PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: October 17, 2024

When you use our Services, you’re trusting us to handle your personal information with care. We take that trust seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how the Moral Ecology Trust and its affiliates collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information in connection with the Moral Ecology Trust’s owned and operated website, currently available atmoralecologytrust.com (the “Site”), the Moral Ecology Trust newsletter (the “Newsletter”), any other products, services, or events provided by Moral Ecology Trust, and all associated Moral Ecology Trust features, applications, widgets, and their respective contents branded as Moral Ecology Trust, or offered through the Site, including without limitation, any new features and applications (collectively, the “Services” or the “Moral Ecology Trust Services”).

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

a. Information You Provide to Us:

You may provide the following types of information to us:

• Identifiers, such as name and contact details;
• Information about your interests and preferences;
• Rough geolocation (inferred from your IP address);
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, as described in the Cookies and Other Technology section below; and
• Inferences based on any of the above.

b. Cookies and Other Technology

Through our online properties, we and third parties may collect information from your computer or other device by automated means such as cookies, web beacons, local storage, JavaScript, mobile-device functionality and other computer code. This information may include unique browser identifiers, IP address, browser and operating system information, device identifiers (such as advertising identifiers), other device information, Internet connection information, as well as details about your interactions with the relevant website, email or other online property(for example, the URL of the third-party website from which you came, the pages on our website that you visit, and the links you click on in a website). In some cases (such as cookies), the tools described here involve storing unique identifiers or other information on your device for later use.

c. Information From Third Parties

We may also receive personal information from third parties, including our service providers, affiliates, and partners such as analytics and advertising partners, payment processors, other users of the Services, and publicly available sources, such as social media websites. We may also receive information about you from a third party such as Google when you use your account with them to create an account with us.

We may combine the information we collect about you from these various sources. If a combination of information that we collect identifies you as an individual, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information.

2. USE OF INFORMATION

We and our service providers use the information described above for the following purposes:

• Manage and improve the Services generally;
• Process your registration and verify your information;
• Customize content, preferences, and advertising on our Site, across the Internet and elsewhere;
• Send you confirmations, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• Protect against, identify, investigate, and respond to misuse of the Services or other unlawful behavior;
• Address legal requirements;
• Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights; and
• Create aggregated or de-identified information.

3. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We may disclose your information as follows:

• To vendors and service providers: We disclose information to companies that provide services to us, such as providers that analyze data or provide customer service, data storage, marketing, analytics, security, or fraud prevention. We may engage a third party to host or operate any aspect of the Services, including any mechanism through which we send or receive communications, such as our email systems and our Site.
• To affiliates: We may disclose information to current or future parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and other companies under common control or ownership with Moral Ecology Trust.
• In connection with legal matters: We may disclose information when we believe disclosure is appropriate due to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or other request from a law enforcement or government agency; or as otherwise required by law.
• For the protection of Moral Ecology Trust and others: We may disclose information when we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our employees, our customers, or others; and to enforce our contracts.
• In other situations: We may also disclose your information in other situations where legally permitted.

We may use and disclose appropriately aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose.

4. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

a. Marketing Communications

You can unsubscribe from Moral Ecology Trust marketing emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in a marketing email or contacting us at https://www.moralecologytrust.com/contact

b. Rights Regarding Your Information

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to make certain requests related to your personal information. For example, you may have the right to ask us to:

• Provide you access to or a copy of certain personal information.
• Correct or update personal information.
• Delete certain personal information.
• Restrict or opt you out of certain uses of your information (right to object).
• Withdraw any consent that you previously provided (without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before the withdrawal takes effect);
• Provide you with certain details regarding the processing of your information.

Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain information in order to provide the website to you, so we can’t delete it while still providing you with the website.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to certain requests, which may require verifying your name and email address. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may be unable to respond to your requests.

If you wish to exercise any privacy rights, or raise a complaint about our handling of your personal information, please contact us as described at the end of this Privacy Policy. You may be able to designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. In order for an authorized agent to be verified, you must provide the authorized agent with signed, written permission to make such requests or a power of attorney. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent’s request as permitted by applicable law.

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to appeal our decision to deny your request. We will provide information about how to exercise that right in our response denying the request. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Residents of California and some other jurisdictions have a right to opt out of what the laws in those jurisdictions call a “sale” of personal information, as well as to opt out of certain uses and disclosures of personal information for certain targeted advertising purposes.

5. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

We are headquartered in the United States, and recipients of the data disclosures described in this Privacy Policy are located in the United States and elsewhere in the world, including where privacy laws may not provide as much protection as the laws of your country where you live. For this reason, your personal information may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of any of the countries where we (or the recipients of disclosures mentioned in this Privacy Policy) operate, pursuant to the laws of such countries. However, this Privacy Policy applies to Moral Ecology Trust’ operations worldwide. To the extent that personal information is transferred from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the UK to any non-EEA members of our group or third-party processors who handle the information solely on our behalf, we will take appropriate measures to ensure such companies protect your information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

6. DATA RETENTION

We keep your information until after we determine it is no longer necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and we are not legally required to retain it for longer.

7. PROTECTION OF INFORMATION

To help protect personal information, we have put in place physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. However, we cannot assure you that data that we collect under this Privacy Policy will never be used or disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

8. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, such as to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. We will post those changes here or on a similarly accessible page.

8. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy and practices, or to submit a request or complaint, please fill out our contact form (https://www.moralecologytrust.com/contact) or use the contact details below:

Moral Ecology Trust
3 University Circle
Charlottesville, VA
22903