Last modified: 2023-03-01
Thrasher Research Fund (“Company”, “We”, or “Us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use access our website at https://www.thrasherresearch.org/ (our “Website”), our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information, and includes information on your privacy rights.
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy from time to time without prior notice to you. Any changes will take effect immediately upon posting the revised privacy policy. However, we will not use your personal information in a manner that is materially different than what was stated when it was collected unless you consent.
BY ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THE PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR TO ANY CHANGES WE MAY SUBSEQUENTLY MAKE, WE REQUEST THAT YOU DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number (“personal information”);
- About you, but that, individually, does not identify you, such as times and dates of your visits to our Website and other usage details; and/or
- About your internet connection, IP address, and the equipment you use to access our Website.
- We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by completing a grant application form. To apply for a grant, you may be required to submit additional Personal Information applicable to the grant. For example, you may be required to include information regarding your degree, organization, and job title.
- Information you provide when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some browsers have incorporated Do Not Track preferences. As there is currently no industry-standard protocol on how to interpret such signals, we do not honor such signals from browsers at this time. We do not respond to “do not track” requests, but you may refuse or delete cookies to prevent certain tracking activities.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, 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.
- 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.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails 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 or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
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, products, or services that you request from us, including to send you requested information related to Thrasher Research Fund or the Website.
- To administer grants.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
- 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.
Disclosing Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information 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:
- On our Website and through other means if you are awarded a grant. Unless you request that your name not be published, a grant recipient’s name and the amount of the grant will be made public.
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other transfer of some or all of Thrasher Research Fund’s operations, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Thrasher Research Fund about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you ask a question related to a grant application, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the member of our team who can best provide the answer.
- 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 Thrasher Research Fund, our customers, or others.
European Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of the European Union, you have certain additional rights with respect to your Personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”), including the following:
- The right of access to your Personal Information.
- The right to rectify your Personal Information if it is incorrect or incomplete.
- The right to have your Personal Information erased (“right to be forgotten”) if certain grounds are met.
- The right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time (if our processing is based on consent).
- The right to object to our processing of your Personal Information (if processing is based on legitimate interests).
- The right to object to our processing of your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes.
- The right to receive your Personal Information from us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and the right to transmit your Personal Information to another controller without hindrance from us (data portability).
You may contact us at thrashersupport@thrasherresearch.org to exercise any of the above rights.
Furthermore, if you believe that our processing of your Personal Information is inconsistent with your data protection rights under the GDPR and we have not adequately addressed your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority of your country.
We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
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.
Use by Children
Our Website is not intended for use by children of any age. No one under the age of 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at thrashersupport@thrasherresearch.org.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
thrashersupport@thrasherresearch.org
68 South Main Street, Suite 400
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
