Last updated 5/26/2020

Whether you are a high school student with a disability, college student with a disability, or an ally we are glad to have you as part of our community at A Place For Us. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at aplaceforusnetwork@gmail.com.

When you visit our website https://place-for-us.com, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we seek to explain what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our site and services.

This privacy policy applies to all information collected from your interaction with our website (https://place-for-us.com), our signup forms, our emails, and our social media accounts.

Table of Contents

1. What information do we collect?

2. How do we use your information?

3. Will your information be shared with anyone?

4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

5. What rights do parents and legal guardians have?

6. How long do we keep your information?

7. Which third party services do we currently use?

8. What are your privacy rights?

9. Do we update this policy?

10. How can you contact us about this policy?

1. What information do we collect?

We collect certain information from you (our volunteer mentors, our mentees and our mentees’ families) to conduct a variety of activities related to our objective of arranging matches between volunteer mentors and students in need of mentoring. We collect:

Information provided by you during signup. This information includes, but is not limited to: names, email addresses, phone numbers, University, and disability.

Information provided about you by other users. Volunteer mentors may provide us information about changes in mentees’ needs. Likewise, mentees and mentees’ families may provide us information about a volunteer mentor’s fit for them or for their student.

2. How do we use your information?

We use personal information collected from you:

To communicate with you. We and/or the volunteer mentors may use the personal information you send to us for our communication purposes. You can opt-out of our outreach emails at any time.

To respond to your inquiries and to offer support. We and/or the volunteer mentors may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our services.

To request feedback. We and/or the volunteer mentors may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our services.

To improve our matching service. We and/or the volunteer mentors may use your information to identify usage trends, to evaluate and improve our services, and to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our outreach efforts.

To enforce our terms, conditions and policies.

3. Will your information be shared with anyone?

We will share your information with third parties:

To report on our service’s performance. In the event that we share general statistics about our service’s performance with third parties or with the public, no identifiable personal information will be included. We will only include your personal information in such reports if we receive your express written consent (or, if needed, the consent of your parent or guardian).

To perform other activities with your consent. We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.

To fulfill legal obligations. We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or other legal processes.

4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

We use third party partners to conduct a variety of activities related to our objective. These third parties may use cookies and other tracking technologies to maintain their respective services.

5. What rights do students’ parents and legal guardians have?

Students’ parents and legal guardians can email aplaceforusnetwork@gmail.com in order to:

Review the personal information collected from their child.

Revoke their consent and refuse the further use or collection of personal information from their child.

Request the deletion of their child’s information. See What are your privacy rights? for more information about the deletion process.

6. How long do we keep your information?

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.

7. Which third party services do we currently use?

Please find below a description of our current partnerships with third parties names, as well as their contact information:

Google LLC (Our website, signup, and email host)

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

https://safety.google/privacy/

Instagram (Our social media platform)

Facebook, Inc.

1601 Willow Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025

https://help.instagram.com/402411646841720

FaceBook (Our social media platform)

Facebook, Inc.

1601 Willow Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025

https://www.facebook.com/legal/FB_Work_Privacy

Twitter (Our social media platform)

Twitter, Inc.

1355 Market Street, Suite 900

San Francisco, CA 94103

https://twitter.com/en/privacy

GroupMe (Our group messaging platform)

Microsoft Privacy

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, Washington 98052

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Calendly (Our matching/scheduling platform that mentors use)

Calendly

BB&T Tower

271 17th Street NW

Atlanta, GA 30363

https://calendly.com/pages/privacy

Volunteer mentors (Provide mentoring for mentees)

Contact information will be provided to mentees during signup.

8. What are your privacy rights?

If you would at any time like to review or change the information we associate with you, please email us at aplaceforusnetwork@gmail.com. If you would like to unsubscribe from emails we send through third party marketing services, you may click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of those emails.

At your request, we can delete your information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, enforce our Terms of Service and/or comply with legal requirements.

9. Do we update this policy?

Yes. We may update this privacy policy from time to time to stay compliant with relevant laws, and to reflect any changes to our services. At such a time, we will change the “last updated” text at the bottom of this policy. Significant changes will also be communicated via email to our volunteer mentors, mentees, and mentees’ families.

10. How can you contact us about this policy?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at aplaceforusnetwork@gmail.com.