PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 1, 2025
1. Introduction
Leading Women Defined Foundation (“LWD,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) values your privacy and treats any information you provide with care. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.leadingwomendefined.com (the “Website”).
By accessing or using our Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use our Website.
2. Personal Information We Collect
On certain pages of our Website, we may ask you to voluntarily provide certain personal information, including if you choose to subscribe to our newsletter or donate to LWD. The information that you may choose to provide includes:
Name, Contact Information, and Other Identifiers:
Name, email address, phone number, mailing address, company name, profession, city, state, country, date of birth.
Payment Information:
credit card number and expiration date, and billing information for donations.
Other Information You Submit:
Information you provide us with when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise communicate with us.
If you do nothing during your visit but browse our Website, we will gather certain information about your visit automatically. The information that we may automatically collect includes:
Internet and Network Activity Information:
IP address, browser type/version, device, operating system, details regarding what site you came from or what site you visit when you leave us, and information about how you interact with our Website including the length of visits, pages you visit, and the audio, video, or other content you view. We collect this information using the tracking tools described below. To control these tools, please read the “Your Choices” section below.
3. How We Collect Information
We collect information through:
You.
We collect personal information directly from you through forms you complete on our Website, transactions made on our Website, and any email and direct correspondence with us.
Cookies and Similar Technologies.
We use tracking tools like browser cookies and web beacons to collect information from and your devices passively. We collect information when you interact with our Website, our content, and our emails that we or our vendors send to you. To learn more about these tools, how we use them, and how you can control them, please read the “Your Choices” section below.
Service Providers.
We work with service providers who collect information on our behalf in order to provide services to us. We only allow our service providers to use your personal information in connection with the services they provide us.
We may also combine information. For example, we may combine information that we have collected offline with information we collect online.
4. How We Use the Personal Information We Collect
We collect personal information for the following purposes:
To provide our Website and for internal business purposes.
This includes, operating, providing, enhancing, and improving the Website, for example, by developing new features and functionality, and personalizing or customizing the Website, content and experiences for you.
To fulfill requests and process transactions.
We use personal information to fulfill your requests and provide any information you request, such as responding to your emails, questions, comments, requests for information or customer support, and for any other purpose for which the information was collected, or for which you provide your consent (if required). We also use your personal information to complete the transactions you request (including donations) and to maintain a record of these transactions;
For advertising, marketing, and analytics purposes.
This includes analyzing and determining the effectiveness of the Website, and diagnosing service or technical problems. We might also use your personal information to analyze donation giving patterns, make budget projections, and solicit future donations.
To send service-related updates and promotional communications
by sending you administrative messages and information and by sending you information about upcoming events, promotions, and newsletters (which you can opt out of at any time);
For safety, security, compliance, and due diligence purposes.
We use information to protect our company or others. We also may use information to protect, our Website, as well as to detect and investigate activities that may be illegal or prohibited.
To comply with applicable laws and regulations and enforce our legal rights.
For example, we may use personal information to exercise contractual rights, to comply with financial reporting obligations (which includes keeping a record of each donor’s giving history for IRS purposes), court orders, warrants, or subpoenas in accordance with applicable law.
We may also use personal information as otherwise disclosed or permitted by law, or as we may notify you from time to time. In addition, we may analyze your information in aggregate and/or de-identified form to operate, maintain, manage, and improve our Website.
5. How We Share Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. However, we may share your personal information with:
Service providers.
We may share each category of personal information with companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our Website or our business (such as payment processing, hosting, analytics, email delivery, software, marketing, database management services, and risk and fraud mitigation).
Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties.
We may share the above categories of personal information as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate to comply with law or for the compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes described above.
Organizations in connection with a business transfer.
We will share your personal information if we are acquired by or enter into a merger with another company, or otherwise reorganize our business.
6. Your Choices
You have certain choices about how we use your personal information.
Opt out of marketing communications.
To stop receiving our newsletters or marketing emails, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each message. Even if you opt out of getting marketing messages, we will still send you transactional messages. These include responses to your questions.
Cookies.
You can control certain cookies and tracking tools. We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
- Analytics cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Information collected by Google Analytics cookies will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America in accordance with its privacy practices. To see an overview of privacy at Google and how this applies to Google Analytics, visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You may opt out of tracking by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You may also disable cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to disable all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the website.
Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser. You will need to do this separately within your browser. If you have disabled one or more analytical cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set.
7. For California Users
Do Not Track.
We currently do not respond to browser-based “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
8. Other Important Information
Notice to Non-U.S. Residents.
We store and process your data in the United States. Please be aware that your information may be transferred to, processed, maintained, and used on computers, servers, and systems located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your country of origin. If you are located outside the United States and choose to use our Website, you do so at your own risk.
Links to External Websites.
We will share your personal information if we are acquired by or enter into a merger with another company, or otherwise reorganize our business.
9. Data Storage and Retention
We will retain all of the personal information we collect, including your personal information, for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use this data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
10. Children Under 13
11. Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. Our Website may be hosted on third-party platforms that provide secure data storage and management. Your data may be stored through their databases and applications, protected by industry-standard security measures, including firewalls and encryption.
Please be aware that despite our best efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security. While we strive to protect information transmitted on or through our website, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through this website.
12. Privacy Policy Updates
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes in the way we treat your personal information, or to this Privacy Policy, we will provide you notice through the Website or by some other means, such as email. Your continued use of the Website after such notice constitutes your consent to the changes. We encourage you to periodically review the Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.
13. Contact Us
For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@leadingwomendefined.com.
You can also write to us at: 2934 1/2 N. Beverly Glen Circle #334, Beverly Hills, CA 90077
Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Commitment
Leading Women Defined Foundation (“LWD,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) exists to cultivate spaces where leadership is nurtured with clarity, confidence, and care. Central to that commitment is our unwavering belief that every individual deserves to be treated with dignity, fairness, and respect.
We prohibit unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in connection with our programs, events, digital platforms, partnerships, and all organizational activities.
Our Commitment to Equity and Access
LWD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion or creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This commitment applies to participation in our Summit and convenings, Rising Leaders programming, mentorship opportunities, vendor and partnership engagement, employment and contractor relationships, and access to our website and digital platforms.
Respectful Environment
We are intentional about creating environments where women can gather, grow, and lead without fear of exclusion, intimidation, or hostility. Harassment of any kind — whether verbal, physical, visual, or digital — is not tolerated. This includes conduct that demeans, marginalizes, or creates a hostile or offensive environment based on a protected characteristic.
Accessibility
LWD is committed to advancing accessibility across our programming and digital experiences. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and encourage individuals to contact us if support is needed to fully participate in our offerings.
No Retaliation
We prohibit retaliation against any individual who raises a concern in good faith, participates in a review process, or exercises rights under applicable anti-discrimination laws.
Reporting Concerns
If you believe you have experienced discrimination, harassment, or retaliation in connection with LWD activities, we encourage you to contact us promptly at:
Email: info@leadingwomendefined.com or via the contact form on our website.
Concerns will be reviewed thoughtfully and in a manner consistent with applicable law.