PRIVACY POLICY
The Samaritan Family Wellness Foundation (“the Foundation”) and its affiliates Wellness Compass and Living Compass are committed to the privacy of our Website, visitors, and users of our applications, products, and services. This Privacy Policy discloses what information is gathered about visitors to our Website and users of our applications, products, and services. We have designed this Privacy Policy to identify how we collect, use, store and share your personal information.
1. WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
For purposes of this Policy, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available through government records or information that has been deidentified or aggregated in a way that it cannot be used to identify a specific individual.
2. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect the following types of Personally Identifiable Information (“Personal Information”) about you when you visit our Website or otherwise communicate with us.
A. Contact information such as your name, e-mail address, telephone number, and address.
B. Cookies and Other Electronic Data: We may collect personal information when you navigate our Website such as your IP Address, your longitude and latitude; your time zone; browsing history; search history; information regarding your interactions with our Website; operating system; and the date and time you visited the Website.
3. SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect your personal information in three (3) ways:
1. Information we collect directly from you when you visit our Website or otherwise communicate with us.
2. Data we collect automatically. We may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in Section 6 below in order to collect and store personal information concerning your use of this Website, such as information regarding which of our pages are most popular and remembering you and your preferences, your IP address, UDID (“Unique Device Identifier”) or other unique identifier, device functionality (including browser, operator system, hardware, mobile network information), device location, device characteristics, city, time zone, and referring URL.
3. We may collect Personal Information about you from third parties including our service providers, online and offline sources, affiliates, social media platforms, analytics providers, and advertising networks.
4. PURPOSE FOR COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect and use your Personal Information for the following reasons:
· We use your Personally Identifiable Information to create your account and communicate with you;
· If you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personally Identifiable Information you provide to answer your question and will respond to the email address from which the contact came;
· If you provide Personally Identifiable Information to contact us or access our weekly column, or any other services;
· We may use your Personally Identifiable Information for internal purposes. including without limitation to help us improve our services, to better understand our members, to enforce our terms of service, to provide customer service, and to generally manage our services and;
· We may use your Personally Identifiable Information to contact you in the future to inform you about services or events we believe might be of interest to you, provide those materials to you, and to display content we believe might be of relevance to you.
5. WITH WHOM WE DISCLOSE OR SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose or share your Personal Information with the following parties:
· Service Providers such as Shopify and ShipBob. We may share Personal Information, such as your name, email address, mailing address and/or telephone number with our service providers to assist in receiving our products.
· Law Enforcement. We may disclose Personal Information in response to requests from courts or law enforcement if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by applicable law and in situations involving threats to the physical safety of any person.
· Legal, Business and Financial Advisors. We may share Personal Information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary for accomplishing the Foundation’s mission and objectives.
6. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We may use Cookies, beacons, tags, pixels, session replay and other tracking technologies on our Website to operate the Website; gather analytical data about use of the Website; and provide targeted advertising.
The below companies may collect Personal Information when you interact with our digital property, including IP addresses, digital identifiers, information about your web browsing and app usage and how you interact with our properties and ads for a variety of purposes, such as personalization of offers or advertisements, analytics about how you engage with Website or ads and other commercial purposes. For more information about the collection and use of your Personal Information and your rights, please use the below links.
We have enabled Google Analytics. To prevent personal information from being used by Google Analytics, follow the instructions to download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use. Using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on will not prevent us from using other analytics tools and will not prevent data from being sent to the website itself or to Google. Opting out will not affect your use of the Website. For more information on how Google uses Personal Information, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ Websites or apps.
7. EXTERNAL LINKS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND VIDEOS
Our Website may offer links to and from other third-party Websites. Other Websites have their own policies regarding privacy. If you visit one of these Websites, you may want to review the privacy policy on that website.
Our Website may contain videos and embedded content, including visible content and/or scripts embedded in the website’s code, or other functionality that allows for interaction with third-party content or applications. Third parties may collect data about how you interact with such content and other Personal Information, including what videos you watch. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy policies for any such third-party prior to engaging with such functionalities.
We are active on social media, including LinkedIn, X (formerly, Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube (together, “Social Media”). Anything you post on social media is public information and will not be treated confidentially. We may post (or re-post) on the Website and our social media pages any comments or content that you post on our Social Media pages. Your use of social media is governed by the privacy policies and terms of the applicable social media providers.
8. INFORMATION SECURITY
We take the security of your Personal Information seriously. We use reasonable technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to maintain the security and privacy of Personal Information we collect and use. When disclosing Personal Information, you should remain mindful that there is always risk in sending Personal Information using the internet.
9. DATA RETENTION
We retain Personal Information for only as long as reasonably needed for the specific business purpose or purposes for which it was collected as explained in this Policy. Our retention periods vary based upon our business purposes and obligations, including providing customer service, operating our Foundation, and maintaining business records. In some cases, we may be required to retain information for an extended period of time based on laws or regulations that apply to our Foundation, legal reporting requirements, or legal obligations. Where possible, we strive to anonymize the information or remove unnecessary identifiers from records that we may need to keep for periods beyond the original retention period.
10. DE-IDENTIFIED / AGGREGATED DATA
We may aggregate or de-identify Personal Information we collect through our Website and when operating our business. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of users in a particular zip code. Once information or data has been de-identified and/or aggregated, such information is no longer Personal Information.
11. INTERNATIONAL USERS
Our Website is operated in the United States and intended for users located in the United States. Like almost every website, our website can be accessed by an international audience. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect, including personal information, will be transferred to and processed, stored and used in the United States. The data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your personal information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to laws of the United States. In addition, such data may be stored on servers located outside your resident jurisdiction and in jurisdictions which may have less stringent privacy practices than your own.
12. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
This Website and the products or services described on the website are not intended for or directed toward people who are under 13 years old. The Foundation does not knowingly market to children under the age of 13 years old, nor does it knowingly collect, directly or through third-party service providers, names, email addresses, or any other Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13 years old. If the Foundation becomes aware that personal information was collected inadvertently from a child under the age of 13 years old, the information will be deleted as soon as practicable.
This Website may include linked third-party Websites that would be of no interest to children under the age of 13 years old. The Foundation has no control over, and is not responsible for, the privacy and security of third-party Websites. Parents should review the privacy policies of these Websites closely before allowing children to provide any Personally Identifiable Information.
13. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here.
14. CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or how we process Personal Information, please contact us at:
2858 University Avenue, #328
Madison, WI 53705
Phone (414) 964-4357