Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: March 15, 2023

1. INTRODUCTION.

Welcome to the official website for the Bezos Earth Fund. We understand that visitors to our site may have questions about how Bezos Earth Fund collects and uses information. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices, including the information we collect that personally identifies you when you use our website or other digital and online services that link to this policy (collectively, the “Services”) and how we may use that information; our rights to share and disclose such information to third parties; how you can review and modify information that you provide to us; and your preferences regarding our use and disclosure of such information.

This Privacy Policy only applies to the information collected by Bezos Earth Fund and any third parties acting with our authorization or information otherwise provided to us by third parties about you, in each instance, in connection with your use of the Services. This Privacy Policy applies regardless of the computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other electronic device you use to access the Services.

By using the Services, you agree that your use of the Services is governed by this Privacy Policy. From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically check it for updates. Your continued use of the Services affirms your agreement to any changes we make to this Privacy Policy.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE.

a. Information We Collect Directly

When you visit our Services or otherwise interact with us, we will collect any personal information you provide us with your name and email address. We also collect information about how our website is used using third-party website analytic tools that collect automated information about visitor traffic on our site, including Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect website usage information, such as statistics on the number of visitors, the locations of visitors, IP addresses, what devices and browsers they are using, and whether a user has visited the site before. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you use our website. For more information on opting out of Google Analytics, visit this Google page.

b. Information from Social Media Platforms

When you interact with the site through a social media platform, we may collect the personal information that you make available to us on that platform including your account ID or username and other information included in your posts. If you choose to log into your account with or through a social media service, we and that service may share with one another certain information about you and your activities.

c. Information You Provide About Others

Do not provide personal information about anyone else unless you have their consent to do so. If you provide us with someone else’s contact information, note that we may disclose to them that you shared their information.

d. Special Information About Job Applicants

When you apply for a job with us, we may collect information from you, including:

Information you provide in connection with your application.
Information that you make available in your social media accounts.
Information about you that is available publicly.
Information that you authorize us to collect via third parties, including former employers or references.

In certain circumstance, you may submit your application for employment through a third-party service that displays our job posting. We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. Please review their privacy policies carefully prior to submitting your application materials.

e. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

The site also collects information, such as your Internet Service Provider and IP address, the date and time you access the site, the pages you have accessed while visiting the site, and the Internet address from which you accessed the site, via cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags or other tracking technologies. Some cookies exist only during a single session, and some are persistent over multiple sessions over time. We may use these technologies to remember visitor preferences, maximize the performance of our site, provide you with offers that may be of interest to you, measure the effectiveness of our email campaigns and to personalize online content. These cookies and other technologies may be used to track individuals across different devices.

To provide you with a more relevant and interesting experience, we may work with third party companies to customize the content on the site. These companies may use cookies and similar tracking technologies as described above to gather information about your visits to the site, as well as your visits elsewhere on the internet. These companies use this information to provide you with more relevant advertising known as interest-based advertising.

Some browsers have incorporated Do Not Track (“DNT”) preferences. Most of these features, when turned on, send signals to the website you are visiting that you do not wish to have information about your online searching and browsing activities collected and used. We do not honor DNT signals from website browsers at this time. However, you may refuse or delete cookies. If you refuse or delete cookies, some of our site functionality may be impaired. If you change computers, devices, or browsers, or use multiple computers, devices, or browsers, and delete your cookies, you may need to repeat this process for each computer, device, or browser. Please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ instructions to learn more about how to manage cookies and the use of other tracking technologies.

3. USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION.

We may use the information we collect to:

Communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests.
Provide, maintain, personalize, optimize, and improve the Services, including research and analytics regarding use of the site, or to remember you when you leave and return to the site.
Provide you with more relevant content in emails and newsletters to which you may be subscribed.
Personalize your and your organization’s experience with the Services, including to suggest and provide information about materials that may be of interest to you.
Administer the Services and communicate notices, updates, and other information regarding the Services, or to provide other information to you about the Services.
Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders or other valid legal processes, to protect the rights or property of the Bezos Earth Fund.

4. MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION.

Under certain data protection laws and regulations, you may have rights such as the right to request a copy of personal information collected about you, or request that such personal information be corrected or deleted If you have questions, please see Section 13 “Contact Us” below.

5. INFORMATION SHARING.

We may share your personal information with third party service providers, affiliates and agents who use the information to help us respond to your requests and to perform services on our behalf. We do not rent or sell your personal information to third parties.

If we or some or all of our assets are acquired by another organization, such as through a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy, that organization will possess the information collected by us, and your information would remain subject to the promises made in the applicable privacy policy unless we advise you otherwise.
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We may disclose data to comply with law or legal requirements, enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, or protect our rights, property, or safety of our users or others.
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We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated, or any other technical information, without limitation.

6. THIRD PARTY LINKS AND TOOLS.

For your convenience, the Services may contain certain hyperlinks to other websites or apps offered by third parties. We make no promises or guarantees regarding data collection on the hyperlinked websites and apps that are not operated by us.

7. DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN.

This website complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without appropriate parental notice and consent, and our Services are not intended to solicit information of any kind from anyone, including children under the age of 13. If we are informed that we have unintentionally received personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information. If you want to notify us of our possible receipt of information by children under the age of 13, please contact us at info@BezosEarthFund.org. Please visit https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/privacy-and-security/children%27s-privacy for information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children’s privacy online.

8. SECURITY.

While no data transmission over the Internet is one hundred percent secure from intrusion, we maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect our website. However, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications despite our efforts to prevent this. We do not represent or guarantee the security of personal information or other information in any form. Similarly, we disclaim liability for personal information submitted through our site and you provide us with this data at your own risk.

9. RESIDENTS OF NEVADA.

Residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of their information to third parties. Currently, we do not engage in such sales. If you are a Nevada resident and would like more information about our data sharing practices, please contact us.

10. RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA, UNITED KINGDOM, AND SWITZERLAND.

We process “personal data,” as that term is defined in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Your rights under the GDPR: Users who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), U.K., or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are located in the EEA, U.K., or Switzerland, you have the following rights.

Access and Portability: Request access to personal data we hold about you or request transmission of your data to a third party.
Correction: Request that we rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data we store about you.
Erasure: Request that we erase personal data when such data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, when you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or when you believe that your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
Restriction of processing: Request that we restrict our processing of personal data if there is a dispute about the accuracy of the data; if the processing is unlawful; if the processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected but is needed by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or if your request to object to processing is pending evaluation.
Objection to processing: Object to processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing (including profiling). We will no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims.
Transfers: Obtain information about and a copy of the safeguards we use to transfer personal data across borders.

Please contact us to exercise these rights.

11. POLICY UPDATES.

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy by updating this webpage and the effective date. We encourage you periodically to check this webpage to learn about the information we collect, use, and share.

12. INTERNATIONAL USAGE.

The Services are controlled, operated, and administered entirely within the United States. If you visit, access, interact with, and/or otherwise use the Services from a location outside the United States, please be advised that any information you provide in connection with any such activity may be processed in and/or transferred to the United States of America and/or other territories and locations, where privacy protections may not be as comprehensive as those in the territory or location where you interact with or otherwise use the Services.

13. CONTACT US.

Please contact us at info@bezosearthfund.org you have questions about our Privacy Policy.

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