Who we are

We are Parent VoicesAction. Our website addresses is: https://pvaction.org.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Third Party Services

PVA uses The Action Network, Meta, WordPress, and other services to organize our community of supporters. You can read more about those companies and their features on their respective websites. When you visit our websites, services associated with these third-parties and our website may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A cookie does not collect personal information about you. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

How we use your information

We use the personal information you submit to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the sites. By providing PVA your email address or phone number (“the contact information”), you consent to our using the contact information to contact you about our organizing programs and to send you messages such as newsletters and fundraising requests. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt-out using the links in the footer of such messages or responding “Stop.”

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.