Privacy Policy.
How Uplift Incorporated collects, uses, and protects your personal information.
Uplift Incorporated ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard information collected through our website at upliftincorporated.org, through our donation, contact, and newsletter forms, through our event ticketing pages, and through the Boots & Brims mobile app for iPhone and Android.
Information we collect
We collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:
- Make a donation through our PayPal donation page
- Submit our contact form (name, email, phone if provided, message)
- Subscribe to our newsletter (email address)
- Apply for a scholarship (name, contact information, academic and personal details required by the application)
- Volunteer or partner with us
We also collect anonymous, aggregated usage information through Plausible Analytics (page views, device type, general geographic region) to understand how visitors use our site. Plausible does not use cookies and does not identify individual visitors.
Event ticketing and the Boots & Brims app
When you buy a ticket, reserve a table, or register for one of our events — on our website or in the Boots & Brims mobile app — we collect what is needed to complete your order and admit you to the event:
- Your name, email address, and (optionally) phone number, so we can send your receipt and admission passes and reach you about the event
- Your order and the passes issued for it, including which seats you send to your guests, if you use that feature
- Payment card details, which are collected and processed by Stripe. Card details go directly to Stripe; we never see or store your full card number.
- An anonymous, per-installation device identifier that secures your checkout session and helps prevent abuse. It is not used to track you across other apps or websites.
- If you turn on notifications in the app, a push-notification token so we can send event announcements (parking, doors, program changes). You can turn notifications off at any time in your phone's settings.
The app does not require an account, does not include advertising or analytics software, and does not access your location, contacts, camera, or photos. Passes you have purchased are also kept on your device so you can show them at the door without a connection; deleting the app removes them from the device.
Our ticketing pages and the app run on the Kanonu Events platform, operated by Kanonu Solutions LLC, which processes this information on our behalf and under our instructions. Order records are retained as financial records for as long as tax and accounting rules require. To request a copy or deletion of your ticketing information, contact us using the details below.
How we use your information
We use the information you provide to:
- Process and acknowledge donations, including issuing tax receipts
- Complete event orders, issue admission passes and receipts, admit you at the door, and send event announcements you have opted into
- Respond to inquiries and requests
- Send newsletter and program updates if you've opted in
- Review and process scholarship applications
- Coordinate volunteer or partnership engagements
- Comply with legal, tax, and reporting obligations
Information sharing
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party. We may share information only:
- With trusted service providers who are bound to use it solely for the purpose for which we engaged them — PayPal for donation processing, Stripe for ticket and sponsorship payments, Kanonu Solutions LLC (the Kanonu Events platform) for ticketing and the mobile app, Google Firebase for hosting and notifications, Postmark for delivering receipts and passes by email, FormSubmit for contact form delivery, and Mailchimp for newsletters
- If required by law, court order, or to protect the rights or safety of Uplift Incorporated, our donors, or others
- With your explicit consent (for example, when publishing recipient stories)
Cookies and tracking
We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies, and our analytics (Plausible) is cookieless. Some embedded third-party services — the map on our contact page, and the payment and anti-abuse services from Stripe and Google on our ticketing pages — may set their own cookies or use local browser storage to work. You can disable cookies in your browser settings; doing so will not impair your ability to use most parts of our site, though checkout may not function.
Children's privacy
Our website is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us at the address below and we will delete it promptly.
Your rights and choices
You may at any time:
- Unsubscribe from our newsletter using the link at the bottom of any email
- Request that we update or delete your personal information
- Request a copy of the information we hold about you
To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information below.
Data security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information. Donations are processed through PayPal's secure, PCI-compliant infrastructure and ticket payments through Stripe's; in both cases we never see your full credit card or bank account details. The website itself is served over HTTPS.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about your personal information, contact us at:
Uplift Incorporated
PO Box 1385
Canton, MS 39046-1385
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