Privacy Policy

The Ben and Rose Cole Charitable PRIA Foundation (“we,” “our,” or “us”) offers the website https://priafoundation.org (the “site” or “website”) primarily to provide information to individuals and organizations (“you” or “your”) interested in our work. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing information to you and interacting with you through the website, and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

The following provisions represent the Privacy Policy for the site. By accessing or using the site, you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time and changes will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page; therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this Policy.

This policy applies only to information we collect through the site. It does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) that does not link to this policy; or any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the site.

We recognize the importance of your privacy and are committed to protecting it; therefore, we are providing this page to inform you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we receive from visitors to this site. We have made this notice explaining our online information practices available on every page of our website in the footer section.

Personally identifiable information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the purpose for which it was submitted and consistent with the applicable version of this Privacy Policy. When you provide us with your personal information, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy in effect at that time.

We also collect:

Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific site feature.
Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the site, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our site (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

We also collect non-identifiable aggregate data that your browser sends regarding the use of the site through services such as Google Analytics for internal research and to inform improvements to the site.

Except to the extent specified in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise voluntarily disclose visitors’ e-mail addresses or any other personally identifiable information that you provide to us to any third party without first obtaining your written permission.

Children's and Minors' Data

Our site is not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our website, such as when you subscribe to a newsletter.

Automatically Through Our Site

As you navigate through and interact with the website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our website, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and site features that you access and use. Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

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

Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the site. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the website.

Web Beacons: Some parts 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 us, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

When you interact with the website, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may include analytics companies.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services.

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 use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the site according to your individual needs and interests.
Recognize you when you return to our website.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our website and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

Provide the website to you and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the site.
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
Improve our site, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our site and their features and how users interact with them. Our analysis may include the use of technology like machine learning and large language models, which may include training these models or sharing with third parties for model training.
Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
Notify you when website functionality updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide though them.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

Who We Disclose Your Information To

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization.
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 our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data we hold would be among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal data:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization or others.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices: Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some site features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible and required by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.
Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.
Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

To exercise any of these rights, please send an email to info@priafoundation.org. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please send an email to info@priafoundation.org. Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data "sales" as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.

Security

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information transmitted to and from this site and take reasonable security precautions to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. These precautions can include but are not limited to, firewalls, secure socket layers (SSL) encryption, Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption, anti-virus protection, anti-malware protection, intrusion detection systems, and system logging. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed 100% secure; therefore, we cannot ensure or warranty the security of any information you may transmit to us. This transmission is done at your own risk. Once we do receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the website, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or de-identified.