Privacy Policy (Developed and updated as of 4.4.2024)

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. Our ongoing commitment to the protection of your privacy is essential to maintaining the relationship of trust that exists between Young Leaders Council ("YLC," "we" or "us"), the nonprofits seeking board or committee members (each, an "Agency"), and our users. This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") is intended to help you understand how we collect, use, and disclose your information.

The Information We Collect

You may have accessed Board Connect by visiting our website or www.YoungLeadersCouncil.org, or through the site of one of our third-party partners with whom we have teamed to provide board member matching services (collectively, the "Services"). This notice applies to all information you submit to YLC (Board Connect) through the Services. Please note that we cannot be responsible for the information you submit directly to third parties, including our Partners, who may have their own posted policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information. We urge you to review the policies of our Partners through whom you may access our services.

The types of information, including without limitation personal information, ("Information") we may collect from users through the Services are:

For Agencies who use the Services to host board or volunteer opportunities, we may collect:

How We Use Information

We DO NOT sell, rent, or trade our user Information (whether board member, administrator, or nonprofit users) to outside parties. We use the Information we collect about you to provide and improve the Services, facilitate the board member / volunteer matching process, respond to your requests, and to provide information to you about YLC, Board Connect, and related industry topics.

Please be aware that, to the extent required to provide our services, we share your Information with Board Connect users, Agencies, our third-party service providers, or our Partners, as applicable. We may use our email lists for sending out YLC outbound communications. We also reserve the right to use your Information to send you transactional e-mails, and you cannot opt out of receiving transactional e-mails without deleting your account (by email us at [insert email address]).

Please note that any feedback or comments provided by you on the website may be generally accessible by other members and organizations affiliated with the website. Therefore, please take care when posting feedback or comments to the site, as you will forfeit the privacy of that information.

If you are an individual user, we may also use your Information in the following ways:

If you indicate to us that you are interested in creating a personalized account, the information we gather from you will be used to provide you with the Services and permit you to: access the account, customize your profile with skills and interests, customize outbound email services, review your connection history and/or post a resume that can be sent as an attachment to inquiries you make using the Board Connect service.

If you indicate to us that you are interested in a particular board or volunteer opportunity and provide us with your Information using the Services, we will forward your Information to the Agency that listed that opportunity so that the Agency can contact you regarding your potential involvement, and, if the particular Agency (including an Agency that is a Partner) has a regional or national office or is closely affiliated with or a member of a related Agency (each, an "Affiliate"), then we may also share your Information with the applicable Affiliate. Each such Agency, however, has its own policies regarding collection and use of personal information and we are not responsible for their use of your Information. For more about an Agency's policy, please contact them directly using the contact information posted for that Agency on our website.

To the extent that you have provided any Information to us through our Services regarding board member opportunities associated with one of our Partners or have accessed the Services through a Partner, we may share your Information and connection history with the applicable Partner. Each of our Partners has its own policies regarding the collection and use of personal information, and YLC / Board Connect is not responsible for their use of your Information. Furthermore, our Partners may collect additional information from you, independent of YLC, in connection with the board member or volunteer services.

If you are an Agency, we may also use your Information in the following ways:

If you submit Information to us as an Agency, then, subject to the terms and conditions as a nonprofit member of YLC, your Information (excluding your EIN number) will be accessible by anyone who accesses YLC. In addition, we may share your Information, including your EIN number, with selected Partners in order to verify your Agency's identity and tax status.

Agencies who receive email addresses from potential board member signups are strongly encouraged to adopt privacy standards similar to those of YLC (but in each case, you must comply with all applicable privacy laws and regulations). Inappropriate use of personal information received from YLC may jeopardize nonprofit membership with YLC. YLC reserves the right to determine, in its discretion, what constitutes inappropriate use of this information and to terminate Agency access to the Services for such misuse.

Third-party Access and Use

Occasionally, we or our Partners, use third-party service providers to help provide or improve the services we offer you. Sometimes these providers have access to the Information we collect about you as a part of providing, maintaining, and improving the Services.

We share aggregate information about our users with certain third parties. This information shows user activity at a group level, rather than on an individual basis.

In the unlikely event that YLC undergoes a merger or transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, the acquiring entity may use your Information subject to this Privacy Policy. In addition, in the further unlikely event that YLC is adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent (a) there will be no further use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by YLC and (b) reasonable efforts will be taken to ensure your personally identifiable Information on YLC's servers will be destroyed. In addition, there will be no use or disclosure of your personally identifiable Information by any entity that acquires assets of YLC pursuant to such bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.

Due to factors beyond our control, however, we cannot fully ensure that your Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be legally obligated to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access your personal information.

Cookies and Analytics

Cookies are tiny data files that websites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them so that they can remember you when you visit. A cookie file contains information that can identify you anonymously and maintain your account's privacy. Our service uses cookies to maintain a user's identity between sessions so that the site can be personalized based on user preferences or a user's history. We may use information collected using third-party cookies (for example, Google Analytics and others) and web beacons on our services to deliver advertising displayed to you on third-party sites. We also use cookie information to know when you return to our site after visiting these third-party sites. We also use analytics services to help analyze how users use the services. These analytics services use cookies to collect and store information such as how often users visit the services, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the services. We also use the information from these analytics services to improve our services and to provide reporting to our partners regarding site activity and utilization.

You can set your web browser to prompt you before you accept a cookie, accept cookies automatically, or reject all cookies. However, if you choose not to accept cookies from this website, then you may not be able to access and use all or part of this website or benefit from the information and services which it offers.

Web Beacons

Pages on the services and emails that the YLC "Board Connect" platform sends to you may contain small image files called web beacons. Web beacons are used as a mechanism to help us track your visits to our site and whether or not you open our emails. In addition, we use several third-party services that embed web beacons on our site for similar tracking purposes. These third-party services are used to provide additional features to users, such as the ability to share content on our site with your social network.

Links

The services contain links to other third-party sites. The YLC "Board Connect" platform is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party sites.

How You Can Review Or Correct Your Information

If you are a user with a personal account, you may review and make changes to all of your information that we collect and maintain online by simply inputting your username and password where indicated on the applicable service.

If you would like to have your information deleted from the site, you may contact us at admin@youngleaderscouncil.org.

Your Choices Regarding Your Information and Newsletters & Communications

Subscriptions to newsletters and communications are optional and allow users to unsubscribe at any time. In each newsletter, we provide instructions regarding how to opt-out from receiving future mailings. Registered members are required to receive certain non-promotional outbound communications. We give users choices about the use of mechanisms for tracking, including tracking of online activities over time and across different websites and online services by third parties.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in an effort to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Changes to Policy

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the "Last Updated" date above.

How To Contact Us

We appreciate your questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of the services, or your dealings with the YLC "Board Connect" platform. Please send an email to admin@youngleaderscouncil.org.