privacy-policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 11, 2026

 Last Updated: September 11, 2026

Echadi Community Initiative (“ECI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit www.echadinitiative.org, make a donation, register for an event or program, volunteer, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with ECI.

By using our website or voluntarily providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. ABOUT ECHADI COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

Echadi Community Initiative is a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Organization: Echadi Community Initiative

 EIN: 42-1995242

 Mailing Address: PO Box 1142, Pahrump, Nevada 89041-1142

 Telephone: 888-732-4234, ext. 8000

 Email: info@echadinitiative.org

 Website: www.echadinitiative.org

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The information we collect depends on how you interact with ECI.

A. Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

• Full name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Donation amount and donation history
• Billing information
• Event or program registration information
• Volunteer applications and availability
• Employment or contractor application information
• Communication preferences
• Information submitted through contact forms
• Messages, questions, testimonials, or feedback
• Emergency-contact information
• Demographic information voluntarily provided
• Photographs, videos, or media-release permissions
• Information necessary to determine eligibility for programs, resources, services, gifts, or assistance

B. Donation and Payment Information

When you make a donation or payment, a third-party payment processor may collect your payment-card, bank-account, billing, and transaction information.

ECI generally does not directly store complete credit-card or bank-account numbers. Payment information is processed by the payment provider according to its own privacy and security practices.

We may receive limited transaction information, such as:

• Donor name
• Contact information
• Donation amount
• Transaction date
• Payment status
• Recurring-donation preferences
• Partial payment identifiers
• Information needed to issue an acknowledgment or tax receipt

C. Event and Program Information

When you register yourself or another person for an ECI event or program, we may collect:

• Participant name and age
• Parent or legal guardian’s name
• Address and contact information
• Household information
• Event eligibility information
• Emergency-contact information
• Accessibility or accommodation requests
• Dietary restrictions
• Clothing, gift, or supply preferences
• Authorized pickup information
• Consent and release forms
• Photographic or media permissions

Please provide only information that is reasonably necessary for participation in the applicable program.

D. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Approximate geographic location
• Referring website
• Pages viewed
• Links selected
• Date and time of access
• Time spent on the website
• Cookie identifiers
• Website performance and diagnostic information

We may use this information to operate, secure, maintain, and improve our website.

E. Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from service providers or platforms used to support our work, including:

• Donation and payment processors
• Event-registration platforms
• Volunteer-management platforms
• Email and communication providers
• Website-hosting companies
• Social-media platforms
• Grantmaking or community partners
• Publicly available sources
• Organizations working with ECI on a program or event

3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

ECI may use personal information to:

• Process and acknowledge donations
• Issue donation receipts and tax acknowledgments
• Manage recurring donations
• Register participants for programs and events
• Verify program eligibility
• Coordinate volunteers
• Communicate event instructions and updates
• Respond to questions and requests
• Provide community services, resources, or assistance
• Maintain donor, volunteer, participant, and organizational records
• Send newsletters, announcements, and fundraising communications
• Conduct surveys and evaluate program effectiveness
• Improve our website, programs, and services
• Prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized activity
• Protect participants, volunteers, employees, and the public
• Comply with legal, accounting, tax, grant, and reporting obligations
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights
• Carry out purposes disclosed when the information is collected

We will not use personal information for materially unrelated purposes without providing appropriate notice or obtaining consent when required.

4. OUR DONOR PRIVACY COMMITMENT

ECI values the trust of its donors.

We do not sell, rent, or trade donor names, postal addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, or donation histories to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.

We may share donor information only:

• With service providers that help us process donations or operate fundraising activities
• When directed or authorized by the donor
• When required by law
• When necessary to prevent fraud or protect legal rights
• With professional advisers subject to confidentiality obligations
• In connection with a lawful organizational transaction

Donors may request anonymity in public donor-recognition materials by contacting ECI.

A request for public anonymity does not prevent ECI from retaining information required for accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, audit, or legal purposes.

5. CHILDREN’S AND MINORS’ PRIVACY

ECI conducts programs and events that may benefit children. Our general website is intended for adults, parents, legal guardians, donors, volunteers, and community partners. It is not designed for children under 13 to submit personal information independently.

Children under 13 should not provide personal information through our website without the participation and authorization of a parent or legal guardian.

When information about a child is needed for an event or program:

• The information should be submitted by the child’s parent or legal guardian.
• We will seek to collect only information reasonably necessary to administer the event or program.
• Information will be used for program administration, safety, eligibility, communication, and related nonprofit purposes.
• We will not condition a child’s participation on providing more personal information than is reasonably necessary.
• We will not knowingly sell or use a child’s personal information for targeted advertising.
• Access will be limited to authorized personnel, volunteers, contractors, and service providers with a legitimate need for the information.

A parent or legal guardian may contact ECI to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information collected about their child, subject to applicable legal and recordkeeping requirements.

If we learn that a child under 13 submitted personal information without appropriate parental or guardian involvement, we will take reasonable steps to delete or appropriately restrict that information.

6. PHOTOGRAPHS, VIDEOS, AND TESTIMONIALS

ECI may photograph or record its programs, events, volunteers, and community activities for educational, historical, promotional, fundraising, or reporting purposes.

When appropriate, ECI will request a written or electronic media release before intentionally featuring an identifiable participant, particularly a minor.

We will not knowingly publish a child’s sensitive personal information, such as a home address, personal telephone number, financial information, or detailed eligibility information.

If you have concerns about an image or recording published by ECI, contact us at info@echadinitiative.org. We will review reasonable removal requests, although removal from materials already printed, distributed, archived, or shared by others may not always be possible.

7. WHEN WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION

ECI may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

A. Service Providers

We may use trusted service providers for:

• Website hosting
• Donation and payment processing
• Event registration
• Form processing
• Email delivery
• Text-message delivery
• Database and record management
• Accounting and bookkeeping
• Data storage and backups
• Security and fraud prevention
• Website analytics
• Professional consulting

These providers may access information only as necessary to perform services for ECI or as otherwise permitted by their agreements and privacy policies.

B. Program and Community Partners

We may disclose limited information to a partner organization when necessary to jointly administer a program, distribute resources, verify eligibility, coordinate services, or protect participant safety.

Whenever practical, ECI will limit the information shared to what is reasonably necessary.

C. Legal and Safety Disclosures

We may disclose information if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with a law, subpoena, court order, or lawful government request
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of ECI or another person
• Investigate suspected fraud, abuse, or unlawful activity
• Enforce agreements or organizational policies
• Respond to an emergency
• Report suspected child abuse, neglect, exploitation, or another matter when reporting is required by law

D. Organizational Changes

If ECI undergoes a merger, restructuring, transfer of programs, dissolution, or another organizational transition, relevant information may be transferred to an authorized successor or recipient, subject to applicable law and appropriate safeguards.

8. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Our website and service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

• Keep the website functioning
• Remember visitor preferences
• Understand website traffic
• Measure website performance
• Identify technical problems
• Protect the website from fraud and abuse
• Evaluate outreach or fundraising campaigns

You may be able to limit cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Where required, ECI will provide appropriate cookie notices or consent choices.

9. ANALYTICS AND THIRD-PARTY CONTENT

ECI may use analytics services to understand how visitors use our website. Analytics providers may collect information about your device and website activity.

Our website may also contain:

• Embedded videos
• Social-media features
• Maps
• Donation widgets
• Registration forms
• Third-party applications
• Links to external websites

These third parties may collect information according to their own privacy policies. ECI does not control and is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or data practices of independently operated third-party websites or services.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service you use.

10. EMAIL AND TEXT COMMUNICATIONS

If you provide your email address or telephone number, ECI may send communications concerning:

• Donations and receipts
• Event registrations
• Program updates
• Volunteer opportunities
• Community announcements
• Fundraising campaigns
• Newsletters
• Safety or emergency information

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us.

If ECI offers text-message communications, consent to receive promotional text messages will not be a condition of making a donation or receiving services unless clearly disclosed and legally permitted. Message and data rates may apply.

Even if you unsubscribe from promotional communications, we may continue sending necessary transactional or administrative messages, such as donation receipts, registration confirmations, safety information, or responses to your requests.

11. DATA SECURITY

ECI uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

These safeguards may include:

• Access restrictions
• Password protections
• Secure service providers
• Staff and volunteer confidentiality practices
• Encryption when supported by applicable systems
• Record-retention procedures
• Secure disposal practices
• Fraud and security monitoring

No website, database, email system, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Therefore, ECI cannot guarantee absolute security.

If we discover a data-security incident, we will investigate it and provide any notices required by applicable law.

12. DATA RETENTION

ECI retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:

• Providing programs and services
• Maintaining donation and tax records
• Meeting accounting and audit requirements
• Satisfying grant-reporting obligations
• Resolving disputes
• Preventing fraud
• Protecting participants
• Enforcing agreements
• Complying with applicable law

Retention periods may differ depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected.

When information is no longer reasonably required, ECI may securely delete, destroy, anonymize, or aggregate it.

13. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND REQUESTS

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may request that ECI:

• Confirm whether we maintain your personal information
• Provide access to certain personal information
• Correct inaccurate personal information
• Delete certain personal information
• Limit certain uses or disclosures
• Stop promotional communications
• Provide information about categories of information disclosed to service providers
• Review information maintained about your minor child
• Withdraw a consent previously provided

To submit a request, contact:

Email: info@echadinitiative.org

 Telephone: 888-732-4234, ext. 8000

 Mail: Echadi Community Initiative, PO Box 1142, Pahrump, Nevada 89041-1142

Please include your name, contact information, and a clear description of your request.

We may need to verify your identity or authority before processing a request. A parent, guardian, or authorized representative may be required to provide reasonable proof of authority.

Certain information may be exempt from a request or retained when necessary to comply with legal, accounting, tax, security, or contractual obligations.

ECI will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising an applicable privacy right.

14. SALE AND SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

ECI does not sell personal information for money.

ECI also does not knowingly sell or share personal information belonging to children under 16 for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising.

Some privacy laws define “sale” or “sharing” broadly enough to include certain advertising or analytics technologies. If ECI implements technology that is legally considered a sale or sharing of personal information, we will provide any notices and opt-out methods required by applicable law.

15. DO NOT TRACK AND PRIVACY-PREFERENCE SIGNALS

Some browsers allow users to send “Do Not Track” or other privacy-preference signals.

Because there is not one universally applied standard for all such signals, our website may not respond to every Do Not Track signal. ECI will honor legally recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals when required by applicable law and when our website technology is capable of recognizing them.

16. SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Please do not submit Social Security numbers, full financial-account numbers, medical records, government identification numbers, passwords, or other highly sensitive information through a general website contact form or ordinary email unless ECI specifically requests the information and provides an appropriate submission method.

If ECI must collect sensitive information for a particular program, we will seek to limit its collection, use, and disclosure to the applicable program purpose.

17. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

ECI is based in Nevada, United States. If you access our website from outside the United States, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or another country where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country. Where applicable law requires additional protections, ECI will take reasonable steps to provide them.

18. NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Nevada residents may have rights concerning certain covered information under Nevada law, including the right to submit a verified request directing an operator not to make a covered sale of covered information.

ECI does not sell personal information for monetary consideration as that term is ordinarily understood. Nevertheless, Nevada residents may submit a verified opt-out request using the contact information in this Privacy Policy.

19. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to third-party websites for informational, donation, registration, social-media, community-resource, or partner purposes.

A link does not necessarily mean that ECI endorses or controls the third party’s privacy practices. ECI is not responsible for information you provide directly to an independently operated website.

20. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

ECI may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our programs, website, technology, service providers, or legal obligations.

When we make changes, we will post the revised policy on our website and update the “Last Updated” date. If a change materially affects how we use previously collected personal information, we will provide additional notice or request consent when required by law.

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

21. CONTACT US

Questions, concerns, complaints, or privacy requests may be directed to:

Echadi Community Initiative

Attention: Privacy Coordinator

 PO Box 1142

 Pahrump, Nevada 89041-1142

Telephone: 888-732-4234, ext. 8000

 Email: info@echadinitiative.org

Website: www.echadinitiative.org

We will make reasonable efforts to review and respond to privacy inquiries promptly.