Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
  • To process transactions (Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.)
  • To send periodic emails (The email address you provide for order processing, will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order.)

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Database to be only accessed by those authorized with special access rights to our systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

Information submitted through other forms such as our Contact or Information Request forms is not transmitted via SSL nor is it encrypted in our Database. You should not submit sensitive information such as credit card numbers through any forms other than the shopping cart checkout form.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Form Submissions

In order to help prevent the unwanted, automated submission of forms on our website, we partner with a third-party company known as Mollom. The privacy policy under this heading explains how Mollom BVBA ("Mollom") processes your personal data. Please read it carefully, as it specifies which rights you have and how you can exercise your rights.

Their web service – Mollom operates a web service that tries to determine the quality of messages posted to a website, and particularly tries to determine whether these messages are to be considered as unsolicited messages (also called "spam"). Nowadays, websites that allow visitors to contribute or post comments (such as blogs, discussion forums, wikis, etc.) are flooded with inappropriate commercial messages that are distracting for all visitors, and are sometimes even highly illegal. These commercial messages are often uploaded in an automatic way. Their service screens messages before they are posted to the website.

How it works – When you post a message on our website (called "the website" in the remainder of this text), the website's server will first send your message – as well as some information about your identity (such as your IP address, name or nickname, e-mail address and OpenID) – to Mollom's server. Their server will then compare your message and your identity details with all elements in their database, and perform several complex statistical computations in order to assess the quality of your message (e.g., spam, abuse, etc.).

If Mollom's server then determines that the content of your message is of insufficient quality or constitutes spam or abuse, it will inform the website thereof. The website server may then decide to reject your message, or to provide you with an additional question to find out whether you are in fact a human being, and not a machine trying to send out as much commercial communications as possible. Please note that it is sometimes possible that Mollom's server wrongfully determines the actual quality of the content of your message, or wrongfully considers your message as spam or abuse.

What Mollom stores about you – Mollom stores all information provided to them by the website. This will include, in particular, the following personal data about you (to the extent effectively provided to us by the website): the content of your message, your name or nickname, IP address, user ID, OpenID, e-mail address, URL of your website, and the date and time you post a message.

How long Mollom stores this data – Your data is stored in Mollom's databases for at most two months. After this period of two months, Mollom can continue to store your data in anonymized way for a period of two years.

How Mollom uses your personal data – Mollom uses your personal data to assess the quality of your message, and to find out whether your message constitutes spam, by comparing your data with all other data of all other users in their databases. Afterwards, Mollom also uses your personal data to make similar assessments for all other websites that use their service, as the more information they store in our database, the better they can assess whether a message is genuine.

While Mollom sometimes provide statistical information (trends, numbers, etc.) generated from their databases to third parties, please rest assured that you cannot be identified on the basis of this statistical information.

Note that Mollom hates spam as much as you do – in fact, their service is specifically targeted at removing spam. So, Mollom will never provide your email address to third parties, and they will never send any spam themselves to you. In most cases, they will not even be aware of your e-mail address.

Also note that Mollom can provide access to your personal data in case of illegal or abusive use, or in case they receive orders from a competent legal authority.

How Mollom protects you – Mollom is bound by the strict rules of Belgian and European data protection legislation, which prevents them from making unlawful use of your personal data. Please note that the website's operator may be bound by other rules, depending on his jurisdiction.

Your rights – You have the right to gain access to, correct and/or remove all personal data Mollom stores about you on their servers. All this is provided to you free of charge. In order to exercise your rights, please contact Mollom.

If you do not consent to your data being used in this way, please contact us via phone or postal mail rather than online form submission. See our Contact Us page for details.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at http://www.allenacademy.org/terms-of-use.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our website's privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

This policy was last modified on 08/14/2010.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

http://allenacademy.org/about/contact-us
3201 Boonville Rd
Bryan, TX 77802
USA
info@allenacademy.org
(979) 776-0731

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