Last Updated: July 21, 2020
NWA Community Cohesion Project (NWACCP) is a website provided and moderated by the Northwest Arkansas Council (“Council”). This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how the Council collects, uses, protects, and shares personal information of users of this website, www.nwaccp.com (the “Site”). The Council is an Arkansas nonprofit corporation that exists to provide users of the Site with resources and information to further the economic development in Northwest Arkansas and the surrounding region (“Services”).
WHAT WE COLLECT & HOW WE USE IT
We respect your information and our goal is to collect as little user information as possible while still providing a quality service to you. Community Cohesion Project exists to celebrate the diversity of Northwest Arkansas and to create a more inclusive and connected environment for all. We receive and store information about both organizations and individuals in a range of ways.
Information You Give Us. We collect information when you submit a listing to our Site – namely your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, website domain name, business information, social media profile handles, identifying images (such as logos or site photographs for a business), and profile information, as well as other information you directly provide on our Site so that we can provide information about your products, services, and events that you want us to provide to the community.
Information We Get From Others. We may get information about you from other sources to further customize your experience, such as updating the website based upon recently viewed posts on the Site. We may add this to information we get from this Site.
Information Automatically Collected. We automatically log information about you and your computer. For example, when visiting our Site, we log IP address, date and time of access, location information, browser information, operating system information, and information about your use of and actions on our Site. While you use our site, we also collect information related to how you interact with us, such as your path through our Site, search terms you may use on the Site, or how long you interact with our Site. This information allows us to update our services and learn how we can better equip the Site to serve you. Finally, we may receive information from you, such as a confirmation, when you open emails from us if you have a listing with the Site. This confirmation helps us make our communications with you more interesting and helps us improve communications.
Cookies. We log information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. This type of information is collected to make the Site more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs.
We may also use the information we collect to more effectively respond to your service needs. Any data or information we collect will never be shared except under the circumstances discussed in this Policy.
YOUR CHOICES
We may contact you if we have to request additional information from you, to notify you of opportunities, or to alert you to feedback from the community. You have a choice whether or not you wish to receive this information from us. If you do not want to receive communications from us, you can remove your listing by contacting [email protected]. We will not contact passive users, or users without business listings, of the Site.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The goal of NWA Community Cohesion Project is to provide information on services, organizations, businesses, and events of interest to the users of the Site. If you request that we add your business, event, services, or organization’s information to the Site, this content may also be viewable by other users of this Site.
We do not sell or trade your personal information with others. We may share personal information with third parties for the following reasons:
- We may share personal information with your consent. For example, if you submit a business listing, we may share that on our site.
- We may share aggregate or anonymous data (data that has had personally identifying characteristics, such as your name or address, removed so that you cannot be identified) with third parties for advertising purposes for our events, services, or products and as part of providing our Services
- We may share personal information provided in the listings submitted by you or aggregate or anonymous data of our passive users to our community partners for the purposes of applying for grant funding or to identify needs of the community we serve.
- We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes.
- We may share information to comply with laws.
- We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal processes.
- We may share information to protect the rights and property of the Northwest Arkansas Council, our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use.
- We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
- We may share information with those who need it to do work for us.
STORAGE OF INFORMATION
Your information collected through the Site is processed in the United States. If you are based in the United States and use our Site, you consent to have your data processed by the Council in the United States. International clients have differing needs based on their country of origin and we provide custom storage and processing solutions to meet those requirements.
The Council maintains strict administrative, technical, and physical procedures to protect information processed via our servers. Access to information is limited to those employees who require it to perform their job functions. We use industry-standard technology to safeguard the information we collect from you.
INFORMATION CHOICES AND CHANGES
Some users may not like the use of cookies to collect information or may choose to change their privacy settings when they use the internet. You can typically remove and reject cookies from our Site with your browser settings. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our Site works for you.
CHILDREN
The NWA Community Cohesion Project Site exists to equip adults with resources, events, and community so they can discover opportunities of interest to them. Our Site is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information directly from children. Please contact us at [email protected] if you believe we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13 so that we may delete such data as soon as possible.
CONTACT INFORMATION.
We welcome your comments or questions about this privacy policy.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
The Services and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for the Council to make changes to this Privacy Policy. The Council reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. We will notify you by means of a notice on this Site of any material changes to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Services after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
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