INTRODUCTION
We are committed to safeguarding your information
This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how MyIntent Project, PBC and the MyIntent Foundation (“MyIntent”) collects, uses, and shares personal information of users who visit our website (the “Site”), join our mailing list, purchase a product from us, or otherwise use our services (collectively, the “Services”).
This Policy applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Services. Please read the Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By visiting the Site and/or using the Services, you acknowledge that the collection, use, and sharing of your information will take place as described in this Policy.
So we are clear about the terminology we are using, when we use the phrase “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information about an individual that (either by itself or when combined with information from other available sources) allows that individual to be identified, including, your name, telephone number, or e-mail address.
What we collect
We collect information about you in several ways. We use this information to enhance your experience with our Service.
Information You Give Us
We may collect Personal Information you choose to provide to us, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, and telephone number. If, as part of your use of the Services, you connect your Services account with an account from a supported social network account, such as Facebook (a "Social Media Account"), we may receive Personal Information from the corresponding social network that relates to your Social Media Account. Such Personal Information may be about you and/or your Social Media Account contacts. Please check the policies of the applicable social network in order to understand what information we receive.
Information Automatically Collected
We may use a third-party Service Provider (defined below) to automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device, and how you use and interact with the Services. For example, when you access the Services, we may log your operating system type, browser type and language, the pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times, Internet protocol (IP) address, your mobile device ID, mobile device serial number, unique user ID, wireless carrier, and information about your use of and actions on the Services. We may also use third party advertisements to support our Services. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, or log files when they advertise on our Services, which may send these advertisers information, including your non-personal information.
Cookies
We may log information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us improve your experience on our Services. We use cookies to see which parts of our Services people use and like and to count visits to our Services.
Web Beacons and Pixels
We may log information using digital images called Web beacons and Pixels on our Services or in our e-mails. We use Web beacons and Pixels to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use Web Beacons and Pixels to tell if you open or act on our e-mails. Similar to cookies, we use web beacons to improve your experience on our Services.
Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures. You may adjust your browser or operating system settings to limit this tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Services or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Check the “Help” menu of your browser or operating system to learn how to change your tracking settings or cookie preferences. To learn more about the use of cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and your choices about not having this information used by certain Service Providers (defined below), please click here. On your mobile device, you can adjust your privacy and advertising settings to limit your tracking for advertising or control whether you receive more relevant advertising. Note that our systems may not recognize Do Not Track headers or requests from some or all browsers.
Use of information
We use the information that we have about you to provide, support, personalize, and make our Services more relevant and useful to you and others.
We may use the Personal Information we collect from and about you to (1) present our Site and the Services to you; (2) provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us; (3) monitor and analyze usage and trends and personalize and improve the Services and your experience using the Services; (4) respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service; (5) send information including confirmations, invoices, notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; (6) In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and (7) for any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us at serve@myintent.org and we will remove you from our store and email lists.
Sharing of personal information
We may disclose aggregated, anonymized, and/or non-identifying information about you without restriction.
We will not disclose your Personal Information other than as described below.
We may share the Personal Information we collect from and about you (1) to fulfill the purpose for which you provided it; (2) with your consent; (3) for legal, protection, and safety purposes; (4) to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; (5) to protect the rights and property of MyIntent Project, PBC, our agents, customers, and others, including by enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of service; and (6) with those who need it to do work for us (our Service Providers, as defined below).
If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personal information provided through the Services in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. Other than in the very limited circumstances described in this paragraph, we do not and will not sell your Personal Information to anyone.
Service providers
We may contract with third parties to perform functions related to the Services (“Service Providers”). In general, Service Providers will have access to your Personal Information only to the extent needed to perform their business functions but may not use or share that personal information for purposes outside the scope of their functions related to the Service.
However, certain third-party Service Providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these Service Providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So, if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave Site or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our Site’s Terms of Service.
Information choices and changes
Our marketing emails tell you how to unsubscribe or “opt-out.” If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business dealings with you. You may send requests about Personal Information to our Contact Information below. You can request to change contact choices, opt-out of our sharing with others, and update your Personal Information.
Links to other sites
The Services may contain links to other third-party websites or applications. Any information you provide on those sites is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. Our Policy does not apply to such sites, and we are not responsible for the privacy and security practices and policies of those third-party sites or applications.
Our commitment towards children's privacy
We do not direct the Services to, nor do we knowingly collect any Personal Information from, children under 13. Children under 13 are not eligible to use the Services. If we learn that a user is under 13 years of age, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our databases and to prevent the user from utilizing the Services.
Security of your Personal Information
We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We have taken certain physical, administrative, and technical steps to help safeguard the information we collect from and about you. While we take steps to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures.
Shopify
Our online store is hosted using the Shopify platform. Shopify provides us with the e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and Services to you. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to encrypt your traffic when you use our website, which includes when you connect to Shopify’s platform via our Site. Your information, including Personal Information about you, is stored in Shopify’s databases and in the general Shopify application. Shopify stores your information on a secure server behind a firewall. We also limit our employee’s access to our Shopify account details to ensure that your information is not viewable by unauthorized parties.
Payment
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service [link to: https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms] or Privacy Statement [link to: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy].
Privacy Notice to EU Users
If you are based within the European Union (EU), in certain circumstances you will also have the following rights:
- Right to access: the right to request certain information about, access to and copies of the Personal Information about you that we are holding (please note that you are entitled to request one copy of the Personal Information that we hold about you at no cost, but for any further copies, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee based on administration costs);
- Right to rectification: the right to have your Personal Information rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Right to erasure/“right to be forgotten”: where the processing of your information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent and the right to request that we delete or erase your Personal Information from our systems (however, this will not apply if we do not rely on your consent to carry out the processing, if we are required to hold on to the information for compliance with any legal obligation, or if we require the information to establish or defend any legal claim);
- Right to restriction of use of your information: the right to stop us from using your Personal Information or limit the way in which we can use it;
- Right to data portability: the right to request that we return any information you have provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or that we send it directly to another company, where technically feasible; and
- Right to object: the right to object to our use of your Personal Information including where we use it for our legitimate interests or, if applicable, for marketing purposes.
Legal Basis for Processing
The following legal bases apply to the ways in which we use and share an individual’s Personal Information:
- We process Personal Information on the basis of our performance of our contract with the individual, or in order to create such a contract. Our contract with the individual requires us to collect their data as set out in this Policy and the Terms of Service.
- We also process the information provided by an individual in our legitimate interests in ensuring our business is conducted legitimately, to a high standard, and to market our Services.
Retention
We will retain the information you provide as long as you have an account with us. If you delete your account, we will retain your information for a period of 6 months to allow you to reinstate your account in case you change your mind. After a period of 6 months, your information will be anonymized by removing your Personal Information. Your Personal Information will then be deleted and the Anonymized Information will be included in our statistical database.
Requests in relation to the above rights should be sent to: serve@myintent.org
Contact information
We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us at serve@myintent.org
Changes to privacy policy
We may modify this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will change the Last Updated date below. We also may provide additional notice, as applicable, depending on the type of change. If you object to any changes, you may stop using the Services. Your continued use of the Services after we publish or otherwise provide notice about our changes to the Policy means that you are consenting to the updated Policy.