Privacy Policy

Updated: September 2019

Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM provides various features and tools that allow members to access tributes, develop stories, and share remembrances of friends and loved ones who were victims of America’s Opioid Epidemic. Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM offers these features and tools at www.sostsl.org (collectively, the “Services”). We recognize that members of the Services may be concerned about the information they provide to us and how we use that information. By visiting or using the Services, you accept the practices described in this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). Please read the following Privacy Policy carefully before using the Services. This Privacy Policy may be changed or updated at any time. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or otherwise use the Services.

1.    What this Privacy Policy Covers

  1. This Privacy Policy covers how Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM (collectively, “Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM,” “SOSTSL TM,” “sostsl.org TM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) treats member or personally identifiable information that the Services collect and
  2. Subject to the above, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM does not own, operate, or control, or to people that it does not employ or

2.    General Information

In general, you can browse the Services without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself to us. Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals, except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals on interactive areas of the Services. “Personally Identifiable Information” is information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person, which can include your name, email address, postal address, and other information that specifically identifies you, that is not otherwise publicly available. Any posting made while using the Services, and any other information that can be viewed by the public is not considered “Personally Identifiable Information,” and is not the type of information covered by this Privacy Policy.

3.    Information We Collect

  1. Personally Identifiable

When using the Services, you may be asked to provide, or you may choose to upload, certain personally identifiable information about yourself (“Personally Identifiable Information”). Personally Identifiable Information can include your name, email address, postal address, and other information that specifically identifies you. Categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect include:

 

  1. Identity Data, which includes names or other similar identifiers, and
  2. Contact Data, which includes email addresses, postal addresses, and telephone

 

We do not collect identity data or contact data from you unless you have voluntarily provided it to us. For example, you may provide us with Personally Identifiable Information when you subscribe to receive emails from us, fill in forms available through the Services, when you submit/post material, or when you contact us through the Services.We do not intentionally collect Personally Identifiable Information about children under the age of 13. Please see Section 6 on”Children’s Privacy.”

  1. Other Anonymous

Like most websites, sostsl.org also receives and records information on our server logs from your browser automatically and through the use of electronic tools such as cookies, web beacons, and locally shared objects (LSOs). Our server logs automatically receive and record information from your browser (including, for example, your IP address, and the page(s) you visit). The information gathered through these methods is not “personally identifiable;” i.e., it cannot be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person. Some browsers allow you to indicate that you would not like your online activities tracked, using “Do not track” indicators (“DNT Indicators”); however, we are not obligated to respond to these indicators.

 

Presently we are not set up to respond to DNT Indicators. This means that we may use latent information about your online activities to improve your use of the Services, but such usage is consistent with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

4.     How We Use Your Information

  1. We will use your information only as permitted by law, and subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy;
  2. Use of Personally Identifiable Information:
    1. We do not sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
    2. Personally Identifiable Information you specifically provide may be used: to provide the Services we offer, to process transactions, for identification and authentication purposes, to communicate with you concerning transactions, security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Services, to improve the Services, to do something you have asked us to do, to tell you of Services that we think may be of interest to you, to communicate with you regarding the Services, for the administration of and troubleshooting regarding the Services. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of the Services (our web hosting service, for example), may need to access such information from time to time but are not permitted to disclose such information to
  • We may disclose Personally Identifiable Information about you under the following circumstances: In the course of operating our organization, it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your Personally Identifiable Information to others such as our service providers, contractors, and affiliates so that we can operate the Services and our Where practical, we will seek to obtain confidentiality agreements consistent with this Privacy Policy and that limit others’ use or disclosure of the information you have shared. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to:
    • comply with the law or with legal process (such as pursuant to court order, subpoena, or a request by law enforcement officials);
    • investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation or the terms or policies of the Services;
    • protect, enforce, and defend our Terms of Use, rights, and property;
    • protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this the Services; or
    • protect the personal safety or property of our members or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your )
  1. Use of Anonymous Information:
    1. Certain information that we collect automatically or with electronic tools or tags (such as cookies) is used to anonymously track and measure member traffic for the Services and to enhance your experience with the Services. For example:IP Addresses/Session Information. We occasionally may obtain IP addresses from members depending upon how you access the Services. IP addresses, browser, and session information may be used for various purposes, including to help administer the Services and diagnose and prevent service or other technology problems related to the Services. This information also may be used to estimate the total number of members downloading browsing the Services from specific geographical areas, to help determine which members have access privileges to certain content or services that we offer, and to monitor and prevent fraud and abuse. IP addresses are not linked to Personally Identifiable Information Cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data that often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive or comparable storage media on your mobile device. You

 

can configure your browser to accept cookies, reject them, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject cookies, you may not be able to use the Services that require you to sign in or to take full advantage of all our offerings. Cookies may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party we authorize to collect information on our behalf. We use our own cookies to transmit information for a number of purposes, including to require you to re-enter your password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accessing your account contents; keep track of preferences you specify while you are using the Services; estimate and report our total audience size and traffic; conduct research to improve the content and Services.We let other entities that show advertisements on some of our web pages or assist us with conducting research to improve the content and Services set and access their cookies on your computer or mobile device. Other entities’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy. Other entities do not have access to our cookies. Page Visit Data. We may record information about certain pages that you visit on our site (e.g., specific tributes) in order to recall that data when you visit our site in the future.

  1. We may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, retain the right to use and disclose aggregate information in any manner permitted by law. By way of example, Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM may use aggregate information for tracking demographic data and providing targeted content to make the Services more useful to our visitors. SOSTSL may share aggregate information with its content providers, sponsors, service providers, or other third parties to advance the goals of Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM and otherwise in fulfillment of our

5.     PRIVACY ALERT: Your Postings are Generally Accessible to the Public

  1. Your own use of the Services may disclose Personally Identifiable Information or Personally Identifiable Information to the public. For example: Submissions and other postings to the Services are available for viewing by all our Please remember that any information disclosed on a non-restricted Service becomes public information and may be collected and used by others without our knowledge. You, therefore, should exercise caution when disclosing any Personally Identifiable Information in the Services.When you post a message or a tribute through the Services, your member ID or alias that you are posting under may be visible to our visitors, and you have the ability to post a message, tribute or story that may include Personally Identifiable Information.
  2. If you post Personally Identifiable Information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Such activities are beyond the control of Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM and the coverage of this Privacy Policy. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. In addition, although we employ technology and software designed to minimize spam sent to members and unsolicited, automatic posts to message boards, blogs, or other public forums available through the Services (like the CAPTCHA word verification you see on email and registration forms), we cannot ensure such measures to be 100% reliable or

6.    Children’s Privacy

  1. Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, TM does not intentionally collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13, nor do we offer any content targeted to such children.
  2. In the event that Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM becomes aware that a member of the Services is under the age of 13, the following additional privacy terms and notices apply:

Prior to collecting any Personally Identifiable Information about a child that Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM has become aware is under the age of 13, Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM will make reasonable efforts to contact the child’s parents or legal guardians, to inform them about the types of information Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM will collect, how it will be used, and under what circumstances it will be disclosed, and to obtain consent from the child’s parent or legal guardian to collection and use of such information. Although Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM will apply these children’s privacy terms whenever it becomes aware that a member who submits Personally Identifiable Information is less than 13 years old, no method is foolproof. Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM strongly encourages parents and legal guardians to supervise their children’s online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help

 

provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent children from disclosing online their name, address, and other Personally Identifiable Information without parental permission. Personally Identifiable Information collected from children may include any of the information defined above as Personally Identifiable Information with respect to the general members of the Services and may be used by Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM for the same purposes. Except as necessary to process a child’s requests, Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM does not rent, sell, barter or give away any lists containing a child’s Personally Identifiable Information for use by any outside company. A child’s parent or legal guardian may request Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM to provide a description of the Personally Identifiable Information that Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM has collected from the child, as well as instruct Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM to cease further use, maintenance and collection of Personally Identifiable Information from the child.

7.    Ownership

Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM is the sole owner of all non-personally identifiable information they collect through the Services. This paragraph shall not apply to Material subject to the license granted by members to Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM pursuant to Section 3 of the Terms of Use governing the Services.

8.     Security Measures

The security and confidentiality of your Personally Identifiable Information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical,administrative, and physical security measures to protect guest information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no data transmissions over the web can be guaranteed 100% secure. Consequently, we are unable to control such uses of your posts, tributes or stories or Personally Identifiable Information and cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

9.    Correcting or Updating Your Information

You may modify and correct Personally Identifiable Information provided directly to Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM in connection with the Services, if necessary. Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM offers members the following options for updating information:

  1. Send an email to us at admin@sostsl.org; or
  2. Send a letter to us via postal mail to the following address:

Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM

176 N Alessandro St #548

Banning, CA 92220

 

10.   Opt-Out Procedures

You may opt-out of receiving future mailings or other information from Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc.TM If the mailing does not have an email cancellation form, send an email to admin@sostsl.org detailing the type of information that you no longer wish to receive.

11.  Third-Party Advertising and Ad Deliver

This Service contains links to other sites that may be of interest to our visitors. This Privacy Policy applies only to Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM and not to other companies’ or organizations’ Web sites to which we link. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites.

12.  Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use Personally Identifiable Information in a way that materially differs from this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes here or otherwise notify you as may be required by law. We encourage you to periodically review the Services for the latest information on our

 

privacy practices. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Services after such changes have been first posted.

13.  Additional Information

Questions regarding the Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM Privacy Policy should be directed to admin@sostsl.org or Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM, 176 N Alessandro St #548, Banning, CA, 92220

14.   United States of America

This Service is maintained in the United States of America. By using the Services, you authorize the export of Personally Identifiable Information to the USA and its storage and use as specified in this Privacy Policy. We transfer Personally Identifiable Information from the EU to the USA and other countries, some of which have not been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. Information stored in the USA may be subject to lawful requests by the courts or law enforcement authorities in the USA. Personally Identifiable Information of data subjects within the EU will be transferred in compliance with the requirements of the GDPR.

15.   California “Shine the Light law; California Civil Code Section 1798.83

As an organization with less than 20 full-time or part-time employees, Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM is exempt from California Civil Code Section 1798.83, which entitles a California resident to request information about whether the business has disclosed Personally Identifiable Information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes; however, Sharing Our Stories to Save Lives, Inc. TM does not share information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If, however, you are accessing this Privacy Policy from one of our affiliate sites, the privacy policy of our affiliate will apply to the collection of your information unless the affiliate’s privacy policy specifically states otherwise. You should review the privacy policy of the affiliate to understand what information may be collected from you and how it may be used.

California customers may request further information about our compliance with this law by emailing at admin@sostsl.org.