Sphere (Our Sphere, Inc.) is a Delaware Registered Public Benefit Corporation. We are committed to protecting your privacy and have created this policy to explain our privacy practices. This policy applies to all web pages at oursphere.org.
Collection, Use, and Disclosure of your Personal Information
Sphere collects and uses your personal information to operate the website and to market its products to people who have visited the Sphere website.
Personal information is made available to our partners for the following, limited purposes:
To Carry Out Your Requests. We may be required to disclose personal information in order to carry out your requests when you use the site. This may include sharing your personal information with our third-party vendors. For example, we may share personal information with third parties as necessary to deliver you email updates.
To Protect You and Ourselves. We release personal information when we believe release is necessary or appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena); to protect our rights or property; to protect our supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires the disclosure of communications or records.
In addition to your email address, we also gather other information, including session storage properties, metadata, basic information about your device, and IP address. We collect this information for the purpose of communicating with you for marketing purposes. We use third party websites to securely store this application information, ensuring data integrity and privacy.
When you visit or log in to our website, cookies and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with other personal information they or others have about you, including by association with your email or location. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to you. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout
We store the information we collect for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it.
How Do We Protect Your information?
We employ a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. For example, we use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems. We restrict access to personal information about you to those employees and third-party vendors who need to know that information. Further, we store the personal information we collect from you behind a secure firewall and on a secure server.
European Union Citizens
This website and the Virtual March are based in the United States, the website is directed to U.S. residents, and we process and store information in the U.S. If you are located outside of the U.S., we and our service providers may transfer your information to, or store or access your information in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.
Collection and Use of Children’s Personal Information
We care about the safety and privacy of children online, and we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with COPPA, children under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information on this site. We urge parents to supervise their children while online.
Changes to this Policy
We may revise and update this policy if our practices change, if we add new features to the site, or if we change existing ones that affect these practices. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information.
Contact Information
We welcome your comments regarding this policy. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact us by email at hello@oursphere.org.
Date Effective: August 28, 2024
