Privacy Policy for California Men’s Gatherings
The California Men’s Gatherings, accessible from www.thecmg.org & www.thecmg.info, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by California Men’s Gatherings and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in California Men’s Gatherings. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
Membership Information
As a nonprofit social community benefit organization, we ask for more complete information from those we consider members. Membership in California Men’s Gatherings is loosely defined as any male identifying person 18 years of age or older who attends or registers for an event or signs up to receive notices of such events. This information is maintained in our encrypted databases on heavily protected servers that receives regular security updates You are welcome to log in to www.thecmg.info using your personal credentials and view the information you have provided. This information is subject to further privacy rights delineated below.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our volunteers to provide you with updates and other information, and for marketing and promotion of our events and gatherings.
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud
Sharing Information
We do not routinely share any personal information collected by us with third parties and do not implement advertising or ad generating services on our website. We do not sell information that we collect, and your information will not be used by us or others for purposes of profit. On rare occasions it may become necessary to reveal certain information to a third-party in the process of providing assistance and services to you through our website or otherwise. Storage services where information is kept are provided to us under contract with third parties, but that information remains under our control and is protected by industry standard security and encryption. Other incidental transmission of information is done only because of an identifiable need of the organization to complete a task. If you have concerns about your personal information being shared, please contact us.
Log Files
California Men’s Gatherings follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All websites do this and is a part of services’ analytics and error identification. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, California Men’s Gatherings uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Analytics Partners Privacy Policies
Third-party servers and networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their analytical reporting and search result listing using links that appear on California Men’s Gatherings, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of our webpages and/or to personalize the content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that California Men’s Gatherings has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party providers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
California Men’s Gathering’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites that may be linked from our website. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Protection for children while using the internet is of paramount importance. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
While California Men’s Gatherings is intended for adult men over the age of 18, the content is intended for general viewing and should not be considered offensive to the general reader. As an organization for adults we do encourage use of our website by children and do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
U.S copyright law as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects website providers content from infringement if it was done unknowingly. If you find content on our site that you believe infringes upon a copyright you own, you are directed to contact us with the page url address that it appears and the url for the resource that you believe represents a violation along with proof of copyright ownership. We are required to review these requests and act accordingly to remain adherent to copyright law. Since that liability rests with us, our validation of your request is at our discretion.
If you find pictures, video, or other media that regardless of copyright includes a representation of your person or other personally identifiable characteristics, and you wish that it not be used on our website, please contact us and we will do our best to honor your request.
Financial Transactions
In certain instances, it may become necessary to make a donation or payment to us while using our website. We pass all financial transactions to a third-party processor where personal information may be required to complete payment. We do not collect, store, or maintain records of this information and do not have access to it. The collection of that information is governed by the privacy policies of that processor which is available during the transaction and afterward. If you need information on how to contact our payment processor, please contact us and we will direct you to them..
How to Contact Us
You may contact the California Men’s Gatherings
By mail: 1049 Havenhurst Dr., Unit #123, West Hollywood, CA 90046
By email: question@thecmg.org
Or by using any of the submission forms under “Contact the CMG” on our website.