Privacy Policy

Welcome to https://Prometheanaction.com (ProAct).  We know that you care about how personal information you provide to us is used and shared.  Our Privacy Policy explains how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy explains what information of yours we collect when you access our website or social media and when you become a member of Promethean Action, how that information will be used, and how you can control the collection, correction, or deletion of information.  We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described here, in functions which assist us in managing and growing our web presence. We will never sell your information to anyone or voluntarily provide it unless legally compelled. The Privacy Policy does not apply to information you may provide us through other sources, e.g. offline or from other sources. By using our website and related accounts you consent to the use of your personal information under the terms of this privacy policy.

Information We May Collect

We obtain information about you when you disclose it to us in the course of using our services, such as:

• your name and email address when you register a user account
• any profile data you share with us, including profile pictures, gender, marital status, interests, preferences, feedback, survey responses, etc.
• information shared with us when you contact us for assistance or support
• your billing information when you sign up to be a member and transaction records of payments made to or from you in relation to such membership
• our marketing and communications preferences, which includes your preferences about receiving emails and texts from us or Promethean PAC, and the ways in which you prefer to be contacted
• any information you share when you upload content to a website hosted by us

We collect contact information when you communicate with us through certain channels of communication, such as:

• your email address when you communicate with us through email
• your mailing address when you communicate with us by post
• your social media handle when you communicate with us by social media
• your cell phone number when you communicate with us by text

We gather technical information relating to you when you use our services, such as:

• Your internet protocol (IP) address.
• Records of when you logged in or logged out of your account.
• Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service 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 website 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 our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

We also collect technical information aggregated from all our users, such as:

• browser type and version
• device type
• time zone, country, and city
• operating system and platform
• user demographics and statistical data
• other aggregated data about the devices and software used to access our website and services.

We may also obtain information about you where it is publicly available, or where required or permitted by law.

How we use data

We only use your personal data where permitted by law.  As noted, we will never sell or rent it.

Most commonly, we will use your personal data to perform a contract entered into with you, where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, and/or where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

This includes the following general purposes:

• register you as a user and/or customer, including creating your user account
• verifying your identity and age to ensure you have capacity to use our services
• providing support or assistance to you and responding to your queries
• processing and managing your payments, fees and charges, and collecting and recovering money owed to us, if you purchase a membership
• providing you with marketing or other communications in accordance with your preferences
• responding to your messages by email, text, post, social media, or other channels of communication
• managing our relationship with you, such as notifying you about changes to our services, or about updates to the terms and conditions of any service,
• administering and protecting our business and the services, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, hosting data, and other functions
• delivering this website and other websites hosted through us

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless required or permitted by law.

ProAct may collect information provided by you or about you as a visitor to the Website or by “following,” “liking,” or linking your account to our services, etc., on a third-party website or network.

Third Party Services

ProAct uses the Ghost platform to host its content, promote its content, and notify users of postings as well as to host discussions of its content.  Ghost’s privacy policies are available here. https://ghost.org/privacy

Although we are not presently using them, ProAct may use Google Analytics and/or Hotjar in the future to help understand use and web traffic flow on the Website.  These services collect the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address. Google’s use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy which you can read here. https://policies.google.com/privacy  Hotjars’ privacy policy is here. https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy

ProAct may use the Facebook custom audiences feature, although we are not currently using it. This service allows us to better understand the demographics of our website visitors, and it also allows us to reach users on Facebook to bring them targeted messages that might be useful. By using the Website, third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from ProAct’s domains and websites, and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. You are free to opt-out of this feature by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices

If we decide to use Google Analytics, Hotjar, Facebook custom audiences or similar vendors, we will notify the members to Promethean Action and provide them with the ability to opt out of these services as well as modifying our privacy policy to reflect this.  

 Email and Text Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, 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 or stop link or instructions provided in any email or text we send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email and Text Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails and texts to You. Our email and text service provider is

• NationBuilder — Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://nationbuilder.com/privacy

Payments

We receive payments for memberships in Promethean Action and may receive contributions for other products and services.  We use third-party payment platforms for processing of payments via credit card from the website and related social media, from phone solicitations or in person solicitations.  .

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment platforms whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment platforms adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

• NationBuilder — Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://nationbuilder.com/privacy
• Ghost — Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://ghost.org/privacy/

 Termination and Other Issues

Following termination or deactivation of your ProAct account, ProAct may retain your profile information and user content for a reasonable time for archival purposes. Furthermore, ProAct may retain and continue to use indefinitely all information (including user content) contained isn your communications to other users or posted to public or semi-public areas of the Website after termination or deactivation of your account.

ProAct reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the user content you post or submit on the Website. We reserve the right to remove any such information or material for any reason or no reason, including without limitation if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any applicable law or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. ProAct also reserves the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.

Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Website, such as user content and comments, becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy or website customization settings. If you remove information that you posted to the Website, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or if other users have copied or saved that information.

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, ProAct will not disclose personal information to any third party unless required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce this policy, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Website, our users or others.

How We Protect Your Information

While ProAct cares about the integrity and security of your personal information, we cannot . ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to ProAct or guarantee that your information on the service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of third-party providers, such as social networks. ProAct is not responsible for the functionality or security measures of any third party.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email or text communications from ProAct at all times.

Compromise of Personal Information

In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, ProAct will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy below, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Your Choices About Your Information

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Website, in which case ProAct may not be able to provide certain services to you. You can review and correct the information about you that ProAct keeps on file by contacting us directly at [email protected]  You may also request that we cancel any membership that you have.  You may also request that we delete any information we have other than that maintained by ProPac for archival purposes or all information (including user content) contained in your communications to other users or posted to public or semi-public areas of the Website. You may contact us to cancel your membership at [email protected]

Transfers of Your Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at ProAct’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information and your personal preferences..

Children

ProAct does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for accounts on the Website. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to ProAct, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on the Website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected]

Links to Other Web Sites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Website, nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our websites to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Notification Procedures

It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business-related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on the Website, as determined by ProAct in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on the Website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at [email protected], or send mail to:

Promethean Action
P.O. Box 6157
Leesburg, Va. 20178