Privacy Policy

Tenants Together Privacy Policy

Tenants Together treats your personal information as private and confidential. We will not exchange or sell your personal information. We value your privacy.

We know how annoying it is to give your email or phone number to one group and then find yourself bombarded by solicitations from groups across the country that you've never even heard of. We are committed to making sure that does not happen when you entrust your contact information to Tenants Together.

Email removals, and updates

When you sign up for alerts, you will receive periodic updates and alerts by email.In addition, you may be added to our email list when you take certain actions through our site, such as becoming a member. You may unsubscribe at any time from our email lists.

If, for any reason, you would like to be removed from our email lists, you can unsubscribe by simply visiting your supporter management page and following the instructions to unsubscribe from the list. Or, if you need assistance, contact us and we will make sure you are removed from the list.

Contact Information on Online Action Campaigns & Letters to Editor

Our online action campaigns give you the opportunity to send messages to the media, politicians or other decision makers.If you choose to use these features to send a message, the form will require personal identifying information (name, address, etc), as would any fax or letter. Your contact information will appear at the end of the message that is sent, and therefore will be available to the recipient of the communication.

Tenant Story Feature

The tenant stories feature of our website allows people to submit their personal tenant stories.The "share your story" form requests some information that will be kept confidential (for example, the email address of person submitting the story) and other information that will be available to all website visitors once the story is published.We have indicated on the "share your story" form which information will be public.Please note that Tenants Together may contact you to discuss your story, but we will not provide your non-public information to others without your express permission to do so.

Directory Feature

Our website contains a directory of organizations that provide services to tenants.  All information on the directory sign up form will be publicly available unless otherwise indicated on the sign up form.

Use of cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on your computer and that can be used to help identify you when you visit our web site. We use cookies to make visiting and using our web site easier - for example, so you don't have to continually re-enter information when taking action through our site.

Links to other sites

This website provides links to several other third party web sites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take any responsibility for the content of linked web sites, or for the privacy policies of web sites we link to. Since we do not control these web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party web sites prior to any use.

Online payments

When you donate or become a member of Tenants Together, you will be asked for personal contact information. The contact information you enter is collected and retained by Tenants Together.Tenants Together has partnered with a third party service that processes online credit card payments, and Tenants Together does not collect or retain your credit card information.

Third parties

Tenants Together may share your contact information with persons or organizations hired by Tenants Together to carry out our work. We provide personal information to third parties on a completely confidential basis to enable a third party to perform certain tasks, such as maintain a membership database or send email alerts, on our behalf.  We require, and will only contract with, third party providers that are committed to protecting the privacy of our supporters, and will not utilize your information for any other purpose but to provide the services which we contract for.

Affiliated organizations

Tenants Together reserves the right to share your information with any affiliated organizations of Tenants Together, whether such organizations exist now or are created in the future.  The term "Tenants Together" in this privacy policy shall include any such affiliated organizations.

Aggregate Data

We may use and/or share aggregate information about web site usage and traffic patterns, stripped of any personally identifiable information, at our discretion.

Changes to this Policy

Tenants Together reserves the right to change this policy.  However, we will not use any data collected under the current policy for any purpose not authorized by this policy.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please contact us at info@tenantstogether.org.

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