Privacy Policy

Effective date: December 5th, 2024

Jim Joseph Foundation ("us", "we", or "our") is committed to your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect about you when you use our websites, including https://jimjosephfoundation.org, https://www.commonera.org, and all related websites and web-based applications (our “Sites”) and any other technologies, features, mobile applications, and content we offer (collectively, the “Services”), how we use that information, and how we share it with others. This Privacy Policy describes the practices of Jim Joseph Foundation and Common Era, the Research and Development program of the Jim Joseph Foundation.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy and Contact Us if you have any questions.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, products, or services, even if they may link to our website or if our site links to them. We recommend that you review the privacy practices of those third parties before accessing third-party websites and sharing any personal data.

1. Personal Data We Collect

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal data” means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by the operator and maintained by the operator in an accessible form. Personal data does not include “aggregate” or other non-personally identifiable information. Aggregate information is information that we collect about a group or category of products, service, or users that is not personally identifiable or from which individual identities are removed.

We may collect the following personal data about you via our Services:

• Personal Data You Provide Us
  We may ask you to collect certain personal data from you when you contact us directly, send us any messages and/or attachments, or otherwise interact with us. This may include your first and last name and email address.
• Personal Data Collected Automatically When You Access and Use Our Sites
  We may also collect information about how our Sites are accessed and used to improve our Services and advertise to you. For example, we and our third-party providers may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Sites and hold certain information whenever you visit or interact with our Sites (“Usage Data”). Usage Data may be stored or accessed using a variety of technologies that may be downloaded to your personal computer, browser, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device whenever you visit or interact with the Sites. Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. For more information, please review Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
• Personal Data Collected from Social Media and Other Content Platforms
  We may also collect personal data from social media and other content platforms, such as Meta, X, and Instagram if you access the Services through a third-party connection or interact with us on these platforms to use the Services.

2. How We Use Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our Services
• Improve, personalize, and expand our Services
• Understand and analyze how you use our Services
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Services, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Process your transactions and manage your orders
• Send you text messages and push notifications
• Find and prevent fraud
• For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency

3. How We Share Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data in the following situations:

• To service providers. We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services and to provide services on our behalf, such as analytics, advertising, hosting, marketing, and customer and technical support. Our service providers have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
• To third-party platform advertisers. We may share personal data with third-party platform providers, including advertising and analytics companies, who assist us in serving advertising regarding the Services to others who may be interested. We also partner with third parties who use cookies to serve interest-based advertising and content on their respective third-party platforms that may be based on your preferences, location, and/or interests.
• In affiliate and business transfers and transactions. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, or other corporate combination, your personal data may be transferred to the acquiring or surviving entity.
• For compliance and harm prevention. We may also disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation; protect and defend the rights or property of Jim Joseph Foundation; prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service; protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public; or protect against legal liability.

4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We also collect personal data through cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons, embedded scripts, pixels, and tags. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Services.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. How you do so, however, depends on your browser and the type of cookie. Certain browsers can be set to reject all browser cookies. If you configure your computer to block all cookies, you may disrupt certain web page features, and limit the functionality we can provide when you visit or use the Sites, however you will still have access to the Sites.

Various third parties are developing or have developed signals or other mechanisms for the expression of consumer choice regarding the collection of information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services (e.g., browser do not track signals). Currently, we do not monitor or take any action with respect to these signals or other mechanisms, unless otherwise required by applicable law.

Examples of cookies we use:

• Strictly Necessary. We may use cookies that we consider are strictly necessary to allow you to use and access our website, including cookies required to prevent fraudulent activity, or improve security.
• Performance Related. We may use cookies that are useful to assess the performance of our website, including as part of our analytic practices or otherwise to improve the content, products or services offered through our website.
• Functionality Related. We may use cookies that are required to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing our website, including identifying you when you sign in to our website or keeping track of your specified preferences, including in terms of the presentation of content on our website.
• Targeting Related. We may use cookies to deliver content, including ads, relevant to your interests on our Site and third-party websites based on how you interact with advertisements or content.

Analytics

We may use Google Analytics or other service providers for analytics services. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Sites. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You may exercise choices regarding the use of cookies from Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

Third-Party Ad Networks

We may use Google Ads to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Sites. To learn more about how to opt out of Google’s use of cookies, visit the Google’s Ads Settings.