Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

• On or through this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website or social media platform profile operated by Kindness.org, Inc or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries). However, Kindness.org may import user comments and posts from its social media platforms to this Website in order to display them publicly, without notice or compensation to you; or 
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from, or on, the Website. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your “Personal Information” (as defined below in INFORMATION WE COLLECT) and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your only choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be your acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates. 

Kindness.org, Inc’s Privacy Assurance

We do not sell your Personal Information to any nonaffiliated third parties.

• We do not share your Personal Information with nonaffiliated third parties that would use it to contact you about their own products and services, unless you have allowed us to do so and as permitted pursuant to a joint marketing agreement.
• We require our employees to protect your Personal Information and keep it confidential.
• We require persons or organizations that represent or assist us in serving you to keep your information confidential.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13:

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under the age of 13 may provide any Personal Information to, or on, the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. 

If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website, or on or through any of its features/functionality, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features that may be available on this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any screen name or user name you may use. 

If we learn that we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at hello@kindness.org.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including log data, device data, and Personal Information. 

Log Data

When you visit our Website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details. 

Device Data

When you choose to post an act of kindness on our Website we share your username, act of kindness, and profile picture publicly. If you choose to upload a photo with your act of kindness this photo will also be displayed publicly. This information can be shared by other Website users on social media or other sites. Please keep this in mind and do not share any personal information you may not want others to know.

Personal Information

We may collect information from you while you use this Website, including:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, date of birth and/or age, and other identifying information that you choose to share with us by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”); and/or

• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your annual income, gender, certain demographic information, or responses to our surveys and other research. This information is not considered Personal Information, as it is anonymized statistical data. We often use anonymized statistical data for research purposes through KindLab or other research platforms. 

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

Information We Collect Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, as described above. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies, flash cookies, or web beacons. For more information on these technologies, see our DATA COLLECTION POLICY below. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include Personal Information, but we may maintain it for any of the reasons listed in HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION. 

Information You Provide Directly to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for our mailing list, or when you sign up to use any of our tools or services. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our Website;
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; and/or
• Details of donation transactions you carry out through our Website. 

Information Provided to Us by Third Parties

If we receive Personal Information about you from a third party (for example, our research partners or any third-party service provider), we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing Personal Information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the Personal Information to us.

Data Collection Policy

The technologies we use for automatic data collection on this Website may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website;
• Flash cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies; and/or
• Web beacons. Pages of the Website, and our emails, may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit Kindness.org, Inc, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, or opened an email, and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity). 

DO NOT TRACK

“Do Not Track” is a preference you can set in your browser to let websites you visit know that you do not want them collecting certain information about you. We do not currently respond to, or honor, Do Not Track signals or requests from your browser.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information, or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. 

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.  

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may collect your information for a number of reasons, specifically:

• To enable you to access and use our Website;
• To enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our Website;
• To contact and communicate with you;
• To conduct research through KindLab or other research platforms;
• To prevent fraud;
• For internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
• For analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our Website;
• To offer additional benefits to you, including but not limited to sending promotional information about our products/services and/or facilitating competitions and/or giveaways;
• To provide you with information about third parties that may be of interest to you;
• To fulfill any other purpose for which your provide your information and consent; and/or
• To comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION, GENERALLY

We disclose Personal Information that we collect or that you provide, as described in this Privacy Policy, in the following circumstances:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
• To service providers, researchers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
• To a successor in the event of a restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Kindness.org, Inc’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Kindness.org, Inc about our Website users is among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may continue to use your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy;
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
• With your consent.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

We may disclose your Personal Information to third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services (with your permission, where applicable) including but not limited to:

• Researchers and scientists;
• Information Technology (“IT”) service providers;
• Data storage, hosting, and server providers;
• Ad networks;
• Analytics companies;
• Error loggers;
• Maintenance or problem-solving providers;
• Marketing or advertising providers;
• Professional advisors;
• Payment systems operators; and/or
• Sponsors or promoters of any competition or promotion we run.

We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights, including but not limited to:

• Debt collectors; 
• Our legal counsel and/or prospective legal counsel; and/or
• Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law.

We may disclose aggregated, anonymized, statistical data and/or non-identifying information about our users without restriction.

CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. The following mechanisms should help to provide you with control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to .
• Promotional Offers from Kindness.org, Inc or Our Affiliates. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by Kindness.org, Inc or our affiliates to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the Registration Form or at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to hello@kindness.org. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may use the unsubscribe option in the footer of the email. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Kindness.org, Inc as a result of a product or service purchase, or other transactions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can review and change your Personal Information by logging into your account profile on the Website and navigating to the appropriate settings page or sending us an email at   to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete some of your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or regulatory requirement, result in fraud, or cause the information to be incorrect.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain categories of your Personal Information with third parties for their own direct marketing uses. California’s “Shine the Light” Act provides that you have the right to submit a request to us at our email address in order to receive information on the categories of customer information that we shared and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year. To obtain this information, please send an email message to hello@kindness.org with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you in your email address in response.

Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the Shine the Light requirements, and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

DATA SECURITY

We won’t keep Personal Information for longer than is necessary to present our Website to you or to provide our services to you.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us through the Website is secured by TLS technology, and is stored on our secure, password protected servers behind firewalls. We have implemented a restricted employee access for all of our servers containing personally identifiable information. 

We retain your personal information for as long as you have a relationship with us; as necessary to perform our obligations to you (or to enforce or defend legal claims); or as is required by applicable law. The criteria we use for determining personal information retention periods is based on various factors, including but not limited to, legislative requirements; the purposes for which we hold personal information and whether retaining the personal information is needed in connection with that purpose; and further specific guidance issued by relevant regulatory authorities on personal information retention/erasure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the most recent email address provided to Kindness.org, Inc through correspondence or through your user account. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or make a comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: hello@kindness.org or 1350 Avenue of the Americas, Fl 2, New York, New York 10019.