Thank you for visiting our website or choosing to become a member of the Stand Together Edupreneur Resource Center (the “ERC“) a service provided by Stand Together, Inc. (“Stand Together” and collectively with the ERC, “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your Personal Information and your right to privacy. This privacy policy (as posted on our website here and as amended from time to time and effective as of the date posted) (“Privacy Policy”) describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, disclosing, retaining, and transferring information we collect from you or that you may provide when you visit or use our www.standtogetherERC.org (the “Site”). If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or our practices with regards to your Personal Information, please submit a request here.

When you visit our website www.standtogetherERC.org (the “Site”), or use any of our resources, information, or services (the “Services,” which include the Site), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your Personal Information (as defined below). We take your privacy very seriously. In this Privacy Policy, we seek to explain to you what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our Site or Services.

We endeavor to comply with the privacy laws and regulations of the United States of America. We make no representation that our Services are governed by the laws of other nations, or that the Site or any part thereof is appropriate or available for use in other jurisdictions. Individuals who choose to access our Services do so on their own initiative and at their own risk, and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations. By using our Services, visitors from outside of the United States of America acknowledge that the Services are subject to U.S. laws and regulations and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws.

We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove provisions of this Privacy Policy. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on our Site and effective on the date posted, and we encourage you to check back from time to time to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy Policy.

Your use of our Site and our Services is at all times subject to our ERC Terms and Conditions (available here, and as amended from time to time and effective as of the date posted (the “Terms”)), which is incorporated by reference herein.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit or maintain Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for or use our Services. If you are under 18, please do not send any Personal Information about yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address) to us. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information from our database. Please contact us if you have any concerns.

Personal information you disclose to us. We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you become a member of the ERC, make a request for assistance, access any of our Services, participate in activities on the Site, or otherwise when you contact us. By submitting Personal Information to us, you agree that we may use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Financial and sensitive information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our members, such as credit card or social security numbers. Our Site may include links to other websites which do collect, use or store this type of information. You should review the privacy policies and terms of use for these other websites, as these may be different from our Privacy Policy.

Some information is collected automatically when you visit the Site.

Information You Provide Us. The Personal Information we collect through our Site or from our Service Providers may include the following:

The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include cookies, local storage cookies, web beacons, pixel tracking, GIF, IP address, and other technologies. Each of these is discussed below.

Browser cookies are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. They may contain certain data, including, but not limited to: the name of the server that has placed it there, an identifier in the form of a unique number, and, an expiration date (some cookies only). Browser cookies are managed by the web browser (Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, etc.) on your computer or mobile device. Different types of cookies which have different purposes are used on our Site.

Essential cookies are essential to allow you to browse our Site and use its functions.

Performance cookies collect information on the use of our Site, such as which pages are consulted most often. This information enables us to optimize our Site and simplify browsing. These cookies do not collect any information which could be used to identify you. All the information collected is aggregated, and therefore anonymous.

Functionality cookies enable our Site to remember the choices you have made when browsing. For example, we can store your general geographic area (but not precise geolocation) in a cookie so that the Site corresponding to your geographic area is shown. We can also remember your preferences, such as the text size, font, and other customizable aspects of the Site. Functionality cookies also may be able to keep track of the products, pages, or videos consulted to avoid repetition. The information collected by these cookies cannot be used to identify you and cannot monitor your browsing activity on sites which do not belong to us.

It is possible that you will come across third-party cookies on some pages of sites that are not under our control.

We also use cookies such as functionality cookies to implement tracking technology on our Site. This allows us to understand which parts of our content interest you the most, and which Product or Service categories you request. This tracking uses De-Identified Personal Information data. Some of our service providers are allowed to place cookies on our Site. Those companies also may provide you with the option of preventing the use of cookies in the future. For more information, contact the relevant third-party provider.

At any time, you can prevent the use of cookies in the future. You may activate the appropriate setting in your browser to refuse to accept browser cookies. However, if you do, your experience on our Site may be affected; e.g., you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.

Certain features of our Site may use local stored objects to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Site. Local storage cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

Web Beacons. Pages of our Site 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 visitors who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

GIF. We may use tiny images known as clear GIFs to track behavior of users, including statistics on who opens our emails.

IP Address. Our servers (or those of our service providers) automatically record certain log file information reported from your browser when you access the Site. These server logs may include information such as which pages of the Site you visited, your internet protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, and other information on how you interact with the Site. These log files are generally deleted periodically.

Transmitting Personal Information from our Site. GPC Signal. We respond to the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. The GPC signal is a browser-level signal that can reflect the desire to opt-out of having Personal Information shared or sold. Some browsers allow transmission of GPC signal. By broadcasting this signal, we will not transmit your Personal Information to third parties who perform analytics services or who advertise to you based on this information. Please note that when your browser broadcasts the GPC signal, we will limit the functionality of our Site and prevent the Site from transmitting your Personal Information to third parties.

Some content or applications on the Site is served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. First-party or third-party cookies may be used alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect or compile information regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our Site. A first-party cookie is a cookie set by the domain name that appears in the browser address bar. A third-party cookie is a cookie set by (and on) a domain name that is not the domain name that appears in the browser address bar. It might be set as part of a side resource load (image, JS, iframe, etc., from a different hostname) or an AJAX HTTP request to a third-party server. The information that first-party and third-party cookies collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services (i.e., tracking such activities). They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

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. We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our Site. More information on how to opt-out of third-party advertiser tracking mechanisms is available here.

Google Tools. We use tools provided by Google as described below.

Google Analytics. We use, and/or some of our third-party Service Providers may use, Google Analytics or other analytics service to help us understand the use of our Site and Services. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes data it collects to track and examine the use of our Site to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. The Personal Information collected and processed may include cookies, usage data, and other internet information. Such Service Providers may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by us only and not the use of cookies by third parties.

Google Maps/Google Earth. We also use Google Maps (including the Google Maps API(s)) and/or Google Earth, which may, among other things, request access to your geolocation, and both of which are subject to their own terms of use and privacy policy.

Google Tag Manager. We use Google Tag Manager to gain insights from activities such as conversion events, file downloads, and page scroll depth. To learn more about Google Tag Manager, please visit here.

Google reCAPTCHA. We use Google reCAPTCHA, which identifies bots by collecting hardware and software information and sending that data to Google for analysis. More about Google reCAPTCHA is available here.

We gather information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the provision of Services to you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent. For example, we may use information we collect:

We may or do disclose your Personal Information, in whole or in part, to the following types of third parties, and for one or more of the following purposes:

Type of Third Party	Purpose
Data storage or hosting providers	Secure storage and transmission of data

Database and software service providers	Management and tracking of your data
Legal and compliance consultants, such as external counsel, external auditors, or tax consultants	Provide professional services to us
Identity management providers	Authentication purposes
Survey and research providers	Perform surveys or studies on our behalf
Technology providers	Assist in the development and management of our Site
Publishers and learning providers	Develop products on our behalf
Learning technology and online event providers	Delivery and improvement of web events and learning programs and the tracking of your progress
Digital credential providers	Deliver digital badges earned through your participation in learning programs
Our volunteers or committee members	Perform various functions on our behalf
Service Providers	See below

Law enforcement, government agencies

See below

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties for the purpose of providing or improving the Services to you. We may disclose your Personal Information to third-party service providers which perform services on our behalf (“Service Providers”). This includes, without limitation, Service Providers which provide services relating to: outbound and/or inbound communications, data analysis, marketing assistance, managing customer information, creating, hosting, and/or providing customer or support services on our behalf, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), or managing our conferences and other events. These Service Providers may have access to your Personal Information in order to provide these services to us or on our behalf. If we engage Service Providers for any of the foregoing, use of your Personal Information will be bound by obligations of confidentiality and their use of Personal Information will be restricted to providing their services to us. We may store Personal Information in locations outside our direct control (for instance, on servers or databases located or co-located with hosting Service Providers).

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose your Personal Information to any third party unless required to do so by law, court order, legal process (e.g., subpoena), including, but not limited to, in order to respond to any government, regulatory, or licensing request, or if we believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers, or partners, or investigate and prevent violation of the law; (b) enforce our Terms or customer agreement; (c) take precautions against liability; (d) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations or to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (e) assist government enforcement agencies or to meet national or other security requirements; (f) to protect the security or integrity of our Site and Services; or, (g) exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users or others. We will attempt to notify you, where reasonably practicable, about these requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law or regulation, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of acts of fraud done upon us or our users. In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we will attempt to notify that user about the request after the fact if we determine in good faith that we are no longer legally prohibited from doing so and that no risk scenarios described in this paragraph apply.

We are not responsible for the actions of any vendors, service providers, or other third parties, which may further transfer information to other organizations or service providers, nor are we responsible for any additional information you provide directly to any third parties, and we encourage you to become familiar with their privacy practices before disclosing information directly to any such parties. Nothing in this Policy restricts the sharing of aggregate information or information from which Personal Information has been rendered anonymous, both of which may be shared with third parties without your consent.

You consent to (and shall not object) our disclosure, transfer, assignment, and/or sale of your Personal Information, De-Identified Personal Information, and other information you provide to us, as well as the rights you have granted or consented to in this Privacy Policy (collectively, “Transferred Information”) to a potential or actual buyer or acquirer of assets or equity of our company or other successor for the purpose of considering or undergoing a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, change in control, or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets (each of the foregoing referred to as a “Transfer”), whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or other court proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred. We cannot make any representations regarding the use or transfer of Transferred Information that we may have in the event of our bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership, or an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Furthermore, except as required by law, we are not and will not be responsible for any breach of security by any third parties or for any actions of any third parties that receive any of the Transferred Information that is disclosed to us.

We have implemented technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Information we collect. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Transmission of Personal Information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should only access the Site within a secure environment.

One of the most common security vulnerabilities is through sharing passwords. To protect the confidentiality of Personal Information, you must keep your password confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of our Site by any person using your password, including any penalties for violating our Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy (for example, your membership may be cancelled if a person uses your password to post inappropriate material). Please advise us immediately if you believe your password has been misused.

When you use our Site, information and content you post in interactive areas of our Site, as well as any information you share with individuals through our Site or share through social network sites, will be available to other users and, in some cases, may be publicly available and available to third parties. In addition, when you sign up as a member, certain information regarding actions you take through our Sites, such as attending a webinar, may be made available to other users and, in some cases, may be publicly available. We are not responsible for the actions of any third parties with whom you share Personal Information.

In general, our retention of Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected or processed, or for another disclosed purpose that is compatible with the context in which the Personal Information was collected, and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. The time period for which we retain your Personal Information depends on the purposes for which we use it. We will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active, or as long as you are a registered member or for as long as we have another business purpose to do so (such as, but not limited to, for business, tax, or legal purposes) and, thereafter, for no longer than is required or permitted by law, or our records retention policy, reasonably necessary for internal reporting and reconciliation purposes, or to provide you with feedback or information you might request. This period of retention is subject to our review and alteration. We will also retain Usage Data for analytics purposes. “Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

You may “opt out” of receiving messages, email updates, and newsletters. Please note that we may still send you other types of emails, such as emails about your use of our Site, or use information as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, even if you opt out of receiving email updates and newsletters. If you would like to remove yourself from any communications, please submit a request here. 

Colorado provides residents of its state with rights related to Personal Information. Colorado residents can review their rights on the website available here.

Our Site contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another web site for which Stand Together has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our Services, or your dealings with the ERC, please create an account or log in at StandTogether.org and then submit a request here. Please reference this Privacy Policy in your question.