INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains what type of personal information Lever for Change (“we”, “us”, “our”) may collect, how we use personal information as a non-profit organization, how we protect personal information, with whom we may share personal information, and the rights you may have under this Policy. This Policy applies to personal information we collect or otherwise access, including through this website (the “Site”), email, phone, our events and programs, applications, grants, tax forms and at any other information collection point. This Policy is part of our Website Terms & Conditions. Additional policies disclosed at the time we access or collect personal information may apply, as then disclosed.

If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, do not use our Site or otherwise provide us with personal information. Where you use our Site or have any other interaction with us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

This Policy is informed by applicable privacy laws, which may include those that implement the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), which applies to individuals in the European Union (the “EU”) and the United Kingdom (the “UK”).

CONTROLER CONTACT INFORMATION

For the purposes of this Notice, we are a data controller under the GDPR. Our contact details are:

Lever for Change

140 S. Dearborn Street

Chicago, IL 60603-5285

Attn: Privacy

[email protected]

TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal information is information that may be used to identify you, directly or indirectly, as an individual. We may collect various types of personal information from different sources, including your:

• Contact Information – Name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number;
• Professional Information – Organization name, occupation, job title and professional interests;
• Internet Information –Information relating to your browser and device;
• Usage Information – Searches you perform and actions you take while visiting our Site;
• Applicant Information – Education, employment, volunteering history, for evaluators and technical advisors;*
• Financial and Tax Information – Taxpayer/National ID, W-9 information, bank account information;
• Audio and Visual Information — Such as voicemail, CCTV footage and video recordings; and
• Voluntarily Disclosed Information – Any information, not above, that you actively disclose through this Site or otherwise to us.

*Applications for employment are submitted through the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as employer of record.

SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

• The Site, through information you disclose to us voluntarily or which is automatically collected;
• Our affiliate, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation;
• Through your other interactions with us; and
• Organizations with which you may be affiliated or other third parties which provide us with your information for consideration regarding potential grants, awards, sponsorship or other involvement with our mission.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use personal information:

• Where we have consent (for example, when you sign up to receive communications from us or by otherwise requesting information and to process open calls, competitions or other grant programs);
• To administer our programs and services;
• To improve our operations;
• To understand and analyze visitors to our Site, applicants, evaluators and others;
• To enhance our relationships;
• To identify sources of funding and to fundraise;
• To process applications for awards and grants;
• To make donor, sponsor, evaluator and applicant referrals;
• To make payments (e.g., to our service providers and for honoraria); or
• Otherwise for charitable purposes and mission-driven activities.

We may also use personal information:

As we believe to be necessary or allowed: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process and other legal obligation; (c) to respond to requests from the public, government authorities and private parties; (d) to enforce our Website Terms & Conditions and other policies; (e) to protect our rights, safety or property, and that of others; (g) to bring, defend and settle claims; (h) to prevent or stop activity that could be illegal, unethical or otherwise actionable and (i) for investigations or disputes.

Under certain privacy laws, we must have a legal basis to process Personal Information. In most cases our legal basis will be one of the following:

• To fulfil our legitimate interests as described above, for example to process applications for awards and grants, to manage charitable competitions, for program administration and otherwise for charitable purposes. Where we rely on legitimate interest, we put in place, when needed, reasonable safeguards designed to protect your privacy interests, freedoms, and rights under applicable law;
• To comply with our legal and/or regulatory obligations, for example to comply with tax authority requirements and filings; and
• To fulfil our contractual obligations, for example to ensure that we meet our obligations under services agreements.

In certain cases, we may also ask for your consent to collect and use certain types of Personal Information where required to do so by law, for example to send you newsletters which you have opted-in to receive. Where you provide consent, you may withdraw it by using the details in this Notice.

If you fail to provide certain Personal Information to us on request, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into, if applicable, with you or your employer, and/or may not be able to provide you with information or services you may have requested.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not allow third parties to access to your personal information, except as required or permitted by applicable law or in accordance with our policies. Such third parties may include service providers, affiliates, current and prospective donors, donor advisors, evaluators, technical advisors, educational institutions and the public in support of our mission, including with your consent where legally required. For example, we may disclose personal information, on a need-to-know basis using commercially reasonable safeguards (see Protecting Personal Information):

• Within Lever for Change and the MacArthur Foundation;
• To service providers to help run our operations, including but not limited to website administration, sending communications, data hosting, payment processing, managing relationships and facilitating challenges and other programs and events;
• To prospective and current donor sponsors and donor advisors, for sponsorship or other program or service development;
• To educational institutions for research and education purposes and
• As otherwise in compliance with applicable law or to further our mission.

While the use and disclosure of your personal information is governed by our policies, the service providers’, donor sponsors’ and education institutions’ treatment of your personal information will be in accordance with their respective privacy practices.

We may also disclose personal information:

(a) To regulators and to law enforcement to cooperate with investigations or to respond to other requests; (b) when legally required to other third parties (e.g., to respond to a subpoena or other lawful process); (c)To professional advisors and prospective investors in connection with a prospective merger, reorganization or other transfer of our assets and (d) as otherwise permitted or required by law or in furtherance of our mission.

PROTECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store and process personal information using reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards to secure it against foreseeable risk, such as unauthorized use, access, disclosure, destruction or modification. Although we make good faith efforts to store and otherwise process personal information securely, we cannot guarantee complete protection. No data transmission is entirely secure, including through this Site.

AGGREGATE AND DEIDENTIFIED INFORMATION

We may use and disclose information that does not personally identify you when necessary for our operations or where otherwise in alignment with our mission.

DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information in accordance with our needs and for legal, regulatory, document retention, audit and tax purposes. Any personal information we collect may be kept until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive information from us or until we no longer have a need for it that is recognized by applicable law.

CHILDREN/MINORS

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13, without parental or legal guardian consent. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child under 13 may have provided personal information through the Site, please contact us and we will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from our databases and not use such information for any purpose (except where required or permitted by law, including for safety purposes). Minors under 18 years of age may have the personal information that they provide to us through the Site deleted by their parent or guardian contacting us and requesting deletion. Please note that, while we make reasonable efforts to act on such requests, our deletion does not ensure complete removal of the information from all systems and applications.

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

We may use cookies or other technologies to understand and to enhance our visitors’ experience and to collect information about the use of our Site. A cookie is a small data file that may be stored on your device when you visit a website. When you return to a website you have previously visited, your browser may disclose this data back to the website to help the website recognize you, to load pages you have previously viewed, to remember your preferences, otherwise to personalize your experience and to enhance website performance. We may permit our third-party service providers to use these technologies on our Site as well. Our Site and electronic communications may use web beacons and tags along with cookies to understand user behavior. A web beacon (also called a single-pixel or clear GIF) is an electronic image that can recognize certain types of information on a visitor's device, such as a visitor's cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed, to measure the effectiveness of a website, communications to you and to track links that you select.

You need not have cookies activated to use the Site, although your access to and use of the Site might be limited. You may learn how to opt out of browser or device cookies by visiting information provided by the browser or device. We are not responsible, however, for information that you receive about these third-party tools.

Our Site cookies fall into the following categories:

These cookies are necessary for the Site to function. They are usually only set in response to actions you take such as navigating pages, subscribing to publications, filling out forms, logging into any secure site or setting any privacy preferences. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. Necessary Cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Functional cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all these services may not function properly.

Analytics cookies (also called performance cookies) allow us to count visits, measure load speed and identify referring websites so we can measure and improve performance of our Site and understand how visitors reach our Site. They help us know which pages are most and least popular and see how visitors navigate the Site. All information analytics cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our Site.

We may also use Google Analytics to measure and understand how visitors use our Sites. You can learn more about how Google uses the information it collects by visiting its website at google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You should be able to opt out of Google’s collection of this information by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

This Site is operated in the United States. While many of the persons with which we interact are in the U.S., our grant applicants, sponsors, donors and service providers may be located throughout the world. Any personal information we access will be processed in the U.S. and potentially in other locations, which may provide a lower level of protection than your location. By using the Site, you authorize the processing of your information in the U.S. and anywhere in the world.

YOUR CHOICES

You have certain choices with respect to how we communicate with you and what information we collect about you automatically through the Site. At any time, you may subscribe and unsubscribe from receiving our newsletters or other publications by using the subscribe feature and the unsubscribe links in our messages. Should you wish to opt out of the use of cookies or other technologies, you may follow our suggestions under Cookies and other Technologies. You may also choose not to provide us with personal information but we be unable to provide you with the information, services or the type of relationship you seek.

RIGHTS UNDER LOCAL LAW

Depending on your location, local laws, such as the GDPR, may give you with additional rights. These rights may include:

• The right to access your personal information;
• The right to correct your personal information where incorrect;
• The right to delete your personal information;
• The right to obtain, port or transfer your personal information;
• The right to object to the processing of your personal information;
• The right to restrict the processing of your personal information;
• The right not to be subject to automated decision making; and
• The right to withdraw consent, which does not affect personal information processed prior to your withdrawal.

Even if, by law, you do not have these rights, you may make request to access, correct, delete, obtain, transfer, restrict or object to the processing of your personal information. We may seek additional information to verify your identity, should you make such a request. We may retain your personal information to demonstrate compliance with applicable law. We do not engage in automated decision-making. Nor do we sell your personal information.

Should you wish to exercise these rights, or make such a request, please contact us, using the information above. If you have a complaint, you may contact the data protection authority for your location.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

This Site contains links to third-party websites which we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of third-party websites.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Our Site includes plugins from social networks or other third parties. An example of a plugin is the link to our LinkedIn page. These plugins may communicate with and send information to the third-party that provides the plugin, even if you do not click on the plugin. This information may include your IP address, information about your browser and device, and the address of the web page you are visiting. Loading, using or clicking on the plugins may also place, read and transmit cookies. These cookies may contain a unique identifier the social network or third party assigns to you for use in associating information collected about your browser, so they can deliver interest-based advertising to you on their websites and applications. The loading, functionality and your use of the plugins are governed by the privacy policy and terms of the third-party that owns the plugin.

UPDATES

We may update this Policy from time to time with changes and revise the date at the top of the Policy. We encourage you to check back periodically and to review the current version. To the extent permitted by applicable law, your use of the Site following updates to this Policy means that you have accepted the updated Policy.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions regarding this Notice, please contact us, as provided above.

Last updated: 10/08/2024

Lever for Change, an affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation