Effective Date: October 20, 2026

This Privacy Policy covers the site www.groundworkmn.org and all data provided while subscribing to communication collected and processed by Groundwork Institute ("us," "our," or “Groundwork Institute”). You may always submit any concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices to us. If you choose to write us an email, please reference the Privacy Policy in your subject line. Groundwork Institute will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns and inquiries expeditiously.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

Our site's registration form may collect contact information including your full name, mailing address, and email address to receive information to enable us to respond to other information requests from you. We may use the data you provide to enable outreach communication. When we do so, we may share itthis information with third party clients who contracted with us to perform those functions.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

In some cases, Groundwork Institute may collect other information on behalf of third parties who have contracted with us. Groundwork Institute may provide personally identifiable information to these third party clients, but no third party will be permitted to use this data to attempt to sell you anything or email you without your permission or registration. Additionally, Groundwork Institute may provide personally identifiable information to other third party providers and partners for purposes including without limitation:

The augmentation of member information with statistical information available from a third party, such as voting history, consumer data and responses to surveys run by other organizations;
Independent auditing and/or verification of respondent data for quality control purposes;
The suppression of member contact information from email communications that a member has not consented to receiving;
Providing administrative or other services to us, such as administering emails, databases, or other management or marketing functions;

All third parties will be required to safeguard your data and will not be permitted to use it for commercial purposes without your consent or registration at their site. This will be enforced either by relying upon existing privacy policy, terms of service, or other policies put in in place by these third parties or by entering into confidentiality agreements with us regarding use of your data.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

In the event that Groundwork Institute goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email or prominent notice on our website and by becoming a member, consent to such transfer of your information.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

In order to provide outreach communication to you, we may on occasion supplement the personally identifiable information you submitted to us with information from third party sources. By sharing your information, you consent to our using a third party supplier to verify your identity. We may purchase or otherwise receive marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database to provide enriched analytical data for our clients' use.

LOG FILES

We may gather certain information automatically and store it in secure log files. This information may include but is not limited to internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, Internet service providers (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating systems, date/time stamps and/or clickstream data.

GROUNDWORK INSTITUTE’S USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is simply a small text file containing information about the user that is placed by a website on the user's hard drive. Groundwork Institute may place persistent cookies, java, scripts or tags on your computer when access the Groundwork Institute website, and may place a session cookie on your computer while you are participating in a survey or viewing the website without logging in. Persistent cookies are used to store your email address and encrypted password. Groundwork Institute uses this cookie to recognize you when you visit our website Groundwork Institute may use session cookies to maintain your session state across user requests. This type of cookie may be used to record when you complete a survey, how much of the survey you complete, the country you are viewing and what language you are using to view the website. We may also use cookies to track certain information about you based upon your activity on our site or on a third party's site. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address. Groundwork Institute may occasionally utilize email Web beacons to monitor email deliverability. We reserve the right to share this information with third parties.

From time to time, we may allow a third-party media service to display content on our site. These third-party media services may use cookies within their content (e.g., to analyze trends, administer some part of the site, track users' movements, etc.) The use of cookies by these third parties shall be governed by their respective privacy policies. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

You can refuse to accept cookies, free of charge, by adjusting the privacy settings of your Web browser software. However, if you do not allow cookies from Groundwork Institute, you may not be able to use all of the features on this website.

ADVANCED COOKIES

The advanced cookie tracks the online patterns of individuals. The advanced cookie, which may be placed by Groundwork Institute or in conjunction with a third party, incorporates a key which can identify tags contained in certain online content relating to our clients and their products and services.

If a Member views a page containing any content that includes the tag, the key will send us an update confirming that the Member has viewed the page containing this content.

In addition, some advanced cookies can be used to target you with advertisement related to research for ad-effectiveness. These advertisements will only be displayed for research purposes and not for Groundwork Institute-specific advertising or advertising campaigns unrelated to a specific research projects.

Certain Web pages or Web-based advertisements that you view may be tagged by Groundwork Institute, and in some cases, data collected on tagged content may be combined with survey answers that you provide.

OTHER WEBSITES

This site may contain links to other Internet sites that are not operated or controlled by Groundwork Institute. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Any interaction on social media or other third-party websites is governed not by this privacy policy but by the terms of use and privacy policy of the particular platform.

NON-ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS WITH YOU

We occasionally may employ other companies to perform reward fulfillment mailings on our behalf. They may have access to the personal information needed to fulfill their functions, but may not use it for any other purposes. We or our partners may occasionally communicate non-electronically with you for research purposes.

OUR OPT-OUT POLICY

If you would like to stop receiving Groundwork Institute Panel membership emails you may request that your membership be cancelled by emailing us at info@Groundworkmn.org. You may also click the unsubscribe link in any email we send you to stop receiving emails from us.

HOW TO DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

To delete your personally identifiable information from the Groundwork Institute database, please email us at info@Groundworkmn.org. We will delete your data and/or respond to your request within 30 days of its submission. We will retain your personal information unless your account is deactivated or terminated. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

DATA SECURITY MEASURES

This site has security measures (including online and offline physical, electronic and managerial safeguards) in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information, including your email address, under our control. As with any transmission over the Internet; however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information online. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please email us at info@Groundworkmn.org.

WE ARE COMMITTED TO CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Groundwork Institute takes children's privacy seriously and we do not seek to collect individually identifiable information about children under 13 years of age. Groundwork Institute only enrolls members who are 18 years of age or older.

If Groundwork Institute learns that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online, in contravention of these measures, Groundwork Institute will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from its databases and to not use such information for any purpose.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting an amended version of the statement to the Groundwork Institute website and updating the effective date accordingly. Please refer to this policy regularly.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can email us at info@Groundworkmn.org.