The EcoWomanist (“Company”) is committed to safeguarding your online privacy with respect to the personally identifiable information that we may obtain from you at the https://www.ecowomanist.org/ (the “Website”). Our Privacy and Information Security Policy (“Privacy Policy”) answers frequently asked questions about your online privacy, including what personally identifiable information we may obtain from you and how it will be used and protected. The EcoWomanist Institute exercises the right to change this Privacy Policy periodically and at its discretion.

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By using our Website, you warrant and represent that you have read this Privacy Policy and that you are giving the Company permission to use and store such information consistent with this Privacy Policy.

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The Personal Identifiable Information we obtain from you and when we obtain such information:

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When you visit and interact with our Website, The EcoWomanist Institute and/or third parties with whom the Company has contracted to provide services to the Company may collect your Internet Protocol Address (“IP Address”), which is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. We use IP Addresses to monitor the regions from which Users navigate the Service and for fraud prevention purposes. If, upon visiting the The EcoWomanist Institute website, your use is limited to browsing our informational content, we will not require that you provide us with any personally identifiable information.

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We may however request personal information from you at other times including but not limited to: purchasing variations of The EcoWomanist Institute services, then we may ask that you provide us with particular personal information, including your name, credit card number, expiration date, e-mail address, mailing address and telephone number. Your credit card information will be transferred to Stripe, Inc. for processing. Stripe, Inc. employs a variety security and risk management technologies to facilitate secure on-line transactions and to protect your credit information. You can find more information about at https://stripe.com/us/privacy.

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If you want to enter any sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by us or by one of our business partners, we will need your name, e-mail address and other information as may be required by the rules of the specific contest.

If you choose to participate in a customer survey conducted by us or by one of our business partners, we may ask for your name, e-mail address and other information as may be required by the particular survey.

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If you report a problem or submit a customer review, we will ask that you provide your name, e-mail address, address, phone number and fax number. Should you contact us for any reason other than to report a problem and/or submit a review, we may also keep a record and/or copy of your correspondence with us.

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To preserve the integrity of our databases, we may retain information submitted by Users for an indefinite length of time. If required by law, we will delete personal information by erasing it from our database. We will also respond to User requests to delete or correct account or Personal Information, which you can do by contacting us.

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How we protect the security and quality of your personal information:

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To protect the security and quality of your personal information, we have implemented technical and managerial procedures to maintain accurate, current and complete information as well as to protect your personal information against loss, misuse or alteration when it is under our control.

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How we use your information:

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Our primary use of your information is to administer, maintain and improve your experience with our Website generally as well as provide you with customized, personalized services and interactive communications.

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If you do not uncheck a pre-checked “opt-in” box we may from time to time send you e-mails regarding our Service and special promotions. Also, we occasionally may send you direct mail about products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

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We use your financial information (e.g., your credit card number) only to verify your credit and to bill you for services purchased through our Website. We also use your contact information as necessary to send you information about the services that you have purchased on our Website.

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When you enter any sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by us or by one of our business partners, we may use your e-mail address to send you status updates.

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We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the services offered on our Website. We also use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information that we may share with our business partners, but only in the aggregate without any of your personally identifiable information.

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We may research the demographics, interests and behavior of our customers based on the information provided to us during membership registration, during sweepstakes, contests and promotions, from our server log files, from cookies and from surveys. Our research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis. We may share this aggregate data with business partners, but only in the aggregate, without any of your personally identifiable information.

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How to opt-out of receiving communications from The EcoWomanist Institute:

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If you change your mind and decide that you no longer want to receive promotional e-mails and/or direct mailings, you may opt-out at any time by simply sending an e-mail request. Similarly, if you are not receiving our promotional e-mails and/or direct mailings and wish to receive these materials, you may opt-in at any time by simply sending The EcoWomanist Institute an e-mail request.

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The Privacy Policies of The EcoWomanist Institute’s Partners:

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Third parties that have links on our Service may collect personally identifiable information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such sites and applications; this Privacy Policy does not govern the practices of these sites and applications. If you have questions about the privacy policies or practices of a third party site, you should contact the site administrator or web-master of the specific site. We may from time to time collaborate with other companies to offer co-branded services as well as sweepstakes, contests and promotions. Any information that you provide in connection with the co-branded services or any jointly sponsored sweepstakes; contests or promotions will become the joint property of The EcoWomanist Institute and its business partners. We will maintain your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

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However, this Privacy Policy does not govern the privacy policies and practices of our business partners. If you have questions about the privacy policies or practices of our business partners, you should contact them directly.

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We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information:

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No, as a general rule, we do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. If and whenever we intend to share your personally identifiable information with a third party (other than to a business partner as provided herein), you will be notified at the time of data collection or transfer, and you will have the option of not permitting the transfer. However, we may from time to time rent or sell demographic information in the aggregate that does not contain your personally identifiable information.

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The EcoWomanist Institute reserves the right to transfer, sell and/or distribute all information collected through the Service to an affiliate, subsidiary, or third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or part of our business, assets or stock. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the new entity follows this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Information, as and to the extent required by applicable law.

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Who we share your information with:

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We generally will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission to do so or under some special circumstances described below.

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As noted previously, we may from time to time partner with other companies to offer co-branded services as well as sweepstakes, contests and promotions. Any information that you provide in connection with the co-branded services or any jointly sponsored sweepstakes, contests or promotions will become the joint property of Company and its business partners. We may also disclose other personal information about you to our business partners, but only if we have obtained your permission to make the disclosure before data collection or before transferring the data.

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We may, from time to time, offer you the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you want to receive this information, we may (but only with your permission) share your name and e-mail address with them.

Under confidentiality agreements, we may match user information with third party data. We also may disclose aggregate demographic and/or user information and statistics in order to describe our customer base to prospective partners and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

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We may disclose your personally identifiable information without your prior permission in special cases. For example, we may have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the User Terms and Conditions, or may be causing intentional or unintentional injury or interference to the rights or property of Company or any third party, including other customers. Also, we may disclose or access your personally identifiable information when we believe in good faith that law or regulation requires disclosure.

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Cookies and how we use them for your experience:

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Cookies enable us to customize and personalize your experience with our Service, including the products and promotions that are offered to you. Essentially, a cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies for several purposes in connection with the operation of our Service:

We may use cookies to identify you and access your information stored on our computers in order to deliver you a better and more personalized experience. For example, we may use cookies to tell you about products and services specific to your interests.

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Upon request, we will save your “user name” so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our Website. In providing you with this service, we use cookies.

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We may use cookies to estimate our customer base and customer usage patterns. Each browser accessing our Service may use a unique cookie that is then used to determine the extent of repeat visits and the customer activity during those visits. We may use the historical information to help target promotions based on customer interests and behavior, both specifically to individual customers and on an aggregate basis with respect to all customers. We also may use cookies to track your progress and number of entries in some promotions, sweepstakes and contests, or through a meeting registration process.

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Third party advertisers on the Website may also place or read cookies on your browser and we may use Flash cookies (or local shared objects) to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our site to personalize your visit. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you will not be able to use all portions or all functionalities of the Service. We and our service providers may also use GIF; or similar means in connection with the Service and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Users and email recipients, to determine the success of marketing campaigns and to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage and response rates. We may also engage one or more third party service providers to serve online advertisements on our behalf. They may use a “pixel tag” to collect anonymous information about your visits to this Site and to other websites, and they may use that information to target advertisements for goods and services. This information is collected anonymously, in a manner that does not personally identify you. We have no control over those cookies, nor does this Privacy Policy cover how your personal information contained in those cookies may be used or protected. If you have any questions about the cookies of such third parties, or about the use of your personal information by such third parties, you should contact the site administrator or web-master of the third party site.

 

The following are some examples of how we share your information with third-party service providers:

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Google, Inc.: We use Google Analytics Service for purposes of analyzing usage of the The EcoWomanist Institute Platform. You can find information about the Google’s privacy practices at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

We also use the Google Maps service, and you agree to the Google privacy policy located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

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Stripe, Inc.: We use Stripe to process any billing information between users and between users and us, including credit card information users submit. You can find information about Stripe’s privacy practice at: https://stripe.com/us/privacy.

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Your choice regarding cookies:

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Yes, you have several choices with respect to cookies. You can modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. However, our Website uses cookie-based authentication. Accordingly, if you choose to reject all cookies, you may not be able to log onto our Website and/or use our Service or participate in our sweepstakes, contests or promotions.

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Additional information about your online privacy with The EcoWomanist Institute:

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It is important to remember that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on-line, your information can be collected and used by others. If you transmit or post personal information on-line that is accessible to others, you will not be able to control how that others use information. When we receive the transmitted information, we will use the procedures summarized in this Privacy Policy to ensure the integrity and security of that information in our systems. Unfortunately, notwithstanding any of the steps taken by us, it is not possible to guarantee the security and integrity of data transmitted over the Internet.

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Consequently, while we take the above-described reasonable steps to protect your personal information, we cannot and do not warrant the security or integrity of any information you transmit to us when registering for our Website or otherwise. All such transmission of information is at your own risk. Moreover, though we are committed to having our Website comply with this Privacy Policy, you are ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and your personally identifiable information. If you are careless with your password, or you decide to share your password with third parties, you must be aware of the risk that such third parties will have access to all your personally identifiable information.

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Notice of Changes:

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Our Privacy Policy is periodically reviewed and updated as needed. The Company will attempt to notify you of these changes by email or directly on the Website or in the App, but will not be liable for any failure to do so. The Company also encourages you to review this privacy policy periodically. If you do not understand any of the terms or conditions of any of our Privacy Policy, you may inquire regarding the same via email.

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International Users (to the United States of America)

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Our Service is U.S. based and the Company’s offices are headquartered in the U.S. Please be aware that information you provide to the Company or that the Company obtains as a result of your use of the Service may be processed and transferred to the U.S. and be subject to U.S. law.

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The privacy and data protection laws in the U.S. may not be equivalent to such laws in your country of residence. By using our Website or App, participating in any of the services we provide, or by providing the Company with your information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in the U.S. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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Contact us:

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If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or the practices of our Website and services, please feel free to e-mail us.

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About The EcoWomanist Institute:

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The EcoWomanist Institute (EWI) is a nonprofit providing a restorative and healing community, founded by Black women FOR Black women and women of color around the world.