Terms and Conditions of Use
Legal aspects and conditions of use of the gather platform ("gather")
gather.cepa-planning.coop
Summary of data protection information:
Responsible party: cepa planning cooperative LWCA ("cepa")
Purpose of this platform: to manage the participation process and encourage collaboration among the community of cepa members, clients, and interested members of the general public.
Legal basis of document: users consent to these terms and conditions by accepting them when creating an account on the gather platform.
Data sharing: your personal data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
Rights: to exercise your rights of personal data access, correction, deletion or other rights recognized in these terms and conditions, you can use the options in the My account section of the site or send an email to gather@cepa-planning.coop.
This legal notice provides information about the main aspects of the digital participation platform gather (gather.cepa-planning.coop), managed by cepa planning cooperative LWCA. The platform aims to promote citizen empowerment through direct, deliberative, and participatory democracy both within cepa planning cooperative and among the network of communities and organizations we serve. The purpose of gather is to promote citizen deliberation and debate, improve the transparency and traceability of participation, and to facilitate face-to-face and digital sharing spaces.
Users who access the platform agree to accept and comply with all provisions of this legal notice and all other applicable provisions. In addition, users agree not to use any of the contents or services provided here for illegal activities of any kind.
General aspects of participation in the gather platform
Any individual 15 years old or older may participate on the gather platform by registering a user account and accepting the terms of use. By accepting these terms of use, the registered person declares that they are 15 years old or older.
Because gather is a meeting space that aims to promote democratic engagement specifically for cepa planning cooperative and its clients, you are obliged to use it in accordance with this objective. cepa planning cooperative LCWA cannot be held responsible for the incorrect use of the gather platform by users or for the content that they provide. You are responsible for using the platform in good faith and in a legal manner, and users are responsible for the content and opinions shared there.
You are not allowed to add any illegal or unauthorized content to the website, such as information that has the following characteristics:
is false or deceptive;
that infringes any right of cepa planning cooperative LWCA, its clients, or any third party, such as copyright, trademarks or other intellectual and industrial property rights or other related rights;
that violates the privacy of a third party, such as publishing personal details of the participants, such as the name, address, telephone number, email, photographs or any other personal information;
that contains malicious code or other programs that may harm the gather website/systems or the website/systems of any third party;
attempts to send spam to users or overload the system;
that has a commercial purpose outside those directly related to cepa planning cooperative LWCA or its projects;
that is not in accordance with public decency; Consequently, the content must not incite hatred, discriminate, threaten, provoke, or have a sexual, violent or purposefully offensive character;
that infringes a law or applicable regulation;
that creates multiple user accounts simulating different people (astroturfing).
cepa is not responsible for the quality, originality, authenticity, legality or security of the contents that users contribute to the platform. However, we reserve the right to eliminate opinions, information, comments, proposals or files that contradict these terms of use, and can install filters for this purpose. We also reserve the right to suspend, without notice, the activities of a participant on the platform, to deactivate accounts, erase content, eliminate accounts or send a notice of warning, in the case of use of the platform in violation of these terms and conditions.
Information about the processing of personal data
Both data privacy and the confidentiality of information are important aspects that we take into account when managing this platform. This data protection policy establishes the way that personal data obtained through the gather platform is processed.
Identification of the owner responsible for the data:
The owner responsible for the processing of user and subscriber data is:
cepa planning cooperative LWCA, 12412 S Oak Park Ave, Palos Heights, IL 60463 USA
Purpose of the data collection, legal basis and conservation periods
gather is a digital platform that manages contact between members and clients of cepa planning cooperative LWCA. The purpose of the platform is to facilitate wider participation in democratic processes that help shape partner neighborhoods, cities, and organizations. Personal data collected on this platform will be used only for the following purposes:
to manage user questions and respond to any request you send us through web-based forms or any other means of contact.
to manage user subscriptions.
to verify the geographic location of participants where necessary to ensure that they are valid participants in location-based projects.
to develop internal statistical analyses, measurements and studies on participation processes, users and their needs, trends, interests and preferences.
send informative communications (such as an electronic newsletter): At the time of the collection of personal data you will be asked for your consent to be able to send you information about the activities, contents and processes related to this platform. The user may revoke their consent at any time, communicating their wish not to receive further communications by following the instructions indicated at the bottom of each of the shipments they receive.
By accepting these terms and conditions of use during registration, you accept the conditions listed above.
The conservation period: the data will be deleted when requested by the owner or at a time agreed by cepa project partners.
Recipients of personal data
Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties except by legal obligation to judges and courts that request it through judicial processes or in the framework of a police investigation.
Your username is public, therefore it will be visible on the platform. Keep in mind that the images and communications made on the platform (comments, proposals, etc.) will also be public access. However, data related to decision-making (e.g., whether you support a proposal or validate a budget), or your email address will never be made public.
Data rights of users
Anyone has the right to obtain information about what personal data is being processed on the gather platform. Below, we indicate your rights:
• Users have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the correction of inaccurate data or, if applicable, request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected.
• The user has the right to receive the personal data that was provided during participation in the gather platform. This data may be downloaded automatically in the My Account > My Data section of the website.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE DELETION OF DATA:
In relation to the comments, content and contributions published by users, keep in mind that in some cases, and given the public nature of the initiatives, complete deletion can not be enforced. However, anonymization of the data will be carried out automatically upon user account deletion provided that this process does not hinder the completion of processes in which the user participated.
Data security
Taking into account the nature of the data we collect and the purpose for which it is used, cepa planning cooperative LWCA takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of data security for our users. These measures are designed to prevent the destruction, the loss, or accidental or unlawful alteration of personal data transmitted, preserved or otherwise processed, or unauthorized communication or access of this data.
Use of the content provided by users
This section details the terms of use applicable to the content sent by users of this platform (hereafter called "content"). This content does not include personal data (expect the public name of the user) that are provided when registering and/or verifying an account, and only includes public content provided by the user (comments, proposals, etc.). These conditions apply to both the content initially sent to the gather platform and to any content that is subsequently sent or included in works created by cepa planning cooperative LWCA or its members:
Non-confidentiality: All content sent by the user to public sections of the gather platform will be available to the public and will therefore be considered non-confidential information.
Publicity or dissemination of the contents presented: By participating on the public areas of the gather platform, you consent to that information being published in materials and presentations created by or for members of cepa planning cooperative LWCA.
Intellectual property: Unless otherwise indicated, any contents protected by the intellectual property that the user contributes to this website will be subject to a Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Equal (CC-BY-SA) license.
Warning and withdrawal procedure: Any person with a reason to do so may request the removal of content that fails to comply with the legal notice and the present terms and conditions of use; The request may be made by using the report function on the platform, or through an email to gather@cepa-planning.coop. We reserve the right to make any necessary verification of violations prior to the removal of any content.
Copyright, reuse of information and other rights to the website and its contents
As a cooperative, cepa encourages the use of open licenses, the creation of derivative works and the reuse and modification of the works contained in this website, provided that the original authorship is acknowledged and the same license is maintained over the content. The gather platform itself was developed using the open source software decidim (decidim.org) which is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License (APGL-3.0).
Unless indicated otherwise, the contents protected by intellectual property disclosed on this platform are subject, by default, to a Creative Commons - Recognition - Share Equal (CC-BY-SA) license. In accordance with this license, any person may use the protected contents, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided the authorship is acknowledged and the resulting work is disseminated under the same license CC-BY-SA. This license will be applied both to the contents provided by cepa planning cooperative LWCA and to the contents contributed by users of this website.
cepa planning cooperative LWCA allows the reuse of all the information and data disseminated through this website, subject to the following conditions:
You must recognize the authorship appropriately, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes have been made.
You can not indicate that cepa planning cooperative LWCA sponsors or supports the activity in which the information is reused.
cepa planning cooperative LWCA will respect all third party intellectual or industrial property rights over the content sent by users, and assumes no responsibility, directly or indirectly, with regard to any type of dispute, dispute and / or litigation that may arise from the publication, disclosure and / or dissemination of the contents provided without the consent of its legitimate owners or without the protection of any use permitted by law.