Last Updated: September 21, 2026
The Study & Society (“The Study & Society,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit thestudyandsociety.org, contact us, join our interest list, apply for or maintain a membership, reserve space, attend an event, or otherwise interact with The Study & Society.
By using our website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly to us, information collected automatically when you use our website, and information associated with your membership or use of our services.
Information You Provide to Us
Depending on how you interact with The Study & Society, we may collect:
- Full name
- Email address
- Telephone number, where provided
- Membership preferences and interests
- Information submitted through our interest-list forms
- Information submitted through our contact forms
- Communications and correspondence you send to us
- Information relating to membership applications
- Information relating to reservations, room bookings, events, or other services
- Information necessary to administer your membership or provide requested services
- Any other information you voluntarily provide to us
Our website currently includes forms through which visitors may provide their name and email address to join our interest list, as well as a contact form that may request a name, email address, optional phone number, subject, and optional message.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by your browser or device. Depending on the technologies used on our website, this may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website or page
- General information about how you interact with our website
- Information collected through cookies and similar technologies
We use this information to help operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and services.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files stored on your device that can help a website remember information about your visit and understand how visitors use the website.
We may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Operating and securing the website
- Remembering preferences
- Understanding website traffic and usage
- Improving website performance and functionality
- Measuring the effectiveness of communications or marketing, where applicable
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers that support our website or business operations.
You can generally control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of the website.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information for legitimate business and operational purposes, including to:
- Respond to questions and requests
- Communicate with you about The Study & Society
- Manage our interest list
- Process and evaluate membership inquiries or applications
- Administer memberships
- Manage reservations and access to our spaces
- Provide information about day passes, memberships, events, and room rentals
- Communicate important service or membership information
- Organize events and member programming
- Provide customer support
- Maintain the security and integrity of our website, facilities, systems, and services
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Improve our website, services, and member experience
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, misuse, security incidents, or other unlawful activity
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
- Carry out other purposes disclosed to you at the time information is collected or with your consent where required
The Study & Society describes its services as including memberships, day passes, workspace reservations, events, member gatherings, and related community experiences.
4. Communications
If you join our interest list or otherwise provide your contact information, we may use that information to communicate with you about The Study & Society.
For example, we may send:
- Updates about our opening
- Membership information
- Information about tours or preview opportunities
- Information about events and programming
- Responses to inquiries
- Service and membership communications
The website currently invites visitors to join an interest list and describes these communications as occasional notes before opening.
You may unsubscribe from promotional or marketing communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the communication or by contacting us directly.
Please note that even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you necessary transactional, administrative, security, or service-related communications.
5. Membership and Reservation Information
If you become a member, purchase a day pass, reserve a room, attend an event, or otherwise use our services, we may collect information necessary to administer those services.
This may include information such as:
- Membership type
- Account information
- Reservation details
- Access eligibility
- Guest information
- Event participation
- Payment-related information
- Communications concerning your membership or reservations
The Study & Society offers several membership levels and describes room reservations, member access, guest passes, events, and other member benefits.
If payments are processed by a third-party payment provider, that provider may separately process payment and transaction information in accordance with its own privacy policy. We do not intend to store full payment-card numbers unless specifically necessary and permitted by applicable law and payment-security requirements.
6. Mobile App and Access Information
The Study & Society may provide members with mobile-app functionality for managing membership experiences, reservations, and eligible space access.
Where applicable, use of these features may require the collection or processing of information such as:
- Account credentials
- Membership status
- Reservation information
- Device information
- Access permissions
- Information necessary to authenticate or authorize access
Access privileges may vary according to membership level and may be subject to building access, security protocols, holidays, special events, and operating requirements.
If a third-party application or technology provider processes information on our behalf, its handling of information may also be governed by its own privacy policy and terms.
7. How We Share Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information for money.
We may disclose personal information when reasonably necessary to operate our business and provide our services, including to:
Service Providers
We may share information with companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf, such as:
- Website hosting providers
- Email and communication providers
- Membership or reservation platforms
- Payment processors
- Technology providers
- Customer-support providers
- Security providers
- Event or operational service providers
These providers are expected to process information according to our instructions and applicable contractual and legal requirements.
Business Operations
We may disclose information to professional advisors, including attorneys, accountants, insurers, consultants, and other service providers where reasonably necessary for our business.
Legal and Safety Reasons
We may disclose information if we believe doing so is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of The Study & Society, our members, visitors, employees, or others
- Investigate fraud, security incidents, or unlawful activity
- Enforce our agreements and policies
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
Business Transfers
If The Study & Society is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
8. Member Community and Society Introductions
The Study & Society is designed as an intentionally small community and may facilitate optional introductions between members based on shared interests, work, knowledge, needs, or opportunities.
Any such introductions should be conducted in accordance with applicable membership practices and the choices made by participating members.
We do not represent that information voluntarily shared by members with other members will remain confidential once it has been intentionally disclosed to another person. Members should exercise appropriate care when deciding what personal or professional information to share with other members or event participants.
9. Information Security
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or destruction.
However, no website, electronic transmission, information-storage system, or security measure can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should also take reasonable steps to protect your account credentials and other personal information.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:
- Provide requested services
- Maintain membership and business records
- Respond to inquiries
- Meet legal, accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Maintain security and prevent fraud
The specific retention period may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
11. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, services, platforms, maps, applications, or other resources.
Third-party websites and services are not controlled by The Study & Society, and this Privacy Policy does not govern their privacy practices.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties before providing them with personal information.
12. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for adults and are not directed toward children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age required by applicable law without appropriate consent.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can evaluate and, where appropriate, delete the information.
13. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Request information about how your personal information is used or disclosed
- Opt out of certain marketing communications
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Exercise other rights provided by applicable privacy laws
Not every right is available in every jurisdiction, and certain legal exceptions may apply.
To make a privacy request, please contact us using the information provided below.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests in order to protect your information.
14. Marketing Communications
You can opt out of promotional emails by using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the email or by contacting us.
Please understand that opting out of marketing communications does not necessarily stop all communications from us. We may continue to send communications that are necessary to administer your membership, reservation, account, transactions, or other services.
15. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.
Because there is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to such signals unless required by applicable law.
16. International Visitors
The Study & Society is based in Portland, Oregon, United States.
If you access our website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your jurisdiction.
Where required by applicable law, we will take appropriate steps regarding international transfers of personal information.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, services, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we handle personal information.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your personal information, please contact us:
The Study & Society
1128 NW 13th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
United States
Email: thestudyandsociety@gmail.com
You may also contact us through the contact form available on our website.
19. Additional Privacy Disclosures
Certain services or features offered by The Study & Society may have additional privacy terms or notices. Where applicable, those notices will supplement this Privacy Policy and will be provided at the time information is collected or before a particular service is used.
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