FFTAConnect — Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is edited by Family Focused Treatment Association (FFTA), a 501(c)3 not-forprofit corporation, having its registered office at 466 Hackensack Avenue #1069, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 (hereafter, the “Data Controller”).

The Data Controller offers a platform referred to as FFTAConnect and provided primarily for collaboration among members of the FFTA Community (hereafter, the “Platform”) to its users which have subscribed on the Platform and as such have a user account (hereafter, the “Users”). The Platform is available at the following url address:  https://www.fftaconnect.org/

The Data Controller uses a solution called “Hivebrite”, which enables the import and export of user lists and data, the management of content and events, the organization of emailing campaigns and opportunity research and sharing as well as the management of funds and contributions of any kind.

In this regard, the Data Controller collects and processes User’s Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The Data Controller is particularly aware and sensitive with regards to the respect of its Users privacy and personal data protection.  The Data Controller commits to ensure the compliance of the processing it carries out as data controller in accordance with the Data Protection Law.

Data Protection Law is applicable United States and non-US laws relating to the protection of Personal Data.

Personal Data is information relating to and identifying or reasonably capable of identifying a User.

The Data Controller has put in place this Privacy Policy to be fully transparent on how the Personal Data of Users are processed within the use of the Platform and services provided.

This Privacy Policy is intended for the Users of the Platform of the Data Controller.

Date of last update: July 31, 2023.

ARTICLE 1.  COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA

1.1       When subscribing on the Platform

When subscribing to the Platform, the User is informed that its following Personal Data is collected for the purpose of creating a user account:

Mandatory data

  • First name;
  • Last name;
  • Work email address

-FFTA member organization

 

The User is informed that it is not possible to access the Platform without providing the mandatory data strictly necessary to create an account and authenticate the User.

1.2       During the use of the Platform

The User may validly publish, at its own initiative, any content on the Platform which shall be kept by the Company.

The User is aware that when using the Platform, the User may decide to provide sensitive data within the meaning of Data Protection Law, for example, data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, concerning sexual orientation, etc.  By providing such sensitive data, the User agrees to their processing by the Platform in the conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy.  In providing such sensitive data, the User also agrees to abide by the FFTAConnenct Community Website Terms of Use.

ARTICLE 2.  THE PURPOSE OF THE DATA PROCESSING

The Data Controller and its subcontractors process Personal Data that are freely transferred by the User when accessing the services proposed by the Platform for the following purpose:

Purpose

Legal basis

Creation and management of a user account

Performance of a contract and/or legitimate interest.

Providing the User with all functionalities of the Platform

Management of data subjects rights according to the Personal Data Legislation.  Storage of User personal data;

Making statistics in order:

  • to improve the quality of the services proposed by the Platform;
  • to improve the usage functionalities of the Platform;

Making statistics regarding the effective use of the Platform;

Making statistics regarding the different levels of activity on the Platform.

Enable the synchronization of the User’s

LinkedIn profile;

 

 

ARTICLE 3.  DATA RETENTION PERIOD

The Data Controller informs the User that the Personal Data related to the User Account is retained only during the length of the User’s subscription on the Platform.

Following the termination of said subscription, the data collected upon the subscription as well as the content published by the User on the Platform shall be deleted, except to the extent such content has been archived in a Resource Library within the Platform.

ARTICLE 4.  DATA TRANSFERS

Where required under Data Protection Laws, cross-border transfers of Personal Data are performed under safeguards to protect Personal Data.

ARTICLE 5.  COMMITMENT OF THE DATA CONTROLLER

The Data Controller commits to process User’s personal data in compliance with the Data Protection Law and undertake to, notably, respect the following principles:

Process User’s Personal Data lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner;

Only collect and process the Users’ data for the strict purpose as described under article 2 of the present Privacy Policy;

Ensure that the Personal Data processed are adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;

Do the best efforts to ensure that the Personal Data processed are accurate and, if necessary, kept up to date and take all reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;

Keep personal User’s data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed;

Put in place necessary technical and organizational appropriate measures in order to ensure the security, confidentiality, integrity, availability and the resilience of the process systems and services;

Limit the access to the Users’ data to the persons duly authorized to this effect;

Guarantee to the Users their rights under the Data Protection Law in relation to the processing of their data and make the best efforts to satisfy any request, where this is possible.

ARTICLE 6.  EXERCISE OF THE USERS’ RIGHTS

Under the Data Protection Laws, the User is duly informed of certain rights relative to the Personal Data depending on the legal basis of the processing, which may include a right to access, to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, to data portability, and to object.

When processing is based on User’s consent, the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

The User can exercise its rights by sending an email to the following address [email protected] or by mail at the following address - 466 Hackensack Avenue #1069, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 - provided that the User justifies his/her identity.

In addition, in the event the User considers that its rights have not been respected, the User of which the Personal Data is collected can lodge a complaint before the competent supervisory authority.  For any additional information, you can review your rights on the websites of the competent authorities.

ARTICLE 7.  COOKIES

The Data Controller informs the User that Hivebrite, as well as its subcontractors, uses a tracking technology on its terminal such as cookies whenever the User navigates on the Platform.

ARTICLE 8.  RECIPIENT AND PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS THE USERS’ DATA

Only authorized persons working for the Data Controller [and, in some cases, its subsidiaries], including Group Administrators within the Platform, can access your Personal Data.  The Data Controller makes its best effort to ensure that these groups of people remain as small as possible and maintain the confidentiality and security of User’s Personal Data.

The Data Controller also uses trusted service providers to carry out a set of operations on its behalf for hosting [and payment services].  The Data Controller can also use service providers in the tech industry, editors of specific tools integrated in the Platform for technical purposes.

The Data Controller only provides service providers with information reasonably necessary to perform the service and ask them not to use your Personal Data for any other purpose.  The Data Controller does its best to ensure that all these trusted service providers only process the Personal Data on our documented instructions and provide sufficient guarantees, in particular in terms of confidentiality, expert knowledge, reliability and resources, to implement technical and organizational measures which will meet the requirements of the applicable legislation, including for the security of processing.

The Data Controller may be required to disclose or share your Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our terms of use/sale or any other conditions you have accepted; or to protect the rights, safety or property of Family Focused Treatment Association, its customers or employees.

List of the main service providers:

Service Provider

Service

You can consult the privacy policy by clicking on the following link:

KIT UNITED

 

44 rue la fayette

75009 Paris

France

 

HIVEBRITE

solution

https://hivebrite.com/privacypolicy

Service Provider

Service

You can consult the privacy policy by clicking on the following link:

Stripe

 

510 Townsend Street San Francisco

CA 94103,

USA

 

Payment Service

https://stripe.com/fr/privacy

Paypal

 

21 rue Banque

75002 Paris France

 

Payment Service

https://www.paypal.com/us/we bapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Google Cloud Platform

 

Gordon House, 4 Barrow St,

Dublin, Ireland

 

Hosting of all data and content produced / provided by the User, as well as images, profile pictures and backups

https://cloud.google.com/secu rity/privacy/

Amazon AWS

 

38 avenue John F. Kennedy,

L-1855, Luxembourg

 

https://aws.amazon.com/comp liance/gdpr-center/

Sentry

 

132 Hawthorne Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

USA

 

Production and storage of error logs enabling our developers to correct the code

https://sentry.io/privacy/

Sendgrid

 

375 Beale Street, Suite 300,

San Francisco, CA 94105

USA

 

Sending of emails from the Platform

https://api.sendgrid.com/priva cy.html

Hivebrite, Inc.

 

16 Nassau St,

New York, NY 10038, USA

 

Customer support for the Platform

https://hivebrite.com/privacypolicy

Midwest CIO Consulting

 

3743 N. Fremont St. #1

Chicago, IL 60613

Technology consultation and support for FFTA