Privacy Statement
Facing the Future is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Facing the Future website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Facing the Future website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Facing the Future collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. Facing the Future also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, and interests.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Facing the Future. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Facing the Future for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Facing the Future website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Facing the Future public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Facing the Future does not read any of your private online communications.
Facing the Future encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Facing the Future so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Facing the Future is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Facing the Future and Facing the Future family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
Facing the Future collects and uses your personal information to operate the Facing the Future website and deliver the services you have requested. Facing the Future also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Facing the Future and its affiliates. Facing the Future may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Facing the Future does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Facing the Future may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Facing the Future may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Facing the Future, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Facing the Future does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Facing the Future keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Facing the Future in order to determine what Facing the Future services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Facing the Future to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Facing the Future websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Facing the Future or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Facing the Future; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Facing the Future or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Facing the Future website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time by telling the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Facing the Future pages or register with Facing the Future site or services, a cookie helps Facing the Future to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information such as billing or shipping addresses. When you return to the same Facing the Future website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Facing the Future features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Facing the Future services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Facing the Future secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Facing the Future secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Facing the Future will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Facing the Future encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Facing the Future is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Facing the Future welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Facing the Future has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at office@facingthefuture.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.