Privacy Policy for Emergent Futures Lab
If you would like to adjust, access, remove, or opt-out your personal data at any time, please email your request to us directly: privacy at emergentfutureslab.com
Emergent Futures Lab appreciates your visit, business and trust. We are a US-based company, creating products and services focused on innovation.
At Emergent Futures Lab, accessible from emergentfutureslab.com, securing personal data while preserving trust and respecting the rights of our website visitors and newsletter subscribers is paramount. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Emergent Futures Lab and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Emergent Futures Lab. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
- Log Files
Emergent Futures Lab follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and is a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Emergent Futures Lab uses 'cookies'. These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Website works.
Cookies used on the Website
A list of all the cookies used on the Website by category:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited. By using the Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies”, “All About Cookies”, and “Your Online Choices”.
Links to Other Websites
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.
Visitors to our Website
When someone visits emergentfutureslab.com we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
Email Newsletters
We use your email to deliver The Emergent Futures Lab email newsletter. You can unsubscribe to general e-mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing us at privacy at emergentfutureslab.com
As part of the registration process for our email newsletter, we collect the personal information you provide. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied.
We don't rent or trade email lists with other organizations and businesses. Ever.
We use a third party provider, Outseta to deliver our email newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see Outseta's privacy notice.
If you send an email to us, we will collect your email address and the full content of your email, including attached files, and other information you provide.
Purchases
When you purchase merchandise, membership, or educational courses through the emergentfutureslab.com website we may collect and store the following information:
- Your name
- Billing and / or shipping address,
- Email address
- Phone number
- Credit card details (or other payment methods)
- IP addresses (to prevent fraud)
This data will be stored in our system and passed along to payment processors: Stripe or PayPal - please refer to their respective privacy policies for how they protect your data. Please be assured that we do not share your personal details with any other company without your consent.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Emergent Futures Lab does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. We reserve the right, at any time, to modify this Policy at any time. This privacy notice was last updated on September 28, 2021.
