The policies below are applicable to the website located at www.tyndale.foundation (the “Website”) and any other websites under the control of Tyndale House Foundation, however the Website is accesses and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices, or otherwise, and other interactive features, or downloads that are operated by Tyndale House Foundation (“we” and “us”) that are made available by us. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply only to information gathered online at our Website. They do not apply to information that you may submit to us offline or to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link.
The following policies outline the ways in which we collect, store and use personally identifiable information in providing our products and services. It also explains our use of cookies. We do not collect information on visitors to our Site under the age of 16. Except for very limited exceptions we do not share any personally identifiable information with third parties.
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time. Therefore, you should review it periodically so that you are up to date on our policies and practices.
Information Collection and Use
Information Collected
We may collect information that identifies you (“Personal Data”) when you use the Website which includes:
Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title and gender.
Contact Data includes mailing address, email address and telephone numbers.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in type and version, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
Profile Data includes your username and password, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our Website and services.
Professional Data includes information about your past or current employment related information.
Education Data includes information about your past or current educational related information provided that is not publicly available.
As a general matter, you can browse the Website without submitting Identity and Contact Data to us. However, there are several circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your Personal Data. The following lists the most common ways in which we collect your Personal Data.
- When you register for an account on the Website
- When you participate in surveys or research;
- When you register for and participate in our programs, activities, initiatives and events;
- When you request information or assistance;
- In conjunction with processing your grant applications;
- In conjunction with your employment inquiries or applications;
- In conjunction with any verification of your account information;
- In conjunction with investigations into any activity that may violate the law or the Website’s terms and conditions;
- When you communicate with us through the Website;
In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
HOW WE COMBINE YOUR INFORMATION
We may combine information gathered from the Website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by the Foundation and information that currently exists in our files- into a single user record. We also use and/or combine information that we collect offline or receive from third-party sources (e.g., contact information from grantor information) to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your used record.
Use of Collected Information
We use the information we learn from you to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the Website. We use your Personal Data and anonymized data to:
- Respond to your inquiries;
- Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and sending you information about features on our Website or about the Foundation;
- Communicate with you about changes to our policies;
- Correspond with you via email or another medium regarding program initiatives, activities and events;
- Process your grant application;
- Registration for events;
- Optimize or improve our programs, services and/or operations;
- Research and development;
- Verify your account and account activities;
- Investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
- Perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Website and their usage patterns; and
- Managing our organization
You may choose not to receive additional information at any time by using the corresponding opt-out procedure or by contacting Tyndale House Foundation at the email address provided below. We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organization and agents for the purposes described above. Contact us at: Do Not Sell My Personal Information to opt-out from having your personal information shared.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Tyndale House Foundation adheres to the highest standards of ethical practices in all our operations and is dedicated to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our Website. Except as disclosed below, we don’t sell, barter, give away, rent, or permit anyone outside Tyndale House Foundation to use or access your Personal Data, and in all cases, we only share your Personal Data where it is in the legitimate interest of furthering the philanthropic aims of Tyndale House Foundation.
We occasionally use independent contractors and third-party agents, affiliates, and partners to perform functions such as marketing, analytics, providing customer service, etc., on our behalf. These entities have access to the Personal Data needed to perform their functions and are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of any Personal Data collected from the Website. They are restricted from using, selling, distributing or altering this data in any way other than to provide the requested services to Tyndale House Foundation.
From time to time, we may also occasionally share your Personal Data with our organization and funding partners, grantees or fiscal sponsors of our programs, activities, initiatives and events. We endeavor to share your Personal Data only with partners, grantees and fiscal sponsors who will respect your Personal Data. Although our treatment of your Personal Data is governed by this Privacy Policy, our partner or fiscal sponsor’s treatment of your Personal Data will be governed by the partner or fiscal sponsor privacy policy. You may withdraw your consent to our sharing of your Personal Data with partners and co-sponsors at any time by following the opt-out process described below.
We may also use or disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Website, or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, our agents, or the users or the Website or the public.
We will not sell your personal data or any other information we collect about your activity on our Site.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal data information as required by law, when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, to comply with a legal obligation or a request from governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing the Site, or to protect the legal rights, interests, or safety of Tyndale House Foundation, the Site, our users or others.
YOUR CONSENT
By providing us with your personal data, you consent to the collection and use of this information in accordance with the purposes described above and this Privacy Policy.
Links to Other Sites
This site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Tyndale House Foundation. We are not responsible for the use of cookies or the privacy practices or content of such other sites. Please consult the linked sites’ respective terms of use for more information.
COOKIES POLICY
Our Site uses several cookies. By using our Site, you agree that we may place these and other similar types of cookies on your device and access them when you visit the site in the future.
Cookies enable us to do a number of things to make your visit and future visits to the site more enjoyable. For example, cookies allow a visitor to quickly log on to a site he/she has used before by storing a password. By tracking how many people visit our Site and where they go, we are able to determine which part of the Site users like the best, which part needs some improvement and what changes should be made. By obtaining this information, we are able to continually improve our Site and bring you the best online experience possible.
Although the cookie itself does not collect any personally identifiable information about a visitor, and Tyndale House Foundation does not use cookies in order to obtain such information, the cookie can be used to determine the IP address of the visitor’s Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity to the Internet. Tyndale House Foundation may also disclose some of the non-personally identifiable information we obtain to advertisers to inform them how many people have seen or linked to their advertisements on our Site.
However, we do not disclose personally identifiable information to these advertisers. Visitors may also receive cookies from third parties, but Tyndale House Foundation cannot control the content of these cookies.
For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org
Our site can contain pixel tags, web beacons, and clear gifs embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, allow a web server to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether and when you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the IP addresses of your computer and the URL of the web page from which the pixel tag was viewed.
You should consult your browser owner’s manual for instructions on how to refuse cookies.
HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take commercially reasonable measures to ensure that the personal data you disclose to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and is kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
By using the Site, you expressly acknowledge and agree that, in the framework of the processing of personal data, such information can be transferred to countries which do not offer a similar level of protection for personal data as your country of residence, and specifically to the United States.
For Resident of the European Union (“EU”)- General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and share your personal information. If you are a resident of the EU, you are subject to the GDPR, and the following terms also apply to you. We are the Controller and responsible for your Personal Data.
Purposes and Lawful Bases to Process Your Personal Data
This Privacy Policy describes the Personal Data we collect from you. We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your Personal Data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract, we are about the enter or have entered with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. We consider that Tyndale House Foundation has a legitimate interest in collecting and processing your information. Tyndale House Foundation is committed to investing in 501(c)3 organizations around the world according to our funding priorities and pursuing these interests is not in conflict with your rights. This generally provides our lawful basis to use your Personal Data, within the limitations set forth herein.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Specifically, we have a purpose and lawful basis for processing each type of Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy, which are as follows:
- 1. The purpose of collecting your Identity and Contact Data is to register you as a new user, and the lawful basis is the performance of a contract with you.
- 2. The purpose for collecting your Identity, Contact and Profile Data is to manage a relationship with you and allow you to apply for grants, and the lawful bases are (a) the performance of a contract with you and (b) it is necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updates and to study how users use our services).
- 3. The purpose for collecting your Identity, Contact, Profile and Usage Data is to enable you to complete a survey and provide feedback, and the lawful bases are (a) the performance of a contract with you and (b) it is necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users use our products and services, and to develop them and grow our business).
- 4. The purpose for collecting your Identity, Contact, and Technical Data is to administer and protect our business and the Website, and the lawful basis is that it is necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise).
- 5. The purpose for collecting your Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, and Technical Data is to deliver relevant Website content to you, and the lawful basis is that it is necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our organization).
- 6. The purpose for collecting Technical and Usage Data is to us data analytics to improve our Website, user relationships and experiences, and the lawful basis is that it is necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of users for our products and services, to keep our Website updated and relevant, to develop our organization).
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (including details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, genetic, biometric data, commercial information, audio, electronic, visual, thermal information, olfactory, or similar information.) Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses. Note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your Personal Data where more than one ground has been set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We may have to share your Personal Data with the parties set out below for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
INTERNAL THIRD PARTIES
We require all third parties to respect the security of your Personal Data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your Personal Data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your Personal Data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
INTERNATIONAL PROCESSING
We are based in the United States, which is where your data will be processed.
DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your Personal Data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR
Under certain circumstances, EU residents have rights under data protection laws in relation to their Personal Data. If you are an EU resident, you have the right to:
- Request access to your Personal Data. This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
- Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may require additional information to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data where there is no good reason for us to continuing processing it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal Data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- Object to processing of your Personal Data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing processing you Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
- Request restriction of the processing of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your Personal Data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- Request the transfer of your Personal Data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or to a third party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights set out above, please contact us. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about these policies, any concerns about your information being collected, transferred or used for the purposes outlined above, if you require access to your personal data held by Tyndale House Foundation, or if you would like to correct your personal data, please contact Tyndale House Foundation at:
- Tyndale House Foundation
- Attn: Data Protection Officer
- 351 Executive Dr.
- Carol Stream, IL 60188
- Phone: (800) 323-9400
- [email protected]