Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Effective Date: 10 August 2020

Overview

Please read these Terms of Use (“Terms”) carefully before using the Colorado Nonprofit Legal Center (“CNLC”) website found at https://conplc.org. These Terms govern your use of the website. By accessing or using the CNLC website or any other CNLC digital content, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and the CNLC Privacy Policy.  If you do not agree to the Terms or Privacy Policy, you must immediately terminate use of any CNLC site.  

Limitation of Liability

CNLC is not responsible for any errors in the content of the Website. The information on this site is for informational purposes only and is not legal advice or a substitute for legal counsel.

Third Party Posts

CNLC allows third party website visitors to post responses to blogs. However, CNLC is not responsible for the content posted by others. CNLC reserves the right to remove any information posted by a third party for any reason. CNLC does not endorse the thoughts, opinions, and positions of users. If a website user identifies a post that is derogatory, offensive, or needs to be reviewed for any reason, please notify CNLC through the Contact Us link on this site.

Proprietary Rights

This site contains images and content that are the property of CNLC. This includes CNLC’s logo, business name, documents, and other content. The reproduction or transmission of any CNLC content is prohibited unless expressly granted by CNLC in writing. 

Governing Law

All disputes related to these Terms will be brought solely in the federal or state courts located in Denver, Colorado and you consent to personal jurisdiction in these courts. 

Policy Revision

CNLC reserves the right to revise these Terms at any time in its sole discretion by posting a revised Terms of Use document to the site.  Use of the site signifies acceptance of the terms as posted at the time of access.  You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Terms posted to the site. 

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these Terms or CNLC web content, contact us through the Contact Us page on this site.

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 10 August 2020

Overview

This policy explains what information Colorado Nonprofit Legal Center (“CNLC”) collects when you use CNLC’s website, services, products, and content (“Services”).  This policy also has information about how we store, use, transfer, and delete that information.  Our aim is not just to comply with privacy law, it is also to earn your trust.  Use of the CNLC website does not constitute legal advice nor does it create an attorney-client relationship. 

Information Collected

CNLC guests that use the site to inquire about legal services, seminars or similar functions, voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name and e-mail address) and other Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”). We may use this information for the specific, limited purposes of the inquiry. You may always “opt out,” either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages by emailing katie@conplc.org.

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. CNLC uses cookies to help CNLC identify and track visitors, their usage of the CNLC website, and their website access preferences. CNLC website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using CNLC websites, with the drawback that certain features of CNLC’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

What types of cookies do we use ?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.

The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

How can I control the cookie preferences ?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage Consent” tab on the bottom of your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.

How Is the Information Used?

We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitor traffic of our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.

Sharing Information

We may use third parties to assist with the Services and may disclose PII to them as needed for them to perform specific tasks under our instruction, subject to this policy.  We do not sell any of the PII collected nor do we provide your information to third parties for the purposes of them marketing their products to you.

External Links

This website contains links to third party websites, provided for your convenience.  If you use these links and leave CNLC’s website, you do so at your own risk.  We are not responsible for any of these third-party websites, their content, or their privacy practices and procedures.  We do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software, or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them.

Data Security and Retention

We employ physical, technical, and administrative procedures to safeguard the personal information we collect online.  However, we cannot fully ensure or warrant the security of any PII you transmit via this website and you transmit such information at your own risk. 

We retain PII as long as necessary to fulfill our business relationship, as needed to fulfill our legal requirements, or until you request that we securely destroy your PII.

Children’s Privacy

CNLC’s website is not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect PII from children under the age of 16.  If we receive PII that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly destroy such information.

Akismet Anti-Spam Service

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Events Calendar

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Event, Venue, and Organizer Information

If you create, submit, import, save, or publish Event, Venue, or Organizer information, such information is retained in the local database:

  • Venue information: name, address, city, country, state, postal code, phone, website, geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude)
  • Organizer information: name, phone, website, email
  • Event information: website, cost, description, date, time, image
Importing Events, Venues, and Organizers:
  1. All data present within a CSV or ICS file and external URLs (for events, venues, organizers, and tickets)
  2. Import origin data (URL from where events are being imported—such as Eventbrite, MeetUp, other compatible URL sources, and more, which can include similar or same data as listed above)
  3. Eventbrite Ticket information: name, description, cost, type, quantity

Please note that to create new events through the Community Events submission form, a user must hold a website account on this domain. This information is retained in the local database. It is also possible to create events anonymously, if the site owner has this option enabled.

When purchasing Eventbrite Tickets, attendee, purchaser, and order information are stored and managed by Eventbrite.

API Keys

We make use of certain APIs, in order to provide specific features.

These APIs may include the following third party services: Google Maps (API key), Meetup (OAuth token), PayPal (email, Client ID, Client Secret), Eventbrite (API key, auth URL, Client Secret), and Zoom (email, Client ID, Client Secret).

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, CNLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in CNLC’s sole discretion. CNLC 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.