Privacy
Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2021
The following is the The Blake Project's online privacy policy, which governs how visitor information (your information) is gathered and used on our website. Please take a few minutes to read this policy carefully.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for (www.theblakeproject.com). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

• What information we collect;
• With whom it is shared;
• How it can be corrected;
• How it is secured;
• How policy changes will be communicated; and
• How to address concerns over misuse of data.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order, prepare for an Un-Conference

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about events, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address provided on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Uses of Persistent Identifiers
The Blake Project or third parties may use identifiers to generate certain kinds of site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used to understand how visitors use our sites and provide better services to you.

The Blake Project may transfer, or allow third parties to collect, analytic information about your visit to our website to help us improve our website and better serve you when you visit us online in the future. Analytic information may include such identifiers as your browser type, IP address, referring site URL, web pages you view and links you click on while navigating within our sites.

We use this information for a number of purposes, such as to provide easier site navigation, access to forms, or to track analytics and certain statistical information that enables us to improve our site and provide you with more relevant content and information on our site and other sites.

International Transfers
If you are visiting our site from outside the United States, be aware that your information will be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located within the United States. The collection, use, retention and any other processing of your information will be governed by United States law and further by the specific jurisdictions within the United States where that information is stored, unless otherwise specified.

How The Blake Project Uses Your Information
We will use information you affirmatively submit to The Blake Project for the purpose for which it is submitted, such as to reply to your email, respond to your inquiry, handle your complaint, , process billing transactions, register your participation in an event, respond to requests related to program participation, and communicate with you when necessary. We may also use such information to provide operational notices, in program record-keeping and to conduct research on industry marketplace practices. We may publish aggregate data, but the aggregate data will not include any user information you provided to us. At this time we do not respond to "do not track" signals issued by web browsers. We may contact individuals registering for events with information about other events or, if relevant sponsorship opportunities.

We may use third party contractors to act on our behalf, and these contractors are obligated to not disclose or use your information for other purposes.

Information collected from you may be used to review usage and operations of our site and address any resulting issues with our site.

At certain points where your information is collected on our site, there may be a box where you may indicate you would like to be on a mailing list to receive information about The Blake Project or its affiliated organizations. This election box only appears in places where the service collecting your information maintains such lists. You can remove your name from a The Blake Project mailing list by utilizing the appropriate unsubscribe feature contained in the emails.

The Blake Project may also use the information we collect from you to enhance your online experience and provide you with customized site content and targeted information on the site, across third party sites, or through your mobile device.

Other Purposes
The Blake Project may also share your information under the following circumstances:

• We respond to requests from governmental agencies or where required by law (such as by subpoena, investigative demand, court order or regulation).
• We may share information where our records indicate a company may be engaged in fraudulent activity or other unfair or deceptive practices that we believe should be referred to a governmental agency or a private organization.
• We may share information with appropriate persons or governmental authorities, where your communication suggests possible harm to others.
• We may share business information with third parties for quality control purposes.

Registration
In order to register for our events (The Un-Conference), a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (e.g., advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Notification of Changes
If The Blake Project changes this policy in the future, we will post the changes here and indicate the date of the changes at the top of the policy.

Problems or Complaints with The Blake Project Privacy Policy
If you have a complaint about The Blake Project's compliance with this privacy policy, you may contact us at privacy@theblakeproject.com