PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated on June 16, 2020
This privacy policy (the “Policy”) describes the treatment of information provided or collected on the www.seal.foundation (the “Foundation”) website (the “Website”). The Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and the purpose of this Policy is to describe how the Website collects, shares and secures information provided by you. Therefore, before you provide any personal information on the Website, you should read through this Policy in its entirety and understand its terms. The Foundation may update the Policy from time to time, so please check in occasionally. Ultimately, the Foundation’s goal is to provide a Policy that is transparent in how the Foundation handles your information.
1. INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS:
When using the Website, you may choose to provide the Foundation with information about yourself which is “personally identifiable information.” The term “personally identifiable information” means information that is collected in connection with your name such as your address, e-mail, and phone number (“Personal Information”). Your use of the Websites may also entail you providing information that is not Personal Information, meaning that such information is not connected to your name and is, therefore, anonymous information and which does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual user of the Website. If you make a donation to the Foundation using the Website, we may collect your name, e-mail, phone number, and address. The above list provides a sample of personal information that may be collected by the Foundation. From time to time, we may collect personal information from you in ways that are not described above.
If you make a donation using the Website, your donation will be processed by PayPal and all such transactions will be subject to PayPal’s Privacy Policy, which can be found by clicking the following: PayPal’s Privacy Policy. PayPal provides Personal Information about donors to the Foundation via the Foundation’s access to its PayPal account. The Foundation will have access to and may collect and retain Personal Information about donors provided to the Foundation by PayPal. However, for donation payments processed by PayPal, the Website and the Foundation will not access, collect, or retain your payment information such as your credit card information.
When visiting the Website, it is your choice whether to provide the Foundation through the Website with Personal Information and the provision of such Personal Information is optional when visiting the Websites. Therefore, if you provide the Foundation through the Website with Personal Information, such as by submitting an inquiry through the Contact function, the Foundation may contact you from time to time in response to your inquiry. Moreover, if you make a donation using the Websites and provide Personal Information in connection with making a donation, the Foundation may collect some of the information you provide through PayPal.
If you visit the Website by following a link to the Website from the Foundation’s Facebook page, Facebook may provide Personal Information about you to the Foundation. Facebook’s data policy can be found by clicking the following link: Facebook’s Data Policy. The Foundation may collect and retain Personal information about you that is provided to the Foundation by Facebook.
Some examples of the types of information the Foundation collects are:
2. HOW THE WEBSITE COLLECTS YOUR INFORMATION:
3. WHAT THE FOUNDATION DOES WITH YOUR INFORMATION:
The Foundation may use any information, including Personal Information, provided by you when using the Website for the following purposes:
4. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION:
Personal Information about the Foundation’s donors is private, and the Foundation is not in the business of selling this Personal Information to others. The Foundation shares donor Personal Information only as set forth below and with the Foundation’s partners or affiliates, which generally are entities that are managed and operated by the Foundation’s founders, board of directors, officers, managers, or employees.
5. YOUR CONTROLS AND CHOICES:
The Foundation provides you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information you provide when using the Website. In accordance with local law, your controls and choices may include:
You may exercise your controls and choices, or request access to your Personal Information, by contacting the Foundation at [email protected]. Please be aware that if you do not allow the Foundation to collect Personal Information from you through the Website, the Foundation and its partners may not be able to deliver certain products and services to you. If you have questions regarding the specific Personal Information about you that the Foundation processes or retains, please contact us at [email protected].
6. SECURITY MEASURES:
The security, integrity and confidentiality of your Personal Information is extremely important. The Foundation takes all reasonable and appropriate measures to secure your Personal Information once the Foundation receives it, and to help prevent it from being disclosed to individuals who are not described in this Policy. Please be aware though that, despite the Foundation’s best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and, therefore, the Foundation cannot guarantee that Personal Information will remain secure in all circumstances.
7. HOW THE FOUNDATION COMMUNICATES WITH YOU:
If you have any questions about this Policy, you can contact the Foundation at [email protected]. If the Foundation needs, or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your Personal Information, the Foundation may do so by email, telephone or mail.
8. CHILDREN:
The Foundation is committed to protecting the online privacy of children and making the internet safe. The Foundation does not provide products and services to children, or knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from children under 13 years of age. Any communication the Foundation gets through the Website that is identified as being from a child under 13 will not be kept by the Foundation. We encourage parents or guardians of children under 13 to regularly check and monitor their children’s use of email and other activities online.
9. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY:
Your use of the Website, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy policy and the Website’s Terms of Use. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF USE. The Foundation reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the effective date at the top of this page to determine if the Policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of the Website following posting of the updated Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
10. NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS:
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request a notice regarding the disclosure of your Personal Information by the Foundation to partners for the partners’ direct marketing purpose. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please contact the Foundation at [email protected].
11. CALIFORNIA DO NOT TRACK NOTICE DISCLOSURES:
The Foundation does not track the Website’s users and visitors over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising. Consequently, the Foundation does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Other third-party websites may keep track of your browsing activities when they provide you with content, which enables them to customize what they present to you on their websites.
This privacy policy (the “Policy”) describes the treatment of information provided or collected on the www.seal.foundation (the “Foundation”) website (the “Website”). The Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and the purpose of this Policy is to describe how the Website collects, shares and secures information provided by you. Therefore, before you provide any personal information on the Website, you should read through this Policy in its entirety and understand its terms. The Foundation may update the Policy from time to time, so please check in occasionally. Ultimately, the Foundation’s goal is to provide a Policy that is transparent in how the Foundation handles your information.
- INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS
- HOW THE WESBITE COLLECTS YOUR INFORMATION
- WHAT THE FOUNDATION DOES WITH YOUR INFORMATION
- SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
- YOUR CONTROLS AND CHOICES
- SECURITY MEASURES
- HOW THE FOUNDATION COMMUNICATES WITH YOU
- CHILDREN
- CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
- NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
- CALIFORNIA DO NOT TRACK DISCLOSURES
1. INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS:
When using the Website, you may choose to provide the Foundation with information about yourself which is “personally identifiable information.” The term “personally identifiable information” means information that is collected in connection with your name such as your address, e-mail, and phone number (“Personal Information”). Your use of the Websites may also entail you providing information that is not Personal Information, meaning that such information is not connected to your name and is, therefore, anonymous information and which does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual user of the Website. If you make a donation to the Foundation using the Website, we may collect your name, e-mail, phone number, and address. The above list provides a sample of personal information that may be collected by the Foundation. From time to time, we may collect personal information from you in ways that are not described above.
If you make a donation using the Website, your donation will be processed by PayPal and all such transactions will be subject to PayPal’s Privacy Policy, which can be found by clicking the following: PayPal’s Privacy Policy. PayPal provides Personal Information about donors to the Foundation via the Foundation’s access to its PayPal account. The Foundation will have access to and may collect and retain Personal Information about donors provided to the Foundation by PayPal. However, for donation payments processed by PayPal, the Website and the Foundation will not access, collect, or retain your payment information such as your credit card information.
When visiting the Website, it is your choice whether to provide the Foundation through the Website with Personal Information and the provision of such Personal Information is optional when visiting the Websites. Therefore, if you provide the Foundation through the Website with Personal Information, such as by submitting an inquiry through the Contact function, the Foundation may contact you from time to time in response to your inquiry. Moreover, if you make a donation using the Websites and provide Personal Information in connection with making a donation, the Foundation may collect some of the information you provide through PayPal.
If you visit the Website by following a link to the Website from the Foundation’s Facebook page, Facebook may provide Personal Information about you to the Foundation. Facebook’s data policy can be found by clicking the following link: Facebook’s Data Policy. The Foundation may collect and retain Personal information about you that is provided to the Foundation by Facebook.
Some examples of the types of information the Foundation collects are:
- Information you provide the Foundation when you use the Website or when you submit an inquiry to the Foundation on the Website via the Contact page.
- Transaction information you provide when you request information or make a donation using the Website, including your postal address, telephone number, name, and e-mail address.
- Location information when you visit the Website, including location information either provided by your device interacting with the Website (including through beacon technologies) or associated with your IP address, where the Website is permitted by law to process this information.
- Usage, viewing and technical data, including your device identifier or IP address, when you visit the Website or open emails the Foundation may send you.
2. HOW THE WEBSITE COLLECTS YOUR INFORMATION:
- The Website collect Personal Information from you when you visit the Website, make a donation, sign up for any offered programs or services, generally subscribe or contact the Website. Please keep in mind that when you provide any information to the Foundation on a third-party site or platform (e.g., PayPal), that any information you provide may be separately collected by the third-party site or platform. The Personal Information the Foundation collects via the Website is covered by this Policy and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices and, therefore, you should familiarize yourself with any applicable third-party privacy policy as needed. Specifically, by making a donation using the Website, you agree to be bound by PayPal’s privacy policy, which can be found by clicking the following: PayPal’s Privacy Policy.
- The Website collects information through technology such as cookies (which is information stored on your computer by your browser to save your preferences while you are visiting a particular site) and web beacons (small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites) when you visit the Website. This tracking data is used for many purposes including, for example, to provide useful features to simplify your experience when you return to the Website; deliver relevant content based on your preferences, usage patterns and location; monitor and evaluate the use and operation of the Website; and to analyze traffic on the Website and the sites of third parties. The Foundation may associate this tracking data with your name, in which case the Foundation will treat it as Personal Information. Service providers that collect tracking data on the Foundation’s behalf may provide an opportunity for you to choose not to be tracked online. For more information about cookies and web beacons, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Advertisers and third parties may also collect information about your activity on the Website and on third-party sites and applications using tracking technologies. Tracking data collected by these advertisers and third parties is used to decide which ads you see both on the Website and on third-party sites and applications, but does not identify you personally and is not associated with your name.
- If you choose, you can set your browser to reject cookies or you can manually delete individual or all of the cookies on your computer by following your browser’s help file directions. In addition, you can always opt-out of receiving certain ads or communications.
- As you access the Website, the IP address of the device you are using, such as a personal computer or a mobile device is captured and retained.
3. WHAT THE FOUNDATION DOES WITH YOUR INFORMATION:
The Foundation may use any information, including Personal Information, provided by you when using the Website for the following purposes:
- Present the Website and its contents to you.
- Process your payment for a donation.
- Provide you with any information, products, or services that you request from the Website.
- Consistent with local law and choices and controls that may be available to you:
- Send you offers and promotions for products and services or third-party products and services.
- Personalize content and experiences.
- Provide you with advertising based on your activity on the Website and on third-party sites and applications.
- Optimize or improve the Website and the Foundations services and operations.
- Detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate policies or be illegal.
4. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION:
Personal Information about the Foundation’s donors is private, and the Foundation is not in the business of selling this Personal Information to others. The Foundation shares donor Personal Information only as set forth below and with the Foundation’s partners or affiliates, which generally are entities that are managed and operated by the Foundation’s founders, board of directors, officers, managers, or employees.
- Service Providers. The Foundation may share information with third party companies or individuals that provide the Foundation with services. These services may include, among other things, helping the Foundation to provide services that you request, to process your payment, to create or maintain the databases, to research and analyze the people who the Website, to prepare and distribute communications, or to respond to inquiries.
- Internal Process/Employees: The Foundation allows a very limited number of employees to have access to your Personal Information. These employees are trained on security practices and are deeply committed to maintaining your privacy. They are authorized to access your Personal on an “as-needed” basis to provide technical or other support, or at your request.
- Business Transactions. In the event that the Foundation enters into a major transaction like a merger with another similar organization, your Personal Information may be transferred to the other organization that is a party to such a transaction.
- Partner Companies. The Foundation may share your Personal Information with certain partners of the Foundation so that they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services. If you prefer to opt out of the Foundation sharing your Personal Information with certain partners of the Foundation, please email the Foundation at [email protected].
- Law Enforcement. The Foundation may be required to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that the Foundation reasonably believes to be unlawful, or that the Foundation reasonably believes may aid a law enforcement investigation into unlawful activity. In addition, the Foundation reserves the right to release your Personal Information to law enforcement agencies if the Foundation determines, in its sole judgment, that either you have violated the Foundation’s policies, or the release of your Personal Information may protect the rights, property, or safety of the Foundation or another person.
- Legal Process. The Foundation may share your information with others as required by, or permitted by, law. This may include sharing your information with government entities, or third parties in response to subpoenas, court orders, other legal process, or as the Foundation believes is necessary to exercise the Foundation’s legal rights, to defend against legal claims that have been brought against the Foundation, or to defend against possible legal claims that the Foundation determines in its sole discretion might be brought against the Foundation.
- Online Postings and Print Media. The Foundation may hold events honoring donors and those events may be photographed, videotaped, or otherwise be exposed to public media, including posting on the Website. The Foundation may post those images and videos, in addition to testimonials by others on the Website. The Foundation may also list names of donors on the Website. However, your image and Personal Information will only be posted on the Website with your permission. If you do give permission to your image or Personal Information being posted on the Website, those images and information will be generally available to the public and may be read, collected, and used by others who access them.
5. YOUR CONTROLS AND CHOICES:
The Foundation provides you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information you provide when using the Website. In accordance with local law, your controls and choices may include:
- You may change your choices for subscriptions, newsletters and alerts, if the Foundation is providing any such items.
- You may choose whether to receive offers from the Foundation and promotions for the Foundation’s Website, if the Foundation is providing any such items.
- You may choose whether the Foundation may share your personally identifiable information with other partner companies so they can provide you offers and promotions about their products and services.
- You may choose whether to receive targeted advertising from any ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics and other service providers.
- You may request access to the Personal Information the Foundation holds about you and that the Foundation amend or delete such information.
- You may request to change the permission to access or collect certain information about you.
You may exercise your controls and choices, or request access to your Personal Information, by contacting the Foundation at [email protected]. Please be aware that if you do not allow the Foundation to collect Personal Information from you through the Website, the Foundation and its partners may not be able to deliver certain products and services to you. If you have questions regarding the specific Personal Information about you that the Foundation processes or retains, please contact us at [email protected].
6. SECURITY MEASURES:
The security, integrity and confidentiality of your Personal Information is extremely important. The Foundation takes all reasonable and appropriate measures to secure your Personal Information once the Foundation receives it, and to help prevent it from being disclosed to individuals who are not described in this Policy. Please be aware though that, despite the Foundation’s best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and, therefore, the Foundation cannot guarantee that Personal Information will remain secure in all circumstances.
7. HOW THE FOUNDATION COMMUNICATES WITH YOU:
If you have any questions about this Policy, you can contact the Foundation at [email protected]. If the Foundation needs, or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your Personal Information, the Foundation may do so by email, telephone or mail.
8. CHILDREN:
The Foundation is committed to protecting the online privacy of children and making the internet safe. The Foundation does not provide products and services to children, or knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from children under 13 years of age. Any communication the Foundation gets through the Website that is identified as being from a child under 13 will not be kept by the Foundation. We encourage parents or guardians of children under 13 to regularly check and monitor their children’s use of email and other activities online.
9. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY:
Your use of the Website, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy policy and the Website’s Terms of Use. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF USE. The Foundation reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the effective date at the top of this page to determine if the Policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of the Website following posting of the updated Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
10. NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS:
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request a notice regarding the disclosure of your Personal Information by the Foundation to partners for the partners’ direct marketing purpose. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please contact the Foundation at [email protected].
11. CALIFORNIA DO NOT TRACK NOTICE DISCLOSURES:
The Foundation does not track the Website’s users and visitors over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising. Consequently, the Foundation does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Other third-party websites may keep track of your browsing activities when they provide you with content, which enables them to customize what they present to you on their websites.