Privacy Policy

Our website address is https://communityinitiatives.org.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Privacy Policy

Community Initiatives (also referred to as “us” or “we”) is a fiscal sponsor of projects that engage in charitable and/or educational activities (the “Projects”), hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Service(s).”

We take your privacy and information very seriously. To that end, we have this Privacy Policy to advise you of our rules on handling the information we receive connected to the Services. Most of our Projects maintain their own websites, with their own Terms of Service and/or Privacy Policies. Please be sure to review these terms and policies whenever you visit any Project Sites. By accessing and using the Services of Community Initiatives’ or any of its Projects’ Sites, you also agree to our Privacy Policy in addition to the posted terms and policies on the Project Site you visit. If you do not agree to abide by this Privacy Policy, please immediately exit the Site and stop using the Services. Please also review our Terms of Service as these also dictate how you may use our Services. The Services include operating the website found at https://communityinitiatives.org/ (also referred to below as the “Site” or “Website”).

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the effective date noted above and will remain in effect until we change it. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and will post changes to this policy on our Site. You should check this policy periodically as its terms may change from time to time. If you continue to use the Services, that means you acknowledge and agree to the modified policy.

Community Initiatives is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation that is recognized as tax-exempt under federal and state law. Each Project engages in distinct charitable and/or educational activities as programs of and overseen by Community Initiatives. As such, while Community Initiatives itself collects very little information identifying or identifiable to individuals, our many Projects collect a variety of information identifying or identifiable to individuals (“Personal Information”) in pursuit of their various charitable and/or educational activities.

As a public charity, the majority of privacy laws are not applicable to Community Initiatives or our Projects. We also do not collect an amount of data from Oregon, Colorado, or New Jersey, which would render Community Initiatives subject to the omnibus privacy laws of those states. If this were ever to change, this Privacy Policy would be updated to reflect those new obligations.

If you are located in the European Union, you may have rights under GDPR, which will be outlined in this policy. In addition, this policy will outline what personal data is collected by Community Initiatives and its Projects, as well as how that data is used. Where our Projects collect Personal Information and are subject to the requirements of GDPR, you may also find further specific information on data collection and usage on the relevant Project’s website.

You will find the following information in this policy:

What Personal Information is Collected by Community Initiatives and How it is Used
What Personal Information is Collected by Projects of Community Initiatives and How it is Used
Sources of Personal Information
Sensitive Information Collection and Use Practices
Data Retention and Security Practices
Your Rights Under GDPR
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information under GDPR
Children’s Privacy Practices
Personal Health Information Practices
How Policy Changes Will be Communicated
How to Contact Us

1. Information We Collect, How We Use It, Where We Share or Sell

This section explains how Community Initiatives and its Projects use, disclose, exchange, or transfer the Personal Information you provide on this website or that we collect through other means. Community Initiatives collects Personal Information through 1) your interactions with Community Initiatives, including our website; 2) your interactions with the Projects; and 3), as shared with us from the Projects and from Service Providers (also referred to as “processors” under some privacy laws).

For a further summary of how we use information collected through this website, please see the detailed list of categories of Personal Information and how we use it below.

What Personal Information is Collected by Community Initiatives and How it Is Used

To clearly explain how and why your Personal Information is collected and used, Community Initiatives has created the list of collected Personal Information found below. Community Initiatives does not sell or disclose any of your Personal Information to any third party.

The following section explains the categories of Personal Information collected by Community Initiatives, the purpose for collection and the categories of service providers processing the information on Community Initiatives’ behalf.

Identifiers and Personal Information Categories.

What We Collect: Community Initiatives collects the following identifiers from users of our Services: First and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses including state, province, ZIP codes, city and address numbers, and IP addresses.

What We Do With It: Information collected from you on our Website is collected for purposes of operating the website. It is also used to allow us to respond to inquiries, to communicate with you (for example when you sign up for our newsletter), for analytics and internal marketing purposes, and for fraud prevention. This information is used to provide the expected service of the Website and in support of our charitable mission. Information collected offline is used in support of our charitable mission.

Internet or Similar Network Activity

What We Collect: Community Initiatives collects the following personal information categories from the internet or similar network activity from users of our Website: Analytics related to your use of our website using Google Analytics.

What We Do With It: This information is collected to assist in using our services. It is also used with our analytics platforms to help improve the service and for internal marketing purposes. This information is also used to respond to inquiries and for fraud prevention.

Equipment Information

What We Collect: Community Initiatives collects the following personal information categories related to equipment information from users of our Website: the type of mobile device you use, the IP address of your device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

What We do With It: This information is collected for analytics purposes, to improve your interaction with the website and for internal marketing purposes. This information is also used to respond to your inquiries and for fraud prevention.

What Personal Information is Collected by Projects of Community Initiatives and How it is Used

The following Projects collect additional categories of your Personal Information for various purposes related to their charitable and/or educational activities. Because most consumers interact with us through our Projects first, please see the privacy policies of each Project linked below for details of what is collected. The Projects of Community Initiatives not on the list below do not collect data or otherwise have data collection practices requiring a standalone Privacy Policy. The Projects not on the list below are exclusively governed by this Privacy Policy.

A Mitzvah to Eat

Academic Data Science Alliance

Breakthrough Sacramento

Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement

East Bay Getting to Zero

Growth Circles

Juntos Wellness

Latino Outdoors

Salinas Community Science Workshop

Saving Democracy

Seen52

The Nexel Collaborative

The Young Shakespeareans

Women in Data Science Worldwide (WiDS Worldwide)

Use of Data Generally, Service Providers of Community Initiatives

In addition to the foregoing, we use Personal Information for purposes of conducting our charitable activities and providing services to our Projects. If you sign up to receive our newsletter, or complete our New Business Inquiry Form, we may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters or other information that we think may be of interest to you. You may opt out of these communications at any time, excluding emails directly relating to any ongoing business we have together.

We will never sell or otherwise provide your information to unaffiliated third parties without your prior consent. We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it, or for the protection of our legal rights.

Community Initiatives may aggregate information about you and other individuals together so that the information does not identify you personally. Community Initiatives may use information in these forms for any legitimate business purpose, including for research and analysis, administration of services, advertising and promotional purposes.

Community Initiatives uses Service Providers to assist with email communications, tracking employee information and benefits, event registrations, on-site payments, online donations, contract management, and marketing purposes. Community Initiatives may share your Personal Information with these Services Providers to assist with the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collect for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.