Effective Date: June 02, 2022
We understand that you care about how we collect, use, and share information related to you when you interact with our websites, social media sites and handles, email, and online services. We value the trust you place in us. This is why we have accurate details of guidelines on how we can use and protect information about you.
Information we Gather
Our Services may permit you to enter contact information and other information about you. We collect, store, and manage any information you enter on our Services. This includes:
- Contact and demographic information.
- Information you provide when registering for membership, scholarships, fellowships, Awards submissions or to attend an event through our site.
- Any information or data you provide by interacting in our online forums and chats, by participating in social media pages and platforms, website, email, or by commenting on content posted on our services. Kindly note that comments may be visible to other users of our services.
- Information you provide when you complete a survey.
- Information you submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us of make any other request.
- If you contact us, we keep a record of that correspondence and any contact information provided.
We may also receive information about you from other parties:
- Contact information, demographic information, and information about your interests and purchases, from events in which our partners with another organization or consumer data providers.
- Information about you from individuals who nominate or recommend you for a job, interview, awards, rewards, or any other initiatives.
- Information about your interests, activities, and employment history from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.
- Information about your interaction with advertisements on our news and services, or ads that we place on third party websites, from online advertising companies.
If you decide to nominate or recommend others for our news stories, programs, projects or any other initiatives, you agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us their contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We may inform any other person you invite that you gave us their information in the invitation email.
When you interact with our news stories and other services, we collect certain information about your use of our news stories and other services automatically. This includes:
- Analytics about your interaction with our news stories and other projects, programs and services, including traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, the resources that you access, and how you reached our Services.
- Details regarding the device you use to access our news stories and other services, including, but not limited to, your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
- Information about how you interact with our ads and newsletters, including whether you open or click links in any correspondence.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and other technologies to provide features on our Services. We also partner with other companies that use these technologies to collect information about your use of our Services and your interaction with advertisements served on our behalf.
The types of cookies and tracking technologies our partners use can be categorized as:
- a) Analytics: These technologies help us to understand how visitors interact with our Services by collecting and reporting information about how you and your device interact with the Services.
- b) Personalized Advertising: These technologies allow us to serve relevant advertising to you on other websites or apps.
Below is a list of these partners with links to more information about their use of your information and any options they may make available regarding tracking.
Combination of Information
We may combine information gathered from your interacting with our news stories and other services.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect about you for the following purposes:
- To provide you with our services, including to take steps to enter into a contract for services, process payments and donations, process applications, submissions, and nominations, send service communications, and conduct general business operations such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits.
- To deliver personalized marketing and advertising to you about our programs and services.
- To provide you with the best service and improve and grow our business, including to understand how our Services are being used, understand our customer base and purchasing trends, understand the effectiveness of our marketing, and develop new products and services.
- To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.
- To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with legal requirements regarding the provision of products and services.
How We Secure the Information We Collect From or About You
We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.
How We Share Your Information
We share information as follows:
Service Providers: We engage vendors to perform functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these services. The business functions our vendors support include: billing and collection; auditing and accounting; professional services; analytics services; security; IT; and marketing emails.
Online Advertising Partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising about our Services to others who may be interested in the Services. These companies may use tracking technologies on our website to collect or receive information from the Services and elsewhere on the internet and then use that information to measure and target ads.
Social Media Platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
Business Partners: We share data with partners, such as organizations that partner with us to facilitate our programs. If you register for a sponsored meal or other function at an ONA Event, we may disclose information about you (such as your name) to the sponsor.
Government Entities: We may also share data when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the safety of our employees, or other individuals.
Potential Purchasers of Our Business: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Policy.
We may use and share at our discretion data that has been aggregated (information that has been compiled into summaries) or de-identified (information that has been stripped of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual).
Cross-border Transfer of Data
If you use our Services outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. By using the Services, you consent to the collection, international transfer, storage, and processing of your data.
Our Practices Regarding Information Belonging to Children
The Services are intended for users age thirteen and older. ONA does not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 13, we will delete that information.
Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Information
Your Account: If you have an online profile with us, you can click the Unsubscribe button the bottom of the emails you receive: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email newsletter, or email us at upeohubnews@gmail.com and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.
Please note that opting out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from other companies that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Services may not be available, work, or work as designed. You may also be able to opt out of or block tracking by interacting directly with the other companies who conduct tracking through our Services.
Your browser or device may include ‘Do Not Track’ functionality. We do not honor Do Not Track signals at this time.
Changes to This Policy
We may make changes to this Policy from time to time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information described in this Policy.
