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Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

Effective Date: 08/29/22 

Introduction

The CCNY & its affiliates (PIE Analytics, Lakeshore Connections, Nickle City Foundation) are service organizations that support systems of care, governments, and nonprofit organizations. 

We understand that you are aware of and care about your own personal privacy interests, and we take that seriously. This Privacy Notice describes the CCNY & its affiliates’ policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, and therefore, we will periodically update this Privacy Notice as we introduce new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies.

Data Protection Officer

CCNY & its affiliates are headquartered at 217 E Delavan Ave, Buffalo, NY 14208, in the United States. CCNY & its affiliates have appointed an internal data protection officer for you to contact if you have any questions or concerns about CCNY & its affiliates’ personal data policies or practices. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please direct your query to CCNY & its affiliates’ data protection officer. CCNY & its affiliates’ data protection officer’s name and contact information are as follows:

David Monroe

CCNY & its affiliates

217 E Delavan Ave, Buffalo NY 14208

dmonroe@ccnyinc.org

716-855-0007 x317

How we collect and use (process) your personal information

CCNY & its affiliates collect personal information about its website visitors and customers. With a few exceptions, this information is generally limited to:

  • name 
  • job title 
  • employer name 
  • work address 
  • work email 
  • work phone number 

We use this information to provide services to prospects and customers. 

We do not sell personal information to anyone and only share it with third parties that facilitate the delivery of our services.

From time to time, CCNY & its affiliates receive personal information about individuals from third parties. Typically, information collected from third parties will include further details on your employer or industry. We may also collect your personal data from a third-party website (e.g. LinkedIn) 

Use of the CCNY & its affiliates’ Website

As is true of most other websites, CCNY & its affiliates’ website collects certain information automatically and stores it in log files. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, and other usage information about the use of CCNY & its affiliates’ website, including a history of the pages you view. We use this information to help us design our site to meet the needs of our users. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that helps us identify visitor preferences.

CCNY & its affiliates have a legitimate interest in understanding how members, customers, and potential customers use its website. This assists CCNY & its affiliates in providing more relevant products and services, communicating value to our sponsors and corporate members, and providing appropriate staffing to meet the needs of members and customers.

Sharing information with third parties

The personal information CCNY & its affiliates collect from you is stored in one or more databases hosted by third parties located in the United States. These third parties do not use or have access to your personal information for any purpose other than cloud storage and retrieval. On occasion, CCNY & its affiliates engage third parties to send information to you, including information about our products, services, and events.

A list of our third-party sub-processors can be found here: 

  • Google
  • Sync
  • Azure
  • PowerBI

We do not otherwise reveal your personal data to non-CCNY & its affiliates persons or businesses for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) it’s in connection with CCNY & its affiliates-hosted and CCNY & its affiliates co-sponsored conferences as described above; (3) the information is provided to comply with the law (for example, compelled by law enforcement to comply with a search warrant, subpoena, or court order), enforce an agreement we have with you, or to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees or others; (4) the information is provided to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; (5) to address emergencies or acts of God; or (6) to address disputes, claims, or to persons demonstrating legal authority to act on your behalf. We may also gather aggregated data about our services and website visitors and disclose the results of such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to our partners, service providers, advertisers, and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

The CCNY & its affiliates’ website connects with third-party services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. If you choose to share information from the CCNY & its affiliates’ website through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service. If you are a member of a third-party service, the connections mentioned earlier may enable that service to link your visit to our site with your personal data.

Transferring personal data to the U.S.

CCNY & its affiliates have their headquarters in the United States. Information we collect about you will be processed in the United States. By using CCNY & its affiliates’ services, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed in the United States. The United States has not sought nor received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. Pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR, CCNY & its affiliates are providing for appropriate safeguards by entering binding, standard data protection clauses, enforceable by data subjects in the EEA and the UK. These clauses have been enhanced in accordance with the guidance of the European Data Protection Board and will be updated once the new draft model clauses are approved.

Depending on the circumstance, CCNY & its affiliates also collect and transfer to the U.S. personal data with consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of CCNY & its affiliates in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. CCNY & its affiliates endeavor to apply suitable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of your personal data and to use it only consistent with your relationship with CCNY & its affiliates and the practices described in this Privacy Statement. CCNY & its affiliates also enter into data processing agreements and model clauses with its vendors whenever feasible and appropriate. Since its founding, CCNY & its affiliates have received zero government requests for information.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact us at info@ccnyinc.org.

Data Subject rights

This Privacy Notice is intended to provide you with information about what personal data CCNY & its affiliates collect about you and how it is used. 

If you wish to confirm that CCNY & its affiliates are processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data CCNY & its affiliates may have about you, please contact us.

You may also request information about: the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; who else outside CCNY & its affiliates might have received the data from CCNY & its affiliates; what the source of the information was (if you didn’t provide it directly to CCNY & its affiliates); and how long it will be stored. You have a right to correct (rectify) the record of your personal data maintained by CCNY & its affiliates if it is inaccurate. You may request that CCNY & its affiliates erase that data or cease processing it, subject to certain exceptions. You may also request that CCNY & its affiliates cease using your data for direct marketing purposes. In many countries, you have a right to complain to the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how CCNY & its affiliates process your personal data. When technically feasible, CCNY & its affiliates will—at your request—provide your personal data to you.

Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost. If access cannot be provided within a reasonable timeframe, CCNY & its affiliates will provide you with a date by which the information will be made available. If, for some reason, access is denied, CCNY & its affiliates will explain why access has been denied.

For questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, please email us at info@ccnyinc.org. 

Data storage and retention

Your personal data is stored by CCNY & its affiliates on their servers, as well as on the servers of the cloud-based database management services that CCNY & its affiliates engage, located in the United States. The CCNY & its affiliates retain service data for the duration of the customer’s business relationship with the CCNY & its affiliates and for a period of time thereafter, to analyze the data for the CCNY & its affiliates’ own operations, and for historical and archiving purposes associated with the CCNY & its affiliates’ services. CCNY & its affiliates retain prospect data until it no longer has business value and is purged from CCNY & its affiliates’ systems. All personal data that CCNY & its affiliates control may be deleted upon verified request from Data Subjects or their authorized agents. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, as well as your rights to erasure and portability, please contact us at: info@ccnyinc.org.

Children’s data

We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive information from children.

Questions, concerns, or complaints

If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or would like to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

CCNY & its affiliates

David Monroe

217 E Delavan Ave, Buffalo NY 14208

info@ccnyinc.org

716-855-0007 x317