Privacy Policy
Last Updated Date: March 9, 2020
Introduction
The Voice Your Choice program (“Voice Your Choice,” “we,” “us” or “our”), a Nexus Montgomery program, is a community-based program led by Jewish Social Service Agency (“JSSA”) that promotes advance care planning through training, education, and public awareness. This Privacy Policy governs your use of the websites operated by Voice Your Choice where this Privacy Policy are posted (collectively, the “Site(s)”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because by registering for or using the Sites you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to keep up to date on how we are handling your personal information. Your use of the Service is also governed by our Terms of Use [insert link].
Those with disabilities may also access this Privacy Policy in an alternative text-based format, such as PDF, by clicking here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note the arbitration provision set forth below, requiring you to arbitrate any claims you may have against Voice Your Choice on an individual basis. EXCEPT WHERE AND TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY LAW, ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE, AND YOU WAIVE, THE RIGHT FOR A JUDGE OR JURY TO DECIDE YOUR CLAIMS, AND THAT YOU MAY NOT PROCEED IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY.
How Voice Your Choice collects personal information
Personal information is information which identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or can reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a specific individual, household, or device. Voice Your Choice collects (i) personal information voluntarily supplied by you, and (ii) tracking information collected as you navigate the Sites. We note that over time, non-personal information could become personal information through regulatory developments, technological advancements, or co-mingling with personal information. The types of personal information we collect from you depends on the features you use on the Sites.
(1) Active Collection
As noted above, we collect and store personal information from you directly, at the time you supply information to us via the Sites. For instance, if you contact us with a question, we may store your communications, including any personal information you include in them, so we can effectively respond to you. If you do not want us to collect your personal information, please do not provide it to us.
(2) Passive Collection
We may collect information passively while you are visiting or interacting with the Sites. We call this “passive” collection because you may not know that this information is being collected. Here are some examples of the information that is collected via the Sites and a description of how this information is used:
How Voice Your Choice uses the information
Voice Your Choice uses your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
For your reference, we have provided a chart of the categories of personal information we may have collected from you in the last 12 months, along with their respective source(s), purpose(s), and any disclosure to third parties.
Introduction
The Voice Your Choice program (“Voice Your Choice,” “we,” “us” or “our”), a Nexus Montgomery program, is a community-based program led by Jewish Social Service Agency (“JSSA”) that promotes advance care planning through training, education, and public awareness. This Privacy Policy governs your use of the websites operated by Voice Your Choice where this Privacy Policy are posted (collectively, the “Site(s)”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because by registering for or using the Sites you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to keep up to date on how we are handling your personal information. Your use of the Service is also governed by our Terms of Use [insert link].
Those with disabilities may also access this Privacy Policy in an alternative text-based format, such as PDF, by clicking here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note the arbitration provision set forth below, requiring you to arbitrate any claims you may have against Voice Your Choice on an individual basis. EXCEPT WHERE AND TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY LAW, ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE, AND YOU WAIVE, THE RIGHT FOR A JUDGE OR JURY TO DECIDE YOUR CLAIMS, AND THAT YOU MAY NOT PROCEED IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY.
How Voice Your Choice collects personal information
Personal information is information which identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or can reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a specific individual, household, or device. Voice Your Choice collects (i) personal information voluntarily supplied by you, and (ii) tracking information collected as you navigate the Sites. We note that over time, non-personal information could become personal information through regulatory developments, technological advancements, or co-mingling with personal information. The types of personal information we collect from you depends on the features you use on the Sites.
(1) Active Collection
As noted above, we collect and store personal information from you directly, at the time you supply information to us via the Sites. For instance, if you contact us with a question, we may store your communications, including any personal information you include in them, so we can effectively respond to you. If you do not want us to collect your personal information, please do not provide it to us.
(2) Passive Collection
We may collect information passively while you are visiting or interacting with the Sites. We call this “passive” collection because you may not know that this information is being collected. Here are some examples of the information that is collected via the Sites and a description of how this information is used:
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses– Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send your information, such as the webpages you view. We use this information to deliver our webpages to you upon request, tailor our Sites to the interests of our users and measure traffic within our Sites.
- Cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies– A cookie is a small text file that may be used to collect information about your activity on the Sites. For example, when someone visits a page within the Sites, a cookie is placed on the user’s machine (if the user accepts cookies) or is read if the user has visited the Sites previously. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to allow us to count users who have visited certain pages of the Sites and to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns. When used in HTML-formatted email messages, web beacons can tell the sender whether and when the email has been opened. Web beacons are embedded invisibly on webpages. For more information, please see the Cookies section below.
How Voice Your Choice uses the information
Voice Your Choice uses your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
- to provide and administer services;
- provide you with administrative support and to respond to inquiries;
- to measure and improve those services and features;
- for internal record keeping;
- to invite you to participate in surveys or research about Voice Your Choice or our members;
- to inform you of upcoming events and administer such events;
- to send our newsletters;
- to invite Voice Your Choice members to volunteer at upcoming events;
- to use IP addresses to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, to establish the number of visits from different countries;
- to analyze and improve the activities and content offered by the Voice Your Choice website to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience. We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.
- to notify you about a material change to this Privacy Policy, if necessary, or to contact you in response to sign-up forms.
- to protect the rights of Voice Your Choice and others. There may be instances when we may disclose your personal information, including situations where we have a good faith belief that such processing is necessary in order to: (i) protect, enforce or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety or property of Voice Your Choice, our affiliates or their employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements and terms and conditions); (ii) protect the safety, privacy and security of users of our Sites or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes;
- to comply with applicable laws or legal process and/or respond to requests from public and government authorities.
- for any other legitimate business reasons.
For your reference, we have provided a chart of the categories of personal information we may have collected from you in the last 12 months, along with their respective source(s), purpose(s), and any disclosure to third parties.
Category of personal information |
Source(s) |
Purpose(s) |
Disclosure to third parties |
Identifiers, e.g., name, Internet Protocol address, e-mail address |
Directly from you Indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your actions on our Site) |
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, e.g., to respond to an inquiry, process your order or request |
Disclosure for business purposes to: internet service providers, payment processors |
Private, non-public personal information contained in customer records, e.g., name, address, telephone number |
Directly from you Indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your actions on our Site) |
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, e.g., to respond to an inquiry or process your order or inquiry |
Disclosure for business purposes to: internet service providers |
Internet or other similar network activity, e.g., browsing history, search history, information on interaction with a website, application, or advertisement |
Indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your actions on our Site) |
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, e.g., to provide targeted advertising |
Disclosure for business purposes to: internet service providers, payment processors, to resolve technical issues |
Geolocation data, e.g., physical location or movements |
Directly from you Indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your actions on our Site) |
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, e.g., to respond to an inquiry, process your order, or provide targeted advertising |
Disclosure for business purposes to: internet service providers, payment processors |
Inferences drawn from other personal information, e.g., profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes |
Directly from you Indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your actions on our Site) |
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, e.g., to respond to an inquiry, process your order or request |
Disclosure for business purposes to: internet service providers, payment processors |
We retain and store your personal information only for as long as we have a legitimate business purpose to do so and in accordance with our data retention policies or as required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.
Legal Bases for Processing
We process personal information per applicable law and with transparency and fairness. Our processing activities are conducted:
Marketing
Voice Your Choice will contact you for marketing purposes where you have provided us with consent to do so in accordance with applicable law. Please see below for information on how to change your communication preferences, including opting out of future marketing communications.
Will Voice Your Choice share my personal information?
We will use your information within Voice Your Choice for the purposes for which it was obtained. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Non-personal information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses – see the Cookies and Ads section below.
Voice Your Choice may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:
Collection and Use of Information from Children
The Sites are not intended for use by persons under the age 16. Voice Your Choice does not knowingly collect information from visitors under the age of 16, and, in the event that we learn that a person under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such personal information.
Marketing Choices
We also give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes. We communicate with users and members who subscribe to our services on a regular basis via email. For example, we may use your email address to send you notice of payments, information about changes to our products and services, and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, users cannot opt-out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out of receiving these by following the unsubscribe link in our communications or sending a request to Voice Your Choice, 6123 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852. We will process your unsubscribe as soon as possible, but please be aware that in some circumstances you may receive a few more messages until the unsubscribe is processed.
Forums, Chat Rooms and Other Public Posting Areas
Please note that any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public posting area is available to anyone. If you do not want people to know your email address, for example, do not include it in any message you post publicly. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS.
International Data Transfers
If you are visiting our Site from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. Any information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our server and other internal systems located within the U.S. You acknowledge you understand that by providing your personal information to us, your personal information (i) will be used for the uses identified above in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and (ii) may be transferred to the U.S. as indicated above, in accordance with applicable law.
Cookies and Ads Policy
Cookies are small text files on your device. They are made by your web-browser when you visit a website. Every time you go back to that website, your browser will send the cookie file back to the website’s server. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device. Voice Your Choice does not use cookies to match specific user behavior with IP addresses or any other potentially identifiable information. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
We use, and allow certain third parties to use, cookies and other similar technologies to operate our Site(s), provide any of our services or other functions and to help collect information. We, or third parties, may use session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies only last for the specific duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device’s hard drive until you delete them or they expire. Different cookies are used to perform different functions, which we explain below:
Updates to the Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Voice Your Choice. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use the Voice Your Choice website to submit personal information to Voice Your Choice. If material changes are made to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website or emailing you at the email address we have on file for you. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to keep it up to date on how we are handling your personal information.
Security
We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information. No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information you transfer to Voice Your Choice is done at your own risk.
If we learn of a security systems breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using the Sites or providing personal information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of the Sites. We may post a notice on our Sites if a security breach occurs. We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.
Dispute Resolution
By using the Sites, you and Voice Your Choice agree that, if there is any controversy, claim, action, or dispute arising out of or related to your use of the Sites, or the breach, enforcement, interpretation, or validity of this Privacy Policy or any part of it (“Dispute”), both parties shall first try in good faith to settle such Dispute by providing written notice to the other party describing the facts and circumstances of the Dispute and allowing the receiving party thirty (30) days in which to respond to or settle the Dispute.
Notice to us shall be sent to: Voice Your Choice/JSSA
Attention: Program Coordinator
6123 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852
Notice to you shall be sent to the address we have on file for you, if any.
Both you and Voice Your Choice agree that this dispute resolution procedure is a condition precedent that must be satisfied before initiating any litigation or filing any claim against the other party. WHERE PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IF ANY DISPUTE CANNOT BE RESOLVED BY THE ABOVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEDURE, YOU AGREE THAT THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION FOR SUCH DISPUTE WILL BE DECIDED BY BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE, AND YOU WAIVE, THE RIGHT FOR A JUDGE OR JURY TO DECIDE YOUR CLAIMS, AND THAT YOU MAY NOT PROCEED IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY. Other rights that you and we would have in court will not be available or will be more limited in arbitration, including discovery and appeal rights. Any such Dispute shall be exclusively submitted to JAMS (www.jamsadr.com) for binding arbitration under its rules then in effect, before one arbitrator to be mutually agreed upon by both parties.
The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute arising under or relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this Privacy Policy, including any claim that all or any part of this Privacy Policy is void or voidable with the exception of disputes related to or involving Voice Your Choice’s intellectual property.
Choice of Law
This Privacy Policy has been made in, and shall be governed, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Maryland, without giving effect to any conflict of law principles. Notwithstanding the foregoing provision with respect to applicable substantive law, any arbitration conducted pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16).
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits visitors to the Sites who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Please note, we do not share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you consent to such disclosure, typically by “opting-in” to receive information from a third party that is sponsor, exhibitor, or other third party or other promotion on our Sites. If you do ask us to share your personal information with a third party for its marketing purposes, we will only share information in connection with the consent you have provided.
From January 1, 2020, many California consumers now have the following rights:
You also have the right to request information about our sale or disclosure for business purposes of your personal information to third parties in the preceding 12 months.
You may also request a copy of the personal information we have collected, and upon request, we will provide this information to you in electronic form.
If you would like to exercise one or more of the rights above, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Voice Your Choice/JSSA
Attn: Program Coordinator
6123 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852
or
Email: [email protected]
If you are e-mailing, please write “Data Subject Request” as your subject line, and explicitly state which right you are exercising in the body of the e-mail. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. Such authorized agent must be registered with the California Secretary of State. We may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
When submitting a request, we may need to take certain steps to ensure that we are receiving a verifiable consumer request before completing your request, and, for example, may ask for you to confirm data points we already have about you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. Whenever feasible for verification, we will match the identifying information provided by you to the personal information already maintained by us. If, however, we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request additional information.
How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals
At this time our Sites do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “Do Not Track” instructions.
Assignment
In the event that all or part of our assets are sold or acquired by another party, or in the event of a merger, you grant us the right to assign the personal information we have collected from you.
Links to External Sites
Voice Your Choice takes no responsibility for the content of external Internet sites. Other websites that we may link to are owned and operated by third parties, and Voice Your Choice has no control over them. The fact that we include links to other websites does not mean that Voice Your Choice approves of or endorses any other third party website or the content of that website. We accept no liability for any statements, information, products, or services that are published on or are accessible through any websites owned or operated by third parties.
Contact Us
Your visit to the Sites is subject to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Voice Your Choice/JSSA
Attn: Program Coordinator
6123 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852
Or
Email: [email protected]
Legal Bases for Processing
We process personal information per applicable law and with transparency and fairness. Our processing activities are conducted:
- With your consent;
- In order to fulfill our contractual obligations to you;
- For the legitimate purpose of operating Voice Your Choice, including to improve and develop our services to members, for fraud prevention purposes, and to improve user experience;
- As otherwise in compliance with the law.
Marketing
Voice Your Choice will contact you for marketing purposes where you have provided us with consent to do so in accordance with applicable law. Please see below for information on how to change your communication preferences, including opting out of future marketing communications.
Will Voice Your Choice share my personal information?
We will use your information within Voice Your Choice for the purposes for which it was obtained. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Non-personal information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses – see the Cookies and Ads section below.
Voice Your Choice may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:
- Service providers, helping to administer the services, products, services, educational programs and events. We may share your personal information with companies (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf, for example, companies that help process credit card payments. Our service providers are required by contract to protect the confidentiality of the personal information we share with them and to use it only to provide specific services on our behalf;
- Subsidiaries and affiliates to better serve the Voice Your Choice users and its evolving needs;
- Third parties, who provide products and services of interest to Voice Your Choice members;
- Competent authorities, including law enforcement, in order to comply with applicable laws or court orders.
Collection and Use of Information from Children
The Sites are not intended for use by persons under the age 16. Voice Your Choice does not knowingly collect information from visitors under the age of 16, and, in the event that we learn that a person under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such personal information.
Marketing Choices
We also give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes. We communicate with users and members who subscribe to our services on a regular basis via email. For example, we may use your email address to send you notice of payments, information about changes to our products and services, and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, users cannot opt-out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out of receiving these by following the unsubscribe link in our communications or sending a request to Voice Your Choice, 6123 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852. We will process your unsubscribe as soon as possible, but please be aware that in some circumstances you may receive a few more messages until the unsubscribe is processed.
Forums, Chat Rooms and Other Public Posting Areas
Please note that any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public posting area is available to anyone. If you do not want people to know your email address, for example, do not include it in any message you post publicly. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS.
International Data Transfers
If you are visiting our Site from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. Any information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our server and other internal systems located within the U.S. You acknowledge you understand that by providing your personal information to us, your personal information (i) will be used for the uses identified above in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and (ii) may be transferred to the U.S. as indicated above, in accordance with applicable law.
Cookies and Ads Policy
Cookies are small text files on your device. They are made by your web-browser when you visit a website. Every time you go back to that website, your browser will send the cookie file back to the website’s server. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device. Voice Your Choice does not use cookies to match specific user behavior with IP addresses or any other potentially identifiable information. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
We use, and allow certain third parties to use, cookies and other similar technologies to operate our Site(s), provide any of our services or other functions and to help collect information. We, or third parties, may use session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies only last for the specific duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device’s hard drive until you delete them or they expire. Different cookies are used to perform different functions, which we explain below:
- Essential. Some cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our Sites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the Sites. Without these cookies, we cannot enable appropriate content based on the type of device you are using.
- Browsing and functionality. These cookies allow us to remember choices you make on the Sites, such as your preferred language and the country from which you are visiting, and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
- Performance and analytics. We use our own cookies and third-party cookies to see how you use our Sites and services in order to enhance their performance and develop them according to your preferences. In particular, we use:
- Google Analytics: To help facilitate the delivery of relevant content, we use Google Analytics. We have enabled the IP anonymization feature of Google Analytics so we are not collecting information that will identify you or your location. Google Analytics uses cookies to report on user interactions on our and others’ websites. We use the information collected for optimizing marketing, refining advertising and/or programming strategies and generally making advertising more effective. You can opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features we use by indicating your preference using the interest-based opt-out link here (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). Google also provides a complete Privacy Policy and instructions on opting-out of Google Analytics here (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).
Updates to the Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Voice Your Choice. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use the Voice Your Choice website to submit personal information to Voice Your Choice. If material changes are made to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website or emailing you at the email address we have on file for you. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to keep it up to date on how we are handling your personal information.
Security
We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information. No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information you transfer to Voice Your Choice is done at your own risk.
If we learn of a security systems breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using the Sites or providing personal information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of the Sites. We may post a notice on our Sites if a security breach occurs. We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.
Dispute Resolution
By using the Sites, you and Voice Your Choice agree that, if there is any controversy, claim, action, or dispute arising out of or related to your use of the Sites, or the breach, enforcement, interpretation, or validity of this Privacy Policy or any part of it (“Dispute”), both parties shall first try in good faith to settle such Dispute by providing written notice to the other party describing the facts and circumstances of the Dispute and allowing the receiving party thirty (30) days in which to respond to or settle the Dispute.
Notice to us shall be sent to: Voice Your Choice/JSSA
Attention: Program Coordinator
6123 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852
Notice to you shall be sent to the address we have on file for you, if any.
Both you and Voice Your Choice agree that this dispute resolution procedure is a condition precedent that must be satisfied before initiating any litigation or filing any claim against the other party. WHERE PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IF ANY DISPUTE CANNOT BE RESOLVED BY THE ABOVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEDURE, YOU AGREE THAT THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION FOR SUCH DISPUTE WILL BE DECIDED BY BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE, AND YOU WAIVE, THE RIGHT FOR A JUDGE OR JURY TO DECIDE YOUR CLAIMS, AND THAT YOU MAY NOT PROCEED IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY. Other rights that you and we would have in court will not be available or will be more limited in arbitration, including discovery and appeal rights. Any such Dispute shall be exclusively submitted to JAMS (www.jamsadr.com) for binding arbitration under its rules then in effect, before one arbitrator to be mutually agreed upon by both parties.
The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute arising under or relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this Privacy Policy, including any claim that all or any part of this Privacy Policy is void or voidable with the exception of disputes related to or involving Voice Your Choice’s intellectual property.
Choice of Law
This Privacy Policy has been made in, and shall be governed, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Maryland, without giving effect to any conflict of law principles. Notwithstanding the foregoing provision with respect to applicable substantive law, any arbitration conducted pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16).
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits visitors to the Sites who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Please note, we do not share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you consent to such disclosure, typically by “opting-in” to receive information from a third party that is sponsor, exhibitor, or other third party or other promotion on our Sites. If you do ask us to share your personal information with a third party for its marketing purposes, we will only share information in connection with the consent you have provided.
From January 1, 2020, many California consumers now have the following rights:
- Right to know
You also have the right to request information about our sale or disclosure for business purposes of your personal information to third parties in the preceding 12 months.
You may also request a copy of the personal information we have collected, and upon request, we will provide this information to you in electronic form.
- Right to delete
- Right to opt-out of sale
- Right to non-discrimination
If you would like to exercise one or more of the rights above, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Voice Your Choice/JSSA
Attn: Program Coordinator
6123 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852
or
Email: [email protected]
If you are e-mailing, please write “Data Subject Request” as your subject line, and explicitly state which right you are exercising in the body of the e-mail. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. Such authorized agent must be registered with the California Secretary of State. We may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
When submitting a request, we may need to take certain steps to ensure that we are receiving a verifiable consumer request before completing your request, and, for example, may ask for you to confirm data points we already have about you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. Whenever feasible for verification, we will match the identifying information provided by you to the personal information already maintained by us. If, however, we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request additional information.
How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals
At this time our Sites do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “Do Not Track” instructions.
Assignment
In the event that all or part of our assets are sold or acquired by another party, or in the event of a merger, you grant us the right to assign the personal information we have collected from you.
Links to External Sites
Voice Your Choice takes no responsibility for the content of external Internet sites. Other websites that we may link to are owned and operated by third parties, and Voice Your Choice has no control over them. The fact that we include links to other websites does not mean that Voice Your Choice approves of or endorses any other third party website or the content of that website. We accept no liability for any statements, information, products, or services that are published on or are accessible through any websites owned or operated by third parties.
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Your visit to the Sites is subject to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Voice Your Choice/JSSA
Attn: Program Coordinator
6123 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD 20852
Or
Email: [email protected]
