Initiative Assets

Privacy Policy:

1. Preamble
2. Our Principles
3. Personal Information CC Collects
4. What CC does with the Personal Information
5. Disclosures of Personal Information
6. Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites; OpenID
7. Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information
8. Reorganization or Spin-Offs
9. Children
10. Third-Party Sites
11. Special Note to International Users
12. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
13. Using this Privacy Policy for Your Own Purposes
14. 3rd Parties

This Master Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information” by Initiative Assets. This Privacy Policy includes products and services provided through websites that Initiative Assets operates. Furthermore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of the websites operated by affiliates of Initiative Assets.

In addition, additional or supplemental Privacy Policy terms (“Supplemental Privacy Policy Terms”) may apply to a particular Website or service provided thereon. All such Supplemental Privacy Policy Terms will be accessible for you to read either within, or through your use of, that Website or service.

This Privacy Policy also explains our commitment to you with respect to our use and disclosure of non personal browsing and site usage data that Initiative Assets collects as the provider of the Websites. That commitment is contained in a “Data Usage Policy,” below.

As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address.

By accessing the Websites, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Principles

Initiative Assets is committed to handling responsibly the information and data we collect about you through our Websites, whether personal information or non personal browsing and site usage data. We have designed our Privacy Policy and our Data Usage Policy consistent with the following principles (the “Principles”):

1. Privacy policies and data collection and use policies should be human readable, comprehensive, and easy to locate;
2. Everything you post or submit to Initiative Assets is considered public. We do our best to keep personal information like your email address private, but the service is a social site and is designed to share information. So you should consider the information you share as public.
3. Like most sites Initiative Assets Websites use third party services. We don't control how those services use personal information you may have provided. Or how they use non personal information like your IP address. See the section 3rd party to see a list of known 3rd parties, this list might not be exhaustive. The 3rd party might have 3rd parties, etc it's cyberspace nothing is private anymore.

Personal Information Initiative Assets Collects

We may collect personal information at several places on the Websites, including without limitation:

• when you provide us with your personal information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or our events listing;
• when you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists or register to establish a user account on any of our Websites.
• when you donate money to us or purchase merchandise;
• when you join the Initiative Assets from any of our Websites, and when you thereafter create/edit your profile page, post your content, contribute to Initiative Assets; and
• when you provide personal information in connection with your participation in any of the forums we make available.

What Initiative Assets does with Personal Information

Emails and Newsletters. We use the personal information you provide to us when you send us emails or sign up to receive our newsletter or events listing in order to respond to your request — for example, to reply to your email or to send you communications about news and events related to Initiative Assets.

Initiative Assets Websites. When you join our network you provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile. We use that personal information to establish and maintain your accounts, provide you with the features we provide for account holders, and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Initiative Assets.

By joining the Initiative Assets network, you are also given a public profile page where you can voluntarily post personal information for public viewing. The information that you submit on your public profile page, including but not limited to information you provide and any photograph or image of yourself you upload, is posted by you at your discretion (although subject to Initiative Assets’s Master Terms of Service). The information you publish on your public profile page, including your personal information, may be used by anyone who views that information for any lawful purpose, with the exception of the text you insert in the “Your About Me” field and any photograph or image of yourself that you upload, which if you choose to provide in either case must be licensed under and becomes subject to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, as stated on the Edit Profile page. Initiative Assets may use the personal and non personal browsing information you provide in your public profile, including the text in the “Your About Me” field (subject to the terms of that license), to promote the mission of Initiative Assets Websites.

Participating in Our Community: Registered Users. When you register to obtain a user account on any of the Websites (any such person, a “Registered User”), you may be asked to provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile. If you voluntarily provide your real name in connection with any content you submit to any Website, your name may be associated with the content you contributed (such as when you edit a Wiki page). We will also use that personal information to establish and maintain your membership and provide you with the features we provide for Registered Users, and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Initiative Assets.

Any other personal information that we may collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.

Disclosures of Personal Information

In general, it is not Initiative Assets’ practice to disclose personal information to third parties. We may share personal information in three instances:

First, Initiative Assets may share personal information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the Websites.

Second, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (b) enforce or apply our Master Terms of Service and Privacy Policy; (c) comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (d) protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.

Third, Initiative Assets may sell transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets. Those assets might include access to personal information.

If Initiative Assets is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then provided we have collected and retained an email address for you, Initiative Assets will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or Initiative Assets is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites

Initiative Assets has implemented reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that Initiative Assets stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites if any such security breach occurs.

OpenID, has security risks in addition to those described above. Among other things, OpenID is vulnerable to DNS attacks, and using OpenID may increase the risk of phishing.

Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information

Our Data Usage Policy covers how we maintain and use information about you that is collected by our Websites and server logs.

Non Personal Browsing Information We Collect. When you use the Websites, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of your “IP address”) about your activities while visiting the Websites and information about the browser you are using. In addition, our servers (which, again, may be hosted by a third party service provider) keep a log of the websites you visit and when you visit them.

No Linking. We do not intentionally link browsing information to the personal information you submit to us. We use this information for internal purposes only, such as to help understand how the Websites are being used, to improve our Websites and the features we provide, and for systems administration purposes. Initiative Assets may use a third party analytics provider to help us collect and analyze non personal browsing information through operation of our Websites for those same purposes.

Notice. If Initiative Assets is required to provide a third party with your non personal browsing information or to log in on behalf of an OpenID user (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then Initiative Assets will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless Initiative Assets is prohibited by law from doing so or is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Any other non-personal information that we collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.

Reorganization or Spin-Offs

Initiative Assets may transfer some or all of your personal and/or non personal browsing information to a third party as a result of a reorganization, spin-off or similar transaction. Upon such transfer, the acquirer’s privacy policy will apply. In such event, Initiative Assets will use reasonable efforts to notify you and to ensure that at the time of the transaction the acquirer’s privacy policy complies with the Principles.

Children

The Websites are not directed at children under the age of 13. Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Our Master Terms of Service specifically prohibit anyone using our Websites from submitting any personally identifiable information about persons under 13 years of age. Any person who provides their personal information to Initiative Assets through the Websites represents that they are 13 years of age or older.

Third-Party Sites

The Websites may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.

Special Note to International Users

The Websites are hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Websites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States which does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and other regions. By providing your personal data you consent to:

• the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and
• the transfer of your personal data to the United States as indicated above.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

Using this Privacy Policy for Your Own Purposes

Initiative Assets Privacy Policy is derived from Creative Commons Privacy Policy available here, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. You are free to use and adapt this Privacy Policy for your own purposes. However, please keep in mind that this policy, as written, may not be completely suitable for your situation. Initiative Assets and Creative Commons strongly encourages you to seek the advice of your own attorney or counsel before using this Privacy Policy.

3rd Parties

The following should not be considered exhuastive, but is links to known third parties that might affect privacy.

• AdSense
• Google App Engine / Google Analytics
• Gravatar
• Automattic
• Facebook
• Twitter
• MANY OpenID Providers check the one you used

Effective Date: May 31st, 2012