Last updated March 12, 2024

Welcome to www.ThePeople.org, www.meetingofamerica.us, and www.nhtogether.us, the websites and online services of One People, Inc. (“The People, Inc.”). The People knows you care how your information is used, stored, and shared. This Privacy Policy explains what information of yours will be collected by The People when you use our online services, how the information will be used, and how you can control the collection, correction and/or deletion of your information. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy governs the website www.thepeople.org, www.nhtogether.us, meetingofamerica.us and any electronic communication(s) sent out by the organization. The website and electronic communications are owned and operated by The People.

Information We Collect

User-Provided Information: We collect information from you when you register on our website(s), make a donation, purchase branded gear, subscribe to a newsletter, register for an online or in-person event, respond to a survey, fill out a form, or enter information on our website. You may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or other details to enable The People to help you with your experience and to adhere to applicable state and federal laws. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses. We may also retain any messages you send through www.ThePeople.org . You may provide us information in user content you post to www.thepeople.org , including feedback or comments.

The People may also collect other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our site, including your IP address or your Internet Service Provider. The People may log this information in aggregated forms to monitor our site and to measure site performance.

If you participate in our online and in-person conversations we may request your permission to record those conversations without names associated, and share that audio with Cortico (cortico.ai), to assist in analyzing dialogue. Analyzing conversations for the purpose of enabling participants to build on their work in a progressive fashion is a core element of the service we provide. Any participant included in recorded meetings will have provided informed, written permission for this activity as a condition of participating in the conversation. Cortico maintains a unique cooperation agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that enables collaboration on IP, prototyping, and field pilots. These audio recordings will be deleted within 24 months after being recorded.

Squarespace & WordPress Services

The People’s websites are hosted by Squarespace and WordPress. 

- Analytics -

www.ThePeople.org, www.meetingofamerica.us, and www.nhtogether.us collect personal data to power site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with our website analytics providers (Squarespace, WordPress, and JetPack), to learn about site traffic, track trends on our websites, and make decisions to improve our sites’ performance.

- Cookies -

By using www.ThePeople.org, www.meetingofamerica.us, and www.nhtogether.us, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses or the cookies that WordPress uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace and WordPress to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

- Forms -

When you submit information to this website via webforms  (e.g. Contact Us), we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We receive this information via a Google Mail account in our Google Workspace.

- Website Visitors -

Both Squarespace and WordPress collect personal data when you visit our websites, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Web pages you view while on this website

• Your IP address

Squarespace and WordPress need the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace and WordPress analyze the data in a depersonalized form.

- Fonts -

The People uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display their sites to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Your IP address

Google Services

- Analytics -

The People uses Google Analytics to help understand the use of the  www.thepeople.org, www.nhtogether.us, and www.meetingofamerica.us websites. This service collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address, and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.

- reCAPTCHA -

The People uses Google reCAPTCHA to help prevent spam and block "bots." The program uses anonymous information about the user's activity on the site to determine whether the user is a real person or a "bot."

Third Party Services

The People uses other platforms to organize our community of members, supporters and prospects. When you visit www.thepeople org or affiliated websites, third parties may send one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets these parties help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through  www.thepeople org. A cookie does not collect personal information about you. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. Keep in mind that some features of twww.thepeople.org  may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Additional Terms

- How We Use Your Information -

We use the personal information you submit to operate, maintain, and provide to you the full  features and functionality of the  www.ThePeople.org,  www.nhtogether.us, and www.meetingofamerica.us websites. 

For Registration: When you sign up for an event via our website(s), we collect your name, email address and account credentials. Registration is not required to use our platform or website. If you are merely a visitor, we only collect limited information through the use of cookies. For information related to our use of cookies please see the information provided below.

For Newsletter Signups: When you sign up for a One People, Inc. (“The People” or “NH Together”) mailing list, we collect your name and email address. You can opt-out of receiving any communications by contacting us at info@thepeople.org  or by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in the communication that was sent to you.

For Online Events/ Meetings: We gather information through voluntary questionnaires, event registration forms, surveys and feedback programs. We ask you for your consent to use this information when you participate in these programs and events.

By providing The People your email address (including by “following,” “liking,” linking your account to www.thepeople.org, nhtogether.us or meetingofamerica.us on a third party website or network), you consent to our using the email address to send you The People’s program-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. You also agree that we may send you notifications of activity on www.thepeople.org or its affiliated sites to the email address you give us, in accordance with any applicable privacy settings. We may use your email address to send you other messages, such as newsletters, changes to features of www.thepeople.org or its affiliated sites, or other information. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt out by changing your subscription preferences using the link at the bottom of email messages received.

Following termination or deactivation of your The People account, The People may retain your profile information and user content for a reasonable time for archival purposes. Furthermore, The People may retain and continue to use indefinitely all information (including user content) contained in your communications to other users or posted to public or semi-public areas of www.thepeople.org or its affiliated sites after termination or deactivation of your account.

The People reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the user content you post on www.thepeople.org or affiliated sites. We reserve the right to remove any such information or material for any reason, including without limitation if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any applicable law or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. The People also reserves the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.

- How We Share Your Information -

Personally Identifiable Information: The People will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to others. The People may share your personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of providing thepeople.org services to you. If we do this, such third parties’ use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of The People (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).

Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the www.thepeople.org, nhtogether.us or meetingofamerica.us  websites,  such as user content, becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy or website customization settings. When signing up to volunteer, donating, or submitting information on another form, you will have the option to not post your content publicly if a social stream is available. If you remove information that you posted to www.thepeople.org, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or if other users have copied or saved that information.

As required by law, we will use your personal information, including name, address, employer, and occupation, as necessary to meet all applicable state and federal laws.

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, The People will not disclose personal information to any third party unless required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce this policy, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of www.thepeople.org, nhtogether.us or meetingofamerica.us , our users or others.

- How We Protect Your Information -

We value the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to The People or guarantee that your information on our affiliated websites may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of third-party providers, such as social networks. The People is not responsible for the functionality or security measures of any third party.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications from The People, at all times.

- Compromise of Personal Information -

In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, The People will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

- Your Choices About Your Information -

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through thepeople.org, in which case The People may not be able to provide certain services to you, including the ability to make financial contributions to The People. You can review and correct the information about you that The People keeps on file by contacting us directly at info@thepeople.org .

- Children’s Privacy -

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to us. For that reason, The People does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for www.thepeople.org  accounts. If you are under the age of 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under the age of 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on thepeople.org by our website’s express terms. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at info@thepeople.org.

- Links to Other Websites -

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from www.thepeople.org, nhtogether.us or meetingofamerica.us , nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from www.thepeople.org, nhtogether.us or meetingofamerica.us  to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing of and interaction with any other website, including those that have a link on our website, are subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

- Notification Procedures -

It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on www.thepeople.org , as determined by The People in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and responsibilities. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@thepeople.org. You can also contact One People, Inc. (“The People”) by sending a letter to One People, Inc, 2153 Wealthy Street, SE #194, Grand Rapids, MI 49506. Please include your contact information, the name of the One People, Inc. site or service, and a detailed description of your request or concern.