TERMS OF USE

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

​Personal information that you provide to us.

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us while utilizing our website or expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when participating in activities on the website or otherwise contacting us.

​The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the website, the choices you make and the products, services and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases or submit donations, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. Your payment data is stored by our card processor, Webconnex.com. A link to their privacy policy can be found here. https://www.webconnex.com/privacy-policy

Contact Information: We may collect information you provide to us for contacting you in regards to your messages sent via website functionality.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate. You may notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information automatically collected.

​In Short: Some information — such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics — may be collected automatically when you visit our website.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our website and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

​Like many businesses, we may also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

​HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

​Personal information that you provide to us.

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

​We use the information we collect or receive:

To facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.

Request Feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our website.

To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for Business Purposes, Legal Reasons and Contractual.

​To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing your account and keeping it in working order.

To deliver services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.

​To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our website.

For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our website, services, marketing and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal information without your consent.

​WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

​In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

​We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:

Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.

Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.

Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.

Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the website, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the website over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

Data storage and processing. We may have contracts in place with our data storage and data processors. They cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organization apart from us. They will hold it securely and will purge the data upon our request. The vendor will be contractually required to adhere to the policies set forth in this privacy policy.

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

Affiliates. We may share your information with our own affiliates (excluding trade and advisory organizations), in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Such technologies are used for the purposes of:

Load balancing

Improving and evaluating site content

Recognizing chat visitors to maintain the conversation

Session information deleted when the browser closes

​WHAT SERVICES DO WE USE?

​DO WE USE GOOGLE MAPS?

​In Short: Yes, we may use Google Maps for the purpose of providing better service.

This website uses Google Maps APIs. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here. https://developers.google.com/maps/terms-20180207
To better understand Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link. https://policies.google.com/privacy

By using our Maps API Implementation, you agree to be bound by Google’s Terms of Service.

​DO WE USE GOOGLE ANALYTICS?

​In Short: Yes, we use Google Analytics for the purpose of improving and evaluating the use of site content.

This website uses Google Analytics. You may find the Terms of Service here. https://policies.google.com/terms
To better understand the Privacy Policy, please refer to this link. https://policies.google.com/privacy

By using this site, you agree to be bound by Google Analytics Terms of Service.

​HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

​In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us .

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our website is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

​DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

​In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 13 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 13 years of age. By using the website, you represent that you are at least 13 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the website. 

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