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Privacy Policy

At kindness.org Inc. (“Kindness”), we understand that privacy is important.  We are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website. The following information is designed to help you better understand the information we gather from our website and through our services, how we protect the information once we gather it, and whether and how we disclose it to anyone.

We may, from time to time, make changes to this policy. By visiting this website, you are accepting the practices described in the current version of this Privacy Policy.   If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not use the website.

Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to this website and not to other companies’ or organizations’ websites, including any websites to which we link.  You are advised to consult the privacy policies of other websites that you visit.

Information Collection and Use

Our primary goals in collecting personal information are to allow you to participate in the Kindness community, to let other visitors to the Kindness website (kindness.org) read your contributions and to share the contributions of all contributors in other media beyond this website.

Notice to users from the European Economic Area ("EEA")

The information that you contribute to this website or which we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Aggregate Data

In general, we automatically gather certain usage information, such as the number and frequency of visitors to this website and what features of the website are most popular to our visitors. This information may include which URL you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, what features you click on and read (in whole or in part), and your IP address.  This collective data helps us to determine how much our visitors use parts of the website, and to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior, so as to better understand and serve you. In addition, we may aggregate data and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner for research purposes only and never for commercial gain.

Personally identifiable Information

When you register to contribute to the Kindness website (kindness.org) we will require you to provide a verifiable email address or to log in using an existing Facebook account.

If you provide a location in connection with any Initiative which you participate in we may use this in any account of that Initiative and in any map or other summary showing the location of Initiatives.

By providing us contact information such as email or phone number, we may use personal information to contact you and send you information, such as through e-mail updates.

We may use outside service providers to facilitate Kindness’s website and overall operation, and to perform functions on our behalf, such as sending email and analyzing data. These third parties may have access to your personal information as needed to perform their functions, but they may not use it for any other purpose.

Social Networking Sites

Kindness operates and maintains social networking pages and venues on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Youtube, Instagram and Tumblr.  Kindness will, from time to time, import comments and posts from these third-party websites to this website.  If you post to any of Kindness’s social networking pages on third-party websites, you are providing information to the public and do so at your own risk.  Further, Kindness may use these postings on its website and social channels without further notice or compensation to you.  Please visit the privacy policies of any third party websites before posting to Kindness’s pages there.

Copyright Notice

Kindness respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material on this website infringes your copyrights, you may notify us in the way identified below. When we receive such a notice, we may remove or disable access to the material claimed to be infringing and/or take other actions. If we remove or disable access to material in response to your notice, we will make a good-faith attempt to contact the individual or entity who submitted the material, so that that he or she has the opportunity to make a counter notification.
If you have any queries or complaints regarding copyright infringement, you may send your queries to:

kindness.org Inc. 68 3rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11231
Or email us at: support@kindness.org

Consistent with the U.S. Copyright Act (the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://www.copyright.gov), to file a notice of copyright infringement with us, you must provide a written communication to our contact identified above, in which you do the following (preferably in this format):

  1. Give enough information to enable Kindness to contact you regarding your complaint, including your name, address, telephone number and, if available, e-mail address.
  2. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted material(s) and/or work(s) that you claim is/are being infringed on this website.
  3. Identify in sufficient detail the material(s) and/or work(s) that you claim is/are causing such infringement, and give enough information (such as a web page address) to allow Kindness to locate such material(s) and/or work(s) within the website.
  4. State that you have a good-faith belief that use of the copyrighted material(s) and/or work(s) in item (2) above is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  5. State that the information in this notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you either own the copyright (or an exclusive right under the copyright) in the material(s) and/or work(s) that you claim in (2) above is/are being infringed, or are authorized by such owner to act on its behalf.
  6. Provide your physical or electronic signature.

Please note that if you falsely claim that any posted content is infringing your copyrights, you may be liable for monetary damages, costs and attorney’s fees.

Counter Notification

Pursuant to Sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the U.S. Copyright Act, as enacted through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the provider of the content named in the above infringement notification may make a counter-notification. When we receive such a counter-notification, we may reinstate the material in question on our website or cease disabling access to it. To file a counter-notification with us, you must provide a written communication to the contact identified above, in which you do the following (preferably in this format):

  1. Provide your name, address, telephone number, email address, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or New York County, New York, if your address is outside of the United States), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
  2. Identify the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled (i.e., the specific URLs or other unique identifying information).
  3. State under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  4. Provide your physical or electronic signature.

Please note that if you falsely claim that any posted content was removed or disabled due to Kindness’s mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for monetary damages, costs and attorney’s fees.

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