Privacy Policy.

Effective Date: February 2, 2025

Privacy Policy for IDEALIST LLC

At IDEALIST, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the types of personal information we collect, how we use it, and the steps we take to safeguard it. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Information We Collect
We collect personal data to power our site analytics, including information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address. We may also collect data about your interactions with our website, such as clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. This information is shared with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to help us learn about site traffic and activity.

2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to collect data. Cookies are small files or pieces of text that are downloaded to your device when you visit our website or app. You can learn more about the cookies we use and how to view them by visiting this article detailing the cookies Squarespace uses. These necessary and required cookies are always used to securely serve our website. Analytics and performance cookies are used only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. These cookies allow us to view site traffic and activity to improve our services.

3. Personal Information for Purchases and Subscriptions
When you make a purchase on our website, we collect personal information to fulfill your order, including your billing and shipping address, details related to your purchase (e.g., shirt size), email address, name, and phone number. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, to provide website services. Our payment processor(s) will also collect payment information, and you can read their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy

During checkout, we may use the Google Places API to auto-complete your shipping and billing address to improve your checkout experience. When you submit information via webform, we collect the data requested to track and respond to your submissions. This data is shared with Squarespace and, in some cases, other third-party services like Zapier for data porting. For membership subscriptions, we collect similar personal details to provide access to exclusive member content, and this information is shared with Squarespace for hosting services.

4. Host and Data Sharing with Third Parties
This website is hosted by Squarespace, which collects personal data, including information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to visiting our site, and your IP address. Squarespace requires this data to run the website and to protect and improve its platform. The data is analyzed in a de-personalized form. We also include share buttons for third-party services (e.g., social media platforms). If you share content via these services, they may collect your personal data, including your IP address and details about the content you shared. Squarespace does not knowingly Sell or Share the personal information of children under 16.

5. Comments, Likes, and Customer Accounts
If you comment on our website, we collect personal data such as your name (displayed with your comment) and optionally your email address and website URL. If you "like" a post, we collect data to prevent duplicate likes during the same visit. If you create a customer account, we collect personal information such as your billing and shipping address(es), order details, email address, name, and phone number. This data is shared with Squarespace to improve checkout and customer service.

6. Marketing Communications
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from using the link at the bottom of the email. Your contact information will be shared with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, to send these emails on our behalf.

7. Order and Account Activity Notifications
We may send you email notifications related to your order or account, such as order confirmations, shipping updates, or account activity notifications. These emails cannot be unsubscribed from.

8. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
This website serves font files and other content via third-party services like Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. These services may collect information about your browser, device, and IP address. We may also include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content.

9. Payment Processing
For purchases, we use Square’s payment processing system, an industry-leading business technology platform that securely and efficiently processes your transactions with robust encryption and protection. If you have any questions, we invite you to review Square's Privacy Notice, Square's Information Collection Policies, and Square's Data Security Measures.

10. Security of Your Data
We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information and follow industry best practices to prevent it from being lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. If you provide credit card information, it is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with AES-256 encryption. Although no transmission method over the internet is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional security standards.

11. How We Use Your Information
We may use personal information (including sensitive personal information) about you for any purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy or as permitted by applicable law, including to:

  • Manage our Sites and Services, including your registration and account;

  • Process and facilitate your transactions, including purchases made through our online stores and auctions;

  • Provide access to free and/or purchased downloads and other similar content;

  • Customize your browsing and shopping experience on the Sites;

  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and to provide customer service;

  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, information regarding changes to our policies, and support and administrative messages;

  • Prevent and address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm;

  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities;

  • Conduct research, including focus groups and surveys;

  • Improve the Sites, Services, or other IDEALIST applications, marketing efforts, products and services;

  • Tailor and serve advertisements to you, and to send you marketing communications regarding our products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events we think you may be interested in (for information about how to manage these communications and marketing efforts, please see “Your Choices” below);

  • Evaluate applications for employment and other employment-related purposes;

  • Verify or authenticate your identity in relation to requests you make or communications you send;

  • Comply with legal obligations;

  • If you engage with us in a business-to-business capacity on behalf of your employer, in addition to the above, we also use your personal information to administer and manage our relationship with you and your employer (such as record keeping, payments, communicating with you, tracking outcomes, and verifying your eligibility and suitability); 

  • Fulfill any other purpose disclosed at the time you provide personal information.

We will not use information we’ve collected from you for purposes that are materially different, unrelated, or incompatible with this Privacy Policy without providing you with prior notice. Information that has been deidentified or aggregated is not subject to this Privacy Policy, and we and our Service Providers may use it without obligation to you except as prohibited by applicable law.

12. Public Information and Interactive Features
Certain areas of the Sites and Services are designed to help you share information with the public and other users, such as public comment sections or other interactive features. If you choose to make information public through the Sites or Services, other users will have access to it. We cannot guarantee that the information you make public through the Sites or Services will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please think carefully before making information public. You are solely responsible for information you make public.

13. Promotions and Third-Party Sharing
We may share information with shared third parties in relation to the sweepstakes, contests, surveys, and other promotions that we run from time to time, either by ourselves or jointly with another organization. If you voluntarily choose to enter such a promotion, we will disclose your personal information to third parties for administrative purposes and as required by law (e.g., by publishing your information as part of a legally required winners list, if you win), and we may share your information with a co-sponsor.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the effective date will be updated accordingly. Please review this policy periodically for any updates.

15. Contact Information
Idealist welcomes your questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy. Please contact us at Contact@TheIdealistProject.com.

By using this website, you acknowledge and agree to this Privacy Policy.


Last updated Feb 20, 2025