Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: November 23, 2024
Last Updated: November 23, 2024
1. Introduction
Welcome to Mindscape Collective ("Company", "we", "us", or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website https://mindscapecollective.org (the "Site") and interact with our services. It also informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
By accessing or using our Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
2. Data Controller
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Mindscape Collective is the "Data Controller" of your personal data.
Contact Information:
3. Data We Collect About You
3.1 Personal Data
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:
- Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier, date of birth.
- Contact Data: Email address, postal address, telephone numbers.
- Profile Data: Your username and password, interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our Site, products, and services.
- Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, operating system, and platform.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
- User Content: Comments, posts, articles, saved content, and other materials you submit.
3.2 Special Categories of Personal Data
We do not intentionally collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, or health information). If you choose to provide such information in public areas of the Site, it will be visible to others.
3.3 If You Fail to Provide Personal Data
Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a contract, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (e.g., provide you with services).
4. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
- Direct Interactions: You may provide personal data when you create an account, post content, subscribe to our services, request support, or communicate with us.
- Automated Technologies: As you interact with our Site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and usage patterns.
- Third Parties or Public Sources: We may receive personal data about you from analytics providers, advertising networks, search information providers, or social media platforms if you link your account.
5. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To Perform a Contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
- With Your Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
- Account Management: To register you as a new user.
- Service Delivery: To provide and maintain our services, including user-generated content features.
- Communication: To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
- Personalization: To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you.
- Analytics: To use data analytics to improve our Site, products/services, marketing, and user relationships.
- Security: To administer and protect our business and the Site, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, court orders, or defend legal claims.
6. Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the following parties:
6.1 Service Providers
Third-party service providers who provide IT and system administration services, analytics providers, and marketing services.
6.2 Professional Advisors
Lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
6.3 Legal Authorities
Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities under certain circumstances.
6.4 Third Parties
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets.
7. International Transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection by implementing at least one of the following safeguards:
- Standard Contractual Clauses: We may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
- Consent: Where you have given explicit consent to the proposed transfer after being informed of any potential risks.
8. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.
Despite our efforts, no security measures are completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data.
9. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.
10. Your Legal Rights Under GDPR
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
- Right to Access: Request access to your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
- Right to Restrict Processing: Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your personal data to you or a third party.
- Right to Object: Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on legitimate interests.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
Exercising Your Rights
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at support@mindscapecollective.org.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data.
11. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.
12. Children's Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child , we will take steps to delete such information.
13. Third-Party Links
Our Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Effective Date."
15. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:
16. Right to Complain
If you are located in the European Economic Area and believe we have not complied with applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence.
