HOME ADVOCATES UNION (HAU)
COOKIE POLICY
This Cookie Policy explains how Home Advocates Union (“HAU,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on the HAU website.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies may allow a website to recognize your browser, remember information, store preferences, improve site functionality, measure website activity, and support security features.
HAU may also use similar technologies, including pixels, web beacons, tags, analytics tools, and local storage.
2. Types of Cookies HAU May Use
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function. They may support security, login functionality, form submissions, payment processing, load balancing, cookie-consent preferences, and other essential website functions.
- Preference Cookies: These cookies may remember settings such as language, location, login status, accessibility preferences, and other website choices.
- Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies may help HAU understand how visitors use the website, including pages viewed, time spent on the site, traffic sources, device type, browser type, and website performance.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies may support enhanced features such as videos, embedded content, chat tools, event-registration features, member portals, or social-media integrations.
- Marketing and Advertising Cookies: If HAU uses advertising, social-media, or remarketing tools, these cookies may help measure the effectiveness of HAU outreach and show communications that may be relevant to your interests. HAU will use such technologies only as permitted by applicable law and HAU’s active website configuration.
3. Why HAU Uses Cookies
- Operate and secure the HAU website;
- Remember user preferences;
- Support membership, donation, registration, and form functions;
- Understand website traffic and improve user experience;
- Measure the performance of communications and outreach;
- Detect fraud, abuse, and security threats; and
- Support authorized advocacy, outreach, and communication efforts.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers that support HAU’s website, payment processing, analytics, video hosting, email communications, social-media tools, or embedded content.
Third parties may collect information according to their own privacy and cookie policies. HAU does not control the technology or privacy practices of third-party services.
5. Cookie Choices
- HAU’s cookie-consent banner or cookie-settings tool, where available;
- Your browser settings;
- Your mobile-device privacy settings;
- Privacy controls offered by third-party services; and
- Browser tools that allow you to delete, block, or limit cookies.
6. Universal Opt-Out Signals
Where required by applicable law, HAU will honor eligible browser-based universal opt-out signals that communicate a request to opt out of certain targeted advertising or personal-data processing activities.
7. Updates to This Cookie Policy
HAU may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in law, technology, website functionality, or HAU practices. Updated versions will be posted with a revised effective date.
8. Contact HAU
Questions about HAU’s use of cookies may be directed to:
Home Advocates Union
3111 Roue 38, Suite 11-199
Mt. Laurel, New Jersey 08054
Tel: 908-356-0709
Email: help@homeadvocatesunion.org