Privacy Policy

Institute for Community Inclusion Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE ("Terms of Use" or "Terms") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

Last updated: July 18, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal D­­ata to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words with the initial letter capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access Our Service or parts of Our Service.

  • Company (referred to as either “Institute for Community Inclusion”, "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI).

  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  • Country refers to Massachusetts, United States.

  • Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  • Service refers to the Website.

  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of “Institute for Community Inclusion”. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by “Institute for Community Inclusion” to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of “Institute for Community Inclusion”, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist “Institute for Community Inclusion” in analyzing how the Service is used.

  • Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website, such as Facebook or LinkedIn, for example, through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.

  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated using the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Website refers to Personal and Home Care Aide State Training (Institute for Community Inclusion), accessible from communityinclusion.org

  • You means the individual accessing or using communityinclusion.org, or “Institute for Community Inclusion”, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using communityinclusion.org, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information, such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of communityinclusion.org that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit communityinclusion.org or when You access communityinclusion.org by or through a mobile device.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

Our Site includes Social Media functions, including Facebook buttons and Widgets, developed and maintained by Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)-approved vendors and/or third-party services. These features may collect Your IP address, pages You visited, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on Our Sites. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on communityinclusion.org and store certain information. We use beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze communityinclusion.org. The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of Our Service. Unless You have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, communityinclusion.org may use Cookies.

  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of communityinclusion.org and Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit “Institute for Community Inclusion”, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies
    Type: Session Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate Users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

  • Functionality Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies allow Us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering Your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter Your preferences every time You use the Website.

  • Tracking and Performance Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Third Parties
    Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify You as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device You use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the Website to see how Our users react to them.

For more information about the cookies We use and Your choices regarding cookies, please visit Our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of Our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

“Institute for Community Inclusion” may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain communityinclusion.org, including to monitor the usage of communityinclusion.org.

  • To manage Your Account: To manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

  • To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of Our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve communityinclusion.org, products, services, marketing, and Your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of communityinclusion.org, to contact You.

  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.

  • With other users: When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures, and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You, and view Your profile.

  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

“Institute for Community Inclusion” will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.

“Institute for Community Inclusion” will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of communityinclusion.org, or if We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

This website will not disclose, without Your consent, personal information collected about You, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law.

This website will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on communityinclusion.org in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of communityinclusion.org.

  • Google Analytics
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of communityinclusion.org. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

    You can opt-out of having made Your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

    For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing, or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

Children's Privacy

communityinclusion.org does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We will take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Copyright and Acceptable Use

All text, images, graphics, logos, and information contained on the Site is the intellectual property of the Institute for Community Inclusion, unless otherwise identified. You must obtain written permission to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or license a given work. The US Copyright Act provides protection for such Websites, regardless of whether a website includes a statement about copyright. Websites may not be used or reproduced without permission.

Institute for Community Inclusion is not responsible for any errors in the material provided on the Site and shall not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of any material found at this Site or on any other Site with the "communityinclusion.org" domain. Links may be directed to these pages, but images, logos, and maps, may not be copied and/or posted for any reason.

Links to Other Websites

communityinclusion.org may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on communityinclusion.org, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: