FundMyTravel Privacy Policy

By using or accessing FundMyTravel you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to all of the terms of this privacy policy, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use of the website.

How Our Website Works

FundMyTravel is a website that allows you to raise funds for a trip or travel abroad. We use third-party payment processors to collect donations which are given to fundraisers.

Data & Information Privacy Policies

Our Commitment

FundMyTravel collects certain data and information about our users ("You") in order to develop and improve various features and functions of our website ("Site"). Personal information includes, but is not limited to, your first and last name, citizenship, travel interests, payment processor, currency, and your email address ("Personal Information"). User data includes, but is not limited to, your browser type, device, IP address, and session statistics (“User Data”).

FundMyTravel is committed to respecting your privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any Personal Information you share with us. FundMyTravel established this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") so that you can understand the care with which FundMyTravel will treat your Personal Information, including how we collect, share, store, and utilize data.

How We Collect User Data

Use of Cookies

If you are browsing our Site, you are anonymous to us, but we will still collect User Data, like browser type, device, and IP address, during your session through the use of web analytics tracking services. This User Data is collected for all FundMyTravel visitors, is non-personally identifiable, and is used to manage, monitor, and track usage to improve our website’s services. Once this data is collected, it is stored in our web analytics account indefinitely.

If you are a first time visitor, a Cookies Acceptance Banner will appear once you visit our Site. By closing this banner, scrolling this page, clicking a link, or continuing to browse otherwise, you agree and consent to our use of cookies.

If you voluntarily provide Personal Information to us through any forms, tools, or services on our Site, including signing up for an account and starting a fundraiser, you will no longer be anonymous to us. Your User Data and Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database as specified below. To delete the Personal Information you’ve voluntarily shared with us via any form, tool, or service on our Site or withdraw your consent, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

Disclosure of User Data

FundMyTravel may share aggregated Site usage information gathered from Cookies or other services in a non-personally identifiable manner with partners and other third parties in order to create more efficient, targeted advertising, products, and services. We promise this User Data will be non-personally identifiable.

Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy, FundMyTravel will not disclose Personal Information collected through our Site to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by FundMyTravel, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the FundMyTravel Terms of Service or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of FundMyTravel.

If you have any questions about how your Personal Information is collected or shared, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

Create an Account

If you voluntarily create a FundMyTravel account on our Site, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely, unless we deem it necessary to delete your account.

By checking the Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your Personal Information, and share it with our internal team. If you wish to delete your FundMyTravel account from our database or withdraw your consent, please email support@fundmytravel.com

Any information you add to your campaign or profile will be publicly available and searchable online indefinitely. FundMyTravel is not liable for any misuse or improper collection of information on any campaign or profile page. Such actions are considered a violation of the FundMyTravel Terms of Service. Contact us to report abuse of personal information.

Subscribe to Newsletter

If you voluntarily sign up for the FundMyTravel Newsletter in the footer of our Site, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely once you confirm your subscription through the confirmation email sent to you, unless we deem it necessary to delete your Personal Information. By checking the Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your Personal Information. If you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter or withdraw your consent, click on the unsubscribe link in any email campaign we send to you or email support@fundmytravel.com.

Send Feedback

If you voluntarily send feedback to FundMyTravel, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely, unless we deem it necessary to delete your information. By checking the Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your Personal Information, and share it with our internal team to provide you with a response. If you wish to delete your data from our database or withdraw your consent, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

Apply for Partnership

If you voluntarily apply for partnership with FundMyTravel, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely, unless we deem it necessary to delete it. By checking the Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your Personal Information, and share it with our internal team to provide you with an account, as well as updates and marketing via email and customized online advertising. If you wish to delete your data from our database or withdraw your consent, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

Donate Form

If you voluntarily donate to a campaign page from FundMyTravel, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely, unless we deem it necessary to delete. FundMyTravel utilizes WePay, Stripe, and PayPal for payment transactions, so WePay, Stripe, and PayPal will also collect and store your Personal Information to process your donation. FundMyTravel is not liable for the collection or storage of your Personal Information by WePay, Stripe, PayPal, and any other payment processor. Once you submit your donation, you agree to their terms and conditions and we are no liable for your data. You must contact WePay, Stripe, and/or PayPal directly to delete your Personal Information from their database or withdraw your consent. By checking our Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your name and email address, and share it with our internal team to send you a thank you email. If you wish to delete your Personal Information from our database or withdraw your consent, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

Subscribe to a Campaign

If you voluntarily subscribe to a FundMyTravel Campaign, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely once you confirm your subscription through the confirmation email sent to you, unless we deem it necessary to delete your Personal Information. By checking the Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your Personal Information so we can provide you regular updates about the campaign. If you wish to unsubscribe from the campaign updates or withdraw your consent, click on the unsubscribe link in any email campaign we send to you or email support@fundmytravel.com.

Report a Campaign Form

If you voluntarily report a campaign to the FundMyTravel team, your Personal Information will be collected and stored in our database indefinitely, unless we deem it necessary to delete your data. By checking the Consent Checkbox, you willingly give FundMyTravel consent to collect and store your Personal Information, and share it with our internal team to provide you with an appropriate resolution to your concern. If you wish to delete your data from our database or withdraw your consent, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

How We Safely Store User Data & Personal Information

We use industry standard measures to protect all information that is stored on our servers and within our database. We limit access to this information to those employees who need access to perform their job function.

If you have any questions about the security of our website, please contact us.

Email Marketing Policies

Strict adherence to CAN-SPAM Act of 2003

Just like you, we hate spam. We have never sent spam or junk emails and our mailing practice strictly conforms to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. However, if you willingly provide FundMyTravel with your contact information / email address on our Site, we will send notices from time to time to your inbox based on the type of form you used to submit your Personal Information. This permission is expressed in our Consent Checkbox and specific terms and conditions below.

Fundraiser Notifications and Emails

FundMyTravel sends regular emails and notifications to all Users. These emails were created to ensure we provide the best possible service to our community. Creating a fundraiser puts you on our regular mailing list, which shares best practices on fundraising, sends milestones about your campaign page and informs you about updates to our FundMyTravel community, among others. All our fundraiser Personal Information is collected and stored in our database and Admin side of our platform. We never share our data with third parties or outside entities, so all Personal Information is kept confidential to our internal team.

If you would like to unsubscribe to our emails, you can do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any email campaign or by changing your settings on the profile page of your FundMyTravel account.

Partner Communication

If you request a partnership with FundMyTravel, either by submitting a request via our Apply for Partnership form, email, or in person with a representative of FundMyTravel (or our parent company GoAbroad), you will receive follow up communication about your prospective partnership from the FundMyTravel team. This email communication will be customized to your organization with the goal of publishing your FundMyTravel Partner Page and giving you access to your Dashboard. If at any time during this communication you decide you no longer want to formalize a partnership with FundMyTravel, you may mention this to the FundMyTravel representative and we will cease our email communication from that point forward.

Newsletters for Partners

FundMyTravel sends newsletters and updates to all Partners periodically. These newsletters were created to ensure we provide the best possible service to our partner organizations. Becoming a partner automatically puts you on our regular mailing list, which shares intermittent updates to our community including total donation per organization, Site updates and fundraising tips among others. All of our partners’ Personal Information are collected and stored in our database and in the Admin side of our platform. We never share our subscriber lists with third parties or outside entities, so all data is kept confidential to our internal team.

If you would like to discontinue receiving partner newsletter, please email support@fundmytravel.com.

Donor Communication

FundMyTravel does not email donors, other than a one-time acknowledgement of the donation (“Thank You Email”) which is a core function of our website. If you are a User of our website who is purely a donor and you do not wish to receive the Thank You Email, you may elect not to use our fundraising platform. Beyond this notice we do not communicate with donors. FundMyTravel will collect and store your name and email address only as a way to keep track of our donor community. We never share your Personal Information with third parties or outside entities, so all data is kept confidential to our internal team. If you would like your information to be removed, please send an email to support@fundmytravel.com.

Newsletter Emails

Users can voluntarily opt-in for the FundMyTravel newsletter through our subscription form at the Site’s footer. FundMyTravel may send intermittent updates to subscribers regarding new website features, updated policies and fundraising tips and trends among other things. We never share your Personal Information with third parties or outside entities, so all data is kept confidential to our team.

If you would like to unsubscribe to our newsletter, you can do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any email campaign or by contacting us.

Subscribed to a Campaign

Users can voluntarily opt-in to stay updated on a particular campaign page by subscribing to the fundraiser itself. By sending your Personal Information, your data will be collected and stored by our database so that for every instance the fundraiser posts a new update, you will be immediately notified through email.

If you would like to unsubscribe from a particular campaign, you can do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any email campaign or by contacting us.

Feedback Form

Users can voluntarily contact the FundMyTravel team for any reason through our Feedback Form. When you send a Feedback Form on our Site, you are willing to submit your name and email address to the FundMyTravel team. The content of your inquiry will then be directly shared with relevant FundMyTravel team members so they can follow up with you to provide detailed information and answer your questions. We do not send further emails after your inquiry has been taken care of. Should you wish for your information to be removed from our database, please send a request to support@fundmytravel.com.

File a Report on a Campaign

Users can voluntarily report any campaign page they deem is harmful, offensive or in any manner violates FundMyTravel’s Terms of Service. By filing a report on our Site, you are willing to submit your name and email address which will then be shared with the FundMyTravel team for a quick action to your complaint. Furthermore, the FundMyTravel team may contact you using your submitted Personal Information to ask for more information about your report. FundMyTravel will not send further emails once a resolution has been met. Should you wish for your information to be removed from our database, please send a request support@fundmytravel.com.

Video & Image Submission Policies

License

When submitting videos and images to FundMyTravel, you grant us, without any compensation of any kind to you or others, the right and license to use, copy, distribute, display, publish, perform, sell, sublicense, modify, edit, adapt, translate, transmit, created derivative works from, and otherwise exploit all Images and Videos in any form, medium or technology that we elect, whether now or in the future. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that, without further approval from you, we may exercise the rights you grant us herein for any and all purposes we deem appropriate, including, without limitation, for the promotion, marketing, and publicizing of our services and products. The right and license you grant us is perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unrestricted, and worldwide.

By voluntarily submitting images and video to FundMyTravel through any form, fundraising or partner page, or tool, you affirm, represent and warrant to us:

You are at least 16 years old.
All User Information submitted is true and accurate.
You are not impersonating any person or falsely stated or misrepresented your affiliation with a person or entity.
You own or have all necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and submit to us the Images and User Information and to authorize us to use the Images and User Information.
Your agreement to these Terms and Conditions does not in any way conflict with any existing legal agreement or commitment on your part to any third party.
Your images and User Information do not embody, reflect or reveal any confidential information and that we are not obligated to treat them as confidential.

Miscellaneous Policies

This Policy and any other legal notices published by FundMyTravel on the Site, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and FundMyTravel concerning the Site, your use of FundMyTravel, and consumption of any content. If any provision of these Terms is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any one provision set forth in these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision, and FundMyTravel’s failure to assert or enforce any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

External Links

Our provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of other websites or location or its contents, including payment processing platforms and partner organizations. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for these external websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to these third party websites. FundMyTravel is not liable or responsible for any communications that result from your visit to these external websites.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless FundMyTravel and its principals, shareholders, agents, officers, directors, consultants, and employees from or against third-party claims, damages, payments, deficiencies, fines, judgments, settlements, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses arising from or relating to any third-party claim, suit, action or proceeding arising out of the breach of FundMyTravel’s representations and warranties contained herein.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

FundMyTravel reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Policy at any time. You should visit this page from time to time to review the current Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, because all of the content on this page is binding when you become a User of FundMyTravel.

If you object to any such changes or any of the policies outlined above, you may cease using our Site. Continued use of FundMyTravel following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us.