Dearborn STEP, a program of Schools for Children, has created this privacy policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our website. We use this information in order to improve and customize your browsing experience and for analytics and metrics about our visitors both on this website and other media.
Our Commitment to Your Online Safety and Security
- We’re deeply committed to creating a safe and secure online environment for you.
- We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
- We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us, and we take the protection of your information very seriously.
Gathering and Sharing
The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website. When you use or access the website, you are accepting the practices described in this website privacy policy.
Information Gathering
As is typical of all websites, educational and otherwise, we collect information automatically through an IP address from all visitors to our website. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. IP addresses analyze trends, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Depending on your use of the website and your account settings, Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website collects information about how and when you visit our site and the devices you use to access it. This allows us to improve the overall user experience for people visiting our website.
We collect information from you directly, such as when you sign up for activities, events or surveys, or otherwise provide personal information during your use of the website. We may share such information with Partners, third-party service providers, such as financial institutions when you make a donation or purchase a service online – or event sites when you sign up for an event directly on the Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website.
Conversely, partners operate websites or other systems in conjunction with the Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website that you may choose to access or otherwise patronize. Therefore, we may collect information from third parties (meaning organizations outside of Dearborn STEP or Schools for Children), such as third party applications that you use to connect to our website, such as for event sign ups, etc.
If you register or input personally identifiable information to the website, you will not be anonymous to us. Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website (and partners receiving payment, event attendance or related information) may request your email address or mailing address on some of the forms contained on the website in order to communicate with you, and your provision of such information constitutes your agreement to allow our partners to contact you. We may also monitor and aggregate data regarding search terms entered into the website.
When you use the Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website, you may send messages, perform searches and queries, download files, and transmit information through various channels. We may collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.
You agree that Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website shall not be responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of your user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or if other users have copied or stored your user content.
By using the website, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP uses registration forms on our website, which require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, and similar information. We do not store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card numbers. We do not rent, sell or share personally identifiable information about users with other people or non-affiliated entities, except to provide our services, or under the following circumstances:
We will provide personally identifiable information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes, or to exercise our legal rights or defend legal claims. We also will provide personally identifiable information when Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP or any partner believes it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of any Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP or partner Terms of Use, violation of Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP code of conduct, or as otherwise required by law.
We reserve the right to transfer information about you if Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP is acquired by or merged with another school or entity.
Security
Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personally identifiable information. We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to your information as it is transferred to our Partners. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.
You agree that Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP shall not be liable for Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP or any partner’s security safeguards.
Links
This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of websites that may be linked through the Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website. Users are encouraged to read linked websites’ privacy policies.
Notices and Revisions
Your use of the Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP website, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this privacy policy. Schools for Children’s Dearborn STEP may revise this privacy policy at any time. Users are encouraged to read this privacy policy on a frequent basis.
