Open MIC Privacy and Data Use Policy

Introduction

Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative) is a non-profit organization working to promote values of openness, equity, privacy and diversity for a healthy media economy.

Our website is https://www.openmic.org.

This page is intended to inform you about how Open MIC collects and uses your information through this website.

How we protect you when accessing our website

We encrypt data transmitted to and from our website through Transport Layer Security, also known as SSL. Most browsers show that our SSL is functional through a lock symbol placed next to our URL.

This encryption protects the information that you send us, and that we send to you, during each session. However, other parties can still learn that you visited our site generally, which pages you visited, and your interactions with services via our website.

What information do we collect?

Web Visit Information

We collect standard information about each visit to the site, www.openmic.org, as well as other sites operated by Open MIC. Standard information includes your IP address, the pages you visit, the time and ate of your visit, the User-Agent of your web browser, the source of your visit (search engine, direct link or referring page), and the time you spend on our site. Our websites also make use of cookies designed to remain on your computer for a period of time, which help facilitate your use of the site by allowing you to enter your information less often, and help us identify you as a unique website user.

Third-Party Services

Open MIC uses a wide variety of Internet services in order to facilitate connection with web users. These third-party services may collect information from you, and may provide information to us. Some of these services are active across our website, as in Google Analytics, while others are limited only to certain interactions, as in Twitter, Facebook and Mailchimp. A listing of the services we use and their privacy policies is provided below:

Changing your information

If you would like to correct errors in the information we have stored for you, you may contact us to have the information corrected. In some cases we may not have the ability to correct the error, in which case we will tell you whom to contact to make the correction.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998

We make every effort to maintain privacy of personal information of all visitors to our site, including children. While Open MIC is a nonprofit and so the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 does not apply to us, we still strive to limit any information we store to that of individuals over the age of 13.

How we use your information

Web Visit Information 

The information we collect on your web visits is primarily used for internal analytics. For example, we may use this data to:

The information we collect from web visits is used for internal analytics. For example, we use web visit information to:

  • identify issues with our website deployment

  • identify popular content and topics on our website

  • monitor trends in traffic associated with content deployment and other efforts

Third-Party Services

We incorporate third-party services to help us analyze and make sense of the data we collect on web visits. We also use third-party services to perform actions on our website and to automate communications. These actions include, for example:

  • identify trends in website traffic, as described above

  • joining our mailing list

  • following our social media accounts

In cases where you provide personal information toward a particular action, we will not use your information for other purposes without your authorization.

How we share your information

We do not rent, sell or share information collected from this site with anyone outside of Open MIC staff and hired contractors. We do not rent, sell or share web visit information that we collect. We use third-party services to manage the information we collect, and some of this information is stored on those third parties’ servers. Please see the “Third-Party Services” section above for a list of third-party services and links to their respective privacy policies.

We will not share your information with anyone outside Open MIC staff and contractors without your consent, except in the following cases:

  • to comply with a law or legal order, such as a subpoena, that we believe to be valid and properly issued

  • to protect the safety of a person or prevent serious harm

  • to support internal operations of our website, such as maintaining or fixing it

  • to provide aggregate information, such as numbers of visitors per month, in a manner that does not identify individuals

How can you contact us?

If you have questions about this privacy policy, or wish to contact us for any of the reasons described above, you may reach Open MIC at the contact information in the footer of each web page: media@openmic.org / (646) 470-7748

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