Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and take our responsibilities seriously. You can explore most of our website without giving us any information about yourself. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) provides you with information concerning our practices and procedures as they relate specifically for information we collect from the website and the use of our fundraising solution.
By visiting our website or utilizing our fundraising solution, you are accepting the practices described herein. We may update this Policy from time to time, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes.

Collecting your personal information as a website visitor

We do not collect any personal information about you on our website unless you choose to provide it to us voluntarily, including by completing a registration form or donating.
If you become a registered participant or volunteer, we collect personal information including name, email address, mailing address, phone number and a valid credit card of your choice. This information will be used to create an account that will provide you access to future reports related to your event and pay any applicable registration fee and/or cover any minimum fundraising guarantees should you not reach your indicated minimum fundraising at the close of our annual campaign. You will be provided with a secure User ID and password to access your personal profile. Do not share your password with anyone. Our website assigns a personal identification number and sends it to your computer in the form of a small text file, called a “cookie.” The use of this cookie allows you to visit password-restricted portions of our website for which you have security access. This is a temporary cookie and is deleted after you close your browser each time you visit our website.

Collecting your personal information as a registered participant or volunteer

When you register for Pedal the Cause as an individual or a member of a team, we collect personal information including your name, email address, phone number, and physical address. This information will be used to create an account that will provide you access to view and manage your fundraising results. You will be provided with a secure User ID and password. All personal information is available to us. When you pay for your registration fee, guarantee your minimum fundraising amount, or donate, we will collect information including credit card type, card number, card expiry date and billing address. We do not maintain any credit card information within our fundraising platform and all payment processing is done confidentially through the payment partner Authorize.net. The Authorize.net account is managed by Pedal the Cause. Please contact us for any transaction disputes.

Collecting your personal information as a donor

When you donate to an individual or team, we collect personal information including your name, email address, phone number, and physical address. All information is available to Pedal the Cause. We do not maintain any credit card information on our website and all payment processing is done confidentially through our payment partner Authorize.net. The Authorized.net account is managed by Pedal the Cause. Please contact us for any transaction disputes.

Use of personal information

We will not sell, license, transmit or disclose your personal information outside Pedal the Cause unless you expressly authorize us to do so.

Security of your Personal Information

We restrict access to personal information collected about you on our website to our staff. While no website can guarantee security, we maintain a number of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that are designed to protect your personal information collected via our website. We protect our databases with various physical, technical, and procedural measures and we take steps to restrict access to your information by unauthorized persons.

Promotional Emails and Social Media

As a registered participant or volunteer our fundraising solution allows you to send emails, forward the web address of your fundraising page, post comments on your public social media accounts through a service from ShareThis Inc. A copy of their privacy policy is located on their website at: https://www.sharethis.com/legal/privacy/

Deletion of Your Personal Information

You have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. We will respond to your request to remove data within 30 days. You may request that your personal information, event specific participation, or fundraising results viewable by the general public to be removed. We may elect to store your data until it is no longer necessary to conduct our annual audit of our nonprofit financials. We reserve the right to anonymize your records removing all personal identifiable information but allowing us to maintain accuracy for total participation and event registration types, total members for a specific team, and aggregate fundraising event totals. In the event we are unable to complete your request, we will let you know that we are unable to do so and why. Depending on the location from where you access the Pedal the Cause site, you may have additional rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of certain data covered by this Privacy Policy and exercise all other rights set forth in Articles 15-22 of the GDPR.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at 9288 Dielman Industrial Drive, St. Louis, MO 63132, 314-787-1990, or at info@pedalthecause.org

The Privacy Policy was last updated and posted on October 12, 2021.