Privacy Policy

Acceptance of the Seed to Solutions Privacy Policy

Welcome to Seeds to Solutions. We are pleased to have you as a member of the community. The Seeds to Solutions website, www.seedstosolutions.org (Website), is owned and operated by Ten Strands (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We know you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use user information, including how we treat personally identifiable information. It does not apply to websites or practices of companies that Ten Strands does not own or control.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before accessing the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound by and abide by this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, promptly leave the Website. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@seedstosolutions.org.

Data Collection

Information you provide us: Portions of our Website require users to fill in a form to access certain content. When you fill in the form on the Website, we ask you to provide certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, email address, and organization. Also, when you sign up for our newsletter, we will ask you for your name and email address so we can contact you. We will also collect personally identifiable information from you with your consent when you request further information through a contact form on the Website. 

Information collected automatically: To enable form-based features, we use cookies to store session information for your convenience. A cookie is an identifier that a browser stores on the user’s computer. The Website’s cookies do not generate personal data, do not read personal data from your computer, do not store personally identifiable information, and are not attached to anything that can be used to identify you.

We collect data from every visitor to the Website to monitor traffic and fix bugs. This information includes web requests, the data sent in response to such requests, the Internet Protocol address, the browser type, the browser language, and a timestamp for the request.

What choices do I have? You can view, change, and remove the data associated with your profile. Should you choose to delete your profile, please contact us at info@seedstosolutions.org, and we will honor your request.

Data Use

Personal Information: We use your personal information to provide you with the Seeds to Solutions services or products, or to communicate with you about the Website or Seeds to Solutions services or products.

Usage Information: We may use data to enable us to determine the frequency of users to our Website and its pages so that we can improve and customize our Website and Seeds to Solutions products. 

Data Sharing

Personal Information: We will not sell your personal information to third-party organizations for any reason.

Partners: We will sometimes share personal information with other organizations with whom we collaborate to develop and distribute our products and services. Those partners may send you email correspondence about information and services they find interesting or helpful using the email address you have provided. When your personal information is submitted to our partners, they will have no rights to share it with any third parties, and we require them to exercise reasonable care to protect your personal information.

Other required sharing: We do not otherwise share personal information you have provided to us without your consent unless we have a good faith belief that doing so:

• is appropriate to carry out your request;
• is necessary to enforce our Terms of Use;
• is necessary to detect, prevent, or address fraud, security, or technical issues;
• is necessary to otherwise protect our property, legal rights, or that of others; or
• is required by law, is necessary to comply with the law or legal process, or is pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations or proceedings.

Usage Information: Aggregated, anonymized data is periodically transmitted to external services, such as Google Analytics (traffic analysis) and WPEngine (website hosting and data storage), to help us improve the Website and service. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third-party services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding these third parties’ privacy policies.

Third parties may extract data such as those listed below.

• Google Analytics: anonymous (ad serving domains, browser type, demographics, language settings, page views, time/date), pseudonymous (IP address)
• WPEngine: hosts some Website applications and stores related data
• Google Drive: hosts some downloadable Website resources and stores related data
• YouTube: hosts some audio/video Website resources and stores related data

Hyperlinks: Information available on this Website may include links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of the websites you visit through these links, and you are responsible for reading and understanding these third parties’ privacy policies.

Agents: We employ and contract with people and other entities that perform specific tasks on our behalf and who are under our control (our “Agents”). We may need to share personal information with our Agents so that we can provide services to you. Unless we tell you differently, our Agents do not have any right to use personal information or other information we share with them beyond what is necessary to perform their functions. You hereby consent to our sharing of personal information with our Agents.

Business Transfers: If the Seeds to Solutions program or some or all of its assets are acquired by or otherwise transferred to another company, or if the Seeds to Solutions program goes out of business, or if the Seeds to Solutions program changes its tax status, personal information provided by the user and information concerning the user’s use of the Website may be transferred to or acquired by a third party.

Data Security

We intend to protect against unauthorized access to data about you that we store, including personal information. You can protect against unauthorized access to your personal information by limiting access to your computer and browser and closing your browser after your session. We are not liable for unauthorized disclosures of personal information due to no fault of our own, including errors in transmission, acts we did not unauthorize, and/or acts by third parties. While we have safety measures in place, be mindful that security over the internet cannot be 100% guaranteed. Any personal information you provide is at your own risk.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclosure

We may use AI-based tools to sort and analyze personal information (such as names and email addresses) to improve our Services, facilitate internal workflows, or provide relevant content. All such processing is conducted in accordance with applicable privacy laws, and we maintain appropriate human oversight. These tools do not make final automated decisions that affect users without review.

Children’s Policy

We do not solicit, intend to collect, or knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 through our Website. If we become aware that we collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete the information from our records (subject to applicable law). If you believe a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, please notify us at info@seedstosolutions.org.

Seeds to Solutions Communications

We may contact you by email or other means. For example, we may communicate with you about your use of the Seeds to Solutions products and/or website. We deliberately keep unsolicited communications with users to a minimum. In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, any promotional email you receive from us will include an unsubscribe link that will allow you to opt out of receiving future promotional emails.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Website after such changes have been first posted, and it is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, the most recent revision date will be indicated above and below.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@seedstosolutions.org. Seeds to Solutions content is copyrighted by the San Mateo County Office of Education and released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The Seeds to Solutions website is hosted and supported by their partner, California nonprofit, Ten Strands.