Truth to Power Foundation Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. The following privacy policy outlines the types of information the Truth to Power Foundation (“we,” “our,” or “us”) gathers when you visit our website (truthtopoweraward.org, the “Site”) as well as information you provide to us in person or through the mail, and steps we take to safeguard it. Truth to Power Foundation is responsible for the content of the Site as well as the collection and management of user information.

This Policy was last updated on September 22, 2020. 

Data Controller.

A “controller” is the legal entity which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Truth to Power Foundation is the data controller for all data described by this policy.

Information Collection, Use, Access, and Retention.

Collection

We collect information in several ways through our Site. When you use our Site, we collect personal information about you that you affirmatively choose to provide to us. For instance, we collect personal information, such as when you sign up for our email list, contact us by email or traditional mail, and/or contact us by telephone. When you sign up for our email list, your name and email address are being captured in a Google spreadsheet. Read more about Google’s Privacy Policy here. 

To help us serve you better, we collect information that identifies the computer or browser used to access our Site, as well as the user account associated with that computer/browser if you are logged in. Cookies are pieces of information placed in the settings of your web browser by a website server to identify your computer when you return to a website. Whenever a site welcomes you and tailors data to your specifications, it is reading a cookie left in your browser and identifying information that you may have registered during previous visits, such as your viewing preferences. The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet websites and most Internet web browsers may be customized to reject cookies, to only accept or reject cookies by user intervention, or to delete cookies. Please note that some website features may not function properly if all cookies are blocked. Except as noted below, the cookies placed by our Site do not collect any personal information, and are essential to provision of a functional website and/or app, which we have a legitimate interest in providing. Once you leave our Site, these cookies are no longer used.

In addition to the cookies described above, the Site uses a Facebook Pixel and a Google Adwords tag. If you are located anywhere, including in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we will provide you with a choice as to whether you accept placement of these cookies when you first visit the Site.

When you interact with our Site, we also collect limited non-personally identifying information that the browser you used makes available automatically. This information includes the internet address of the computer or network you used to access our site, the date, time, and page(s) you visited on our site, the browser and operating system you used, and the referring page (the webpage that contained the link to our site that you clicked on to get there).

Use

We have a legitimate business interest in ensuring that our Site operates correctly and efficiently. To that end, we use the aggregated non personal data and information from all users of our Site to measure server performance, analyze user traffic patterns, and improve the content of our Site. 

We have a legitimate business interest in communicating with you about your subscriptions, and will use your personal information to send you important non-commercial emails.

With your consent, we will use your e-mail address and/or other personal information to provide you with information we think you will be interested in, for example, to send you newsletters regarding services, events, and other information and notices we believe you may find interesting or useful. Even after you have agreed to receive such messages, you can let us know at any time if you would prefer not to receive any or all of this information either directly or through our Site, by following the unsubscribe instructions in any email you receive from us. If you want to delete your account completely, you may do so by requesting we close your account as outlined in the Retention section of this Privacy Policy.

With your consent, we may share your information with key partners and affiliates, whose services we believe are of interest to you. We have contractual relationships with all such partners and affiliates that require them to safeguard your information and allow you to opt out of receiving further information from them. Once you have provided your consent for us to share your information, and those third parties reach to you directly, their use of your data is governed by their own privacy policies, and is not controlled by Truth to Power Foundation. You can revoke your consent to receive any or all of this information by following the unsubscribe instructions in an email you receive from one of our partners (this will only unsubscribe you from receiving further marketing messages from that partner), or by following any other instructions these partners may provide you. If you would like to revoke your consent to Truth to Power Foundation sharing your information with its partners, you can do so by sending an email to hello@waytorise.org that contains the email address you wish to revoke consent for third-party sharing.

We also have a legitimate business interest in complying with our legal obligations. To that end, we may release personal information if we believe in good faith that: the law or legal process requires it; we have received a valid administrative request from a law enforcement agency; or such release is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers, or others.

Truth to Power Foundation uses third parties to process your personal data when it serves a legitimate business purpose (such as PayPal for payment processing). Our contracts with these third party processors require them to comply with the terms and the intent of this privacy policy, and to make all commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard your information.

Access

Pursuant to your reasonable request, we will provide you or a third-party you specify with a list of all of your personal information that Truth to Power Foundation has collected.

Similarly, upon your request, we will make corrections to our records of your personal data.

Rretention

As described above, some of the online services available through our Site allow you to provide personal information. All personal information we collect is stored and processed in the United States.

We will retain your personal information while you have an active relationship with Truth to Power Foundation, including if you have subscribed to a newsletter, or have affirmatively made requests of us that we, or our data processors, are fulfilling. We will maintain your information and for 30 days after that relationship ends (unless you request that we delete your information prior to the expiration of that period). If Truth to Power Foundation determines that it no longer requires your information for the purposes set forth above, it will delete your information consistent with its retention policies.

If you would like us to delete all of your personal information and/or remove your name and address from promotional lists (including any personal information gathered by our service providers) and place your name on our “do not contact” list, contact our Data Privacy Team at info@truthtopoweraward.org and request that you be placed on our “do not contact” list. Please note that because names may be similar, you must include in your request all associated email addresses and phone numbers (if any) that you wish to be removed in the body of the email. We reserve the right to contact you for administrative purposes to request more information in order to assist us in deleting your content. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete your information within thirty (30) days from our active files, provided, however, that we may retain—for legal compliance purposes only—your request and associated email in a hashed format so that we do not inadvertently restore your information to our database. Please note that requests to update your personal information may take up to five (5) days. You may also request that we stop processing your information without deleting it, and we will comply within ten (10) days of receipt of such a request.

Notwithstanding the above, Truth to Power Foundation will retain your information indefinitely if it believes in good faith that it has a legal obligation to do so, including for tax purposes, but will only use that information for the specific necessary purpose for which it was retained.

Do-Not-Track Signal

The Do-Not-Track Signal (“DNT”) is used by some web browsers to automatically request that a web application disable site tracking. Because the DNT often does not reflect the actual preferences of an individual consumer, our website does not respond to the DNT. Instead, and in order to allow you to personalize your experience with our Site, you may elect not to receive marketing messages and/or have certain cookies placed on their browser, as discussed earlier in this Policy.

Children’s Access

Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and its revisions in 2013, our website is a general audience website, intended for adult use only. Consistent with the General Data Privacy Directive, the Truth to Power Foundation does not market to, and does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from, children under sixteen (16) years of age. Children between the ages of sixteen (16) and the age of majority must get permission from their parents before sending any personal information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. If you’re under age sixteen (16) or the Age of Consent, please do not register for any of our Site or provide us with any personally identifying information (such as your name, email address or phone number). Please contact our customer service department if you are aware of any personal information supplied to the Site by a child under the age of sixteen (16) or under the Age of Consent so that it can be removed.

Links

Our website may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners. Those sites may have their own privacy policies, or no privacy policies at all. Truth to Power Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by other sites and those other sites have not agreed to our privacy policy. Truth to Power Foundation has no control over or responsibility for any unaffiliated third party sites or the content contained in them, and we provide these links solely for the convenience of our visitors. We do not sponsor, endorse, or otherwise recommend such sites or any products or services they may offer. In short, once you leave our Site, we are no longer responsible for the collection practices of the companies operating those sites.

Site Security

We take reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect unauthorized access, alteration or destruction of data located on and collected by our Site. We exercise reasonable care to protect your non-public personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your non-public personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us while it is in transit. However, once we receive your personal information, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect it.

Squarespace Data Center, Cloud Providers, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

The truthtopoweraward.org website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace leverages leading data center and cloud service providers to house their physical and cloud infrastructure. Their data center and cloud service providers utilize an array of security equipment, techniques, and procedures designed to control, monitor, and record access to the facilities. Squarespace leverages geographically separate data centers and cloud service provider availability zones to facilitate infrastructure and service availability and continuity. Squarespace has implemented solutions designed to protect against and mitigate effects of DDoS attacks.  Squarespace has dedicated teams located in multiple geographies to support their platform and supporting infrastructure. Squarespace has business continuity disaster recovery plans which are tested periodically. Results of testing are leveraged to improve plans where necessary. 

Squarespace Encryption

Squarespace leverages SSL certificates to encrypt data in-transit between website end users and customer domains. Squarespace uses HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) which encrypts the content served during sessions and only allows Squarespace customer websites to be accessed via HTTPS. Read more about the Squarespace Security Measures & Safeguards here.

How to Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact our office by email at hello@waytorise.org.

Policy Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove any portion of this Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. Modification of changes in the Agreement will be disseminated via our Site, including posting on our website at https://www.truthtopoweraward.org/privacy-policy/. By using the Site you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit the page to determine the then current terms of use to which you are bound.