Privacy Policy
1. Terms and Conditions of Use
The following are terms of a legal agreement between you and ATLAS. By accessing, browsing and/or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree, to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use this website. Information may be changed or updated without notice. ATLAS may also make changes in the content, services or programs described in this website at any time without notice.
ATLAS is aware that the security of your private information from the use of our website is an important concern. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and demonstrate a strong commitment to online privacy. In acknowledgment of that commitment, we have adopted a privacy policy to safeguard the privacy of all visitors to the ATLAS website.
2. Who we are
ATLAS is a program of Hamline University. We are located at 1536 Hewitt Avenue, MS-A1790, Saint Paul, MN 55104. For additional information, please visit our About page. Our website address is https://atlasabe.org.
3. What personal data we collect and why we collect it
a) Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
b) Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
c) Contact forms
We keep contact form submissions indefinitely for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through these submissions for marketing purposes.
Forms on the website may ask you for additional information such as your name, address, and email address. The information you provide is used only for the purpose(s) indicated on the form, and is not shared with outside parties. Occasionally, your information may be retained in order to contact you as a consequence related to the intent of the form, such as event or training information related to your registration.
d) Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
e) Children
In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not knowingly collect, process, or use on our website any information relating to an individual whom we know to be under 13 years old, without the prior, verifiable consent of his or her legal representative. We do not give children the ability to post or distribute personal information without prior consent. We do not entice children with games or contests that would encourage them to disclose personal information. This website is not directed to children under the age of 13.
f) External Links
This website provides links to third party websites. ATLAS is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these sites. Even if the third party is affiliated with ATLAS through collaboration or otherwise, ATLAS is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such external links. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only and you access them at your own risk.
g) Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
h) Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site and what pages they visit. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (as amended for government websites) and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
i) Events
If you create, submit, import, save, or publish Event, Venue, or Organizer information, such information is retained in the local database:
- Venue information: name, address, city, country, state, postal code, phone, website, geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude)
- Organizer information: name, phone, website, email
- Event information: website, cost, description, date, time, image
Please note that to create new events through the Community Events submission form, a user must hold a website account on this domain. This information is retained in the local database.
API Keys
We make use of certain API keys, in order to provide specific features. These API keys include the following third party services: Google Maps and PayPal.
4. Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with any third parties. Payments are not processed directly through this website.
5. How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
6. What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
8. Contact information
For questions or concerns about our data privacy policy, please contact Marisa Geisler, ATLAS Operations Manager.
9. Additional information
a) How we protect your data
ATLAS uses technical and organizational security precautions to protect your data from manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons. We restrict access to personal information to ATLAS employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations.
b) What data breach procedures we have in place
Your information is stored on servers located in the United States. We and our agents who help us with hosting and security use a number of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to help protect your information. However, there is no such thing as perfect security. You agree that we are not responsible for the unlawful actions of third parties.
c) What third parties we receive data from
This website does not receive any data about users from third parties.
d) What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not conduct any automated decision making or profiling with user data.