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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 20, 2023

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RL3 Foundation, Inc respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the types of Personal Information we collect, regardless of the manner in which it is provided, including, but not limited to information provided by you through mail, email, telephone, mobile phone (including applications or text messages), and on websites and other digital platforms, or however else you may interact with us. This Policy applies to all RL3 Foundation Services that link to this Privacy Policy, regardless of the platform or device used; it describes all Personal Information collected, used, transmitted, disclosed, stored, or maintained by us, including both electronic and paper records.

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Please read this Policy carefully to fully understand how we collect, use, share, and protect your Personal Information. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services.

This Privacy Policy explains:

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  • What information we or third parties may collect when you use the RL3 Foundation Platforms;

  • Our use of cookies and other technology on our web-based Platforms;

  • How we may use and share information we collect about you; and

  • The choices we offer, including how to access and update information and make related requests.

 

Information We Collect and Use

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For purposes of this Policy, “Personal Information” is any information that identifies, related to, or describes, directly or indirectly, an individual or household. In the course of operating our Platforms and delivering our products and services, we collect, and process categories of Personal Information described below. We use this information for typical business and commercial purposes (including compliance with legal obligations and use for auditing, security, and anti-fraud purposes) and as described more specifically below.

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Sensitive Data and Automated Decision-Making: At this time, RL3 Foundation does not knowingly try to gather sensitive categories of data about individual users or engage in profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning individual users.

Information You Give Us. When you interact with us in person (including at live events) or use the RL3 Foundation Platforms, we may collect and store Personal Information you provide, including:

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  • Personal Identifiers. We receive personal identifiers (such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, social media identifiers, user account details, and similar identifiers) and use them to respond to and complete your requests, fulfill your orders for products and services (e.g., signing you up for email lists), and to communicate with you for informational purposes (including sending you order confirmations, notices, updates, invoices, and security alerts) and marketing purposes (including sending you news, promotions, event reminders, or information about the newsletter you enrolled in). We may also create internal identification and reference codes to identify you in our electronic systems. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or update your preferences (see “Your Rights and Opt-Out Choices,” below).

  • Communications and Submissions You Send Us. We collect the information and content you submit through contact, sign-up, surveys, and purchase forms, through your posts and interactions on social media platforms, and through email and telephone communications and other submissions to us through our Services (including social media interactions, enrollment in the newsletter, and responses to RL3 Foundation communications). We use this information to respond to and fulfill your requests, establish and manage our client relations and customer service, and to provide and improve our websites, products, and services.

  • Financial Information as Needed for Purchase. If you purchase goods or services from us, we will receive financial information such as payment card information and possibly bank account information and ACH account information as well as other billing information as needed to process payments for products and services you purchase. This is separate from our privacy policy and relates specifically to the privacy policy of the merchant used to process the payment (e.g., PayPal, Stripe, Square, etc.).

  • Commercial Information. We collect and generate commercial information and transaction information (such as records of products and services purchased on our websites, services you have enrolled in, and purchases made using a third-party merchant). We use this information to respond to and fulfill orders, improve our product and service offerings, communicate with you and with service providers, tailor our marketing efforts, and for internal reporting purposes.

  • Audio and Visual Information. If you choose to share audiovisual content like photos, videos, and music demos with us through our Services, we may collect that content, and my use it on RL3 Foundation platforms such as website, social media, or printed material for foundation promotional purposes only.

  • Privacy Choices. We receive and retain any opt-outs or other choices related to how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Information.

 

Information Third Parties Provide About You. We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect about you online with outside records from third parties to enhance our ability to serve you, to offer you opportunities to engage with RL3 Foundation. These third-party sources include:

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  • Social Networks and Publicly Available Data. If you log on to the RL3 Foundation website or social media platforms using a third party social media account (e.g., Facebook or Google), or if you interact with us through a social media function such as a plug-in (e.g., a Facebook “like” button) then you may be permitting us to have ongoing access to some information from your social network profile (such as your name, email address, your friend list, photo, age, gender, location, birthday, social networking ID, current city, and the people/sites you follow).

  • Information Collected from Affiliates. We may collect information about you from RL3 Foundation affiliates’ websites, apps, and other places where we show you ads from sponsors. We may collect information from these services such as personal identifiers, commercial information, and other generally available information.

  • Information Other Users Provide About You. Other users may provide us your personal identifiers (such as your email address) or other information to invite you to use the RL3 Foundation Platforms or share an article or other content from the RL3 Foundation Platforms with you. In this case, we will only use the information for the purposes for which it was provided.

  • Events. We may collect information about you from third parties that hold events on our behalf which you may attend or participate in. Such information may include personal identifiers and commercial information.

  • Other Information We Collect. We also may collect other information about you, your device, or your use of the services in ways that we describe to you at the point of collection or otherwise with your consent. You may choose not to provide us with certain types of information, but doing so may affect your ability to use some of the RL3 Foundation Platforms.

 

Information We Get from Your Use of The RL3 Foundation Platforms. We collect information about the RL3 Foundation Platforms that you use and how you use them, like when you watch a video, open one of our newsletters, interact with us on social media, use a third-party merchant to make purchases, or view and interact with our sponsor ads and content (collectively, “Usage Information”). We use this information to provide and improve our services, tailor our marketing efforts, and to create aggregate internal reports on website usage and activity, such as views of certain pages and content. Usage Information includes:

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  • Device Information. We may collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information, including phone number).

  • Browsing Information. This includes the URL that referred you to the RL3 Foundation Platforms, the areas within the RL3 Foundation Platforms that you visit, how long you spend on the RL3 Foundation Platforms, and the time of day of your visit.

  • IP Address. An IP address is a string of numbers associated with the device you use to access the Internet, which may be used to identify and locate your network location or to infer your general location (e.g.zip code or state).

  • Inferences from the information listed above. We may use the information listed above to draw inferences about your preferences and characteristics to help us understand our viewers behaviors to allow us to develop and provide better engagement and services.

 

Automatic Collection of Information from Cookies and Other Technology. We and our partners use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit the RL3 Foundation Platforms, which we use for the same purposes as Usage Information and to help us understand and improve the usage of our websites and emails. This automatic information collection may include using cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or device:

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  • Cookies. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies.

  • Mobile Identifiers. We may use software development kits (“SDKs”) or mobile advertising identifiers (i.e., IDFA on Apple mobile devices or Advertising ID on Android mobile devices), which function similarly to cookies on mobile devices. You may reset your IDFA or Advertising ID in the settings on your mobile device.

  • Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs,” “one-pixel GIFs,” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our web pages and e-mail messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a web page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to the RL3 Foundation Platforms, to monitor how users navigate the RL3 Foundation Platforms, to make cookies more effective, to count how many e-mails that were sent were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.

 

** Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, and how to disable existing cookies.

 

Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit the RL3 Foundation Platforms. Please note, however, that without cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all the RL3 Foundation Platforms and some parts of the RL3 Foundation Platforms may not function properly.

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Note Regarding Retention of Personal Information Collected Online. RL3 Foundation uses the following business and legal criteria in determining whether it may reasonably retain Personal Information and related records collected online (e.g., websites and mobile devices, online platforms, and user interactions with our advertisements): (i) applicable laws (including those mandating retention data and records for certain periods of time); (ii) the existence of an applicable legal hold or other substantial need to protect and defend the rights of RL3 Foundation, you, or any third party; (iii) our ongoing assessment of the currency of the data, the need to retain it in order to fulfil a contract or other agreement, or to meet our specific business requirements (including maintenance and improvement of any online Services); and (iv) our balancing of reasonable risk considerations related to the ongoing retention and use of specific categories of data.

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How We Disclose Personal Information

 

Outside RL3 Foundation:

  • Service Providers. We share any of the Personal Information described above with service providers (including mailing and fulfillment vendors, payment processors, and service-related technology providers) that provide services to you and us, including to help us maintain our databases and websites, administer emails, display content, and analyze website usage activity. For example, we may provide your personal identifiers to print and communications vendors so they can send you communications on our behalf. We may also provide Personal Information, including personal identifiers, commercial information, and Usage Information to our service providers for fraud detection.

  • Other Third Parties. We may share your personal identifiers and commercial information with advertising partners that use various technologies to send (or serve) relevant ads to users on the RL3 Foundation Platforms, or on platforms or websites operated by third parties.

  • Social Networks. You may interact with certain features of the RL3 Foundation Platforms that cause certain categories of Personal Information to be published to your social networks. To understand the precise categories of Personal Information shared in this manner, please review the privacy policies of the relevant social networks and/or log out of the applicable service before you use our online services.

  • Legal and Similar Disclosures. We may disclose Personal Information about you with law enforcement, the courts, our advisors, attorneys, and others who participate in the legal process, if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to enforce or apply our contracts, conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect us, the users of the websites, or others.

 

Otherwise with Your Consent or At Your Direction. In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.

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Your Rights and Opt-Out Choices

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We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information.

  • Email, Text Messages, and Other Promotional Communications. When you receive newsletters, RL3 Foundation messages, or promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further these communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each communication you receive or by contacting us directly at info@RL3Foundation.com. Regardless of your indicated email preferences, we may send you administrative emails regarding the RL3 Foundation Platforms, including, for example, notices of updates to our Terms or this Privacy Policy.

 

Please note that even if you choose to remove your information or “opt-out,” your usage of our platforms may still be collected for research, analytics or internal operations purposes.

 

Submitting Privacy Rights Request (Where Eligible)

 

Some U.S. states have privacy laws that grant residents the right to make requests regarding how their personal information is collected, used, and shared. RL3 Foundation seeks to comply with applicable law and to respect the wishes of its users.

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When you submit a request, we may require that you provide information and follow procedures so that we can verify the request and your jurisdiction before responding to it. The verification steps we take may differ depending on the request you make and the information we have about you. We will match the information that you provide in your request to information we already have on file to verify your identity. Please provide as much of the requested information as possible. We will only use the information received in a request for the purposes of responding to the request. If we cannot verify your request, we may ask you for additional information.

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Where permitted by law, you may submit a request through an authorized agent or other legal representative. We require the authorized agents to provide proof of written permission showing the authorized agent has authority to submit a request. An authorized agent must follow the process described below to make a request. We may additionally require the authorized agent to verify his/her own identity.

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Consent to Processing and Transfer of Information

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RL3 Foundation is a United States company and the RL3 Foundation Platforms are provided from the United States. If you are a user who resides outside the United States, please be aware that information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the RL3 Foundation Platforms, or providing us with any information, you consent to the collection, processing, maintenance and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other applicable countries in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as, or equivalent to, those in the country where you reside and/or are a citizen.

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How We Protect Your Information

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We maintain procedural, technical, and physical safeguards to help protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of the Personal Information you provide via the RL3 Foundation Platforms. Unfortunately, no transmission of data is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under our control to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully. Therefore, any transmission of Personal Information to us is made at your own risk. If you believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please notify us using the contact details below.

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Third Party Links

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The RL3 Foundation Platforms contain links to third party websites/services for your convenience and/or information (for example, sites linking via banner ads). If you access other sites using the links provided, you may leave the RL3 Foundation Platforms. When you access these other sites, please understand that the operators of these websites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policies and terms of use, which may differ from ours. We do not endorse or control the policies or practices of third-party websites that we do not control or operate.

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You should always carefully read the privacy policy of any site you access in order to understand their specific privacy and information usage practices.

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Rights of Minors

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Except where otherwise indicated, we do not knowingly collect or store any Personal Information from children under the age of 16. Parents or guardians who believe their child under the age of 16 has provided us with information without parental consent should contact us at info@RL3Foundation.com so that we can take steps to delete the information within a reasonable time.

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Updates to this Privacy Policy

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From time to time, we may revise this Policy to reflect changes in the law or technology, or changes in our practices regarding information collection and use. If we make material revisions to the way we collect or use your Personal Information so that we are using it for purposes or sharing data with third parties that you have not consented to, we will provide you with notice of those changes and may do so by announcing the change through the RL3 Foundation Platforms. You agree that we may notify you about material changes in the way we treat Personal Information by placing a notice on the RL3 Foundation Platforms. You should check our online services frequently for updates.

Any changes to this Policy will become effective as of the Effective Date on the top of this page. By continuing to use the RL3 Foundation Platforms after the most current Effective Date, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, as it may be amended from time to time, in whole or in part, please do not continue to use the RL3 Foundation Platforms.

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Additional Terms

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This Policy may be supplemented by additional terms, privacy statements, or notices that explain how we collect, use and share information in specific circumstances (“Additional Terms”). For example, Additional Terms explain how RL3 Foundation, and its service providers collect and use information related to payment processing. Other Additional Terms may contain details about how we collect Personal Information in specific contexts, like our collection of resume and career interest information, or information related to volunteer management services.

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