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Accelerate4KIDS® Foundation Privacy Notice
Revised January 28, 2021
Accelerate4KIDS® Foundation (“Accelerate4KIDS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates a website at www.accelerate4kids.org (the “Website”) and offers products and services both online and in person. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect through the Website or otherwise. We are committed to safeguarding your information and to explaining how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information.
Definitions
Personal Information means information about an individual who can be identified from use of that information (or from that information when combined with other information in our possession or likely to come into our possession), including information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Types of personal information typically include names, physical addresses, mailing addresses, social security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account numbers and driver’s license numbers. But Personal Information may also include other information that can reasonably link to a particular person, such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, unique device identification numbers, employment information, and internet activity. For purposes of this Notice, Personal Information does not include publicly available information from government records; de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or information specifically excluded from or by applicable data-privacy laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
Usage Data is data collected automatically that is either generated by your use of an app or a website or from an app or website’s infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of your visit to a web page).
Cookies and Pixels are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website (cookies) and snippets of code that track use behavior on a website (pixels). Cookies and Pixels are used, for example, to make websites work or to make them work more efficiently. Cookies and Pixels can also provide reporting information to track how a user interacts with a website.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
When you visit our Website, we may ask you to provide us certain Personal Information. Other Personal Information may automatically be collected by our Website. We do, however, limit our collection of Personal Information to information that we may use to perform the services described on our Website, which includes the creation of accounts used to register for classes. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. We currently collect the following categories of Personal Information from the sources and for the purposes indicated below:
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Personal Identifiers, including real name, email address, telephone number and address, We collect this information directly from you through your use of the Website so that we may provide you with our services, including to facilitate account creation and account management, to track educational progress, and to send you account-related information.
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Commercial Information, including your name, phone number, email address, credit card number and related information, and billing address. We collect this information directly from you through your use of our Website so what we may provide you with our services.
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Other Characteristics, including your child’s name and age. We collect this information directly from you through your use of our Website so that we may provide you with our services, including tracking educational progress and sending you account-related information.
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Internet and Network Activity, including your interaction with the Website and your confirmation that you have access to a device and network connection required to use our services. We collect this information directly from you through your use of our Website and through use of Cookies and Pixels as discussed further below so that we may provide you with our services and to improve the Website and present its contents to you. We also use this information to protect the Website.
Use of Cookies and Pixels
We use cookies and pixels to identify you, track your activity on our Website, and to hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies and pixels or to indicate when a cookie or pixel is being used. However, if you do not accept cookies and pixels for our Website, you may not be able to use some portions thereof. Our cookie practices are available and can be managed on different browsers. Click on the link for your browser below to get information on how to prevent or clear cookies from being created on your particular browser.
Netscape Navigator 3.0
Netscape 4.0+
Netscape 6.0+
Firefox 2.0+ / 3.0+ / 4.0+/8.0+
Internet Explorer 3.0
Internet Explorer 4.0
Internet Explorer 5.0+
Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0+
Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0+
Internet Explorer (IE) 9.0+
Internet Explorer (IE) 11.0+
Google Chrome
Safari
Opera
Do Not Track
We do not track our customers over time and across third party websites, and we do not provide targeted advertising. Thus, we do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Third parties may have content embedded on our Website (including social media features) or may set cookies on a user’s browser to obtain information about the user’s visits to certain websites, including ours. However, we have no control over these third-party cookies, and these third parties cannot collect any other Personal Information from our Website unless you provide it to them directly.
Non-Personal Information
This Notice does not restrict our collection, use, or disclosure of any aggregated information or information that does not identify, or cannot be reasonably linked to, any individual. For example, we may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our Website, and we may display this information publicly or provide it to others. We may also share aggregate data with our customer and donors to show program satisfaction and improvement rates. However, such information is anonymized, and we do not disclose personally identifying information other than as described herein.
Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Information / Third-Party Providers
We may disclose Personal Information we collect from you: (1) to our subsidiaries and affiliates; (2) to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business; (3) to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; (4) to a buyer or other successor in the event of a sale or transfer of some or all of our business or assets; (5) for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; (6) to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request; (7) if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our clients, or others; or (8) for additional purposes with your consent. We do not sell or otherwise share personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. And when we do share your information with our service providers, they are contractually prohibited from retaining, using, or disclosing your Personal Information for any purpose other than that specified in the contract.
To provide you with our services, we must communicate with our third-party providers. These third parties may also have privacy policies that differ from ours. For example, they may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services, and they may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third-parties or their privacy practices, and this Notice does not apply to any third-party website or service you may access through our Website. If you have any questions about a third-party provider’s privacy policies or advertising, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
The information we collect is currently shared with the following third-party providers for the purposes set forth below:
Wix.com: The commercial information identified above is collected on our behalf by Wix.com for the purposes of processing any payments related to our services. For more information on Wix.com’s privacy policies: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy.
Retention of Information
We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set forth herein. However, we may retain and use such Personal Information 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.
We will retain your Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for approximately 24 months, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website or if we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Data Processing
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside of the United States and choose to use the Online Services, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Notice followed by your use of the Online Services represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice and that no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access and disclosure. The use of, and access to, your Personal Information by us is restricted to employees and contractors who need to know that information to provide services to you. We maintain safeguards to limit access to your Personal Information. Unfortunately, transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect all information submitted to our Online Services, we cannot guarantee the security of any such information. Any electronic transmission of information is at your own risk.
Changes to our Privacy Notice
We will post any changes we make to this Privacy Notice on our Website. If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information we collect from you, we will notify you on our Website homepage. The date this Privacy Novice was last revised is identified above.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:
Accelerate4KIDS® Foundation
313-405-9457