Culturae Labs (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy rights and is committed to being transparent with our use of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to our use of your information throughout the Services, unless a part of the Services is governed by its own privacy policy. Our Services are currently:
The Culturae Platform at culturaelabs.com (the “Platform”)
This Privacy Policy concerns the information that (i) you may provide us with (for example when you sign up with our Service, edit an existing member profile, or voluntarily submit a survey) and that we may (ii) collect from you automatically when you use our Service, (iii) receive from other, third party sources, or (iv) collect from you because you made this information publicly available (for example public archives).
We protect and grant you your rights regarding information that can identify you as an individual (for example your name, age, gender, online user name, or your political opinion or religious belief) as well as information that can only personally identify you together with other information that we collect from you (for example your IP address, your activity with our Services, hardware device ID, or your browser type) (“Personal Information”).
Some of your information may be collected, stored, used, disclosed, or shared, anonymized by isolating the information from any personal identifiers and thereby cannot be used by us, or third parties that we share such information with, to identify you.
We may store some of your information via local storage (for example cookies) temporarily or permanently on your internet enabled device, which allows us to retrieve information on your device about your use of the Services (e.g. which language you prefer or your login name).
General Use Policy. We may use your information to provide, administer, maintain, and improve our Services; personalize your experience of the Services; analyze user activity of our Services; provide you with support regarding our Services; engage in advertising activity; to enforce our rights and the rights of other users of the Services, and to comply with our legal obligations; or to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
Information You Provide Us With
Our Platform. We collect the following Personal Information when you apply and register on our Platform or use our Platform (for example when you post content or create a user profile) for your use of and for us to manage and operate the Platform (for example to set up your account, provide support, monitor and enforce platform rules, or update you about changes):
Email address, full name, pronouns, and identities you align with
Work related information: Current and past job, title, role, and company or organization names, and projects worked on, and other demographic information related to your current or past work
Work skills information: Work related skills and work related habits
Any content that you post and share with other members of the Platform
Surveys. We may collect the following Personal Information in anonymized form when you answer our surveys. We use this information to understand your use of the Platform and how we can improve our Platform:
Average project fee before your use of the Platform, average project fee after your use of the Platform, satisfaction with the project through the Platform
Other Platform or project related information
Reaching Out To Us. We collect information from you when you send us or one of our representatives an email or otherwise correspond with us directly (for example your name, email address, or statements that you make). We store this information, including Personal Information, for purposes of reacting to your request and providing you with the necessary support regarding our Services. We will not collect information if your communication with us does not relate to our Services or future services.
Information We Collect Automatically
Using Our Service. When you use our Service we automatically collect the following information to help manage, monitor and improve our Service:
You basic computer information (such as information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to the website, and your IP address) in anonymized form as cookies
Use activity on our Platform (for example your login time, click patterns, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamp) in anonymized form
Our Sharing Policy. We may share your Personal Information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy to our subsidiaries or successors and affiliated third parties. We will only share your Personal Information beyond that with your consent or in the following events: to prevent an emergency, to prevent harm to others, to respond to legal requirements, to protect or enforce our rights and policies, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party, or as required or permitted by law (including, without limitation, to comply with a subpoena or court order). We will treat your Personal Information as subject to the protections described in this policy.
Sharing of Platform Information. When you submit content (such as your name, location, pronouns, identities, companies you’ve worked for, skill-set, languages, who you are looking to work with, etc.) to the Platform, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to see that content, the username associated with the content, and the date and time you originally submitted the content.
Third Party Service Providers. We contract with third parties who help us with our Services. Currently the third parties are:
Squarespace and GoDaddy to operate our Website
We take commercially reasonable precautions to prevent such third parties from disclosing your Personal Information and ensure that their use for our purpose conforms with this Privacy Policy. Their use of this information is contractually bound to the purposes of this Privacy Policy. The third party service providers may use your information for their own purpose. We are not responsible for their use of your information and this use is governed by their own privacy policy (found on their websites). We cannot guarantee that such third parties will not disclose your information.
Cookies and Local Storage. In order for our Platform to work properly, our Platform uses local storage (“Cookie”). By default, we use several persistent cookies (permanent or stored cookies) as well as session cookies (transient cookies erased each session). Cookies are used for purposes of authentication, security, preferences, (e.g., regarding default language and settings), connection stability (e.g., for uploading media, using e-Commerce features, etc.), monitoring performance of our services and marketing campaigns, and generally providing and improving our Services. You can review the list of cookies at:
https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-uses
We take reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of your information. We have implemented physical, electronic and managerial procedures in order to help safeguard and prevent unauthorized access, use, alteration, modification and/or disclosure of your information by which you can be identified.
We cannot ensure or warrant perfect security. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.
Under Thirteen. Our Services are intended for users ages 18 and older only. Accordingly, we will not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information from children that we know to be under the age of 13. In addition, we will delete any information in our possession that we discover originates from a child under the age of 13.
Parental Controls. If you believe that your child’s Personal Information was mistakenly collected through our services, please contact us immediately at hello@culturaelabs.com and we will work with you to determine if this is the case and remove such information if necessary.
Personal Information. You may review, update, change, or delete your information that can be used to personally identify you, by requesting that we cancel your access to our Services (for example, delete your Platform Account) at hello@culturaelabs.com.
Cookies And Local Storage. You may delete local storage or cease our placement and use of local storage by setting your browser or internet enabled device to disable local storage. Please be aware that local storage is important for your access of our Services and if you disable local storage, your access of our Service may be restricted or impossible.
Retention. We retain information about you as long as it is necessary for us to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may retain your information for an additional period as is permitted or required to (for example to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements). If required by applicable law, we shall delete your information when the information is no longer necessary or requested to do so.
California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code section 1798.83 permits customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding disclosure within the immediately preceding calendar year of that resident's Personal Information to third parties and in some cases affiliates for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, contact us through the information provided below. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the email address. For your protection, you will be required to provide proof of your identity to obtain a copy of your Personal Information.
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, we will notify you of any material changes by email and posting a notice within our Services. If you receive notification of a change in our Privacy Policy, you must review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures. We raise your attention that you may not be able to receive notices from us, including such changes to the Privacy Policy, if your cookies are disabled.
For further information on our Privacy Policy, or for questions or requests on information that we may have collected from you, please contact us at hello@culturaelabs.com.
Culturae
90 Church ST #3451
New York, New York 10008-3451
Last updated: 06/14/2022