Privacy Policy

The Free State Project, Inc. (FSP) (collectively, “we”, “us” or “our”) provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our websites about how we collect, use, and maintain information we collect or may collect about them. “Website(s)” or “Sites” includes the FSP worldwide web location, any sub-pages or mobile-optimized versions of other websites operated by FSP, whether or not explicitly stated. Your use of our website(s) is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect when you visit our website(s), how we use that information, and what choices you have about how it is used. Use of our website(s) constitutes acceptance of all terms contained herein. 

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

When you visit our website, we may collect certain personal identifying information (PII) from you, including, without limitation, your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and other contact information. Certain actions and areas on our Sites require providing of PII, including, without limitation;

• Making a donation
• Completing form submissions
• Registration or applications for an event or conference
• Making a purchase through our online store
• Volunteer opportunities
• Job opportunities and applications

We may also collect PII about your usage of our website, such as your IP address, browser type, and operating system, and other information associated with your PII such as interests, preferences, and demographics.

FSP and its affiliates control and make available its websites from its facilities in the United States of America. Those who access this website from outside the United States from other jurisdictions do so at their own risk and are solely responsible for compliance with their local laws. Information may be stored within the United States or elsewhere in FSP’s sole discretion.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We may use PII and other information we collect about you for purposes described in this policy or disclosed to you on our website(s) or in connection with our services. This includes, without limitation:

1. Operating and improving our website(s), products and services;
2. Responding to your inquiries, comments, questions, or requests;
3. Communicating with you about our services, promotions, and events
4. Personalizing your experience using our website(s), products and services;
5. Analyzing and monitoring usage of our website(s)
6. Compliance with legal obligations or investigations into illegal, fraudulent, or improper activity.

We may disclose your personal information to third-party service providers who assist us in providing our services, such as hosting providers, payment processors, and analytics providers. We may also disclose your personal information if required by law or to protect our legal rights.

Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

We may share your PII for the following purposes and under the following circumstances:

1. We may transfer your personally identifiable information and other information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture or disclosure of all or a portion of our assets to another party.
2. We may release, in our sole discretion, personal information to third parties: to (i) comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process, (ii) to protect the rights and property of FSP, our agents, customers, members, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies and terms of use or (iii) in an emergency to protect the personal safety of our employees, customers, or any person.

We may also provide aggregate statistics and de-identified data about our customers, including traffic patterns and related site information, to third parties for their own purposes, including statistical analysis.

If you do not wish to receive promotional and newsletter emails from us, you may click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email. If you opt-out of promotional or newsletter emails from us, we may continue to send you certain communications such as service announcements and administrative messages that relate to us and our website(s) that are necessary to our relationship with you. For all other requests for changes relating to your PII, including opting out of email and our sharing PII with our partners, please contact us at support@fsp.org.‬

Your Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

Please be aware when you connect and share your actions, comments, content and information, for example, through discussion board postings on our website(s), those actions are not private. Others may capture personal information you post, including your email address, and may use the data to identify or contact you, including to send you emails. We cannot control such actions by others. Please be mindful of your own privacy needs as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. If you share information about others, please be sure to respect their privacy and get consent for any information you may share about them.

Third Party Activities

If you submit or chose to share PII through a form or posting on any page of our website(s), choose to otherwise share your PII with a third party such as by connecting with social networking services, or click on a link on our website(s) to go to a third-party site that may collect information about you, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, including any marketing or other use of your PII by, those third parties. To learn more about any other company or organization’s privacy practices, we suggest you contact them directly about their privacy policy.

Do Not Track Disclosures

We do not respond to Do Not Track signals sent by various web browsers. To date, a clear standard has yet to be developed concerning these signals and how they should be treated by website operators. Thus, we do not respond to any Do Not Track signals sent by an individual user’s web browser. We are permitted pursuant to this Privacy Policy to share any information you provide through use of our website(s) with third parties. If you do not wish to consent to the provision of your PII in this manner, you should stop using our website(s) immediately and contact us at support@fsp.org to be removed from our database.

Third Party Advertising

We may also use third parties to collect information about our website visitors or to serve ads on our website(s). Certain third parties may automatically collect information about your visits to this and other websites, your IP address, your ISP, the browser you use to visit our website(s) (but not your name, address, email address or telephone number). They do this by using cookies, clear gifs, or other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our website(s) and the other sites tracked by these third parties. This policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, cookies or clear gifs in third party ads, and we encourage you to check the privacy policies of advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please go to http://www.networkadvertising.org.

You may opt-out of interest-based advertising by visiting http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/. Please note that this will only allow you to opt-out of tailored advertisements delivered by members of NAI and that we are not associated with or responsible for the management and processing of these requests.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about how our website is used, your usage of our website, and to personalize your experience. Your web browser may provide you with the ability to accept or decline cookies. If you decline cookies, some features of our website may be limited or not be available to you.

Company Ads on Third Party Sites

We may use information collected using third party cookies and Web beacons on our website(s) and in our emails to deliver advertising displayed to you on third party sites. We also may use cookie information to know when you return to our website(s) after visiting these third-party sites. We use this information and other information about you to try to understand your interests and show you relevant advertising about products and services you may be interested in.

Web Beacons and Server Logs

We, or a third party, may collect information using Web beacons. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on Company Sites or in our emails. We and these third parties use Web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon. These third parties have their own privacy policies that govern the use of the data collected, which may be different from this Privacy Policy.

Server logs capture certain non-personally identifying data, such as the time and date of a Web visit, the browser and operating system being used, and the Web URL a user linked from. This information is used in aggregate form to help us plan system enhancements when necessary and to provide content that is compatible with our visitors’ Web-browsing systems. We also collect information about keyword searches performed by visitors on our website(s). We may keep logs of all words searched to help us learn what kinds of information our website(s) visitors are seeking, and to improve our service to visitors.

Security and Privacy

We take commercially reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, and use. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, including through web pages or e-mail, is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. If you are concerned about any communication with us being intercepted, please consider contacting us via other means.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy along with our Terms and Conditions periodically.