Privacy Policy

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how Origin ("Origin," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you use our website, join our email list, attend events, or otherwise interact with us.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information you provide directly, including your email address, name, messages, event registration details, survey responses, and any other information you choose to send us.

We may also collect technical information automatically, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring URLs, analytics identifiers, and approximate location derived from your IP address.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to operate the community, send confirmation emails and updates, manage event invitations and attendance, respond to messages, improve the website, protect against spam and abuse, comply with legal obligations, and maintain the security of the Services.

4. Email List and Communications

If you sign up for our email list, we use your email address to send confirmation emails, community updates, event announcements, and related communications. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting hello@aapinyc.tech.

5. Cookies, Analytics, and Tracking

We may use cookies, server logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies to understand site usage, improve the Services, remember preferences, measure outreach, and prevent abuse. You can usually adjust cookie settings through your browser.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use the website, including pages visited, interactions with the site, browser and device information, and referral information. Google Analytics may use first-party cookies or similar identifiers to collect and process this information and provide aggregated reports to us. You can learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data at Google Analytics Privacy Disclosures and Safeguarding your data.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, and Google provides a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for supported browsers.

6. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information. We may share information with service providers that help us operate the Services, such as website hosting, email delivery, analytics, event registration, and security providers. We may also share information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with an organizational change.

7. Third-Party Services

We use third-party services such as Cloudflare for hosting and security, beehiiv for email subscriptions and communications, and Google Analytics for website measurement. These providers process information according to their own policies and our instructions where applicable.

8. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, comply with legal obligations, and support legitimate community operations. You may request deletion of your email list information by contacting us.

9. Your Choices

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time. You may also contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or other action regarding your personal information, subject to applicable law and reasonable verification.

10. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Children

The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can take appropriate steps.

12. International Visitors

If you access the Services from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

14. Contact

If you have questions or requests about this Privacy Policy, contact us at hello@aapinyc.tech.