Privacy Statement
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
The following policy governs schoolvictories.org's online collection of information from you. Specifically, it outlines the types of information that schoolvictories.org gathers about you while you are using this website, and the way that schoolvictories.org uses and doesn't use this information. This Privacy Statement does not apply to any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means; for example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the mail.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information that schoolvictories.org collects about visitors while they are using this Web site falls into two general categories:
Information You Provide to Us. Schoolvictories.org may collect and store information that you voluntarily supply either while on the schoolvictories.org website or in responding, via e-mail, to a feature provided on the schoolvictories.org website. Examples of this type of information include: information that you electronically submit when you register on the schoolvictories.org website, information that you post on as an Activity or Update on the schoolvictories.org website, and information contained in search requests or questions that you submit to the schoolvictories.org website. If you decline to supply or provide schoolvictories.org with certain information while using this Web site, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features offered through this Web site.
Information that is Automatically Collected. Schoolvictories.org also collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the schoolvictories.org website. For example, to enhance your experience on the schoolvictories.org website, schoolvictories.org uses a standard feature found in browser software called a "cookie." Cookies are small files that we place on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the schoolvictories.org site, cookies help us track user trends and patterns. Cookies make your experience easier by saving your preferences and passwords. We also use cookies that contain no personal information at all. These cookies help us estimate our audience size and determine which areas of schoolvictories.org are the most popular. Many browsers are set to accept cookies. You may prefer to set your browser to refuse cookies. It is possible, however, that some areas of this website will not function properly if you do so. Schoolvictories.org also uses Web beacons (also known as "single-pixel GIFs") to count users who visit the schoolvictories.org site. This information allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of our Web pages to you and to measure traffic on the schoolvictories.org site. We automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration when you visit our site, including the type of browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you, and your IP address. (Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data (such as the Web pages you want to view) can be transmitted to you. We also use IP address information for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you are.) We use this information to make our site as useful as we can for as many users as possible.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Customer Service. If you contact schoolvictories.org for customer service, schoolvictories.org will also use your personal information to try to verify that the person contacting schoolvictories.org is you.
Information Disclosed in Public Areas. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information online in a public area of the schoolvictories.org site, such in your Group Profile or Activity Description that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides schoolvictories.org. Schoolvictories.org cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third party use of information that you disclose in a public area on the schoolvictories.org site.
Other Disclosures. We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, our customers, the public or schoolvictories.org. In the unlikely event that schoolvictories.org or substantially all of its assets is acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.
E-mail Communication to our Users. An e-mail newsletter is sent by schoolvictories.org to users who registered for an account on schoolvictories.org. The e-mail address provided by you at registration, or as updated, may also be used by schoolvictories.org to contact you for any reason, including: (1) your account status, (2) notification of the availability of new content or features of the schoolvictories.org site, and (3) participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the schoolvictories.org Web site. Schoolvictories.org may send also you e-mail messages in connection with commerce services. These messages include, but are not limited to (1) order confirmations, (2) information about renewals, (3) service updates, and (4) response to customer support requests.
HOW SECURE IS THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
Transmission of personal information to our servers uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to encrypt the information during transmission. All information gathered on schoolvictories.org is stored within a controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is accessible only to authorized personnel. Although, we use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Statement, please direct them toor to:
Schoolvictories.org, a project of the Education Law Center
1513 Walnut St.
Suite 400
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Re: Privacy Policy
info@schoolvictories.org
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy statement at some point in the future, we'll post the changes to this Privacy Statement on this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect the date of the amendment. By visiting schoolvictories.org, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Service.
