Effective Date: February 26, 2021

Privacy Policy

Thanks for visiting Lift-Up! Lift-Up (“we,” “us,” or “our”) cares deeply about your privacy.

Acknowledgment

By using Lift-Up (which refers to accessing or using any or all Lift-Up content and services offered through Lift-Up’s website at www.lift-up.org, YouTube Channel, or other social media), you are bound by the Privacy Policy set forth below. The contents of this Privacy Policy are incorporated by reference into Lift-Up’s Terms of Use. If you do not accept or agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use Lift-Up.

Data Storage, Analytics, and Protection

Lift-Up will use and protect your Personal Information, such as your first name, last name, and email address in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Lift-Up’s sign-up only collects your first name, last name, and email address, and this is stored such that only select Lift-Up personnel and its service providers have access to it. Lift-Up uses Mail Chimp’s database to store the information it collects. Our use of any platforms, statistics, or analytics (Squarespace, Google, YouTube, and Mail Chimp) is only for purposes of improving access and user experience. 

Lift-Up strives to protect the Personal Information submitted to it, both during transmission and once Lift-Up receives it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. While Lift-Up uses commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, Lift-Up cannot guarantee its absolute security because Lift-Up does not control it.

Data Selling, Renting, or Sharing

Lift-Up does not sell, rent, or share your Personal Information to, or with third parties, in any way other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Lift-Up collects your information only to comply with its own legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce Lift-Up’s agreements. Lift-Up reserves the right to disclose your Personal Information as required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on Lift-Up) and when Lift-Up believes that disclosure is necessary to protect Lift-Up’s rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request. Lift-Up may also disclose information about you if Lift-Up determines that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance. Lift-Up and its service providers may temporarily store technical information, such as your IP address, your access time, or your type of browser.

Dispute Resolution

Lift-Up takes its users’ privacy seriously. If you believe that Lift-Up has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Information, you agree to first and foremost contact Lift-Up at http://www.lift-up.org/contact-us. You will not start any legal proceedings whatsoever without first contacting Lift-Up in this manner and giving Lift-Up the opportunity and sufficient time, as determined by Lift-Up, to resolve the matter. In your email, please describe in as much detail as possible the ways in which you believe that the Lift-Up Privacy Policy has not been complied with.

Consent to Disclosure/Transfer/Sale of Your Personal Information

You consent to our disclosure of your Personal Information and other information to a potential or actual buyer of our company or other successor for the purpose of considering a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, change in control, or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or other court proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred. You agree to and do hereby consent to (and shall not object to) our assignment, conveyance, transfer, and/or license (whether by contract, merger or operation of law) of any or all of our rights to your Personal Information and your consents, in whole or in part, and other information, with or without notice to you and without your further consent.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies, clear gifs, web beacons, pixel tracking, IP address, and/or log file information to: (a) provide custom, personalized content and information; (b) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the website; (c) monitor the effectiveness of Lift-Up; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with certain IP addresses; and, (f) help you efficiently access your information after you sign in.

Additionally, Lift-Up may include a third-party cookie, for example, from Google in order to use Google Analytics to monitor site statistics. Please note Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries may retain and use, subject to the terms of its Privacy Policy, information collected in your use of Lift-Up.

Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. You do not have to accept our cookies in order to productively use our site.

Privacy Outside of the United States

If you are a citizen or resident of the UK, European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from the laws in the United States, please note that we may transfer your information to a country or jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. We may do so to process your information by staff operating outside these countries who works for us or for one of our service providers.

GDPR: The Following Provisions Apply Only to Citizens and Residents of the United Kingdom, EEA, or Switzerland

The following provisions apply only if you are a citizen or resident of the UK, EEA or Switzerland. For such citizens or residents, all processing of your Personal Information is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations, in particular, (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and our processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR. For purposes of the GDPR, we will be the “data controller” of Personal Information (referred to and defined in the GDPR as “Personal Data”) we collect through the website, unless we collect such information on behalf of a “data controller” in which case we will be a “data processor.” This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, applications or services that do not display or link to this Privacy Policy or that display or link to a different privacy policy. For UK, EEA, and Switzerland residents and citizens only, to the extent any definition in this Privacy Policy conflicts with a definition under the GDPR, the GDPR definition shall control.

Our Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (UK, EEA and Swiss Visitors Only)

If you are a visitor using our website from the UK, EEA or Switzerland, our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Data described above will depend on the Personal Data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

What is the legal basis?

We collect and process your personal information in compliance with the GDPR and the applicable EU laws.

Collection and processing is based on your consent: Art. 6(1)a GDPR, Art. 4(11) GDPR

We will always ask for your consent to collect and process your personal information for the aforementioned specific purposes, unless the collection and processing of your personal information is permitted by statutory laws. Where you have provided us with your consent to the collection and processing of your personal information for the aforementioned specific purposes, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Collection and processing is necessary for taking steps prior to enter into a contract: Art. 6 (1)b GDPR

The collection and processing of your personal information may be necessary for the performance of a contract to which you may be a party. Prior to entering into such contract, the collection and processing of your personal information may also be necessary in order to take steps at your request. This applies for installation and the use of our extension as well as any payment processing in connection with donations.

Collection and processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Controller is subject: Art. 6 (1)c GDPR

Collection and processing of your personal information may be necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject under EU laws or the laws of a EU Member State.

Collection and processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests: Art. 6 (1)f GDPR

The collection and processing of your personal information may be necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests. We collect and process server logs for technical reasons, such as, but not limited to, preventing denial of service attacks. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled. Preventing such overloads of our systems and any security issues by denial of service attacks is in your and our vital interest and therefore we use the website logs. We use information collected and processed via subscription downloads, extension update checks, emergency notifications and feedback data sent by you, for technical reasons, such as, but not limited to, ensuring the security of the extension version used by you. Ensuring the security of our extension is in your and our vital interest and therefore we use such data. Furthermore, we collect and process such data to ensure that our website and extension are constantly improved and adjusted to the changing requirements for an efficient usability and the technical environment.

Ensuring the usability of our websites and of our extension is in your and our vital interest and therefore we use such data.

The collection and processing of your personal information may be necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests. Such legitimate interests may include:

  • fraud prevention

  • ensuring network and information security

  • indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security, including enhancing protection of our community against spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime, and security risks of all kind, and enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of our Terms

  • when we are complying with legal obligations

  • processing employee or visitor, member, attendee, or registrant data

  • performing the function or service you requested of us

  • providing our services and their functionality to you where such processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by our service providers related to the services

  • direct marketing

  • the relevant and appropriate relationship we have with you

  • analytics, e.g., assess the number of visitors, page views, use of the Site, etc., in order to understand how our Site and services are being used, to optimize the Site and/or future communications, and to develop new services and Site features

  • updating your information and preferences

  • offering and improving our services

  • enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of applicable Terms

If you are subject to GDPR, your rights include the following:

  • The right to access - Upon request, we will confirm any processing of your Personal Information and provide you with a copy of that Personal Information in an acceptable machine-readable format.

  • The right to rectification - You have the right to have us correct any inaccurate Personal Information or to have us complete any incomplete Personal Information.

  • The right to erasure - You may ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information and we will do so in some circumstances, such as where we no longer need it (we may not delete your data when other interests outweigh your right to deletion).

  • The right to restrict processing - You have the right to ask us to suppress the processing of your Personal Information but we may still store your Personal Information. See below for more information.

  • The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to your Personal Information used in the following manners: (a) processing based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling); (b) direct marketing (including profiling); and, (c) processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics. See below for more information.

  • The right to data portability - You have the right to obtain your Personal Information from us that you consented to give us or that is necessary to perform fulfillment of member benefits with you. We will give you your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

  • The right to complaint to a supervisory authority - You have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European member state of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of Personal Information relating to you infringes upon your rights.

  • The right to withdraw consent - We rely on your consent to process your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your prior consent.

Changes to These Terms of Use

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace this Privacy Policy at any time. Any change or modification will be effective immediately upon posting here by Lift-Up. You should visit this page periodically to review the Privacy Policy.

By continuing to access or use Lift-Up after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the new Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, please stop using Lift-Up.

Unsubscribing and Removal of Information Provided at Sign-Up

You can unsubscribe from a Lift-Up email at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of each email. If you decide that you want us to remove the information you provided at sign-up , please contact us at http://www.lift-up.org/contact-us and we will be happy to remove it.

Contact Us

If you have questions, please contact us at http://www.lift-up.org/contact-us and we will be happy to answer them.