Privacy Policy
(Including Children’s Online Privacy Protection Policy and “Your Privacy Rights” for California Residents)
This Privacy Notice was last updated on November 5, 2024
Your Privacy Matters at Humanity’s Team!
Hey there! At Humanity’s Team, we care about your privacy, and we want to be totally upfront about how we handle your information. This page explains everything you need to know in simple terms. By using our website and services, you agree to our approach. If you’d like to know more, feel free to click on each of the links provided below.
Special assistance is available for persons with disabilities. If you need assistance accessing our Website, please email us at support.team@humanitysteam.org.
Types of data we collect
Contact details
Payment information
Data that identifies you
Data on how you use Humanity’s Stream
How we use your data
To provide services
To keep our service running
To help us improve our service
To give personalized member support
To send you marketing messages
We use cookies
We use only necessary cookies to run and improve the service
Our third-party service providers use cookies too for purposes such as analytics and advertising
You can turn off cookies, but this will mean that we can't recognize you and we can't resolve issues as easily and we cannot provide you personalized recommendations.
When and how we collect data
We collect data from people browsing our website and members of Humanity’s Stream, when
You browse pages of our website
Use Humanity’s Stream through a supported device
You receive emails from us
You chat with us for member support
You opt-in to or interact with our marketing messages
Know your rights under applicable laws
Access or delete information we hold on you
Opt-out of marketing communications
Be forgotten by Humanity’s Team
If you have any concerns about your privacy at Humanity’s Team, please email us at support.team@humanitysteam.org
Your Privacy Matters at Humanity’s Team!
Here's how we protect your data and respect your privacy.
General Information
The sites to which the following Privacy Notice applies are: www.*.humanitysteam.org (collectively, “the Websites”). The operator of the Websites is Humanity’s Team, a Colorado nonprofit, 2735B Iris Avenue Suite 3, Boulder, Colorado 80304. You can reach our data protection officer at support.team@humanitysteam.org.
Responsibilities
Our responsibility: If you are a Humanity’s Stream member, or just visiting our website, this privacy notice applies to you. If you are a registered member of Humanity’s Stream we act as the ‘data controller’ of personal information about you and your use of Humanity’s Stream.
Your responsibility: Read this Privacy Notice
When and how we collect data
From the first moment you interact with Humanity’s Team, we are collecting data. Sometimes you provide us with data, sometimes we collect data about you.
Here’s when and how we collect data:
You become a Humanity’s Stream member
You browse any page of our website
You use our services through a device
You receive emails from us
You contact us for member support
You opt-in to or interact with our marketing messages
Types of data we collect
Identifiers: “Identifiers” covers a broad range of information, including things like name, email address, and IP address. We collect personal information that falls into this category. For example, for subscribers we have an email address and payment information. We collect IP addresses when you connect to our service online. These sorts of identifiers are connected to your Humanity’s Stream account. There are also identifiers we use for purposes like advertising (third party advertising cookies on our website) that can be used to reach you with promotional messages on other websites and applications.
Internet or other electronic network activity information: Our service is an online service, so we collect CCPA personal information in this category, such as your interactions and activities within our service.
Geolocation data: Our streaming application does not collect precise geolocation data from GPS sensors. However, we do collect IP addresses so we can determine your general location in order to give you a better first interaction with our service.
Inferences: We have a recommendation system that tries to help return you custom titles based on what we feel you will like most.
Types of data we do not collect
Sensitive data: We don’t collect any "sensitive data" about you (like racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious/philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, health data, data about your sexual life or orientation, and offences or alleged offences).
Children’s data: Humanity’s Team’s website and services are not intended for or directed to users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of 13 or other minors. Where appropriate, we take reasonable measures to determine that our users are adults of legal age and to inform minors not to submit information to the Websites or the Services, or in response to advertisements.
How and why we use your data
We can only use your data for certain reasons and where we have a legal basis to do so. Here are the reasons for which we process your data:
Keeping the service running: Login and authentication, processing payments.
Improving the service: Testing features, managing landing pages, traffic optimization and data analysis and research.
Member Support: Notifying you of any changes to our service, solving issues via support, including any bug fixing.
Newsletter: Sending you emails and messages about new services, and content.
Marketing: Identifying you as someone who might wish to buy a Humanity’s Stream membership or upgrade an existing membership.
We allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the web and in mobile applications. These entities use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Website and other websites and online services, including your IP address, device identifiers, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by us and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our services and other websites and online services, and better understand your online activity. You can disable cookies used for advertising purposes through our cookie preferences manager. Or, for more information about interest-based ads, including to use ad industry tools to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices ( if you are in the EU, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu). Your mobile device should also include a feature that allows you to opt out of having certain information collected through apps used for behavioral advertising purposes.
Except as required by applicable law, we do not respond to or honor “do not track” (a/k/a DNT) signals or similar mechanisms automatically transmitted by web browsers for which we cannot evaluate your choice.
Sharing of Your Information
Humanity’s Team may share your personal information, with the following:
Humanity’s Team’s affiliates, subsidiaries, or successors (“Humanity’s Team Parties”).
Third parties who are under obligations of confidentiality with any of the Humanity’s Team Parties.
The following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed to third parties:
We may employ third parties to perform services or functions on our behalf in order to improve our websites, merchandising, marketing and promotional efforts, communications or other services. Those third parties may include authorized contractors, consultants and other companies working with us. They only have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, and they may not share any personal information with others or use it for any other purpose than providing or improving our services and offerings.
We may share your information with third parties whom we believe have information of interest to you. In addition, we may share certain non-personal information with third parties for advertising, promotional and other purposes. For example, we may work with third party advertising companies, to serve and track our ads. These third parties may install other cookies. Our advertising partners may use the non-personal information they collect from our websites, in the aggregate, to help us better market and serve our customers
We may share your information in connection with the sale, merger, reorganization or change of control of Humanity’s Team or the division responsible for the services with which your personally identifiable information is associated or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
This Privacy Notice applies only to the Websites and the Services and does not address the practices of third parties who may collect your personal information. You may visit other websites, through links on the Websites, which may collect, use, and share your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. The information practices of those linked websites are not covered by this Privacy Notice, and we encourage you to be very cautious before you disclose your personal information to others. In order to provide you with the information, products or services which you have requested, we may share or transfer your personal information with our parent, affiliates or subsidiaries, or third-party agents acting on their behalf.
The Humanity’s Team Parties may be obligated to cooperate with various law enforcement inquiries. Each Humanity’s Team Party reserves the right to disclose or transfer personal information and non-personal information about you and your activities on our Websites in order to comply with a legal requirement or request from law enforcement or other government officials, administrative agencies or third parties as we, in our sole discretion, determine necessary or appropriate for the administration of justice, or in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements or violations of any other law, rule or regulation, our Terms of Use or other rules or policies of our Websites, the rights of third parties, or an investigation of any other activity that may expose us or you to legal liability, or to investigate any suspected conduct which Humanity’s Team in its sole discretion deems improper.
Cookies
We use cookies. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, we (and these third parties) will issue cookies when you interact with Humanity’s Team. These may be ‘session’ cookies, meaning they delete themselves when you leave Humanity’s Team, or ‘persistent’ cookies which do not delete themselves and help us recognize you when you return so we can provide a tailored service.
You can block cookies by activating a setting on your browser allowing you to refuse the setting of cookies. You can also use our cookie banner to manage your preferences. You can also delete cookies through your browser settings. If you use your browser settings to disable, reject, or block cookies (including essential cookies), certain parts of our website or app will not function fully. In some cases, our website or app may not be accessible at all. Please note that where third parties use cookies, we have no control over how those third parties use those cookies.
Humanity’s Team utilizes Google Analytics for aggregated, anonymized website traffic analysis. To track your session usage, Humanity’s Team places a Google Analytics cookie (_ga) with a randomly generated ClientID in your browser. This ID is anonymized and contains no identifiable information such as email, phone number, name, etc. Humanity’s Team uses Google Analytics to track aggregated website behavior, such as what pages you looked at, for how long, etc. This information is important for improving our user experience and determining our sites effectiveness. If you wish to remove Google Analytics from your site experience, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.
Your privacy choices and rights
If you are a resident of a jurisdiction with a privacy law that applies to you and Humanity’s Team, you may have additional rights regarding your personal information. Such rights apply to users in certain U.S. states (such as under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and similar laws in other states) or users in the European Union and United Kingdom under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar laws. This section only applies to those users and is intended to set forth just those rights available under such applicable laws. If you would like to submit a request, you can request that at support.team@humanitysteam.org and allow 30 days for processing and compliance.
You can choose not to provide us with personal information: If you choose to do this, you can continue to use the website and browse its pages, but you will not be able to become a Humanity’s Team member.
You can turn off cookies: You can block cookies by activating a setting on your browser allowing you to refuse cookies. You can also delete cookies through your browser settings. If you turn off cookies, you can continue to use the Humanity’s Team website, but certain services may not work effectively.
You can opt out of receiving Humanity’s Team information: You have the option to opt out of receiving information from Humanity’s Team, the website, and the services. The option to opt out will appear at the bottom of every promotional email that is sent. If you no longer wish to take advantage of the websites or the services or receive any form of direct contact from Humanity’s Team, whether email, discounts, newsletters, or other promotion offers or materials, contact us at support.team@humanitysteam.org.
You have the right to access information we hold about you: We will provide you with the information within 30 days of your request. We’ll tell you if we can’t meet your request for any reason. This includes the right to ask us for:
The categories of data we’re processing
The purposes of data processing
The categories of third parties to whom the data may be disclosed
How long the data will be stored (or the criteria used to determine that period)
Your other rights regarding our use of your data
You have the right to make us correct any inaccurate personal information about you.
You can object to us using your data for profiling you or making automated decisions about you: We may use your data to determine whether we should let you know information that might be relevant to you (for example, tailoring emails to you based on your behavior). Otherwise, the only circumstances in which we will do this is to provide the Humanity’s Stream service to you.
You have the right to be ‘forgotten’ by us and have us delete your personal information: You can do this by asking us to erase any personal information we hold about you if it is no longer necessary for us to hold the data for purposes of your use of Humanity’s Team.
You have a right to file a complaint regarding our use of your data: Please tell us first, so we have a chance to address your concerns. Any claims or complaints must be filed a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Colorado, U.S.A.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under such laws.
How secure is the data we collect?
We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We have installed encryption software conforming to the Secure Socket Layers (SSL) protocol to safeguard all of the personal information you send to us. All information is stored on our servers in a secure location. Please remember:
You provide personal information at your own risk: unfortunately, no data transmission is guaranteed to be 100% secure
You are responsible of your username and password: keep them secret and safe!
If you believe your privacy has been breached, please contact our Support Team immediately at support.team@humanitysteam.org.
Data Storage and Retention
We will keep your information as long as necessary for our business purposes. Our servers are maintained in the United States of America. By using the Website, you freely and specifically give us your consent to export your information to the USA as specified in this Privacy Policy. You understand that data stored in the USA may be subject to lawful requests by the courts or law enforcement authorities in the USA.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time, provided that any such modifications will only be applied prospectively. We encourage you to periodically review the Website for the latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.
Contact
If you have a question regarding our privacy practices, please contact our Support Team at support.team@humanitysteam.org.