Privacy Policy
THINKLA.ORG
PRIVACY POLICY
This is the official privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) of thinkLA.org that governs our use of the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you submit via our Website and does not cover any other information, whether collected in any other manner or for any other purpose, nor on any other website or service unless specifically stated. Any terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings set forth in the Terms of Use. Our Privacy Policy does not supersede the Terms of Use that govern your use of our Website, but supplements its terms and conditions and is incorporated herein by reference. Any conflict between the two shall be determined in favor of the Terms of Use.
1. OVERVIEW
When we use the term “Personal Information” we mean information such as your first/middle initial or name and last name, street address, town or city, state, zip code, mobile device number, telephone number, email address, and any other information that would allow someone to identify you or contact you. We will not use any of your Personal Information for any purpose other than as set forth herein, or as set forth in the Terms of Use, unless we provide advance notice to you of any other such use. We will not share your Personal Information with any non-affiliated parties without your consent. However, we may share your Personal Information with our operational service providers that assist in delivering the Services to you.
Our privacy standards are designed to ensure that we will:
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collect and use only the minimum necessary Personal Information required for us to deliver the Website, to administer our business and to let you know of products and services that are available;
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protect your Personal Information, maintaining strict standards of security and confidentiality;
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not disclose your Personal Information to any external organization unless we have previously notified you and obtained your consent;
- require any other organization that we retain or engage to provide support services for us to conform to our privacy standards; and
- make every effort to keep your Personal Information complete, up to date, and accurate.
You can visit our Website and learn about thinkLA, our services, and find out how to contact us without submitting any Information via our Website.
Keeping your Personal Information secure and ensuring your understanding of how we use and maintain your Personal Information is important to us. thinkLA maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information and while no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure from intrusion, we have used and will continue to use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the protection of your Personal Information.
2. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Residents of the State of California, under the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California, a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed Personal Information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that gives either an “opt-out” or “opt-in” choice for use of your Personal Information by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices, you must send a request to the following address with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent to via email to info@thikla.org or via phone at 310-823-7320.
3. COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect information about you when you visit our Website and access the Services, whether during the course of entering, initiating, fulfilling and transmitting Personal Information or otherwise in connection with your general activities, transactions and/or use of our Services. We may use your Personal Information to tailor your experience of our Services and our Website, to display content we think may be of interest you, or to let us customize what you see when you visit the Website according to your preferences.
Your Personal Information and any data, personal or otherwise, that you disclose and which may be saved is used to administer our business and the Services in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and other legal obligations. We may from time to time, transfer or merge your Personal Information to our off-line databases and/or store such Personal Information in an electronic format as well as combine your Personal Information with information available from other sources.
Sometimes we may use your Personal Information to advise you of products or services that may be available through thinkLA or its affiliates. You may choose to “opt-out” of receiving marketing and promotional emails from us by sending us an email to info@thinkLA.org. However, we may ALWAYS contact you via email for administrative or informational purposes, including follow-up messages regarding the administration of products or services you indicated an interest in or other transactions you have initiated in connection with our Services.
4. SUBMISSION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate Personal Information and we have the right to refuse or revoke your right to use our Services and/or reject and delete any entry you make if we have reason to believe that the Personal Information you provide to us is or may be false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. If you are submitting Personal Information on behalf of others in your business for registration purposes or otherwise, you represent that you have their permission, agreement and full authorization to provide this Personal Information to us for these purposes. We reserve the right to ask you to provide evidence of that at any time during, or even after, the submission process or to contact those individuals to confirm this at any time. If we determine that such authorization has not been properly obtained, we may immediately and without notice, discontinue your use of those features of our Services.
5. DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
Although your privacy is very important to us, in this legal and technical environment, we cannot fully ensure that your Personal Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be compelled to disclose your Personal Information to a governmental agency or a court; or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, we may (and you authorize us to do so) disclose any of your Personal Information to private entities, law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries or to protect our own business and assets. In such circumstances, we will, where possible, require such third parties to maintain the confidentiality of any information so disclosed.
If you request information, a product, or have a complaint and we are unable to respond, your request/complaint may be forwarded to a third party whom we believe can adequately respond. Your request/complaint will be forwarded along with any email, postal, or telephone information you have provided us. thinkLA is not responsible for the privacy policy of the third party to whom we forward your request/complaint. We will not forward your request if you ask that we not do so.
6. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our Website may contain links to websites and services owned or maintained by third parties. We are not responsible for and have no control over the privacy and data collection policies and practices implemented by such third parties, some of which may be substantially different from our corresponding policies and practices. thinkLA has no obligation and is not liable for the treatment or maintenance of any information, content, data or materials transmitted, distributed or otherwise provided by you via any such third party websites or services. It is your sole responsibility to review their respective policies and practices and determine whether the same are adequate.
7. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY
Your Internet browser has a feature called “cookies.” A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored in your browser by a web server. Cookies can only be read by the website that placed the cookie on the hard drive of your PC. However, cookies tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us Personal Information. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit our Website, although active participation in certain areas of our Website may require cookies. In addition, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected by selecting certain options on your browser.
We may use permanent cookies that allow us to provide you with personalized features such as “remember me”. The “remember me” feature is an automatic login process which creates a cookie on the hard drive of your PC that contains your IDs, thereby avoiding the need to enter your IDs upon subsequent visits to our Website. In order to use this feature, you must set your browser's preferences to allow permanent cookies. We will not use the “remember me” feature unless you indicate your desire to take advantage of this feature via our Website. You will still be able to use our Website if you choose to block permanent cookies.
We may also use temporary cookies (a.k.a. "per-session cookies") to improve the functionality and usability of our Website. These temporary cookies are permanently erased from your computer as soon as you log out of your session on our Website or link to a different website from your parent browser window.
8. MODIFICATION
We have the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time by posting an updated version, without advance notice to you. The revisions shall be effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often so that you are aware of the most current terms and conditions that apply to you. We may also, at our discretion, email you about these changes. Your continued use of our Website indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, maintenance, management and storage of your Personal Information, as described. This Privacy Policy remains applicable to your Personal Information for as long as your Personal Information is in our possession, even if you terminate or discontinue your use of our Services.
9. QUESTIONS
If you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, what information about you we collect and use, or if you do not understand any of the terms or disclosures noted above, you may contact us at info@thinkla.org or via phone at 310-823-7320.
10. SOLE STATEMENT
The foregoing statements, terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy is the sole statement of our privacy policy, and no summary, restatement or other version, or other statement or policy, in any form, including, without limitation, machine-generated, is valid.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY AND FULLY COMPLY WITH ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
For ease of reference theTerms of Use can viewed at any time at thinkla Terms of Use.PDF and this Privacy Policy can be viewed at any time at www.thinkla.org.
This Privacy Policy was last modified on December 6, 2006 and is effective immediately.
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