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StandardsWork Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to https://standardswork.org/, and StandardsWork, Inc. and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to StandardsWork, Inc. include https://standardswork.org/, StandardsWork, Knowledge Matters Campaign and https://knowledgematterscampaign.org (“we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Site”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to maintaining and using any information we collect through your use of the website responsibly. This Privacy Policy addresses our use and disclosure of the information we collect from you, which includes personal identifiable information (“PII”, also referred to as “Personal Data”) and also non-personal information. By using the StandardsWork website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

What we collect

When you use our Site, you may have the opportunity to submit PII (e.g., providing an email address). We collect information from you at several different points on our Site. We strive to limit the information collected about you to what is needed for conducting our business and offering products and services that might be of interest to you.

We may collect the following PII:

  • First and Last Name
  • Email Address
  • Employer
  • Job Title

How we use your information

StandardsWork will not sell, share, or rent the information collected on this Site to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Improve the content of our Site;
  • Notify you about updates to our Site;
  • Contact you for marketing purposes;
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

From time to time, StandardsWork may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from StandardsWork or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from StandardsWork, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe button.

Web statistics

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by StandardsWork. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used to maintain quality of the Site, provide general statistics regarding use of the Site, analyze trends, administer the Site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use for reporting and sponsorship purposes. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

How we use cookies

StandardsWork may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize StandardsWork pages, or register with StandardsWork site or services, a cookie helps StandardsWork to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same StandardsWork website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the StandardsWork features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the StandardsWork services or websites you visit.

How we share information with third parties

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners, sponsors, and donors. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. We may also from time to time share information collected through our subscription forms and our order forms with certain affiliate or partner organizations.

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

We may disclose information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, such as our third party email marketing service; to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of StandardsWorks’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which information held by us about our website visitors is among the assets transferred; and to law enforcement as required to comply with applicable laws.

New uses of information

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should visit our Site periodically and review our policies.

Your California privacy rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Site who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email or write to us at the contact information provided below.

Your rights regarding your personal data

You have the right to be provided with information as to the nature of the Personal Data stored or processed by StandardsWork about you and may request deletion or amendments. You may contact bdavidson@standardswork.org to review and request updates or revisions to your Personal Data.

Should we deny you such access, you have the right to request the reasons for denial. You may contact any competent regulatory body or authority to resolve the issue. We will handle in a transparent and timely manner any type of complaint resolution or inquiry about Personal Data.

If you can demonstrate that the purpose for which your Personal Data is being processed in no longer legal or appropriate, we will delete such data, unless applicable laws require otherwise.

In connection with the activities described above, we may transmit your Personal Data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to locations in the United States of America.

Links

This Site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that StandardsWork does not claim any responsibility for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Site.

Security

This website has security measures in place designed to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, ​​such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

​​We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Children

StandardsWork does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Notification of changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our Site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  Consistent with applicable laws, this notice may be provided by email or by posting notice of the changes on this Site.

Questions or comments

If, at any time, you believe that your PII has been processed outside the scope of this Privacy Policy, you should report your concern to the contact listed below. In addition, we are happy to answer any questions related to its processing of your PII.

Barbara R. Davidson, President, StandardsWork, Inc.

Executive Director, Knowledge Matters Campaign

bdavidson@standardswork.org

Last updated on August 14, 2022.