top of page

Munsey.org Privacy Policy

Effective from July 7, 2023

 

1. Please read carefully

Munsey cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and users. To that end, this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Munsey, collects, uses, and shares your Personal Information, as well as an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to all Munsey website and App users, including unregistered visitors and registered users, and to all Munsey’s services, including our websites (including www.munsey.org and any of its subdomains, the “Website”), web applications (“Munsey Apps”), mobile applications (“Mobile Apps”), and related services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws.

Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information.  If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us here.

 

2. What ‘Personal Information’ do we collect?

  1. While we do not collect Personal Information for Website and App visitors to view our information, other entities may collect such information. We cannot be held responsible for browser cookies or data that your personal devices store or collects on their behalf.   

  2. Information we collect when you use the Services. Our internet provider, wix.com may collect information about a User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc.

  3. In order to join “Groups” and be involved with them we will ask you to register on our site or app to be a “member.” If you register you will be asked to share your Name, Title, Login Email address and optionally, your telephone number. We do not share this information with anyone outside of Munsey and it is asked for solely so you may join groups. When you register to join a group, your information is available only to that group or groups you have signed up for. 

 

3. Why do we collect such ‘Personal Information’

We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and operate the Services;

  2. To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;

  3. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  4. To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages such as “push notifications”

  5. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services;

  6. To provide you with professional assistance.

  7. To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities; and

  8. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

    4. How we share your ‘Personal Information’

Munsey does not actively “share” your personal data, however, our website provider may use your information to improve their services.

 

Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties: Munsey may disclose or otherwise allow access to any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.


Protecting Rights and Safety:  Munsey may share any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of Munsey, any of our Users, any Users-of-Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

Social Media Features: Our Services may enable you to integrate certain Social Media features, widgets, and single sign on features, such as “Facebook Connect,” or “Google Sign-in” (“Social Media Features”) into your web or mobile sites. These Social Media Features may collect certain Personal Information from your Users-of-Users such as identifiers, including name, alias, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers. Social Media Features are hosted either by a third party or directly on our Services.

 

Please note that in the examples listed above in this Section, Munsey merely acts as an intermediary platform allowing you to procure the services of such Third-Party Services (including, but not limited to, Third Party Developers, Third Party Apps and Social Media Features) with which you are interacting directly, and at your discretion. In this respect, Munsey acts as a service provider to you, disclosing information to the Third-Party Services on your behalf. Munsey will share your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information with Third Parties Services only upon your direction or with your permission and is not, and shall not be, in any way responsible for such Third-Party Services processing of such Personal Information, or liable with respect thereto.

 

Munsey does not control and is not responsible for the actions or policies of any Third-Party Service, and your use of any Third-Party Service is at your own risk. We encourage you to review any privacy policy accompanying a Third-Party Service and ask such Third-Party Service for any clarifications you may need before deciding to install and/or use their services.

 

5. Use of cookies and other third-party technologies

We and our Third-Party Service Providers use cookies and other similar technologies (“Cookies”) in order for us to provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience.

​​

Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, however, most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.


 

6. Your rights in relation to your ‘Personal Information’

Munsey believes that it is imperative that all Munsey users have control over their Personal Information. Therefore, depending on the way you use the Munsey’s Services, you may have the right to request access to, receive a copy of, update, amend or delete, port certain Personal Information to another service, restrict, or object to certain uses of your Personal Information (for example, for direct marketing purposes). Further, when we rely on your consent for processing of your Personal Information (for instance, for direct marketing) you can withdraw your consent at any time, and such withdrawal will take effect from thereon.

If you are a Munsey.org user, you can access and correct a lot of your Personal Information directly through your account.

​

You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection (but we still recommend that you contact us first).
​

Please note that permanently deleting your Munsey account erases all of your Personal Information from our databases. After completing this process, you can no longer use any of your Services, your account and all its data will be removed permanently, and Munsey will not be able to restore your account or retrieve your data in the future. If you contact our support channels in the future, the system will not recognize your account and our IT personnel will not be able to locate the deleted account.


7. Questions and complaints

If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information, or if you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or applicable data protection laws, please contact us – our details are set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

​

8. Data retention

We may retain your Personal Information (as well as your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information) for as long as your User Account is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.

​

We may continue to retain your Personal Information after you deactivate your User Account and/or cease to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users or their Users-of-Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.

​

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we process it, and the applicable legal requirements.


9. Security

Munsey has implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our Services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated “give” forms is protected by an industry standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection; and we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and Third-Party Services for further enhancing the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors’ and Users’ privacy.

​

Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Munsey, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information, your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information or any other information you upload, publish or otherwise share with Munsey or anyone else. We encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and User Website, and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive Personal Information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.
 

Furthermore, because certain areas on our Services are less secure than others (for example, you browse to a non-SSL page), and since e-mail and instant messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any Personal Information on any of these areas or via any of these methods.

​

If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us.

 

10. Third-party websites

Our Services may contain links to other websites or services. We are not responsible for such websites’ or services’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third-party websites and services.

 

11. Public forums and user content

Our Services offer publicly accessible blogs, communities and support forums. Please be aware that any Personal Information you provide in any such areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your Personal Information from our blogs, communities or forums, feel free to contact us here. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information from such areas. For example, if you use a third-party application to post a comment (e.g., the Facebook social plugin application) while logged in to your related profile with such third party, you must login into such application or contact its provider if you want to remove the Personal Information you posted on that platform. 

​

In any event, we advise against posting any Personal Information (via any means) you don’t wish to publicize.

​

If you upload any user content to your User Account or post it and provide it in any other way as part of the use of any Service, you do so at your own risk.

We have put adequate security measures in place to protect your Personal Information.  However, we cannot control the actions of other Users or members of the public who may access your User Content, and are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures due to this. You understand and acknowledge that, even after its removal by you or us, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if any third parties have copied or stored such User Content. To clarify, we advise against uploading or posting any information you do not wish to be public.

 

12. Updates and interpretation

We may update this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law, and to reflect changes to our Personal Information collection, usage and storage practices. If we make any changes that we deem as “material” (in our sole good faith discretion), we will notify you prior to the change becoming effective. In relation to any updated Privacy Policy, we will, as required by applicable law, notify you, seek your consent and/or take any other measures. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest Information on our privacy practices. Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you, with respect to our Website, Munsey Apps, Mobile Apps and other Services. 

​​

13. Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy contact the Munsey IT Administrator here. We will attempt to resolve any complaints regarding the use of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

bottom of page