Privacy Policy

Mendo-Lake Alternative Service (“Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (“Policy”). This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use the app MLAS Payments (“App”) to make payments on the mendolake.org website (“Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

Information We Collect:

We may collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and payment information (such as credit card number, expiration date, and billing address) when you use the App to make payments on the Website. We also may collect non-personal information about your use of the App, such as your device type, device identifier, IP address, and location information.

How We Use Your Information:

We may use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:

To process payments made through the App;
To communicate with you about your payments and provide customer support;
To improve the App and our services;
To detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities;
To comply with legal and regulatory requirements; and
For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information:

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

To our affiliates, vendors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
To enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including the App’s terms of use;
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others;
In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets; and
With your consent.

Data Security:

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or through the App. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

Data Retention:

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Your Rights and Choices:

You may have certain rights and choices regarding the personal information we collect from you. These may include the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information, as well as the right to object to or restrict our processing of your personal information. To exercise these rights and choices, please contact us at the address provided below.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy:

We may update this Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by email or through the App, and we may also post a notice on the Website. Your continued use of the App after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.