Summary
We will not rent or sell your name, email, address, phone numbers, credit card or billing information, or other personally identifiable information (collectively, “Personal Information”) to anyone else. We use such information for internal purposes, to provide our Services to you, and to improve our Services, such as analyzing trends and collecting statistics. We may also compile and provide aggregate statistics about our Users, and about sales, traffic patterns and related site information to third parties, but these statistics will not include any personally identifiable information.

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Here is a more detailed description of how we collect and use information.

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1. Information We Collect Directly From You

Member profiles. In order to access some features of our site, you will have to register as a Member. Member registration is optional. By registering, you are agreeing to share your Personal Information with us. Members store basic identifying and contact information, as well as other personal information in their member profiles. You may delete or modify your member profile and account information at any time by following the instructions in your account settings.

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Transactional information. You may be required to provide Personal Information to access some of our Services, for example, to sign up for our mailing list. We use Personal Information to fulfill those requests, send you promotional materials about Collaborative for Change, including requests for feedback about your experience with us, help you easily access your information after signing in, remember information so you will not have to re-enter it the next time you use our Services, and to provide more personalized and relevant content and information to you and others, which may include ads and different forms of marketing.

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Public content. Members may post information and content to the site (e.g., photos, comments, and other materials), which is made available to other Users. We may also share it with businesses and further distribute it to a wider audience through third party sites and services.

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Communications. When you provide information to use our Services, you are agreeing to receive communications from us by email, phone or other means (e.g., for account verification, changes and updates to the Services, technical notices, and security notices). We may store and use information you provide to us through such communications in the same ways we use Member and transactional information.

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2. Information We Collect Through Technologies

As you navigate the Services, certain passive information may also be collected about your visit, including through cookies and similar technologies as described below. Our servers automatically record certain information about how you use our Services (we refer to this information as “Event Data”). Event Data may include information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, cookie identifiers, MAC address, IMEI, Advertiser ID, and other device identifiers that are automatically assigned to your computer or device when you access the Internet, operating system, browser type and language, hardware type, the web page that you were visiting before accessing our Services, the pages or features of our Services which you visited and the time spent on those pages or features, search terms you used, the links on our Services that you clicked on, and other statistics.

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We may use the information we have received through technologies like those described below to provide, test, improve, and monitor different areas regarding the effectiveness of our Services, develop and test new features and products, monitor metrics, such as visitor count, traffic, and demographic trends, diagnose and solve technology problems.

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Cookies and similar technologies
When you access our Services, Collaborative for Change, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Services, may, with your consent, use cookies, and similar technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through the Services. We use Technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a “device”) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our Services, applications, messaging, and tools, and to recognize you across devices.

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Cookies are small text files placed in visitors’ computer browsers to store their preferences. Most browsers allow you to block and delete cookies. However, if you do that, the Site may not work properly. When you first land on our website, you will be able to allow or disable cookies on our cookie menu. We use the following types of cookies:

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Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Site. Our site cannot function properly without these cookies.

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Preference cookies enable our site to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or your location. They will determine your preferred language and allow our site to set the preferred language upon your re-entry.

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Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These cookies will register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Site, will be used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate, collect information on which products have been viewed by the visitor to optimize the specific visitor’s navigation on the website, registers statistical data on users’ behavior on the site for internal analytical purposes by the website operator.

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Marketing cookies are used to deliver content, including ads relevant to vistors’ interests on our site. These cookies will track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. These cookies may be used by social media to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers and will collect information on which products the visitor has viewed and the content of the shopping cart to increase the site’s conversion rate through targeted advertisement and product promotions through emails. These cookies will also be used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behavior across websites.

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Pixel tags (aka web beacons) are pieces of code embedded on the site that collects information about users’ engagement on that web page. This allows us to record, for example, that you have visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular link.

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Social media widgets. Our site includes social media features such as the Instagram link (that might include widgets such as the “share” button or other interactive mini-programs). These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. These social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

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Analytics. We use Google Analytics to gather information about how users engage with our Services. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. In addition to your choices on our cookie menu, you can opt out of Google’s collection and processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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3. Legal Bases for Processing Your Information

“Process” is a legal term for operations performed on Personal Information, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction. These are the legal bases we employ for processing your Personal Information:

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Consent. We rely on your consent in general to process your Personal Information which once granted, you can withdraw at any time.

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Performance of a contract. We create and manage your account when you sign up as a Member, keep you informed about the status of your account, provide member support and respond to your inquiries.

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Legitimate interest. We process your Personal Information for our legitimate business interests, including the development and promotion of new products and services, the enhancement and improvement of our current services, performance of marketing research, accounting, auditing, and other internal functions such as fraud prevention and claims.

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Legal Requirements. We process your Personal Information to comply with applicable legal requirements and to establish a defense against legal claims should they arise.

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4. How We May Share Your Information
We will not share, sell or rent your Personal Information in any way to third parties without your permission, except as noted in this Policy. We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymous aggregate data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that can no longer be used to identify you individually and share that combined information.

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Affiliate companies. We may share your Personal Information, Public Content, and other information we collect with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Collaborative for Change is part of, or that become part of that group ("Affiliate Companies"). Affiliate Companies may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve our Services and Affiliate Companies' own services.

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Service providers. We may share your information including information from technologies with third-party organizations that help us provide Services to you ("Service Providers"). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary, under reasonable confidentiality terms.

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Advertisers. Through our Services, Collaborative for Change may allow third-party advertising partners to set tracking tools (e.g., cookies) to collect information regarding your activities (e.g., your IP address, page(s) visited, time of day). We may also share such de-identified information as well as selected Personal Information (such as demographic information and past purchase history) we have collected with third-party advertising partners. These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other websites) for purposes of delivering targeted advertisements to you when you visit non-Collaborative for Change related websites within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “online behavioral advertising.” We may allow access to other data collected by the website to facilitate transmittal of information that may be useful, relevant, valuable, or otherwise of interest to you. If you prefer that we do not share your Personal Information with third-party advertising partners, you may disable such sharing on the cookie menu by accessing the cookie menu in the manner described above.

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Public content. Any information that you voluntarily post on our site becomes available to other Users. If you remove information that you posted on the Services, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the site, or if other Users or third parties have copied or saved that information.

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Change in our company ownership. If we sell or otherwise transfer our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like an acquisition, merger, dissolution, liquidation, bankruptcy), your Personal Information, Public Content and any other information we have collected may be among the items sold or transferred. The buyer or transferee will be required to preserve the commitments we have stated in this Privacy Policy.

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Responding to legal requests. We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (for example, a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, is relevant to users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards.

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We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.

 

Information we have received about you may be accessed, processed and retained for an extended period of time when it is subject to a legal request or obligation, government investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

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5. Specific Examples of How We May Use Your Information
We acquire, hold, use, and process Personal Information about Individuals for a variety of business purposes, including:
 

To provide products, services, or information you request, including to generally manage your account, and respond to questions, comments; provide access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of our Services; and respond to your requests for customer support or technical support.

For administrative purposes, including to measure interest in our Services; develop new services; ensure internal quality control; verify your identity; communicate about your accounts and activities on our site, and for informational and operational purposes, such as account management, customer service, or system maintenance;; prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; and enforce our Terms.

To enhance our Services. We use Event Data collected automatically to administer the Services and we analyze (and may engage third parties to analyze, such as Google Analytics) Event Data to improve, customize and enhance our Services by expanding their features and functionality and tailoring them to our users’ individual needs and preferences. We will retain and evaluate information on your recent visits to our site and how you move around different sections of our site for analytics purposes to understand how people use our site to that we can make it more intuitive. We may use your IP address to generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how our Services are used.

To market our Services. We may use Personal Information to provide you with materials about offers, products, and Services that may be of interest, including new content or Services. We may send you these materials by phone, postal mail, facsimile, or email, as permitted by applicable law. We may use Personal Information to tailor content, advertisements, and Services that may be of interest to you; to provide Services to you and our sponsors; for other purposes disclosed at the time you provide Personal Information; or otherwise with your consent.

For research and development. We may share aggregated information and non-identifying information with third parties for industry research and analysis, demographic profiling, and other similar purposes. We may contract with third parties who provide us with other information about you, which we may then combine with the information we receive from you. We use this information to better provide our Services, to customize our advertisements to you and other customers, and to provide direct marketing to you, including by mail.

For direct mail, email and outbound telemarketing. Upon receiving your consent, you may receive periodic emails, newsletters, mailings, or phone calls from us with information on Collaborative for Change’s or our business partners’ products and Services or upcoming special offers/events we believe may be of interest. If you have consented to receiving this type of information and wish to withdraw your consent, we offer the option to decline these communications at no cost to the Individual by contacting us at the address above. In addition, you can click on the “unsubscribe” link in such emails.

To enhance mobile device services. We may use personal or non-identifiable information transmitted to Collaborative for Change through mobile device tools to enhance those tools, to develop new tools, for quality improvement, and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or in other notices we provide.

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6. How Your Information is Stored / Data Transfers
Any information collected through the Services may be stored and processed in the United States, in the cloud, on our servers, or on the servers of our Affiliates, or the servers of our Service Providers in the United States or other countries. Collaborative for Change, its Affiliate Companies, or Service Providers may distribute information that we collect about you across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Such transfers are necessary for providing our Services to you. For a list of our service providers who receive your Personal Information around the world, please click [link]]. Collaborative for Change will continue to protect the Personal Information we transfer in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, your Personal Information may be requested by law enforcement authorities in certain countries that do not provide adequate or equivalent protection and do not have adequate safeguards to maintain your privacy. You may withdraw your consent to transfer your

7. Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards and have commercially acceptable security measures in place to protect against loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you. However, no security system can be 100% safe, and we make no guarantees in this regard. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information. By using our site or providing Personal Information to us, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of our Services. If we learn of a security system breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice on the Site or sending an email to you. You may have a legal right to receive this notice in writing.

8. How Long We Keep Your Information
Collaborative for Change retains Personal Information for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws. How long we retain Personal Information varies according to the type of information and the purpose for which it is used. We delete Personal Information within a reasonable period after we no longer need to use it for the purpose for which it was collected. Typically, we will retain your Personal Information for 24 months since our last contact. This does not affect your right to request that we delete your Personal Information before the end of its retention period. We may archive your Personal Information (which means storing it in inactive files) for a certain period prior to its final deletion, as part of our ordinary business continuity procedures for use in the event of a litigation or dispute or for standard accounting and audit purposes.

9. Children's Privacy
The Services and Collaborative for Change content are not directed at children under the age of 13. Collaborative for Change does not allow anyone under the age of 13 to register for the Services and we do not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

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10. Third Party Websites and Services
We cannot control the content, information collection practices, or privacy policies of third party websites or services that may be linked to our Services. Whenever you use a link to go from our Services to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services. Once you access a third parry site or service, your browsing and interaction there will be subject to that third party's own rules and policies. Also, we are not responsible and do not have control over how others may use your Public Content.

11. How You Can Change Our Use of Your Personal Information 
General Choices.  We offer you choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information, and we will respect the choices you make. Please note that if you decide not to provide us with the Personal Information that we request, you may not be able to access the features of the Services. Where you have consented to Collaborative for Change’s processing of your Personal Information, you may restrict such processing or withdraw your consent at any time and opt out of further processing by contacting us at the address above. Even if you opt out, we may still collect and use non-Personal Information regarding your activities on our websites and/or information from the advertisements on third-party websites for non-interest-based advertising purposes, such as to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements to the extent allowable by law.

Restricting Cookies/Internet-Based Advertising.  Upon landing on our website, you will be given a choice to allow or not allow the placement of cookies on your computer. Once having given consent, you may be able to stop the placement of these cookies on your computer, or remove them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences, or you may out on our cookie menu to refuse cookies and stop using our Site. To change your cookie preferences, you can access the cookie menu here [link to the cookie menu that pops up as on first time user accesses the site]. Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications. However, on many mobile devices, application users may opt out of certain mobile ads via their device settings.

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