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1440 Foundation Privacy Policy and Use of Information

Thank you for visiting the 1440 Foundation website (the "Website"). We are committed to maintaining a safe online experience, while respecting and protecting the privacy of any personal information that you provide to us while using this Website. This Privacy Policy describes the type of information we obtain, how we use this information, and our privacy practices in general. The policy applies only to information you provide to us online, while using this Website, or via email.
 
As part of our commitment to your privacy, we have appointed an internal data protection officer ("DPO"). Our DPO reviews our Privacy Policy from time-to-time to make sure it complies with United States and key international legislations. She also monitors for adherence to our Privacy Policy in our day-to-day activities. If you wish to contact us regarding this Privacy Policy or any privacy-related matters, please email our DPO at dpo@1440.org.
 

Links to Other Websites

We may make content or services available to you from other websites via links located on this Website. Because these other websites are not subject to the 1440 Foundation Privacy Policy, we recommend reviewing each site's privacy policy.
 

The Type of Information We Collect

Sensitive Data

Unless required by law, we will never ask you for any of the following types of sensitive data: your race or ethnicity; your political ideology; your religious or philosophical beliefs; any trade union memberships; genetic or biometric data; health information; information about your sex life or your sexual orientation.
 

Website Usage Information

Through the use of cookies and other technologies, IP addresses and website usage data is automatically collected whenever you visit this Website. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors navigate our Website on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their visits.
 
Additionally, our system uses certain security plugins which protect our Website from attack and misuse. Normal, non-damaging website accesses are usually not logged by the plugins. However, as soon as there is the suspicion that our system is subject to an attack, data relating to the visitor's computer system are automatically logged for forensic purposes and stored in firewall logs. The data stored includes the IP address, the data and time, the browser user agent and the reason for the suspicious activity.
 
Website usage data is deleted when it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was captured.
 

Surveys

We may conduct occasional surveys and other customer research. Your participation in these surveys is entirely voluntary, we will ask for your permission before sending them to you.
 

How We Use the Information We Collect

We may use personally identifiable information that we receive from you in the following ways:
  • For sending email newsletters that you opt into, processing employment applications, submitting responses to surveys, and posting responses to articles.
  • To enhance or develop Website features, products, and services offered.
  • To personalize our Website content based on personal characteristics or preferences.
  • We may disclose and use information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, enforce our Terms of Service (when necessary to protect our intellectual property or proprietary rights, or those of a third party), to alert you to changes in our policies or agreements that may affect your use of the Website, or when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.
We do not sell or rent any information that we collect to third parties, or share your information with third parties for the purpose of allowing them to market their products or services to you. We do however work with third-party partners who help us provide and improve our services. We impose strict restrictions on how these partners can use and disclose the data we provide. We share information with vendors and service providers who support our business, such as by providing technical infrastructure services, providing customer service, or conducting surveys.
 

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit our Website and allow us to reassign your browser. Cookies store information such as your language setting, the duration of your visit to our website or the information you enter there.
 
There are different types of cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that are stored in the user's Internet browser until the browser window is closed and the session cookies are deleted. Permanent or persistent cookies are used for repeated visits and stored in the user's browser for a predefined time. First-party cookies are set by the website the user visits. Only this website may read information from cookies. Third-party cookies are set by organizations that are not operators of the website that the user visits. These cookies are used by marketing companies, for example.
 
The cookies used on this website are:
  • _gat: Persistent third-party cookie for the purpose of reducing the request rate as used in tracking with Google Analytics. The storage period is 1 minute.
  • _ga: Persistent third-party cookie for the purpose of differentiating users within the scope of tracking by Google Analytics. The storage period is 2 years.
  • _gid: Persistent third-party cookie for the purpose of differentiating users within the scope of tracking by Google Analytics. The storage period is 24 hours.
  • PHPSESSID: First-party session cookie for the purpose of identifying the user's current session on our website. The storage time is identical to the current session.
 

Google Analytics

This website is using Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). The use includes the "Universal Analytics" operating mode. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze a user's activities across devices.
 
Google Analytics uses "cookies," which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users interact with the site. The information generated by the cookie relating to your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, Google will reduce your IP address within Member States of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On this website Google Analytics has been extended to include IP anonymization in order to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.
 
On behalf of our Website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide our Website operator with other services related to website and Internet use.
 
The data sent to us and liked to cookies are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.
 

Your Rights

We will gladly inform you whether and which of your personal data is processed by us and for what purposes. Furthermore, you have the right to rectification (completing incomplete information), the right to restrict processing (limit the way we use your data), and the right to data portability (receive from us the personal data you provided us with).
 

Transfer to the U.S. or Other Countries

Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where 1440 Foundation has facilities, and by using this Website, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country.
 

Children's Privacy

1440 Foundation and our Website are not directed at persons under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly allow such persons to register on our Website. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us, and we will take all necessary steps to remove such information.
 

Policy Modifications

We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement at any time, taking account of applicable data protection regulations. Before implementing changes, we will notify you and give you the opportunity to review the revised policy. Your continued use of our Website after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification. The most current version of our policy will always be available at https://1440.org.
 
 

1440 Foundation Privacy Statement

Our Core Beliefs Regarding User Privacy And Data Protection

  • User privacy and data protection are a necessity and our duty
  • We have the duty of protecting personal data
  • Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
  • We loathe spam as much as you do!
  • We will never sell, rent or distribute your personal data
  • We will not make your personal information public without your consent. Your personal information (name) will be made public only if you wish to make a comment or review on the website.

Relevant Legislation

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

What Personal Information we collect and Why

Here we describe what information is collected and reasons for collecting it. The categories of information collected are as follows:

  • Site visit trackers

    Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to track their journey through the website.
    Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer's IP address, which could be used to personally identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor (see section below).
    GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google's developer guides. Our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
    In addition to Google Analytics, this website may collect information (held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it.

  • Reviews and Comments

    Should you choose to add a comment or review on our site, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website's database, along with your computer's IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors detailed below. Only your name and email address that you supplied will be shown on the public-facing website.
    Your comments and the associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either
    • Remove the comment or
    • Remove the blog post.
    NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

  • Forms and Email Newsletter submissions on the website

    If you choose to subscribe to our email newsletter or submit a form on our website, the email address that you submit to us will be forwarded to a third-party marketing platform service company. Your email address will remain within their database for as long as we continue to use the third-party marketing company’s services for the sole purpose of email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list.
    You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.
    Listed below are the pieces of information that we may collect as part of servicing requests on our website:
    • Name
    • Gender
    • Email ID
    • Phone
    • Mobile
    • Address
    • City
    • State
    • Postal Code
    • Country
    • IP Address
    We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share limited amount of data with listed Third-Party data processors only towards servicing your requests or improving our offering.

  • Email links

    We only receive an email when a user mails us using an email link. There are no third-party data processors or intermediaries involved.
    The data is collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

  • Revenue Recovery Emails

    As part of Revenue Recovery model, we work with re-marketing service companies to send notification messages if you have abandoned your cart without making a purchase. This is for the sole purpose of reminding customers to complete the purchase if they’d wish to. The re-marketing service companies do a real-time capture of your email ID and cookies to send an email invite to complete the transaction if the customer abandons the cart. However, the email ID of the customer is deleted from their database as soon as the purchase is complete.

  • “Do Not Sell My Data” - why we don’t have it

    We do not sell personal information of our customers or of minors below the age of 16 years to third-party data collectors and hence the “Do not sell my data” opt-out button is optional on our website. Reiterating, we may collect your data for the sole purpose of completing a service request or for marketing communications. If you wish to access or erase your personal information, you can do so by submitting your details here.

  • Important notice for Minors sharing Personal Information

    If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before:
    • Submitting a form
    • Posting a comment on our blog
    • Subscribing to our offer
    • Subscribing to our email newsletter
    • Making a Transaction

  • Accessing/Deleting Personal Information

    Should you wish to view or delete your personal information, please email us here with the email address used, your name and deletion request. Alternatively, you can fill out the form at the bottom of this page to view and/or delete your data stored with us

Third Party Data Processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section above. If you request for your Personal information to be deleted with us, the request will also be forwarded to the parties below:

Cookie Policy

This policy covers the use of cookies and other technologies. The types of cookies we use fall into 3 categories:

  • Essential cookies and similar technologies

    These are vital for the running of our services on our websites and apps. Without the use of these cookies parts of our websites would not function. For example, session cookies allows a navigation experience that is consistent and optimal to user's network speed and choice of device.

  • Analytics cookies and similar technologies

    These collect information about your use of our websites and apps and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, analytics cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages. They also help identify any difficulties you have accessing our services, so we can fix any problems. Additionally, these cookies allow us to see overall patterns of usage at an aggregated level.

  • Tracking, advertising cookies and similar technologies

    We use these types of technologies to provide advertisements that are more relevant to your interests. This can be done by delivering online adverts based on your previous web browsing activity. Cookies are placed on your browser which will store details of websites you have visited. Advertising based on what you have been looking at is then displayed to you when you visit websites that use the same advertising networks.
    We may also use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with adverts based on your location, offers you click on, and other similar interactions with our websites and apps.

Data Breaches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website's database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time to conform with legislation and/or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.
By entering a valid email address that you have access to, we will inform you about any personal information we collect that is associated with that email address and how to manage it.
By entering a valid email address that you have access to, we will inform you any personal information we collect that is associated with that email address and how to manage it.
 
 
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