The Together Group, LLC (referred to as “The Together Group”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of your personal information and we have prepared this Privacy Policy to provide you with important information about our privacy practices. We are committed to giving you transparency of our privacy practices and control over your data. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy.
By visiting or using The Together Group website (www.thetogethergroup.com) (the “Site”), any of The Together Group’s services and/or applications, and any other linked pages, features, or content offered from time to time by The Together Group in connection therewith (collectively, the “Service”), you (“you” or “User”) acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies described in this Privacy Policy.
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Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this Privacy Policy as well as the Terms of Use .
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers The Together Group’s treatment and handling of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and other data (non-personally identifiable information) that The Together Group gathers when you are accessing The Together Group’s Site or any Service.
What This Privacy Policy Does Not Cover?
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Together Group does not own or control, or to individuals that The Together Group does not employ. In addition, if the Service contains links to any outside website or any sources on any such website, both those added by The Together Group and those submitted by members and/or registrants, we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of those sites. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any websites you visit and the third party applications you use. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Service.
What Information Does The Together Group Collect?
Any information you submit to the Site will be available to The Together Group. Listed below are circumstances in which The Together Group gathers Personal Information and the details on how the information is used:
Personally Identifiable Information and Sharing of Your Personal Information
Personal Information about our Users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone. The Together Group may share your Personal Information only as described below.
Contact
The Together Group requests and collects Personal Information in order for you to contact The Together Group. To contact us, you must enter your first name, last name, email address, and any other information that you volunteer to provide through the Contact Us Form or any other forms of electronic or written communication. This information is used for allowing The Together Group to contact you, improve content on the Site, customize the content you see, and communicating newsletters, events, special offerings, and new features to you. It is your responsibility to retain this information for your records. You can unsubscribe to the newsletter or any other notice you receive from us at any time.
Email Communications
We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from The Together Group if your computer supports this type of program. The Together Group uses this confirmation to help us make emails more interesting and helpful and improve our service. If you do not want to receive email or other correspondence from us, please indicate by ”unsubscribing” at the bottom of received email. You consent to receive emails from The Together Group when you contact The Together Group.
Resources
In order to download the resources made available through the Service, you will be asked for, at minimum, your email address. In addition, you may add your first name and last name. This information will be shared with and used by a third party newsletter service retained by us. By doing this, you will be signed up for The Together Group newsletter. You can unsubscribe or modify your information as per the instructions of the newsletter service.
Third Parties
We employ other companies and people to perform tasks and services on our behalf (e.g., hosting vendors, service providers, list managers) and need to share your information (including Personal Information) with them in order to provide products and/or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, The Together Group’s agents do not have any right to use your Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of your information (including Personal Information) for the above purposes.
Logging In Through Social Media Services
If you log into the Service with a social media service or if you connect a social media account with the Service, we may share your information with that social media service. The social media service’s use of the shared information will be governed by the social media service’s privacy policy and your social media account settings. If you do not want your information shared in this way, do not connect your social media service account with the Service.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collected Automatically:
- We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Site. When you use the Site, The Together Group automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser or mobile platform including your geo-location, IP address, cookie information, and the page you requested through a third party aggregator, such as Google Analytics.
- Generally, our service automatically collects usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Site and its components. The Together Group only uses this data in anonymized, aggregate form, i.e., as a statistical measure and not in a manner that would identify you personally. This type of anonymized, aggregate data enables us to calculate how often users use parts of the Site so that we can make the Site appealing to as many users as possible, and improve those services. As part of this use of information, we may provide anonymized, aggregate information to our partners and other third parties about how our users collectively use our Site. We share this type of statistical data so that our partners and other third parties also understand how often people use their services and our Site, so that they, too, may provide you with an optimal online experience. Again, The Together Group will not intentionally disclose aggregate information to a partner or other third party in a manner that could identify you personally.
What About Cookies?
Cookies are used by our Site and the Service. The Together Group cookies do not collect Personal Information, and we do not combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Information to tell us who you are or what your User name or email address is. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies may be used to store a unique identification number tied to your computer or mobile device so that you can be recognized as the same User across one or more browsing sessions, and across one or more sites. Cookies serve many useful purposes. For example:
- Cookies can remember your sign-in credentials so you do not have to enter those credentials each time you visit the Site or Service.
- Cookies can help us and third parties understand which parts of our Service are the most popular because they help us see which Site pages and features visitors access and how much time they spend on the Site pages. By studying this kind of information, we are better able to adapt our Site and Service and provide you with a better experience.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but can be configured not to do so or to notify the user when a cookie is being sent. Most browsers also have an option for turning off the cookies feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. If you wish to disable cookies, please refer to your browser help menu to learn how to disable cookies. If you disable browser cookies, it may interfere with the proper functioning of the Service. Accordingly, we recommend that you leave the cookies feature activated because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Service’s most attractive features.
Children
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to us. Our Service is geared exclusively toward adults. In no event should the Site be used by a child. The Together Group does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18, nor does The Together Group share such information with any third party. Children under the age of 18 may use the Service only with the consent and involvement of a parent or guardian. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 18 without the verification of parental consent, The Together Group will take appropriate steps to remove that information.
Business Transfers
In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, User information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if The Together Group, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Together Group goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, User information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Together Group may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Obligation to Provide Information
We may use and/or release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such use and/or release is necessary to comply with any law; enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions of Use and any other agreement; or protect the rights, property, or safety of The Together Group, our employees, any User, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and risk reduction.
With Your Consent
Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties and will be able to prevent the sharing of this type of information.
Non-Private or Non-Personal Information
For clarity, we may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-Personal Information, such as the number of visitors to the Site, where they came from, keyword analysis, etc.
Is Personal Information About Me Secure?
The Personal Information collected by us is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
The Together Group endeavors to safeguard all User information to ensure that such information is kept private. However, The Together Group does not guarantee the security of User account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of User information at any time.
The Site may contain links to other websites. The Together Group is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on any such other websites. When linking to another website we recommend that you read the privacy policy stated on that website. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Site.
What Personal Information Can I Access?
The Together Group, through its third party service provider, allows you to access the following Personal Information about you for the purpose of viewing and, in certain situations, updating that information. This list may change as our Service changes.
- Email address
- First Name, Last Name
- Other User profile information (e.g., zip code)
Deleting Your Personal Information
You may request to have your information deleted by The Together Group and we will do so within a reasonable amount of time. Notwithstanding any such request, the non-personal information aggregated by the analytics will remain as, among other reasons, The Together Group has no control over that information.
What Choices Do I Have?
- If you do not wish to receive email or other mail from us, please indicate by unsubscribing on the emails received, by indicating so on the Contact Us Form, or by contacting us. Please note that if you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Policy, those legal notices will still govern your use of The Together Group Service, and you are responsible for reviewing such legal notices for changes.
- You may modify your account information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Together Group may amend this Privacy Policy at any time in its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make material changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Site. Each User is bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when he or she uses the Service after any such changes have been posted on the Site. If you have unsubscribed from all email communications from The Together Group, we will not email you changes to the Privacy Policy. You will still, however, be subject to the Privacy Policy changes.
If you are a resident of a country outside the United States, then by your submission of information through the Site, you confirm that you know www.thetogethergroup.com is a website operated by The Together Group in the United States, and you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the United States, where your personal data will be subject to United States law and where the level of data protection is different compared to your country. You also agree to this Privacy Policy which describes how your Personal Information will be used.
If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the manner identified in this Privacy Policy, you should not access the Site and may not use the Service.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy and/or any aspect of using the Service, please send a detailed message to maia@thetogethergroup.com. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to address and resolve your concerns.
Effective: April 2020
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