Effective Date: August 27, 2026
Last Updated: August 27, 2026
Good Loud Media (“Good Loud Media,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit our website, contact us, make a donation, volunteer, collaborate with us, participate in our programs, or otherwise interact with Good Loud Media.
By using our website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We may collect personal information in several ways depending on how you interact with Good Loud Media.
When you submit a form, contact us, volunteer, collaborate with us, or otherwise communicate with Good Loud Media, we may collect information such as:
Please avoid submitting highly sensitive personal information, including confidential medical or health information, through general website forms unless we specifically request it for an appropriate purpose.
When you choose to support Good Loud Media through a donation, payment processing may be handled by a third-party payment provider such as PayPal.
Depending on the transaction, we may receive information such as:
Payment card, bank account, and other sensitive payment credentials are generally collected and processed directly by the payment provider. Good Loud Media does not process or store your complete payment card information through this website.
Your payment provider's own privacy policy and terms will also apply to information they process.
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website hosting provider or other service providers.
This information may include:
We may use this information to operate the website, understand general website usage, maintain security, diagnose technical issues, and improve the visitor experience.
Our website and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for website functionality, security, performance, or other operational purposes.
Cookies are small files placed on your device that can help websites remember information or understand how visitors interact with a website.
Depending on the services enabled on the website, cookies or similar technologies may be used to:
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain appropriate consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some website features work.
Good Loud Media may use personal information for purposes including:
To:
To:
To:
To:
To:
Where privacy laws require us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following:
Where you have voluntarily provided information or specifically consented to particular processing.
Where processing is reasonably necessary for our legitimate organizational interests, such as operating our website, communicating with supporters, administering programs, improving our services, preventing fraud, and maintaining security.
Where processing is necessary to take steps at your request or to fulfill an agreement with you, such as a partnership, program, volunteer, or other working relationship.
Where processing is necessary to comply with applicable financial, regulatory, tax, reporting, or other legal requirements.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to applicable law.
Good Loud Media does not disclose personal information unnecessarily.
We may share information with the following categories of recipients when reasonably necessary.
We may use third-party providers to host, maintain, operate, secure, or support our website and communications.
For example, the Good Loud Media website may use Webflow and related infrastructure for website hosting and form functionality.
Donation and payment information may be processed through providers such as PayPal.
These providers process information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.
Information may be shared when necessary with professional advisers or service providers such as:
Where necessary for a particular program, event, volunteer opportunity, collaboration, or initiative, we may share relevant information with organizations, creative partners, or community partners involved in that activity.
We will only share information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
If Good Loud Media undergoes a merger, restructuring, transfer of operations, reorganization, or similar organizational change, information may be transferred as part of that process, subject to appropriate privacy protections.
Good Loud Media does not use its website for the purpose of selling visitors' personal information.
We also do not use personal information collected through our general contact or Get Involved forms for cross-context behavioral advertising.
If our practices materially change in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated and any rights required by applicable law will be provided.
Our website contains links to third-party websites and platforms, including social media platforms, payment services, partners, and organizations involved in our work.
Examples may include:
When you follow an external link, you leave the Good Loud Media website.
Good Loud Media does not control the privacy, security, cookies, content, or data-processing practices of third-party websites.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those services before providing personal information.
Good Loud Media works with communities, organizations, artists, and partners internationally.
As a result, information may be accessed, processed, or stored in countries other than the country where you live.
Our website infrastructure and third-party service providers may also process information in different countries.
Privacy laws may vary between jurisdictions.
Where required by applicable law, we will take reasonable measures designed to ensure that international transfers of personal information receive appropriate protection.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Retention periods may depend on:
For example, general inquiries may be deleted when they are no longer reasonably needed, while donation and financial records may need to be retained for longer periods to satisfy legal, accounting, and tax obligations.
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.
We take reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures designed to protect personal information against:
However, no internet transmission, website, electronic communication, or data-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should therefore use appropriate care when providing information online.
Depending on where you live and the privacy laws that apply to you, you may have rights regarding your personal information.
These rights may include the right to:
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exceptions under applicable law.
To submit a privacy request, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction providing similar data-protection rights, applicable law may provide additional rights concerning your personal information.
Where applicable, you may have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to, or receive certain personal information in portable form.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection authority responsible for your jurisdiction.
Where we rely on legitimate interests, you may have the right to object to that processing in certain circumstances.
Where we rely on consent, withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state law.
Depending on the law and whether it applies to Good Loud Media, these may include rights to:
Good Loud Media does not discriminate against individuals for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.
Requests may be submitted to info@goodloudmedia.org.
If you contact Good Loud Media or become involved in one of our initiatives, we may communicate with you regarding your inquiry, program participation, volunteer interest, collaboration, donation, or other relationship with us.
If we send optional promotional or informational emails, you may request to stop receiving those communications at any time.
Administrative, transactional, or relationship-related communications may still be sent when necessary.
Because some Good Loud Media initiatives relate to public health, mental health awareness, HIV awareness, harm reduction, cancer awareness, and community wellbeing, individuals may sometimes communicate information that could be sensitive.
Our general website forms are not intended to collect medical records or detailed health information.
Please do not send confidential medical records, diagnoses, treatment information, government identification numbers, financial credentials, passwords, or other highly sensitive information through a general website form unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure process.
If sensitive information is voluntarily provided to us, we will handle it according to the circumstances, applicable law, and the purposes for which it was provided.
Our general website is intended for a broad public audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under the age of 13 without appropriate authorization.
Some Good Loud Media programs or community initiatives may involve young people. Where a particular program involves minors, additional consent, safeguarding, parental or guardian authorization, or privacy procedures may be used where required.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through the website inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the situation.
Good Loud Media maintains or links to profiles on third-party social media platforms.
If you interact with us through a social media platform, that platform may collect information about your activity according to its own privacy practices.
Information you choose to make publicly available on social media may also be visible to Good Loud Media and other users.
We encourage you to review the privacy settings and policies of each social media service you use.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect:
When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date at the top of this page.
If changes materially affect how we handle personal information, we may provide additional notice where required by law.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your personal information, or if you would like to exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact:
Good Loud Media
P.O. Box 1296
Oak Park, IL 60304
United States
Email: info@goodloudmedia.org
We will review privacy inquiries and respond as required by applicable law.