COMMUNICATE GOOD PRIVACY STATEMENT
Your privacy is important to us. As such, we provide this privacy statement explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used on www.TalkingGOOD.com (the “Website”).
The Information We Collect
At TalkingGOOD.com (“Website”), you may have the opportunity to submit content, vote in polls or express your opinion, request our services, subscribe for our newsletter, or participate in one of our online forums. In the course of these various offerings, we often seek to collect from you various forms of personal information. Examples of the types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and information about your interests.
On the Website, you may also submit information about other people to be considered for a “Talking GOOD Profile.” In such event, you would submit to the Website personally identifiable information regarding your nominee, such as the nominee’s name, city and state of residence, e-mail address, telephone number, and information about his or her inspirational endeavors.
The Website may also collect various types of non-personally identifiable information regarding your visit, such as your current Internet protocol address and type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the web pages you have visited, the sites visited before and after you visit the Website, the type of handheld or mobile device used to view the site, location information, the content you have accessed and the advertisements you have been shown and/or clicked on.
You also can view and engage with our content, such as blog posts and “Talking GOOD Profiles” on or through third-party social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIN, and Twitter. When you engage with our content on or through third party social networking sites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your social media profile (e.g., name, e-mail address, photo, gender, birthday, location, your list of friends, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the ‘likes’ you make) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the Website. When you provide information from your social media account, it can help enable us to do things like contact you through the social networking sites. By doing so, you consent to the use of this information in accordance with our privacy policy. When you provide personal information to us through an application, on the Website, or on social networking sites, it may be publicly viewed by other members of these sites and we cannot prevent further use of the information by third parties. Through some social networking sites’ privacy settings, you can control what data you share. For more information about how social networking sites handle your personal information, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use.
How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our programs and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, to offer you other programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you, to enforce the terms and conditions for use of the Website and/or for the purposes for which you provided the information. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when your nominee’s profile page has gone live, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your relationship with us. We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to alert them that they’ve been nominated to be featured on the Website, and to obtain their approval to engage in any further direct communication. If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a comment on an individual’s Purpose Profile page), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us. We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to analyze usage of the Website.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our sites and applicable laws or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements. In addition, we may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another entity.
Our agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy statement and are not authorized to use the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy statement. If you have signed up to receive our e-mails and prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided on any marketing e-mail you receive from this site. To provide visitors with additional or more relevant product and service opportunities, we may share non-personally identifiable information with third parties.
Cookies
To enhance your online experience, we use "cookies" or similar technologies. Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information; however, once you choose to furnish a site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the content or offerings on our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our site (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to Website), or save your password in password-protected areas. You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. You may set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block all cookies. Blocking all cookies will affect your online experience and may prevent you from enjoying the full features offered at the Website. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information.
Third-Party Sites
The Website may contain links to or integrations with other sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., whose information practices may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Communicate GOOD may offer content (e.g., contests, promotions, applications, or social network integrations) that are sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We have no control over these third parties’ use of this information.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data security, and to use correctly the information we collect online.
How You Can Access or Correct Information
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Statement, or to access or correct personal information about you on file with the Website, you may send an e-mail or letter (with your first name, last name and e-mail address) to:
Communicate Good, LLCAttention: Privacy
PO Box 32821
Baltimore, MD 21282
e-mail: privacy@talkinggood.com
Updates & Effective Date
From time to time, we may update this privacy statement. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by sending an email message to the email address you most recently provided to us or by prominently posting a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this statement so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.
The Privacy Statement posted on this site was created in September, 2013.