Joy Thomas Foundation Privacy Statement
At Joy Thomas Foundation, we respect your need for online privacy and protect any information that you may share with us, in an appropriate manner. Our practice regarding use of your information is as set forth below in this Privacy Statement and the Joy Thomas Foundation GDPR Privacy Addendum and the Joy Thomas Foundation CCPA Addendum (together with the “Joy Thomas Foundation Privacy Policy”). As a condition to use our services, you consent to the terms of the Joy Thomas Foundation Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time. In the event of a material change, we shall notify you via email or by means of a prominent notice on the web site. This Privacy Statement applies exclusively to www.joythomasfoundation.org
Information Recorded and Used:
1. Personal Information
a. During your navigation through the site, and especially if you were to contact us as a potential Scholar, Mentor, Partner, or Donor, we may request your name, email address and other contact information. Your name and email address will be used to inform you regarding new programs, mentoring, donor and volunteering opportunities, upcoming events and changes in this privacy policy. When you elect to provide us with your information, no personal information is transferred to the Joy Thomas Foundation without your explicit consent. You agree that when you fill out and submit such information, you are providing consent for use for the stated purposes above.
b. When you elect to refer friends, potential scholars, mentors, donors, partners to the web site, we may request their email address, name and other contact information to facilitate the referral.
c. We post user testimonials on the Site. These testimonials may include specific names and we acquire permission from our users prior to posting these on the Site. Joy Thomas Foundation is not responsible for the personal information users elect to post within their testimonials.
2. Financial Information
d. In case of programs and services requiring payment, we request credit card or other payment Account information, which will be used solely for processing payments. Your Financial Information will not be stored by us except for the name and address of the card holder and the last four digits of the Credit Card number. Subject to your prior consent and where necessary for processing future payments, your Financial Information will be stored in SSL(secure socket layer) encrypted form on secure servers of our reputed Payment Gateway Service Provider who is beholden to treating your sensitive information in accordance with this privacy statement.
3. Visitor Details
e. We use the Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, referring URL, files accessed, errors generated, time zone, operating system, first party and third party cookie information, and other visitor details collected in our log files to analyze serving patterns, improve personalization capabilities, analyze non-personally identifiable, aggregate details and trends across segments of ads served, administer the Joy Thomas Foundation website, track visitor's movements on our ads and across our website and platform, and to improve our platform.
4. Cookies
f. We use temporary and permanent cookies to enhance your experience of our services. Temporary cookies will be removed from your computer each time you close your browser. By selecting 'keep me signed-in' option in Joy Thomas Foundation services, a permanent cookie will be stored in your computer and you will not be required to sign-in by providing complete login information each time you return to our website. If you have turned cookies off, you may not be able to use registered areas of the website or the platform. We tie cookie information to your email address when you elect to remain logged in so as to maintain and recall your preferences within the Site. We may from time to time employ the use of pixel tags generated by the platform, on our site, on advertiser websites and in advertiser emails. Pixel tags such as web beacons are 1x1 images that are embedded onto a web page to document traffic, analyze visitor behavior, visitor interactions with content, and ad analytics without collecting any personal information.
g. We may from time to time employ the services of a third party agent to analyze statistical and aggregate data about our platform content and user base, or test the validity and quality of third party data used by our platform during ad serving. This aggregated information, and any information provided to such third party agents for the explicit purposes stated herein is not personally identifiable, and is employed in improving platform functionality and solution offerings. To this end, these third parties may employ the use of cookies and, or pixel tags, or analyze the visitor’s first party and third party cookies, in providing their services.
5. Links from our website
h. Some pages of our websites contain external links. You are advised to verify the privacy practices of such other websites. We are not responsible for the manner of use or misuse of information made available by you at such other websites. We encourage you not to provide Personal Information, without assuring yourselves of the privacy policy of other websites.
6. With whom we share Information
i. We will obtain your prior specific consent before we share or disclose your personal information to any person outside Joy Thomas Foundation. We may share generic aggregated demographic and firmographic information regarding visitors and users with our business partners and advertisers. Please be aware that as a USA-based non-profit, laws in various jurisdictions in which we operate may obligate us to disclose user information and the contents of any communication from you to the local law enforcement authorities under specifically defined circumstances such as when complying with a formal request in a civil suit, court order, or subpoena. We reserve the right to disclose information to our services providers -to the extent necessary for them to provide their services- as well as law enforcement where necessary for protecting the safety of our users, employees, or the general public as we deem appropriate in our sole and absolute discretion.
7. How secure is your Information
j. We adopt industry appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your Personal Information, username, password, transaction information and data stored in your Account. Access to your name and email address is restricted to our employees who need to know such information in connection with our services and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
8. Your Choice in Information Use
k. You will be required to contact us and donate by providing Personal Information. If you choose not to provide your Personal Information, we will be unable to provide you the services. We do provide you with the option of resetting your own password; however, we may not be able to reset your password for you. We also provide you with the option of opting out from receiving mail from us; however, you will not be able to receive email notifications of new services, releases, upcoming events and changes to the Joy Thomas Foundation Privacy Policy should you decide to opt-out of receiving all messages from Joy Thomas Foundation. In the event we decide to use your Personal Information for any purpose other than as stated in this Privacy Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of your Personal Information for those other purposes. You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other secondary messages from Joy Thomas Foundation by selecting the 'unsubscribe' function present in every message we send out.
9. Accessing, Updating and Removing Personal Information
l. We provide users with access to their personal information. Users may correct, update or remove any such personal information either by accessing their Joy Thomas Foundation Account or by contacting Joy Thomas Foundation Customer Success Services. Such changes may take up to 48 hours to take effect. We respond to all enquiries within 30 days.
10. Enforcement of Privacy Policy
m. We make every effort, including periodic reviews to ensure that Personal Information provided by you is used in conformity with this privacy policy. If you have any concerns regarding our adherence to this policy or the manner in which Personal Information is used for the purpose of providing the services, kindly contact Joy Thomas Foundation Customer Support Services at info@JoyThomasFoundation.org. We will contact you to address your concerns and we will also co-operate with regulatory authorities in this regard if needed.
11. Notification of Changes
n. Any changes to the Joy Thomas Foundation Privacy Policy will be posted on our websites in order to keep you informed of any changes in nature of information collected, manner of collection, use and sharing of information. If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses unless you have opted out from receiving all email notifications from us. You will not receive email notification of minor changes to the Joy Thomas Foundation Privacy Policy. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at privacy periodically.
12. Blog and Forums
o. We provide the capacity for users to post information in blogs and forums throughout the site while sharing information in a public space. This information is publicly available to all users of these forums and visitors to Joy Thomas Foundation. We require registration to publish information, but given the public nature of both platforms, any personal information disclosed within these forums may be used to contact users with unsolicited messages. We encourage users to be cautious in disclosure of personal information in public forums as Joy Thomas Foundation is not responsible for the personal information users elect to disclose.
p. Joy Thomas Foundation also supports third party widgets on the site that allow users to share articles and other information on different platforms. These widgets do not collect, or store any personal information from users on the site and simply act as a bridge for your convenience in sharing information.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@JoyThomasFoundation.org. We shall respond to all inquiries within 30 days of receipt upon ascertaining your identity.
