Effective Date: August 21, 2025

Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Privacy

Humane Colorado is committed to safeguarding your privacy. This statement explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way the information you provide us is collected and used. For easy and direct access, we provide a link to this policy statement from our home page and all other pages of the site.

Humane Colorado’s website is maintained by Humane Colorado, with headquarters at 2080 S. Quebec, Denver, CO 80231, U.S. telephone (303) 751-5772.

What Personally Identifiable Information is collected on this site?

When you visit our website, we may collect personal information (such as name, address, e-mail address, and telephone numbers) that you knowingly choose to disclose for purposes including registering to receive e-mail newsletters or other materials, requesting further information from us about programs and services, donating to us, making requests, submitting a form on our website, or simply asking a question. This information is retained and used in accordance with existing federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and other policies.

You may choose not to provide any personal information and you will still be free to browse the other sections of the website owned and administered by Humane Colorado. This means that you can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself.

Anonymous information is collected for every visitor to this site. This includes pages viewed, date and time, and browser type. IP numbers are not stored but are temporarily used to determine domain type and in some cases, geographic region. We do not make any association between this information and a visitor’s identity.

Additionally, when you visit our website, our servers make a log of basic information corresponding to the sites and pages you have visited. This information is stored primarily to track the effectiveness of our website and individual sections and pages within them.

Donations & Payment Processing

All online donations are processed through a secure third-party platform. Humane Colorado does not store or retain your credit card information after the transaction is completed.

SMS Messaging

If you opt in to an SMS campaign, we will not share your opt-in with any third party for purposes unrelated to providing you with the services of that campaign. We may share your personal data with third parties that help us provide our messaging services, including but not limited to platform providers, phone companies, and any other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.

The Way We Use This Information

When you supply information about yourself for a specific purpose, we use the information for that purpose. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that service.

Humane Colorado does not sell, rent, give away or share its e-mail addresses or other information with any third party for purposes unrelated to providing you with information you requested.

Other Websites

Our site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which Humane Colorado has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites, as their policies may be different from ours.

Our Commitment to Data Security

All information provided to Humane Colorado is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a secure coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of Humane Colorado. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of such information.

Choice/Opt-Out

If you have registered to receive e-mail communications from us and later change your mind, you may contact us to have your name removed from our distribution lists. You have the following options to do this:

Corrections/Updates

If you would like to verify or make corrections to the data we have received from you, you may contact us directly at the e-mail or mail addresses provided above.

How Does This Site Use Cookies?

Cookies are simple text files stored by your web browser that provide a method of distinguishing among visitors to the website. Humane Colorado uses cookies to enhance your experience while using our site and to identify your browser as you visit pages on the Humane Colorado website. Cookies created on your computer by using our website do not contain personally identifiable information and do not compromise your privacy or security. Cookies allow Humane Colorado to gather anonymous information to provide more relevant, targeted content as you travel through our site.

Your browser may be set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function properly when you view them.

Humane Colorado may also use similar technologies, such as pixels or analytics tools, to understand how our site is used, improve functionality, and measure the effectiveness of our communications.

Internet Protocol Address

We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our site, analyze trends, track users’ movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site or your dealings with this site, you can contact us by email us at info@humanecolorado.org or write us at Humane Colorado, 2080 S. Quebec St., Denver, CO 80231.