Last Updated: January 21, 2025
Welcome to Come Near
This Privacy Policy describes how Come Near, Inc., a North Carolina nonprofit corporation (“Come Near,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information collected from the comenear.org and additional Come Near properties (each a “Site,” and collectively, the “Sites”) that link to this Privacy Policy. This policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services, or platforms that may be accessed through links we may provide to you. Those sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of those independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practice of such sites. You acknowledge that by clicking on any link, you are doing so at your own risk.
This Privacy Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:
We collect and use personal data about you with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.
From You: You may give us your demographic data, content, feedback, product information, by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online, or by corresponding with us.
Third parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties
We collect the following types of personal information
Much of this site can be accessed without providing personal information. In those instances where we collect personal information through the site, we only collect what information is required in order to provide you with the product or service you requested.
We collect your personal information from the following sources:
We may automatically collect certain information about how our Site is accessed and used(“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, user interactions with features on the Site and other diagnostic data.
We, and our Service Providers and Marketing Providers, use cookies and similar tracking technologies, and resettable device identifiers to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Site. Resettable device identifiers can be used like cookies and are found on many mobile devices and tablets (for example, the “Identifier for Advertisers” on Apple iOS devices and the “Google Advertising ID” on Android devices), and certain streaming media devices. Like cookies, resettable device identifiers are used to make online advertising more relevant, and for analytics and optimization purposes. Please see your mobile device manufacturer for information on resettable device identifiers.You can decline cookies but that may impair the ability to use the Site.
Examples of Cookies we use:
Manage Your Cookie Preferences. You may manage or change your cookie preferences on the Cookies Settings link provided in the footer of our Site.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
We may use your Personal Data to provide you with our products and services, provide and improve our customer service to you, contact you with newsletters, marketing and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us at privacy@comenear.org.
Examples of how we may use your information are listed below:
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your personal information:
We have appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure encrypted connection wherever your Personal Data is involved.
We require any third party who is contracted to process your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law.In the unfortunate event of a Personal Data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.
Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations, to the extent such data privacy regulations apply to nonprofit organizations, including the EU’s General Protection Data Regulation (GPDR) and the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA).These rights may include:
You have the right to learn whether we are processing your Personal Data and to request a copy of the Personal Data we are processing about you.
You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data that we process about you rectified.
You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we process about your unless we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
You have the right to obtain Personal Data we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such Personal Data to another data controller, where this is (a) Personal Data which you have provided to us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you.
You have the right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Data for purposes of: (1) Targeted advertising; (2) The sale of Personal Data; and/or (3) Profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. Under CPRA you have the right to opt out of the sharing of your Personal Data to third parties and our use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Data to uses necessary to provide the products and services reasonably expected by you.
Where the legal justification for our processing of your Personal Data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the Personal Data for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.
You have the right not to be denied service or have an altered experience for exercising your rights.
You have the right to file an appeal based on our response to you exercising any of these rights. In the event you disagree with how we resolved the appeal, you have the right to contact the attorney general located here:If you are based in Colorado, please visit this website to file a complaint. https://complaints.coag.gov/s/contact-usYou have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
If you are based in Europe, please visit this website (https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en) for a list of local data protection authorities.
If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found at the bottom of this page.
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state and may not be applicable to nonprofit organizations.
You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Data by sending the request to our privacy team by sending an email to privacy@comenear.org, with “Privacy Rights” in the subject line.For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. Third parties may collect information about you across different websites, including our Site. We do not currently utilize the capability to respond to web browser DNT signals or other mechanisms that provide you with the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of this information.
We do not knowingly collect personal data about children. Our Site and systems are not designed for use by individuals under the age of 16, and in particular are not designed for children under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected or obtained personal data of someone under 13, we will delete that information from our databases. If you believe that this has occurred, please contact us at the email address below.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on https://www.comenear.org/privacy. We will let you know via email and/or prominent notice on our Site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.Contact UsIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Come Near, Inc.
4845 Pearl East Cir, Suite 118 PMB 525494
Boulder, CO 80301
Or
If a request regarding your personal information is denied, you can submit an appeal by contacting us at the above address with the heading “APPEAL.”