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At Wack Club our approach to privacy follows a few fundamental principles:
This Wack Club Privacy Notice applies to your use of wackclub.com, and any other websites, applications, services, or live (in‑person) events provided, owned, or operated by Wack Club (with its affiliates, "Wack Club") that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, "Wack Club Services"). Wack Club is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational charity. We value the privacy of students, educators, volunteers, donors, members, and others who visit and use Wack Club Services (collectively or individually, "you" or "users") and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from and about you. By visiting www.wackclub.com, setting up any accounts across Wack Club programs, or using Wack Club Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice, to the extent permitted by law.
If Wack Club is involved in a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or similar nonprofit change‑of‑control transaction, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that transaction, including in the course of diligence.
For purposes of data protection laws, Wack Club is located at 15 Falls Rd., Shelburne, VT 05482, USA, and is the "data controller" of your information collected in connection with Wack Club Services.
You may share personal information when using Wack Club Services. One example is when you provide information about yourself as part of setting up any accounts across Wack Club programs. Another is when you take actions on Wack Club Services that are public or intended to be public in nature, such as when you share a coding project, participate in a discussion forum, or post profile information. Given the social and educational nature of some Wack Club Services, that information may be collected, used, or disclosed by others who are part of that interaction. In addition, some features of Wack Club Services are designed to provide others with information about user activity, such as identifying the user who created a specific project. We encourage you to be mindful of this when considering your activity on Wack Club Services.
We obtain information about you through the means discussed below when we provide Wack Club Services. Please note that we need certain information to provide Wack Club Services to you. If you prefer not to provide it or would like it deleted, we understand — and will still offer you access to any Wack Club Services that don't need it to operate.
User‑provided Information: When you register for Wack Club Services; upload, view, or download content or resources from Wack Club Services; enter challenges; register for or attend a live (in‑person) event; or otherwise use the features and functionality of Wack Club Services, you may provide a variety of information about yourself to us, such as your name, voice, or image (in any content you upload or participate in), email address, postal mailing address, telephone number, and identification documents.
Automatically Collected Information: When you access Wack Club Services or open one of our emails, we may automatically record and store certain information about your system by using cookies and other types of technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are sent to your browser. Examples of such information we may automatically collect include Internet Protocol address ("IP Address"), a unique user ID, device and browser types and identifiers, referring and exit page addresses, software and system type, and information about your usage of Wack Club Services. Examples of how Wack Club uses automatically collected information include to: (a) maintain and improve Wack Club Services; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re‑enter it during your visit or the next time you access Wack Club Services; (c) provide relevant content and information about Wack Club programs; (d) monitor the effectiveness of outreach and communications; (e) monitor and store aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (f) track your entries, submissions, and status in challenges, hackathons, or other activities.
Wack Club Live (in‑person) Events: Wack Club holds live (in‑person) events - including hackathons, workshops, and community meetups - that may include creators, speakers, and exhibitors. These events will be photographed, recorded, and streamed, both by Wack Club and by others, and these materials may be used for Wack Club's educational mission.
Running Our Programs: Wack Club uses such information to operate, maintain, enhance, provide, create, and develop all of the features, functionality, and services (new or existing) found on Wack Club Services; provide security for our websites, products, software, applications, or live (in‑person) events; manage relationships with Wack Club program account holders and participants (e.g., program leads, club organizers, fiscal sponsorships); allow you to share projects and participate in educational challenges, hackathons, and events; prevent fraud and abuse (including preventing attempts to defraud Wack Club as a charity); and understand the usage trends of our users.
Communicating with You: We use your email address, telephone number, and/or mailing address to communicate with you regarding events and Wack Club updates or news.
Meeting Legal Requirements: Some information is necessary for Wack Club to comply with applicable laws around the world (for example, in the country of your residence), or respond to a court order, judicial, or other government request, subpoena, or warrant in the manner legally required.
Sometimes we have to share information with service providers working on our behalf, such as website hosting, security services, and events logistics. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice and authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them.
We may disclose information when it's necessary to protect the security and integrity of our platform, prevent fraud or abuse, defend against legal claims, or protect the safety of our users and community.
Third‑Party Websites and Services
Wack Club Services may link to third‑party websites or services. The privacy practices of those third parties are not governed by this Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third‑party websites and services to understand their practices.
If you connect to a third‑party service (such as Slack or GitHub) through Wack Club Services or otherwise link your Wack Club account with a third‑party service, you are requesting and authorizing us to share or grant access to information on your behalf (such as your name, the fact that your connection originated from Wack Club Services, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information) with such third party.
Extensions and Applications
Wack Club Services may allow you to enable or interact with third‑party extensions, plug‑ins, applications, or integrations. Your use of those offerings is subject to the third party's terms and privacy policies. We may receive information from such third parties consistent with your settings and their policies, and we may share limited information with them as necessary to enable the integration. We are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of those third parties.
Analytics Providers
We may work with analytics providers and similar partners to help us understand the usage of Wack Club Services and to improve them. These partners may set and read their own cookies or use similar technologies to collect information about your activities over time and across different services. Wack Club does not sell personal information.
You may decline to share certain information with Wack Club, which is totally fine. You can still use any of our services that don't need it.
For other requests to review, update, delete, or otherwise limit Wack Club's use of information that you have provided directly to Wack Club, please see https://forms.wackclub.com/t/qjFxdohV4Rus. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
We will comply with valid requests to exercise your data subject rights in accordance with the applicable laws in your region:
For more information on how to exercise these rights, please see https://forms.wackclub.com/t/qjFxdohV4Rus. If applicable, you may make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you are based. Alternatively, you may seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
Please note that in some circumstances, we may need to keep processing your information to comply with a legal obligation.
For Wack Club Services (including any accounts across Wack Club programs), you may request updates or deletion of information tied to your participation, or request that an account be closed, by completing https://forms.wackclub.com/t/qjFxdohV4Rus. If you close an account, Wack Club may retain certain information about you for the activities described in this Privacy Notice, or as required by applicable law.
Wack Club maintains data related to your usage of Wack Club Services for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Notice, as may be required (or permitted) by law such as for tax and accounting purposes, or as otherwise communicated to you. Once you have asked us to close an account and delete profile information associated with it, we will delete all information that we are not required or permitted to retain by law.
Some browsers transmit "Do Not Track" (DNT) signals. Because there is no industry standard for how to respond to DNT signals, Wack Club does not currently take action in response to these signals. We continue to review developments around DNT and related technologies.
While we work diligently to protect your information, no security system can guarantee absolute protection against all potential threats. Like all online services, we cannot provide an unconditional guarantee.
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, THEN YOU MAY NOT USE OR ACCESS HACK CLUB SERVICES AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Wack Club does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information (as defined by the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) from persons under 13 years of age. If Wack Club learns that personal information of persons under 13 has been collected on or through Wack Club Services, Wack Club will take appropriate steps to delete this information.
If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has created an account on Wack Club Services, then please complete https://forms.wackclub.com/t/qjFxdohV4Rus to have that child's account terminated and personal information deleted.
For residents of countries and regions where the processing of personal information is based on consent, Wack Club will not knowingly engage in that processing for users under the age of consent established by applicable data protection law. If we learn that we are engaged in that processing with such users, we will halt such processing and will take reasonable measures to promptly remove applicable information from our records.
Information collected by Wack Club may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States, or in any other country where Wack Club or its affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, or service providers are located or maintain facilities. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice and authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them. We comply with all applicable laws and/or regulations when it comes to international transfers.
Wack Club reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Notice at any time (for example, to reflect updates to Wack Club Services or to reflect changes in the law). Please check this Privacy Notice periodically for those changes. Your continued use of Wack Club Services after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.
We will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of personal information collected in the past under a prior version of the Privacy Notice without the consent of affected individuals.
Please contact Wack Club with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice at https://forms.wackclub.com/t/qjFxdohV4Rus
Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) can also be contacted through the form above. We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days of its receipt. If you are a California resident, you may have information emailed to you by sending a letter to the below address with your email address and your request for information.
Postal address:
Wack Club
8605 Santa Monica Blvd #86294
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Depending on where you live, local laws may provide you with additional rights or require additional disclosures. Those rights and disclosures apply to you to the extent required by law and are in addition to the rights described in this Notice. To exercise any jurisdiction‑specific rights, please contact us at https://forms.wackclub.com/t/qjFxdohV4Rus.
These terms and conditions ("Terms") apply to all challenges, contests, promotions, events or similar projects ("Challenges") conducted by Hack Foundation d/b/a Wack Club or any of its fiscally sponsored projects ("Wack Club") in furtherance of its charitable, educational, and scientific purposes ("Purposes"), including by encouraging participants ("Participants") to participate in certain activities ("Activities") that Wack Club has determined will advance its Purposes. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any other communication or agreement by Wack Club, or its employees, agents, volunteers, or affiliates (collectively, "Wack Club Parties"), in connection with a Challenge, these Terms shall prevail.
AWARDS: Some Challenges may include an advertisement of potential goods, services, experiences, or other benefits ("Awards") to encourage participants to complete a Challenge. While Wack Club intends to fulfill these Awards, none of these representations create a binding obligation to provide the Award. Without limitation, Wack Club may determine it necessary to cancel or suspend a Challenge, modify or retract an Award, remove some or all Participants from eligibility for an Award or participation in a Challenge, or take any other action to modify the Challenge before, during, or after its completion. By participating in a Challenge, each Participant agrees that Wack Club, in its sole discretion, has the right to cancel, suspend, or otherwise modify its Challenges to include, exclude, or modify any Award and to include, exclude, or modify the involvement of any Participant, without any liability from a Wack Club Party to a Participant under any circumstances.
Without limiting the foregoing, the following additional terms apply to all Challenges and Awards:
CHALLENGES: Wack Club proposes Challenges based on Activities that Wack Club has determined will advance the Purposes (e.g. engaging in coding challenges that will develop individual skills or developing a program that will have public benefit). Other than alignment with its Purposes, these Challenges are not for Wack Club's benefit and do not create an employment, contractor, agency, or any other relationship between a Wack Club Party or the Participant.
In participating in a Challenge, a Participant agrees to observe Wack Club's Code of Conduct. In addition to the broad discretion with respect to Awards and Challenges described above, Wack Club may also, for any violations of the Code of Conduct by a Participant or for any other conduct Wack Club deems in its sole discretion to be contrary to the spirit of such Code of Conduct or the Purposes, Wack Club may deduct, for purposes of evaluating the Participant's performance of the Challenge, any markers of Participant's progress (e.g. tickets, points, etc.), refuse to issue an Award for the Participant, bar Participant's participation in the Challenge or future Challenges, or take any other disciplinary actions available to Wack Club with respect to the Challenge or future Challenges.
By participating in any Challenge, the Participant fully and unconditionally agrees to and accepts these Terms. A minor may only participate in a Challenge with the consent of a parent or guardian. By participating in any of our online Challenges, you're agreeing to these Terms. If you're under 18, make sure you have your parent or guardian's permission first because when you join in, you (and your parent/guardian if you're a minor) are letting us know you're good with these Terms. Our in-person events require signed parental consent.