Privacy Policy

ECMC Group (“ECMC Group”) values the privacy of our Website users and the importance of the information they entrust to us. This Privacy Notice is part of our Terms of Use and is designed to help you understand our practices for the collection, use, and disclosure of the information we may gather from you when you visit our website. This Privacy Notice explains when and how such information is collected, used, disclosed and safeguarded on our Website. By using this Website, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree with the information and practices described in this Privacy Notice or our Terms of Use, please exit from this Website.

Introduction
ECMC Group’s Bold Path Fellowship website is owned by ECMC Group, Inc.  Bold Path Fellowship is a joint initiative by ECMC Group, Inc. and ECMC Foundation (collectively “ECMC Group”).  ECMC Group is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your Personal Information. This Privacy Notice covers the website www.boldpathfellowship.org (“Website”)—along with the online forms on this Website used to collect personal information. It does not cover third-party sites that are linked to or from the Website. This Privacy Notice does not apply to other entities that we do not own or control or persons that are not our employees, agents or within our control. By accessing or using this Website, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Practices). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Notice periodically for updates. 

Information We Collect 
We collect your personal information if you voluntarily provide it to us when you are seeking access to specific resources, applying for a fellowship, seeking more information, or other similar purposes. We collect this information to evaluate your application, manage the information you provide to us, or to provide relevant information to you.  For example, you may choose to provide information voluntarily in a webform, such as your name, age, phone number, email address, school you attended, or other information that is reasonably linked to you (“Personal Information”). You may always choose whether or not to provide us with this Personal Information. Please do not provide personal data about others unless you are authorized or required to do so by contract or applicable law.

We us a third-party, web-based service provider called SurveyMonkey Apply to assist us with collecting certain information, including Personal Information, when you choose to apply for our fellowship.  We collect this information to evaluate your application.  You may choose whether to provide this information or not, but most of this information is required in order to apply to or participate in certain programs. SurveyMonkey Apply may also store the Personal Information you enter there.  SurveyMonkey Apply’s use and storage of your Personal Information is governed by its own Privacy Notice found here.  

In addition to any information you voluntarily provide on our Website, we also collect additional information automatically as you navigate through our site. See below under “Cookies and other Automatic Data Collection Tools” for a more detailed explanation of the tools we use for this.  

Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Tools
When you interact with our Website, certain information about your use of the site is automatically collected. The tracking technologies employed when you use our Website may be first-party or third-party. Our primary goal in collecting the information described within is to provide you, the user, with a better experience on our Website. 

Umbraco is our third-party website hosting servicer, and as part of its hosting services it automatically logs certain information in its server log, such as error logging, along with a few other things. Umbraco may share this aggregated information with us and with other certain trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website or conducting our business, and who agree to keep the information confidential. This information helps us to track users’ movements around our site, to understand trends, and to test updates on various types of browsers and devices. We may also use cookies to collect information that tracks your use of our Website and enables us to customize our services. We may use this data, in the aggregate, to better understand the needs and interests of visitors to our Website and provide more relevant content.

ECMC Group uses cookies and other similar technologies on our Website for a variety of purposes, including to improve our Website and better serve our Website users. A “cookie” is a small file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive to remember your preferences. We may use cookies to track general information about our users (e.g., pages viewed, time spent on our Website, and the websites visited just before and just after our Website) for statistical and market research purposes. We also use cookies when you fill out a webform in order to help prevent spam, fraud and abuse. The information is collected on an aggregated and anonymous basis.

You have choices with respect to cookies. By activating the appropriate settings on your browser preferences, you may set your browser to reject all cookies. However, by doing so, it may prevent you from accessing certain features on our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that the browser will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

We also use third-party analytics vendors to collect information about the use of our site, including:

  • Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a third-party analytics provider, which collects information about the use of our site. Google Analytics records things like the time of visit, pages visited, type of device accessing the site, referring site details, the length of your visit, the type of web browser and operating system, document downloads, network location and IP address, clicks on videos and external websites, flash version, screen resolution, and screen color processing ability, along with a few other things. Google Analytics, however, does not identify individual users. Google Analytics uses cookies on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site. You can learn more about how Google uses cookies here. We use the reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and usage. The information generated by Google Analytics is transmitted and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policy found here, which you may read more about at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may also opt out of Google Analytics tracking software by installing and using the browser plugin found here.  
  • Matamo: Matamo is a web analytics service that tracks and generates information about the use of our Website, including things like your time of visit, pages visited, type of device accessing the site, referring site details, the length of your visit, the type of web browser and operating system, document downloads, network location and IP address, clicks on videos and external websites, screen resolution, and screen color processing ability, along with a few other things. Matamo uses this information to help evaluate your use of our Website and internet usage to help us. The information generated by Matamo is governed by its privacy policy, which can be found here. You may opt out of Matamo Analytics there and find more information on opting out here.
  • Google Tag Manager: We use Google Tag Manager, a tag management system offered by Google, Inc. to manage tags used for tracking and analytics on websites (including, for example, Google Analytics). Tags are small code elements that, among other things, are used to measure traffic and visitor behavior and to test and optimize websites. Google Tag Manager (“GTM”) only implements tags and does not itself process user’s personal data. The GTM triggers other tags, which, in turn, may collect data under certain circumstances. You may read more about GTM here. GTM’s privacy practices can be found here.  

Our navigation information collection practices on our Website will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Notice regardless of any “Do Not Track” signals that may be sent by certain browsers. We are not currently set up to respond to any “Do Not Track” signals. For more information about “Do Not Track” signals, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/. 

How We Use Your Information
We use the information you provide, including any Personal Information, so that we may provide you with information or services that you request or that we believe will be beneficial to you. For example, we may use your information to:

  • provide you services or information that you request from us;
  • administer, operate, facilitate, evaluate and manage your relationship with ECMC Group;
  • review and respond to any documents, comments, responses, or other data and content you submit when applying for our fellowship;
  • share with our cloud-based record storage software providers, legal, financial, insurance, and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests;
  • administer and inform our program and charitable activities;
  • fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
  • customize the content you see on our Website; 
  • facilitate your use of our Website or manage your preferences; 
  • analyze the use of our Website to improve our web site and services;
  • identify and protect against fraudulent transactions and other misuses of our Website; and
  • to enforce our Terms of Use. 

Sharing Practices
As described above, we may share your information with our employees, agents, representatives, advisors, and affiliates, with a business reason to know.  We also may share your Personal Information, with third-party service providers and with third-party partners that collaborate with us to provide this fellowship program or other projects or events. If you believe a third party is misusing the information you provided to us, please contact us promptly via the contact information below so that we can address this issue.

We do not sell or trade personal information about or from our website visitors to any third parties for marketing purposes without your consent.  

Disclosures Required by Law
We may disclose your information to third parties when permitted or required by law, including when we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) protect the legal rights and security of our company, affiliates or business partners; (ii) respond to an audit or investigate a complaint; or (iii) comply with applicable law, court order, subpoena, request for cooperation by a governmental entity, or other legal process or investigation.

Your Choices
You may choose to:

  • Not provide personal information, although that may result in your inability to obtain or use certain features of our Website; 
  • Delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings, although if you do so, some of the features of our Website services may not function properly.

Security and Personal Information 
We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect the Personal Information we collect from our Website users and visitors. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and verify the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect Personal Information from unauthorized access, alteration, use or disclosure. We may also allow our service providers to store and access your Personal Information as provided in this notice, subject to contractual provisions.  While we do our best to protect your information, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and thus the transmission of information sent over the Internet, whether by email or by using our online system and Website, is not completely secure against interception. As a result, although we utilize such measures, we cannot guarantee you against interception, loss, misuse, or alteration of your information and you provide such personal information to us at your own risk. You should take care how you handle and disclose your personal information.

Storage Period
We will store information regarding you, including any Personal Information, until it is no longer needed to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. After such time, we will either delete or deidentify your personal information or, if this is not possible, we will securely store your Personal Information until deletion is possible. We may dispose of any data in our discretion without notice, subject to applicable law.

Links to Third-Party Websites
Our Website contains links to other websites, including some third-party social media sites and/or websites that provide you with additional ways in which you can learn about or discuss the activities of ECMC Group or ECMC Foundation. Although these additional sites may have privacy policies or notices, all of these websites and their privacy statements are independent of our Website and this Privacy Notice. Please note, unless otherwise indicated, that we have no control or affiliation with any of these linked websites or social media sites. These are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, which you should carefully read before proceeding. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by other websites, social media sites, or any other content or information found on these other websites. You should exercise caution and read the third-party privacy policies to understand how these third parties collect, process, share and store your information. 

California Privacy 
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure, if any, of your personal information to a third party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes. It is our practice, however, to not share or sell any personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. If you have further questions or otherwise wish to make a request, please contact us at the contact information listed below.

International Users
If you are visiting this site from outside of the United States, your connection may be made through and to servers located in the United States. Your entries and information placed through our Website may be fully processed in and from the United States, and all information you provide may be processed and maintained in our web servers and internal systems located within the United States. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, but please be assured that we take steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.  By using our services, however, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Notice. By using this site, you authorize the export of your personal information to the United States and its storage and use as specified above when you provide such information to us. This Privacy Notice and our legal obligations are subject to the laws of the United States, regardless of the location of any user.  

Protection of Children's Privacy
Our Website is not intended for, nor designed to attract children under the age of 13. No one under the age of 13 may provide any information to or on our Website. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain personal information about any person under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not use or provide any information on this Website or provide any personal information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will promptly delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at the contact information below so that we may promptly address the issue.

Changes to Our Privacy Practices
From time to time, we may update our Privacy Notice to reflect changes in our practices and services. If we make material changes in the way we collect, use or share personal information, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Website. The date the privacy notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

Contact Us
If you wish to contact us about

  • this Website or this Privacy Notice;
  • provide feedback or comments;
  • access or correct your personal information you believe we have; or
  • any other reason concerning our information practices,  

please contact us at one of the methods below -

Attn: Legal/Website Privacy Notice inquiry
ECMC Foundation and ECMC Group’s Bold Path Fellowship
111 Washington Avenue South
Suite 1400
Minneapolis, MN 55401

privacy@ecmc.org
T: 800-276-0366, opt. 3