Praxis Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2021

Praxis (“we”, “us” or “our”) values your privacy.  In this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we describe how we collect, use, and disclose information that we obtain about visitors to our website at https://home.praxislabs.org (the “Site”) and the programs, events and services available through our Site, (collectively, the “Services”), and how we use and disclose that information. This Policy does not apply to information collect from our employees.

By visiting the Site, or using any of our Services, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy.

If you are a resident of the European Union, additional provisions may apply to you as set forth in the GDPR Notice below.

The Information We Collect About You
We collect information about you directly from you and from third parties, as well as automatically through your use of our Site or Services.  

Information We Collect Directly From You: You may browse certain areas of the Site without registering with us or providing us personal information.  If you register for our Services, then we collect your name; gender; date of birth; address; phone number; email address; organization you are working for; title thereof; academic background; credit card information for charges for our Services (this is collected by our payment processor, which is PCI compliant and not by us); and your headshot photo.  In addition, as part of our mission, we may ask for certain information regarding your religious beliefs and ethnic background.  In addition, we collect your personal information in the following other ways:

+ If you participate in our programs or any other events where food is provided, we ask you that you inform us whether you have any allergies; 
+ If you participate in one of our programs or events, you may be given the opportunity to make presentations, in which you may provide personal information that is accessible to us and other participants. We may also take photographs or record such programs or events, in which case, your name, voice, likeness and statements may be recorded.   We will normally ask for your consent to make such recordings.  In all such cases, the personal information that you provided or that we record will be accessible to other participants or uses of our Services;
+ If you are a member of an Academy host team or a contractor providing services to us, we ask for your tax identification number to process payment to you for your services; and
+ If you send a gift or make a donation to us, we may request to provide your name, address, phone number, email address, and tax identification information for tax reporting purposes.  

In addition, if you are providing personal information for third parties in connection with using our Services, you are responsible for ensuring that you have all required permissions and consents to provide such personal information to us for use in connection with the Services and that our use of such personal information to provide the Services does not violate any applicable law, rule, regulation or order. 

Information We Collect Automatically:
We may automatically collect the following information about your use of our Site or Services through cookies and other technologies: your domain name; your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; the length of time you visit our Site  or use our Services; and the referring URL, or the webpage that led you to our Site.  We may combine this information with other information that we have collected about you, including, where applicable, your user name, name, and other personal information Please see the section “Our Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms” below for more information.


How We Use Your Information
We use your information, including personal information, for the following purposes:

+ Provide our Services: We use your information to communicate with you about your use of our Site and Services, to respond to your inquiries, to fulfill your orders, and for other customer service purposes.

+ Provide Personalized Services: We use your information to tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Site and Services.

+ Improve and Develop our Services: We use your information to ensure our Site and Services are working as intended, to better understand how users access and use our Site and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, to make improvements to our services, to develop new Services, to identify and correct errors, and to conduct research and analysis relating to our mission.

+ Outreach:
We use your information for purposes of outreach and contacting you about our Services, programs and events. 

+ Prevent Fraud and Comply with Legal Obligations: We may use your personal information to detect and prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, respond to requests by law enforcement, exercise or defend legal claims, protect our and other person’s rights and property, and enforce our contracts.


How We Share Your Information
We may share your information, including personal information, as follows:

+ Consent. Where you have provided consent, we share your information, including personal information, as described at the time of consent, such as when you authorize a third party application or website to access your Praxis account or when you participate in promotional activities conducted by Praxis partners or third parties.

+ Other Users As discussed above, where you participate in programs or events, any personal information you present or provide in connection with such programs or events may be viewed by other participants or users of our Services.   We are not responsible for such other participants or users use of your personal information.  

+ Affiliates. We may disclose the information we collect from you to our affiliates or subsidiaries solely for the purpose of providing Services to you; however, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information will be maintained by such affiliates and subsidiaries in accordance with this Policy.

+ Service Providers. We may disclose the information we collect from you to third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processors.

+ Business Transfers. If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, or are in negotiations for any of these types of transactions, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company.

+ In Response to Legal Process. We also may disclose the information we collect from you in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a subpoena.

+ To Protect Us and Others. We also may disclose the information we collect from you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our terms, contracts or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

+ Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may share aggregate or de-identified information about users and their use of the Services with third parties and publicly for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes.  

Please note that except as noted above, we will not sell or share your personal information with any third party for their direct marketing purposes without your consent.


Our Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms 
We and our service providers use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Site and Services. We may combine this information with other personal information we collect from you (and our third party service providers may do so on our behalf). 

Currently, our systems do not recognize browser “do-not-track” requests. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed in this section (e.g., by disabling cookies), but such disabling will impair use of the Site and Services.

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site and Services, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities at our Site and Services. There are two types of cookies: session and persistent cookies.

+ Session Cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser or turn off your computer. We may use session cookies to allow our systems to uniquely identify you during a session or while you are logged into the Site. This allows us to process your online transactions and requests and verify your identity, after you have logged in, as you move through our Site and Services.

+ Persistent Cookies remain on your computer after you have closed your browser or turned off your computer. We may use persistent cookies to track aggregate and statistical information about user activity.

Disabling Cookies: Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to our Site who disable cookies will not be able to browse certain areas of the Site or use the Services.


Third Party Analytics
We use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate usage of our Site and our Services. We also may use other analytic means to evaluate our Services. We use these tools to help us improve our Services, performance and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies to perform their services. We do not share your personal information with these third parties. 

Third-Party Links
Our Site and Services may contain links to third-party websites.  Any access to and use of such linked websites are not governed by this Policy, but instead are governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites.


Security of My Personal Information 
We have implemented commercially reasonable precautions to protect the information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security.

You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, computer or other device to access the Services. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.


What Rights Do I Have Regarding My Personal Information?
You may request access, a copy, modification or deletion of personal information that you have submitted to us by contacting us at info@praxislabs.org. We will use reasonable efforts to accommodate such requests to the extent required by law, provided that we may be required to retain personal information to comply with legal obligations, accounting requirements, or for other business purposes.  We may request additional information to verify the identity of the requesting party before responding to a request.  Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified or deleted may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Site for a period of time.


What Choices Do I Have Regarding Use of My Personal Information for Marketing?
We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any Services you have requested or received from us.


Location of Information
Our Site and Services are offered from the United States.  We store any information we collect in the United States.   If you access the Services or Site from outside the United States, you agree to the transfer of your information to the United States, which may have less protections for your personal information than your jurisdiction of residence.


Children Under 13
Our Site and Services are not designed for children under 13.  If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems.


Contact Us
If you have questions about the privacy aspects of our Site or Services or would like to make a complaint, please contact us at info@praxislabs.org.


Changes to this Policy
This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on the Site. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Site or if you have an account with us, providing notice to the email address in your account (for this reason you should make sure to update your account information promptly if it changes.


GDPR NOTICE
This GDPR Notice outlines certain additional information that we are obligated to provide to data subjects of the European Union or the United Kingdom as well as certain rights such residents have with respect to the processing of your personal information, pursuant to applicable local laws.   If you are a resident of the EU or the UK, you should not use the Site or Services or provide us your personal information if you are under the age of 16.

The controller of  personal information collected through the Site and Services is Praxis, Inc., which has a business address at 409 W 45TH Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10036.


LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We process the personal information collected for the purposes described in the section entitled “The Information We Collect About You” in our Policy.  The legal basis for our processing activities include processing personal information as necessary to comply with our contractual obligations, compliance with our legal obligations, protecting the safety of our employees, guests and others, for our legitimate business interests, and pursuant to your consent. The particular legal basis for the processing of your personal information is based on the purpose for which such information was provided or collected.

For example, we use  personal information as necessary for the performance of contracts with you, or in order for us to take steps, at your request, prior to entering into a contract, such as providing our Services.  For example, we are not able to provide our Services according to contracts unless you provide us with necessary personal information, such as name and other contact information to register you for a program or event. This collection and processing of your personal information is based on Art. 6 para. 1 (b) GDPR (necessary for the performance of a contract with you).

We may also process your personal information if we have received your consent, to respond to requests from you or to take actions in our legitimate interest (except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal information) such as for marketing purposes or to otherwise inform you of our business operations, and to improve our products and services.  Please note that if we rely on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time by emailing us at info@praxislabs.org, but such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal.  The collection and processing of personal information based on your consent is in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 (a) GDPR; the collection and processing of personal information based on legitimate interest is in accordance with Art. 6 para 1(f)


GDPR DATA RETENTION
We retain  personal information about you for the time necessary to accomplish the purpose for which such information was collected, usually for the duration of any contractual relationship (such as your use of our Services) and for any period thereafter as legally required or permitted by applicable law.  Our retention policies reflect applicable statute of limitation periods and legal requirements.


DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
Data Subjects of the European Union and United Kingdom have the following rights:

+ Access, Correction and Erasure Requests. You have the right to: contact us to confirm whether we are processing your  personal information, receive information on how your personal information is processed, obtain a copy of your  personal information, request that we update or correct your personal information, request that we delete personal information in certain circumstances.

+ Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to request that we cease processing of your  personal information or marketing activities, including profiling for statistical purposes where such processing is based on our legitimate business interests, unless we are able to demonstrate a compelling legitimate basis for such processing or we need to process your personal information for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.

+ Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we limit the processing of your  personal information while we are evaluating or in the process of responding to a request by you to update or correct your personal information; where such processing is unlawful and you do not want us to delete your personal information; where we no longer require such personal information, but you want us to retain the personal information for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim; and where you have submitted an objection to processing based on our legitimate business interests, pending our response to such request.

+ Data Portability Requests: You have the right to request that we provide you or a third party that you designate with certain of your  personal information in a commonly used, machine readable format.  Please note, however, that data portability rights apply only to  personal information that we have obtained directly from you and only where our processing is based on consent or the performance of a contract.

If you believe our processing of your personal information violates data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state or the United Kingdom of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation.

+ Submitting Requests: You can submit requests by contacting us at info@praxislabs.org. We will respond to all such requests within 30 days of our receipt of the request, unless there are extenuating circumstances, in which event we may take up to 60 days to respond. We will inform you if we expect our response to take longer than 30 days.  Please note, however, that certain personal information may be exempt from such rights pursuant to applicable data protection laws.  In addition, we will not respond to any request unless we are able to appropriately verify the requestor's identity. We may charge you a reasonable fee for subsequent copies of  personal information that you request. In addition, if we consider that a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may either request a reasonable fee to deal with the request or refuse to deal with the request.