Last updated: August 12, 2026
FoodHatch Crowdfunding (“FoodHatch,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit foodhatchcrowdfunding.com (the “Site”), submit forms, subscribe to email updates, or otherwise interact with our USA-focused crowdfunding informational website. Please read this Policy carefully together with our Terms of Service.
We designed this Site to highlight community food-access campaigns, events, stories, and volunteer pathways without requiring you to call a phone number or mail a physical address. Communications with us occur digitally—primarily through website forms and email. This Policy describes our practices for that digital experience.
We collect information you voluntarily submit through Site forms and similar interactions, which may include:
You are not required to provide personal information to browse public pages. Certain features, such as contacting us or managing newsletter preferences, will not function without the information marked as required on those forms.
When you visit the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect technical and usage information, such as:
If you interact with embedded or linked third-party services (for example, social platforms or analytics providers), those parties may share limited technical data with us consistent with their policies and your settings. We do not purchase sensitive personal information for advertising profiles as a core business practice of this informational Site.
We use personal and technical information for purposes including:
We do not use the Site to collect information for the purpose of making automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you without human involvement. Campaign storytelling and analytics on this Site are oriented toward community education and site improvement.
FoodHatch is oriented toward users in the United States. Depending on your state of residence and the nature of the processing, we rely on one or more of the following grounds or practical justifications:
State privacy laws (including those in California and other U.S. states) may provide additional rights described in Section 9. Where a state law requires a specific legal basis or disclosure, we intend this Policy to satisfy those transparency requirements for an informational website of this kind.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We and our providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, or similar technologies to:
You can control cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting cookies. Blocking some cookies may affect Site functionality. If we deploy a cookie preference banner or similar control in the future, additional choices may be available there. Third-party embedded content may set its own cookies subject to those parties’ policies.
We do not use cookies on this Site to knowingly sell personal information as “sale” is defined under California law for cross-context behavioral advertising in the manner of a data brokerage business. See Section 10 for our “Do Not Sell” statement.
We may share information in the following circumstances:
We do not rent or sell your email address to unaffiliated third parties for their independent marketing lists. Aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably identify you may be shared for research, reporting, or Site improvement.
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to provide services, maintain business records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and comply with legal obligations. Retention periods vary by category:
When retention is no longer necessary, we delete or de-identify information in accordance with our operational practices, subject to backup systems and legal holds.
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. These measures may include access controls, encrypted transport (HTTPS) where enabled on hosting environments, monitoring for suspicious activity, and limiting staff or volunteer access to data on a need-to-know basis.
No method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any credentials associated with Site features and for using up-to-date devices and browsers. If you believe your information has been compromised in connection with the Site, please contact us promptly through the website contact form.
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Consistent with our Terms, users who submit forms should be at least 18 years of age. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us via the website contact form so we can take appropriate steps to delete the information. Parents and guardians who discover a minor’s submission should use the same contact method.
Educational content about food access may be readable by a general audience, but interactive features that collect personal data are intended for adults.
Depending on your state of residence, you may have rights to:
To exercise these rights, submit a request through our contact form. We will verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty before fulfilling requests that involve personal data. You may use an authorized agent where permitted by law; we may require proof of authorization.
If you are a California resident, you may have the right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and retain; the right to delete personal information; the right to correct inaccurate personal information; the right to opt out of “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under California law; the right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information if we collect it for purposes that trigger that right; and the right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights.
Categories of personal information we may collect include identifiers (such as name and email), internet or electronic activity information (such as browsing interactions on the Site), and inferences drawn from Site engagement for improving content. We collect this information from you directly and from automated Site technologies. We use it for the business purposes described in Section 2. We disclose personal information to service providers for hosting, analytics, communications, and security. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes of inferring characteristics about you beyond what is necessary to provide the Site features you request.
To submit a California request, use the website contact form and state that you are making a California privacy request. Describe whether you seek access, deletion, correction, or an opt-out. We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law.
FoodHatch Crowdfunding does not sell personal information for monetary consideration in the ordinary sense of selling a mailing list. Under some state laws, “sale” or “sharing” can include certain disclosures for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not intentionally engage in selling or sharing personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as a business practice of this Site.
If you believe a third-party technology on the Site engages in activity that you wish to opt out of, you may: (a) adjust browser cookie controls; (b) use industry opt-out tools where available; and (c) contact us via the website contact form with “Do Not Sell or Share” in your message so we can review and honor applicable opt-out requests. We will not discriminate against you for exercising this right.
The Site is designed for a United States audience and is hosted or administered with U.S.-oriented operations in mind. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your country. By using the Site, you acknowledge that transfer to the United States may occur for the purposes described in this Policy. If you do not want your information processed in the United States, please do not submit personal information through Site forms.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or Site features. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and post the updated Policy on the Site. For material changes, we may provide additional notice, such as a Site banner or an email to subscribers. Your continued use of the Site after the effective date of an updated Policy constitutes acceptance of the changes to the extent permitted by law.
We encourage you to review this page periodically. If you disagree with a material change, you should stop using the Site and, if applicable, unsubscribe from email communications.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise privacy rights, or need help with newsletter preferences, please contact us through our website form at contact.html. We do not publish a phone number or physical mailing address on this Site. Electronic contact through the form is the designated method for privacy inquiries.
Please include enough detail for us to understand and verify your request. For privacy rights requests, specify the type of request and the email address associated with your interactions so we can locate relevant records. We will respond as required by applicable law and in any event within a commercially reasonable time.
Because FoodHatch features campaigns and donation-related storytelling, please remember that organizers and partners may have their own privacy practices when you interact with them directly. Information you choose to share publicly in comments or social channels is not controlled by this Policy once it leaves our Site. Demo donation forms on the Site may collect fields for user-experience purposes without completing a live payment; any future live payment processing will involve additional disclosures from payment providers.
Thank you for trusting FoodHatch Crowdfunding with your interest in community food access. We are committed to handling personal information responsibly while helping neighbors fund nutritious meals, pantries, farms, and kitchens across the United States.
