Cookies Policy
The Change.org Charitable Foundation directly or via a third Change.org Charitable Foundation directly or via a third party contracted for providing measurement services, may use cookies and other similar mechanisms for storing and retrieving data from terminals (“cookies”) when you browse the Website to allow and facilitate your interaction with the Website. The statistics services (own and third-party) used by the Website may use cookies for the purposes of establishing metrics and usage patterns of the Website.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that can be saved and read on your device. They allow information to be retained for a certain period of time and to identify the visitor’s computer. This makes navigation easier and makes our website more user-friendly. Cookies also help us to identify particularly popular areas of our website.
2. What information do we collect with cookies?
When you visit our website, we can collect the following information through the cookies installed: device identifiers, information related to the device, IP address, events related to your navigation like content, webpages visited, interactions with the ads, etc.
3. What type of cookies do we use and how do we use them?
Browsing this Website means that the following types of cookies can be installed, both first- and third-party cookies, or session or persistent cookies, depending on how long they last on your device:
- Persistent Cookies: For better user guidance and individual performance, we use persistent cookies so that we can offer you our website again in your language the next time you visit.
- Session cookies: We also use so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
You can set your browser so that it informs you about the placement of cookies and so the use of cookies becomes transparent for you.
- Technical Cookies: Some cookies are required to use our website. We do not use these cookies for analysis, tracking or advertising purposes. Some of these cookies only contain information about certain settings and are not personal. They may also be necessary to enable user guidance, security, and implementation of the site.
- Statistical analysis cookies: these are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, make it possible to quantify the number of visitors and to statistically analyze the use made of our services by users. Thanks to this we can study the navigation of our Website, and thus improve the range of products and/or services offered.
- Social network cookies: These are cookies designed and used to offer the user the possibility of sharing or recommending content from our website in social networks. The social media platforms have the ability to track their online activity outside the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
- Behavioural advertising cookies: these are cookies that, either processed by us or by third parties, allow us to effectively manage the advertising spaces on our Website, adjusting the content of the ad to the content of the service requested or the use you make of our Website. These cookies also allow us to measure the delivery and effectiveness of the ads, identify which ads have already been shown, how often they have been shown, when and where they have been shown and whether any action has been taken in relation to them, including, for example, clicking on an ad or making a purchase. They enable us to learn about your Internet browsing habits and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.
List of cookies installed in Change.org Foundation
Technical and functional:
| Domain | Cookie | Purpose | Retention term |
| changefoundation.org | _gat_gtag_UA_11490 9642_1 | Cookie required to use website options and services | Session |
| changefoundation.org | _hjAbsoluteSessionIn Progress | Cookie required to use website options and services | Session |
| changefoundation.org | _hjFirstSeen | Cookie required to use website options and services | Session |
| changefoundation.org | _hjIncludedInPagevie wSample | Cookie required to use website options and services | Session |
| changefoundation.org | cookie-accepted | Cookie required to use website options and services | 7 days |
| doubleclick.net | RUL | Cookie required to use website options and services | a year |
| google.com | __Secure-3PSIDCC | Cookie required to use website options and services | a year |
Analytics:
| Domain | Cookie | Purpose | Retention term |
| changefoundation.org | _ga | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| changefoundation.org | _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | 22 hours |
| changefoundation.org | _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | a year |
| doubleclick.net | __Secure-3PAPISID | This cookies are used to deliver more relevant ads for you and your interests. | 2 years |
| google.com | __Secure-3PSID | This cookies are used to deliver more relevant ads for you and your interests. | 2 years |
Marketing:
| Domain | Cookie | Purpose | Retention term |
| doubleclick.net | DSID | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite. | 3 days |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite. | a year |
| google.com | APISID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| google.com | HSID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| google.com | NID | This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation. | 7 months |
| google.com | SAPISID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| google.com | SID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| google.com | SIDCC | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | a year |
| google.com | SSID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
Third party services are beyond the control of Change.org Foundation. Providers may modify at any time their conditions of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.
External suppliers of this website:
| Provider | Privacy Policy Link |
| DoubleClick/Google Marketing | https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html |
| Google Analytics | https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html |
| https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html | |
| https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/ | |
| Hotjar | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out |
4. Who are the recipients of the information? Where are they located?
The information collected through Cookies may be used both by Change.org, Foundation and by third-party collaborating companies, such as advertising network operators and agents, for the purposes described in the previous section.
Some of these third-parties may be located in third countries whose legislation does not offer an equivalent level of data protection; however, the User may consult the appropriate guarantees they offer to ensure that international transfers of data are carried out taking into account the rights and freedoms of the data subjects.
The User can find out more about these third-parties, as well as the types of cookies they install, the purposes for which they process the data, the guarantees they offer to carry out international transfers, the retention periods, and how preferences can be configured with respect to them, through their privacy policies indicated above. In any case, Change.org, Foundation is not liable for the accuracy and content of the privacy policies offered by such third parties on their websites.
5. How can I set my preferences?
Taking into account the information provided in this Cookies Policy, below we explain how you can manage the cookies used on the Web via the different options of the most common browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera). The “Help” functionality of most browsers tells you how to configure your browser to not accept cookies, to notify you whenever you receive a new cookie and to completely disable all cookies.
For instance, you can find out how to manage your cookie preferences in the most common browsers via the following links:
If you use a different browser, see the documentation for your browser.
To update your consent to the use of cookies that we and our partners implement on our website to tailor content and advertising, provide social media functionality, or analyze our traffic, you may click here.
The opt-out mechanism creates a cookie that allows us to remember that you don’t want additional cookies. However, if you delete your cookies after opting out, you will have to opt out again.
These changes only apply to the browser via which you are currently connected. To delete cookies in other devices, you must follow the process described in those devices.
Additional Information
If you wish to contact us regarding our cookie policy, you may do so through our email address hello@changefoundation.org. You may write to exercise your rights of access, rectification or deletion, limitation of processing, opposition, to the portability of the data or not to be subject to a decision based solely on the automated processing, as well as to withdraw your consent.
Notwithstanding the above, to the extent that the information processed is related solely to codes or unique identifiers of devices or browsers used by the User, and is not related to data that identify the User directly, the above rights will not be applicable unless the User provides additional information that allows identification (such as Cookie ID).
If you wish to know additional information about the processing of your data, you can consult the Privacy Policy.
This Cookies Policy was revised and published on December 13, 2020.