The Change Society, Inc. (“TCS”) provides its website (the “Site”) and mobile application (the “App”) services (collectively, the “Services”) to you under this Privacy Policy.

Duty to You

• We will do our very best to protect your privacy by using security technology appropriately. This means:
• We make sure that we have appropriate security measures to protect your information; and
• We make sure that when we ask another organization to provide a service for us, they have appropriate security measures.
• We will respect your privacy. You may receive marketing (whether by email, post, SMS or telephone) only from us and, if you agree, from other organizations we have carefully chosen. We will make sure it is clear when you can make these choices, for example, we have boxes you need to tick if you want to receive marketing and you can change your preferences if you no longer want to receive it. However, we may email you occasionally with information or questions about your registration, your subscription account or postings, for example, with reminders, warnings or copyright requests.
• We will collect and use individual user details only if we have your permission or we have sensible business reasons for doing so, such as collecting enough information to manage subscriptions.
• We will be clear in our dealings with you as to what information about you we will collect and how we will use it.
• We will use personal information only for the purposes for which it was originally collected and we will make sure we delete it securely.

Registration

The minimum information we need to register you is your name, email address and a password. We will ask you more questions for different services, including sales promotions. Unless we say otherwise, you have to answer all the registration questions.

We may also ask some other, voluntary questions during registration for certain services (for example, professional networks) so we can gain a clearer understanding of who you are. This also allows us to personalize services for you.

To assist us in our marketing, in addition to the data that you provide to us if you register, we may also obtain data from trusted third parties to help us understand what you might be interested in. This ‘profiling’ information is produced from a variety of sources, including publicly available data (such as the electoral roll) or from sources such as surveys and polls where you have given your permission for your data to be shared. You can choose not to have such data shared with the TCS from these sources by logging into your account and changing the settings in the privacy section.

After you have registered, and with your permission, we may send you emails we think may interest you. Newsletters may be personalized based on what you have been reading on theguardian.com. At any time you can decide not to receive these emails and will be able to ‘unsubscribe’.

Logging in using social networking credentials

If you log-in to our sites using a Facebook log-in, you are granting permission to Facebook to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth and location which will then be used to form a TCS identity. You can also use your picture from Facebook as part of your profile. This will also allow us and Facebook to share your, networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Facebook account settings. If you remove the TCS app from your Facebook settings, we will no longer have access to this information.

If you log-in to our sites using a Google log-in, you grant permission to Google to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth, sex and location which we will then use to form a TCS identity. You may use your picture from Google as part of your profile. This also allows us to share your networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Google account settings. If you remove the TCS from your Google settings, we will no longer have access to this information.

If you log-in to our sites using a twitter log-in, we receive your avatar (the small picture that appears next to your tweets) and twitter username.

Use of children’s data

Except for TCS students, we do not knowingly collect or store any personal information about children under the age of 17 and we do not offer any of our products or services directly to children under the age of 13.

Updating your personal information

We offer a “My Profile” page, where you can update your personal information at any time, and change your marketing preferences. You can get to this page from most pages on the site – simply click on the “My Profile” link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

Who we share data with

We will not share your personal information with others for marketing purposes unless you have given us your permission. If we have your permission, we will share your information only with other organizations we have chosen carefully.

If you are a TCS Member and attend an event organized by an event partner, data may be shared for event administration purposes.

We may make other organizations’ services available, through our sites, although we are not necessarily operating these sites. We process any information which we collect when you access a service provided by another organization under this privacy policy. Information these other organizations collect is governed by their own privacy policies.

We can access and release personal information to keep to relevant laws and government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both us and our users.

Any other organizations who access your information in the course of providing services on our behalf will be governed by strict contractual restrictions to make sure that they protect your information and keep to data-protection and privacy laws which apply. We may also independently audit these service providers to make sure that they meet our standards. We may use service providers to help us run these sites (or services available on the sites).

Some of our webpages use plug-ins from other organizations (such as the ‘Facebook Recommend’ function). These other organizations may use information about your visit to our Site or App on their pages. If you browse these pages while still also logged in to your account with us, information they collect may be connected to your account on their site. For more information on how these organizations use information, please read their privacy policies.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies for a number of reasons.

• For statistical purposes to track how many users we have and how often they visit our Site or App. We collect information listing which of our pages are most frequently visited, and by which types of users and from which countries.
• We use other organizations to collect anonymous user information, sometimes through cookies and web beacons, (information embedded in images which allow them to analyses how the Site or App is being used and the number of visitors).
• We and other advertisers may use statistical cookies to track who has seen an advert and clicked on it. You can find more information on this in the online behavioral advertising section of this privacy policy.
• Placing cookies on your computer means we can show you adverts that you might be interested in, and allows us to control the number of times you see them and measure how effective the ad campaign has been. Advertising helps us to keep the site free for you to use.
• We may use ‘Flash’ cookies to store your preferences for your media player (for example, volume and so on). If we don’t use them, you may not be able to watch some video content.

You can turn cookies off but if you do this, you may not be able to use all services on our Site or App and this may lead to more pop-ups and other advertising. This is because we won’t be able to limit what you see by using cookies.

• We or other companies may use cookies to suggest and deliver content which we believe may interest you.

For more information about cookies and managing those, including how to turn them off please e-mail: info@thechangesociety.com.