Privacy Policy

Last updated: February 21, 2024

Overview

Palm Springs Front Runners & Walkers created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.psfr.org. Palm Springs Front Runners & Walkers feels very strongly that private information should remain private. We will never willfully disclose personally identifiable information about our users to any third party without first receiving that user's permission.

1. Scope

This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains how we process personal data from customers and visitors to our websites (“Sites”) and users of our products and services (“Services”) as a controller or business under applicable privacy laws.

When we collect personal data as a processor on behalf of business customers, we process personal data in accordance with our contract with them and their privacy policy will apply.

This Policy does not apply to the personal data of employees or job applicants or to information that is exempt under applicable laws. We may provide additional notices when needed to clarify our privacy practices in specific circumstances.

2. Information We Collect

Information Voluntarily Provided

We may collect or record basic personal data which you voluntarily provide through completing forms on the Site, through questions you send to us, or through other means of communication between you and us. The categories of personal information you provide may include:

• first and last name
• email address
• phone number
• mailing address
• password to register with us
• your personal or professional interests
• any other identifier that permits us to contact you

Information from Site Visits

We collect, store and use information about your visits to the Sites and about your computer, tablet, mobile or other device through which you access the Sites. This includes the following information:

• technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider, device identifier, your login information, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and geographical location; and
• information about your visits and use of the Site, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from the Site, pages you viewed and searched for, page response times, length of visits to certain pages, referral source/exit pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and Site navigation and search terms used.

3. How We Use Personal Data

Generally, we use personal data for the following purposes:

• Providing Services and Support. To provide and operate our Services, communicate with you about your use of the Services, provide troubleshooting and technical support, respond to your inquiries, fulfill your orders and requests, process your payments, communicate with you, and for similar service and support purposes.
• Communications. To respond to your questions and fulfill your orders and requests; to allow you to participate in interactive features; to seek your views or comments and to send you communications, which you have requested or that may interest you; and to notify you of changes to our Services.
• Analytics and Improvement. To better understand how users access and use the Services, and our other products and offerings, and for other research and analytical purposes, such as to evaluate and improve our Services and business operations, to develop our Services and features, and for internal quality control and training purposes.
• Customization and Personalization. To tailor the content we may send or display on the Services, including personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences.
• Marketing and Advertising. To send you information about our Services, such as offers, promotions, newsletters and any other information that you sign up to receive and to manage, analyze, measure and improve our advertising campaigns.
• Planning and Managing Events. For event planning and management, including registration, attendance, connecting you with other event attendees, and contacting you about relevant events and Services.
• Research and Surveys. To administer surveys and questionnaires, such as for market research or customer satisfaction purposes.
• Security and Protection of Rights. To protect the Site and Services and our business operations; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, and other misuse; where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party, or violations of our terms or this Policy.
• Legal Proceedings and Obligations. To comply with the law and our legal obligations, to respond to legal process and related to legal proceedings.
• General Business and Operational Support. Related to the administration of our general business, accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.

4. Disclosures of Personal Data

In general, we disclose and make available personal data to third parties in the following ways:

• Processors and Service Providers. We may disclose personal data to our service providers who perform services on our behalf such as IT service providers, hosting providers, chat bot providers, call centers, etc.
• Compliance, governance and legal requirements. We may disclose personal data to comply with legal and compliance obligations and to respond to legal process and related to legal proceedings. For example, we may disclose personal data in response to subpoenas, court orders, and other lawful requests by regulators and law enforcement. We may also disclose information, including personal data, related to litigation and other legal claims or proceedings, for our internal accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.
• Business Transfers. We may disclose personal data as part of commercial transactions (e.g., mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, or other similar business transactions) and in contemplation of such transactions (e.g., due diligence).
• Other Disclosures. We may disclose your personal data for other purposes, which we will notify you of and/or obtain your consent when required.

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms

We and other third parties use cookies, pixel tags, session replay technology, and other similar tracking mechanisms to automatically collect information about browsing activity, device type, and similar information within our Site and Services. This information, which may be considered personal information in some jurisdictions, is used, for example, to analyze and understand how you access, use and interact with our Site and Services; to identify and resolve bugs and errors in our Site and Services; to assess, secure, protect, optimize, and improve the performance of our Site and Services; for marketing, advertising, measurement and analytics purposes; and to personalize content on our Site and Services. We may also deidentify or aggregate such information to analyze trends, administer our Site and Services, gather broad demographic information for aggregate uses and for any other lawful purpose.

Cookies. “Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers used for tracking purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process, support the security and performance of the Site, or allow us to track activity and usage data within the Site and across websites.

Pixel Tags and Similar Technologies. Pixel tags (sometime called web beacons or clear GIFs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. We may use these tracking technologies to understand users’ activities, help manage content and compile usage statistics, and in emails to let us know when they have been opened or forwarded so we can track response rates and gauge the effectiveness of our communications.

Third Party Analytics. We use third party tools, such as Google Analytics, which are operated by third party companies to evaluate usage and traffic on our Sites and Services. These third-party analytics companies use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technologies to collect usage data to provide us with reports and metrics that help analyze, improve and enhance performance and user experience. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cross-Device Tracking. We and third parties may use the information we collect about you within our Site and on other third-party websites and services to help us and these third parties identify other devices that you use (e.g., a mobile phone, tablet, other computer, etc.) to interact or engage with us or the Site.

6. Security

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information collected through our Site. You use our Site and provide us with your personal data at your own risk.

7. How Long We Retain Personal Data

Your personal data will be retained until such time as needed to fulfill the purposes and uses for which it was collected as outlined in this Policy. If you request that we delete your personal data from our databases, please note we may still retain your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, regulatory requests, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

8. Your Privacy Choices

Marketing Communication. We may send periodic promotional and operational emails, text messages or other similar communications to you in accordance with applicable law. You may change your preferences by following the instructions provided to you in the communication. If you opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us, we may still send you communications about your account or any services you have requested or received from us. To opt-out of any text messages, reply STOP.

Industry Ad Choice Programs. You can also control how participating third-party ad companies use the information that they collect about your visits to our Site and those of third parties, in order to display more relevant targeted advertising to you. You can obtain more information and opt-out of receiving targeted ads from participating third-party ad networks as outlined below.

• U.S. Users: aboutads.info/choices (Digital Advertising Alliance).
• EU Users: youronlinechoices.eu (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance)
• Canada Users: youradchoices.ca/choices/ (Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada)

Cookie Settings. You can set your browser to block certain cookies or notify you when a cookie is set; you can also delete cookies. The “Help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your device from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to delete cookies. Visitors to our Site who disable cookies will be able to browse the Site, but some features may not function. If you come to our Site from a different device or from a different browser on the same device, you will need to apply your cookie settings for that browser and/or device as well.

Browser Signals. To the extent required by applicable law, if our Site detects that your browser is transmitting an opt-out preference signal, such as a “global privacy control” (or GPC) signal, we will apply that signal to opt that particular browser on your device out of targeting cookies on our Site. If you come to our Site from a different device or from a different browser on the same device, you will need to apply GPC for that browser and/or device as well. We do not respond to do not track signals.

9. Reseller Activities/Integration Partners

In certain instances, our Services can be configured to integrate with third party solutions such as payment processors; however, we do not collect or store payment processing information. We may also provide your business contact information to our integration partners or refer customers to third parties. Our customers enter into separate agreements with these third parties that govern the processing of personal information.

10. Personal Data of Minors

We provide a general audience Site. The Site and Services are not designed for minors, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from minors.

11. External Links

Our Sites and Services may contain links to third-party websites or features. Any access to and use of such linked websites or features is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third parties, including their collection of your personal data. You should review the privacy policies and terms for any third parties before proceeding to those websites or using those features.

12. Legal Grounds for Collecting and Processing Personal Data

Consent. The legal ground for processing your personal data that we collect when you provide us with specific permission to do so, is your consent, which you may withdraw at any time by clicking on any unsubscribe link that we provide or by emailing psfrw.webmaster@gmail.com.

Contractual Necessity. We may process your personal data when it is necessary in order to enter into a contract with you (e.g., if you request that we provide you a quote for potential services) or when it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party (e.g., processing credit card details in order to effect payment).

Compliance with Legal Obligations. We also may conduct certain personal data processing activities for purposes of meeting our legal obligations in the EU and in EU member states (e.g., our regulatory retention obligations).

Vital Interests. Under special circumstances (e.g., in connection with natural disasters or emergency situations), we may need to process your personal data in order to protect the vital interests of you or one or more persons.

Legitimate Interests. The last legal ground for processing the personal data that we collect for other purposes identified in the table above are Personify’s legitimate interests in providing client services; providing quality support to clients, potential clients, and Site users; providing conference, seminar, or tradeshow attendees with pertinent event information; providing clients and potential clients with marketing materials to promote our services and products; providing clients with secure sites for project collaboration and large file sharing; identifying qualified candidates to fill our open positions or available contracting opportunities; maintaining compliance with applicable global laws and regulations; providing more relevant content for users of our Sites; identifying and fixing problems with our Sites; understanding how our clients interact with our products, services, apps and websites so we can enhance the client experience and functionality of our products, services, apps and websites; and improving the overall user experience on our Sites.

13. California Notice at Collection and Privacy Rights

We will, to the extent required by any applicable law, disclose, delete or take any other action with respect to any of personal data that is collected by us from residents of California. Residents of California may make a request pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (the “California Act”) to have us, among other things:

1. Disclose to you:

(a) The categories of your personal data that is collected by us;

(b) The categories of sources from whom or which such personal data is collected by us;

(c) The purposes for our collecting such personal data;

(d) The categories of third parties to whom or which we transfer such personal data;

(e) The specific pieces of such personal data collected by us; and

(f) If such personal data is sold or disclosed for a business purpose to a third party, the categories of such personal data that are sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to which or whom such personal data are sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and

1. Except in certain circumstances, delete your personal data that is collected by us.

Any such request by an individual under the California Act (1) can only be made twice in a 12-month period, (2) will require the collection of certain information by us to verify the identity of such individual, and (3) can be submitted to us at psfrw.webmaster@gmail.com. We will respond to any such request within 45 days after receiving it.

The California Act requires certain additional disclosures that can be found at this link California Disclosures.

We will not discriminate against any individual for exercising any right made available to such individual under the California Act.

14. General Data Protection Regulation

Subject to certain limitations and exceptions, if you are in the European Economic Area, you have the following rights under the GDPR:

• Access to personal data . This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

• Correction of personal data. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

• Request erasure of personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete personal data when there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete your personal data when you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), when we may have processed your information unlawfully or when we are required to erase your personal data to comply with applicable law.

• Restriction of processing personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) when our use of personal data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it; (c) when you want us to hold personal data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of personal data, subject to our verifying whether we have an overriding legitimate interest to continue using it.

• Request transfer of personal data. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.

• Right to withdraw consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time when we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us:

• By email: psfrw.webmaster@gmail.com

• By visiting this page on our website: Contact Us

• By mail: PO Box 2184, Palm Springs, CA 92263