Privacy Policy & Terms of Service
Drop LWOP New England is a 501(c)(3) organization. This privacy policy describes which personal data we collect and how we use it.
This privacy policy was posted September 23, 2025.
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@droplwopnewengland.org.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as an added statement on our homepage or by email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Sites to stay informed about our privacy practices and the ways you can protect your privacy.
Our Collection of Personal Information
We collect your personal information through a variety of ways, including but not limited to:
Completing forms on our website
RSVP’ing to attend events we host
Signing petitions or filling out surveys addressed to specific individuals or groups
The information you may provide us include but not limited to the following:
Contact information. For example, first and last name, email address, postal address, or phone number
Donation information. For example, payment information, billing address, profession, or billing history.
Drop LWOP New England utilizes third-party providers to process donations on our behalf.
Inquiry and Communications Information. For example, user-provided information submitted through web forms on our Sites, to our email addresses, or via phone.
User-created content. For example, stories you provide to us as part of our storytelling campaigns or messages on issues we send to your legislative representatives on your behalf. This also includes photos, videos, audio, and other information you may submit to us.
Other information. Any other information you choose to provide, which may include information deemed to be “sensitive” personal information under certain privacy laws, such as religious beliefs, information about your sexual orientation or sex life, or citizenship status.
Information We Automatically Collect
Drop LWOP New England and our authorized third parties may use technologies to receive and record information when you interact with us online on our website or through other digital technologies.
These technologies may include cookies, small files that reside on your browser that can be used to uniquely identify you and record information about the websites you visit.
If you wish to disable these cookies or prevent the collection of cookies, you may consult your browser’s settings and options.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate this website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Why We Use Your Information
We collect and use your personal information to further our advocacy to end extreme sentencing in New England. This includes and is limited to the following, unless otherwise specified or we specifically obtain consent:
Advocacy and organizing: When you provide information on our petitions, surveys, partnership sign-up, volunteer forms, and the other forms on our Sites, we use this information to further our mission and mobilize civic engagement. This includes delivering your petitions and survey outcomes to interested parties such as elected officials, the press, or the general public; or to better conduct events. We may also use personal information to mobilize volunteers and coalition partners in support of our mission.
Services and Operations: We may use your personal information to fulfill your requests and tailor our communications with you to things that may be relevant to your interactions with us. We may also use your personal information for business purposes, such as data analysis, enhancing our website, improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our programs; and to send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.
Fundraising: Drop LWOP New England depends on donor support to enable our operations. To do this, we use your personal information to process and solicit donations.
Outreach and Research: We may share information with you about issues of concern or importance to Drop LWOP New England and our partners. To do this, we may use your personal information to communicate with you about opportunities to support our mission through various channels, including targeted advertising, based on your interaction history.
How We Share Your Personal Information
Your Personal Information may be disclosed to the following third parties in the following ways:
We may share information you voluntarily provide for advocacy purposes with public officials, the press, specific groups, or the general public when you choose to use our email tool to send them messages or when you sign petitions or complete surveys addressed to specific individuals, groups, or audiences.
We may share your information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, database administration, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email/text delivery services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services.
With your consent, we may share your information with like-minded organizations that may send you communications.
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied, they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers, contractors, and third parties to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.
How We Protect Your Information
Sites Security
We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. This includes but is not limited to limiting access to personal information, encryption, and de-identifying personal information before sharing (for example, using hashing technologies).
However, no security system is impenetrable. As such, we are not able to nor do we guarantee that our security systems are 100% safe. If we become aware of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the incident and where appropriate, notify the relevant parties regarding what information may have been compromised, and take other steps in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Financial Donations
We treat our donors’ credit card information with the highest level of privacy and security, following industry best practices. Our donation pages use a secure (SSL/https) connection to send credit card data directly to a leading payment processor that is certified Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant.
Your Choices
You may exercise your privacy rights by submitting a data privacy request via email to info@droplwopnewengland.org.
Drop LWOP New England offers several choices in relation to your personal information. These choices may be offered to you as data subject rights required by applicable law. Data subject rights established by law can differ depending on the state or U.S. territory in which you reside and may be subject to legal limitations.
The choices Drop LWOP New England offers include:
Opting out: You have the choice to opt out of certain types of data processing activities.
Deleting the information we have: You have the choice to request that we delete the personal information we have about you, except information that is required or permitted to be kept in compliance with applicable law and obligations.
Withdrawing Consent: You may ask us to limit our use of sensitive personal information for certain purposes and/or withdraw a previously given consent to our use of sensitive personal information about you. Please note that your choice to withdraw consent may affect requests for Services from us and will remain subject to applicable laws and regulations that may require or permit us to continue processing your sensitive personal information in some circumstances.
Other parties may be authorized to submit opt-out and/or deletion requests on your behalf subject to certain state consumer privacy laws. To do so, please indicate that you are an authorized third-party on your request. We are only obligated to fulfill requests of authorized agents whose authority we are able to verify.
Privacy Policy Changes
We may amend or revise this policy at any time at our sole discretion. We will post updated versions of this policy here, and users can check the date at the top of this policy to see when it was last updated. We encourage users to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.