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LAST MODIFIED: DECEMBER 26, 2021

Introduction

Dreamers & Doers, a subsidiary of Trailblazer Ventures, LLC ("Company" or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.dreamersdoers.com/, blog https://www.dreamersdoers.com/blog, Membership Application form [hosted on Typeform https://www.typeform.com/], Membership Directory (our or this "Website") , use any other forms we may create to collect information from you for purposes of feedback or content creation, or any other reason, either via Typeform https://www.typeform.com/, Google Forms https://docs.google.com/forms/, or any other platform or the Dreamers & Doers Circle community, as well as any other Dreamers & Doers associated Facebook Groups such as Dreamers & Doers Non-Member Groups (collectively the “Websites”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On the Websites.
In the Member Application form, feedback or information requests (via email, text, the Circle community, Facebook Messenger, Typeform, or Google Form) by a direct or indirect (such as brand ambassadors) affiliate of Dreamers & Doers.
In Member Referral forms, in direct information requests about you from Dreamers & Doers members.

In e-mail, text, Circle messages, and other electronic messages between you and this Website and individuals affiliated with Dreamers & Doers.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), and including specifically from Content you may choose to share post on this Website or the Dreamers & Doers Circle community and Non-Member Facebook Groups; or
Any third party (including Dreamers & Doers members, and non-members), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on this Website or the Dreamers & Doers Circle community and Non-Member Groups.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13:

The Websites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Websites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Websites or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Websites, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, an image of you, e-mail address, social profile links, links to personal and professional websites, current occupation, geographical location, age, interests how you found out about Dreamers & Doers (including contact details of a referrer), motivation behind joining Dreamers & Doers, expected contributions to the community, indicate your willingness to opt into guidelines. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will remove you as a member. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@dreamersdoers.com.

Information We Collect About You and How and Why We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website (mainly via the Typeform Membership Application as well as occasionally via ad hoc Typeform or Google Form feedback or content collection), including information:

by which you may be personally identified and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); this information includes details such as name, an image of you, e-mail address, social profile links, links to personal and professional websites, interests, how you found out about Dreamers & Doers (including contact details of a referrer), motivation behind joining Dreamers & Doers, expected contributions to the community, indicate your willingness to opt into guidelines; and/or
that is about you but individually may not identify you, such as current occupation, geographical location, age; and/or about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through this Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, including, our business partners and agents.
We may also collect information that you may post or otherwise publish on the Dreamers & Doers Circle community - this information we may use to include in a newsletter or other type of content creation, or to deem your suitability to be a member of the Dreamers & Doers community

Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website, specifically, the Dreamers & Doers Membership application which we generate via www.typeform.com. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website (applying as a member), posting material (e.g. in the Circle community), or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when we create content for Dreamers & Doers blog or newsletter, or to obtain feedback on either Dreamers & Doers or other members of Dreamers & Doers.
We also use information you provide us at the time you apply for membership (via Typeform) to create and maintain a “Membership Directory” www.dreamersdoers.com/directory (which is stored via either Airtable https://airtable.com/ or Google Sheets http://www.google.com/sheets and displayed through https://awesome-table.com, https://pory.io/ and https://www.wix.com/) of which you may choose to be included. The Membership Directory includes, your name, an image of you, social profile links, links to personal and professional websites, current occupation, geographical location, interests, potentially a link to your “introduction” and the Member who referred you. At your option, you may choose to edit or add additional information to the Membership Directory, including updated or additional links, keywords, an image, interests, career information, name and more. You can make edits or additions by emailing Dreamers & Doers (membership@dreamersdoers.com).
The Membership Directory (as well as all other information submitted via your Typeform Membership Application) is stored in via Google Sheets and is password-protected via Wix. Dreamers & Doers will only share the password to the Membership Directory with registered Members (who have applied via Typeform, were approved, and are currently a member of the Circle community), but the Company cannot assure that all Members will comply with the restrictions on use of the Directory and disclaims responsibility for any violations of those terms and that the Directory will be secure and will not be accessed by unauthorized persons.
Information you may provide in the Circle community out of your own initiative, or after being prompted through a comment or other type of "nudge" either by a Dreamers & Doers direct or indirect affiliate, or another member. Such information may include personal and/or professional information shared in an introduction about yourself or other type for information or Circle post or Circle comment, you decide to disclose in the Circle community and Non-Member Facebook Groups.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete.
Details evidencing transactions you carry out through our Website, including records concerning payment of our Membership Fees. You may be required to provide financial information to the third party payment processor (Paypal) that we use to process Membership Fees payments. But we do not store credit card information. The third party payment processor may subject you to additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms of Use, to the extent that compliance with them is necessary to ensure that Membership Fees are paid, however, the Company is not responsible for and disclaims responsibility for maintaining or ensuring compliance with any such additional terms and conditions or privacy policies of the payment processor.
Your search queries on the Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on private or public areas of the Websites, or transmitted to other users of the Websites or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Websites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Websites, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). At present, we do not respond to “do not track” signals sent from web browsers.

The information we may collect automatically is statistical data and may include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Websites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of the Websites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. You can control your browser to manage your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Websites and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We also may use Google Analytics and similar tools to help analyze how users use our Service. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect standard Internet log-in information and visitor behavior information. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Websites (including IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' uses of our Service, compile statistical reports on activity on the Service and enhance your experience when you use the Service. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Opt-out Policy:

You may stop or restrict the placement of session cookies, Google’s cookies and third party cookies on your computer by adjusting your web browser preferences. If you do so, you may still use our website, but this may interfere with some of its functionality.
You may also clear cookies from your computer via your web browser settings.
You may also wish to use Google Ads Preferences Manager and a Google Analytics opt-out browser add on. Information on these options is available at http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2700409
We are not responsible for removing any personal information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided your information in accordance with this Notice.

We do not collect personal Information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Some content or applications on the Websites are served by third-parties, which may include advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How we use your information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your Membership, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Websites or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
To send updates on the community, event reminders, thank you notes, holiday greetings, messages from third parties (including special offers).
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To other members (in the form of the Membership Directory mentioned above)
To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Dreamers & Doers, a subsidiary of Trailblazer Ventures, LLC‘s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Dreamers & Doers, a subsidiary of Trailblazer Ventures, LLC about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an e-mail address to use the "refer a friend" feature of our Website or to register for an event (either our own or by a third party), we will transmit the contents of that e-mail and your e-mail address to the recipients.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Dreamers & Doers, a subsidiary of Trailblazer Ventures, LLC, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. We may occasionally mention a Third-Party, usually a partner or sponsor, in a Dreamers & Doers newsletter. If you do not wish to see this kind of mentioning, you can unsubscribe from our newsletter via Mailchimp (http://mailchimp.com/ - unsubscribe link can be found in the Mailchimp email footer of our newsletter) generated unsubscribe button, included in every newsletter we send out or by sending us an e-mail stating your request to privacy@dreamersdoers.com
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services in our newsletter, you can opt-out by unsubscribing via Mailchimp (unsubscribe link can be found in the Mailchimp email footer of our newsletter) or by emailing us directly (privacy@dreamersdoers.com) If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to Membership-related emails

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by emailing us (privacy@dreamersdoers.com). You may also opt out entirely of your information being displayed in the Directory, by emailing privacy@dreamersdoers.com with your request to be removed.

We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you leave the Dreamers & Doers Circle community or are otherwise removed from the Circle community (by your own choice or not), your past User Contributions (via Circle posts) may remain fully intact within the Groups and may be viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use http://www.dreamersdoers.com/terms

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to privacy@dreamersdoers.com.

Notice for Visitors Outside of the United States

You should be aware that the United States and other countries have not harmonized their privacy regulations. Because this Website and its servers are located in the United States, the Company has written its Privacy Policy to satisfy United States regulations. By using the Websites, you agree to the level of privacy protection set out in our Privacy Policy.

Data Security

Any payment transactions are processed by our third party payment (Paypal which privacy policies and terms can be found here https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full and https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/legalhub-full). We do not receive or store and disclaim responsibility for handling of your credit card information. The payment processor has responsibility for handling that information according to its own procedures and policies.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We ask you not to share your access to the Dreamers & Doers Circle community, Dreamers & Doers Membership Directory, Dreamers & Doers Member Application or Dreamers & Doers Referral Form with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards and Circle Posts. The information you share in private and public areas may be viewed by any user of the Websites, even if they gained access to the Website, without our knowledge or without applying for Membership.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Websites.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by e-mail to the primary e-mail address specified in your Membership Application and/or through a notice in the Circle community. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

privacy@dreamersdoers.com.