Last Revised: October 22, 2024
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation (“HGF” “We” or “Us” or “Our”) respects and is committed to protecting your privacy, and this Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share personal data when you engage with us through the PJ Our Way Website and the PJ Our Way engagement program (referred to collectively as the “Service”).
Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected on third-party sites or by any third-party application that may link to or be accessible from the websites; if you click on a link to another website, please read their privacy notice.
- The Personal Information We Collect
- How We Use Personal Information
- How & When We Share or Disclose Personal Information
- Your Rights Over Your Personal Information
- How We Secure Personal Information
- Where We Store Personal Information
- How Long We Keep Personal Information
- Changes To the Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
The Personal Information We Collect
From the first moment you interact with us, we are collecting data. Sometimes you provide us with data, sometimes data about you is collected automatically.
If you are a new Subscriber, we’ll collect the following information when you first register with us:
- Parent/Guardian Full name
- Email address
- Mailing Address
- Child’s Full Name
- Child’s Date of Birth
- Child’s Username*
- Child’s Password
- Optional field: Child’s Pronouns
*Our PJ Our Way Website contains a mechanism that prevents users from creating usernames that contain their first or last names. Profile avatars are created by choosing from a pre-selected sampling of colors and designs, not images from users.
Public Areas. Our Service includes community areas, blogs, and other public forums (“Public Areas”) where users can share information, post book reviews, and ask questions. These areas are open to the public and should not be considered private, however, PJ Our Way educators moderate user submissions, including comments, videos, and blog posts to remove personal information before posting user submissions to the website. You can request that we remove your post by emailing us at info@pjourway.org, though we may not always be able to fulfill this request.
Cookies: Our website uses tracking technologies including cookies and action tags which may passively collect personal information while you use our Service. This may include tracking the web pages viewed; the last web page visited; the date and time you logged onto or accessed the Service; IP address; browser information; Internet and online usage information; general geolocation information; and activity on the Service.
Does HGF collect sensitive personal data? We don’t collect sensitive data about you like racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious/philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, health data, data about your sexual life or orientation, precise geolocation data, or offences or alleged offences except when we have your specific consent or when we must in order to comply with the law.
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information to operate and deliver our Service:
- To fulfill a requested transaction and provide the Service, such as sending out the monthly book selection to the Child’s home.
- To respond to questions or comments sent directly to us by email or by phone. To contact users for customer service purposes.
- To contact you about products and services that may be of interest to you and provide you with recommendations.
- To send users important service announcements and updates regarding the Service.
- To help us to evaluate and improve the Service by understanding who uses the Service and through statistical analysis of user behavior.
- To develop other products and Services.
How & When We Share or Disclose Personal Information
We share personal information with authorized service providers that perform certain services and functions on our behalf necessary to fully provide and improve the Services. These third-party service providers are contractually required not to use Personal Information we share other than to provide the Services requested by us.. We never sell personal information. Our service providers help us run our services including to help us understand who uses the Service; for internal operations such as general record keeping as well as operating and improving the Service; to perform statistical analysis of user behavior; to evaluate and improve the Service; to contact users for customer service purposes; to send users important service announcements and updates regarding the Service; and to develop other products and Services.
Partners. In connection with our operations and in providing the Service, we partner with philanthropists as well as educational, religious, and community programs and organizations. We may provide to these partners personally identifiable and additional collected information of our users so that our partners may contact users about products, services, events, and programming that may be of interest. Our partners only have access to personally identifiable and additional collected information for subscribers within that partner’s community.
Laws and Legal Rights. We may disclose your information (including personally identifiable information) if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with an applicable statute, regulation, rule or law, a subpoena, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other valid legal process. We may disclose personally identifiable information in special circumstances when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the PJ Our Way Terms of Use, to detect fraud, or to protect the safety and/or security of our users, the Service or the general public.
Your Rights Over Your Personal Information
We will only use your personal data for the purposes described above or as otherwise disclosed at the time we request such information from you. We will provide notice and request your “opt-in” consent to use your personal information for any other purpose. You may also change your preferences at any time by contacting us at: info@pjourway.org.
Please note that we are required to verify your identity before we can process any of the requests described in this Section; and at our discretion, deny your request if we are unable to verify your identity.
Right To Know & Access: You may request that we disclose:
- The categories and types of personal data collected.
- The categories of sources from which we collected personal data.
- The purposes for which we use personal data.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share the personal data.
Right to Correction: You have the right to correct inaccurate personal data and the right to have incomplete personal data completed. You can do this by emailing us at info@hgf.org.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request we delete any of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights, and you may exercise these rights at any time by contacting us in any of the following ways:
Email: info@pjourway.org
Telephone: 413-276-0800
Webforms:
https://pjlibrary.org/pj-near-you/change-your-address
https://pjlibrary.org/pj-near-you/unsubscribe
How We Secure Personal Information
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our websites; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Where We Store Personal Information
Personal information collected through the Service is stored in the United States. By accessing and using the Service and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily consent to the international transfer and hosting of such information. If you are a user accessing the Service from a jurisdiction with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from those of the United States, please be advised that all aspects of the Service are governed by the internal laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA, regardless of your location.
How Long We Keep Personal Information
We will only retain your information for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy; for as long as your account is active; or as needed to provide services to you.
HGF will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise described in this policy.
Changes To the Privacy Policy
This notice may change from time to time and your continued use of the website is deemed to be acceptance of such changes, so please check this notice periodically for updates.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us in any of the following ways:
By e-mail:
legal@hgf.org
By postal mail or courier:
Attn: Legal Department
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation
67 Hunt Street, Suite 100
Agawam, Massachusetts 01001
If you are a Canadian and, having shared your concerns with us, you are still not satisfied, you may file a complaint with your privacy regulator. For example, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada can be reached by mail at 30 Victoria Street Gatineau, Quebec K1A 1H3 or by calling 1 800 282 1376.
Since 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. For inquiries regarding our disclosure policy, please send us an email to legal@hgf.org, or write us at:
Attn: Legal Department
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation
67 Hunt Street, Suite 100
Agawam, Massachusetts 01001
We will be happy to honor your request.