Privacy Policy

Last Updated May 20th, 2024.

At Feminist Women’s Health Center (“FWHC” or “Feminist Center”), we respect and are comitted to protecting the privacy of our website (“Site”) users. The following Privacy Policy describes the ways in which Feminist Center uses and collects information from our Site visitors. This privacy statement applies to Feminist Center’s Site and services that are located in but not limited to the domain www.feministcenter.org.

Please Note: This Privacy Policy does not apply to information you may share with Feminist Women’s Health Center in connection with your receipt of healthcare services online or via in-person visits to our clinic. Such information is protected by state and federal law.

Information Collection:

Feminist Center is the sole owner of information collected on this Site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Feminist Center collects information from our Site visitors at several different points on our website including but not limited to, when you:

• sign up to our newsletter;
• make a donation;
• make a purchase;
• apply for a job, volunteer or internship opportunity;
• request a speaker;
• contact us with a question, comment or request;
• enter a contest, sweepstakes or promotion;

The information that you provide us can include:

• Your name;
• Your contact information;
• Transaction related information such as credit-card information;
• Information you provide when you apply for a job or volunteer/internship opportunity;

Sharing and Usage:

We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you. The contracts prohibit them from using any of your personal information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide to them. We may disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.

Our Site offers several opportunities for visitors to sign-up for informational mailings. These sign-up forms are often linked to Feminist Center’s mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information about Feminist Center. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time. 

Use of Web Technologies

We use a variety of technologies on our Site, including Google Analytics and Google AdWords. Among these are cookies, pieces of information that our Site provides to your browser when you visit our Site. Cookies allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our website easier by recognizing you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience.Cookies also allow us to track point of entry to point of registration for those users participating in our email signup programs, and to track and measure the success of a particular email blast. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our Site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site.

Feminist Center uses remarketing or similar audiences to advertise online. In some cases, Feminist Center partners with third-party vendors to show Feminist Center advertising on other websites across the internet. These third-party vendors may use cookies to serve you ads based upon your past visits to Feminist Center’s website. To opt out of Google cookies, visit their Ads Preference Manager. To opt out of any third-party vendor’s use of cookies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect information such as browser type and version, and pages you view.

We also keep track of how you got to our Site and any links you click on to leave our Site. Once you leave our Site, we do not track you. We use your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience, assist you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server, administer our websites and to tailor our informational offerings to you.

Your Choices

• We use this contact information to send users information about Feminist Center. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time.
• We use a variety of technologies on our Site, including Google Analytics and Google AdWord which use cookies to track user behavior. To opt out of Google cookies, visit their Ads Preference Manager. You can set your web browser to reject cookies from our website. Each browser is different so you should check your browser’s “Help” menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
• If you wish to review your contact information we have on file for you, correct your information, or inform us how you wish your contact information to be used, please email us at [email protected]
• To opt-out of Google Analytics for the web visit the Google Analytics Opt-Out Page and install the add-on for your browser.

Text Message Opt-Out:

If you are receiving text messages from us and wish to stop receiving them, simply respond with either “STOP” or “UNSUBSCRIBE” to the number from which you received the message. Once we receive your message, you will no longer receive further text messages from us.

Notification of Changes

If we update our Privacy Policy, we will update you by posting a new Privacy Policy on this page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.