Privacy Policy

This policy describes how Synergies & Impact² collects, uses, and shares personal information. 

Updated June 12, 2020

Synergies & Impact² ("SI2") respects privacy, and we know that many care about how information is used and shared. This Privacy Policy applies to the website, www.synergiesimpact.com; to all associated subdomains, online services, and mobile applications; and to those sites listed in the paragraph below labeled "Additional Websites Subject to the Privacy Policy" (collectively, our "Sites"). By visiting any of our Sites, you accept the practices described in this privacy policy. If you disagree with any of the terms herein, please immediately discontinue use of our Sites.

What Information We Collect

"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person. When you visit SI2 Sites, SI2 and its service providers may collect Personal Information that you provide, such as your name, address, email address, and payment information.

"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual. SI2 and its service providers use a variety of techniques to gather Other Information about your use of our Sites, including, among other things, your IP address, browser type, mobile device type, content visited while on our Sites, and the duration of your visit to our Sites.

If you submit any Personal Information relating to third parties (i.e., other individuals) to us or to our service providers in connection with our Sites, you are representing to SI2 that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How We Collect Information

SI2 and its service providers collect Personal Information that you provide while using our Sites. For instance, SI2 gathers information when you fill out forms on our Sites, including, for example, e-newsletter sign-up forms, donation forms, surveys, and advocacy action alerts. We may supplement the information we collect from you with information we collect from and about you from other online and offline sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, and from people with whom you are connected on social media platforms. For example, if you choose to connect your social media account to your Site account, certain Personal Information from your social media account will be shared with us. This may include Personal Information that is part of your profile or the profile of your connections on social media.

SI2 and its service providers may collect Other Information in the following ways:

  • We use "cookies" to help us monitor traffic and collect information about use of our Sites. Cookies are pieces of data placed on your device when you visit our Sites that help us recognize you when you come back to our Sites, allowing us, for instance, to remember the email address and password you use when you log in on a specific computer. SI2 uses the aggregated information collected from cookies to measure the number of visits to our Sites, the average time spent on our Sites, and the identity and number of pages viewed, and to gather other traffic data and information that allows us to improve the user experience of our Sites. We also use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using our Sites. Cookies further allow us to select which of our content is most likely to appeal to you and display it while you are on our Sites.

  • SI2 uses Google Analytics, which in turn uses cookies and other similar technologies to collect information about Site use anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can learn about Google's practices by going to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

  • SI2 used Squarespace as our Sites hosting platform. Squarespace uses cookies and other similar technologies to collect information about Site use anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual users, like Google Analytics. You can learn about Squarespace's practices by going to https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.  

How We Use Collected Information

SI2 may use your Personal Information to:

  • Send you information about SI2, SI2 partners, or SI2 affiliates.

  • Personalize your interactions with SI2, such as to customize your Web and email content based on your interests, send you requests to participate in events, and otherwise target content and communications to you.

  • Respond to inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to process donations or send you information about a project, and to provide technical resources of interest to the user.

  • Send administrative information to you, such as information regarding our Sites and changes to tour terms, conditions, and policies.

  • Allow you to participate in contests and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information.

  • Facilitate social sharing functionality.

  • Carry out data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring, and prevention to enhance, improve, or modify our Sites; identify usage trends; determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns; and operate and expand our activities.

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

  • To our partners, affiliates, approved vendors, and their service providers

  • By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services to which you are able to post information and materials: Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to users of our Sites and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any Other Information, on our Sites.

We may also use and disclose your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates or partners, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

SI2 uses and discloses information that falls into the category of Other Information unless applicable laws disallow such disclosures or sharing of information.

How Can You Control Collection of Your Information?

  1. Set your Web browser to inform you of when cookies are being set before a cookie is stored, refuse any request to set cookies, and do not accept cookies from SI2. Erase all SI2 cookies from your hard drive.

  2. Do not provide your information when prompted by our Sites.

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable privacy laws, you have the right to:

  • Know what Personal Information SI2 has about you.

  • Ensure your Personal Information is accurate and relevant for the purposes for which SI2 collected it.

  • Make your Personal Information portable to another data controller.

  • Withdraw your consent to SI2 processing your Personal Information.

  • Have your Personal Information erased.

If you would like to review, correct, receive a copy of or erase the Personal Information we have about you or withdraw your processing consent, please send us your request using the "Contact Information" below. Unless a legal exemption applies, we will respond to all such requests within 30 days. If we refuse your request, we will notify you of our reasons for the refusal to the extent required and how you may complain about the refusal.

We ask individual users to identify themselves and specify the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or erased before processing such requests. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive and vexatious, require disproportionate technical effort (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. However, we will not charge you for the making of the requestor to correct, update, or erase your Personal Information. Learn more regarding EU General Data Protection Guidelines SI2 is bound to upholding, here. 

How Can You Stop Receiving Communications from SI2?

If you would like to opt-out of receiving content from SI2, you can do so via the links on the bottom of emails SI2 sends to you. 

Other Limits to Disclosure and Dissemination of Personal Information

California and Delaware "Do Not Track" Disclosures

California and Delaware law require us to indicate whether we honor Do Not Track settings in your Web browser concerning targeted advertising. At this time, there is no worldwide uniform or consistent industry standard or definition for responding to, processing, or communicating Do Not Track signals. Thus, like many other websites and online services, we do not currently respond to any Do Not Track browser requests.

California Privacy Rights

Under California law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (a) a list of the categories of personally identifiable information—such as name, email, and mailing address, and the type of services provided to the customer—that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties' direct marketing purposes; and (b) the name and address of all such third parties. To request the above information, please contact us with reference to California's disclosure information. Please note that we are only required to respond to each customer once per calendar year.

Additionally, if you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information about our disclosure of your Personal Information to third parties for those parties' own direct marketing purposes.

Third-Party Services

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third party, including any third-party operating any site or service to which our Sites link. The inclusion of a link on our Sites does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mailchimp, LinkedIn or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

SI2 may, from time to time and at its discretion, amend this Privacy Policy. The "Effective Date" legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our Sites. Your continued use of our Sites following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

Cross-Border Transfer

Our Sites are controlled and operated by us from the United States and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country, or territory other than that of the United States. Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and, by using our Sites, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.

Questions/Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.