PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: 5/31/2024
This Privacy Policy explains how Emissary (“Emissary,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or “ours”) collects, stores, uses, and discloses information about you when you use our website https://app.emissary4all.org/ (the “Site”), our mobile application (the “App”), and our other products and/or services (collectively, the “Services”). By using our Site, App, or Services, you are acknowledging that you have read, understood, and accept this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS THE SITE, APP, OR SERVICES.
This Privacy Policy does not extend to anyone whose personal information is not under our control or management, including data that is collected by other websites that you may visit before or after the Site and which are not governed by this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy also does not apply to any third-party advertising systems, exchanges, networks, or mobile applications that Emissary has a relationship with, including but not limited to social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X, or LinkedIn. We are not responsible for the data protection or privacy policies of any other entities, and accept no responsibility or liability for those policies. Please carefully check the policies of other websites and services you use before you visit or submit personal information.
Our Site, App, and Services are directed only to United States residents.
What Personal Information Is Collected and Received.
Personal Information We Collect and Receive. In order for you to use our Site, App, and Services, we may collect and process certain types of personal information. Depending on your use of our Site, App, and Services, this may include:
Personal information and identifiers that you actively provide to us, such as your name, location, email address, username, password, social media account information, biographical information, and interests;
Information about your activity when using our Site, App, and Services. This may include information we collect from your Internet activity or the device you use, such as your IP address, the type of device or browser you use, and information about your interaction with the Site, App, and Services;
Social media accounts. We integrate with certain social media platforms. If you add your social media information to your account, this allows us to collect your personal information from these social media platforms.
Physical characteristics or descriptions. For example, if you upload a photograph of yourself or your ID;
Information about your geolocation, such as physical location based on IP address, device data, or region; and
Inferences we draw from your personal information, such as a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics, and behavior with our Site, App, or Services.
Please note that personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy does not include aggregate information from which individual identities have been removed.
Personal Information from Children. Emissary does not knowingly solicit or collect any personal information from anyone under 18 years of age, and children under 18 are not permitted to register for or use our Site, App, or Services. If we become aware that a child under the age of 18 has provided us with their personal information, we will delete it.
How Personal Information Is Collected and Received.
We collect personal information directly from you. In order to provide the Site, App, and Services, we may also receive personal information about you from others, as further described below:Personal Information You Provide Directly. We collect your personal information that you provide to us directly when you take actions such as filling out a form on our Site or in our App; registering for an account with us; contacting us by email, letter, phone, or chat; interacting with us on social media; or interacting with our Site, App, or Services.
Personal Information From Third-Party Platforms. If you interact with us or our Services through social media, we may receive your personal information from the social media company. For example, if you post a comment to our Facebook page, we may receive your profile information and other information associated with your Facebook account from Meta. In addition, you have the option to link certain of your social media accounts to Emissary. If you choose this option, you are asking the third-party platform to send us information, including personal information, from your profile, posts, and activities on that platform.
Automatically Collected Personal Information – Browsers and Devices. We collect information that is sent to us automatically by your device or web browser, such as your IP address and information about your device and browsing history.
Automatically Collected Personal Information Cookies and Tracers. We or our partners may use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels, ad tags and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off, and across the Site and different Services and devices. A cookie is a small file that is placed onto your device (e.g., computer, smartphone or other electronic device) that stores information when you visit a website. Cookies are also used to enable certain website features and functionalities. You can control certain cookies through your browser settings and other tools. Depending on your mobile device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies.
Types of Cookies: The cookies fall into one of the following two categories:
Session cookies: these allow our Site to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards.
Persistent cookies: these are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our Site to be remembered. These will remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your cache.
The cookies may also be:
Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for you to be able to navigate our Site and use their features. Without these cookies, we could not provide you with the Site.
Performance cookies: these cookies collect information about how you use our Site, for example, which pages you go to most often and are used to improve how our Site work.
Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our Site to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action, and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other website.
Marketing cookies: also known as advertising cookies, these cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our Site, App, and Services and help measure the effectiveness of our and our partners’ advertising campaigns. This is sometimes referred to as online behavioral advertising. In some cases, our partners may use cookies to provide us with information about your interactions with their services or we may allow our partners to put cookies on our Site, App, or Services, and your information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Those thirdparty cookies would be subject to the third party service’s policies.
Your browser may give you the ability to control some types of cookies. If you do not want to accept the kinds of cookies you can control, you can change your browser settings so that certain types of cookies are not accepted. If you turn off any cookies, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the Site or Services.
To learn about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources, at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) resources at www.aboutads.info/choices. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some – but not all – interest-based ads served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.
Please note that if you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising.
How We Use Personal Information.
We may use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:To meet any contractual obligations with you;
To provide and deliver our App, Services, and Site and related support;
To allow you to log into and access your account;
To keep your information and our systems secure such as by detecting security incidents and fraud, and to be able to verify your identity and contact information;
To alert you about updates, promotions, events, and other news, services, and information from us, our partners, or others, including through targeted advertising;
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our content, Site, App, and Services;
To ensure our content, Site, App, and Services are functional, efficient, and relevant to you and your interests;
To respond to your inquiries and requests;
To promote Emissary and to further our mission;
To infer users’ likely interests and demographic information;
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations;
To enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, and our rights; and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties; and
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
How Personal Information May Be Disclosed.
We do not sell or rent any of your personal information, and we do not share your personal information publicly without your consent. We disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:To our service providers: We rely on certain trusted thirdparty service providers to provide, process, improve, promote, or protect our Site, App, and Services. These service providers do things like help us store your data, process your payments, deliver the Site, App, and/or Services to you, improve our advertising, and secure our systems.
To other entities related to Emissary: We may disclose personal information to our related companies, such as affiliates, subsidiaries, or other companies that control or that are under common control with us.
To our partners: We may disclose personal information to our thirdparty partners or allow those partners to collect information from you directly. We may do this in furtherance of our mission and/or for business or marketing purposes, including to promote products, services, or events through cross-context behavioral advertising. Please note that the practices of third parties are subject to those companies’ own privacy policies.
In the event of a change in control: We may disclose personal information to other companies for the purpose of evaluating or conducting a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
As necessary or otherwise required by law: We also reserve the right to disclose personal information when it is reasonably necessary to conduct our business, protect our legal rights and property, and to comply with the law.
At your direction, request or consent: We may disclose or allow access to your personal information if you otherwise consent, request, or direct us to do so.
Protection of Your Personal Information.
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We have therefore put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal information that we collect.
Please remember, however, that the safety and security of your personal information also depend on you. Where you have chosen, or where we have given you, a user name and password for access to certain parts of the Site, App, and Services, you are responsible for keeping the user name and password confidential and for using secure connections. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Data Transfers.
Because Emissary is based in the United States, your personal information may be collected and processed in the United States. Additionally, as part of the Site, App, and Services offered to you, information that we receive about you may be transferred to and stored in one or more countries other than where you currently reside. For example, this may occur if any of our servers or thirdparty service providers are located in a country other than yours. These countries may have different data protection laws than your current residence. However, if we transfer your personal information in this way, we will put in place appropriate protection to make sure it is treated in line with this Privacy Policy.
Mobile and Email Notifications.
We try to give you the ability to optout of the marketing communications we may send. For example, we may send you marketing email relating to the Site, App, or Services we offer. You may also elect to receive certain marketing communications in accordance with your preferences. If you wish to optout of these marketing communications, you may email us at info@emissary.com or click the link at the bottom of one of our marketing emails to unsubscribe.
Regardless of your marketing communication preferences, we may still contact you for transactional, operational, or informational purposes, such as for customer service, reminders, or information regarding the Site, App, or Services you are using.
Retention.
We will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary to perform the processing activity for that information, as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us, or as required or allowed by law. The relevant retention period is determined on a casebycase basis because it depends on things like the nature of the data, why it is collected, why it is processed, and any legal or operational retention needs. For example, we may retain your data for as long as you use our App or Services. When the relevant processing activity has been completed, we may destroy your data, or alternatively anonymize the data such that the data is not personally identifiable. We do not have any obligation or liability to you or any other party with respect to personal information that is deleted or destroyed.
Special Notice to Nevada Residents.
We do not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to third parties. However, if you are a resident of Nevada and would like to submit a request not to sell your personally identifiable information, you may do so by emailing us at info@emissary.com.
Questions, Comments, or Complaints.
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, we invite you to contact us at info@emissary.com. If you have an applicable disability, you may also contact us to request access to this Privacy Policy in an alternative format.
Updates and Changes to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 5/31/2024. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updates to this Privacy Policy will not apply retroactively. By continuing to use our Site, App, and/or Services and/or submitting your personal information after a change, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy.