Privacy Policy

supportcreatives.org is a web site of gvng.org ("we," "us"), a private foundation existing under the laws of the State of California, U.S.A. This Policy is designed to help you understand generally how supportcreatives.org (the "Site") collects personally identifying information about you and how we use and disclose that personal information. This Policy applies to information that personally identifies you (other than publicly available information) ("personal information") collects on supportcreatives.org or, where indicated, other information you provide to us.


USE OF OUR SITE OR PROVISION OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION CONSTITUTES AGREEMENT TO THIS POLICY.

Table of Contents

  1. How Does This Policy Relate to Use of the Site?

  2. Information We Collect That You Do Not Provide

  3. Information We Collect That You Do Provide

  4. Information You Provide About Others

  5. What We Generally Do with Personal Information Collected

  6. Your Ability to Update Personal Information

  7. Information Security

  8. Your Particular Consents

  9. Children

  10. Identity Theft

  11. Amendments

  12. Information About Enforcement of Our Policy

 

1. How Does This Policy Relate to Use of the Site?

This policy is supplemented by additional policies relevant to particular activities, and each of the supplemental policies is incorporated into this policy. Here are examples of areas in which you will encounter supplemental privacy policies, but this list is not complete: if a supplemental policy is included on the Site with respect to a particular activity, or if one is included on a third-party site relating to the mission of Support Creatives, those supplemental policies will also apply and are also incorporated. 

2. Information We Collect That You Do Not Provide
Sometimes we collect personal information without you having to enter any information on the Site. For example, we may receive personal information from public sources or from third parties (which we may combine with other information from other sources).

In addition, we collect some information automatically from visitors to the Site, for example through the use of "cookies", and other tracking mechanisms. We collect at least the following: your domain name and host for Internet access; the Internet address of the site from which you came; the date and time of your access; your computer's IP address and information about its operating system, browser and host; the date and time you access the Site and the pages you visit. If you do not want to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them. However, if you turn cookies off, you may not have access to some of the Site's services and features. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you access the Site.

 

3. Information We Collect That You Do Provide
It is always your choice, or the choice of anyone acting for you, whether to provide personal information. However, some must be provided to participate in certain programs or activities, so the decision not to provide information might limit or eliminate certain functions of the Site or the ability to participate. Other information is up to your good judgment, e.g., do not provide personal information about yourself that could be misused by others in a chat room, bulletin board, blog or similar forum and do not provide personal information about others without their permission. The kinds of personal information we tend to request about you or others include but are not limited to your name, email address, native language, organization name, job title, city, state / province, region, and age.

4. Information You Provide About Others
Do not supply personal information about others unless you are authorized or required to do so by applicable law or contract on behalf of yourself and the "data subject" (the person about whom you supply personal information). Before supplying personal information about others (except as otherwise allowed by law or contract), you must make available for the data subject's review, and obtain their written consent by submitting any personal information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you did all of the foregoing before submitting the information. If applicable law allows you to supply the information without doing the foregoing, you represent and warrant that you have abided by that law and that it allows us to receive and Disclose the information under this policy without any further action on our part. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless against any failure by you to comply with this paragraph.

Support Creatives works with third parties on certain programs, and often those third parties own and/or are responsible for that program’s web site. In those cases, if you provide personal information, you will be giving it to a third party and their privacy policy will apply. You agree that if they provide it to us then we may apply our policy to what we receive.

5. What We Generally Do with Personal Information Collected

In general, we use personal information we collect to pursue our mission and operations and to engage in the activity (and related activities) for which we collect it.  Specifically, we may use your personal information to:

 

  • to fulfill our obligations to you and to respond to any questions or requests;

  • to contact you about material changes in our site terms or policies;

  • to comply with the law or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform with the requirements of law or to comply with legal process served on us;

  • to provide to third parties as a result of any reorganization process;

  • if you sign up for a blog, feed or newsletter, we may put you on our mailing list or even the list of a third party who we think has a similar mission.

Further information is available in the supplemental policies for some activities, but you should assume that we will use all information for all lawful purposes. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to make all lawful, worldwide uses of personal information, including without limitation, to: collect, use, access (or bar access), process, fulfill, disclose, display, share, respond to legal process or otherwise exercise our rights under applicable law, transfer, store, verify,  enforce, delete, and otherwise deal with personal information, and information other than personal information (collectively "Disclose").

6. Your Ability to Update Personal Information
To the extent our systems require your personal information, in general, they provide the ability for you to update your information.  If you have any questions about what personal information about you the Foundation retains, please contact us at hello@supportcreatives.org. Support Creatives endeavors to keep your personal information accurate and up to date.   If your personal information has changed, you may submit your new information there as well.

We keep personal information for as long as we think is necessary or advisable and we reserve the right to retain it to the full extent not prohibited by law. We may discard personal information in our discretion, so you should retain your own records, and not rely upon our storage of any personal information or other data. 

7. Information Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information received from our users from unauthorized use or disclosure.
 

8. Your Particular Consents
This policy (and any relevant supplemental policies), Support Creatives is interested in letting you know about, and receiving your particular consent to, a few activities relating to personal information that will help us to deal with personal information that is disclosed in furtherance of our mission, operations and programs. These are described immediately below.

  • Consent to Electronic Notice If There is a Security Breach: If we or a Recipient is required to provide notice of unauthorized access or other invasion of certain security systems, you agree that we (or they) may do so when required (or voluntarily) by posting notice on our Site or sending notice to any email address we have for you, in our (or their) good faith discretion. You agree that notice to you will count as notice to others for whom you are acting, and agree to pass the notice on to them.

 

9. Children
We do not want to collect information from children. Do not provide any personal information unless you are at least 13 years of age, and please caution your children not to provide any. If a child under 13 has provided personal information, a parent or guardian may so inform us by writing us at hello@supportcreatives.org and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete it from our database, subject to applicable law and this Policy.

10. Identity Theft
If anyone believes they're a victim of identity theft entitled by law to request information from us, write us at hello@supportcreatives.org and we'll explain what information we require in order to respond. After receiving such request, we will supply (without charge) information we then have that we are legally required to provide (subject to applicable law and reserving all rights and defenses).

11. Amendments
We will be changing what we do and how and why we Disclose data periodically—this policy describes what we currently envision, but that will change as we change. You agree that this policy amends and replaces any previous privacy polic(ies). We may further amend all or part of this policy.