Privacy Policy
A legal disclaimer
This “Privacy Policy” describes the privacy practices of Cole’s Crew Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Cole’s Crew Foundation,” “we,” “us” or “our”), only in connection with our online publications. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, maintain, protect, disclose and otherwise process personal information, and explains the rights and choices available to individuals with respect to their information. This Privacy Policy applies to our website, https://www.colescrew.org/, and any other websites that we own or control that contain a link to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy also applies to information collected via email, text and other electronic messages between you and any of our websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link or be accessible from us through our websites.
Cole’s Crew Foundation may provide additional or supplemental privacy notices to individuals at the time their data is collected. Such additional or supplemental privacy notice will govern how we may process the information you provide at that time.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our websites. By accessing or using our websites, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect personal information about individuals who interact with the Cole’s Crew Foundation, including by using our website and subscribing to our publications. We collect some of this information automatically when individuals navigate through the site, such as IP addresses and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies. The types of personal information we collect include, but are not limited to:
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Personal and business contact information, such as your name, email address, and social media handles;
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Feedback and correspondence, such as information you provide when interacting with us by email, phone calls or through other methods of communication, such as posting public comments;
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Usage information, such as information about how you use our websites and interact with us, including information associated with any content you upload to the websites or otherwise submit to us, and information you provide when you use any interactive features of the websites;
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Subscription information, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications.
When you access our websites, we, our service providers and our partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity on our websites. The information that may be collected automatically includes your device’s operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier, browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our websites, general location information such as city, state or geographic area, and information about your use of and actions on our websites, such as pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, navigation paths between pages, information about your activity on a page, access times and length of access. This information is collected using cookies, pixel tags and similar technologies. Pixel tags (which are also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) are used on our websites and HTML-formatted emails to track the actions of users on our websites. Unlike cookies, which are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on webpages or within HTML-formatted emails. Pixel tags measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of our websites or engagement with email notices so that we can manage our content more effectively.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information to provide our services in the following ways:
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to operate, maintain, administer and improve our websites;
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to publish our newsletters, magazines and other communications;
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to manage and communicate with you regarding your Cole’s Crew Foundation account, if you have one, including by sending you service announcements, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
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to better understand your needs and interests and to personalize your experience with the websites;
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to provide support and maintenance for the websites;
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to respond to your requests, questions and feedback;
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to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
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to communicate with you
If you request information from us (such as by signing up for our newsletter or publications), register on our websites or request resources from us in order to support our mission, we may send you Cole’s Crew Foundation–related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt out of such communications.
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with any applicable court order, law, regulation and legal processes, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
We will request your consent to use your personal information where required by law, such as where we use certain cookies or similar technologies or before sending you certain marketing messages. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time in the manner that was indicated when we requested the consent or by contacting us at privacy@colescrewfoundation.org. If you have consented to receive marketing communications from our third-party partners, you may withdraw your consent by contacting those partners directly.
We may create anonymous data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by excluding information that makes the data personally identifiable to you, and use that anonymous data for business purposes.
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the service; (b) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
As stated in a supplemental privacy notice
In some circumstances, we may provide a supplemental privacy notice that explains how we use personal information in a specific context.
How We Share Your Personal Information
Affiliates
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to administer and provide our services on our behalf (such as customer support, hosting, email delivery, database management services and job applicant management systems, as well as external reviewers and advisers who help us process and make determinations regarding grant applications). These third parties may use your information only as directed by Cole’s Crew Foundation and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. Contractors and Service Providers are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.
We may disclose information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as required by law, and disclose and use such information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) comply with any applicable court order, laws, regulation and lawful requests and legal processes, such as to respond to subpoenas; (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern our websites; (c) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (d) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
Your Choices
Access, update, correct or delete your information
An individual who has registered for an account with us may review, update, correct or delete the personal information in their account profile by logging into their account.
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Marketing communications
You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the instructions contained at the bottom of our emails, or by contacting us at privacy@colescrewfoundation.org. You may continue to receive service-related and other nonmarketing emails.
Security
We take a number of organizational, technical and physical measures designed to protect the personal information we collect, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no security safeguards are 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
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