PRIVACY NOTICE

Last Updated: November 01, 2023

Welcome! This Privacy Notice explains how Project Village Inc. (“Village”, “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses,  discloses, and otherwise processes personal information (as defined below) in connection with our websites we own and operate that link to this Privacy Notice (the “Sites”), our mobile application (the “App”) and the related content, platform,  services, products, and other functionality offered on or through our online services (collectively, the “Services”). It does not address our privacy practices relating to Village employees and other personnel.  

Our Collection of Personal Information 

Sometimes we collect personal information automatically when an individual interacts with our Services and sometimes, we collect personal information directly from an individual. 

If you choose not to share certain information with us, we may not be able to serve you as effectively or offer you our  Services. 

Personal Information Collected from Individuals 
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We may collect the following personal information submitted to us by individuals through the Services: 

• Account Registration and Profile Information. We may collect personal and/or business information that you provide when you register for an account to use our Services. This may include your name, email, and phone number. Once you create an account, you may also be able to create a profile that may be visible to other users on the Services. You may personalize your profile by including additional information about yourself and uploading a profile picture. We use this information to administer your account, provide you with the relevant services and information, communicate with you regarding your account, the Services, and for customer support purposes.
• Inquiries and Other Communications. If you communicate with us through any form, we may collect your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or any other personal information you choose to provide to us. We use this information to investigate and respond to your inquiries, and to communicate with you, to enhance the services we offer to our users and to manage and grow our organization.
• User Content. You may upload or transmit data or information through your communications with us, your communications with other users, or your use of the Services (collectively, “User Content”). For instance, you may share links and post comments about articles that are shown publicly. User Content and any information contained in the User Content, including personal information you may have included, is stored and collected as part of the Services. We use the User Content to fulfill the reason why it was provided (i.e., post your comments or send your messages), and to operate, improve, personalize, and optimize the Services, including to manage and deliver advertising.
• Survey Information includes information submitted through surveys or from the content of any testimonials.
• Your phone and social network contacts, with your permission. We may access your phone contacts – with your permission – to allow you to invite your friends to join the Services. You may also choose to find other users through your phone contacts, in which case we will access and collect the names and phone numbers, and match that information against existing users of the App. If you choose to find other users through your social network contacts, we will collect your public profile information as well as names and profiles of your social network contacts.
• Employment Application Information, including your contact and demographic information, educational and work history, employment interests, information obtained during interviews and any other information you choose to provide, if you apply for employment.
• Other Data You Share. We also collect personal information at such other points on our Services so that we may provide the features or functionality of the Services and for other purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We may also collect your personal information or data if you submit it to us in other contexts.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

As is true of most digital platforms, we may also collect personal information from your device, browsing actions and website or app usage patterns automatically when visiting or interacting with our Services, which may include log data (such as internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, browser ID, the URL entered and the referring page/campaign, date/time of visit, the time spent on our Services and any errors that may occur during the visit to our Services), analytics data (such as the electronic path taken to our Services, through our Services and when exiting our Services, as well as usage and activity on our Services such as reading an article or performing a search) and location data (such as general geographic location based on the log data we or our third-party providers collect).

We may use (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on your computer and (ii) other, related technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to automatically collect this personal information. 

We may also use cookies to remember your log in credentials to subscription services.

‍Our Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect to:

• Fulfill or meet the reason the information was provided, such as to fulfill our contractual obligations, to deliver the Services;
• Manage our business and its day-to-day operations;
• To provide you with the Services, including by creating a personalized content feed that is unique and relevant to you;
• Communicate with you, including via email, text message and social media;
• Request you to complete surveys about our company, companies we partner with, and the Services;
• For marketing and advertising purposes, including to market to you or offer you through email, direct mail, and updates on products or services we think that you may be interested in;
• Test, enhance, update and monitor the Services, or diagnose or fix technology problems;
• Facilitate customer benefits and services, including customer support through our command center services;
• Identify and analyze how individuals use our Services;
• Conduct research and analytics on our customer and user base and our Services;
• Improve and customize our Services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with;
• Help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our property and Services, technology assets and business;
• Evaluate your candidacy for employment, to communicate with you during the application process and to facilitate the onboarding process, if you are applying for employment.
• To fulfill or enforce our legal or contractual obligations and requirements (including in relation to our Terms of Service), to resolve disputes, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties;
• Prevent, investigate or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity;
• For any other lawful purpose, or other purpose that you consent to or for which you provide your information.

Where you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to inquiries. We may provide you with additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or personal information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information provided at that time.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your personal information in the instances described below. For further information on your choices regarding your information, see the “Control Over Your Information” section below.

Our Services may allow you to connect and interact with others. Your profile information, including your name, and other personal information and/or information about your business, will be available publicly to other members of the Services by default when you create a profile and interact with others on the Service.

We disclose personal information in the following ways:

Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:

• in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;

• to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
• to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including to enforce our agreements and policies;
• to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
• to protect the health and safety of us and others; or
• as otherwise required by applicable law.

With Your Consent: We may disclose personal information about an individual to certain other third parties or publicly with their consent or direction.

Control Over Your Information

You may control your information in the following ways:

• Emails and Notifications. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in such communications. You may not opt-out of service-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices). We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests.

• Push Notifications. You can stop receiving push notifications from us by changing your preferences in the iOS notifications settings menu.
• Modifying or Deleting Your Information. If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at support@projectvillage.io.

Children’s Personal Information

Our Services are not directed to, and we do not intend to, or knowingly, collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If an individual is under the age of 13, they should not use our Services or otherwise provide us with any personal information either directly or by other means. If a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. If we learn that any personal information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that personal information.

Links to Third-Party Websites or Services

Our Services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Except where we post, link to or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices.

Updates to This Privacy Notice

We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify individuals by email to their registered email address, by prominent posting on our Services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to support@projectvillage.io.

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