Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for the website lgbtq-economics.org This Privacy Policy (herein referred to as “Policy”) explains how the Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (CLEAR) (herein referred to as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) processes Personal Data that we collect from you (herein referred to as the “Subscriber”) as a Controller.

This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Definitions

(a) “Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body, which alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing Personal Data.

(b) “Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

(c) “Service(s)” means the provision of access to our websites and online facilities (including, but not limited to lgbtq-economics.org) and the utilization of those online facilities in order to communicate with other Subscribers to our websites and to create content visible to those Subscribers and to members of the public using those platforms.

(i) “Subscriber” means the natural or legal person who has subscribed to the Service(s) by agreeing to the Terms.
(ii) “Terms” means the binding contract between the Company and Subscriber that governs the Subscriber’s access and use of the Service(s).

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or another direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

The Subscriber directly provides the Company with most of the data we collect. The Company collects Personal Data from the Subscriber from the following sources:

In the account creation process, we collect several pieces of information including name and email address. Additional data may be provided utilizing forms, polls, and other means of collecting input and information from Subscribers.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share any personally identifiable information about you with any third party outside of our organization unless doing so is necessary to fulfill your request or upon your request.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about updates to our offerings or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Processing of Personal Data

(a) The Company processes the Subscriber’s Personal Data to improve our ability to provide Services to our Subscribers and to ensure their safety and security while utilizing our Services.

(b) The Company will generally collect Personal Data from Subscribers only where it needs to create a contract with the Subscriber, where the processing is in the Company’s legitimate interests and not overridden by the Subscriber’s data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, or where the Company has the Subscriber’s consent. In some cases, the Company may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Data from the Subscriber.

(c) If the Company processes Personal Data with the Subscriber’s consent, the Subscriber may withdraw their consent at any time.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time, by contacting us at our privacy contact email ([email protected]):

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at [email protected].

Surveys

From time-to-time, our site requests information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary: you may choose whether or not to participate in and therefore disclose this information.

Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), demographic information (such as zip code, age level), and information about financial matters(earnings, revenues, costs).

Contact information supplied from surveys may be used to communicate with respondents regarding their submissions.

Survey information will be used for purposes of improving the quality of the research, analysis, and services which our organization provides, and improving–or monitoring–the use and satisfaction of our website.

Modification

The Company keeps this Policy under regular review and may update this webpage at any time. This Policy may be amended at any time, and the Subscriber shall be notified only if there are material changes to this Policy.

Contact Details

If you have any concerns about this Policy, please get in touch with us at [email protected].