Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to the website http://www.ebonyvirtualoa.org (the “site”) that is owned and operated by Ebony Virtual Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous (OA). It describes how Ebony Virtual Intergroup of OA collects, uses, shares, and secures the personal information you provide. It also describes your choices available to you regarding use, access, correction, and deletion of your personal information.

Ebony Virtual Intergroup respects your privacy and takes protecting it seriously. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at +1-404-855-1330.

When you visit our website and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Site and our services.

The type of information we collect

Our website provides various services, most of which you can access without providing personal information, and some of which require you to share your information with us.

We collect contact information, such as name, email address, phone number and other similar contact data that you voluntarily provide about yourself at the Site and expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our content and services, or when participating in activities on the Site or otherwise contacting us. For instance, you may contact the Ebony Intergroup of OA though a web contact form that will result in our collecting your contact information.

This data is considered “identifying information”, as it can personally identify you.

We only request personal data relevant to providing you with information about OA.

Our primary purpose for collecting this information is to use it to help provide information to you or to improve the service on the site.

We also may collect usernames, passwords, password hints, and similar security information if used for account access authentication.

Depending on how you wish to use the website, you may be requested to supply all, some, or none of this information.

ebonyvirtualoa.org is an online resource for information about Ebony Overeaters Anonymous Virtual Intergroup that you can browse without registering any information.

We may also collect personal data necessary to process your payment if you make contributions to Ebony Intergroup of OA, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors (such as Venmo) whose use of your personal data is governed by their Privacy Policy.

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, we may collect, through cookies and similar technologies, information about your location, activities on our website, information about your device, and login information. This includes an anonymized version of your internet protocol (IP) address, the browser type, operating system, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g. HTML pages, graphics, etc.), the date/time stamp and clickstream data.

These cookies are used by the website to make a user’s experience more efficient, to help us understand how you use the site, to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your email address.

You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.

How we use and process your information

We use or may use personal information collected via our Site for a variety of purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate interests, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use or may use the information we collect or receive:

To send administrative information to you: We may use your personal information to send you content, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
To fulfill and manage your Seventh Tradition contributions made through the Site.
To post shares of experience, strength and hope: Prior to posting a share, we will obtain your consent to use your first name, last initial and testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your share, please contact us at ebonyoavirtual@gmail.com and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
To request Feedback: We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Site.
To enable user to user communications: When you fill out the contact form, an Ebony OA service fellow may contact you directly.
For other OA Purposes: We may use your information for other OA purposes, such as information on meetings, events, announcements and sponsorship, and to facilitate data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our internet, multimedia and social media campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Site, content, services, marketing and your experience.

Who we share your data with

We may process or share data based on the following:

Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for specific purposes.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or act regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

Vendors, Consultants and Other Third Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Sites, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Site over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. We do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for promotional purposes.

Where we transfer your data

The personal information we collect is stored and processed in United States or elsewhere, where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. We use reasonable efforts to transfer personal data only within jurisdictions that have data protection laws which are aligned to our commitment to protecting the privacy of our users.

How long we keep your information

We only retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide a service or to improve our services in future. While we retain this data, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. That said, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and cannot guarantee absolute data security.

If you request your personal information to be deleted, or where your personal information becomes no longer relevant to our operations, we will erase it from our system within a reasonable timeframe.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, and we will review the data for deletion quarterly, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

How we keep your information safe

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the Internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

What are your privacy rights?

In some regions such as in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please use the contact details provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.

If you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority, providing us first with the full details of your complaint so that we may take all steps necessary to protect your personal information.

Cookies and similar technologies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. As already mentioned, if you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites.

Opting out of email marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Controls for do-not-track features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may need to update this policy from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest update of our privacy policy.

Privacy questions or feedback

If you have questions or concerns about Ebony Overeaters Anonymous Virtual Intergroup’s privacy policy, please contact us at ebonyoavirtual@gmail.com or phone: +1-404-855-1330.

Last amended: September 4, 2022

Effective Date: September 4, 2022