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DemLabs Education Fund, DemLabs, and DemLabs LLC (hereinafter, “DemLabs”) and affiliates (hereinafter, “DemLabs”) provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, protection, and disclosure of Personal Information received from your use of this website, located at https://thedemlabs.org/ (“Site”), as well as all related services provided by us (collectively, together with the Site, our “Service”), and in connection with our customer, vendor, and partner relationships. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your Personal Information, and how you can reach us to update your contact information or get answers to questions you may have about our privacy practices.

Scope of this Policy

This Policy applies when you interact with us through our Site and Services. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Site or be linked from the Site. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version. 

Information We Collect 

We collect information from you directly, from the devices you use to interact with us, and from third parties. We may combine information from the Services together and with other information we obtain from our business records. We may use and share information that we aggregate (compile to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identify (strip information of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) at our discretion.

Information you give us

You may provide the following information to us directly:

• Contact and professional information, including name, email address, telephone number, and job title, as well as company name and size.
• Demographic information.
• Audiovisual information, including recordings of online events.
• Payment information, including credit card information.
• Content you may include in survey responses.
• Information contained in your communications to us, including call recordings of customer service calls.
• Information you make available to us via a social media platform.
• Any information or data you provide by interacting in our online forums and chatrooms, or by commenting on content posted on our Services. Please note that these comments are also visible to other users of our Services.
• Sensitive personal information, such as racial or ethnic origin, or political opinions. 
• Any other information you submit to us.

Information we collect automatically

We and partners working on our behalf may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following information from the device you use to interact with our Services. We also create records when you make purchases or otherwise interact with the Services.

• Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
• Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our website, app, and electronic newsletters.
• Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.
• Business record information, including records of your use of our Site or Services.

The following is a list of our partners who collect the information described above. Please follow the links to find out more information about the partner’s privacy practices.

Partner	Information Type Collected
Google Analytics	Collects and analyzes data related to site usage and performance.
Jetpack	Collects and analyzes data related to site usage and performance.

Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may collect the following information about you from third-party sources.

• Subscription registration information.
• Contact information, demographic information, and information about your interests and purchases, from consumer data providers such as Melissa Data and ESRI.
• Open-source address lists, such as https://openaddresses.io. 
• Information about your interests, and activities, from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly. 
• If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other person’s names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person. You agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us his or her contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We will inform any other person you invite that you gave us his or her information in the invitation email.
• Health or Disability information as part of a voter registration file.  

How We Use Your Information

We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes.

• Service functionality: To provide you with our Site and services, including to take steps to enter a contract for services, process payments, send service communications, and conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits.  
• Service improvement: To improve and grow our Services, including to develop new products and services and understand how our Services are being used, our customer base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing.
• Personalization: To offer you recommendations and tailor the Services to your preferences.
• Advertising and marketing: To send you marketing communications, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We may share your information with business partners, online advertising partners, and social media platforms for this purpose.
• Security: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.
• Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal requirements.

How We Share Your Information

We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients.

• Service providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you from us or collect it directly.
  • Supporting Service functionality, such as vendors that support event registration, customer service and customer relationship management, subscription fulfillment, list cleansing, and communications (email, fax).
  • Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that assist us in the creation of our financial records.
  • Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance.
  • Analytics and marketing services, including entities that analyze traffic on our online properties and assist with identifying and communicating with potential customers. 
  • Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation.
  • Marketing vendors, such as entities that support distribution of marketing emails.
• Business partners: From time to time, we may share your contact information with other organizations for marketing purposes. 
• Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
• Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the safety of our employees, our customers, or other individuals. 
• Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.

Security

Our third-party service providers use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Information

Your Account: Please visit  your account page to update your account information.

Email Unsubscribe: If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or wish to opt out of future email promotions from us, please contact us. Please note that all promotional email messages you receive from us will include an option to opt out of future email communications.

Ad Choices: You have options to limit the information that we and our partners collect for online advertising purposes.

• You may disable cookies in your browser or mobile device using their settings menus. Your mobile device may give you the option to disable advertising functionality. Because we use cookies to support Service functionality, disabling cookies may also disable some elements of our online properties.
• The following industry organizations offer opt-out choices for companies that participate in them: the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative. 
• You may use our cookie settings menu.
• You may contact us directly.

If you exercise these options, please be aware that you may still see advertising, but it will not be personalized. Nor will exercising these options prevent other companies from displaying personalized ads to you. 

If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

Do Not Track: Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. The information collection and disclosure practices and the choices that we provide to you will continue to operate as described in this privacy policy, whether a Do Not Track signal is received.

Jurisdiction-specific rights: You may have certain rights with respect to your personal information depending on your location or residency. Please see “privacy disclosures for specific jurisdictions” below. Please contact us to exercise your rights.

Other Important Information

• Data retention: We may store information about you for as long as we have a legitimate business need for it. 

• Cross-border data transfer: We may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. 
• Information about children: The Site and Services are intended for users age thirteen and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 13, we will delete that information. Please contact us with any concerns.
• Sharing of Medical or Health Information: To the extent that we receive protected health information about you, that information is subject to electronic disclosure to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Privacy Disclosures for Specific Jurisdictions

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

We process “personal data,” as that term is defined in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). 

Your rights under the GDPR: Users who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), U.K., or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm. 

If you are located in the EEA, U.K., or Switzerland, you have the following rights.

• Access and Portability: Request access to personal data we hold about you or request transmission of your data to a third party.
• Correction: Request that we rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data we store about you.
• Erasure: Request that we erase personal data when such data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, when you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or when you believe that your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
• Restriction of processing: Request that we restrict our processing of personal data if there is a dispute about the accuracy of the data; if the processing is unlawful; if the processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected but is needed by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or if your request to object to processing is pending evaluation.
• Objection to processing: Object to processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing (including profiling). We will no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims.
• Transfers: Obtain information about and a copy of the safeguards we use to transfer personal data across borders.

Please contact us to exercise these rights.

California

Your California Privacy Rights; “Shine the Light” Law

California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. Please contact us to obtain this information.

Contact information, submitting requests, and our response procedures

Contact

Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this privacy policy applies. 

Email:  Service@TheDemLabs.org

Mail:  DemLabs, 2055 Lombard Street #471254, SF, CA 94147

Making a request to exercise your rights

Submitting requests: You may request to exercise your rights by making a request using the contact information above. We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

Verification: We must verify your identity before responding to your request. We verify your identity by asking you to provide personal identifiers that we can match against information we may have collected from you previously. We may need to follow up with you to request more information to verify identity. 

We will not use personal information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.