Positive Masculinity Academy

Information Automatically Collected When You Visit Our Platform. The Platform automatically collects information from users of the Platform, which we refer to here as “Usage Information.” This information is “passively” collected through browser navigational tools, such as cookies, that recognize your IP address — the Internet Protocol address of the computer or device that you use to access the Platform. We notify first-time Platform visitors at the time of their first visit that we use cookies. A cookie is a small data file that a website transfers to a user’s hard drive when a user visits the website. A cookie file can contain information such as a unique ID that the website uses to track the pages visited. You can set your browser to accept all cookies, to reject all cookies, or to notify you whenever a cookie is offered so that you can decide each time whether to accept it. However, refusing a cookie may in some cases preclude you from using, or negatively affect the display or function of, our Platform or certain areas or features of the Platform. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may also use other tools to track your usage of the Platform, such as “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFs” or similar technologies. All of these tools, as used by Jamshidi Group, are means through which we can gain an understanding of your and other Platform users’ preferences so that we can better design and otherwise improve our Platform to accommodate those preferences. Currently, the Platform does not respond to a “Do-Not-Track” signal from Platform users.

Information Actively Provided By Platform Users. The Platform is designed to interact with users who will provide information about themselves. We refer to this information as Personal Information, as it is directly related to you as an individual.

When you visit the Platform, you will have an opportunity to complete an assessment survey, labeled the “Adorable Men Questionnaire.” The survey asks questions about, among other things, your occupation, age, gender, ethnicity, email address, medical history, and various other factors relevant to your health, including your mental health.

Based on the information you provide, the Platform may invite you to pursue certain tests and surveys. If you decide to undertake those tests, we will collect on your behalf the results of those tests from the laboratory that performs them.

Usage Information. As noted, we use Usage Information to help us improve the Platform, such as by analyzing Platform user trends, including usage of certain pages or functions on the Platform.

Personal Information. We use the Personal Information we collect for any or all of the following purposes:

Research Purposes. We may use Personal Information about you for our research purposes, including gathering data for the upcoming book, “The Handbook of Masculinity”. This may include combining your Personal Information with that of other users so that it is aggregated and no longer identifiable to you or the other users, and analyzing the combined data to infer statistical relationships, which analyses might be used to form certain behavioral hypotheses, both by us and others. We will not use your identifiable Personal Information for research purposes without your explicit approval.

To Provide You With Health and Mental Health Related Suggestions. We use the Personal Information we collect from you to analyze, based on algorithmic data we have compiled and created, how you might benefit from certain activities and choices.

Administrative Communications. We will use your Personal Information to send you updates and notices regarding your Personal Information, as well as notices related to the Platform, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information. Because this information may be important, you may not opt out of receiving such communications.

Other Communications.  We may use your Personal Information to inform you of products, programs, services and surveys that we believe may be of interest to you.  Jamshidi Group might receive direct or indirect remuneration from third parties, when reaching to you with marketing messages.

Internal Business Purposes. We may use Personal Information about you for our internal business purposes, such as audits, developing new products and expanding our Platform’s services, enhancing the design and functionality of the Platform, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. This may include combining your Personal Information with that of other users so that it is aggregated and no longer identifiable to you or the other users, and analyzing the combined data to infer statistical relationships, which analyses might be used to form certain behavioral hypotheses, both by us and others.

Health Care Providers. Jamshidi Group is not a medical provider, but may coordinate with health care providers in order to enable users to obtain orders for tests for health factors that can provide the user with more information on how best to manage their health. For users that seek to undergo such tests, Jamshidi Group provides the health care providers in its network with the users’ Personal Information needed to assess the need for and to order the relevant tests.

Service Providers. We may share Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties who provide us with services, such as the designer and administrator of the Platform, our payment processing vendors, and others who assist us with ordering procedures, technology, data analysis, or similar services.

Operational Partners.  Jamshidi Group has partnered and may in the future partner with selected organizations whose technologies, experience, services and other assets can enhance the benefits of the Platform for its users.  Where such partners play an integral role in the operation of the Platform, they may have access to users’ Personal Information.  Any such partners will be subject to strict requirements to protect the privacy and security of the Personal Information to which they have access.

Acquirers or Assignees.  In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of Jamshidi Group or its assets, we may transfer any and all information that we collect from Platform users, including Personal Information, to the acquiring party or assignee.

Nonaffiliates for Marketing.   We may share your Personal Information with third parties for their use to send you promotional information they may believe is useful to you.  You may decline to receive these communications through our opt-out process.

Entities Entitled Under Law .  We may disclose Personal Information we collect to others as we believe to be appropriate in the following circumstances: (i) when required by applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (ii) to comply with legal process (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce the terms and conditions for use of the Platform and Services, including this Privacy Policy; (v) to protect and defend our rights and property; (vi) to protect the legitimate interests of Jamshidi Group or others; and (vii) to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.  We have no obligation to notify you of such disclosures, except as required by applicable law.

Other disclosures. In case of potential other uses and disclosures we will ask for your electronic authorization and you may revoke such authorization at any time electronically. We will not use your identifiable Personal Information for the purpose of fundraising without your explicit approval.

Updating, Correcting, or Deleting Personal Information.  If you would like to correct, update, or delete Personal Information you have provided to Jamshidi Group, you may contact us as indicated in Section 9 below (“Contacting Us”).  For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.  We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that we are not responsible for correcting, updating or deleting any information in the databases of third parties. You may restrict the usage of your information by changing the relevant privacy options in the Settings section of the app or website access.

Our Communications With You.  If you no longer wish to receive promotional information from us, you may opt-out of receiving such information by following the “unsubscribe” directions provided in messages we have sent to you, or by changing your preference settings on any page on the Platform where you consented to receive such communications.  We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  You agree for all communications from us to be conducted electronically through the website, app or email and not through traditional post/mail.

Security.  We use organizational, technical and administrative measures that we have chosen based on industry practices that are intended to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.  However, you should be aware that no data transmission over the Internet, and no data storage system, can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure.  You should be mindful of security risks whenever you opt for electronic transmission of information you consider confidential.

Data Integrity and Retention.  We will retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy or Jamshidi Group’s data retention policies unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Other Websites.  From time to time, the Platform may contain links to websites operated by parties not affiliated with Jamshidi Group.  Any such websites are not under Jamshidi Group’s control and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any such unaffiliated parties or the operations of their websites. If you provide any Personal Information through any such third-party website, your transaction will occur on such third party’s website (not any of the Platform) and the Personal Information you provide will be collected by, and controlled by the privacy policy of, that third party.  We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and practices of any such third parties, as they are not related to this Privacy Policy.