WOMEN AND THE WIND INC and WOMEN AND THE WIND DOC LLC ("Women & the Wind," "W&W," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit www.womenandthewind.com (the "Website"), contact us, sign up for communications, submit an application, make a donation or purchase, request a screening, volunteer with us, or otherwise interact with Women & the Wind through the Website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described below.

Women & the Wind Inc. is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization organized and operated for charitable purposes under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.

Our mission is to support women-led, environmentally focused adventure projects through resources including funding, mentorship, community, fiscal sponsorship, and related support.

For questions about this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, contact:

Women & the Wind Inc.
Email: hello@womenandthewind.com

The information we collect depends on how you interact with us.

Information you provide directly

You may provide personal information when you:

• Subscribe to our newsletter or other email communications;

• Contact us by email or through a website form;

• Apply for or inquire about a community, cinema, or festival screening;

• Submit an application for a grant or other program;

• Apply to volunteer or work with Women & the Wind;

• Make a donation or film contribution;

• Purchase merchandise through our online shop;

• Request information or otherwise communicate with us; or

• Participate in events, programs, campaigns, or other activities operated or supported by Women & the Wind.

Depending on the interaction, this information may include:

• Name;

• Email address;

• Telephone number;

• Mailing or billing address;

• Organization, business, or professional information;

• Information about your project, proposed expedition, creative work, environmental work, or organization;

• Information included in applications or other communications;

• Donation or purchase information;

• Any other information you voluntarily choose to provide.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is reasonably necessary for the particular application or service.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically by the Website, its hosting platform, analytics services, or other technical services.

This may include:

• IP address;

• Browser type and version;

• Device type;

• Operating system;

• Approximate geographic location derived from technical information;

• Pages visited;

• Referring websites;

• Date and time of visits;

• Information about how you interact with the Website; and

• Other technical or usage information.

This information is generally used to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the Website and to understand how visitors use it.

We may use personal information for purposes including:

• Providing, operating, and maintaining the Website;

• Responding to inquiries and communications;

• Sending newsletters and other communications you have requested;

• Processing donations and contributions;

• Processing merchandise purchases;

• Administering grant, screening, volunteer, and other applications;

• Evaluating grant applications and program participation;

• Communicating with applicants, donors, customers, volunteers, filmmakers, screening hosts, and other members of our community;

• Organizing and administering events and screenings;

• Maintaining appropriate organizational and financial records;

• Understanding Website usage and improving our programs, communications, and Website;

• Preventing fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity;

• Protecting the security and integrity of our Website and systems;

• Complying with legal, accounting, tax, regulatory, and other applicable obligations; and

• Carrying out other purposes that are disclosed to you when information is collected or that are reasonably related to the purpose for which you provided it.

We do not sell your personal information as a business practice.

If you voluntarily subscribe to our newsletter or other communications, we may use your email address to send you updates about Women & the Wind, our documentary, screenings, programs, grants, fundraising, events, and related activities.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us at hello@womenandthewind.com.

Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not necessarily remove your information from other records that we are required or permitted to retain, such as donation, purchase, grant, or legal records.

Women & the Wind may collect personal and project information through grant, program, volunteer, screening, and similar applications.

Application information may be reviewed by authorized Women & the Wind personnel, board members, committee members, advisors, contractors, or other individuals involved in administering the relevant program, where reasonably necessary for that purpose.

For grant applications, information may be used to determine eligibility, evaluate applications, communicate with applicants, administer the selection process, document grant decisions, and administer grants.

We will not use confidential application information for unrelated marketing purposes without an appropriate legal basis or your permission.

Where an application asks for information about other people, applicants should provide that information only where they are authorized to do so.

Women & the Wind is a storytelling and documentary organization. We may publicly identify grant recipients, screening partners, collaborators, volunteers, filmmakers, donors, or other participants where appropriate and where we have a lawful basis to do so.

We will not publicly publish information submitted to an application merely because it was submitted.

If we wish to use someone's personal story, photograph, likeness, testimonial, project materials, or other personal content for promotional, documentary, editorial, fundraising, or storytelling purposes, we may request appropriate permission or rely on another lawful basis where applicable.

The Website may allow visitors to make donations, film contributions, or purchases.

Payment transactions are processed through third-party payment and commerce providers. Depending on the transaction, those providers may collect information such as payment card details, billing information, shipping information, and transaction information.

Women & the Wind does not intentionally collect or store complete payment-card numbers through ordinary Website forms.

Third-party payment providers may process personal information according to their own privacy policies and terms. We encourage you to review those policies when completing a transaction.

We may retain information about donations and purchases as reasonably necessary for financial records, tax reporting, accounting, customer service, fraud prevention, and legal compliance.

If you purchase merchandise through the Website, we may receive information necessary to fulfill and administer your order, such as your name, email address, shipping address, billing information, order details, and transaction information.

Information may be shared with payment processors, commerce platforms, fulfillment providers, shipping providers, and other service providers when reasonably necessary to complete your order.

The Website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files or identifiers stored on or associated with your device that help websites function and remember information about visitors.

We may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:

• Operating essential Website functions;

• Remembering preferences;

• Understanding Website traffic and usage;

• Measuring the effectiveness of communications and campaigns;

• Improving Website performance;

• Maintaining security; and

• Supporting embedded or third-party Website functionality.

Some cookies may be placed by third-party services used on the Website.

Your browser may allow you to control or block certain cookies. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some portions of the Website.

Because the specific cookies and third-party services used on the Website may change over time, we may update this section as our Website configuration changes.

The Website contains links to and may incorporate content or functionality from third-party websites and services.

These may include services used for:

• Film viewing and distribution;

• Community and cinema screenings;

• Donations and payments;

• Merchandise sales;

• Email communications;

• Social media;

• Video and audio content;

• Forms and applications;

• Analytics;

• Event information; and

• Other organizational or operational purposes.

Examples of third-party destinations currently linked from the Website include Kinema, social media platforms, YouTube, Google-hosted materials, and other organizations and media outlets.

When you follow a link to or interact directly with a third-party service, that service may collect information about you according to its own privacy policy. Women & the Wind does not control the privacy practices of independent third parties.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.

We may share personal information with third parties when reasonably necessary to operate Women & the Wind and provide our programs and services.

These recipients may include:

• Website hosting and technology providers;

• Email and communications providers;

• Payment processors;

• E-commerce and fulfillment providers;

• Shipping providers;

• Cloud storage and productivity providers;

• Application and form-management providers;

• Analytics providers;

• Event, screening, and film-distribution partners;

• Professional advisors such as attorneys, accountants, and consultants;

• Contractors and service providers acting on our behalf;

• Authorized grant reviewers, committee members, advisors, or program administrators; and

• Government authorities or other parties where required by law or necessary to protect our legal rights, safety, security, or property.

We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.

Women & the Wind serves an international community, and some of our service providers may be located in countries other than the country in which you live.

As a result, personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries that may have different data-protection laws from those in your country.

Where required by applicable law, we take appropriate measures to provide lawful safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and why we collected it.

For example:

• Newsletter information may be retained until you unsubscribe or the information is otherwise no longer reasonably necessary;

• Donation and purchase records may be retained as required for accounting, tax, financial, and legal purposes;

• Application information may be retained for purposes of administering the relevant program, documenting decisions, resolving disputes, and maintaining appropriate organizational records;

• General inquiries may be retained as reasonably necessary to respond and maintain organizational records; and

• Technical and analytics information may be retained according to the practices of the relevant service providers.

When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete it, anonymize it, or otherwise dispose of it securely, subject to legal and operational requirements.

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

If you believe your information has been compromised or you have a security concern relating to the Website, please contact us at hello@womenandthewind.com.

Depending on where you live and the law applicable to you, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• Know whether we process your personal information;

• Request access to personal information we hold about you;

• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;

• Request deletion of personal information, subject to applicable exceptions;

• Request restriction of certain processing;

• Object to certain processing;

• Request portability of certain information;

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;

• Opt out of certain marketing communications; and

• Lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us at:

hello@womenandthewind.com

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. We will not ask you to provide passwords, payment-card numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive credentials for the purpose of making a privacy request.

Where Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais ("LGPD") applies to our processing of your personal information, you may have rights provided by applicable Brazilian law.

These may include rights to:

• Confirmation of whether personal data is being processed;

• Access to personal data;

• Correction of incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated data;

• Anonymization, blocking, or deletion of unnecessary or excessively processed data, where applicable;

• Data portability, subject to applicable regulations and legal limitations;

• Information about public and private entities with which we have shared your data;

• Information about the possibility of refusing consent and the consequences of doing so;

• Revocation of consent where consent is the applicable legal basis;

• Review of certain automated decisions where applicable; and

• Other rights provided by the LGPD.

Requests may be submitted to:

hello@womenandthewind.com

We will respond to requests in accordance with applicable law.

Where the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), UK GDPR, or other applicable European data-protection law applies, we process personal information only where we have an appropriate legal basis.

Depending on the circumstances, those legal bases may include:

• Your consent;

• Performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering into a contract;

• Compliance with a legal obligation;

• Our legitimate interests, where those interests are not overridden by your rights; or

• Another lawful basis permitted by applicable law.

Where applicable, individuals in the EEA or United Kingdom may exercise rights including access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection supervisory authority in the country where you live, work, or believe a violation occurred.

Privacy rights in the United States vary by state.

Women & the Wind is a nonprofit organization, and not every state privacy law applies to us. Where a state privacy law applies to our processing of your information, we will honor the rights and obligations required by that law.

Regardless of where you live, you may contact us regarding questions or requests concerning your personal information at hello@womenandthewind.com.

The Website is not directed specifically toward children under 13, and we do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children under 13 through the Website.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate parental or guardian consent, please contact us at hello@womenandthewind.com.

Where applicable law establishes a higher age threshold or additional protections for minors, we will comply with those requirements.

If you submit personal information about another person through an application, form, screening request, volunteer application, or other communication, you should do so only when you are authorized to provide that information.

Where required by law, you should ensure that the person has been informed that their information may be provided to Women & the Wind.

The Website may provide opportunities to submit information concerning projects, creative works, expeditions, environmental initiatives, and other ideas.

Unless a particular application or agreement expressly states otherwise, submitting information to Women & the Wind does not create a confidential relationship between you and Women & the Wind.

Please do not submit passwords, financial-account credentials, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive information through ordinary Website forms or email unless we specifically request it and provide an appropriate method for doing so.

Our Website contains links to external websites operated by organizations, filmmakers, media outlets, environmental organizations, screening partners, social networks, and other third parties.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of those external websites.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by Women & the Wind through our Website and our own interactions with you, unless we expressly state otherwise.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our Website, programs, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

When we make changes, we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or have a concern about how your information is handled, please contact:

Women & the Wind Inc.
Email: hello@womenandthewind.com

We will make reasonable efforts to respond to privacy inquiries within the period required by applicable law.