Private Policy

Mental Wellness Initiative

BY VISITING MENTALWELLNESSINITIATIVE.ORG, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

OVERVIEW

At Mental Wellness Initiative (“Nonprofit Organization”) and all our affiliated companies, contributors and collaborators (collectively known as “Mental Wellness Initiative”, “we”, ‘us” and “our”), we value your privacy and are committed to protecting your privacy online.

Mental Wellness Initiative is a social enterprise dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based integrative resources that can assist in the prevention, recovery and transformation of stress, anxiety and depression.

This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect from visitors through this website at mentalwellnessinitiative.org (the “Site”), our online products and services, including application programming interface integrations and widgets that we offer (“Services”) and how we collect, use, and share personal information in the course of our business activities.

Visitors and any users of the Site are referred to as “user”, “you” and “your”. Accessing our Sites or using any of our Applications and Services constitutes a use of the Site and an acceptance to our Privacy Policy. Use of the Site, including all materials presented herein and all other online content provided by Nonprofit Organization is subject to the following Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to all site visitors, customers and all other users of the Site. By using the Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy, without modification, and acknowledge reading it.

It is important to note that not all aspects of this Policy may apply to you, depending on the types of interactions you have with us and the categories of personal information that we collect from you. Those activities will determine which of the following applies to you and your personal information.

If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at
admin@mentalwellnessinitiative.org

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

This Site only collects the personal information you voluntarily provide to us, which may include but is not limited to your name and e-mail address, in order to subscribe to our newsletter, receive our latest updates and offers, make a donation or participate in a campaign, comment on our blog, or purchase services and/or online products.

If you opt-in to receive our newsletter or latest updates and offers, the option to unsubscribe will be included in every e-mail. If your information is shared with those who provide support in running this website including any blog or newsletter, these parties will keep your information confidential and it will never be shared with unrelated third parties.

We may record information relating to your use of the Site in order to help administer the Site and personalize your experience by improving customer service. If we sell or transfer any of our business or assets, certain information about our clients may be a part of that sale or transfer. In the event such sale or transfer results in a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you.

This Policy does not cover third parties that may be indirectly related to Healthy Minds and our sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, as such we encourage you to read their respective privacy statements. Further, you may be presented with opportunities to purchase products or services offered by third parties or you may elect to participate in contests or sweepstakes offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site. We are not responsible for any such purchase you make, or participation you undertake, and as such any such purchase or participation will be subject to the relevant third party’s terms and conditions.

ANTI-SPAM POLICY

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested or as outlined above. You have the ability to unsubscribe from all emails. We believe that your email address is personal and should be kept that way. We use your email address to provide better customer service, to facilitate your transactions with our third-party marketing partners, and to be able to inform you of the offers and promotions from us or our affiliates.

COOKIES

We may send cookies or tracking signals to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service. The term “cookies” refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the Site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Site may not work properly or at all. The Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals sent by your browser.

This Site may contain links to third party websites. Unless otherwise stated, this Privacy Policy only covers information that we collect from you on this Site. Any other link will be covered by the privacy policy of that specific site. You acknowledge and accept that we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third parties.

SECURITY

We do our best to protect your information for any unauthorized access, misuse, or disclosure. However, you acknowledge that the personal information you voluntarily share could be accessed or tampered with by a third party. You agree that we are not responsible for any intercepted information shared through our Site without our knowledge or permission. Additionally, you release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of such intercepted information in any unauthorized manner. You agree to notify us for any breach of security or unauthorized use of your information.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

The Services are hosted in the United States and are governed by United States law. If you are visiting our Sites or using the Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers and databases are located. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.

By using our Sites and Services, you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of personal information are in accordance with applicable law, are carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where alternative adequate arrangements are in place to protect your privacy rights.

In certain situations, Healthy Minds may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA), UNITED KINGDOM OR SWITZERLAND

THIS SECTION ONLY APPLIES TO USERS OF OUR SERVICES THAT ARE LOCATED IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA, UNITED KINGDOM OR SWITZERLAND AT THE TIME OF DATA COLLECTION. WE MAY ASK YOU TO IDENTIFY WHICH COUNTRY YOU ARE LOCATED IN WHEN YOU USE SOME OF OUR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, OR WE MAY RELY ON YOUR IP ADDRESS TO IDENTIFY YOUR COUNTRY LOCATION.

Mental Wellness Initiative processes Personal Data as a “processor,” “joint controller,” and as a “controller” under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. A “controller” is an entity that determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is processed. Any third parties that act as our service providers are “data processors” that handle your personal information in accordance with our instructions. With respect to your personal data that you enter or that is received through our websites that is not directly related to our services, Mental Wellness Initiative is the controller. To the extent that Mental Wellness Initiative receives personal information from a Consumer through a third party service or campaign, Mental Wellness Initiative and the third party are joint data controllers. This means that you may choose to exercise your rights, including as described below, with Mental Wellness Initiative or the relevant third party. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are unsure who the relevant third party is for a given service or product or would like their contact information at
admin@mentalwellnessinitiative.org

If you are in the EEA, United Kingdom or Switzerland, you have the following rights (where applicable):

Access: You have the right to request a copy of the information we are processing about you;
Rectification: You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate information that we process about you rectified;
Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete information that we process about you, except we are not obliged to do so if we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
Restriction. You have the right to restrict our processing of your information where you believe such data to be inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose unless we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish for us to delete it;
Portability. You have the right to obtain information we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such data to another data controller, where this is (a) information which you have provided to us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you;
Objection. Where the legal basis for processing your information is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise, or defense of a legal claim;
Withdrawing consent: If you have consented to our processing of your information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge. This includes where you wish to opt out from marketing messages.

You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your information by contacting us via the methods listed below. For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information. Please note that we may take up to 30 days to fulfill such request. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. We may not always be able to fully address your request, for example if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if we are legally entitled to deal with the request in a different way.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws.

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information). Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION

To access or use the Site, you must be 18 years old or older and have the requisite power and authority to enter into this Privacy Policy. We do not knowingly collect or solicit data online from or market online to children under the age of 13 in the US or children under the age of 16 in the EU.

SPECIAL INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

California Consumer Privacy Act Rights. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) California residents have certain rights regarding their personally identifiable information. If you would like to exercise these rights on or after January 1, 2020, please contact us using the email address provided below. For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information. It may take us some time to respond to your request, but we will do so within the requirements of the CCPA.

This Policy provides you disclosure regarding the personal information we collect from you and the purposes for doing so. Please see the above section on ‘Information We Collect’.

We do not sell your personal information as provided under the CCPA.
Right to request disclosure as to personal information Healthy Minds has collected about you:
- Upon a verifiable request, made via email below, we will disclose to you the items listed below, one or more of which may be provided by reference to this Policy:
- The categories of personal information it has collected about you.
- The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected.
- The business purpose behind collecting the personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom Healthy Minds has shared the information.
- The specific pieces of personal information Healthy Minds has collected about you.
Right to request deletion: upon a verifiable request, made through our email below, we will delete personal information we have regarding you and direct our service providers to delete your personal information from their records, to the extent provided by the CCPA.
Right to be free from discrimination: Healthy Minds will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA. Please keep in mind that under certain circumstances, we may charge you a different price or rate, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to you by your personal information.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

You acknowledge and agree that you have reviewed this Site and this Privacy Policy and that you will continue to review to be aware of any modifications. Any changes to this Policy will be updated on this page.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please email: admin@mentalwellnessinitiative.org

Updated: June 2023