Privacy Policy
The following sets forth the Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) of Rural Minds, Inc. (“Rural Minds”, “we”, “us” or “our”), and it is incorporated into and made a part of our Terms of Use.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information through compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes what information we may collect about you; how we use your information; how we protect it; and what choices you have regarding how that information is used. Rural Minds wants you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting www.ruralminds.org and any applicable subdomains thereof (collectively, “the Website”) and using our services.
We maintain the option to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by electronic notice posted on our Website. Your continued use of our Website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms and conditions.
INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website or any other services provided by Rural Minds through any applications, mobile applications, functionalities, content, or materials and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, disclosing and protecting that information.
Specifically, this Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
On this Website, including electronic messages between you and this Website.
In email and text.
Through our mobile and desktop applications, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.
When you donate or register for an event.
When you sign up for a newsletter.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by:
Us offline, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries).
Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT or That You Provide
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
By which you may be personally identified, such as name, job title, name and contact information of employer, postal address, email address, telephone number or any other information the Website collects that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information or a similar term, under applicable Law. (collectively, “personal information”).
That is about you, but individually does not identify you.
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your donations or orders. You may be required to provide financial information before making a donation or placing an order through our Website.
Your search queries on the Website.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us. You may also provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “Posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are Posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.
From third parties; for example, our business partners.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect automatically is statistical data, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you disable cookies in your browser settings, our system may issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Rural Minds does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or allow minors to provide us with their personal information without parent or guardian consent. If you are under 18, DO NOT SEND any information to Rural Minds. In the event we learn that we inadvertently collected personal information from anyone under 18 without consent, we will delete that information.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To improve and to present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, you may always opt out by communicating your desire via our Contact Us page.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide, as described in this Privacy Policy:
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as an ongoing concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use, our Services Terms of Use, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect our rights, property, or safety, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes you can also always opt out by communicating your desire via our Contact Us page.
Promotional Offers from us. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by us to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your personal information or at any other time by communicating via our Contact Us page. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to us because of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience, or other transactions.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You may communicate with us via our Contact Us page to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We shall not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us via our Contact Us page.
EXTERNAL LINKS
The Website includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under our domain, and we are not responsible for the policies, practices, or content – including regarding data privacy – of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk. You further acknowledge and agree that We shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such external websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Website and to take reasonable precautions when sharing your personal information on third party sites.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All personal information you provide to us is stored on our servers behind firewalls. Any payment will be encrypted. Transactions data through our donation page is transmitted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.
The safety and security of your personal information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share your password with anyone and do not give out personal information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The personal information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or from our Website. 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.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
CONSENT AND CONTACT INFORMATION
By visiting our Website, you accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you no longer wish to receive our emails you may opt-out by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in an email. You may notify us of your contact preferences or correct your contact information or to ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices by contacting us at info@ruralminds.org.