Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

Genesys Works (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to respecting the personal privacy of our users. To better protect your privacy and comply with our legal obligations, we are providing information explaining our information practices.

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our practices with respect to personal information we collect from or about you when you use our website at genesysworks.org (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we process on behalf of our other offerings, such as the internship placement, training, and consulting services we offer our institutional partners. Our use of information collected in providing business services is governed by separate agreements that cover such services.

Your use of the Website means that you accept and agree to this Privacy Policy, our [Terms of Use], and all additional terms incorporated by reference herein. You may have additional rights under other foreign or domestic laws that may apply to you, including as set forth in additional privacy notices we may publish.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was collected. However, we reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, in our sole discretion, for any reason and without notice, by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy (including collecting and/or using personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected), we will post those changes on the Website or send you an email or other communication before the changes take effect.

The notice will designate a reasonable period of time after which the new terms will take effect. We will try to provide at least 30 day’s notice prior to the effective changes. If you disagree with our changes, then you must stop using our Website within the designated notice period, or once the changes become effective. Your continued use of our Website following the notice period means that you accept such revisions, changes, and/or amendments.

Please check this page frequently and review any changes to this Privacy Policy carefully so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you. You agree that we shall not be liable to you for any damages that might result from any changes to the Privacy Policy to the fullest extent permitted by law.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

When you visit our Website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose to us on an individual basis and Technical Information (as defined below) collected as you browse our Website. The nature of the personal information we collect from or about you depends on the nature of, and purposes for, your interactions with our Website.

The categories of personal information we collect from or about you may include the following:

Identifiers: Name, contact details, financial information, and address (including physical address, email address, and Internet Protocol address), date of birth, citizenship, birthplace, and classification characteristics protected under state or federal law.

Certain Technical Information

- https://genesysworks.org/cookies-policy/

Other Information You Provide: We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when you contact us or provide us information to establish your identity.

Some internet browsers have incorporated “Do Not Track” features. Most of these features, when turned on, send a signal or preference (the “DNT Signal”) to websites you visit indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. At this time, we do not currently respond to DNT Signals.

HOW DO WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We may collect personal information from you in the following situations:

Personal information you provide when you register for or use our Website;

Personal information you provide when you contact us or fill out any forms available through our Website, including any job application forms; and

Details of visits to the Website, including the volume of traffic received, logs, and the resources that you have accessed.

Information You Provide

If you choose to register to be a member of our Website or register for email newsletters and alerts, you will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices.

Technical Information we receive automatically from your use of the Website.

When you visit, use, or interact with the Website, we receive the following information about your visit, use, or interactions (“Technical Information”):

Log Data: Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our Website. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address (see details below under the section header “How Do We Use the Information We Collect from Internet Protocol Addresses”), browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Website.
Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the Website, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, as well as your time zone, country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and your computer connection.

Device Information: Includes name of the device, operating system, device identifiers, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.

Cookies: Similar to other commercial websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below under the section header “What Are Cookies?” as well as our [Cookie Policy]) and web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website, and the websites visited just before and just after our Website.
Analytics: We may use a variety of online analytics products that use cookies to help us analyze how users use our Website and enhance your experience when you use the Website.

We will treat Technical Information as personal information to the extent that any Technical Information could be reasonably understood to be personal information under our Privacy Policy or applicable law.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some Third-Party Services (as defined below) and other online service providers use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.

If you prefer not to receive cookies through the Website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you optout of certain cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts or features of the Website. You may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you manage your cookie preferences.

HOW DO WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

We may use your personal information for one or more of the following business purposes:

To administer, improve, and expand the Website and our business activities and to notify you about changes to our Website and special offers we think you will find valuable;
To communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through the Website, to notify you of publications that may be of interest to you, or to provide customer service;
To keep a record of your relationship with us;
For ongoing operations, such as organizational administration, accounting, fundraising, and reporting;
To audit the quality and effectiveness of our Website and compliance, including over time;
To protect our Website from malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and
To generally comply with U.S., state, local, and non-U.S. laws, rules, and regulations.

HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FOR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS?

Additionally, we may use your personal information to keep you informed of our Website and publications if you have provided your consent for us to do so, or where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about such services or publications (“Marketing Communications”).

There are several ways in which you can tell us whether or not you want to receive Marketing Communications from us.

Promotional Emails: Click the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” link provided in all our marketing emails or email us with your opt-out request at any time at info@genesysworks.org.
Text Messages: To the extent that you have signed up to receive text messages from us through Signal Vine, a Third-Party Service, you may opt out of receiving them by replying to any message we send you with the word “STOP”. Please review our [Terms of Use][1] for important information concerning our use of text messaging.

HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES

We may also collect Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses or click-stream data for purposes including:

To perform system administration;
To improve the Website; and
To report aggregate information internally or to our affiliates, institutional partners, or our Third-Party Service providers.

An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. Our computers identify your computer by its IP address. When you request pages from the Website, our computers log your IP address.

Click-stream data is information collected by our computers when you request pages from the Website. Click-stream data may include such information as the page served, the time, the source of the request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page view, and other such non-personal information. When analyzed, this data helps us determine, among other things, how visitors arrive at the Website, what type of content is most popular, and what type of visitors in the aggregate are interested in particular kinds of content.

HOW DO WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM COOKIES?

As you use our Website, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Website and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Website and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you, and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

SHARING INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

Unless described otherwise under this Privacy Policy, we do not sell or rent any of the personal information we collect about you to third parties, unless such personal information has been aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified so that it neither identifies a person nor otherwise falls within the definition of personal information.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to third parties, except as expressly set forth herein or as permitted or required by law or regulation and to affiliates and service providers, including vendors providing hosting, purchasing, payment processing, software services, event management, database management, and development services related to the operation of the Website, or email marketing services related to events we are hosting, our publications, Marketing Communications, or other communications we may send to you.

Additionally, we may disclose your personal information to (i) a buyer in the event that we sell any business or assets, (ii) the other party if we merge with or are acquired by another party, or (iii) in connection with a partial or total sale of assets, bankruptcy, or another corporate change or reorganization. However, the use of your personal information by such parties is controlled by those parties and thus, not subject to our control.

ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES

We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, court order, or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (i) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (ii) protect and defend our rights and property, our Website, the users of our Website, and/or our affiliated parties; (iii) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our Website, us, or third parties; or (iv) enforce or apply our other agreements.

HOW DO WE SECURELY TRANSMIT AND STORE INFORMATION?

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Website may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS, instead of HTTP. We encrypt certain sensitive information in the transmission process using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Please contact info@genesysworks.org if you have any questions or concerns.

We will store your personal information in an identifiable manner, unless (i) otherwise required by applicable law, or (ii) you request deletion of your personal information pursuant to this Privacy Policy. At such point that we cease storing your personal information in an identifiable manner, except to the extent that we may be prohibited from retaining any such information even in unidentifiable form, we will convert all of your personal information into anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified form. For the avoidance of doubt, personal information that has been converted into anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified form shall no longer constitute personal information.

HOW CAN YOU ACCESS AND CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION?

You may update, delete, or request access to all of your personal information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing info@genesysworks.org.

WHAT ABOUT THIRD-PARTY SERVICES?

Our Website may include (or you may have accessed our Website through) third-party links, services, products, software, embeds, or applications developed, hosted, or otherwise provided by a third party (“Third-Party Services”). Third-Party Services are subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for them. Please contact the Third-Party Services directly for information on their terms of use, privacy policies, and other policies that may govern the use of the Third-Party Services.

You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable for, and you hereby release us from any claim related to, any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such websites or services.

OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

You must be at least 13 years old or the minimum age required in your state to consent to use our Website. If you are under 18, you must have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use our Website and consent to this Privacy Policy and our [Terms of Use] on your behalf.

Residents of certain states under the age of 13, 16, or 18 may have additional rights regarding the collection and use of their personal information. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, we ask that you only access our Website and provide us personal information with the consent of your parent or guardian. If a child under the age of consent in their state of residency has provided us with personal information without the consent of that child’s parent or guardian, such parent or guardian may contact us at info@genesysworks.org and request that such information be deleted from our records.

Our Website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We adhere to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and will not knowingly register or otherwise collect personal information from any child under the age of 13. We ask that minors under the age of 13 not use our Website or submit any personal information to us.

CHOICE

We will not use or share the personal information you provide to us on or through our Website in ways that are unrelated to the ones described in this Privacy Policy without first obtaining your consent (see details above under the section header “Changes to Our Privacy Policy”). As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive Marketing Communications (see details above under the section header “How Do We Use the Information We Collect for Marketing Communications?”).

CONSTRUCTION

As used in this Privacy Policy, the terms “include” and “including” shall be deemed to be immediately followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The terms “herein” and “hereunder” and similar terms shall be interpreted to refer to the entire Privacy Policy. The captions and headings in this Privacy Policy are inserted for convenience and reference only and in no way define or limit the scope or content of this Privacy Policy and shall not affect the interpretation of its provisions.

CONTACT

For any questions regarding our processing of your personal information, or requests relating to the exercise of your rights under applicable data protection laws, please submit (or have your authorized representative submit) a request via email at info@genesysworks.org.

You may also contact us by phone at 713-337-0522 or by mail at 1880 South Dairy Ashford Road. Suite #300. Houston, Texas 77077.