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PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to https://www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org. The https://www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages operated by Something Bigger Foundation LLC (“Something Bigger Foundation”). https://www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of https://www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference. 

Privacy & Safety - Electronic Communication Summary 

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 Visiting https://www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org or sending emails to Something Bigger Foundation constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. 

  

Something Bigger Foundation does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use https://www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org only with the permission of a parent or guardian. 

  

Privacy Policy of 

www.somethingbiggerfoundation.org 

  

This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users. 

  

This document can be printed for reference by using the print command in the settings of any browser. 

  

Owner and Data Controller 

  

Something Bigger Foundation - 1515 S. Capital of Texas Hwy., Suite 220, Austin, TX 78746 

Owner contact email: info@somethingbiggerfoundation.org 

  

Types of Data collected 

  

Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: first name; last name; phone number; email address; Cookies; Usage Data; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); address. 

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection. 
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Website. 


Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Website is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Website to provide its services. In cases where this Website specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service. 
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner. 


Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Website or by the owners of third-party services used by this Website serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available. 

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Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Website and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner. 

  

Mode and place of processing the Data 

  

Methods of processing 

  

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data. 
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Website (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time. 

  

Legal basis of processing 

  

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies: 

  • Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law; 

  • provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof; 

  • processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject; 

  • processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner; 

  • processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party. 

  

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. 

  

Place 

  

The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. 
 
Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data. 

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data. 
 
If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section. 

  

Retention time 

  

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for. 

  

Therefore: 

  • Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed. 

  • Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner. 

  

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority. 
 
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period. 

  

The purposes of processing 

  

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Contacting the User, Heat mapping and session recording, Analytics, Displaying content from external platforms, Interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties, Managing contacts and sending messages, Platform services and hosting, SPAM protection, Information collection and Access to third-party accounts. 

For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”. 

  

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data 

  

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services: 

  • Access to third-party accounts 

  • This type of service allows this Website to access Data from your account on a third-party service and perform actions with it. 

  • These services are not activated automatically, but require explicit authorization by the User. 

  • Third party links 

  • We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. 

  • Analytics 

  • The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior. 

  • Google Analytics (Google LLC) 

  • Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. 

  • Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. 

  • Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data. 

  • Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant. 

  

  • Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports (Google LLC) 

  • Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports is a Google Advertising Reporting feature that makes available demographic and interests Data inside Google Analytics for this Website (demographics means age and gender Data). 

  • Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings

  • Personal Data processed: Cookies; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example). 

  • Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant. 

  

  • Contacting the User 

  • Contact form (this Website) 

  • By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header. 

  • Personal Data processed: email address; first name; last name; phone number. 

  • Displaying content from external platforms 

  • This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Website and interact with them. 

  • This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it. 

  • Google Fonts (Google LLC) 

  • Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. 

  • Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. 

  • Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant. 

  • Heat mapping and session recording 

  • Heat mapping services are used to display the areas of a page where Users most frequently move the mouse or click. This shows where the points of interest are. These services make it possible to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of User behavior. 

  • Some of these services may record sessions and make them available for later visual playback. 

  • Information collection 

  • We value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance.  

  • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance 

  • We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old or older. 

  • Interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties 

  • This type of service allows Users to interact with data collection platforms or other services directly from the pages of this Website for the purpose of saving and reusing data. 

  • If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service.  

  • Mailchimp widget (The Rocket Science Group LLC) 

  • The Mailchimp widget is a service for interacting with the Mailchimp email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. 

  • Personal Data processed: Cookies; email address; first name; last name. 

  • Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant. 

  • Managing contacts and sending messages 

  • This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User. 

  • These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message. 

  • Platform services and hosting 

  • These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of this Website, therefore allowing the provision of this Website from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the Owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of Personal Data. 
    Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored. 

  • SPAM protection 

  • This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM. 

   

  

The rights of Users 

  

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner. 

In particular, Users have the right to do the following: 

  • Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data. 

  • Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below. 

  • Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing. 

  • Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected. 

  • Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it. 

  • Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner. 

  • Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof. 

  • Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority. 

  

Details about the right to object to processing 

  

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection. 

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Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document. 

  

How to exercise these rights 

  

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month. 

  

  

Cookie Policy 

  

This Website uses Cookies and other Identifiers. To learn more, the User may consult the Cookie Policy. 

  

  

Additional information about Data collection and processing 

  

Legal action 

  

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Website or the related Services. 
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities. 

  

Additional information about User's Personal Data 

  

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request. 

  

System logs and maintenance 

  

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Website (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose. 

  

Information not contained in this policy 

  

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document. 

  

How “Do Not Track” requests are handled 

  

This Website does not support “Do Not Track” requests. 
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies. 

  

Changes to this privacy policy 

  

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Website and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. 
 
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required. 

  

Definitions and legal references 

  

Personal Data (or Data) 

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person. 

  

Usage Data 

Information collected automatically through this Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment. 

  

User 

The individual using this Website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject. 

  

Data Subject 

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers. 

  

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor) 

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy. 

  

Data Controller (or Owner) 

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Website. 

  

This Website (or this Application) 

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed. 

  

Service 

The service provided by this Website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application. 

  

Cookies 

Small sets of data stored in the User's device. 

  

Legal information 

This privacy policy relates solely to this Website, if not stated otherwise within this document. 

Latest update: Oct. 18, 2021 

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