Your privacy matters to The Chamber of Us.

1. Introduction

Who we are.

Welcome to The Chamber of Us (“TCUS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). TCUS is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to building open, ethical, consent-aware infrastructure for coordination, implementation, and learning.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard information when you visit our website, use our tools, participate in our volunteer or partner activities, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with TCUS.

2. Information we may collect

Information you provide and information collected automatically.

Personal information you provide

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

• name
• email address
• professional background
• skills, interests, and availability
• resume, portfolio, or profile information
• volunteer preferences
• messages, inquiries, or application responses
• information you provide through tools such as Libelle

Website and technical information

Like most websites, we may automatically collect limited technical information when you access our website or tools. This may include IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, access times, referring pages, and pages viewed.

Partner, donor, and project information

If you contact us as a funder, partner, researcher, or organizational representative, we may collect information related to your organization, inquiry, project, funding interest, or proposed collaboration.

3. How we use information

We use information to operate TCUS responsibly.

We may use information we collect to:

• respond to inquiries
• create and manage volunteer or contributor profiles
• match skills, interests, and availability to TCUS projects or workstreams
• support onboarding, coordination, review, and communication
• operate and improve tools such as Libelle
• manage partnerships, funding conversations, and project workflows
• compile internal statistics and analysis
• improve website performance, usability, and security
• protect TCUS, our contributors, partners, and systems from misuse or fraud
• comply with legal, reporting, or nonprofit obligations

4. How we share information

We do not sell personal data.

TCUS does not sell personal information. We may share information in limited circumstances, including:

With your consent

We may share relevant information with TCUS volunteers, pod leaders, reviewers, or partners when needed to support your participation and when appropriate to the context.

With service providers

We may use third-party service providers for hosting, email, analytics, forms, databases, collaboration tools, file storage, payment processing, or other operational needs. These providers may process information on our behalf.

For legal, safety, or organizational protection

We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, nonprofit compliance obligations, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect rights, safety, security, property, or the integrity of TCUS systems.

In aggregated or de-identified form

We may use aggregated or de-identified information for internal analysis, reporting, research, or public learning, provided it does not reasonably identify an individual.

5. Libelle and volunteer data

Libelle is designed to help people find meaningful work inside TCUS.

Libelle may collect information about contributors, including skills, interests, availability, experience, preferred work types, onboarding status, and contribution history.

We use this information to help match contributors to projects, improve onboarding, support coordination, and understand how volunteer work is moving through TCUS.

Our intent is to give contributors meaningful control over their participation and to use contributor data only in ways that support responsible coordination, trust, and useful work.

6. Security

We use reasonable safeguards, but no system is perfect.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information. These may include access controls, data minimization, role-based permissions, secure service providers, and internal review practices.

However, no website, database, or online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use care when sharing sensitive information online.

7. Data retention

We keep information only as long as reasonably needed.

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate TCUS, provide services, manage volunteer or partner relationships, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, preserve records, and improve our systems.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the context in which it was collected, and applicable operational or legal needs.

8. Your choices and rights

You may ask to access, correct, or delete your information.

Depending on your location and the nature of your relationship with TCUS, you may have rights to access, correct, update, delete, restrict, or object to certain uses of your personal information.

You may contact us at info@thechamberofus.org to make a privacy request. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

9. Children’s privacy

Our tools are not intended for children under 13.

TCUS websites and tools are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our work, tools, legal obligations, or practices change. The effective date at the top of the page indicates when this policy was last updated.

11. Contact us

Questions or requests?

Contact us at:

The Chamber of Us
Email: info@thechamberofus.org