Privacy Policy

Purpose & Scope

This privacy policy is for Allegiance Group, LLC, and covers all agency services, subsidiaries such as The Pursuant Group®, and products such as GivingDNATM, Allegiance CRM, MemberCard & Allyra (formerly known as WeDidIt). Allegiance Group, LLC recognizes that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. The Privacy Policy is intended to blend and cover various privacy regulations, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), and the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA).

At the core of these regulations is the desire to protect the privacy of individuals or consumers, often described as data subjects. In accordance with these various statutes and regulations, with the intent of ensuring transparency, Allegiance Group, LLC does recognize these various data subject rights that span the various privacy regulations.

  • The right to correct inaccuracies
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right of data portability
  • The right to know how data is being shared with a 3rd party
  • The right to know the purpose for which information has been collected
  • The right to request the type and categories of data that has been collected
  • The right to be forgotten or deleted.
  • The right to opt out
  • The right to request information & the right to have access to information
  • The right to access the data subject’s own data and confirm if data is being processed

These rights are confirmed by Allegiance Group, LLC as long as these rights do not interfere with the company’s ability to provide goods or services as a required function of their business purpose and/or as requested by the data subject. These rights also may not interfere with the ability of Allegiance Group, LLC to maintain the records necessary to meet the privacy requirements.

State or other regulatory requirements for Opt-In will be handled via contracts between Allegiance Group, LLC and their clients, as Allegiance Group, LLC does not work directly with consumers, constituents, or data subjects. By the nature of the contractual agreements to work together, Allegiance Group, LLC customers understand that they are acknowledging opt-in regarding data sharing only for the business purpose documented and outlined in the relationship documents. Regarding the client customers of Allegiance Group, LLC, their own data subjects should be informed within Allegiance Group, LLC’s customers’ own agreements with their constituents that they (our customers’ data subjects) Consent by Proxy for their data to be utilized by third parties of our customer, only for the intended business purpose they seek from their relationship with Allegiance Group, LLC.

Questions? Connect with us by emailing allegianceIT@teamallegiance.com, and we’d be happy to answer any additional questions you have about Allegiance Group, LLC and our Privacy policy.

Policy

By visiting or using the Apps or the services of Allegiance Group, LLC, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in various ways as described in this policy.

The term “personal information” (which for the purposes of this policy will include personal data), as used in this Privacy Policy, refers to personally identifiable information that specifically identifies an individual (such as an individual’s first and last name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), and information about that individual or such individual’s activities or preferences (including such individual’s App users or cause-related history), when such information is directly linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. Additional attributes we consider to be sensitive data within the context of personal data include but are not limited to racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical or mental health diagnosis, citizenship standing, biometric or genetic data, or personal data obtained from a known child. Personal information does not include information relating to the organization with which an individual may be affiliated, such as the name and address of that organization. Personal information also does not include “aggregate” information, which is data we collect from you, Allegiance Group, LLC App and Service users, or about the use of the Allegiance Group, LLC Apps or categories of Allegiance Group, LLC Apps users, from which any personally identifying information has been removed. We may create aggregated data from information we collect from App users (but not including constituent or giving data), and use such aggregate data (without PII) for a number of specific required business purposes, including to provide products and services, including the services, to you and other Allegiance Group, LLC customers, to improve the Service, to diagnose technical issues, to help identify user needs so that we can better consider new products and services, to determine which types of users respond to certain causes, for research and analysis and product development and enhancement purposes and to tailor existing products and services to better serve our users. This Privacy Policy in no way limits or restricts our collection, use or disclosure of aggregate information.

How we collect and use information

We may collect the following types of information that is required to fulfill our business purpose:

  • Information you provide (not including your Constituent or Giving data). When you sign up for some of our products, we ask you for personal information. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Allegiance Group, LLC services or third parties to provide you with a better experience and improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
  • Constituent and Giving Data when you connect constituent data (your donor’s name, email address, and/or physical address and any other associated constituent data) and giving data (transaction ID, amount, date of transaction, and any other associated giving data) either via a third-party integration or uploading directly, we will not share that data with any third-parties or Allegiance Group, LLC clients. This data is not used or sold, even in an aggregated, anonymized form, to any third parties or Allegiance Group, LLC clients. You are the sole owner of your constituent and giving data, and you can delete this data from our system at any time, and all data subject rights will pertain to your constituent data.
  • Cookies. When you visit Allegiance Group, LLC Apps, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including storing user preferences, improving products, and tracking user trends, such as how people use our services. Allegiance Group, LLC also uses cookies in its promotion and advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage promotions and ads.
  • Log information. Our servers automatically record certain information when you access Allegiance Group, LLC services via a browser, application, or other client. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account. Log information is also critical for support issues that may be brought to Allegiance Group, LLC, regarding our Apps or services.
  • User communications. When you send emails or other communications to Allegiance Group, LLC, we may retain those communications to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services. When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.
  • Affiliated Allegiance Group, LLC services on other sites. We offer our services on or through other websites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Allegiance Group, LLC, to deliver the service as well as any intended business purpose of the data subject. We process such information under this Privacy Policy.
  • Third Party Applications. Allegiance Group, LLC may make available third-party applications, such as mobile applications or extensions, through its services. The information collected by Allegiance Group, LLC, when you consent to enable a third-party application, is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the third-party application provider is governed by their privacy policies.
  • Location data. Allegiance Group, LLC offers location-enabled services, sometimes part of another application. If you use those services, Allegiance Group, LLC may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID) only for the intended business purpose of the relationship.

In addition to the above, we may use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services and develop new services.
  • Protect the rights or property of Allegiance Group, LLC, or our users.

If we use this information differently than the purpose for which it was collected, we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

How we share your personal information

Allegiance Group, LLC may share your personal information (Allegiance Group, LLC App and Service user) with other entities with the sole intent of improving the experience of the product and the service’s business intent. These entities may use your personal information to help fulfill your requests in connection with the services and to help communicate with you about different resources offered as part of the services. Also, our parent, subsidiary, and affiliate companies, or entities to which any of our assets, products, sites, or operations may be transferred, will be able to use your personal information for the intended business purpose for which there is a contractual agreement with Allegiance Group, LLC.

We may also release our clients’ personal information (not the personal information of our clients’ constituents) to third parties if we believe such release is necessary (i) to comply with the law (e.g., a legal process or a statutory authorization), (ii) to apply or enforce our user agreements, (iii) to protect our rights or property, (iv) as part of a corporate reorganization, consolidation, merger, or sale of substantially all of the assets of Allegiance Group, LLC, or (v) if we reasonably believe that a danger to any person requires disclosure of such personal information.

Beyond the improvement of the experience required for our core business purpose or for required legal and business transaction purposes, Allegiance Group, LLC does not share the provided constituent or giving data with any third parties or Allegiance Group, LLC clients.

Links to other sites:

Please note that while using the services, you could be directed to other sites that are developed and administered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by Allegiance Group, LLC. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information.

We suggest that when you link to another site, you review that site’s privacy policy, as it may be different from this Privacy Policy. Allegiance Group, LLC is not responsible for the actions of those people or companies, the content of their sites, the use of information you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Our link to those sites does not constitute our sponsorship of or affiliation with those people or companies.

GDPR/CCPA/CDPA/CPA

At Allegiance Group, LLC, we take data protection and data privacy seriously and have taken the necessary steps to become compliant. As new regulations or privacy acts are included within our privacy policy, we work quickly to meet those technical and assessment requirements. We have applied policy and software updates to all users (including those inside and outside the EU) and are committed to continually making future enhancements to ensure data is protected to the highest degree possible.

  • We have appointed a DPO (Data Protection Officer) whose job is to keep you and your customers’ data safe, answer any questions you have about your data, and maintain compliance with all applicable laws.
  • We are updating our Account Settings so our users can easily manage or opt out of communication from Allegiance Fundraising Group LLC.
  • Allegiance Group, LLC has a managed service relationship with a partner that ensures our cyber security and compliance needs are met, including weekly meetings, regular policy review, technical testing of cyber security and regulatory controls, and user awareness training on the handling of sensitive data.

Changes to this privacy policy:

We may change this Privacy Policy over time. We, therefore, encourage you to refer to www.teamallegiance.com on an ongoing basis so that you are aware of our current privacy policy. Your continued use of the Allegiance Group, LLC services constitutes your agreement to the Privacy Policy as modified.