Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 14, 2026

Transgender Law Center (TLC) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, use any of our services, attend any of our events, volunteer or apply for a job with us, or make a donation to us. Whenever you engage with us in any of these activities, you acknowledge, accept, and consent to the collection, use, management, and disclosure of your personal information as set forth in this Notice subject to applicable law. We may revise this Notice periodically at any time, and will let you know of any changes by posting a revised Notice on our website with a new effective date.

Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information, depending on how you are engaging with us and the data may come directly from you, and/or indirectly from third parties that provide it to us:

Personal or individual identifiers.  

• If you choose to provide it to us, we may collect information that identifies you directly, such as name, mailing address, email address, phone number, signature, and professional/employment-related information (when applying for a job or volunteering). When you visit our website, we may automatically collect information about your device, such as IP address, MAC address, and device information.
• If you make a donation, your credit card or debit card number will be processed through our third-party payment processors, but we will not store this information. 
• If you provide demographic information about yourself, such as by submitting information to our Legal Helpdesk, we may have demographic information about you. However, we do not seek to collect this information.

Health data.

We generally do not solicit health data, but we may hold such information about you if, for example, you submit such information to our Legal Helpdesk.

• Internet or device activity. Information regarding how you interact with TLC’s website (including, potentially, browsing history), advertisements, devices and device identifiers, browser information, device ID, IP and MAC address or information that could be derived from it, and/or preferences you may have for how we communicate with you. TLC and authorized third parties with whom we contract may use technologies to automatically receive and record information when you interact with us online on our websites and/or through other digital technologies, such as email platforms, mobile applications, or over the phone. These technologies allow us to improve our digital services, create a better experience for our users, and protect against fraud.
• Audio or visual data. With your permission, we may collect your image or voice, which may be captured when you attend an in-person or virtual event or activity, visit our offices, or leave us a voicemail.
• Inferences from collected data. We may draw inferences about you based on the data we have collected. 
• Information from cookies. We use cookies, pixels, web beacons, and other technologies to analyze our site usage, enhance our website, engage with potential supporters of our mission, and to enable certain services. Information from Third-Party Sources. We may also collect information about you if you are a potential donor from additional online and offline sources including from social media activities, partner organizations, commercially available third-party sources, and other publicly available sources. We may combine this information with the personal and other information we have collected about you.
• Other Information. We collect feedback or information you provide to us, such as in answers to surveys and questionnaires.

How We Use Personal Data

We may use your personal information in the following ways, including to:

• Ensure we are able to contact you and to manage our relationship, such as by responding to your inquiries and Helpdesk requests, keeping you up to date on our activities via announcements, reports, and newsletters, or provide you with employment or volunteer information;
• Process donations and purchase transactions;
• Prevent and protect against fraud and other risks, and to ensure the security of TLC’s website and systems;
• Provide you the information, services, or opportunities you request;
• Perform analytics concerning your use of our website;
• Provide you tailored content and marketing messages, including fundraising and other TLC messaging;
• Operate, evaluate, and improve our programs and services and campaigns; conduct surveys and questionnaires; perform data analytics, accounting, auditing, recordkeeping and other internal functions;
• Support the growth of our volunteer community and financial donor base, including through targeted fundraising activities;
• Comply with and enforcing applicable legal requirements, contractual obligations, and our policies;
• Perform our contractual obligations, and for any other purposes that you consent to, or that we may specifically disclose at the time you provide or we collect your information.

 We may also use data that we collect on an aggregate or anonymous basis (meaning it does not identify you or any specific individual(s)) for various purposes, where permissible under applicable law, to help deliver our services and content to advance our mission and for other related purposes. When required by applicable law, we will ask for your consent before using your personal information for new or unrelated purposes.

Disclosure of Personal Data

TLC does not share, rent or sell its donor lists, and requests for anonymity will be honored. We do disclose information in certain circumstances to run our organization or as legally required. We disclose personal data as follows:

• We may disclose your information with contracted vendors, third parties, and other service providers for the purpose of supporting our activities and programs. For example, we may share information with vendors that help us manage donor data and mailing lists, process donations and credit card payments, and manage communications.
• We may share your personal information with third parties to serve targeted promotions or efforts at engagement and outreach to specific individuals, including you, or to display ads to people who are similar to specific individuals who have engaged with TLC in the past. As a result, we may display targeted information, promotions, and other engagement or outreach materials to you outside of our website on third-party websites, and social media sites, such as Facebook, to fundraise and build support for our mission. 
• We may disclose information as required by law, such as to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process.  Where necessary, we may seek a protective order or move to quash a subpoena or narrow its scope. We may also disclose information to conduct litigation; in an emergency, to protect TLC’s legal rights or to prevent physical harm to its staff, visitors or the public; to prevent, detect, investigate or remediate fraud, security or privacy issues; to enforce our agreements, terms, and policies.
•  In the event of an acquisition, dissolution, bankruptcy, or reorganization of TLC, sale of our assets or any diligence relating thereto, your information may be transferred to another party as a result.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use the following types of cookies, pixels and tracking technologies:

• Essential/Functional Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website.
• Analytics Cookies: We use third-party analytics tools to collect information about how visitors use our website, such as the pages they visit most frequently. This helps us improve our site and your experience.
• Marketing/Advertising: These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad.
• Social Media: These cookies enable social media features on our website, such as sharing content on social platforms.

If you do not want information collected using cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a cookie (or cookies) from a website. You can also reject all but strictly necessary cookies by selecting the “Reject Cookies” option in the banner which appears when you enter the site, or you may choose specific cookies by selecting “Manage Cookies.”  

Security of Your Data

We use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures reasonably designed to secure the information to protect your information from unauthorized acquisition, access, or use. We incorporate industry standard security controls, such as encryption for payments, to ensure your data is secure. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. 

A Note about Children’s Data 

TLC does not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal identifying information from a minor under the age of 13 without obtaining prior consent from a parent/guardian as required by applicable law. 

External Websites

Our website may include links to third-party websites for your convenience and reference. TLC is not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of these external sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including any legal, contractual, compliance, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your Data Privacy Rights

In certain jurisdictions, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The right to access and obtain information about categories of personal information we have collected.
• The right to correct or to request deletion of certain personal information.
• The right to restrict processing of sensitive personal information.
• The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information. Note We do not sell donor personal information. Our use of cookies may be deemed a sale of information under certain state laws, however.
• The right to opt out of targeted advertising.
• The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights.

Please note that your exercise of these rights is subject to certain exceptions and limitations that may apply to restrict the scope of a given right and our ability to respond to a given request. We may have to verify your identity in connection with any request related to exercising these rights to help ensure that we provide the information we maintain to the individuals to whom it relates and allow only those individuals or their authorized representatives to exercise these rights. We also have the right to take into account the interests of others in responding to any request. 

If you exercise one of your privacy rights and we are unable to process your request, we will provide you with an explanation as to why the request was denied. The explanation will include information on how to appeal, including the relevant regulatory authorities, as applicable, based on your state of residence. 

How to Contact Us 

If you have questions about this Privacy Notice, wish to unsubscribe from our mailings, or exercise your privacy rights, you may send us an email at [email protected] or write to us at:

Transgender Law Center
P.O. Box 70976
Oakland, CA 94612-0976
 Attention: Legal Dept