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Hi Jeff,
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You went to significant lengths to ensure that ATGP didn't collect significant personal information for privacy concerns which I applaud.
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I go to great lengths to protect my information and even doing so I was recently notified that my SSN was involved in the massive nationalpublicdata.com breach.
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I want to join the APRS Foundation, I am likely in the minority involving reading the terms and privacy conditions when utilizing a web site or service.
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I went to signup and pay the membership fee using the service contracted by the APRS Foundation (Raklet) which I had never heard of before. Reading the terms I have concerns. The relevant excerpts are below. Is the APRS Foundation Officers aware of Raklets Terms and Conditions when you contract with there service?
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..Jim - N4WFP
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<h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Raklet’s Use Of Personal Data</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;">We may use your Personal Data for purposes including the following:</span>
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<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Operate and improve our Product;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Send you advertising or promotional materials;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Provide and deliver the Sites or other services you request, process transactions, and send you related information;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide you with requested customer support;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Monitor and evaluate trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Product;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Secure our systems, prevent fraud, and help us to protect the security of your account;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Prevent, detect, and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities and to enforce our terms and policies;</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Personalize and improve the Product, and provide content, communications, or features that match users interests; and</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Link or combine with other information we obtain from third parties to help understand your needs and provide you with better service.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #ff6600;">We may also contract with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from web beacons on our websites, from emails and on third-party websites. Advertising networks may follow your online activities over time and across different websites or other online services by collecting device and usage data through automated means, including through the use of Cookies. These technologies may recognize you across the different devices you use, such as a desktop or laptop computer, smartphone or tablet. Third parties use this information to provide advertisements about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see their advertisements on other websites or mobile applications on any of your devices. This process also helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.</span>
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<h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Data Share and Transfer</span></h2>
<h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Information We Share</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><br></strong>We do not “sell” your personal information, as defined under CCPA, your Personal Information to third parties.</span>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;">In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information.</span>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;">However, we may share your personal information with third parties below;</span>
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<h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Service Providers</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;">We use other companies, agents, or contractors to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services to you. For example, we engage service providers to provide marketing, advertising, communications, security, payment processing, infrastructure and IT services, to customize, personalize, and optimize our Product, to process payment transactions, to provide customer service, and to analyze and enhance data. While providing such services, these service providers may have access to your personal information. These service providers have agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal information that they obtain from us and we do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.</span>
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<h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Advertising and analytics services providers</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;">We may allow others to provide analytics services and display advertisements for our Product. These providers (for example, <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245">Google Analytics</a>) may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other tracking technologies that collect information about your use of our Product. This information may be used by us and others to determine the popularity of our Product, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests in the Product, and on other websites, apps, and other services, and to better understand your online activity.</span>
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On 08/29/2024 11:30 AM EDT Jeff Hochberg <jeffh@aprsfoundation.org> wrote:
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APRS Foundation Membership is live! Membership is available to anyone anywhere across the globe! You don’t need to be a licensed amateur radio operator to join!
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<br>We evaluated several membership management platforms and selected a relative newcomer in the space - Raklet.
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Visit the Membership page on the Foundation for details and the link to the membership management application:
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<br><a href="https://www.aprsfoundation.org/membership">https://www.aprsfoundation.org/membership</a>
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<br>If you aren’t a licensed amateur radio operator, enter “NOCALL” in the callsign field when submitting the form.
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To give an idea of the benefits of membership, we took a poll last week to determine the level of interest in an APRS Foundation-sponsored event to be held around Dayton Hamvention 2025.
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Your APRS Foundation Membership would allow you to attend the event for free, whereas non-members would have to pay USD $15.00.
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<br>So, right away, one event pays for the event and helps support our operating expenses! And that's just the beginning!
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<br>We are excited to have you join us in Ensuring the Future of APRS!
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<br>Thanks for your patience and understanding!
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Best Regards and 73,
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-JeffH
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jeffrey Hochberg - W4JEW</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">President</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">APRS Foundation Inc</span>
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