Rootup’s (“rootup”, “we”, “us”, “our”) mission to make change accessible is rooted in earning and maintaining your trust with us. We commit to communicating transparently and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose your Personally Identifiable Information (as defined below). This Policy describes our practices in connection with Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through the Site.
This Policy does not address our practices regarding information that we collect through any website, or by any other means, other than through the Site; nor does this Policy govern the collection, use or disclosure of information by third parties. By using the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy, please do not use the Site.
We reserve the right to change this Policy without prior notice. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by referring to the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page. Any changes to our Policy will become effective upon our posting of the revised Policy on the Site. Use of the Site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy then in effect.
TG gathers two basic types of information through the Site: “Personally Identifiable Information” (or “PII”) and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” (or “Non-PII”). Personally Identifiable Information is information that identifies a person as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is aggregated information, demographic information and any other information that does not reveal a person’s specific identity.
We keep your PII private. We will not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose your personal information to anyone except as necessary to provide our services or as otherwise described in this Policy.
Upon registration, you provide PII (such as name, email, state if within US, country) to rootup. At the completion of each challenge, you have the opportunity to record your experience with completing a challenge (the “Reflection”). This Reflection asks for (i) your response to an open-ended question; (ii) a photo capturing your experience; (iii) a caption to the photo; and (iv) any progress you’ve made since the last time you logged progress for the challenge.
When you visit and interact with the Site, rootup and its third party service providers and business partners may collect Non-PII (for example, a catalog of the Site pages you visit). Non-PII is generally collected through the Site from five different sources: (i) environmental variables, (ii) cookies, and (iii) pixel tags and other similar technologies.
We and our service providers may also collect certain environmental variables, such as your timezone, MAC address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, OS version, Internet browser, and Internet browser version. These environmental variables are collected by most websites, and can be used to optimize your experience on the Site.
We and our service providers may use “cookies” in connection with the Site. Cookies are data that a web server transfers to an individual’s computer for recordkeeping and other purposes. Cookies are an industry standard used by most websites, and can facilitate users’ ongoing access to and use of a particular website; cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or to be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer of a particular cookie, or cookies from a particular website, to your computer.
We and our service providers may also use so-called “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFs,” or similar means in connection with Site pages and HTML-formatted e-mail messages to, among other things, track the actions of Site users and e-mail recipients and to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage and response rates.
To remind you about information related to the challenges you’ve signed up to complete, we may email or text you. You may opt-in or opt-out in your account settings page. You can also change the frequency of these forms of communication in your account settings page.
rootup may aggregate data we acquire about users. Non-PII, aggregated data may be shared with third parties.
From time to time, in our sole discretion, we may use PII about you to send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information. Because this information may be important to your use of the Site, you may not opt-out of receiving such communications.
Promotional emails. From time to time, we may use PII about you to inform you of products, programs, services and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mails from us, you may opt-out by changing your account settings. We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
E-mails to Friends. We may provide functionality to permit you to send messages regarding Site-related content to a friend through the Site. If you wish to use this feature, you may be required to provide us with, and we may use, your friend’s e-mail address so that we can facilitate your sending of such message to your friend.
Because Non-PII does not personally identify you, we may use such information for any purpose. In addition, we reserve the right to share such Non PII, which does not personally identify you, with third parties, for any purpose.
The Reflection minus the photo in the Reflection constitutes Non-PII because, unless combined with PII, it does not personally identify you or any other user. Additionally, we may aggregate PII in a manner such that the end-product does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site, for example, by using PII to calculate the number of users located in the US. Such aggregate information is considered Non-PII for purposes of this Policy.
Highlighting your Reflection. If rootup would like to highlight your Reflection on our media platforms (such as Twitter and Instagram), rootup may use your name, state, and country to attribute your authorship. The state and country (the “Location”) will only be shared if you have given us permission to do so on your account settings page. Note that users’ default settings allow us to share this location information. A user must change their settings manually to disallow rootup from sharing their location information on rootup’s media platforms. A user may also choose to remain anonymous (i.e. the user’s name will not be shared) on your account settings page. To request that rootup not share any of a user’s reflections on rootup’s media platforms, the user must email rootup at [email protected]
If you have any questions regarding this Policy, please contact us at [email protected]
Click:
a) "Challenges" tab on the nav bar, or
b) "+" on "My Current Challenges" in your dashboard
Tap into a theme, and start a challenge that catches your attention.
(just choose 1-3 to try first)
Then go out and do your challenge(s)!
Show off your impact by logging it in cause it's worth bragging about.
We also want to share your accomplishments and brag about you!
Reflect upon your experience and share with us!
Best part of rootup: hearing about what you've learned & how it's impacted you.
We'll organize the big show and tell
Let your seed remind you that every action matters(!) as it grows.
Be proud of what you do and continually challenge yourself to do more
