Welcome to Chinatown Privacy Policy

Effective as of June 23, 2024

 

This “Privacy Policy” describes the privacy practices of Welcome to Chinatown Inc., Players Philanthropy Fund d/b/a Welcome to Chinatown, and our subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Welcome to Chinatown”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) in connection with the website located at www.welcometochinatown.com and any other websites, products, features, materials, and services we offer (collectively, the “Site”). This Privacy Policy also describes our policies and procedures for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information, as well as the rights and choices available to users who interact with the Site with respect to their information.

Table of Contents

  1. Personal Information We Collect

  2. How We Use Your Personal Information

  3. How We Share your Personal Information

  4. Your Choices

  5. Other sites, mobile applications and services

  6. Security practices

  7. International data transfers

  8. Children

  9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

  10. How to Contact Us

  11. Terms of Use

1.Personal Information We Collect

  • a) Information you provide to us. Personal information you provide to us through the Site or otherwise includes:

i) Business and personal contact information, such as your first and last name, email and mailing addresses, phone number, professional title and company name.

ii) Registration information, such as information that may be related to an event you register for.

iii)Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us online.

iv)Demographic Information, such as your city, state, country of residence, postal code, and age.

v)Transaction information, such as information about payments to and from you and other details about your donations to us.

vi)Usage information, such as information about how you use the Site and interact with us, including information associated with any information you submit to us or provide when you use the Site.

vii)Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications.

viii)Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

  • b) Information we obtain from social media platforms. We may maintain pages for Welcome to Chinatown on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and other third-party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

  • c) Information we obtain from other third parties. We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner may share your contact information with us if you have expressed interest in learning specifically about our services, or the types of services we offer. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources and data providers.

  • d) Transaction Information. Information about any donation, purchase or transactions made in connection with Welcome to Chinatown. This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information; other account and authentication information; and billing, shipping, and contact details. We may collect information about any third party service to conduct a payment or transaction, and that third party might additionally collect certain information and be subject to separate terms and conditions.

  • e) Cookies and Other Information Collected by Automated Means

i) We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Site, including but not limited, your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; information about your use of and actions on the Site, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access; and other personal information. Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications.

ii) On our webpages, this information is collected using cookies, browser web storage (also known as locally stored objects, or “LSOs”), web beacons, and similar technologies, and our emails may also contain web beacons.

iii) A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. Browser web storage, or LSOs, are used for similar purposes as cookies. Browser web storage enables the storage of a larger amount of data than cookies. A “web beacon,” also known as a pixel tag or clear GIF, is typically used to demonstrate that a webpage was accessed or that certain content was viewed, typically to measure the success of our marketing campaigns or engagement with our emails and to compile statistics about usage of our websites.

iv) Web browsers may offer users of our websites the ability to disable receiving certain types of cookies; however, if cookies are disabled, some features or functionality of our websites may not function correctly. Please see the “Targeted online advertising” section for information about how to exercise choice regarding the use of browsing behavior for purposes of targeted advertising.

  • f) Referrals

i) Users of the Site may have the opportunity to refer friends or other contacts to us. If you are an existing user, you may only submit a referral if you have permission to provide the referral’s contact information to us so that we may contact them.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

  • a) We use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

i) To operate the Site. We use your personal information to:

(1) provide, operate and improve the Site;

(2) provide information about our services;

(3) provide services to you;

(4) fulfill any other purpose for which you provide such information;

(5) operate, maintain, improve, personalize, and analyze our services

(6) communicate with you about the Site, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;

(7) communicate with you about our events;

(8) send promotional communications, such as information about features, newsletters, offers, promotions, and contests;

(9) understand your needs and interests;

(10) provide support and maintenance for the Site;

(11) to respond to your requests, questions and feedback;

  • b) For research and development. We analyze use of the Site to analyze and improve the Site and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Site.

  • c) To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may send you Welcome to Chinatown related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt out of marketing section below.

  • d) To comply with law. We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

  • e) For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety. We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Site; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

  • f) With your consent. In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

  • g) To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data. We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Site and promote our business.

  • h) AI-Driven Data Collection and Processing: We may use AI technologies to collect and process your personal information. This includes analyzing user interactions with our Site to improve user experience, personalize content, and provide relevant services.

3. How We Share your Personal Information

  • a) We do not share your personal information with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances or as described in this Privacy Policy:

i) Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

ii) Service providers. We may share your personal information with third party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Site (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, and database management services). These third parties may use your personal information only as directed or authorized by us and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.

iii) Professional advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

iv) For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.

4. Your Choices

  • a) In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users.

  • b) Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by contacting us at chinatown@welcometochinatown.com.

  • c) Cookies & Browser Web Storage. We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Site and third-party websites. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Sites may not work properly. Similarly, your browser settings may allow you to clear your browser web storage.

  • d) Targeted online advertising. Some of the business partners that collect information about users’ activities on or through the Site may be members of organizations or programs that provide choices to individuals regarding the use of their browsing behavior or mobile application usage for purposes of targeted advertising.

i) Users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the Network Advertising Initiative by clicking here or the Digital Advertising Alliance by clicking here. Please note that we also may work with companies that offer their own opt-out mechanisms and may not participate in the opt-out mechanisms that we linked above.

ii) In addition, your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit our, or our partners’, ability to engage in ad tracking or targeted advertising using the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising associated with your mobile device.

iii) If you choose to opt-out of targeted advertisements, you will still see advertisements online but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to opt out, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, so you may still receive some cookies and tailored advertisements from companies that are not listed.

  • e) Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

i) Choosing not to share your personal information. Where we are required by law to collect your personal information, or where we need your personal information in order to provide you access to the Site or certain services, if you do not provide this information when requested (or you later ask to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with our services or access to our Site. We will tell you what information you must provide to receive access to the Site or certain services by designating it as required at the time of collection or through other appropriate means.

5. Other sites, mobile applications and services

  • a) The Site may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites, mobile applications and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

6. Security practices

  • a) The security of your personal information is important to us. We employ a number of reasonable organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

  • b) We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The retention periods vary based on the type of data and the purposes of processing.

7. International data transfers

  • a) We are headquartered in the United States and have service providers in other countries, and your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, or country where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.

8. Children

  • a) As a general rule, children are not allowed to use the Site, and we do not collect personal information from them. We define “children” as anyone under 13 years old. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian, we will delete it. We encourage parents with concerns to contact us.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • a) We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Site. We may, and if required by law will, also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you.

  • b) Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Site (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Site after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.

10. How to Contact Us

  • a) Please direct any questions or comments about this Policy or privacy practices to chinatown@welcometochinatown.com. You may also write to us via postal mail at:

Welcome to Chinatown

115 Bowery Ground Floor New York NY 10002

11. Terms of Use

  • a) If you choose to use our services, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the State of New York.