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Privacy Policy

‍The UnlikelyCollaborators.com website, including all of its features, content, and any associated applications (or “apps”) (collectively, the “Website”) is a service made available by Unlikely Collaborators, Inc. ("Unlikely").‍

How This Privacy Policy Applies‍

Your privacy is very important to us, and in order to best protect your information, we have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), which applies to any and all information each visitor, user of the Website, or participant in any session (each a “Session”) facilitated by Unlikely (each, a “User”, “you” or “your”) submit to us in connection with your access to and/or use of the Website and/or participation in any Session. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect from you through the Website and/or participation in any Session, how we use that information, and our legal basis for doing so. It also covers whether and how that information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding the information you provide to us. Capitalized words not defined in this Privacy Policy are defined in our Terms of Use and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”).

By using the Website or participating in any Session, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy (including new versions of this Privacy Policy when and as they go into effect), and the Terms of Use, which governs this Privacy Policy and contains all disclaimers of warranties and limitation of liabilities.

Users must be at least eighteen (18) years old in order to use the websites and our services. By using these websites and our services, you represent, acknowledge and agree that you are at least 18 years of age and have the right, authority and capacity to agree to and abide by these Terms.

What Information We Collect and Receive

In order for you to use our Website or participate in any Session, we need to collect and process certain information, which depending on how you use the Website or participate in any Session, may include:

Information you provide by using the Website or participating in any Session, such as by posting User Content in the Interactive Areas (as such terms are defined in the Terms of Use), and completing forms the Website, such as your first and last name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and/or responses to surveys and prompts. We may ask for this information if you subscribe to our newsletter, complete surveys, or contact us;
Details of any requests or transactions you make through the Website. We offer products for sale through the Website and partner with Shopify for payment processing. Any credit card or other payment information you submit is collected and used by them in accordance with its privacy policy available at www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We would not store your payment information apart from the last four digits of your credit card or bank account (as applicable), expiration date, and country, which we require for tax compliance, government regulatory, and security purposes;
Information about your activity on and interaction with Unlikely, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type of device or browser you use to access the Website, your operating system, the referring URL, your actions on the Website, and your participation in any Session;
If you connect to the Website via a third-party social network such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or others, we may collect personal information from you that you provide in your profile on such social networks, including without limitation, your name, username, e-mail address, photograph(s), gender and date of birth;
Information about the ways people visit and interact with our Website in the form of web traffic analytics. You can opt out of being included in Google Analytics here. For more information about our use of data analytics to protect and improve our Website, see Cookies and How We Utilize Them below; and
Communications you send to us, such as when you request support, send us comments or questions, or report a problem to us.

We also collect and maintain aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized information to protect the safety and security of our Website, improve our Website, and comply with our legal obligations.

You may decline to provide us with some or all of your information. However, this will limit your ability to use our Website.

Types of Cookies We Utilize

We use the following types of cookies and other technologies:

Security: We secure the Website with cookies that facilitate security features and allow us to detect activity that might violate our rules and Terms of Use, such as unauthorized access or activity.
Localization: Some cookies help us provide localized experiences, such as displaying the Website in the local language, if you have consented to us doing so.
Site Features and Services: Certain cookies provide greater functionality to the Website and help us deliver our products and services.
Performance: We use performance cookies to help us route traffic between servers and understand how the Website is performing so we can provide users with the best experience possible.
Analytics and Research: Cookies and other technologies also help us to understand, improve, and research features and content on the Website, such as by using Google Analytics. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt-out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Marketing and Online Behavioral Advertising: Cookies help us deliver targeted advertisements on social media platforms based on your activity on the Website and to track the performance of those ads. In some cases, our partners may use cookies to provide us with information about your interactions with their services. Those third-party cookies would be subject to such third-party service’s privacy policies. You can opt out of such interest-based advertising using cookies set by participating NAI members at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/. Opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean you will no longer see advertising online. It does mean that the company or companies from which you opt out will no longer show ads that have been tailored to your interests.
Polls, Surveys, Sweepstakes, Giveaways, Contests, and Promotions: Unlikely may request information from you via online polls, surveys, sweepstakes, giveaways, or contests. Participation in polls, surveys, sweepstakes, giveaways, or contests is voluntary; you have a choice whether or not to disclose information required to enter. Information requested may include personal contact information such as your name, address, phone number, mobile phone number, email address, username, birth date, and/or similar information. We may share this information with our affiliates, vendors, and other organizations or entities. Contact information will be used to notify winners and award prizes. Contact information may also be used to contact you with further information about Unlikely, as well as the information about third parties whose activities relate to the mission of Unlikely.
Online Advertisements: Unlikely may run online advertisements on third-party websites to attract visitors to the Website or to alert the public to opportunities related to our educational mission. Our advertising vendors may use cookies and clear GIFs on the Website and on the third-party sites on which our ads appear, which allow the advertising vendor to track certain information about user behavior, such as “click-stream data.” Any use of information by an advertising vendor is governed by their terms of use and privacy policy, so you should familiarize yourself with these policies prior to responding to online advertisements.
Text Messages and Other Points of Contact: If you sign up to receive text messages from us, Unlikely may collect, store, and use your mobile phone number to send you such messages. We may also collect and store other personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, phone number, mobile phone number, email address, username, and/or similar information you may opt to provide to us. If you provide us with your email address, we may use it to send you email newsletters and updates from Unlikely. In addition, as noted above, we may share this information with our affiliates, vendors, and other organizations or entities.
Email Newsletters and Updates: If you sign up to receive email newsletters and updates from Unlikely and its affiliates and/or organizations that aid or share Unlikely’ s mission, we may collect, store, and use your email address to send you information from Unlikely. We may also collect and store other personally identifiable information you give Unlikely, including but not limited to your name, address, phone number, mobile phone number, email address, username, birth date, and/or similar information you may opt to provide us. If you provide us with your mobile phone number, Unlikely may use it to send you text messages. In addition, as noted above, we may share this information with our affiliates, vendors, and other organizations or entities to advance Unlikely’ s mission.

Limiting or Blocking Cookies and Our Do Not Track Policy

Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies, which may depend on the type of cookie, and browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. However, blocking or deleting cookies may prevent you from using most of the Website.

Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We will abide by any “do not track” technology that you may choose to utilize, although, as described above with cookies, such technology may negatively affect the functionality of the website.

Note that certain options you select are browser- and device-specific.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To protect our Website;
To enable us to provide you with our Website, and to improve and promote our Website and services;
To contact you and customize your experience on the Website or in future Sessions;
To track and analyze use of the Website and our services so that we can improve how Unlikely is performing and provide our users with the best experience possible;
To comply with legal obligations, enforce our agreements (including this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use), to protect or defend our rights, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, and situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person; and
There are also times when Unlikely may make certain personal information about you available to companies or individuals to provide products and services to you on our behalf. These companies may help us process information, extend credit, fulfill customer orders, deliver products to you, manage and enhance customer data, provide customer service, assess your interest in our products and services, or conduct customer research or satisfaction surveys. We call them our “Service Providers.” We may share personally identifiable information with Service Providers solely as appropriate for them to perform their functions, but they may not use such information for any other purpose, except if we inform you otherwise at the time of collection. Without such information being made available, it would be difficult for you to purchase products, have products delivered to you, receive customer service, provide us feedback to improve our products and services, or access certain services, offers, and content on the website.

If you use a story submission feature or bulletin board or chat room on the Website, you should be aware that any information you share may be visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit in this manner can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. Unlikely is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in this manner. For example, if you submit a story that includes information that was previously non-public, that information and data may become publicly available.

Unlikely will not sell or rent your contact information to marketers.

User-Generated Content

Some of our services and social networking features may enable you to submit your own content for public posting. Information you post in this fashion becomes public information and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Certain areas of our websites and our social media pages may enable users to submit personal information to Unlikely. Such information will be used in accordance with the website’s Privacy Policy. Postings, letters, and other submissions become the property of Unlikely and may be reproduced in whole or in part, including your name, for any purpose and in any manner.

European Union Users

European Union data protection law requires a “lawful basis” for collecting and retaining personal information from citizens or residents of the European Economic Area. Our lawful bases include:

Consent: In certain cases, you have affirmatively provided us with your consent to collect your personal data for a specific purpose, such as providing your email address when you sign up for our newsletter.
Contract: We may need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligation to deliver the Website, such as fulfilling subscriptions or transactions.
Legal Obligations: Sometimes the law requires us to collect and use your data, such as applicable tax laws may require us to retain records of payments made through the Website.
Legitimate Interests: This is a technical term that means we have a good and fair reason to use your data and we do so in ways which do not harm your interests and rights, such as to pursue our legitimate interests in a way that might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and that does not materially impact your rights, freedom, or interests. For example, we use identity, device, and location information to prevent fraud and abuse and to keep the Website secure, may also send you promotional communications about our Website and services subject to your right to opt out, analyze how users interact with our Website so we can understand better what elements do or do not work well, which allows us to improve and develop the quality of the online experience we offer all our users.

How We Share the Information We Collect

Information that May be Publicly Accessible

If you post User Content in Interactive Areas, other Users will be able to view such User Content, along with your name and email address that you provide in posting the User Content to the Interactive Areas. Do not post to Interactive Areas any information, including, without limitation, personal information, that you do not want to be publicly accessible.

Additionally, personal information in your Unlikely Member profile is shared or otherwise viewable by other Unlikely Members unless you specifically choose the option within your account for your profile to be anonymous. Bear in mind that if you wish to remain anonymous, you may not be able to take advantage of some of the functionality of the Website.

Information We Never Share Publicly

The following personal information is never publicly displayed or revealed to other Users (unless you post it in the Interactive Areas or share it in your public Unlikely Member profile):

Your name;
The date you register for any services we provide through the Website, such as our newsletter/mailing list;
Your email address, IP address, mailing address, or phone number;
Any other identity verification information or documentation;
Any payment information you provide; and
Communications you send to us.

Information We Share with Trusted Third-Party Service Providers

We may share certain information pertaining to you with certain trusted third-party service providers to help us provide, improve, promote, or protect the Website, such as when we partner with payment processors or use services to help us manage our ads on other websites. When we share data with third-party services to help us deliver the Website and our services, we require that those service providers use your information only for the purposes we have authorized and protect your personal information at least to the same standards we do. We may also share information that is aggregated and anonymized in a way that it does not directly identify you. We may also share anonymized survey responses or certain responses or other Session data with researchers at accredited academic research institutions.

Information We Share to Protect Unlikely and Comply with the Law

We reserve the right to disclose information we collect from or about you when we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or law enforcement, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to protect Unlikely’ legal rights, property, or the safety of Unlikely its users, or others. You hereby authorize us, to share or disclose your personal information, including, without limitation, any content, records, or electronic communications of any kind, when we determine, in our sole discretion, that the disclosure of such information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if:

You are or may be violating the Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy;
You are interfering with the rights or property of Unlikely or a third party;
You are violating any applicable law, rule, or regulation;
Necessary or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation; and/or
Requested by governmental authorities in the event of any investigation, act of terrorism, or instance of local, regional, or national emergency.

In the event that Unlikely is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, or sells all or substantially all of its assets, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information and content we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Links to Other Websites and Services

Our Website may include links to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from Unlikely’ privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy. When you click or otherwise use a link to an external website or service, the privacy policy and data processing disclosures for that website or service govern.

Data Retention

We will retain the information we collect from or about you as long as necessary to provide you with the Website or our services, or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent set out in this Privacy Policy and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect Unlikely’ legal rights. Additionally, we may retain indefinitely any aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized information which we may collect and maintain.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Unlikely is based in the United States so your information will be collected and processed in the United States, which has its own laws governing data protection and access to it, including by the government. If you reside outside of the United States, be advised that the rules that protect your personal information under United States federal, state, and local law may differ from those of your home country.

Children’s Privacy

The privacy of children is of the utmost importance, and we are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This Website does not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13. If we ever discover that we have inadvertently collected personal information from children under the age of 13, we will delete it as soon as possible. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that we have collected personal information from your child under the age of 13, please email us at info@unlikelycollaborators.com and we will take steps to delete such personal information as soon as possible.

Accessing Your Information

Users residing in certain countries, including citizens or residents of the European Economic Area, are afforded certain rights regarding their personal information. Except where an exception or exemption applies, these rights may include the ability to access, correct, and request deletion of such user’s personal information. Even after you request we delete your personal information, we may retain certain information as required by law or as necessary for our legitimate business purposes. Please reach out to us via the “Contact Us” information listed below if you wish to assert an applicable right.

Email Notifications

We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. We will send you email relating to your transactions with us. You may also elect to receive certain marketing email communications, in accordance with your preferences, and from which you may opt out at any time by adjusting your notification settings. We will also send you service-related announcements when and as necessary. We try to keep emails to a minimum and give you the ability to opt out of any marketing communications we send.

We maintain a strict “no-spam” policy. We will not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses, identify the message as an advertisement in a reasonable way, include the physical address of our business, monitor our third-party email marketing services for compliance, honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly, and allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email. If you are having problems unsubscribing please contact us at info@unlikelycollaborators.com by forwarding the newsletter, if applicable, and including the word “Unsubscribe” in the subject line and we will use reasonable efforts to remove you within seven (7) business days. Please note that we will not process any unsubscribe requests submitted as direct replies to any newsletter.

California Residents

California residents may choose to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes or choose to opt out of such disclosure. To make a request or to opt out at any time, please contact us at info@unlikelycollaborators.com. Please use the subject line "CA Request for Information".

Security

We take security seriously, and the security of your personal data is important to us. We follow industry-standard practices to protect the data we collect and maintain, including using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt information as it travels over the Internet. No method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. Whenever we make a material change, we will post on the Website or send you an email. The effective date of the most recent version of this Privacy Policy will appear at the top of this page. New versions of this Privacy Policy will never apply retroactively.

Legal Disclaimer

Our Website operates AS-IS, and we do not represent or warrant that they will be available at all times, or that your use of the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are not responsible for your ability to access the Website, or for matters beyond our control. This Privacy Policy is governed by New York law, excluding its provisions on choice of law.

Contact

Questions or comments about this Privacy Policy should be sent by email to info@unlikelycollaborators.com.

Last Updated: November 10, 2022