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OTF Group’s new book In the River They Swim brings together a unique mix of perspectives to address the challenge of poverty alleviation and growth creation. Contributors range from OTF advisors on the frontlines of development to leaders like President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Michael Fairbanks, and Pastor Rick Warren. More >>

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Pioneers of Prosperity is founded on the fact that innovative ideas and dynamic business models exist in even the most challenging markets, and that greater prosperity will ensue if these local models of success are better understood, supported, and showcased. More >>

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets forth the policies established by OTF Group, Inc. (“OTF Group”) with respect to information including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) and other information that is collected from you when using the site www.otfgroup.com (the “Site.”). This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 5th, 2009.

Information We Collect

When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:

Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site:
We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily choose to provide such information when you contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys, participate in any of our competitions, register for access to any content available on the Site, register to be included on any mailing or contact lists, to refer other individuals to this Site or for the purpose of conducting or proposing any work with Seven. By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to our offices and servers and to those of any of our service providers, and their affiliates and contractors. It is Seven’s policy to refrain from selling or transferring Personal Data to third parties except as expressly provided in this Privacy Policy.

Other Information:
Non-Identifiable Data: In operating this Site, we may use cookies. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Site's features.

Aggregated Personal Data: We may aggregate, compile and analyze Personal Data, and we may share this aggregated data with our affiliates, agents and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally.

Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information

If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. We may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the Site. We may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services, competitions and other events we believe will be of interest to you.

We will communicate with you through email and notices. These communications may inform you about various features. We may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.

Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information

We may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, including:

Business Transfers: We might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event relating to all or a portion of our business, assets or this Site, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.

Service Providers, Agents and Related Third Parties: We may hire other companies to perform certain business-related functions and we may provide them with access to certain Personal Data needed to perform a specific function.

Legal Requirements: We may also disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

Your Choices

You may use the Site without providing any Personal Data, however, you may not be able to use certain services. When you register with us for any reason, we ask you to provide Personal Data. If we want to use this Personal Data in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, we will seek your consent prior to doing so. If we propose to use Personal Data for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in any specific notice regarding the Site, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of our use of your Personal Data for those other purposes.

Exclusions

This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to us through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards (collectively, “Public Areas”), any ideas for new products or modifications to existing services, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”), including all User Content as that term is defined in our Terms of Use. All such Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and we shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation. Please also note that any Personal Data or other information you provide to be displayed in your publicly available online profile will be displayed for others to see and thus will not be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We cannot and will not be responsible for what third parties do with any Personal Data or other information that you choose to make publicly available. As such, we advise that you exercise great care in determining what information you choose to make publicly available through this Site.

Children

We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13 and do not target our websites to children under 13. If you are under thirteen, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to us through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

Links to Other WebSites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. The Site may contain references or links to other websites (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures described here do not apply to Third Party Sites. The links from the Site do not imply our review or endorsement of the Third Party Sites.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data. However, no internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Site may not be secure. Therefore, you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

The Site may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for us to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, we reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data.