Privacy Policy

The Empower Play Project respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information shared with us by families, participants, volunteers, donors, sponsors, partners, and community members.

This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit our website, submit a form, register for programs or events, volunteer, donate, sponsor, subscribe to updates, or otherwise engage with us.

By using this website or submitting information to The Empower Play Project, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, organization, program interests, volunteer interests, sponsorship inquiries, donation details, event registration information, and messages submitted through website forms.

If you register a child, family member, or participant for a program, event, league, clinic, or activity, we may collect limited participant-related information needed for registration, communication, eligibility, safety, program administration, and parent or guardian coordination.

We may also collect basic technical and usage information automatically, such as browser type, device type, IP address, pages visited, referring website, approximate location, time spent on pages, and interactions with website content.

We may use information to respond to inquiries, process registrations, manage programs and events, coordinate volunteers, process donations, communicate with families and participants, support sponsorships, send updates, improve the website, maintain records, and support the safety and security of our community.

We may use contact information to send newsletters, event reminders, program updates, donation confirmations, volunteer communications, sponsorship follow-ups, and other messages related to The Empower Play Project.

We may also use information to comply with legal obligations, enforce website terms, prevent misuse, protect rights and safety, and support internal operations.

If you make a donation, sponsorship payment, registration payment, or other payment through this website, your payment may be processed by a third-party payment provider.

The Empower Play Project does not intend to store full credit card numbers, banking credentials, or sensitive payment authentication information on its own website systems.

We may retain donor names, contact information, donation amounts, receipt history, transaction references, and related administrative records for acknowledgment, accounting, compliance, reporting, and relationship management purposes.

The Empower Play Project may offer programs, events, leagues, clinics, or community activities that involve children, youth, or families. We take children’s privacy seriously and aim to collect only the information reasonably needed to support participation, communication, safety, and program administration.

This website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate parent or guardian involvement.

Parents or guardians may contact us to review, correct, or request deletion of information submitted about their child, subject to applicable legal, safety, recordkeeping, and program requirements.

The Empower Play Project may share photos, videos, stories, testimonials, quotes, or impact updates from programs, events, and community activities when appropriate permission has been obtained or when otherwise permitted by applicable event terms or law.

If you submit a story, testimonial, quote, photo, video, or similar content to us, you represent that you have the right to provide it and allow The Empower Play Project to use it for mission-related communications, website content, social media, fundraising, donor updates, reporting, and promotional purposes unless otherwise agreed in writing.

If you believe content involving you or your child has been posted in error, please contact us so we can review the request.

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of that term.

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate the website, host data, manage forms, process payments, send communications, provide analytics, support events, maintain records, or administer programs.

We may also disclose information when required by law, to respond to legal process, to protect the rights and safety of The Empower Play Project or others, to prevent fraud or misuse, or in connection with organizational changes such as restructuring, partnership, merger, or transfer of program operations.

Our website may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies to understand website usage, improve content, measure engagement, remember preferences, and support website performance.

You may be able to adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

Third-party analytics or embedded tools may collect information according to their own privacy policies and settings.

By submitting your contact information, you may receive communications related to your inquiry, registration, donation, volunteer interest, sponsorship interest, program participation, or other relationship with The Empower Play Project.

You may unsubscribe from newsletters or promotional updates by using an unsubscribe link when available or by contacting us directly.

We may still send administrative, transactional, safety, donation, registration, or program-related messages when necessary.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

No website, database, email system, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should avoid submitting highly sensitive information through general website forms unless specifically requested through a secure process.

We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, maintain records, administer programs, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, support safety, and manage organizational operations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, program requirements, donation records, legal obligations, safety needs, and operational requirements.

You may request to update, correct, or delete certain personal information by contacting us. We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have additional rights related to access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, or opt-out of certain data uses.

We will not discriminate against individuals for exercising privacy rights available under applicable law.

This website may include links to third-party websites, platforms, payment processors, sponsors, partners, social media pages, registration tools, or community resources.

The Empower Play Project is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, availability, or policies of third-party websites or services.

Your use of third-party websites or services is subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

The Empower Play Project is operated in the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Website forms and email communications may not be monitored in real time.

Do not use this website to report emergencies, urgent medical needs, immediate safety concerns, abuse, threats, or crisis situations.

If there is an emergency or immediate danger, contact local emergency services or the appropriate authorities.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Your continued use of the website after updates are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

For privacy questions, communication preferences, access or deletion requests, or concerns about information shared with The Empower Play Project, please contact us through the contact information provided on our website.

Please include enough detail for us to understand and respond to your request.