statements:
To Make Additional Edits to Your Terms and Privacy Policy
Go to Admin > View Dashboard > Online Privacy Policy and click the Published or Unpublished button
OR Go to Site Settings > Customize Your Site > General > Your Terms and Privacy Policy > Edit
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