This is the privacy policy for when you are using https://abladeofgrass.org/, https://municipal-artist.org/, and https://abladeofgrass.pub. This policy also covers any other electronic or in-person communication we have with you.
Make sure to read below to learn more about how we use, share, and retain your personal information.
This policy explains to you:
the types of information we may collect from you.
how we use and share your information.
how we retain your personal information.
your privacy rights.
our data transfer and security policies.
What is not covered by this policy?
Sometimes our websites or services link to other parties’ services or content. This policy does not extend to those parties’ services or content.
We may use third-party service providers to help facilitate the collection of your personal information for our services. These service providers have their own privacy policies on how they collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity. Check out their privacy policies to see how they use your information.
What types of information do you collect from me?
Depending on how you use our websites or services, we may ask you to provide us with certain types of personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. We collect the following types of personal information:
Contact information. We may request contact information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
Financial information. If you donate to A Blade of Grass or otherwise provide your payment information, we use a third-party payment service provider to collect and process payment information to process your transaction.
Uploaded information. We collect information that you upload in connection with our websites or services, including any files, links, or photos of your projects, practices, or work (in any grant applications or otherwise).
Activity and usage information. We collect information regarding your use of our websites or services, including your referrer URL (which is the URL for the website that you were viewing prior to visiting the website), how you were directed to the services, which specific pages you visit, how long you view each page, the time and date you access our services, any unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Inquiry information. We collect information when you communicate with us, including when you contact us through our various online, phone, or volunteer channels for information or assistance.
Browser and device information. We may collect information about the computers, phones, and other devices and browsers used when interacting with our websites and services, including the device type, operating system, mobile device unique ID, browser type, version, IP address (which may be used to infer general location at a city or county level), cookie ID, web beacons, and other similar tracking technologies.
Social media information. If you decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a third-party social media website, including Facebook, Instagram, and X, we may collect personal information that is already associated with your account, such as your name, email address, activities, and any other information associated with your account. You may have the option of sharing additional information through your third-party social media account. If you choose to do so, you give us permission to engage with that information in a manner consistent with this privacy policy.
How do you use and share my information?
We may use and share the above categories of personal information for the following reasons and/or with the following groups:
Providing, maintaining, and improving our websites and services. We use your personal information to provide, maintain, and improve our websites and services, including to protect and monitor the usage of our websites, process grant applications, manage grants, distribute our publications, register you for an event or program, and share relevant information to you after an event or program.
Grant programs. We may share your personal information in jury, nomination, or review committees for our grant programs, including when they are composed of organizations or people who are engaged to curate a cohort of applicants, review grant applications, or select recipients for our grants or programs in any other manner.
Third-party service providers. We share personal information with third parties that provide operational services on our behalf, such as website hosting, information technology and infrastructure, data analytics, email delivery, credit card processing, order fulfillment, auditing, monitoring and analyzing our websites and services, sending and receiving communications, or other services. These third parties may not use personal information for any other purposes. Our third-party service providers and partners include Google Analytics, Instagram, Facebook, X, Vimeo, Constant Contact, Salesforce, Give Lively, Google Forms, Airtable, Formstack, Arts FMS, and W.A.G.E.
Marketing, advertising, and analytics partners. We may use third-party marketing, advertising, and analytics providers to provide statistics and analysis about how people are using our services and to provide advertising and marketing for our services, and to conduct charitable sales promotions. These third-party partners may receive information about your interactions with our services through third-party cookies. For information about how to opt out of our use of third-party cookies that share data with these partners, see “What are my privacy rights?”.
Other partners. We may provide your information to organizations we work with, such as content providers, sponsors, or other third parties, to provide services, products, or programs, to advance our education goals, to disseminate information, and to otherwise fulfill our mission.
Aggregated data. We may also aggregate information about you, grantees, or other users of our websites or services. This information will not identify any single individual, and we reserve the right to share this aggregated, de-identifiable information without restriction.
Other uses or disclosures of personal information. We may also use and disclose your personal information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable law, to respond to requests from public and government authorities, to protect and defend our rights or property, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the services, to protect the personal safety of users of our websites, services and the public, to protect against liability, to fulfill any obligations or contracts, to cooperate with law enforcement, or for other legal reasons, including if we undergo a change of control. We may also use and disclose your personal information for any other purpose upon obtaining your consent.
How do you retain my personal information
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., if we are required to retain your personal information to comply with applicable laws, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and policies).
We will also retain activity, usage, browser and device information for internal analysis purposes. This data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our websites or services or when we are legally required to retain this data for longer periods of time.
What are my privacy rights?
Under some U.S. state laws, residents may have the following rights:
Right of access and/or portability. Subject to certain limitations, you can request that we disclose the categories and/or specific pieces of personal information that we collect, use, disclose, and may sell, and, in some circumstances, have that data provided to you so that you can provide or “port” that data to another provider.
Right to opt out. We do not sell or share your personal information, and therefore do not offer a right to opt out. Like many companies, however, we may use advertising and analytics services that are intended to analyze your interactions with our services, based on information obtained from cookies or other trackers, including for delivering advertising to you (such as interest-based, targeted, or cross-context behavioral advertising). To opt out of the targeted advertising, follow the instructions below.
Right to correction.You can request that we correct the personal information that we have collected from you under certain circumstances, but in some cases we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Right to deletion. You can ask us to delete the personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions such as to complete a transaction for you, to exercise our rights, or to comply with a legal obligation.
How to exercise your rights: To exercise your applicable rights, please contact us at info@abladeofgrass.org.
Please note that, before we process your request, we may ask that you provide us with additional information to verify your identity. We reserve the right to deny your request if we cannot verify your identity or an exemption applies.
Do you transfer my data?
Your information, including personal information, is processed at our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that your information may be transferred and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and that no transfer of your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your personal information.
How do you protect my data?
We are committed to using reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to secure the information to protect personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the internet nor any data storage system is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information on our or third-party sites.
How do I contact you?
If you have any questions about this policy, please email us at info@abladeofgrass.org with the subject line “Privacy Policy Inquiry” or write to us at 51-02 21st #4A Suite 129, Long Island City, NY 11101.
Updates to this privacy policy
Since we will continue to implement new technologies and improve our services and features, we reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time, consistent with applicable law. When changes are made, we will update the date at the top of our privacy policy.