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Who We Are
Personal information we collect
How we use your personal information
How we share your personal information
Your choices
International data transfer
Children’s Privacy
Security measures
Changes to this Privacy Policy

Who We Are

GATE, Inc. (“GATE,” “we,” “us,” or “our“) is a global trans-led advocacy organization dedicated to advancing gender equality for all. This Privacy Policy describes how GATE processes personal information that we collect through our digital or online properties or services that link to this Privacy Policy (including, as applicable, our website and social media pages) as well as our marketing activities, live events and other activities described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Service”)).

Personal information we collect

We may collect personal information about you from three primary sources:

  • Information you choose to provide.
  • Information provided by third parties.
  • Information that is automatically collected.

Information You Choose to Provide

Personal information you may provide to us through the Service or otherwise includes:

  • Contact data, such as your first and last name, salutation, email address, professional title and company name, and phone number.
  • Demographic data, such as your city, state, country of residence, postal code, and age.
  • Communications data based on our exchanges with you, including when you contact us through the Service, social media, or otherwise. 
  • Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them.
  • Donation data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your donations on or through the Service, including order numbers and transaction history. 
  • Payment data needed to complete donations and other transactions, including payment card information or bank account number.
  • Survey data, such as your responses to surveys, including information entered in any free-form text fields that are part of the survey.
  • Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Information Provided by Third Parties 

We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information falling within one of the categories identified above that we obtain from other sources, such as:

  • Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.
  • Data providers, such as information services and data licensors. 
  • Partners, such marketing partners and event co-sponsors. 
  • Service providers that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our organization.

Information That Is Automatically Collected

When you visit any website, the site can automatically collect information about your visit. When you browse through our site, read pages, download information, or otherwise interact with the Service, we, our service providers, and our organization partners may automatically collect certain information, such as:

  • Device data, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type of browser and operating system used, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
  • Online activity data, such as the URL of the referring page, object requested, completion status of the request, pages visited and navigated between, the date and time of access, search engine queries that took you to the Service, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.
  • Communication interaction data,suchas your interactions with our email, text or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails). We may do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which may be embedded invisibly in our emails. 

For more information concerning our automatic collection of data, please see the Cookies and other technologies section below.

Data about others. We may offer features that help users refer their friends or contacts to the Service, and we may collect contact details about these invitees so we can deliver their invitations. Please do not refer someone to us or share their contact details with us unless you have their permission to do so. 

Cookies and other technologies. Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies:

  • Cookies, whichare small files that web servers place on a user’s device. Depending on how they are designed, cookies can serve several functions, such as allowing the website to identify you as a previous visitor each time you access a site, tracking what information you view at a site, tracking your navigation through a website, and helping a website save a visitor’s preferences. Cookies we use include “session cookies,” for example to facilitate the use of a particular page and to identify the number and type of pages viewed during visits to gate.ngo. Session cookies disappear when the web user terminates a Web session and closes the browser. GATE also permits “persistent cookies” that remain longer, for example to collect online activity metrics as outlined above.  
  • Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications. 
  • Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked. 

For information concerning your choices with respect to the use of tracking technologies, see the Your choices section below.

How we use your personal information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:

Service delivery and operations. We may use your personal information to:

  • provide the Service;
  • enable security features of the Service;
  • communicate with you about the Service, including by sending Service-related announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • communicate with you about surveys or other events in which you participate; and
  • provide support for the Service, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

Service personalization, which may include using your personal information to:

  • understand your needs and interests;
  • personalize your experience with the Service and our Service-related communications; and
  • remember your selections and preferences as you navigate webpages.

Service improvement and analytics. We may use your personal information, including personal information provided in response to surveys, to analyze your usage of the Service, improve the Service, improve the rest of our organization, help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services. 

For example, we use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses first-party persistent cookies to collect metrics such as those listed in the Information That Is Automatically Collected section above. Unless you first opt-out, the Google Analytics code will automatically place a persistent cookie in your computer’s browser to access GATE’s website. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how to prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our sites here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Marketing and advertising. We, our service providers and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:

  • Direct Marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications and may personalize these messages based on your needs and interests. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of communications section below.  
  • Interest-based advertising. Our third-party advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction (including the data described in the automatic data collection section above) with the Service, our communications and other online services over time, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms.

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

  • comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas, investigations or requests from government authorities;
  • protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); 
  • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies; 
  • enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and 
  • prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.  

Data sharing in the context of organization events, we may share certain personal information in the context of actual or prospective organization events – for more information, see How we share your personal information below.

To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data. We may create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into de-identified and/or anonymized data by removing information that makes the data identifiable to you. We may use this aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful organization purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our organization. For example, we may share automatically collected non-personally identifiable information with others, including the public, in aggregated form (e.g., a list of our most popular search engine queries). 

Cookies and similar technologies. In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes:

  • Technical operation. To allow the technical operation of the Service, such as by remembering your selections and preferences as you navigate the site.
  • Functionality. To enhance the performance and functionality of our services.
  • Advertising. To help our third-party advertising partners collect information about how you use the Service and other online services over time, which they use to show you ads on other online services they believe will interest you and measure how the ads perform.
  • Analytics. To help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails. 

Further uses. In some cases, we may use your personal information for further uses, in which case we will ask for your consent to use of your personal information for those further purposes if they are not compatible with the initial purpose for which information was collected.

How we share your personal information

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, in other applicable notices, or at the time of collection.  

Service providers. Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our organization (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, consumer research and website analytics). For example, we may use third parties such as SurveyMonkey to conduct surveys. These third parties may collect personal information from you when you participate in a survey powered by their platform, which they will use in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

Payment processors. Any payment card or bank account information you use to make a donation on the Service is collected and processed directly by our payment processors, such as Qgiv and Stripe. These payment processors may use your payment data in accordance with their respective privacy policies. Qgiv’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.qgiv.com/privacy-policy and Stripe’s privacy policy can be found at https://stripe.com/privacy. 

Advertising partners. Third-party advertising companies for the interest-based advertising purposes described above. 

Third parties designated by you. We may share your personal information with third parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. 

Partners. Third partieswith whom we partner, including parties with whom we co-sponsor events or promotions, with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and protection purposes described above. 

Your choices 

Opt-out of communications. You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.  

Cookies.  If you are concerned about the potential use of the information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and reject cookies. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Service may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also configure your device to prevent images from loading to prevent web beacons from functioning.

Blocking images/clear gifs: Most browsers and devices allow you to configure your device to prevent images from loading. To do this, follow the instructions in your particular browser or device settings.

Advertising choices. You may be able to limit the use of your information for interest-based advertising through the following settings/options/tools:

  • Browser settings. Changing your internet web browser settings to block third-party cookies.
  • Privacy browsers/plug-ins. Using privacy browsers and/or ad-blocking browser plug-ins that let you block tracking technologies. 
  • Platform settings. Google, LinkedIn and Meta offer opt-out features that let you opt-out of use of your information for interest-based advertising. You may be able to exercise that option at the following websites:
  • Ad industry tools. Opting out of interest-based ads from companies that participate in the following industry opt-out programs:
  • Mobile settings. Using your mobile device settings to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.

You will need to apply these opt-out settings on each device and browser from which you wish to limit the use of your information for interest-based advertising purposes.  

We cannot offer any assurances as to whether the companies we work with participate in the opt-out programs described above. 

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Declining to provide information. We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services.

Social Media and Other Third-Party Sites and Services

In addition to GATE’s official website, GATE uses social media and other third-party sites to provide GATE content in a format that may be useful or interesting to you. Please be aware that the privacy protection provided on social media and third-party sites is not a part of the gate.ngo domain may not be the same as the privacy protection described here. 

Additionally, our website may contain links that allow you to navigate to other websites, mobile applications, and online services operated by third parties. This Privacy Policy only applies to GATE and does not apply to any third parties. GATE does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites or services operated by third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy policies on third-party sites before using any services or programs they offer. 

International data transfer

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.  

Children’s Privacy

The Service is not intended for use by anyone under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly ask for or collect personal data from individuals under 13. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal data from an individual under 13, please contact us immediately at info@gate.ngo. 

Security measures 

GATE takes steps to protect your information from unauthorized access. While we take reasonable measures to protect the information you submit via the website or other means against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Internet, email, or mobile application transmission is never fully secure or error-free, and email or other messages sent through the website may not be secure. You should use caution when submitting information through email or the website and carefully decide which information you provide us. 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service or other appropriate means. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Policy on this page. In all cases, your use of the Service after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acknowledging that the modified Privacy Policy applies to your interactions with the Service and our organization.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us at info@gate.ngo.

By using our website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Thank you for trusting us with your information.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 1 August 2024.

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Last updated: 13 September 2024