Privacy Policy
Introduction
Start Early (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.StartEarly.org and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
- Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”). This information is collected directly from you when you provide it to us, including but not limited to, registrations for any product, service, or event on our Website; donations to Start Early made through the Website; subscriptions or purchases to receive one of our products or services; registrations to receive email subscriptions and/or e-newsletters and submission of a contact request.
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. This information is collected automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. If you make a donation to Start Early, we will ask for financial information such as a credit card number, expiration date, CVV number, billing address, and company name for payment processing (see our Donor Privacy Policy).
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
Information collected automatically may not directly identify you, but it may include identifiers, such as IP addresses and cookies or device identifiers, that may be considered personal information under applicable law. We may associate automatically collected information with other information we receive about you. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies and Similar Technologies. We, and our service providers, may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, and similar technologies to operate the Website, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the Website, evaluate communications, and support advertising activities. You may configure your browser to block or delete cookies, although doing so may affect certain Website features. Browser settings may not control every type of technology used on the Website.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
- Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to understand how visitors use our Website and to improve its performance, content, and services. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, interactions with the Website, device and browser information, approximate location, cookie or device identifiers, and IP addresses. Google may use automated technologies, including machine learning, to provide analytics and insights. For more information about how Google processes information from websites that use its services, please review Google’s privacy information. You may configure your browser to block or delete cookies or use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Blocking cookies may affect certain Website features.
- Interest-Based Advertising and Remarketing. We use Google Ads, Google Analytics advertising features, including Google Signals, and the Meta Pixel to measure advertising effectiveness, create advertising audiences, and display advertisements to people who have previously visited our Website or may be interested in our work. Start Early and these providers may use first-party and third-party cookies, pixels, device identifiers, and similar technologies together to collect information about Website visits and interactions and provide measurement, cross-device reporting, and interest-based advertising.
You may manage certain advertising preferences through Google’s My Ad Center, Meta’s Ad Preferences, or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. You may also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. These choices may not prevent all data collection or all advertising, and you may continue to receive advertisements that are not tailored to your interests.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, such as your name, email address and postal address:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- For our internal business purposes, Website analysis or administration, communications with users, order payment and fulfillment, order delivery.
- We specifically may use your email address to communicate with you about events, fundraising opportunities and other messages on other third-party platforms (like Facebook). If you do not wish for your information to be used in this way, you may contact us at Info@StartEarly.org to opt out.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- To compile a subscription list to which you voluntarily submit your name, mailing address, and/or email address. You will have the ability to opt out of further communications.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Start Early. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any linked website that you visit.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Start Early’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Start Early about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Start Early, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from Start Early. To opt out, you may contact us at Info@StartEarly.org.
Data Security
We maintain reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. We also require service providers that process personal information on our behalf to protect that information as required by applicable law and relevant contractual obligations. Our Website uses encryption, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS), to protect information transmitted between your browser and the Website.
No method of transmitting information over the internet or storing information is completely secure. Although We take reasonable measures to protect personal information, We cannot guarantee its absolute security. If a security incident occurs, We will investigate and provide notifications as required by applicable law.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will post the changes on the Website and the new Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon posting and will apply only to information collected thereafter. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
Start Early
1 N. Dearborn Street
Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60602
Info@StartEarly.org