Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal ground they rely on to use or disclose information that can be directly linked to or used to identify you. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds for processing such information are as follows: To Honor Our Contractual Commitments to You. Much of our processing of information is to meet our contractual obligations to provide services to our users. Legitimate Interests. In many cases, we handle information on the ground that it furthers our legitimate interests in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals, these include: • Customer service • Marketing, advertising, and fundraising • Protecting our users, personnel, and property • Managing user accounts • Organizing and running events and programs • Analyzing and improving our business • Managing legal issues We may also process information for the same legitimate interests of our users and business partners. Legal Compliance. We may need to use and disclose information in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations. We may disclose and/or share your information under the following circumstances: Service Providers. We may disclose your information with third parties who perform services on our behalf, including without limitation, event management, marketing, customer support, data storage, data analysis and processing, and legal services. Legal Compliance and Protection of Creative Commons and Others. We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or on a good faith belief that such disclosure is permitted by this Privacy Policy or reasonably necessary or appropriate for any of the following reasons: (a) to comply with legal process; (b) to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) enforce our Charter including the Code of Conduct and policies contained and incorporated therein, (d) to respond to your requests for customer service; and/or (e) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of company, our agents and affiliates, our users, and the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes. Business Transfers. As we continue to develop our business, we may engage in certain business transactions, such as the transfer or sale of our assets. In such transactions, (including in contemplation of such transactions, e.g., due diligence) your information may be disclosed. If any of our assets are sold or transferred to a third party, customer information (including your email address) would likely be one of the transferred business assets. Affiliated Companies. We may disclose your information with current or future affiliated companies. Consent. We may disclose your information to any third parties based on your consent to do so. Aggregate/De-identified Information. We may disclose de-identified and/or aggregated data for any purpose to third parties, including advertisers, promotional partners, and/or others.