ESSIE JUSTICE GROUP PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting essiejusticegroup.org.  Essie Justice Group (“ESSIE”), a registered 501(c)3 charitable not for profit corporation, is committed to treating the personal and corporate information of our users with respect and sensitivity. Our privacy commitment is described in this Privacy Policy. As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We post the effective date of our Privacy Policy on our website ("Site").

This Policy is part of our Terms of Use Agreement. Please click here to see that Agreement.

Application of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of (regardless of means of access) any of the current set of products from ESSIE, collectively referred to as “ESSIE Products”, such as our website (www.essiejusticegroup.org).The ESSIE Products are owned and provided by ESSIE.

You can access, download or use ESSIE Products, through applications on Devices, through APIs, and through third parties.  A “Device” is any computer used to access the ESSIE Products, including without limitation a desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, or other consumer electronic Device.

ESSIE Products may enable you to use applications developed by third parties, individually and collectively referred to as “Third Party Apps” on a Device, such as an Android app on a Device running either the Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X or Linux operating systems.

General Information

We believe that you have the right to understand how your information is stored and used. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites although we do encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites.

Information You Provide Us

In general, you can visit www.essiejusticegroup.org without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. If you wish to obtain information about our products or services you can contact us.  We may collect your name, company name, email address, and street address along with other information you may choose to submit, as part of the inquiry process ("Personally Identifiable Information" or "PII"). 

When you register for a ESSIE account, we collect some PII, which may include your name, company name, email address, telephone number, street address, taxpayer and immigration information, payroll, insurance and banking information.  You may be asked to choose log-in Information, such as your email address and a password which will be used to access your account. 

By providing your PII to us, you explicitly agree to our collection and use of such information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Automatically Collected

We (or our service providers acting on our behalf) may collect Information about the ESSIE Products that you use and how you use them.  This information includes information that may identify you as well as statistical information (“Analytics”) that does not identify you.  Some Analytics may be correlated with your PII.  Usage Information may include:

a)  Device Information:  We may collect Device-specific Information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique Device identifiers and mobile network Information including phone number).  We may associate your Device identifiers or phone number with your ESSIE Account.

b)  Log Information:  When you use ESSIE Products, we may automatically record or log Information from your Device, its software, and your activity using the ESSIE Products.  This may include:

  • The Device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address;
  • Identification numbers associated with your Devices;
  • Device event Information such as crashes, system activity and hardware settings;
  • Locale preferences;
  • Application activity such as app upload, app download, app installation, app uninstallation, app start, app play duration, app stop, app crashes, app network activity and app resource consumption;
  • Date and time stamps associated with transactions;
  • System configuration Information;
  • Metadata concerning your Android apps; and
  • Other interactions with the ESSIE Products.

 

Protecting Children's Privacy

This Site is not designed nor intended to be attractive to use by children under the age of 18 ("Minors").   We do not knowingly collect PII from minors.  If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any information to us.

Cookies

We use cookies to personalize our Site for you and to collect aggregate information about site usage by all of our users. A cookie is a text file that our Site transfers to your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes and to enhance the quality of your visit to our Site. The cookie assigns a random, unique number to your computer Cookies are small text files that our Site places on your browser to enable our system to recognize your computer and allow us to see how you use our site. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

The cookies we use on our Site include:

Session cookies: These temporary cookies expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We use session cookies to grant our users access to content and to enable actions they must be logged in to do.

Persistent cookies: These usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire or you manually delete them. We use persistent cookies to better understand usage patterns so we can improve the site for our customers. For example, we may use a persistent cookie to associate you with your user account or to remember that your choices on the Site, but this only works when cookies on our site are enabled.

Third party cookies:  We permit limited third parties to place cookies through the Site to provide us with better insights into the use of the Site or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you.  These third parties may collect information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our website. For example, we utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns of the Site.  Google Analytics generates a cookie to capture information about your use of the Site which Google uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services.  Google may use a portion of your IP address to identify their cookie, but this will not be associated with any other data held by Google. 

We may also permit third party service providers to place cookies through our Site, as indicated above, to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage.   We do not control the use of such third party cookies or the resulting information and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

Your use of our Site will be deemed to be your consent to the placement of cookies on your computer or other device.  If you prefer not to receive cookies through our Site, you can set your browser to either reject all cookies, to allow only “trusted” websites to set them, or to accept only those cookies from those sites you are currently on.  Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Site and use it.

If you refuse cookies, this will limit system performance and may even cause certain features of the Site to malfunction or not to work at all.

Use of Information

The use of your information is subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect at the time of use. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices with respect to this Site.

We may use aggregated data (independent of any personal identifiers) for research and organizational purposes. This information includes what areas our users visit most frequently and what services they access most often. This information helps us develop a better site that is more useful and accessible to you.

 We may use your PII internally for our general organizational purposes including, among other things, to offer to you our own, our affiliates’ or third-party’s products and services that we think you may find of interest.

We may use your email address to contact you to respond to your inquiries or to provide information on products or services to you. You can elect not to receive emails from us either by "unsubscribing" to an email you receive or by contacting us as indicated below.

California Do-Not-Track Disclosures

We do not use technology that recognizes a “do-not-track” signal from your web browser.

Disclosing Your Information

We may reveal Personally Identifiable Information about you to unaffiliated third parties: (1) if you request or authorize it; (2) if the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you; (3) if the information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) if the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); (5) if the information is provided to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.); (6) to allow them to market to you, or (7) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your non-private, aggregated, or otherwise non-Personal Information, such as usage statistics of our Products, to our affiliates and third parties.

Opt-Out Rights

If you do not wish to receive offers or other notices from us in the future, you can "opt out" by contacting us at the address indicated at the end of this policy or by following the “unsubscribe” instructions in any communication you receive from us.  Please be aware that you are not able to opt out of receiving communications about your account or transactions with us.

Accessing Your Information

You are required to provide us with accurate and up to date information. If you wish to update your information please email us at gina@essiejusticegroup.org.  

Security

We are not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any non-public information that you provide us. If there is information that you wish to protect from disclosure to others, do not provide it to us.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security of your PII. You also play a role in protecting your information. Please safeguard any user name and password you submit and do not share them with others. If we receive instructions using your log-in information we will consider that you have authorized the instructions. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

Links to Third-Party Sites

When you use the Site or our service, you may be directed to other websites that are beyond our control. We may also allow thirds-party sites or applications to link to the Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites but we do encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites. This Privacy Policy only applies to this Site.

International Transfers

The PII we receive may be held on our computers and systems in the United States. By using this Site and by providing any personal information to the Site, all users, including without limitation users in Canada and the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check our Site frequently to see the current Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Policy we will post the revised Policy and the revised effective date on this Site. Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed at the end of this Policy.

Contacting Us

This site is owned and operated by ESSIE . If you have any questions or suggestions with respect to this policy, or if you wish to ask us to delete, correct, or show you your information as provided above, you can write to us at ESSIE, 340 Pine Street, Suite 302 San Francisco, CA 94109 , call or fax us at Tel: 415-321-2057 (p); 415-837-1144 (f)  or you can simply click on Contact and send us an email.

Effective Date: September 1, 2014