IGNITE Worldwide (IGNITE) places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy demonstrates IGNITE’s firm commitment to the privacy of our website users. This policy explains what types of information is collected by IGNITE when you use our website, www.igniteworldwide.org, and how this information is used.
What Personal Information is Collected As used in this privacy policy, personal information means information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address, and telephone number. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information also is treated as personal information. Individuals who sign up to receive IGNITE e-communications voluntarily provide us with certain personal information (such as name and e-mail address). We may use this personal information for specific, limited purposes as indicated in this privacy policy. You may always “opt out,” either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages. We also collect your personal information when you make a monetary donation to IGNITE.
IP addresses IGNITE uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.igniteworldwide.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
Cookies www.igniteworldwide.org uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.igniteworldwide.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies at any time or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.
Users’ Comments When users leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the user’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. You may only upload images that are your original content or that you have all the rights to. In fact, you represent and warrant that you have all the proper rights to any images or media that you upload to our website, and that such images do not violate the rights of any third parties..
How Your Information May Be Used and Shared We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to communicate with you, to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitors to our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties. Please note that some browsers give you the option of downloading and installing extensions that block tracking technologies.
We may share your information with third parties that perform services or functions on our behalf. For example, we may share personal information with payment processors and shipping providers in order to fulfill an order you may have with us. Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for example, when you donate to IGNITE), the information you provide may be separately collected by the third-party site or platform. The information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices.
How We Protect and Retain Your Data Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by IGNITE, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. These steps may include obtaining your consent, or other lawful means of transferring personal information. Additionally, we have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, and modification. All personal information we collect will be stored by our cloud hosting provider on secure servers.
We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. For example, when we process your personal information based on our legitimate interests, we generally will retain such information for a reasonable period of time based on the particular interest, taking into account the fundamental interests and the rights and freedoms of individuals. In all cases, in addition to the purposes and legal basis, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, as well as the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information.
How You Can Control Your Data All users can see, request to correct, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.’You can control the personal data that we have obtained from you, and exercise your data protection rights by contacting IGNITE.
Embedded Content From Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. These other sites are not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our sites or applications and to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your personal information.
User Email Privacy IGNITE Worldwide does not provide, sell, or rent the email addresses of its website users to anyone outside the organization.
External Links www.igniteworldwide.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.igniteworldwide.org domain, and IGNITE Worldwide is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
Modifications We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.