Privacy & Cookies Policy

The Thompson and Grace Group and the legal entity Open Source Matters maintain a number of websites, including the thompsonandgrace.org domain and subdomains, thompsonandgrace.com, tginstituteoftechnology.com, tgpharmaceuticals.com and tggracegarden.com.

The Thompson & Grace Group, concerned about the rights of individuals, particularly with regard to automated processing, and in a desire for transparency with its users, has put in place a policy for covering all these processing operations, the purposes pursued by the latter as well as the means of action available to individuals so that they can best exercise their rights in plain English. To make this policy easy to find, we make it available in the footer of all pages of all our domains.

Continued browsing of this site constitutes acceptance without reservation of the following terms and conditions of use. You agree to the use of cookies and other tracers.

The current online version of this privacy policy is the only version that is enforceable during the entire period of use of the site and until a new version replaces it. However, this Policy is not an exhaustive statement of data protection law nor of our or your responsibilities in relation to data protection.

What domains does this policy cover?

This policy covers domains which are owned and managed by the Thompson & Grace Group. As of this writing, this includes:

• thompsonandgrace.org and its subdomains
• tginstituteoftechnology.com
• tgpharmaceuticals.com
• tggracegarden.com

What information do we collect on our domains and how do we use them?

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (identifiable person); an identifiable person is a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to a name, identification number or to one or more elements specific to their physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity.

The personal information that may be collected on our domains are mainly used by us for the management of relations with you, as it is applicable in our hotel booking management system of tggracegarden.com domain

The personal information collected, processed and/or stored, with your consent, are the following:

• Contact forms
• Thompsonandgrace.org
  Your name, email, message, IP to allow us to answer your request. These data are sent by email to the Thompson & Grace Group and are stored in the servers of our domain hosting provider, our web hosting provider, and backups. > JustHost Inc USA.

 

What other data do we collect from third parties and how do we use them?

• None

What automatic data do we collect on our domains?

Cookies

A "Cookie" or tracer is an electronic file deposited on a terminal (computers, tablets, smartphones) and read when browsing a website, reading an email, installing or using software or a mobile application, whatever the type of terminal used.
By browsing this site, you agree to the use of cookies and other trackers. If you don’t accept our use of cookies, you can turn off cookies in your browser settings.

All information collected will only be used to track the volume, type and configuration of traffic using this site, to develop its design and layout and for other administrative and planning purposes, and more generally to improve the service we provide to you.

For more information on the use, management and deletion of cookies for all browsers, we invite you to consult the following link All About Cookies http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Google Services

• Analytics
  We use Analytics services from Google LLC. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are stored on your computer, in order to help the website analyze how users use the site during their visit. The nature of these cookies is mainly for performance, as also for marketing. The collected data (information about your web preferences, ads based on what you visit or even your language) are analyzed and categorized in order to create a useful report about how this website is used and emphasize on its performance. These data are transmitted and stored on a server controlled by Google, located in the United States.
  Google will use all this information, determined by the way you are using our website, in order to generate reports based on website’s activity for website operators and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Your IP address is anonymized before being sent to Google.
  All user level and event data are being deleted from Google Analytics 14 months after the last visit in our website.
  You can deactivate the installation and use of Cookies by simply setting up your web browser’s preferences. However, you might have access to a less functional or even malfunctional environment within the site. If you wish to prevent the storage of personal data (including your anonymized IP address) and their use only by Google, you can install the following plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
  For more information, please see the terms of use https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and the privacy policy https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en of Google Analytics.
• Google Tag Manager (GTM)
  Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a tag management system to manage JavaScript and HTML tags used for tracking and analytics on websites. Tags are small code elements that, among other things, are used to measure traffic and visitor behaviour, to understand the effect of online advertising and social channels. We occasionally set up remarketing and orientation towards target groups. We might also set them up when testing or optimising websites. We use GTM on our websites to include the following tracking tools: Google Analytics.
  For more information about GTM’s privacy practices can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and terms of use at https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/.
• reCAPTCHA
  Several of our domains use Google LLC's reCAPTCHA service to protect submissions and prevent spam on the site. It checks if you are a person to prevent certain features of the website from being abused by spam bots.
  By filling out the forms using this plugin, you consent to sending your IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service. Your data will be communicated to Google and used by their services. However, your IP address will first be truncated by Google in EU Member States - or in other states that are part of the European Economic Area agreement. In exceptional cases, your full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and then subsequently truncated. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided to reCAPTCHA through your browser will not be merged with any other Google data.
  This data collection is subject to Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Other third party services

By visiting our websites, you agree that your browser will make a supplemental connection to our CDN (Content Delivery Network) vendor to load some of our template assets. Your IP address might be tracked by our web server and our CDN vendor’s servers, to grant you a regular navigation experience on our websites. 

Payments

If you make a financial contribution and/or payments to Thompson & Grace Group using the sites, your name, address and other information may be collected if you choose to create an account, but your credit card information is never stored on our sites.

How long do we hold your data?

The Thompson & Grace Group will only hold your information for as long as is necessary or where you ask us to delete records we may delete it earlier.
The duration for which we retain your personal information will differ depending on the type of information and the reason why it was collected. However, in some cases personal information may be retained on a long term basis: for example, personal information that we need to retain for legal purposes will normally be retained for at least six years in accordance with usual commercial practice and regulatory requirements.

How do we store and secure your data?

The Thompson & Grace Group makes its best efforts to take all measures to ensure the protection, privacy and security of personal data transmitted by any Internet user, in compliance with the applicable legal regulations.
The Thompson & Grace Group employs a variety of technical and organisational measures to keep your personal information safe and to prevent unauthorised access to, or use, or disclosure of it. Unfortunately, no information transmission over the Internet is guaranteed 100% secure nor is any storage of information always 100% secure, but we do take all appropriate steps to protect the security of your personal information using our service provider data storage technology – JustHost Inc.