Launchpad

Privacy Policy

Add Comment

Privacy Policy Updated, February 2018 Global STEM Alliance, LLC (“GSA”), a subsidiary of the New York Academy of Sciences, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“we,” “our” or “us”) are committed to treating your personal information with respect, sensitivity and discretion. This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect through the www.joinlaunchpad.com website and through the websites that we operate (the “Sites”) in connection with GSA products (“Products”), and through your participation in our Products, and how we use it, how we protect it, and the choices you can make about your information. Throughout this Privacy Policy, “information” includes personal information about you. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR THE TERMS OF USE (THE “TERMS”), DO NOT USE OR VISIT THE SITES. BY USING OR VISITING THE SITES, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS. CONSENT: If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the Sites are hosted in the United States. Therefore, your information, including any personal information provided through the Sites may be processed and stored in the United States. As a result, United States federal and state governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States. Your use of the Sites or your submission of any information to us will constitute your consent to the transfer of your information outside of your country of residence, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country. Please contact us at hello@joinlaunchpad.com if you have any questions about how your information may be processed or stored in the United States. Information We Collect We collect the following types of information in the manner described below. 1. &nbsp.  You may voluntarily provide us with information, including: • &nbsp. Your name, email address, user name, a password, a photo and any other information that you provide in registering to use the Sites and other information to use the Sites;  • &nbsp.  Information when you contact or interact with us (for example, regarding support). and • &nbsp.  Any other information you voluntarily provide us with including your comments, content or information in connection with using the Sites. 2. We may automatically collect other information about you, including: • Web browser type • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address • Domain name of your Internet service provider • Your geographic location • The pages of the Sites that you visit and the time of your visits • &nbsp.  Aggregated information that cannot be used to specifically identify you when you use or visit the Sites. 3. &nbsp.  We may collect information about you from publicly available sources. 4. &nbsp.  We may combine any of the information we collect from or about you and use it in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Information You Share Socially The Sites may allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with mentors, students, and other Product participants. We are not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any information you share publicly or with mentors, students, and other Product participants. In addition, the Sites may allow you to connect with us and share on third-party websites, applications, and services. Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs and the privacy needs of others, as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others. We also do not control the privacy practices of third parties. Please contact those websites and services directly if you want to learn about their privacy practices. Profile. User Content. Removal of Content and Monitoring 1. &nbsp.  Profile. User Content. Removal of Content. The name and the profile of a registered user or a visitor are visible to other registered users and visitors and may become publicly available. A registered user or visitor may submit content or information which are visible to the other registered users and visitors and may become publicly available. Before submitting content or information, please read the Terms carefully. You should be comfortable with the content or information you choose to provide. We make no representations and undertake no obligations as to the content or information you voluntarily provide when submitting content or information. If you remove content or information that you posted to the Sites, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Sites, or if other users have copied or saved that content or information. If you are a California resident under age 18 and a registered user of any of the Sites, you may ask us to remove content or information that you have posted to the Sites by emailing us at hello@joinlaunchpad.com. Please note that such removal does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information posted (for example, your content or information may remain visible because it was copied and posted or reposted by a third party) 2. &nbsp.  Monitoring. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor content or information that you voluntarily disclose and post to the Sites. We reserve the right to remove any such content or information for any reason or no reason, including without limitation, if in our sole opinion it violates, or may violate, any applicable law or guidance, this Privacy Policy or the Terms. We also reserve the right to remove content or information upon the request of any third party. How We Use Your Information We use the information that we collect for the following purposes, including:  • &nbsp.  The purposes for which you provided it • &nbsp.  For fulfillment of requests • &nbsp.  To identify you as a user of the Sites • &nbsp.  To create or add to your user profile or registered account • &nbsp.  To send you information about your relationship with us • &nbsp.  To contact you with information, including promotional information, that we believe will be of interest to you • &nbsp.  To process and respond to your inquiries (for example, regarding support or other requests) • For research that we or a third party may perform regarding the Sites • To create anonymous data, which we may use for any purpose • To compile aggregate data for internal and external business purposes • To generate and review reports and data about our user base and service usage patterns • To analyze the accuracy, effectiveness, usability or popularity of the Sites • To improve the content and features of the Sites • To prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft and otherwise protect our users and our business • To administer and troubleshoot the Sites • Internally for our general commercial purposes • As otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use How Your Information is Disclosed Information may be disclosed to third parties in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please note that a user may choose not to share certain information as described in “Your Choices Regarding Your Information” below. 1. &nbsp.  Third Parties. We may use third parties to perform functions in connection with the Sites. We may share information about you that they need to perform their functions and in accordance with our agreements with them. 2. &nbsp.  Other Partners. We may share or transfer your information with our sponsors, corporate partners, institutions and other non-profit partners, subject to our policies or agreements or applicable law. 3. &nbsp.  Business Changes. If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, joint venture, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, conversion or other transaction, we may share or transfer your information to a third party or parties in connection therewith. 4. &nbsp.  Subsidiaries and Affiliates. We may also share your information with any subsidiary or affiliate of ours for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any subsidiary or affiliate of ours will be required to maintain that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 5. &nbsp.  Investigations and Law. Regardless of the choices you make regarding your information (as described below) and to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may disclose information about you to third parties to: • To enforce or apply the Terms • Comply with law, in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process or cooperate with government or law enforcement officials or private parties, including laws outside of your country of residence • Protect our rights, reputation, safety and property, or that of our users or others • Protect against legal liability • Establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims • &nbsp.  To investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected illegal activities, suspected fraud, the rights, reputation, safety or property of us, users or others, violation of the Terms, our policies or agreements or as otherwise required by law. 6. &nbsp.  Profile. User Content. Removal of Content and Monitoring. Please see Profile. User Content. Removal of Content and Monitoring above. 7. &nbsp.  Anonymous Information. We may share anonymous information relating to visitors to and users of the Sites with affiliated or unaffiliated third parties. 8. Cookies. Do Not Track. Please see Cookies. Do Not Track below. Cookies. Do Not Track 1. &nbsp.  Cookies. We, along with third parties, use cookies. Cookies are small bits of information that are transferred to and stored in separate files within your computer’s browser. Persistent cookies remain on the visitor’s computer after the browser has been closed. Session cookies exist only during a visitor’s online session and disappear from the visitor’s computer when they close the browser software. You can instruct your browser to stop accepting cookies. But if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions or all functionality of the Sites. 2. Web Beacons. Web beacons are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a Web page or in an email message for the purpose of transferring data. You can disable the ability of Web beacons to capture information by blocking cookies. Third parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual user's online activities over time and across different websites when a user uses the Sites. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. Website owners can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. Please review the following links to better understand Google’s practices: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.To opt out, please see: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 3. Do Not Track. At this time, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent from Web browsers or other mechanisms that provide users the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about a user’s online activities over time and across third party websites. Security While we take reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures to protect the information you submit via the Sites against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. No Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Email sent to or from the Sites may not be secure. You should use caution whenever submitting information online and take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Links to Other Websites This Privacy Policy applies to the Sites. The Sites may contain links to other websites to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. Links from the Sites do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed those websites. The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to these websites. We neither can control nor are responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites. We suggest contacting these websites directly for information on their privacy policies. Your Choices Regarding Your Information You have choices regarding the use of information on the Sites. 1. Changing Your Information. You may make changes to your information, including keeping your information accurate or deleting your information, by contacting us at hello@joinlaunchpad.com. 2. &nbsp. &nbsp. Profile. User Content. Removal of Content and Monitoring. Information You Share Socially. Please see Profile. User Content. Removal of Content and Monitoring and Information You Share Socially above. 3. Cookies. Do Not Track. Please see Cookies. Do Not Track above. Children We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under age 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information through the Sites. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal information from an individual under age 13, please contact us immediately at hello@joinlaunchpad.com. Changes to Privacy Policy We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any information. This Privacy Policy was made effective on the date indicated above. How to Contact Us Please feel free to contact us at hello@joinlaunchpad.com if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.