Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

One Bead Project is an Ohio nonprofit corporation (“Company” or “We”) dedicated to providing high-impact entrepreneurial programming to students across Boston. We respect your privacy and the privacy of students participating in our programs and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or our Services. By accessing or using this Website or by using our Services, you agree to this privacy policy. 

This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website or our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. When the policy was last modified is indicated at the top of the policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website at www.onebead.org (our “Website”) or through our programs for youth empowerment (our “Services”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Specifically, this policy applies to information we collect:

• On our Website, for example, when you complete the contact form located at https://www.onebead.org/contact-us, the partnership inquiry form located at https://www.onebead.org/partner-with-us, or when you complete the speaker nomination form located at https://onebead.org/nominate. 

• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Company.

• By registering your child to participate in our Services, including without limitation (a) through our Website; (b) through a third-party website, such as DocuSign, linked from our Website or linked from an email or text message we send you; (c) using paper forms; (d) by email; or (e) through a school or other third party.

• By responding to our questions about your interest in our programs, student needs, and reactions to our programs (collectively, “Participant Questions” that we collect by various means to assist us in developing, targeting, and improving our programs. For example, Participant Questions may include inquiries like, “Have you made a difference in your community?” and “Are you confident in yourself?” and “What did you get out of the program?” We ask Participant Questions via survey platforms (e.g., SurveyMonkey and Google Forms), interviews, paper questionnaires, email, and the like.

This policy does not apply to information collected by third parties, including schools or other organizations, except where the third-party organization is explicitly collecting information on behalf of the Company.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Since our programs are focused on helping students to achieve entrepreneurial success, we are very sensitive to the privacy of minors. For this reason, we do not disseminate or otherwise disclose the personal information of our program participants without their parents’ written consent. We do not sell names to marketers or other organizations. Our Website is not intended for the use of minors, but to the extent that we help our participants to create web content, such as interviews that they conduct, we limit the personal information that is put online in association with such content. This is a collaborative process with our participants and their parents, not a one-size-fits-all policy. For example, some participants and their parents want to have just their first names referenced in videos they create, while others prefer to use their first and last names. The bottom line is that we understand the importance of maintaining our participants’ privacy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and Services, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, grade, school, teacher, age, date of birth, parent names and contact information, interests, gender, preferred primary language, race/ethnicity (“personal information”); 

• about participant interests and needs and feedback concerning our programs, such as information contained in answers to Participant Questions; and/or

• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

• we accept payments through third-party processors, as discussed below in the Payment Processing section.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us, including when you register your child to participate in our Services; through our Website contact form, through a third-party website linked from our website or from an email we send you, including when you make a donation to support our work; by email; by text; by responding to electronic questionnaires and surveys (e.g., SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, etc.); through conversations, which may be in-person, over the phone, or electronic (e.g., Zoom, FaceTime, etc.); or by providing us with videos and other works created by your child that contain such information.

• From your child’s school or another organization though which you register your child up for our Services.

• Through automatic data collection technologies, as discussed below.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US‌

The information we collect on or through our Website or through sign-up forms may include:

• Information entered into our contact form and information provided on registration forms. We may also ask you for additional information as part of the process of registration for our programs.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

• Your responses to surveys (whether paper or electronic).

• Information you provide us in interviews, conversations, online meetings, as well as any other means by which you provide us with information concerning participant needs and interests and feedback on our programs. 

• Information included in videos and other works created by participants in our programs.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES 

Our Website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, operating system, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to our Website

• Your IP addresses

This information may also include details about your use of our Website including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our Website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

ANALYTICS

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports Website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information. However, our Website is hosted by Squarespace, which may collect some personal information from visitors to our Website, pursuant to their privacy policy, which is available at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Website and outreach, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website, according to your individual interests.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

• Learn where people are hearing about our services.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

‌HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information about our programs.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• For any other purpose with your consent.

For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• As needed to allow students who register for our programs to participate in those programs.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our operations, but only to the extent necessary and always in a way designed to protect the privacy of our participants.

• To a successor in the event One Bead merges or otherwise combines with or is acquired by another entity.

• To partner organizations that we work with to offer our services and run our programs.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you ask us to write a college recommendation for your child, we will need to use your child’s name and other identifiable information in the letter of recommendation.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of One Bead, our program participants, or others.

CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Minor Identification. If your child creates a video or other work in conjunction with your child’s participation in our programs, you can provide us with your preference as to how your child will be identified in relation to that video or other work. For example, you can ask to have your child identified by first name, full name, school, town, etc.

• Promotional Materials. If you would prefer not to have your child identified in One Bead promotional materials discussion our programs, you can let us know and we will strive to accommodate your request.

DATA SECURITY 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

PAYMENT PROCESSING

We accept donations and other payments through third-party payment processors (“Payment Processors”). We will not store or collect Your payment card details, but we may have access to that information through a secure web connection. Your payment card details are provided directly to our Payment Processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their respective privacy policies. Our Payment Processors may include one or more of the following:

Stripe: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy 

PayPal: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full 

Square: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://squareup.com/legal/privacy-no-account

DonorBox: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://donorbox.org/privacy 

Give Lively, LLC: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.givelively.org/privacy 

Eventbrite: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/eventbrite-privacy-policy?lg=en_US

Our Payment Processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS, as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify registered participants in our programs by email or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy@onebead.org.