Privacy Policy

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide certain information that can be used to contact or identify you (“personal data”). Personal data may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Account preferences and interests (such as types of opportunities, discipline, career stage, and work preferences)
• Cookies and Usage Data
• Credit Card Information (for transactional purposes related to donations or payment services. Credit card information is not saved or stored on our website or servers)

Credit card information may be collected only for transactional purposes related to donations or paid services. Credit card information is not stored on our website or servers.

Usage Data

We may collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). Usage Data may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address
• Browser type and version
• Pages visited
• Time and date of visits
• Time spent on pages
• Device identifiers and diagnostic data
• Tracking & Cookies Data

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, or tags (“tracking technology”) to track the activity on our Service. We also allow third parties to use tracking technology on our website, and some of those third parties may track you over time and on different websites. Tracking technology is used for a variety of purposes. These include to make our website function properly, create analytics about visitors to our website, and for advertising or marketing.

You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies and some other tracking technologies. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Some of the third parties that we allow to put tracking technologies on our website maintain their own systems for allowing you to opt-out of being tracked. For example, Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having your activity on the Service used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

We use personal data for various purposes including:

• To provide and maintain the Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features
• To provide customer care and support
• To monitor and analyze usage to improve the Service
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• Platform Personalization

We may use limited user-provided preferences to:

• Improve navigation and search functionality
• Provide relevant recommendations
• Enable features such as saved searches or alerts
• Aggregated & Anonymized Data

We may aggregate and anonymize data so that it cannot be used to identify individual users. This data may be used to:

• Understand audience trends
• Improve platform performance
• Inform internal strategy

In the future, aggregated, non-identifiable data may be used to:

• Provide geographically relevant listings (e.g., “Greater Boston area”)
• Highlight opportunities based on general areas of interest or career stage
• Support clearly labeled sponsored placements in communications (e.g., email alerts)

At no time is user data shared with advertisers.

We do not market to individuals that live outside the United States. If you are outside of the United States, and choose to send personal data to us, your information will subject to the laws of the United States which may offer less protections then the laws of your own country.

Legal Requirements
We may disclose your personal data in the following situations:

• To comply with a legal obligation.
• To protect and defend our rights or property, or the rights or property of someone else.
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing.
• To protect the personal safety of others or the public.
• To protect against legal liability.

In addition to the above situations, we may also disclose your personal data to our service providers, or when you have given us consent.

What We Do Not Do

NYFA does not:

• Sell personal data
• Allow advertisers to access individual user profiles
• Use collected data for unrelated commercial purposes
• Require account creation to access core platform content

The security of your data is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal data we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third party sites.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that data from our servers.

We retain personal data only as long as necessary to:

• Provide Services
• Meet operational and legal requirements

We may retain anonymized data for analytics and reporting purposes.

Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

• Access your personal data
• Request correction or deletion
• Opt out of marketing communications

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: [email protected]
• By phone: (212)366-6900