Privacy Statement

Thread Group, Inc.

Privacy Policy

Approved by the Board of Directors on April 23, 2026

 

Last Updated: April 15, 2026

 

Thread Group, Inc., a Delaware non-stock corporation ("Thread Group", "we", "our", or "us") is a global, nonprofit, industry association of companies and organizations.We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and retain personal data when we provide services to you through: (a) our website, https://threadgroup.org, (b) membership, collaboration, and event‑management platforms used to administer Thread Group activities, and (c) communications between you and us, including email, , and telephone (collectively, these channels are referred to as the "Services").

Thread Group's Full Legal Name, Address, and Phone Number is as follows:

Thread Group, Inc.

2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 200 San Ramon, CA 94583

help@threadgroup.org

+1 925-275-6644

This policy applies only to information we collect:

  • Through the Services.
  • In communications, including email, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Services.
  • It does not apply to information collected by:
  • Us through any other means, including on any other website operated by Thread Group or any third party that does not link to this policy; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Services.

We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features, services, or activities.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see How We Retain Your Personal Data). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.


Minors' Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18 . If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

Please contact help@threadgroup.org if you become aware that a child for which you are the parent or guardian has provided us with personal information without your consent.

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

"Personal data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and email address, credit card number, or social security number or any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline).

Thread Group collects personal data from its members and website visitors to support the delivery of services, facilitate engagement, and fulfill organizational obligations. This information is typically limited to professional identifiers such as your name, job title, employer, business contact details, and other information you voluntarily provide.

The types and categories of personal data we collect, or process include:

  • Information when you sign up for and necessary to administer a Thread Group membership application, e.g. company representative name, address, phone number, email address.
  • Information provided for sign up and administration of a Thread Group member account on our Website (including for publication on our online member directory, if you have not opted-out to this), e.g. name, contact details, company name, job title, affiliated contact name.
  • Information you provided to us when you contact us or make an inquiry, including through emails, calls, the “Interest Sign-up” form, and the "Contact Us" form on our website.
  • Information we receive from you when you sign up for one of our conferences and events to participate as an attendee, a speaker or a sponsor, including name, contact details, and membership level. We may also collect other optional personal data such as special attendee requirements (e.g. dietary restrictions, and if you provide it, we may collect personal data about accessibility requirements, disabilities, medical conditions and allergies in order to provide appropriate accommodations for attendees).
  • Information you provide us when you register to receive access to various resources provided by Thread Group, such as our mailing list. This includes providing us with personal data such as your email address and name to receive newsletters, mailing list postings and social media postings, to view webinars, and to access other resources made available by Thread Group.
  • Information that you are asked to provide so that we may facilitate your access, purchase, use and/or participation in our Services including: Online forums, Certification activities, Volunteer opportunities, Surveys, and Other activities that are updates or extensions to our Services or relate to other member benefits.
  • Payment information, including credit card or debit card information. Thread Group does not directly store full payment card numbers; payments are processed by PCI‑compliant third‑party payment processors.
  • Membership history, including information about your membership.
  • Demographic information, including your education, if you have consented to such information collection.
  • General geographic location such as country, state or province, or city.
  • Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
  • Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile.
  • Images, voice recordings, and videos collected or stored in connection with the Services, if you have consented to such information collection.

We also collect:

  • Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
  • Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
  • Information from Our Service Providers. Relevant personal data that you may have submitted to our service providers in the course of them providing the Services on our behalf— the categories of service providers may include the following:
    • Alliance management and operations service providers
    • Membership management platforms
    • Event registration providers
    • Cloud hosting services
    • Analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics or GA4)
    • Collaboration platforms for members (e.g., member portal, working group tools) 

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal data.


How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you create or update an account, participate in surveys or promotions, or create, upload, or post content to the Services, including reviews, media such as photos, videos, or audio recordings.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.
  • Web Beacons. Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Thread Group, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by email help@threadgroup.org. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties include, analytics companies. These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to analyze website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google Analytics information is used for the purpose of evaluating your use of the site, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to site activity and internet usage for the Company and its affiliates. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. More information on Google Analytics can be found here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. If you would like to opt-out of having your data used by Google Analytics, please use the Google Analytics opt-out, which, as of the date this Privacy Policy was last revised, is available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. Please note that we make no representations regarding the functionality of Google opt-out mechanisms, and further, opting out of Google Analytics will not preclude the use of your data by other analytics services.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the provider responsible directly.


How We Use Your Information

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data to:

  • Respond to your requests.
  • Verify users.
  • Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
  • Provide members with their membership benefits, including facilitating your attendance at conferences and events.
  • Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, and payments.
  • Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • Provide you with notices about your membership, including expiration and renewal notices.
  • Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.
  • Promote our Services, business, and offerings by publishing advertising on our own Services.
  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide through them.
  • To list your company and designated company contact information in internal member listings shared with our Board of Directors and business development team, and to display the names and email addresses of individual members within our member portal when such individuals request access.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

If you are a member, certain information, such as your name, company affiliation, and business contact information, may be viewable by other members through our member-only portal or collaboration platforms, but only if you have opted in to inclusion in the directory. Participation in working groups, committees, and related collaboration tools (such as email lists, document repositories, and discussion platforms) may require sharing your name, email address, and company affiliation with other participants. This information is shared solely for Thread Group operational and collaboration purposes.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Services.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your Information.


Who We Disclose Your Information To

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

Thread Group maintains information about your membership status in connection with your member or profile account. The personal data Thread Group collects from you is stored in one or more databases hosted by third parties located in the United States. These providers are contractually restricted from accessing or using your personal information for any purpose other than secure storage and retrieval.

We may also disclose personal data that we collect, or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties who support our operations, including alliance management providers, membership management and CRM platforms, event registration providers, cloud hosting services, analytics services (such as Google Analytics), conferencing and webinar tools, and communication service providers. These providers are contractually required to use the information only to provide services to Thread Group.
  • To other Thread Group members as necessary to support participation in collaboration forums, including working groups, committees, task forces, mailing lists, and other member-only tools. In addition, if you sign up to attend a member meeting or other Alliance-sponsored event, other Alliance members who sign up for the event may be notified of your intended attendance at the event and may be given your full name, address, company name, and email address. 
  • To publicly posted content. If you post comments, images and other content to a public-facing page that we control, that information associated with your username will be publicly viewable.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Thread Group, Inc., a Delaware non-stock corporation’s asset, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Thread Group, Inc., a Delaware non-stock corporation is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

As part of our membership application process, in certain cases we may utilize the services of London Stock Exchange Group plc, LCH Limited and other companies within the London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG") to conduct sanctions screening. This screening ensures that applicant entities, and if some cases, their owners, representatives, or shareholders, are not prohibited from membership with Thread Group due to applicable sanctions, to ensure that Thread Group is meeting its compliance obligations under relevant laws and regulations. The screening process primarily involves the collection of information about the entity. However, in certain cases, it may also necessitate the collection and processing of personal information about the entity’s owners, representatives, or shareholders. This personal information may include, but is not limited to, names, dates of birth, social security numbers, addresses, and any other information required for the screening process. The primary objective of this screening is to verify the identity of the applicant entities and assess their eligibility for membership against various databases and watchlists, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The collected information, including any personal data, may be shared with LSEG and its affiliates solely for the purpose of conducting the sanctions screening. The sanctions screening will be ongoing throughout the entity’s membership with Thread Group. As part of that compliance, information collected about an entity and/or the entity’s owners, representatives, or shareholders personal data may be included with personal data from other individuals and/or other organizations in a database. This database will be used solely to check publicly-available screening lists, and no other organization will have access to any personal data. For more information, on how LSEG processes personal information, your rights related to such personal information, and how to contact LSEG with questions regarding such personal information, please review LSEG’s Privacy Statement: https://www.lseg.com/en/policies/privacy-statement.

We may also disclose your personal data:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Thread Group has not in the past, and does not now, sell personal data to third parties, nor does it disclose personal data to third parties for their marketing purposes, nor does it sell or share personal data for targeted advertising.


Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

  • Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Services may not respond to all browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the cookie controls and advertising controls described in this policy.
  • Promotions by Thread Group. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt out by emailing us at help@threadgroup.org. You can also opt out by logging into your account and adjusting your account settings and preferences or sending us an email stating your request to help@threadgroup.org.

Your Privacy Rights

Thread Group is a Delaware non‑stock corporation and may not be subject to certain state privacy laws. Your rights will depend on the laws of your place of residence and whether those laws apply to Thread Group.

The following section applies only if you are based in a jurisdiction with a data protection law that is applicable to Thread Group and provides individuals with certain rights with respect to their personal data, including:

  • Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information, and it will be included in the response to your access request.
  • Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.
  • Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
  • Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes.

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

To exercise any of these rights, please email help@threadgroup.org.

If applicable, we will respond to your request within the prescribed timeframes set out by law.

Please note that in respect of all these rights, we reserve the right to:

  • refuse your request based on the exemptions set out in the applicable data protection laws.
  • request for proof of your ID to process the request or request further information.
  • charge you a reasonable administrative fee, where permitted by law for any repetitive, manifestly unfounded or excessive requests. 

You may also appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request by emailing help@threadgroup.org.

If you are not satisfied after we've tried to resolve your issue, you'll be entitled to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator for your country of residence.

Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control ("GPC") that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data "sales" as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.

Where EU or UK data protection laws apply, we process personal data based on one or more of the following lawful bases:

  • to perform a contract with you or your organization (e.g., membership administration);
  • our legitimate interests in operating Thread Group as an industry consortium and providing member benefits;
  •  your consent, where required (e.g., marketing communications, optional demographic data);
  • to comply with our legal obligations

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Thread Group is headquartered in the United States, and any personal data we collect will be processed and stored in the United States. By accessing our services or providing your information, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, the United States, which may not offer the same level of data protection as your home jurisdiction.

Where required by applicable law, Thread Group implements appropriate safeguards to protect personal information transferred internationally. Some of our U.S.-based service providers participate in the EU‑U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension, or the Swiss‑U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Where applicable, we rely on these certifications, Standard Contractual Clauses, and other lawful transfer mechanisms for cross‑border data transfers.

You can obtain further information about the safeguards in place for your international transfers of personal data by visiting us at https://threadgroup.org.


How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.


How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

Membership records are retained for the duration of your organization's membership and for a reasonable period thereafter to maintain organizational history and fulfill contractual or legal obligations. Financial transaction records are retained for the period required under applicable tax and financial laws. Event attendance records and collaboration participation logs may be retained as part of Thread Group's operational and technical-development history.

Details of our retention practices for specific categories of data are available on request by contacting us.


Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.


Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 200
San Ramon, CA 94583

help@threadgroup.org

To register a complaint or concern, please email help@threadgroup.org