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Last modified: January 1, 2024
At SAPAN, the Sentient AI Protection and Advocacy Network, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. In this privacy policy, the words “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to SAPAN.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website, located at sapan.ai (referred to as the “Website”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy also applies to information we collect:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with it, your choice is not to use our Website.
Our Website and Application are not intended for children under 18 years of age. If you are under 18, you may use the Website and Application only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website or Application. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 on our Website and Application. If you are under 18, do not use or register, make any purchases, or use any of the interactive or public comment features on this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 on our Website or Application without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@sapan.ai.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and Application, including information:
We collect this information:
The information we collect on or through our Website and Application may include:
As you navigate through and interact with our Website or Application, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking), including but not limited to Google Analytics. Such technologies utilize unique analytic advertising features and implement cookie data collection, which is then transferred to third parties. All information collected and shared by Google Analytics regarding your visits to this Site is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this Site by disabling cookies on your browser.
We currently do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and Application and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Occasionally, a user’s behavior within our family of websites will trigger an automated response or series of responses that is designed to help the user further engage with our organization.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
Some content or applications on the Website may be served by third parties, including affiliates, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
When you contact us by mail, telephone, or other means to support us through donations, access our products, programs, or services, or otherwise communicate with us, we collect:
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.
As a general rule, all information about our supporters and others who access our programs, products, and services is held by us in strict confidence and, except in limited circumstances, is not revealed to anyone else unless expressly or implicitly authorized by such individuals.
Each of the our organization affiliates offers its programs, products, and services in affiliation with SAPAN. Many of the affiliates’ administrative functions and certain other services are performed on their behalf by SAPAN. Accordingly, personal information collected by such affiliates will be disclosed and transferred to SAPAN in the United States for these purposes.
Electronic records for our organization and its affiliates are maintained in the United States by SAPAN. SAPAN uses suppliers and service providers in the United States to perform services on its behalf. If you have questions about the collection, use, disclosure, or storage of personal information by service providers, please contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@sapan.ai.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We offer our programs and services in a common mission with our international affiliates within SAPAN. Personal information of users of our Website outside of the United States may, unless you request otherwise, be shared with our international affiliates if their activities are more closely matched to your needs and requirements.
You do have choices about how we use and disclose your information. If you do not want your information used or shared in accordance with this notice:
If you would like to review and change your personal information, you may do so by:
To close your account, please make your request by emailing us at privacy@sapan.ai.
Please note: we cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to delete or change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
In addition, if you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.
For any other requests to access or review your information, please contact privacy@sapan.ai.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and financial information will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website or Application. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or Application.
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will post the new privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated and indicate at the top of the policy when it was most recently updated.
The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices or to submit a complaint, please contact us at:
Sentient AI Protection and Advocacy Network
8152 SW Hall Blvd #1097
Beaverton, OR 97008
United States
Email: privacy@sapan.ai