Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 31, 2018

Female Funders (“we”/”us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We make the website, femalefunders.com (the “Website”) available. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, store, use and distribute information about our users through the Website

Consent

By using the Website or our Services you consent to the use of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. We will not actively collect Personal Information for the purpose of sale or marketing in a way that specifically identifies the individual. In other words, we don’t sell customer lists. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time. However, withdrawing consent may result in your inability to continue using the Website and/or the Services.

Personal Information

We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter or use the contact pages to get in touch with us. If you sign up for an email newsletter, we collect your email address and store it with our mailing list provider (MailChimp). If you use our contact form, we collect your email address and name as part of initiating that conversation.

We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

• To send periodic emails from our newsletter with new content and updates about our products and services
• To follow up after correspondence (live chat, email, or phone inquiries)

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers. Emails are handled either through Mailchimp (for newsletter subscriptions) or Google Apps (for direct contact). Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website. Turning cookies off should in no way limit your ability to access our website.

Google Analytics (our web analytics provider) uses cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and products in the future. Google’s privacy policy is here.

Third Parties

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our website. We may link to third party sites that offer products or services under their own privacy policy and terms of use, but those links will not include PII.

Children’s Online

Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requires that online service providers obtain parental consent before they knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 13; if you are a child under 13, please do not attempt send any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 may have provided us personal information, please contact us at hello@femalefunders.com.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment. We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps designed to protect Personal Information that you provide to us. We have implemented procedures designed to limit the dissemination of your Personal Information to only such designated staff as are reasonably necessary to carry out the stated purposes we have communicated to you. You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your Personal Information. For instance, never give out your email account information for the Services to third parties password.

Amendment of the Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, and we include a last-updated date at the top of the page. We recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your reference and revisit this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Website signifies your acceptance of any changes.

Contact Us

If there are any questions, comments or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at hello@femalefunders.com.