Privacy Policy

Your privacy and information is important to us at StriveTogether. Our policy details how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site.

 

Personal Information We Collect About You

“Personal Information” is information from which you or other individuals can be identified. We collect several types of Personal Information from and about users of our Website, including information about:

  • How to contact you, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

 

How We Collect Your Personal Information

We collect your Personal Information directly from you when you provide it to us. This will include Personal Information you provide:

  • When filling in forms on our Website. This includes when you sign up for more information or to interact with various tools or to be part of specific communities; and request material, further information, or services.
  • When you report a problem with our Website or contact us for any other purpose.
  • When you provide information to be published or displayed on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties.

 

We also collect your Personal Information through our use of automatic data collection technologies – see further in the “Automatic Data Collection Technologies” section below.

We may also collect or receive Personal Information about you from various third parties and public sources, including but not limited to:

  • Technical Data from the following parties: analytics providers, such as Google and search information providers.
  • Identity and contact data from publicly available sources.

 

Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information from and 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.

 “Do Not Track” – Certain laws require that we inform you on our response to Do Not Track signals.  As there is not an industry or legal standard for responding to these signals at this time, we do not respond to them.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data we may use to 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 preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to individual interests.
  • Speed up 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 have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

If you do not provide StriveTogether with the Personal Information required to perform our contract with you or comply with our legal or statutory obligations (highlighted as such in the list above), we may not be able to provide those relevant services to you. If you consent to StriveTogether’s use of your Personal Information and this consent forms the legal basis of our processing of that Personal Information, you are entitled to withdraw it at any time.

 

Disclosure of Your Personal Information

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Personal 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 Personal 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. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

 

California Consumer Privacy Rights 

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information collected about them. These include, in certain circumstances:

  • To ask us not to process your Personal Information, including where StriveTogether is using it for direct marketing purposes.
  • To receive a copy of all your Personal Information, in order to check we are processing it lawfully.
  • To ask us to correct any errors in your Personal Information.
  • To ask us to delete your Personal Information, including when exercising your right to object to processing (see above).
  • To ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information.
  • To ask us to transfer your Personal Information to another party.
  • To withdraw your consent where you have provided it for collection or use of your Personal Information for a specific purpose.

You may exercise these rights at any time by contacting STRIVETOGETHER using the details in the “Contact Information” section of this Policy.

We may not be able to accommodate a request relating to your Personal Information in certain circumstances prescribed by law. Please contact us using the details in the “Contact Information” section of this Policy if you would like more information.

 

Data Retention

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we use it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your Personal Information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

 

Usage

StriveTogether’s Web Site is operated from a site in the State of Illinois, United States of America. We make no representation that materials found at our sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access our sites from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with local laws. For further information on Intellectual Property matters, please contact us.

How you may use our materials Unless noted otherwise, you may download, use and copy the materials found on StriveTogether’s website for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site that pertain to the material being copied.

You may not create framed or deep links to StriveTogether’s website without express written permission from StriveTogether. How you may use our marks StriveTogether’s names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of StriveTogether. You are not authorized to use any StriveTogether name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of StriveTogether. Requests for authorization should be made to StriveTogether.

 

Changes to Our Policy

We may revise and update this Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Website and handling of your Personal Information thereafter.  It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.

 

Complaints

If you are concerned about how StriveTogether uses your Personal Information, you have the right to make a complaint to the supervisory authority in your place of work or residence or the place in which the relevant infringement has taken place.

 

Contact Information

For more information about the StriveTogether website, or if you have any questions, please contact us.

 

Updated 4/01/2022