Last revised on September 2, 2022.
Schmidt Futures is committed to protecting the privacy and rights of our website visitors. This privacy policy is intended to make clear the ways that this website (“website” or “site”) may collect, store, protect, and make use of your information. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer. We do not and will not sell, share, or rent this information in any way that is not outlined in this statement.
The information we collect
Personally Identifying Information: Schmidt Futures does not require users to provide personally identifying information to access the website’s content. You may choose to contact us through the “Contact” form on our webpage, and in the process you may provide your name, email, organization or university, and other information that you choose to share with us. This information is maintained by Schmidt Futures in accordance with this privacy policy. Schmidt Futures does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from minors without the consent of a parent or guardian.
Browsing Information: By visiting this site, you grant us permission to collect information automatically from your browsing that is not personally identifying. This information may include location, IP address, browser details, and similar non-identifying details that is often used to understand how visitors are using this website. For example, our servers may use “cookies” (a small data file) to track a user’s activity within our site. Cookies do not gather personal information such as email addresses.
How we use information
Personally Identifying Information: If you choose to contact us through the “Contact” form on our website, we may use that information in connection with the purpose for which you submitted it (for example, to respond to your message) or to otherwise communicate with you about Schmidt Futures.
Browsing Information: Schmidt Futures uses browsing information to allow us to measure user trends (such as which domains refer users to our site), to provide personalized content where available, to help diagnose problems with our servers, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our site and protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website, administer this website more effectively and to gather broad geographic information about where users are accessing our site from. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but this may limit your access to some features of the site.
How we share information
Personally Identifying Information: We will not sell users’ personally identifying information to any third party, except that your information may be shared with entities that serve as administrators for or partners with Schmidt Futures on our various programs. We will not otherwise share personally identifying information with any third party, except if required 1) to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws; 2) to respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant in the manner required by the requesting entity; 3) to take appropriate or necessary action against liability or fraudulent, abusive or unlawful uses; or 4) to protect the integrity of our information technology systems.
Browsing Information: We may share browsing information with third parties that we have engaged to help facilitate our use of this information as described above. We only share this information with third parties that we believe share our commitment to privacy and security.
Security
Keeping your information safe is very important to us. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. We strive to protect your personal information, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you send to us, and you do so at your own risk. We use reasonable precautions to keep your personally identifying information and browsing information secure and to only release browsing information to third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our site, please note that we have no responsibility for that external site. This privacy statement does not govern other sites. The inclusion of that link on this website does not mean that Schmidt Futures endorses that website, its content, or the organization to which it belongs.
Changes to this policy
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our site periodically.
Data about users located In The European Union
Schmidt Futures supports the Schmidt Science Fellows program, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. For more information about that program and disclosures regarding information that program obtains about individuals subject to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, please see the Schmidt Science Fellows Privacy Policy at https://schmidtsciencefellows.org/legal/.
Questions?
Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding the privacy policy by contacting us at inquiries@schmidtfutures.com. Please note “Privacy Policy” in the subject line of your e-mail.
