Sa kasalukuyan, ang mga legal na Tuntunin ng Serbisyo at Patakaran sa Pagkapribado ng ELP ay makukuha lamang sa Ingles. Maaari mong basahin ang bersyon ng Ingles sa ibaba.
Last modified: July 21, 2025
1. Introduction
Endangered Languages Project (“ELP” or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. It is important to us to safeguard your information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.endangeredlanguages.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, protecting, using, maintaining, and disclosing that information. By using or accessing our Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
By accessing our Website or using our Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policy, your choice is not to use our Website. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes, below). Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
For questions about our Website, or other requests not pertaining to data privacy, please see our Terms of Use.
2. Personal Information
When you visit the Website, we collect certain information about your device and your interaction with the Website. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information.” All Personal Information is on secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of people who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. See below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
a. Device information
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver better and more personalized service.
- What kind of Personal Information we may collect: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what pages you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Website.
- Why we collect it: to load the Website accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Website usage to optimize our Website. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our Website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- What sources we collect information from: information is collected automatically when you access our Website using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
- Who we may share that information with: information may be disclosed to our Website processors.
b. Donation Information
- What kind of Personal Information we may collect: name, billing address, payment information (provided through our donation processor), email address, and phone number.
- Why we collect it: to process and communicate with you about your donation.
- What sources we collect information from: collected from you.
- Who we may share that information with: disclosed to our donation processor.
c. Comments and User Uploads
When you leave comments or share personal information about yourself on the Website, we collect the data that you input, and your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect and monitor spam. Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you upload images, videos, audio files or documents to the Website, we recommend ensuring that all embedded location data is removed to prevent Website users from downloading images and extracting your embedded location data.
d. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content on the Website may link to third-parties. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you visit their website from our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
e. Retention
When you make a donation through our Website, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see Your Privacy Rights, below.
f. Minors
Our Website and Services are not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com to request deletion.
3. Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You can also request that we delete all Personal Information about you. This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, and security purposes. Please send any requests to feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed on public areas of the Website (“User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
4. Your Privacy Rights
We disclose Personal Information only for the business purposes described above. ELP does not “share” or “sell” any of your Personal Information. However, we are required by law to provide this information to you.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide you with the following additional information about: (1) the purpose for which we use the Personal Information we collect; and (2) the categories of third parties to which we (a) disclose such personal information for a business purpose, (b) “share” personal information for “cross-context behavioral advertising,” or (c) “sell” such personal information. The CCPA defines “sharing” as the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on that consumer’s personal information obtained from the consumer’s activity across websites, and defines “selling” as the disclosure of personal information to third parties in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration. ELP does not “share” or “sell” any of your Personal Information.
California residents have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’), and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please notify us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information. To exercise any of these rights please contact us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
5. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Do Not Track Signals
a. Cookies
Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing our Website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the Website or browse from one page to another. A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Website. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, or content cookies. Cookies also provide information on how people use our Website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
If you leave a comment on our Website, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to complete these details again when you leave another comment. These cookies are set to expire in one year.
When you login, we will also set several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies expire in two days, and screen options cookies expire in one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be immediately removed.
If you publish or edit a comment, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the comment you just wrote or edited. This cookie expires in one day.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. More information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage, or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.
To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information, please contact us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
b. Web Beacons
Pages of our Website or some emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit ELP, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
c. Do Not Track Signals
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
6. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
7. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, or to register a complaint or concern, please email us at feedback@endangeredlanguages.com.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: www.ftc.gov