About This Policy

This Privacy Policy is available under a Creative Commons Sharealike License. For more info on what that means, see the “Attribution and re-use” section at the bottom of this page.

Your Privacy

Your privacy is critically important to us, so at Empathy Lab we have a few fundamental principles. If you find content on the Empathy Lab website you believe violates our Privacy Policy, please contact us immediately.

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. We stand against services and organizations that ask you for your private information such as your gender or income level for no important reason.

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Empathy Lab, Inc.

“Empathy Lab” operates a website at empathylab.io. It is Empathy Lab policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Empathy Lab collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Empathy Lab’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Empathy Lab’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Empathy Lab may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Empathy Lab also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on articles published. Empathy Lab only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Empathy Lab’s websites choose to interact with Empathy Lab in ways that require Empathy Lab to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Empathy Lab gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter at EmpathyLab.io to provide their name and email address.

Aggregated Statistics

Empathy Lab may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Empathy Lab may monitor the most popular pages and articles on the empathylab.io site. Empathy Lab may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Empathy Lab does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Business Transfers

If Empathy Lab, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Empathy Lab goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Empathy Lab may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Any Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Empathy Lab and does not cover the use of cookies by any such advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Empathy Lab may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Empathy Lab’s sole discretion. Empathy Lab encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Protection of Information

Empathy Lab discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that

(i) need to know that information in order to process it on Empathy Lab’s behalf or to provide services available at Empathy Lab’s websites, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Empathy Lab’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Empathy Lab will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Empathy Lab discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Empathy Lab believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Empathy Lab, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of an Empathy Lab website and have supplied your email address, Empathy Lab may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Empathy Lab and our services. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Empathy Lab takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Email Communication

Empathy Lab sends a newsletter and occasional marketing updates that we believe will be useful to individuals that subscribe to our website or blog, attend our events, or submit contact forms. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every email. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.  

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Empathy Lab uses cookies to help Empathy Lab identify and track visitors, their usage of Empathy Lab website, and their website access preferences.

Empathy Lab visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Empathy Lab’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Empathy Lab’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Attribution and re-use:

This Privacy Policy is available under a Creative Commons Sharealike License which means you’re more than welcome to take it and re-purpose for your own use. Just make sure to replace references to “Empathy Lab” with ones to you.

We originally got this policy from our friends at Exygy (via MediaCause). If you re-use this policy, and you’re feeling grateful, we’d love to see you link back to exygy.com and to mediacause.org somewhere on your website. Thanks!