Privacy Policy

This Statement of Privacy applies to reparationsfinance.org, reparationsfinancelab.org, and their related properties, and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to The Center for Reparations Finance and Practice and The Reparations Finance Lab (collectively, "the Center," "we," "us," or "our") include reparationsfinance.org, reparationsfinancelab.org, related websites, newsletters, and all related properties and communications. The Center for Reparations Finance and Practice and The Reparations Finance Lab are fiscally sponsored projects of Humanitarian Social Innovations, a 501(c)(3) organization (Tax ID: 46-4779591). By using the Site or subscribing to any of our communications, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

Access to the Site and its publicly available resources does not require you to provide personal information. Certain features — such as newsletter subscriptions, event registrations, community of practice participation, or donations — may require additional information, as detailed below.

In order to better provide you with resources and services, the Center may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

First and last name
Email address
Phone number
Professional title and organizational affiliation
Mailing address

If you make a donation through the Site, billing and payment information is collected and processed by our fiscal sponsor, Humanitarian Social Innovations, and/or its payment processing partners (such as Stripe or comparable services). This information is recorded by them — not by the Center directly.

The Center may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

Geographic region
Professional sector or field of practice

In addition, when you interact with our newsletter or website content, we may receive further anonymous information about your interactions from our third-party providers. This information includes:

Geographic location
Time zone
Type of interaction (email click or open, number of opens, number of clicks, links or buttons clicked)

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain features or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account, newsletter, or community program; (b) registering for events, trainings, or convenings; (c) making a donation; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting information through a form on the Site. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services, resources, and programming you have requested from us. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future related to these services.

Use of Your Personal Information

The Center collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the resources and services you have requested.

The Center may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other resources, events, programming, or publications available from the Center.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Center does not sell, rent, or lease its user or donor lists to third parties.

The Center may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email communications, provide technical support, or process donations. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Center, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Center may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Center or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Center or Humanitarian Social Innovations; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site, or the public.

Service Providers

The Center uses third-party service providers in the operation of its website and related services. These providers may receive or process personal information on the Center's behalf in accordance with their own privacy policies. Current service providers may include:

Website hosting and content management platform
Email newsletter distribution service
Payment processing for donations (through Humanitarian Social Innovations)
Analytics platform for website traffic analysis and usage statistics

The Center may add or change service providers from time to time. All service providers are required to handle your data in accordance with applicable privacy standards and are prohibited from using your personal information for any purpose other than providing services to the Center.

Donor Information

The Center collects personal information from donors, including name, email address, mailing address, and payment information, in connection with processing charitable contributions. Donations are processed through our fiscal sponsor, Humanitarian Social Innovations. Donor information is used to process contributions, issue tax receipts, acknowledge gifts, and communicate with donors about the Center's work. The Center does not share donor information with third parties for marketing or solicitation purposes. Donor information may be shared with Humanitarian Social Innovations as necessary for fiscal administration and legal compliance.

Tracking User Behavior

The Center may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the Site, emails subscribers open, or links within emails subscribers click, in order to determine what resources and content are the most useful. This data is used to improve the Site and deliver relevant content to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by the Center. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.

Use of Cookies

The Site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with the Site or its services, a cookie helps the Center recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Site.

Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting that sends a signal to websites you visit indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. At this time, the Center does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals. We may update this practice as industry standards evolve.

Links

The Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that 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.

Security of Your Personal Information

The Center secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Center uses the following methods for this purpose:

SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as payment information) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Data Retention

The Center retains your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services and resources you have requested, maintain your account, fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations, and resolve disputes. If you unsubscribe from our communications, we will delete your personal information from our active mailing lists within a reasonable period, though certain records may be retained as required by law or for legitimate organizational purposes such as donor record-keeping and regulatory compliance. If you have questions about the retention of your data, please contact us at info@reparationsfinance.org.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

Delete your personal information from our records; and
Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
Honor an existing subscription, event registration, or donor record. Please ensure you have unsubscribed completely or concluded any active relationship prior to making any personal information deletion requests;
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another individual to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including:

Right to know. You have the right to request that the Center disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which your personal information was collected, the business or organizational purpose for collecting your personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.
Right to delete. You have the right to request that the Center delete your personal information, subject to the exceptions described in the Right to Deletion section above.
Right to opt out of sale. The Center does not sell your personal information to third parties.
Right to non-discrimination. The Center will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@reparationsfinance.org. We will respond to verifiable requests within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Children Under Thirteen

The Center does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Email Communications

From time to time, the Center may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, event information, resource updates, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Center or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving newsletters or other communications via email from the Center, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe button included in each email.

Contributor Data

If you contribute content to the Center — whether through a written article, case study, framework, tool, or other submission — we may collect and publish your name, professional title, organizational affiliation, biographical information, photograph, and any other information you provide in connection with your contribution. This information may be published on the Site, in newsletters, in training materials, and in related publications, and may remain publicly accessible for as long as the content is published. By contributing, you acknowledge that this information becomes part of the Center's published record. Contributors may request updates to their biographical information by contacting us at info@reparationsfinance.org. Requests to remove contributed content or associated personal information from published materials are subject to the Center's editorial discretion and the license granted under our Terms and Conditions.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to This Statement

The Center reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on our website and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this policy or wish to request a copy of or make updates to your personal information collected by the Center, please contact us:

Email: info@reparationsfinance.org

Mailing Address: The Center for Reparations Finance and Practice c/o Humanitarian Social Innovations 301 Broadway, Suite 115 Bethlehem, PA 18015

Effective as of May 23, 2026