Thank you for visiting NC Fair Chance, a partnership between the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center, the North Carolina Justice Center, and District Attorneys across North Carolina to help drivers remove minor charges and unpaid fines from their records (the “Program”). This website and its pages are maintained by the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center for pro bono assistance with these North Carolina-based legal issues (the “Site”).
We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy, and this Privacy Policy informs you, the user of this Site, of our practices in connection with the information that we connect through this Site and the Program. This Privacy Policy also describes your choices, how we secure your personal information, and how you can contact us.
Agreement and Changes to the Privacy Policy
“Personal Information” as contemplated by this Privacy Policy, means any information that can used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. It does not include any deidentified or anonymized information.
By using this Site and the Program, you agree to the collection and use of your Personal Information as described within the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site and please do not provide any Personal Information via the Site.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review the effective date listed above to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Your continued use of the Site following any update to this Privacy Policy signifies that you accept the revised Privacy Policy. If there are material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will prominently post and/or communicate such changes. We will ask for your consent to material changes to the Privacy Policy if required by applicable law.
Personal Information that You Provide and Why We Collect It.
This Site collects Personal Information that you provide through the Site, and the Site also automatically collects Personal Information when you visit the Site. We collect the following information from you:
Personal Contact Information: When you use this Site to express your interest in any of the Program’s services, you voluntarily provide personal information that allows the NC Pro Bono Resource Center to communicate with you and to provide you with the information you request. Our Site includes forms that are clearly marked with the Personal Information necessary to communicate with you and to provide you with the information that you request, and this includes, but is not limited to, your name, date of birth, email address, phone number, postal address, and any other information that you provide to us to help us serve you.
Non-Personal Transactional Information: Like many websites, this Site automatically collects information when you visit our Site, like your IP address, the browser you are using, information about the device that you are using to access the Site (such as whether you are accessing the site using a mobile phone or a desktop computer), and your interactions with our Site (such as which pages on the Site you visited). Many browsers allow you to change your settings to restrict the information that websites, including this Site, collect about your visit. We collect this information on an aggregate basis only. For example, we track how many visitors have used our Site and which pages are most popular among visitors as a whole.
We use this aggregate data to understand how visitors interact and use our Site and to improve and promote the services that we offer. We do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
How We Use Personal Information
The primary use for the Personal Information that we collect from you through this Site is to better understand your needs, to contact you and to respond to you via phone, text, or email about our services, and to provide our services to you.
We may also use your Personal Information and Non-Personal Transactional Information to enhance your user experience on this Site, to improve our existing content to improve the services that we provide through the Program, to authenticate users, and to provide you with additional relevant information.
We will retain your Personal Information and other information for the period reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by or allowed by law or a contractual arrangement with you.
When and Why We May Share Your Information
The Program is a partnership between the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center, the North Carolina Justice Center, and North Carolina District Attorneys, and the North Carolina Pro Bono Resources Center will disclose your Personal Information to other companies, non-profits, and service providers as part of the services offered by this Site and the Program. For example, if you request your driving record information, we will disclose your Personal Information necessary to obtain and provide you with that driving record information. Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Transactional Information may also be shared with third parties who are assisting us with the management and hosting of this Site.
We also may share Personal Information with the following categories of third parties:
- Law Enforcement, Government Entities, or at the direction of court or administrative documents where we are required to share your Personal Information by law or pursuant to legal process or in response to a request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials.
- When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent harm or fraud or theft, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity.
- To any others at your direction or with your consent.
As previously indicated, the North Carolina Pro Bono Resources Center does
not and will not sell your Personal Information.
Data Security
We are committed to maintaining the security of the Personal Information you provide to us. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards for this Site, such as regularly monitoring the site for malware, vulnerabilities, and security breaches, to protect the Personal Information that we collect from you from this Site. While we strive to protect your Personal Information, the use of the Internet creates inherent information security risks, and we are not able to guarantee the security of this Site.
Exclusions
- Use of Site by Minors
The Site is not intended for use by children. We do not knowingly solicit or collect any Personal Information about children under the age of 13, nor do we promote our services to them. If a child has provided us with Personal Information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13 through this Site, please contact us.
- Embedded or Linked Content from Other Websites
This Site includes embedded content from other websites (e.g., instruction videos, images, articles, and forms) that provide useful information and additional resources related to the services offered by the Program. For example, this site identifies self-help resources for license restoration, which includes embedded videos, instructional content, and links to forms maintained by the North Carolina Administration of Courts.
Although we endeavor to provide useful information from other resources, we do not maintain the resources from other websites and these links are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you may also leave this Site. The embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other site. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, or monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to linked or embedded content from other websites, and we do not take responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any website other than our own.
- Non-North Carolina Residents
The North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center, this site, and the NC Fair Chance Program are operated in North Carolina and provide assistance for legal issues governed by North Carolina law. We do not operate in other states, and the information and resources on this site are not intended to apply to legal issues arising in any other state. By using this site or submitting your Personal Information to us, you are directly transferring your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to us in North Carolina, where we process the information that you provide and provide our services to you.
Please be aware that the laws of North Carolina may not provide the same level of data protection as the laws in the jurisdiction in which you reside. By submitting personal information through the Sites you consent to the transfer of Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please
call us at 919-890-1090 or email us at fairchance@ncprobono.org.