Who we are
Not A Footnote Academy, Inc., Public Benefit Corporation operates this website at https://notafootnote.academy. Not A Footnote Academy provides educational content, curriculum, essays, lesson materials, videos, memberships, and related services focused on the full Western Hemisphere African Diaspora.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam and maintain site security.
An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We reserve the right to moderate, approve, or remove comments in accordance with our site policies.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, including EXIF GPS data. Visitors to the website may be able to download images and extract location data from them.
If you submit images, documents, video files, or other media to us, you represent that you have the right to provide that content and that any required permissions, licenses, or consents have been obtained.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to support site functionality, security, accessibility, preferences, analytics, and embedded media.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience and allow you to avoid re-entering your details when leaving another comment. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies generally last for two days, and screen options cookies generally last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login may persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies are removed.
If you edit or publish content on the site, an additional cookie may be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply identifies the post ID of the content you edited. It expires after one day.
We also use cookies and similar technologies through third-party services and plugins used on the site, including tools for security, accessibility, embedded media, spam prevention, analytics, and social sharing. You can review and manage certain cookie preferences through our Opt-out preferences page.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles, essays, lesson pages, and other content on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, audio, documents, maps, forms, simulations, or social media content. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same manner as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account with that third party and are logged in to it.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration.
We may share limited personal data with service providers and technology vendors that help us operate the website and deliver services, including website hosting, email delivery, spam detection, security monitoring, accessibility tools, embedded media providers, analytics, payment processors, and customer support tools, but only as reasonably necessary to operate the site and provide our services.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
If you submit a data rights request, opt-out request, contact form, membership request, institutional inquiry, or similar form, the information you provide may be processed by the service providers we use to receive, secure, and respond to those submissions.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue each time.
For users who register for an account, membership, course, newsletter, pathway, or other service on the site, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile or account record. Users can generally see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except that usernames may not be changeable. Site administrators can also see and edit that information as reasonably necessary to operate the website and provide services.
We may also retain transaction records, security logs, support communications, course or membership records, moderation records, and legal/compliance records for as long as necessary for administrative, educational, security, contractual, legal, or regulatory purposes.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have otherwise provided personal data to us, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase personal data we hold about you, subject to exceptions for data we are required or permitted to retain for administrative, security, contractual, educational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may also have rights to access, correct, delete, limit, object to, or opt out of certain processing, including certain targeted advertising or sharing practices as described in our opt-out and privacy disclosures.
To exercise your rights, use the contact information provided in this policy or the rights request mechanisms made available on the site.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data submitted through the website may be processed by service providers located in the United States or other jurisdictions where our vendors or infrastructure providers operate. We take reasonable steps to use reputable providers and to limit data sharing to what is necessary for site operations and service delivery.
Security, fraud prevention, performance monitoring, embedded media delivery, and analytics tools may also process certain technical data, such as IP address, browser type, device information, and interaction data, when you use the site.