Privacy Policy
Online privacy in general — and your privacy in particular — is important to us here at The Global Society of Change Agents. This statement discloses the information practices for websites maintained by The Global Society of Change Agents, including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.
Personal Information
In general, you can visit globalsocietyofchangeagents.com on the Internet without telling us who you are and without giving any personal information about yourself. There are times, however, when we or our partners may need information from you in order to serve you.
You may choose to give us personal information in a variety of situations. For example, you may want to give us information, such as your name and address or e-mail address, in order to correspond with you, process an order, or provide you with a free or paid membership or subscription. You may give us your credit card details to buy something from us. You may give us a description of your education, professional affiliations, work experience, or similar information in order to customize the information you receive from us. If you give us personal information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, we will assume that you have their permission to do so.
Use of Personal Information
The following paragraphs describe in more detail how The Global Society of Change Agents may use your personal information and with whom we may share it.
Fulfilling Your Transaction Request
If you request something from website maintained by The Global Society of Change Agents — such as a product or service, a return call, or specific materials, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information, with others, for instance, shipping companies, postal or government authorities (for example, Customs authorities) involved in fulfillment. In connection with a transaction we may also contact you as part of our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
Ongoing Emails
The email contact information you provide to The Global Society of Change Agents may also be used by The Global Society of Change Agents for ongoing contact with you, to provide you with information and news about opportunities to engage with us. To opt out of receiving further emails from The Global Society of Change Agents, please follow the unsubscribe instructions included in each email.
Information for Referral Partners
If you represent a Referral Partner associated with The Global Society of Change Agents, you may visit a website intended specifically for our Referral Partners. We may use information provided on that site to administer and develop our business relationship with you, the Referral Partner you represent, and our Referral Partners generally. For instance, this may involve using your information to send you details of Referral Partner programs. It may also include sharing certain information with other Referral Partners (subject to any confidentiality obligations that may exist), or current or prospective members or clients of The Global Society of Change Agents. In connection with a particular transaction or program, we may also contact you as part of customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
Our Worldwide Practices
The Global Society of Change Agents is a global organization, with business processes, management structures, and technical systems that cross borders. Our privacy practices are designed to provide protection for your personal information, all over the world. We may share your personal information within The Global Society of Change Agents and transfer it to countries in the world where we do business. Some countries may provide less legal protection for your information. In such countries The Global Society of Change Agents will still handle information in the manner we describe here.
Information Security and Quality
We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its quality. We implement appropriate measures and processes, such as using encryption when transmitting certain sensitive information, to help us to keep your information secure and to maintain its quality.
Supplementing Information
From time to time we may supplement information you give us via one of our websites with information from other sources, such as information validating your address or other available information about businesses. This is to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect and to help us provide a better service.
Use of Suppliers
In some cases The Global Society of Change Agents uses suppliers to collect, use, analyze and otherwise process information on its behalf. It is our practice to require such suppliers to handle information in a manner consistent with our data security policies.
Cookies and Other Technologies
We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our websites to help us provide better service to our community. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit, and we also measure visitor activity on The Global Society of Change Agents websites, but we do so in ways that keep the information non-identifiable. This information is sometimes known as “clickstream data.” The Global Society of Change Agents or others on our behalf may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better service to our community.
Also, when we collect personal data from you in a transaction, we may extract some information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner you can disable your cookies; however, this will make our web site less useful to you because your experience will be less customized to your interests.
We collect the information we mentioned in the previous paragraphs through the use of various technologies, including one called “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer but not you. Some pages on our sites use cookies, sent by The Global Society of Change Agents or its third party vendors, or other technologies to better serve you when you return to the website. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, some websites may not work properly.
Service Quality Monitoring
Certain Web transactions may also involve you calling us or our calling you. Please be aware that it is our general practice to monitor and in some cases record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.
Personalized URL Link
On occasion, we may personalize and customize websites for certain visitors. If you visit one of these sites, you may find it customized with references to resources, products, or services that we believe may be of interest to you, based on your previous interactions with The Global Society of Change Agents and information you have provided to us. While you are visiting these websites, we may collect information about your visit to better tailor the site to your interests. An invitation to visit one of these websites is usually presented as a personalized URL in an e-mail, a notice on a website registration page, or as a response to you logging on to a certain website.
If you choose to visit one of these websites, you are agreeing to let The Global Society of Change Agents collect information about your visits and also to its association with other information about you and your relationship with The Global Society of Change Agents. If you do not wish your information to be used in this way, do not accept the invitation to visit these sites.
Disclosures Required By Law
Please be aware that in certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our websites may contain links to other web sites. The Global Society of Change Agents is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other websites.
Notification of Changes
This privacy statement was last updated on December 19, 2013. A notice will be posted on our website home page for 30 days whenever this privacy statement is changed in a material way.
Privacy Questions and Access
If you have a question about this statement or our handling of your information, you can send an email to The Global Society of Change Agents using our contact form.
If you wish to obtain a copy of particular information you provided to The Global Society of Change Agents, or if you become aware the information is incorrect and you would like us to correct it, please contact us.
Before The Global Society of Change Agents is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request. We will contact you within 30 days of your request.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement, you should first contact The Global Society of Change Agents directly.
How to Contact Us
Questions about this statement or about our handling of your information may be sent via our contact form, or by postal mail to New Futures Press, Inc., PO Box 66518, Seattle, WA 98166-0158 USA. The Global Society of Change Agents is a division of New Futures Press, Inc., a Washington state corporation.