GivingPals allows users to celebrate life's meaningful moments by making a charitable donation in honor of someone else and sending a personalized digital greeting card via email or SMS. To provide this service, GivingPals collects certain information from both the sender and the recipient as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information You Provide
Depending on how you use GivingPals, we may collect:

By providing recipient information, you represent that you have the right to provide that information for the purpose of delivering your charitable gift.

When you use GivingPals, we may automatically collect:

We use your personal information to:

We do not use your personal information for purposes inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

Recipients receive only the information necessary to deliver the charitable gift.
Depending on the sender's selections, recipients may receive:

Recipient contact information is used solely for delivering the charitable gift and related transactional communication.

Gift recipients are not automatically subscribed to GivingPals marketing emails. Receiving or viewing a gift, interacting with GivingPals, or creating an account does not by itself subscribe a recipient. Recipients must separately choose to receive marketing emails.

GivingPals facilitates charitable gift transactions by allowing users to select a nonprofit organization and personalize a digital greeting card.

GivingPals is not the nonprofit organization receiving the charitable donation.

Charity names, Employer Identification Numbers (EINs), and other nonprofit information displayed on GivingPals are obtained from trusted third-party data providers. While we strive for accuracy, we cannot guarantee that all charity information is complete, current, or error-free.

GivingPals may receive a marketing fee in connection with qualifying transactions.
Additional information is available in our Terms of Service.

Charitable contributions made through GivingPals are processed by Make My Donation,Inc. ("MMD"), a Section 501(c)(3) public charity operating a donor-advised fund. To complete your donation, we share your name, email address, mobile phone number,billing address, donation amount, transaction date, selected charitable organization,transaction identifiers, and any other information MMD requires. We share thisinformation so that MMD can accept and process your contribution, issue grants to charitable organizations, issue or authorize donation receipts and tax acknowledgments, maintain required records, and comply with its own terms, policies, agreements, andlegal obligations. MMD uses and protects this information under its own privacy policy.The charitable organization you select may receive your name, email address, mailing address, donation amount, and any dedication or honoree details, either from MMD or from us. We do not share your mobile phone number or SMS consent with charitable organizations. Once a charitable organization receives your information, its own privacypractices apply, and it may contact you, including to thank you or to ask for futuresupport. We do not control how charitable organizations use donor information. We do not share recipient contact information with MMD or charitable organizations,except as needed to provide the Services or as required by law.

Payments made through GivingPals are securely processed by Stripe.

GivingPals does not receive or store complete payment card numbers or payment credentials. Payment information is processed directly by Stripe in accordance with Stripe's privacy and security practices.

If you choose SMS delivery, GivingPals uses Twilio to deliver transactional text messages necessary to provide our services (such as digital card delivery links, gift notifications, and account updates).

GivingPals uses Resend to deliver transactional emails, including:

We will only send marketing emails if you have chosen to receive them. Marketing emails include an unsubscribe option. When you subscribe, GivingPals will use your email address to send gifting ideas, occasion reminders, product updates, and offers. Subscribing is optional and is not required to send or receive a gift. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our marketing emails. Unsubscribing does not stop necessary communications about your gifts or donations, such as receipts and delivery updates. Gift recipients are not subscribed by the sender; they must separately choose to receive marketing emails.

GivingPals may offer optional AI-powered writing assistance to help users generate greeting card messages.

These features are powered by OpenAI.

AI-generated suggestions are provided solely as writing assistance. Users are responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving any AI-generated content before sending.

GivingPals does not use artificial intelligence to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning users.

GivingPals uses cookies and similar technologies to:

We also use Cloudflare to improve website performance, content delivery, reliability, and protection against malicious traffic and security threats.

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through your browser settings.

GivingPals works with trusted third-party providers that help us operate our platform.

These providers may process personal information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf.

Our current providers include but are not limited to:

Make My Donation, Inc. and the charitable organizations you select are not our serviceproviders. They receive information as independent recipients, as described in Section 5, and handle it under their own privacy policies. We may also engage additional providers for website hosting, analytics, fraud prevention, customer support, security monitoring, or other operational purposes. Most browsers allow you to control cookies through your browser settings.

GivingPals does not sell your personal information.

We may share information only:

We share only the information reasonably necessary for third parties to perform services on our behalf.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy, text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared, sold, rented, or disclosed to any third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes under any circumstances.

GivingPals does not sell personal information.

GivingPals does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

GivingPals uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information.

These safeguards include encrypted connections (HTTPS), secure payment processing, access controls, security monitoring, and industry-standard security practices designed to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of personal information.

Although we work to protect your information, no method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by our Services.