One of our key goals is to change the way government and philanthropy invest in families and individuals with limited incomes. We want to move them toward our strength-based approach of cash, choice and community as a way to accelerate economic mobility. Your data serves as evidence that the strength-based approach works. It also gives us insight needed to improve our UpTogether platform and member experience.
Your data helps UpTogether to disprove negative stereotypes about how people with limited incomes spend their money, to fundraise to invest in more UpTogether members and to demonstrate to philanthropy and government what can happen when they trust and invest in people in financially under-resourced communities.
We DO NOT share or sell your data with advertisers. We never have and we never will.
We DO share the following data with the researchers we partner with:
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Contact information (Only if you have opted in to being contacted about research opportunities. If you do not opt in or consent to participating in research, we do not share your information with research partners.)
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Survey responses (without any of your personally identifiable information)
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Financial data (may be share with academic institutions, researchers, or with funding partners, but data will be combined with that of other UpTogether members, and they will not receive any information that identifies a specific person.)
Partners who provide us funding have access to the following data:
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Survey responses (without any of your personally identifiable information)
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Financial data (may be share with academic institutions, researchers, or with funding partners, but data will be combined with that of other UpTogether members, and they will not receive any information that identifies a specific person.)
We will disclose personal information only if required to do so by law or in good-faith belief that we need to do so to (1) conform or adhere to legal requirements, (2) protect and defend the rights or property of FII or users of UpTogether.org (the Site), or (3) act in case of emergency to protect the safety of the public or users of the Site.
We will never (and will not allow any third party to) track or to collect any personally identifying information of visitors to our site.
You can learn more about our Privacy Policy here-https://www.uptogether.org/privacy-policy/
Note: As a reminder, by sharing your financial account(s) you are giving UpTogether access to the following information related to account transactions:
- Amount
- Date
- Location (for specific offline transactions)
- Merchant name
- Category (travel, shop, deposit, withdrawal, etc.)
You are also giving UpTogether access to the following information related to each shared account:
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Available balance
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Current balance
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Account type (savings, checking, loan, etc)
For security purposes, occasionally the third-party platform used to share this information with us will “unlink” your shared account(s). To continue sharing your account(s), you will need to link them again.
If you ever change your mind and want to stop sharing your accounts, here are instructions for how to do