Data Privacy and Security Policy

This statement of privacy and security applies to Guide Our Growth, which operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Guide Our Growth governs data collection and usage for the website: www.GuideOurGrowth.org. By using the Guide Our Growth website, you consent to the data practices outlined herein.

Collection of your Personal Information

Guide Our Growth will not collect any personal information about you through its website unless you voluntarily provide it to us. We may request personal information when you attempt to take certain actions or use certain features of the website. These actions may include but are not limited to: (a) registering for an event, (b) requesting to receive communications from Guide Our Growth, (c) sending an email message to Guide Our Growth, (d) donating to Guide Our Growth and (e) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored or promoted by Guide Our Growth.

If you donate to or purchase products or services from Guide Our Growth, we will collect billing and credit card information directly or through authorized third-party websites. This information will be used to complete the transaction.

Information collected will be used to communicate with you in relation to the product or service you have requested and to further the mission of Guide Our Growth.

Guide Our Growth  may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Guide Our Growth; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Guide Our Growth; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Guide Our Growth's website or the public.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. Guide Our Growth may gather this and other information related to use of its website, such as scrolling, clicking and exiting to improve its understanding of the website and how it is being used.

Guide Our Growth's website may use “cookies” to personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Cookies save you time by telling the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you provide information to Guide Our Growth through its website, a cookie may recall that information on subsequent visits and simplify the process of recording your personal information.

You have the option to accept or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Guide Our Growth website.

Guide Our Growth's website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites. We encourage all users to be aware when they leave Guide Our Growth's website for another website and to read the privacy statements of those websites.

Security of your Personal Information

Guide Our Growth secures your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure using encryption through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Though we strive to prevent unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network is risk free.

Guide Our Growth does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Guide Our Growth may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, alerts, confirmations, surveys and/or other general communication. To improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Guide Our Growth or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Guide Our Growth, you may opt out of such communications by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all broadcast emails from Guide Our Growth. Once unsubscribed you will be removed from selected mailing lists within 72 hours.

Guide Our Growth does not store personal information on local servers or in the cloud unless required for the ongoing provision of services. Guide Our Growth does not operate its own webservers and instead contracts with Majestic Sky, LLC, a Colorado-based company, with which Guide Our Growth has a contract for website hosting services.

If you become aware of a breach in Guide Our Growth's data privacy policy, or suspect that Guide Our Growth has handled your personal information in a manner that does not comply with this privacy statement, please contact us by e-mailing an explanation to guideourgrowth@gmail.com

Guide Our Growth reserves the right to change this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to your email address on record, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the site and/or services available through this site after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified privacy policy agreement to abide and be bound by that policy.

If you have questions or concerns regarding how Guide Our Growth uses or may use your data, please contact us via the contact form on this website or directly at: guideourgrowth@gmail.com. Thank you.