Privacy Policy

 

Last Updated: August 18, 2019

Working Assumptions, referred to collectively with its affiliated entities and portfolio of brands, as “Working Assumptions,” “we,” “us,” or “our”, collects information about you when you take advantage of our online services or visit or interact with any of our websites, including www.workingassumptions.org, www.showingptw.org, and www.waed.org (the “Site”). This privacy policy (the “Policy”) describes: (1) the types of information we may collect about you, and your use of the Site; (2) how we may use and share that information; and (3) the choices you may make with respect to your personal information.

BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS OF THE PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE OR PROVIDE US WITH YOUR INFORMATION.

Personal Information We Collect

Information You Give Us. 

You provide us with your personal information when you use this Site or otherwise communicate with us, including when you:

  1. Create or update an account on the Site;

  2. Subscribe to e-mail newsletters or updates; or

  3. Complete, submit, or otherwise participate in surveys or questionnaires.

We collect personal information you choose to provide, which may include your name, email address, gender, date of birth, shipping addresses, and/or telephone number. We may retain your responses to surveys and questionnaires that you may complete from time to time. We may collect other information from you that is not specifically listed here. We may use such information in accordance with this Policy. Please do not submit information that you do not want us to have.

Information Automatically Collected. 

Our servers and third party service providers may automatically record certain information about how you use the Site, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device and browser type, operating system, DNS, the pages or features of the Site that you browsed and the time spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which you use the Site, the links that you click on or use, and other statistics. 

How We May Use Your Personal Information

To Improve the Site and Communicate with You. 

We generally use your personal information to serve you, to improve our services, and to improve your experience. For example, we use personal information to communicate with you about programs and services and enhance your experience on the Site. Specifically, your personal information may be used to respond to questions, send you information about programs or services that may be of interest to you, analyze and monitor visitor activity on the Site, comply with our legal obligations, and develop a knowledge base regarding users of the Site, including through data analytics.

To Send You Marketing Communications. 

We may use the personal information that you provide us to send you communications inviting you to participate in various programs, like surveys or user groups. We may also send you promotional communications and other offerings to thank you for your feedback or participation in programs, or to share new program or service launches or events. You may opt out of receiving them as described in the Your Choices section below.

To Improve our Site and Services. 

We may use statistical information about visitors to our Site to gain a better understanding of the users of our Site, to improve our Site, and to improve our services. 

For Compliance, Fraud Prevention, and Safety. 

We may use your personal information as we believe appropriate to (a) investigate or prevent violation of the law or your agreements with us; (b) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by prosecuting and defending legal claims); (c) protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity; (d) comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; and (e) where permitted by law in connection with a legal investigation. For example, we may share information with law enforcement to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use our Site for illegal reasons.

How We May Share Your Personal Information

We may share your personal information with others for a number of different reasons. We may share your personal information to fulfill your requests, to provide you with information regarding products and services of ours or those of others, to comply with law, and to enforce our rights. We also may share personal information among our affiliated companies, businesses, licensees, distributors, any of our brands, and with our successors and assigns.

Examples of how we may share your personal information include:

  1. With Service Providers, Business Partners, and Vendors: 

    • We may use third parties to help us design and operate the Site, provide services to support the Site, process your information, and provide marketing activities on our behalf. For example, we may retain other companies and individuals to perform services on our behalf, and we may collaborate with other companies and individuals with respect to particular products or services (collectively, “Providers”). Examples of Providers include data analysis firms, email and SMS vendors, and web hosting and development companies. Providers also include our co-promotion partners for products that we jointly develop and/or market with other companies. Some Providers also may collect information on our behalf from our Site. These third parties may be provided with access to personal information needed to perform their functions.

  2. To Comply with Law or to Protect Our Rights: 

    • We may disclose your personal information as required by law, when we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with a regulatory requirement, judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us, or to protect the safety, rights, or property of our customers, the public, or Working Assumptions.

  3. To Members of the Corporate Family: 

    • Working Assumptions may disclose your personal information to our brands, subsidiaries and affiliates, and their agents and employees.

Cookies and Other Tools That May Collect Information About You

In addition to personal information you may provide directly to us, Working Assumptions and its business partners may collect and store information about you and your use of the Site through cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. This website is hosted by Squarespace. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses. 

Opt-out and Unsubscribe

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt out of receiving announcements of certain information or requests to participate in research about Working Assumptions’ and its affiliates’ current services or potential new services. Users may opt out of receiving any or all such communications from Working Assumptions by:

  1. following the unsubscribe instructions located at the end of any marketing communication from us;

  2. contacting us using the contact information provided at the end of this Policy.

Please be sure to include in any email or postal mail your full name, email address, postal address, and any message. Please note that such requests may take up to thirty (30) days to become effective.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about your personal information or require assistance in managing your choices.

Consequences of Not Providing Personal Information. 

You are not required to provide all personal information identified in this Policy to use our Site or to interact with us offline, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide personal information. For example, if you do not provide personal information, we may not be able to respond to your request or provide you with marketing that we believe you would find valuable.

Security

Any user or third party accessing our Site or services is responsible for its own use of the Site and the services. We are not responsible for any third party’s actions or its security controls with respect to information that third parties may collect or process via the website, services, or otherwise.

Be Aware of “Phishing.” “Phishing” is a scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an email that looks like it is us asking you for your personal information, do not reply to it. We will not request your password, user name, credit card information, or other personal information through email.

Other Websites

The Site may contain links to websites of third parties that: 

  1. are not affiliated with us

  2. are outside our control

  3. are not covered by this Policy, including without limitation sites operated by our distributors and/or licensees in foreign countries which may not guarantee the same level of protection of personal information (“Third-Party Websites”).

Links provided to Third-Party Websites on the Site are provided to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply reliability or endorsement by us of the content of any such Third-Party Websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of Third-Party Websites, which may collect and use information from you in a manner different than how we do so; accordingly, once you leave the Working Assumptions platform, the use of such Third-Party Websites is entirely at your own risk. For relevant information, you should review the privacy statements or policies of any Third-Party Websites before using them. Other parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Site or services.

Children

We do not intend to or knowingly collect identifiable personal information from children who are under 13 years of age. If you are a parent who believes that we have collected information about a child under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below with your child's name and address, and we will delete the information we have about your child from our records and provide confirmation in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Transfer of Data to Other Countries

Any information you provide to Working Assumptions through the use of the Site may be stored, processed, transferred among, and accessed from the United States and other countries which may not guarantee the same level of protection of personal information as the country in which you reside. However, Working Assumptions will handle your personal information in accordance with this Policy regardless of where your personal information is kept.

Notice to California Residents

Under California law, California residents may request a list of all third parties to whom we have disclosed certain personal information (as defined by California law) during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to receive such a list, please contact us at the address listed in the “Accessing Personal Information” section below. For any such request, include the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the body of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. Please provide enough information for us to determine if this applies to you. You must also attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please note that we will not accept requests via the telephone, email, or by facsimile, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly or that do not have complete information.

Notice to European Users

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) went into effect on May 25, 2018, and it is intended to protect personal information (as defined by GDPR) of European Union citizens. We do not actively market this Site to the European Union or its citizens in any meaningful way. However, if the personal information that you provide to us while using this Site is governed by GDPR, we will comply with all relevant provisions of the regulation. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), or are accessing this Site from within the EEA, you have certain rights under GDPR.

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may post updates to this Policy. Any changes will be effective upon the posting of the revised Policy. We may also make, without notice, minor changes to the Policy that will not significantly affect our use of personal information. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. This Policy was updated as of the effective date listed above.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at:

Working Assumptions Foundation
Attn: Managing Director
1700 Shattuck Avenue, #25
Berkeley, CA 94709