Privacy Policy

 

INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN ORGANIZATION (IDO) provides this privacy notice to describe how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process the personal information of individuals who visit our website https://www. ido-team.org and websites on which this privacy notice appears and the personal information of individuals who use the services offered by IDO, including individuals who participate in our student courses or educator courses.

 

GENERAL PRIVACY POLICY

Information Collection

When we use the term personal information, we use this term to describe information that may be used to identify you. We or our service providers collect personal information when you contact us, register for membership or our courses, subscribe to our publications and mailing list, or interact with us for any other purpose. We collect the information you voluntarily provide to us through the website, such as when you complete our “Contact” forms on the website. We may ask you to provide your first and last name, email address, phone number, organization or school, role or job title, and a brief message.

If you register for the Services, depending on if you are registering as an educator or as a student or on behalf of a student, then we may ask you to provide the name of the individual to receive Services (and your name if registering on behalf of a child), such person’s mailing address, phone number, email address, school affiliation, payment information (which is sent directly to our third-party payment processor and not shared with us; please review the payment processor’s privacy notice for details on how that information is used), gender, preferred pronouns, and birthdate. If you are an educator, we also ask for your position with the school.

We also gather technical usage information including, but not limited to, browser type, IP address, time zone, cookie activity on your device, pages visited and other activities on the Site, and other information regarding your interactions with the Site. We use cookies or similar technology to collect such information for advertising and other purposes. See the “Cookies and Analytics” section below to learn more about the use of this information and the choices available to you.

 

Information Use

We use your personal information, including for the following purposes:

  • To provide goods and services you request, including to process membership applications you submit or to provide communications to which you subscribe;
  • To provide the Services;
  • To contact you as you request, including to respond to your inquiries;
  • To send you the IDO newsletter;
  • To improve and optimize the Site and the Services;
  • To audit and monitor the Site and Services, including for security purposes, to facilitate navigation of the Site, to resolve technical issues, to display information more effectively;
  • For IDO’s business purposes, including for marketing and analytics purposes;
  • To comply with the law, to prevent or investigate fraud or unlawful activity and to protect the security and integrity of the Site, the Services, and other systems; and/or
  • As otherwise disclosed at the time personal information is collected.

We do not use automatic decision-making (i.e., making decisions solely by automated means without any human involvement) or profiling (i.e., automated processing of personal information to evaluate certain aspects of an individual). Where we intend to process your personal information for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was collected, we will provide you with information regarding the purpose for the processing, as well as other relevant information, prior to processing your personal information for the new purpose.

 

Information Sharing

We share your personal information, including with the following parties:

  • Third parties that perform services on our behalf, such as storage providers;
  • As described below in the “Cookies and Analytics” section;
  • As part of a corporate sale, merger, or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets including as part of a bankruptcy proceeding;
  • Pursuant to a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, or other legal process or as otherwise required by law, or to protect our rights or the rights of third parties; or
  • With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.

 

Cookies and Analytics

We use cookies on the Site and the Services. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site or the Services.

IDO and its service providers use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Site and the Services and for analytics and marketing purposes. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google in aggregate form. Google uses this aggregated information on our behalf in order to evaluate use of the Site, compile reports on Site activity and other services relating to Site activity and usage. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use the Site, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

 

Security

We take reasonable security precautions to protect the personal information that you choose to provide. Although guaranteed security does not exist on the internet or offline, we make commercially reasonable efforts to handle such information consistent with this privacy notice and applicable laws. Due to the design of the internet and other factors outside our control, we cannot guarantee communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.

Your Choices

You may contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this privacy notice if you have any questions, or if you wish to update, correct or amend your personal information.

To opt out of our e-mail marketing or cancel your subscription to our mailing list, you may use the link provided at the bottom of each marketing message.

Your California Privacy Rights – Shine the Light

California law permits California residents who provide us with personal information to request certain information regarding our disclosure of such information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not, at this time, disclose such information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If we change this policy, we will update this provision and provide instructions on how you may make a request for details. If any other state enacts a similar law as the California law, then this provision will also apply to such state.

 

International Visitors

This section applies to those that visit the Site or use the Services from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland.

We do not currently use your personal information to market to individuals in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, except in accordance with your preferences.

What is our legal basis for processing? With respect to personal information that is subject to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information depends on the type of personal information and the purpose for which we collect it. IDO processes personal information with your consent (e.g., when IDO processes personal information to provide goods and services you request, such as a IDO publication to which you subscribe). On other occasions, IDO may process personal information when it needs to do this to fulfill a contract (for example, to process membership applications) or where required to do this by law. If necessary, IDO may also process personal information when it is in IDO’s legitimate interests to do this (e.g., for customer service or to administer membership benefits) and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

Where will we transfer personal information? Please be aware that the personal information we collect may be transferred to and maintained on servers or databases located outside your state, province, country, or other jurisdiction, where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your location. If you are located outside of the United States, please be advised that we process and store personal information in the United States. Where we transfer information from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland, as the case may be, to a country that doesn’t provide an adequate level of protection, we’ll only do so where it’s necessary to perform a contract with you or under appropriate safeguards to protect your information, like standard contractual clauses.

Your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

If your personal information is protected by the GDPR, you have certain data protection rights described below with respect to the personal information collected and used by IDO. These rights may only apply in certain circumstances and are subject to certain exemptions. You can exercise these rights using the contact details at the end of this privacy notice. The rights are as follows:

  • To request access to the personal information we hold about you;
  • To request that we rectify or erase your personal information;
  • To request that we restrict or block the processing of your personal information;
  • To receive personal information about you that we store and transmit to another without hindrance from us, including requesting that we provide your personal information directly to another, i.e., a right to data portability; and
  • Where we previously obtained your consent, to withdraw consent to processing your personal information.

To exercise these rights, contact using the “Contact” section below. Please be aware that IDO may be unable to afford these rights to you under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us with the relevant data protection authority where you think we have not used your personal information in accordance with data protection law. To do so, contact the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

If our information practices change, we will post these changes on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates.

Data Controller; Data Processor

IDO is the data controller of the personal information collected via the Site that relates to your use of the Site or in connection with your inquiries with us. IDO is also the data controller of the personal information collected via the Services if you are an educator that signs up with the Services directly with us. We dictate the purposes and manner by which this personal information is collected and used.

IDO is the data processor of the personal information of students or educators using the Services because they are students or educators at one of our member schools. IDO processes that personal information on behalf of the member schools and in accordance with our contracts with the member schools.

Contact

If you have questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy notice, please contact us at:

info@ido-team.org