Cookie Policy

Effective Date: February 8, 2024

1. Introduction

Our website www.hollywooddisclosurealliance.org/ (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies to provide, customize, evaluate, improve, promote, and protect our Services. Upon your first visit, our website will provide a pop-up option for you to consent or deny the use of cookies. You do have the right to opt-out. Please review the following information about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and is stored by your browser, on the hard drive of your computer, or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers, or to the servers of relevant third parties, during a subsequent visit. Cookies ultimately serve a variety of functions, such as remembering certain information you provide as you navigate our website.

  • 2.1 Authentication, customization, security and other functional cookies

    • Cookies help us verify your Account and device, and determine when you’re logged in so we can make it easier for you to access the Services and provide the appropriate experiences and features. We also use cookies to help prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and to remember choices you’ve made on the Services, such as your language preference.

    • Technical or functional cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website.

    • The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance website was built within the Squarespace platform and uses statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. We are provided with informative insights regarding the usage of our website from these statistics cookies.

    • Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies, or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user across several websites for marketing purposes. The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance does not explicitly allow advertisers to promote or market their products or services based on the information they can potentially obtain from the website. However, we cannot guarantee that you will not receive unforeseen advertisements or promotions via marketing tactics supplied by said third parties given our website is built within the Squarespace platform. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information regarding liabilities and user responsibilities.

  • 2.2 Performance and analytics

    • Cookies help us analyze how the Services are being accessed and used, and enable us to track performance of the Services. For example, we use cookies to determine if you viewed a page or opened an email. This helps us provide you with information that you find interesting and ensure a quality user experience.

  • 2.3 Third parties

    • Third-party services may use cookies to help you sign into their services from our Services, such as the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance social media channels that are linked to and from our website. These social media platforms, as well as other third parties like Google, are to be considered independent data controllers. We recommend that you read the privacy statements for these companies as any such third party cookie usage is governed by the policy of the third party placing the cookie. These policies are not managed by, and are not the responsibility thereof, the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance.

    • Through the marketing integration feature provided by the Squarespace platform, we have integrated third party Mailchimp capabilities within our Hollywood Disclosure Alliance website. This has allowed us to effectively deploy our HDA-related email marketing communications to our subscribers. The functionality of this integration guarantees that our communications, such as newsletters, are delivered successfully, sufficiently, and expediently. This third party capability does allow for the placement and use of cookies in order to store and process certain subscriber information for dissemination, KPIs, and analytical purposes so as to better streamline the performances of future HDA-related email marketing tactics.

  • 2.4 Squarespace ads

    • As our website is built within the Squarespace platform, you may be subject to Squarespace ads on other sites. Squarespace’s third party partners may set cookies on your device or browser to gather information about your activities on the Services and other sites you visit, in order to provide you with Squarespace ads. For example, you may see a Squarespace ad in your social media newsfeed or timeline.

  • 2.5 Opting out

    • You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the Services. You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

    • Note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consenting to cookies on our website.

3. Updating of this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We encourage you to check back periodically to review this Cookie Policy for any changes since your last visit.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us: hda@hollywooddisclosurealliance.org