Privacy Statement
Gifting Sense is a mission-driven organization. Our mindful spending tool, the DIMS - DOES IT MAKE SENSE?® SCORE Calculator is available without registration or crossing a paywall.
The only time we may be in possession of personal information about an educator, parent or young person is if they contact us. We are parents too. We will never sell your personal information.
This privacy statement was last changed on February 13, 2025.
In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://giftingsense.org. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:
- we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
- we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
- we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
- we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
- we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.
If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.
1. Purpose and categories of data
We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following: (click to expand)
1.1 Contact - Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
- An email address
- A telephone number
- IP Address
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.2 Newsletters
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- An email address
- IP Address
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.3 Compiling and analyzing statistics for website improvement.
The following categories of data are collected
- Geolocation data
- IP Address
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.4 Deliveries
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
- An email address
- A telephone number
- IP Address
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.5 To be able to comply with legal obligations
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- An email address
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
2. Disclosure practices
We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.
If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.
3. How we respond to Do Not Track signals & Global Privacy Control
Our website responds to and supports the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to us in the HTTP request header, and we will not track your browsing behavior.
4. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Opt-out preferences webpage.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google.
Google may not use the data for any other Google services.
The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.
5. Security
We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.
6. Third-party websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.
7. Amendments to this privacy statement
We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.
8. Accessing and modifying your data
If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:
8.1 You have the following rights with respect to your personal data
- You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you.
- You may object to the processing.
- You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
- You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.
8.2 Supplements
This section, which supplements the rest of this Privacy Statement, applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of California (CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Montana (MCDPA), Nevada (NRS 603A), Oregon (OCPA), Utah (UCPA), Texas (TDPSA) and Virginia (CDPA)
California
Right to know what personal information is being collected about you
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:
- The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
- The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:
- The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
- The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
- The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
The Right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.
A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.
A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Financial incentives
Selling of personal data to third parties
We have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months
We have not disclosed consumers’ personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months.
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
Colorado
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under Colorado law this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Connecticut
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CTDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Montana
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the MCDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Nevada
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Oregon
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the OCPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Texas
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
We are not required to reveal any trade secret.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the TDPSA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Utah
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data that you previously provided to us as a controller in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the UCPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising; or
- the sale of personal data.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
Virginia
Right to Data Portability
When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
Right to opt-out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.
Under the CDPA this concerns the following purposes:
- targeted advertising;
- the sale of personal data; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
9. Children
For our privacy statement regarding children, please see our dedicated Children's Privacy Statement below.
10. Contact details
Gifting Sense Inc.
PO Box 20093,
New York, New York
10021
Website: https://giftingsense.org
Email: info@giftingsense.org
Children's Privacy Statement
This privacy statement was last changed on February 13, 2025.
In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about children via https://giftingsense.org. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of US privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:
- we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
- we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
- we first request consent from parents to process the personal data in cases requiring parental consent;
- we take appropriate security measures to protect the personal data of children and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
- we respect the right to access children’s personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at the request of a parent or guardian.
If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you or your child, please contact us.
1. Purposes
We use the personal data from children for one or more of the following purposes:
- Email contact
2. Email contact
Sometimes it is necessary that we ask for an email address. We will do this in order to respond to a request or question from a child.
- a first and last name
- an email address from the child
- an email address from the parent or guardian
3. Verifiable Parental Consent
COPPA requires that we search consent from a parent or guardian if we wish to collect personal data from a child. We use the following method(s):
- We seek a parent or guardian's consent by email
Parents and guardians can refuse their consent, and can request that we delete any personal information we might have already collected. This might also mean that an account or membership will be terminated.
4. When verifiable parental consent is not required
Verifiable parental consent is not required in the case of:
- online contact information collected from a child that is used only to respond directly on a one-time basis to a specific request from the child and is not used to recontact the child and is not maintained in retrievable form by the operator;
- a request for the name or online contact information of a parent or child that is used for the sole purpose of obtaining parental consent or providing notice and where such information is not maintained in retrievable form by the operator if parental consent is not obtained after a reasonable time;
- online contact information collected from a child that is used only to respond more than once directly to a specific request from the child and is not used to recontact the child beyond the scope of that request
- if, before any additional response after the initial response to the child, the operator uses reasonable efforts to provide a parent notice of the online contact information collected from the child, the purposes for which it is to be used, and an opportunity for the parent to request that the operator make no further use of the information and that it not be maintained in retrievable form; or
- without notice to the parent in such circumstances as the Commission may determine are appropriate, taking into consideration the benefits to the child of access to information and services, and risks to the security and privacy of the child;
- the name of the child and online contact information (to the extent reasonably necessary to protect the safety of a child participant on the site)
- used only for the purpose of protecting such safety;
- not used to recontact the child or for any other purpose; and
- not disclosed on the site,
if the operator uses reasonable efforts to provide a parent notice of the name and online contact information collected from the child, the purposes for which it is to be used, and an opportunity for the parent to request that the operator make no further use of the information and that it not be maintained in retrievable form; or
- the collection, use, or dissemination of such information by the operator of such a website or online service necessary
- to protect the security or integrity of its website;
- to take precautions against liability;
- to respond to judicial process; or
- to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety
5. Sharing with other parties
We do not share data with third parties.
6. Disclosure practices
We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, or if we believe disclosure may facilitate an investigation related to protect the safety of a child.
If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.
7. How we respond to Do Not Track signals & Global Privacy Control
Our website responds to and supports the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to us in the HTTP request header, and we will not track your browsing behavior.
8. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Do Not Sell My Personal Information webpage.
9. Security
We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.
10. Contact details
Please contact us at the address below if you have any questions about this Children’s Privacy Statement or about our collection and use practices:
Gifting Sense Inc.
PO Box 20093,
New York, New York
10021
Website: https://giftingsense.org
Email: info@giftingsense.org
