Privacy policy

Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

What is Personal Data?

Personal Data (also referred to in this policy as Personal Information) means any information relating to a natural person who can be identified by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification/account number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that person.

Personal Information

We collect when you visit the GoodSomm Websites, there are four types of information you might provide to us: contact information you knowingly choose to disclose; contact information from applications for funding or donations, billing information when you donate, join, subscribe, or make a purchase; demographic or other information about you; and technical information collected by us as you interact with our websites.

Contact Information

In some areas of the GoodSomm Websites, we request that you provide personal information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Donor and Purchaser Information In some areas of the GoodSomm Websites, we request that you provide your credit card number, contact information, and other billing information.

Demographic Information

In some areas of the GoodSomm Websites, we collect demographic information such as your age, career, preferences, gender, educational degrees, ethnic background, interests, and other information. Sometimes, we may collect a combination of information types. Examples of areas of the GoodSomm Websites where we may collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can donate to the GoodSomm, sign up to be a member (professional or general), register for a program or event, or purchase a product.

Technical Information

We also may gather certain information about your use of our site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that we may collect. This information can include, without limitation, your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. Some of this information is collected through the use of cookies (described below).

Use of Personal Information

The information collected may be used by GoodSomm for the purpose of providing you with the content you request, operating and improving the GoodSomm Websites, providing a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. We may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from the GoodSomm Websites or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered. We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail, postal mail, or other communications regarding updates at the GoodSomm, such as newsletters, information, event and programmatic information, and additional listings which may be of interest to you. We may also use it to send you information about third-party products and services that match your interests and preferences, if you opt in for this communication. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you. In addition, at the time of registration for certain services, you have the option to elect to receive additional communications, information, newsletters, and promotions relating to topics that may be of special interest to you. If in the future we intend to process your Personal Data for a purpose other than that for which it was collected, we will provide you with information on that purpose and any other relevant information including the option to opt out. We do not provide your name and address or email to outside parties, except as described here. To learn more about our encryption policies, please review the section on "Protecting Personal Information" (below). For EU-based visitors and subscribers, the following table provides information required by the GDPR relating to our use of your personal information.

Personal Information

Legal Basis for Processing

Contact information, including name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Purchaser information, including credit card number, contact information, and billing information. Demographic information, including age, preferences, gender, educational degrees, ethnic background, interests, and specific information. Technical information, including your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. Consent to provide you with the content you request, as necessary for the performance of a contract. Necessary to provide you with the content you request. Legitimate purpose of providing tailored content to you. Legitimate purpose of authenticating subscribers and optimizing website performance.

Retention of Personal Information

We retain indefinitely all the personal information we gather about visitors or subscribers as necessary to fulfill our contract with you. We retain indefinitely certain anonymized information we gather about visitors or subscribers for the legitimate purpose of performing website analytics and providing use of our website to all visitors in an efficient, practical, and relevant way. If there is no legal basis or other