Welcome to the official website of Wear Your Mind/The Observatory

This Privacy Policy outlines our practices for collection, use and disclosure of your information that you provide to us when you use the Site. By using this Site, you agree that your use of the Site is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically check this Site for updates. Your continued use of the Site affirms your agreement to any changes we make to this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected and How It Is Collected
Voluntary Information: We may collect personal information you voluntarily provide to us including, but not limited to your name, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile number and geographic location. You may provide this information when you request information, register, make a purchase or for other purposes. We may also collect demographic information such as gender, date of birth, occupation, employer name and zip code. In limited circumstances, we may collect payment information such as credit card number where needed to complete a requested service or transaction.

By requesting information to your mobile phone, we may obtain the following information from you in connection with our SMS service: your cell phone number, your carrier’s name and the date, time and content of your messages, as well as other information that you provide. We will use such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Automatically Generated Information: We may also collect nonpersonally identifiable information that is generated automatically while you are visiting the Site or elsewhere on the Internet when our advertisements are served, also known as log files. This data includes, but is not limited to, information such as IP address, web pages visited before and after visiting the Site, date and time, domain type, type of mobile device you use, your device’s unique ID, web pages you view and links you click on within the Site and interactions with our advertisements delivered by us or advertisements delivered by a third party advertising technology vendor. This type of information may be collected using different types of technologies, such as cookies and pixels. An IP address, for example, is an identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit the Site, we may view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device, your Internet Provider, track and prevent potential malicious activity and understand from what regions of the world the Site visitors come. We also may use your non-personally identifiable information to enhance the Site.

You may elect not to allow us to collect and use this non-personally identifiable data as part of our Service by following the Opt Out procedures described below.

Cookies and Other Technologies
Overview: We may use cookies and other tracking, analytical, security and personalization services and technologies to obtain certain types of information when your web browser, or any other application, service or system in your control or at your request accesses, connects to, utilizes or in any other way interacts with the Site or visits a website in our network, or utilizes an application, API, store, mobile service, SMS or text message, instance message, facebook page or other social media, or other service we or an affiliated entity or service provider provide. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser. If you wish to block, erase or be warned of the use of cookies, please refer to the paragraph below entitled Disabling Cookies or to your browser manufacturer. In order to provide some services, a third party may also set a ‘flash cookie’ on your computer. Since removing and rejecting browser cookies may not also remove or reject flash cookies, you will also need to visit:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/security.html in order to delete or disable flash cookies. Rejecting or removing browser or flash cookies, or other tracking, analytical, security and personalization technologies may affect certain features of our Sites.

The following section relates to our use of cookies associated with Google Analytics, but does not apply to our use of other Cookies, services or technologies. Cookies are used to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Wear Your Mind/The Observatory nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit the Site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

We may use other companies to set cookies on the Site and advertisements and gather cookie information for us. We may use our own cookies, tracking pixels, canvas fingerprinting, IP address tracking, or other tracking technology to store any data, for any purpose on the Site, affiliated sites, partner sites, applications, API’s, emails or any other services. This information is the exclusive property of Wear Your Mind/The Observatory and may be retained indefinitely, shared, sold, traded or otherwise distributed for any purpose without limitation. In some cases, we may also use another company to operate web servers or process credit card purchases for the Site.

Web Beacons: Pages of the Site [and our emails] may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Wear Your Mind/The Observatory 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).

INFORMATION USE AND SHARING
Use of Personal Information: If we do receive your personal information, we will only use it for the purposes described where it is collected or otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. We may share this information outside of Wear Your Mind/The Observatory if: (1) you authorize us to do so; (2) it is necessary to allow our service providers or agents to provide products or services for us; (3) it is necessary in order to provide our products or services to you (and contacting you when necessary); (4) subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, it is necessary to disclose to entities that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other entities with whom we have joint marketing agreements; (5) subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, it is necessary in connection with a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Wear Your Mind/The Observatory or the merger of Wear Your Mind/The Observatory into another entity or any consolidation, share exchange, combination, reorganization, or like transaction in which Wear Your Mind/The Observatory is not the survivor; (6) it is necessary in connection with other business purposes including, without limitation, responding to your inquiries or requests for information or services, customer care, service quality, business management and operation, risk assessment, security, fraud and crime prevention/detection, monitoring, research and analysis, marketing, customer purchasing preferences and trends, dispute resolution, credit checking and debt collection; (7) it is necessary to disclose in order to protect or defend our rights or property or those of our users; (8) it is necessary to disclose in order to protect the personal safety of our users or the public; (9) it is necessary for us to provide it to our attorneys, accountants, regulators, auditors or other advisors; or (10) otherwise as we are required or permitted by law or required to comply with legal process served upon us, our agents, representatives or our affiliates. We may also aggregate your personal information with the information of others and may disclose such information in aggregate form for marketing and promotional purposes in a way that would not identify you individually.

Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information: Wear Your Mind/The Observatory or our service providers or agents that provide services for us may use non-personally identifiable information as part of the Services to better tailor advertisements and other content in an effort to create a more relevant experience for each person that visits the Site or elsewhere on the Internet. This non-personally identifiable information may also be used to predict responses to advertisements, to help determine which ads perform best and which content is most appropriate for different individuals, to measure and optimize the effectiveness of advertisements and to provide aggregate reporting to our service providers or agents and for our and their internal purposes.

We use various website analytics tools and technologies regarding activities on the Site that require storage of web session data. These tools and technologies are also used to assist Site visitors who report problems in the use of the Site. Stored web session data is used in accordance with this Privacy Policy

Third Party Use of Cookies: We use cookies to compile aggregate non-personally identifiable data about Site traffic and Site interaction so that we can offer better Site experiences and tools in the future. We may also share non personally identifiable information with companies such as agencies, ad networks or exchanges to enable them to analyze user behaviors or to customize the ads that you encounter.

CONTESTS, SWEEPSTAKES AND OTHER PROMOTIONS: On the Site, you may wish to participate in contests and other promotions that we may offer from time to time. Through these promotions, you may choose to participate in activities such as sharing information found on the Site with others and sending email invitations. In connection with any contests and other promotions that we may offer from time to time via the Site, we use the information you provide to administer the contests and other promotions. Subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, we also may use the information to communicate with you, or the other people you select, about our products and services or our service providers or agents partners may use such information to communicate with you about the contests and other promotions or their products and services. If you choose to participate in these promotions, and are eligible to do so, we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, date of birth and telephone number. Official Contest Rules will accompany any contest sponsored by Wear Your Mind/The Observatory

THIRD-PARTY FEATURES
Third Party Links: For your convenience, we may include or offer third party offers, products or services on the Site. Third party vendors
may use cookies or other technologies to serve ads on other websites based on your visit to this Site and other websites on the Internet. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of any websites or pages not under our control and we do not endorse any of these websites or pages, the services or products described or offered on such sites or pages or any of the content contained on those sites or pages. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of the Site and welcome any feedback about these websites. Social Media Platforms and Websites: Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that you submit to the Site (including, but not limited to any of our pages contained on a social media platform or website such as Facebook or Twitter) by email, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading or otherwise (collectively, a ‘Submission’), is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of any social media platform or website and we are therefore not responsible for any content or Submissions contained on such sites and platforms. By visiting any of our pages or websites that are contained on a social media platform or website, you are representing and warranting to us that you have reviewed the applicable privacy policy and terms of use of such platform or website and that you will abide by all such provisions contained therein.

Additionally, in the event that we offer a message board or any other interactive or social-type feature on a website administered directly by us, please be aware that these areas may allow you to publicly post, and share with other users, certain messages, content, or other information (e.g., stories, pictures, ingredients, tips, etc.). Although we may take certain precautions to protect those who use these areas of one of our websites, we encourage you to be wary of giving out any personal information in such public forums. The information you post can be collected and used by people you don’t know. We cannot guarantee the privacy and safety of these areas and are,therefore not responsible for any information you choose to post. Your use of these features is fully at your own risk.

EMAIL SIGNUPS
Email: We appreciate your questions and comments about the Site and services and welcome your emails and questions submitted to the Site. We will share your messages with those within our organization who are most capable of addressing the issues contained in your message. We may archive your message for a certain period of time or discard it, but your email address and message will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Submitting your email: Submitting your address anywhere on the Site may result in your email address being added to the Wear Your Mind/The Observatory email list. You may unsubscribe to Wear Your Mind/The Observatory emails at any time by opting out of email subscriptions with the ‘unsubscribe’ link included in each email. Your email address will be removed from our marketing list. Please allow us a reasonable period of time in order to satisfy your request, as some promotions may already be in process.

Suggesting the Site to a Friend: If you elect to use any feature that includes suggesting a page to a friend or to inform a friend about the
Site or solicit contributions or pledges or otherwise communicate, Wear Your Mind/The Observatory may ask for your friend’s name and email address. The Site may automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Site or otherwise provide the information requested by you. Wear Your Mind/The Observatory will store and use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Your friend may contact Wear Your Mind/The Observatory to request the removal of this information from our databases.

SECURITY
We employ and maintain technology and security measures designed to protect your personal information. However, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us.

OPT OUT
Overview: We may use non personally identifiable information to provide more relevant advertising and content. If you would like to stop the site or associated systems/services from collecting this information, please stop visiting or using the site or systems/services. If you would like to use the site, but disable our use of cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, canvas fingerprinting or other services to identify individual users and their usage of the site, you may adjust your browser settings accordingly or employ any of a number of browser plugins or other programs to prevent this information from being shared with the site or services.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under California Law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship, (a) a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, email and mailing address and the type of services provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes and (b) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please contact Wear Your Mind/The Observatory on the Site or write to us at (with a reference to California Disclosure Information): Email: info@wearyourmind.org
We will respond to such requests for information access within 30 days following receipt at the email address stated above. If we receive your request at a different email or mailing address, we will respond within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 150 days from the date received. Please note that we are only required to respond to each customer once per calendar year.

CHILDREN
We strongly encourage parents and guardians to regularly monitor and supervise their childrens’ online activities. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

VISITING THE SITE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES
If you are visiting the Site from outside of the United States of America, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored or  processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, but please be assured that we take steps to protect your privacy. By using the Site, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US
Please contact us if you have questions about our Privacy Policy at: info@wearyourmind.org