PRIVACY STATEMENT
Last Updated: December 2025
United Way of Greater Newark (UWGNewark or “we”) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing communities to improve lives by advancing health, education, and financial stability. We value your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy and the personal information you share with us by committing to comply with all applicable data privacy laws.
When we discuss “personal data,” we mean any information relating to an identifiable natural person. This Privacy Statement explains what types of personal data we may collect from you; how and why that data are collected, used, processed and protected; as well as how to exercise any privacy rights you may have with respect to the management of your personal data. This Privacy Statement applies to information we collect about you through our interactions with you, including when you visit our website(s).
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time. Please check this Statement periodically for any changes. When we update our Privacy Statement, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. You can see when this Privacy Statement was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Statement.
TO CONTACT US
For questions concerning UWGNewark’s data privacy practices, you may contact us at info@uwnewark.org or at (973) 624-8200.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
UWGNewark may collect, use, store, process, and or share personal data from the following broad categories:
Identity Data: Includes, for example, name, marital status, title, social security or similar national identification number, date of birth, and gender.
Contact Data: Includes, for example, physical address, billing address, email address, and telephone number(s).
Financial Data: Includes, for example, bank account, payment card details, insurance information, and payroll data.
Transaction Data: Includes, for example, details related to payments and other details regarding donations to UWGNewark.
Technical Data: Includes, for example, internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser type and version, time zone and location settings, location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access UWGNewark’s website(s).
Profile Data: Includes, for example, your username and password to access any authenticated area of our website(s), your preferences, and feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data: Includes, for example, information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Includes, for example, your preferences in receiving materials regarding our programs and services communications from UWGNewark and our third parties in addition to your communication preferences.
Special Categories of Personal Data: Includes information that most people would consider sensitive, for example, details about your race or ethnicity, sexual orientation and information about your health, and genetic and biometric data.
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA
You Provide it to Us Directly and Voluntarily
You may choose to interact with us directly by completing forms or corresponding with us by electronic or written means or even by speaking to us over the phone. For example, you might sign up to receive information; express interest in one of our programs or offerings; provide us with feedback or complete a survey; or you might send us unsolicited information; or might otherwise express interest in participating in a community event. During such interactions we will ask you to provide certain information voluntarily, which may include various categories of data like Identity Data, Contact Data, and in some instances, Special Categories of Personal Data.
We Collect it Automatically
When you visit and interact with our website(s), we may collect certain information automatically from you and about you, such as Technical Data, which may include information from your device like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, preference settings, broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level location) and other technical information. Some of this information is collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies. Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website(s), where they come from, and what content on our website(s) is of interest to them. We use this information, including information collected using such technologies, for our internal analytics and marketing purposes, to improve the quality and relevance of our website(s) to our visitors, to track and respond to concerns, and to comply with monitoring and reporting obligations. You can find more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies in our “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” section below.
We Receive it from Publicly Available Sources or Third Parties
We may receive categories of personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as:
Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google, advertising networks, and search information providers.
Contact Data, Financial Data, and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services.
Identity Data and Contact Data from publicly available sources.
Special Categories of Personal Data, which may include health data, from, e.g., our service providers, collaborators or business partners who assist us in our work and the offerings we may provide.
HOW WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA
UWGNewark and/or our affiliates or service providers may use your personal data for various relevant purposes including, for example, to:
Communicate with you;
Provide you with information or offerings for which you expressed interest;
Help us develop additional programs and services that are likely to be of interest to you or others like you, or those you care for;
Investigate or respond to issues such as complaints, security threats or preventative measures against bad actors;
Help us evaluate and modify our existing programs and services;
Process or administer a request that you have made;
Maintain and develop our business or professional relationship with you (as applicable);
Conduct depersonalized and aggregate statistical studies and research related to our programs and services and the use of websites to help us understand trends and needs;
As necessary, recognize you and allow you to log-on to certain pages and features for which you have registered;
Exercise our legal and regulatory rights and obligations, including taking actions in furtherance of study participant safety; and
Conduct and evaluate audits (such as compliance or corporate audits).
MARKETING USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around communications related to UWGNewark, our programs, services and affiliates. We may use your categorized Identity Data, Contact Data, Technical Data, Usage Data, and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and materials may be relevant for you. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:
Opting in. You will receive certain communications from us if you have requested information from us and opted-in to receive such communications.
Consent to third-party marketing. We will not share your personal data for marketing purposes with any entity outside of UWGNewark, our affiliates and our service provider network unless you provide your express opt-in consent to do so.
Opting out. You can ask us or our third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you. Remember, however, that even if you opt-out of receiving these marketing communications, UWGNewark may still communicate with you to provide an offering that you request.
Online Analytics. UWGNewark may use third-party web analytics services (such as, for example, Google Analytics) on our website(s) to collect and analyze the information discussed in this Statement, and to engage in auditing, research or reporting. The information (including your IP address) collected by various analytics technologies will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who evaluate information, including by noting the third-party website(s) from which you arrive, analyzing usage trends, assisting with fraud prevention, and providing certain features to you. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by visiting http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your personal data with the following categories of parties for the purposes described in this Statement:
Internal and Affiliated Parties: Individuals or groups within our entity or within our network of affiliate entities, like subsidiaries, parents or related corporate entities.
Partners: Entities, service providers, consultancies or academic institutions, with whom we have formal professional relationships.
External Third Parties: Entities or individuals whose services we have formally retained to perform services on our behalf and help further our business requirements, including without limitation, for professional services, research, communications, technological maintenance, data storage, system administration, and data analysis and processing.
Parties as part of a business transaction: Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Statement.
Government Authorities: Government agencies, regulators and authorities as may be advisable under or required by law.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
OUR BASIS TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only collect, process, and use the personal data described above where applicable laws allow us to do so. Simply put, we will do so only when we have your consent and/or when we have a legitimate business interest. In some cases, we may also have a legal or regulatory obligation to collect certain information from you, such as if there is a requirement to report a financial transaction or other interaction. Please note that we may process your personal data based upon more than one lawful basis and legitimate interest depending upon the specific purpose(s) for which we are using the personal data. UWGNewark’s primary legitimate interests include mobilizing communities to improve lives by advancing health, education, and financial stability or to otherwise comply with our mission statement.
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How To Contact Us” section above.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
UWGNewark has put in place technical and organizational security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, impermissibly altered, disclosed, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way while it is under our control. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, designees, and other third parties who have a business need to do so. Those parties will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have implemented reasonable procedures to guard against and address data breaches. In the unlikely event of a breach implicating your personal data that requires notification, we will do so and fulfill all our related legal obligations.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
As we have stated earlier, we may automatically collect some personal data when you visit and engage with our website(s) using Internet server logs, cookies, beacons, and/or other tracking technologies.
Cookies are small files that are automatically stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used to (a) recognize your device; (b) store your preferences and settings; (c) understand the web pages of the website you have visited; (d) perform searches and analytics; and (e) assist with security functions. Cookies perform many functions, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience.
A web server log is a file where website activity is stored. An IP address is a number assigned to your device whenever you access the Internet that allows devices and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. UWGNewark may collect IP addresses to conduct system administration and report aggregate information to affiliates, business partner and/or service providers to conduct website and application analysis and performance reviews.
Beacons are small strings of code that are placed in websites, email messages, and/or online ads. Sometimes called "tracking pixels" or “pixel tags,” beacons are most often used in conjunction with cookies to track activity on websites. Since beacons are typically used in combination with cookies, if you disable cookies the beacons will only detect an anonymous website visit. When used in an email, beacons enable us to know whether you have received or opened the email and may be used for other analytics, personalization, and advertising.
If you do not wish to have cookies on your system, you can set your browser preferences to refuse them or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You are able to change our setting to notify you when a cookie is being placed or to block cookies altogether. For additional information, consult your browser's “Help” section because controls and settings vary by browser.
If you choose to decline all cookies, you may not be able to fully experience all the features of our website(s). Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites with which the browser communicates.
Website(s) linked to this Privacy Statement do not currently respond to these “do-not-track” signals.
Website(s) linked to this Privacy Statement do recognize certain universal opt out mechanisms, namely the Global Privacy Control. For more information about the GPC can be found here. [insert link to https://globalprivacycontrol.org/]
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA
UWGNewark only retains your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
EFFECT OF OTHER PRIVACY-RELATED STATEMENTS OR NOTICES
UWGNewark may have additional privacy statements or notices that are directed to and tailored for the different ways your personal data is collected. For example, financial donors, prospective donors and applicants for employment may be provided with separate privacy statements.
If you receive a privacy statement or notice provided to you for a specific purpose, the terms of the more specific statement or notice will control to the extent that other statements or notices may differ from this Privacy Statement.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The inclusion of a link on one of our websites does not imply our endorsement of the linked site or service or of its security. UWGNewark is not responsible for content that exists on third party websites. When you click on one of these links from our website, you will be transferred from the UNGNewark website(s) and be connected to the site of the organization or company that you selected. At such point, this Privacy Statement will not apply to your activity on the non-UWGNewark website(s). Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy policies and procedures, which you should consult before providing any of your personal information.
Please note that linked third-party websites may also use cookies or other tracking technologies. UWGNewark cannot and does not control the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any such third-party websites. For example, when you link from this site to a third-party website, that website may have the ability to recognize that you have come from our site by using cookies. If you have any questions about how third-party websites use cookies, you should contact such third parties directly.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We do not intend for the UWGNewark website(s) or online services to be used by anyone under the age of 18. In some limited instances we may collect personal data about children, but we will do so only with the proper consent of a parent or guardian. We do not otherwise knowingly collect or solicit data about or from children without the express consent of a parent or guardian. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal data without proper adult consent, he or she should contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section above. In such an event, we will take reasonable steps to delete such data.
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13 on our website. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children under the age of 13 on our website, we will take reasonable steps to delete such data.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
California's Shine the Light Law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83) permits certain California residents who are individual customers to request certain information regarding its disclosure of "personal information" to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To submit such a request for UWGNewark’s consideration, please contact us using our contact information listed in the “How to Contact Us” section above.
Be sure to include your name and address. You can include your email address if you want to receive a response by email. Otherwise, we may respond by postal mail within the time required by law.
NOTICE TO NEVADA RESIDENTS
Section 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits certain Nevada residents who are "consumers" to submit a request at any time to an "operator" of a website in Nevada directing the operator not to make any sale of any "covered information" the operator has collected or will collect about the consumer. UWGNewark does not currently "sell" or plan to sell covered information as defined in the Nevada law. If you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a verified request by contacting us by sending an email or contacting us by using the information provided in the “How to Contact Us” section above.