Privacy and Copyright policies
NEST360 Privacy Notice | Effective Date: December 7, 2022
NEST360 recognizes that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us and how we handle that information. This Privacy Notice describes the types of information we collect from and about you when you visit this website (and the mobile optimized version of this website), how we may use and disclose such information, and your ability to control certain uses of it.
Information We Collect
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
We collect certain personally identifiable information, such as your name, telephone number, employment information, and email address, if you choose to subscribe to our mailing list. We do not require you to register or provide personally identifiable information to view our site or access much of its content. However, if you register, you may be granted access to additional features to interact with us. Sharing this additional information with us helps us customize your website experience and interactions. Here are the ways we collect personally-identifiable information.
When you ask us to send you newsletters, brochures, or other content by email, you may provide us with certain information, such as your email address, so that we can fulfill your request.
COMMENTS AND OTHER INTERACTIVE FEATURES
When you participate in interactive features on our site, you may submit information and content, such as comments, to the site. You may also provide us with certain information such as your email address, city, and state of residency. We may use this information to contact you about the content you have provided or to post with your content. Remember that what you post or upload to the site will be publicly available, so please exercise caution when disclosing anything personal about yourself. NEST360 cannot control the actions of third parties who may view the website and use publicly available information for their purposes.
MOBILE
When you view the site using a mobile device, in addition to the other information we may collect from your actions, we may collect your mobile phone number, device identifier, and geolocation information, as well as other non-personal information, such as your device type and carrier.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY AUTOMATED MEANS
We may use cookies, web beacons/pixel tags, log files, and other technologies to collect certain information about visitors to our website, those using our online services, and those interacting with us via email messages and online advertisements. For example, through these means, we may automatically collect information such as your browser type, operating system, mobile device type and carrier, internet service provider (“ISP”), and IP address. We may also collect information about your use of and interaction with the website (such as the webpages viewed, whether you open, forward, or click-through links, emails, and ads) and other site usage data. Collecting this information, and linking it with your personally identifiable information, helps us best tailor our website and enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site and helps us identify site features and content that may be of interest to you.
TRACKING OPTIONS
You can set your internet browser settings to stop accepting new cookies, to receive notice when you receive a new cookie, to disable existing cookies, and to omit images (which will disable pixel tags). Note that the opt-out will apply only to the browser that you are using when you adjust your tracking settings or cookie preferences. Our system may not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers. You can learn more about and opt out from receiving third-party advertiser cookies by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page here. Without cookies or pixel tags, you may not be able to take full advantage of our website features. We adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may obtain information about you from other sources, including commercially available sources, such as data aggregators and public databases. This information may include your name, demographic information, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as from social media. In addition, we may combine this information with the information we collect from you to help us tailor our communications to you and to improve our services and products.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect from and about you to contact you from time to time. For example, we may send you communications and information about NEST360, our portfolio of programs, our events, and our partners. You may receive these offers in advertising directed to you via third-party sites and media platforms, including social media. In addition, we may respond to your comments or questions or contact you if needed while processing a product or service you requested through our website. We also may use the information you provide to contact you for your opinions on NEST360 products, services, or websites. As described in this Privacy Notice, we also use the information we collect about you to improve our website, products and services, and deliver content customized to your interests.
How We Share Your Information
We do not sell or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information about our website visitors, except as described here. Without your consent, we do not share your personally identifiable information with unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing purposes.
We may share personally identifiable information we collect from and about you among NEST360 programs and initiatives. We also may share the information with service providers we have retained to perform services on our behalf, such as to help run programs and provide customer service. These service providers may have access to personally identifiable information about our website visitors if it is needed to perform their functions for NEST360. However, they are not authorized by NEST360 to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements. In addition, we may disclose information where we think it is required to investigate or prevent an actual or suspected crime or injury to ourselves or others if required by law or in response to a request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials.
We may share your email address with a third-party, such as a media agency, to send you interest-based advertising on our behalf. We may also share aggregated or de-identified information about you, including information based on your email address, with our advertising and marketing partners and third-party media platforms, including social media sites, which enables them to send targeted advertising messages and/or conduct analyses on our behalf. You may be able to opt out of these ads by clicking on an icon in the ad or through the privacy settings in each social media platform.
We may conduct joint promotions with other companies. We may share with our promotional partners (and their service providers) certain personally identifiable information as necessary to conduct the promotion. We will not share this information with our promotional partners for any other purpose unless you consent to such sharing.
During the normal course of our business, NEST360 may sell or purchase assets. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, the information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personally identifiable information provided through this website in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice.
Your General Data Protection Regulation Privacy Rights
NEST360.org is General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) compliant and only uses the necessary cookies required by law. We may share your personally identifiable information with affiliated third parties that are also GDPR compliant, some of which do not share the NEST360 name, for their own direct marketing purposes. If you have additional questions about our GDPR compliance or do not want us to share your information, please contact communications@nest360.org.
Learn more about your rights here.
Your California Privacy Rights
For California Residents: We may share your personally identifiable information with affiliated third parties, some of which do not share the NEST360 name, for their own direct marketing purposes. Because this category of affiliates is considered to be “unaffiliated parties” under California Law, you may opt out of us sharing with them. To opt out, please send a letter with your name, postal address, and email, with the heading “California Privacy Rights” to: communications@nest360.org
Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other websites. We provide these links solely for your convenience and information. Different websites have different privacy practices. You should always check the privacy notice of the specific site you are visiting to understand the privacy practices associated with that site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of third-party websites.
Children’s Information
This site is intended for general audiences, and NEST360 does not direct the site to collect or knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13.
How we protect your information
The security of personally identifiable information is important to us. We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of the personally identifiable information we collect on this website. While we make every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures.
Updates to this privacy notice
We may change or update portions of this Privacy Notice at any time. Therefore, please check back from time to time, so you are aware of any changes or updates to the notice. We will indicate the notice’s effective date on the first page of the notice.
Copyright Notice
NEST360’s content and materials are protected under creative commons licensing; more information can be found here. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Unless otherwise noted, NEST360 holds the copyright for and reserves all rights to all text, images and videos used on this website. The NEST360-authored content contained in this website may be freely used and copied for educational and other noncommercial purposes unless otherwise noted, provided that the following acknowledgment line accompanies any reproduction:
Reproduced from the NEST360 website at www.NEST360.org, [current date].
We ask that you please send NEST360 a print or electronic copy of any material using content from this site or a link to any such material. Electronic copies and links may be emailed to communications@NEST360.org.
Hard copies may be mailed to:
NEST360
Attn: Communications Department
PO Box 1892, MS-636,
Houston, Texas, 77251-1892.
How to make a claim of copyright infringement on the NEST360 website
If you believe any material on the site infringes a copyright you own or control, you may email communications@NEST360.org, or you may submit written notification to:
NEST360
Attn: Communications Department
P.O. Box 1892, MS-636,
Houston, Texas, 77251-1892
To be effective, the notification must meet the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512, and include the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information sufficient to permit NEST360 to locate the material.
- The address, telephone number, and email address at which the complaining party may be contacted.