Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We collect information from you directly, from the devices you use to interact with us, and from third parties. We may combine information from the Services together with other information we obtain from our business records. We may use and share information that we aggregate (compile to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identify (strip information of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) at our discretion.

Information you give us

You may provide the following information to us directly:

• Contact and professional information, including name, email address, telephone number, and job title, as well as company name and size.
• Demographic information, including your address, date of birth and gender.
• Audiovisual information, including recordings of online events.
• Content you may include in survey responses, such as your preferences and interests.
• Information contained in your communications to us.
• Information you make available to us via a social media platform.
• Your use of our Services
• Information you submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us.
• information necessary for us to deliver services to participants in our programmes and projects
• Any other information you submit to us which is relevant and necessary.

We and partners working on our behalf may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following information from the device you use to interact with our Services. We also create records when you make purchases or otherwise interact with the Services.

• Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
• Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our Services, website, app, and electronic newsletters.
• Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.
• Business record information, including records of your use of our Services.

The following is a list of our partners who collect the information described above. Please follow the links to find out more information about the partner’s privacy practices.

Partner	Information Type Collected
Google Analytics	Analytical information, Device Information

Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may collect the following information about you from third-party sources.

•  Information about your interests, activities, and employment history from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.
• Resume information, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and work history, from recruiting and staffing support agencies.

How We Use Your Information

We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes.

Service functionality: To provide you with our services, including taking steps to enter a contract for sale or for services, to administer donations and grants, and to conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits. Our basis for this processing is our legitimate interest and compliance with legal obligations.

Testimonials. We post testimonials on our Website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at [email protected] and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.

Service improvement: To improve and grow our Services, including developing new products and services and understand how our Services are being used, our customer base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing. Our legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest. Our basis for this processing is our legitimate interest.

Security: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent theft, unauthorised use, or abuse of the Services and other activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal. Our basis for this processing is our legitimate interest.

Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Our basis for this processing is compliance with legal obligations. 

How We Share Your Information

We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients.

Affiliates and related parties: We share information with other members of our group of companies and Lead Exposure Elimination Project entities operating outside the United States.

Service providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you from us or collect it directly. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these business functions, which include:

1. Supporting Service functionality, such as vendors that support event registration, donation and grant processing, customer service and customer relationship management, subscription fulfilment, freight services, application development, document storage, list cleansing, postal mailings, and communications (email, fax).
2. Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that help us create our financial records.
3. Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance.
4. Analytics and marketing services, including entities that analyse traffic on our online properties and assist with identifying and communicating with potential customers.
5. Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response, service notifications, and fraud prevention.
6. Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation.
7. Marketing vendors, such as entities that support the distribution of marketing emails.

Other Organisations: If you apply for a job with us, with your consent, we may share your resume with other similar organisations.

Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.

Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, or other individuals.

Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organisation while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.

Security

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

Special Information for Job Applicants

When you apply for a job with us, we may collect information from you, including:

• Information you provide in connection with your application.
• Information that you make available in your social media accounts.
• Information about you that is available publicly.
• Information that you authorise us to collect via third parties, including former employers or references.

In certain circumstances, you may submit your application for employment through a third-party service that displays our job posting. We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. Please review their privacy policies carefully prior to submitting your application materials.

Data retention

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us to keep your personal information for longer than 2 years. 

Cross-border data transfer

We may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. 

Information about children

The Services are intended for users who are eighteen years old and older. We do not knowingly collect information from minors. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will delete that information. Please contact us with any concerns. 

Sharing of Medical or Health Information

If we receive protected health information about you, that information is subject to electronic disclosure as permitted by applicable law. 

Privacy Disclosures for Specific Jurisdictions

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

We process “personal data,” as that term is defined in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Your rights under the GDPR: Users who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), U.K., or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are located in the EEA, U.K., or Switzerland, you have the following rights.

1.  Access and Portability: Request access to personal data we hold about you or request transmission of your data to a third party.
2. Correction: Request that we rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data we store about you.
3. Erasure: Request that we erase personal data when such data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, when you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or when you believe that your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
4. Restriction of processing: Request that we restrict our processing of personal data if there is a dispute about the accuracy of the data; if the processing is unlawful; if the processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected but is needed by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or if your request to object to processing is pending evaluation.
5. Objection to processing: Object to processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing (including profiling). We will no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims.
6. Transfers: Obtain information about and a copy of the safeguards we use to transfer personal data across borders.

Please contact us to exercise these rights.

Contact information, submitting requests, and our response procedures

Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this privacy policy applies.

Email: [email protected]  

Making a request to exercise your rights

Submitting requests: You may request to exercise your rights by making a request using the contact information above.

We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

Verification: We must verify your identity before responding to your request. We verify your identity by asking you to provide personal identifiers that we can match against information we may have collected from you previously. We may need to follow up with you to request more information to verify identity.

We will not use personal information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.