Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE 

Effective: June 27, 2021

Our Privacy Policy explains how SestraNow LLC collects, uses, and discloses information about you. The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” include SestraNow LLC and its affiliates and partners. We use the terms “member,” “you,” and “your” to mean any person using our Website, Facebook Group or attending and participating in any of our events, workshops or challenges. This includes any organization or person using the Website on an organization’s behalf. This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information about members and other individuals that we collect when you use our “Website,” which means any website, application, or services we offer, or when you communicate with us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information that you may provide to third parties, such as members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself.

• COLLECTION OF INFORMATION 

Summary: We collect information about you when you: Attend an event or workshop; Participate in a Challenge; Visit our website; and Communicate with us. We also collect information, such as usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies.  If you elect to use certain features, we also collect information through other sources, such as social media services, invitations, and imported contacts.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information that you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information that you provide when you fill out a form, or communicate with us. The types of information that we may collect include identifiers, such as your name, email address, postal address, and phone number; payment and commercial information, such as payment method data and purchases, if any; demographic information and any other personal information that you choose to provide, such as photos, choices of interests, groups, and professional or employment-related information, including your role, company, and years of experience. Certain information about yourself is optional to provide See Section 2 to learn how we will use the information that you provide to personalize our recommendations and other content to you.

On occasion, the information that you give us may imply information about your beliefs, political views, health conditions, or your sexual identity. This, and other kinds of sensitive information, is given special protection in accordance with applicable law. 

• USE OF INFORMATION

Summary: We use information about you to: Operate, improve, promote SestraNow LLC; Communicate with you; and Personalize content.

2.1 Operating our Platform

We may use information about you described above for various business purposes related to operating our Platform, including to:

1. Maintain, and improve our Website;
2. Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Website; and
3. Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions, abuse, and other illegal activities; to protect the rights, property, or safety of SestraNow LLC and others; to enforce compliance with our policies; and to comply with applicable law and government requests; and
4. Perform accounting and administrative tasks, and enforce or manage legal claims.

2.2 Communicating With You

We may use information about you for various business purposes related to communicating with you, including to:

1. Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service;
2. Communicate with you about products, services, and events offered by us and others, to provide news and information that we think will be of interest to you, to conduct online surveys, to contact you about events and Workshops on our social media platforms that are being held near your location, and to otherwise communicate with you in accordance with Section 2.3;
3. Notify you about communications of other members for networking purposes; and
4. Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support, and administrative messages.

2.3 Advertising and Other Uses

We may use information about you for various other business purposes, including to:

1. Provide content, features, or sponsorships that match your interests;
2. Facilitate challenges, contests and other promotions;
3. Send you marketing communications, subject to applicable law;
4. Combine with information that we collect for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy; and
5. Carry out any other purposes described to you at the time that we collected the information.

2.4 Legal Basis for Processing

If you are in a jurisdiction that requires a specific legal basis for processing personal data, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it.

1. We process information about you in order to provide our services in accordance with our Terms and Conditions, for example, to allow us to send you important updates; 
2. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process information about you, or may otherwise need the information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. For example, we may process information, if we believe doing so is required by, or in accordance with, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits.

• SHARING INFORMATION

Summary: We may disclose personal information about you, including: to authorities to comply with legal obligations and to protect and defend our rights and property; and to an affiliate or successor entity as part of a corporate transaction among our businesses and affiliated companies; and when you direct us to share your information.

We may also share information in a manner that does not identify you, such as de-identified or aggregated information. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We do not sell or share information about you except as described in this Privacy Policy.

• Additional Details

This Privacy Policy is periodically updated, and does not apply to third parties.

4.1 Security – We employ technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information that is under our control and that we process on your behalf from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, or disposal, both during transmission and once we receive it. For example, we store all information that you provide to us on servers on which security controls are used. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders and test for network vulnerabilities. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.

4.2 Data Retention

We may temporarily de-activate your Membership if you have been inactive for six months or more. You may contact us if you wish to reactivate your Membership. 

We retain certain information that we collect from you while you visit our Website or are a member SestraNow LLC and in certain cases where you have been inactive or requested that we discontinue your Membership, for the following business purposes:

• To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have asked us not to;
• To provide you with a refund, if entitled;
• To better understand the traffic to our Website so that we can provide all members with the best possible experience;
• To detect and prevent abuse of our Website, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service; and
• To comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete it or take steps to de-identify or anonymize it in accordance with applicable law.

4.3 Revisions to This Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. If we make any material change to this policy, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email or displaying a prominent notice on our Platform.

•  Data Rights

Summary:

• You may have the right to exercise your data protection rights, including to request that SestraNow LLC deletes, amends, or provides you access to your information.
• You have the right to opt out of receiving SestraNow LLCs promotional messages, but you may still receive other communications.
• You can complain to your local data protection authority about the use of your information.

We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to info@sestranow.com.

We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to info@sestranow.com.

Rights that you may have, depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, may include:

• Accessing, correcting, updating, or requesting deletion of your information.
• Objecting to processing of your information, asking us to restrict processing of your information, or requesting the portability of your information.
• Opting out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.
• Withdrawing your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
• Complaining to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. 

Note that SestraNow LLC is a controller of your information. 

• Contact Us

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or how we use your information, please contact info@sestranow.com.