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Privacy Policy

How Community Catalysts collects, uses, and protects the information you share with us.

Last updated: August 14, 2026

Community Catalysts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Howell, Michigan. We serve as a catalyst to our partners so that seniors, veterans, neighbors who have become homeless, and other low-income households have attainable housing and services. This policy explains what happens to the information you give us through this website.

Information you give us

We only ask for what we need to respond to you:

  • Your name, email address, phone number, and message when you use our contact, volunteer, or partnership forms.
  • Your email address when you subscribe to our newsletter.
  • Donation details — your name, contact information, and gift amount — when you give. Payment card numbers are handled entirely by our payment processor and never reach our servers.

Information collected automatically

Like most websites, ours records basic technical information — browser type, device, referring page, and pages visited — through standard analytics. This is used in aggregate to understand what people find useful. We do not use it to build advertising profiles.

How we use your information

  • To answer your question or follow up on your inquiry.
  • To process a donation and send you a receipt and acknowledgment.
  • To coordinate volunteer opportunities and events.
  • To send updates about housing projects, community events, and ways to help — only if you asked for them.
  • To meet our recordkeeping and reporting obligations as a non-profit.

Our donor privacy promise

We never sell, rent, trade, or share our donor list with other organizations for their own use. If you'd prefer your gift stay anonymous in any public thank-you, just tell us and we'll honor it.

When we share information

We share your information only with the service providers who help us operate — our website host, form handler, email platform, and payment processor — and only so they can perform that work for us. We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of our guests, staff, or volunteers.

Information about guests and residents of our housing programs is kept confidential and is not published on this website.

Cookies

We use a small number of cookies to keep the site working properly and to measure traffic. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the site will still work.

Your choices

Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. You can also write to us at any time to see what information we hold about you, correct it, or ask us to delete it, and we'll take care of it promptly.

Security

We use reasonable safeguards to protect the information you send us, and we limit access to staff who need it. No website can promise perfect security, but we treat your information with the same care we'd want for our own.

Children

This website is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we'll post the revised version here with a new date at the top.

Contact us

Questions about this policy, or about your information? Email ajohnston@community-catalysts.org or write to Community Catalysts, 422 E. Grand River Ave, Howell, MI 48843.

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