Privacy Policy

Last updated March 31, 2021

About

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance (“ISLG”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy and this Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose your information. This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected on our website and personal information you provide to us through our website and services.

By visiting islg.cuny.edu (the “Website”), or more generally, using our services (the “Services”, which include the Website), you consent to this Privacy Policy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@islg.cuny.edu. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.

Our Website may contain links to third party websites, products or services. Please be aware we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites, products or services. We recommend that you check the privacy policies of each website that collects your personal information.

Collection of Personal Information

When you visit our Website, we may collect different kinds of personal information from or about you, including information you provide us directly and information we passively collect or receive when you use our Services.

Personal information you provide us directly

We may collect the personal information you provide when you use our Website, email us or contact us through our Website, register for events, subscribe to our blog, apply for employment, submit comments on blog posts, or otherwise interact with us through our Website. This type of information may include, but is not limited to, first and last names, email addresses, organization affiliations, professional titles and zip codes.

Information we passively collect or receive when you use our Services

Analytics
When you visit our Website, we may collect personal information about your use of our Website to power our site analytics. This type of information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to our Website and your Internet protocol (IP) address. This information may also include details about your use of our Website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps. We may gather some of this information automatically. We share this information with Squarespace, our Website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Squarespace hosts our Website and collects the personal information listed above to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Cookies
Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit Squarespace’s website to learn about the cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Fonts
Our Website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including information about your browser, network, or device and your IP address.

Google Maps Platform APIs
This Website uses Google Maps Platform APIs which are subject to Google’s Terms of Service. You may find the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service here. To find out more about Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link.

Cloudflare plug-ins
This Website uses plug-ins with scripts delivered via Cloudflare CDN. Cloudflare uses cookies to maximize network resources, manage traffic, and protect their customers’ sites from malicious traffic. To learn more about Cloudflare’s use of cookies, visit this link. You may review Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy here.

Social networking and other third parties
Our Website may contain links to social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, or other third party websites. These third party websites have their own policies for handling your personal information. For a description of how these sites may use and disclose your personal information, including any information you make public, please consult the sites’ privacy policies. We have no control over how any third party website uses or discloses the personal information it collects about you.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information collected to maintain, improve and develop our Website and Services and to communicate with you. The information we collect helps us to personalize our Services and communications, monitor the use of our Website and Services and keep track of how visitors provide us with their personal information. We may use personal information to respond to requests when you contact us through our Website, to communicate with you about Services, events or programs, employment opportunities or applications, to share announcements, resources and blog posts, and to update you about our polices and terms.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share personal information we collect with partners who work with or on behalf of ISLG or other third parties. We may provide access to or disclose personal information to third parties who perform services on our behalf, including, but not limited to, website hosting, marketing, market research, email services, customer support, data storage, analysis and processing and legal services. These service providers are only allowed to use this information to provide services to ISLG and may not share, resell or use the data for their own marketing purposes. We may be required to disclose personal information as necessary by law, or as a result of legal process, litigation, or requests from public or governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence. We may also disclose personal information to protect our rights and remedies, enforce our terms and conditions, protect our operations or if we determine in good faith that disclosure is necessary.

Your Rights to Personal Information

You may review, update or delete personal information collected by emailing us at info@islg.cuny.edu. You may unsubscribe from ISLG emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link they contain.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), gives certain rights to individuals in relation to their personal data. If you are a resident of the EEA, you are entitled to the following rights:

The right to access – You have the right to request ISLG for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that ISLG correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request ISLG to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that ISLG erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that ISLG restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to ISLG’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that ISLG transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise rights, please contact us at info@islg.cuny.edu. Please note that notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to keep any information in ISLG’s archives that may be necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect, use, store or disclose any personal information about children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@islg.cuny.edu.

Security

We take the security of your personal information seriously and use take reasonable security precautions to protect against unauthorized access to your information. We recommend you take precautions to protect against unauthorized access to your information and computers or other devices. If you believe the security of your personal information has been compromised in connection with our Website, please contact us at info@islg.cuny.edu. While ISLG believes the security precautions we take are adequate, no security system, method of transmission over the Internet or method of storage is completely secure and use of our Services and data submissions are at your sole risk.

U.S. Website

Please note that ISLG is headquartered in the United States and our Website is operated by individuals in the United States. If you are outside the United States, your information will be transferred to the United States and by using this Website and our Services, you consent to this transfer.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review the latest version.