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and the Rhodes Trust

Cookie Policy

Effective Date: October 23, 2021

We at Rise respect your concerns about privacy. When you visit the Rise websites or use our mobile app (the “Rise Sites” or “Sites”), we obtain certain information by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons (including pixels and tags), web server logs and other technologies (collectively “Cookies”). This Cookie Policy explains how we use Cookies, their purposes, and how you can control them. Our use of Cookies may involve the processing of personal data. For more information about our data protection practices in connection with the Rise program, please visit our Rise Program Privacy Notice.

Click on one of the links below to jump to the listed section:

  1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
  2. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE OBTAIN THROUGH COOKIES?
  3. COOKIES USED ON THE SITES- Essential Cookies- Functional Cookies- Analytics Cookies- Advertising Cookies- Social Media Cookies
  4. YOUR CHOICES
  5. CONTACT US

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon”, also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, links web pages to web servers and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. We refer to all of these and similar technologies as “Cookies” for purposes of this Policy.

2. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE OBTAIN THROUGH COOKIES?

The information we obtain through Cookies includes your device IP address, identifiers associated with your devices, types of devices connected to our services, web browser characteristics, device characteristics, language preferences, referring/exit pages, clickstream data, and dates and times of website visits. We also collect general demographic data including age, gender, location if available.

3. COOKIES USED ON THE SITES

Essential Cookies

These Cookies are essential to use and navigate our Sites. Essential Cookies help us collect information, such as your IP address, session ID and other server information that enables us to authenticate users and to note their acceptance to notices, consents and policies displayed on our Sites. Essential Cookies are deleted within a month or longer after you end your browsing session.

Functional Cookies

These Cookies collect information about your choices or remember your preferences so we can show you relevant content and personalize the Sites. They allow us, for example, to remember the region you are visiting our Sites from during a browsing session, your language preferences and other preferences indicated during your visit to the Sites. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Functional Cookies are deleted within a month or longer after you end your browsing session. These Cookies will be set if you allow us to do so. If you do not allow these Cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of our Sites.

Analytics Cookies

The Sites use analytics Cookies to collect information about how you navigate through and use Sites, including the pages you view, how long you stay on a page and whether the page is displayed correctly or whether errors occur. Such cookies help us to improve performance and make the Sites more user-friendly. These Cookies will be set if you allow us to do so. Some of these Cookies are persistent Cookies, which remain on your computer or other Internet-connected device for 28 days for Facebook and a reasonable period of time for Google Analytics/Tag Manager after you end your browsing session, unless you delete them or the Cookie expires, if applicable. These Cookies are provided by third-party analytics providers, including Google Analytics and Facebook Analytics. For more information about Google Analytics and how you can opt-out, please click here.

The following analytics Cookies are used on the Sites:

Name of Cookie : Google Analytics / Tag Manager
Purpose of Use: Understand the use of our Sites, and improve the performance or design of the Sites.
Duration: Up to 2 Years

Name of Cookie : Facebook Analytics/Pixel
Purpose of Use: Understand paid social media performance and optimize ad-campaigns, and to support retargeting.
Duration: 28 days

Advertising Cookies

Advertising Cookies are used to control and manage our digital content and communication initiatives. These Cookies may collect information about whether a user has interacted with an advertisement and visited another website. Such Cookies help us to offer you content that may be of interest to you and provide targeted information that seems more relevant to your interests. They also help us to measure the effectiveness of our advertisements and to control and limit the frequency of advertisements and other information being displayed to you. These Cookies will be set if you allow us to do so. Some of these Cookies are persistent Cookies, which remain on your computer or other Internet-connected device for a reasonable period of time after you end your browsing session, unless you delete them or the Cookie expires, if applicable.

The following advertising Cookies are used on our Sites:

Name of Cookie : Google Analytics / Tag Manager
Purpose of Use: Understand the use of our Sites, and improve the performance or design of the Sites
Duration: Up to 2 Years

Name of Cookie : Facebook Analytics/Pixel
Purpose of Use: Understand paid social media performance and optimize ad-campaigns, and to support retargeting
Duration: 28 days

Social Media Cookies

In some circumstances, we work with third parties, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, to connect to certain social networks and to provide certain services to our users and additional features, (including the ability to see videos, or share to social networks). These third parties use Cookies to collect information on our Sites, including via plug-ins and widgets so that they can present you with digital content which may be of interest to you. Some of these Cookies are persistent Cookies, which remain on your computer or other Internet-connected device reasonable period of time after you end your browsing session, unless you delete them or the Cookie expires, if applicable.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the third parties who set Cookies in connection with social media services. For more information about the privacy practices of these third parties, please visit the privacy statements of such third parties.

4. YOUR CHOICES

The Sites do not use non-essential cookies unless you agree to their use through our cookie banner and this Cookie Policy. At any time, you may visit this Cookie Policy to withdraw your consent or amend your preferences by ticking the relevant check-box above. You may also stop Cookies from being downloaded on your computer by selecting the appropriate settings on your web browser. Most web browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new Cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new Cookie and how to disable existing Cookies.

Click on the links below to find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Opera
  • Apple Safari

You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. For mobile devices, you can manage how your device and browser share certain device data by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your mobile device. Please note, however, that without Cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Sites.

5. CONTACT US

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation (“SIF”) is responsible for the use of Cookies on the Sites. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@risechallenge.org. You also may write to: Attn: Rise Website - Cookies, 155 West 23rd Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10011.