Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Collection of Your Information
- Personal Information that You Provide Us. The Company will not collect or monitor any personally identifiable information about you without your consent. Personally identifiable information is information that identifies you such as name, company name, social security number, billing address, shipping address, phone number, e-mail address, and credit card information (“Personal Information”). We only have access to and collect Personal Information that you provide to us on the Website, such as when you submit the information requested through the Apply Now page, election to receive news updates and invitations, or any other information you otherwise provide to us. We do not and will not sell your Personal Information to anyone.
- Usage Information. The Company also collects non-Personal Information (information that does not identify you as an individual) about how you access and use the Website (“Usage Information”). Usage Information includes information about browser type, domain names, pages browsed, access times, referring website addresses, operating system, search query, and entry and exit pages. This statistical information is used by the Company for the operation of the Website and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Website. We use Usage Information to understand how our customers are using the Website so that we can enhance your experience on the Website on later visits to the Website.
- Device Information. The Company may also collect information about your computer and hardware (“Devise Information”), including your IP address, MAC Address or other unique identifier (each a “Device Identifier”) regarding the computer, mobile device, Wi-Fi card, or other technology (collectively, “Device”) that you use to access the Website. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device when you access a web site or its servers. Our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. When you visit the Website, we may view your Device Identifier. We use this Device Information to identify repeat visitors to our Website and to enhance the Website. We may associate your Device Information with your Personal Information.
Use of Your Information
The Company uses the Personal Information that you provide us to operate the Website and respond to your inquiries more effectively, and to include you on our mailing list. When you fill out the Enquire Today page, we collect Personal Information that you provide us such as your name, your child’s name, your child’s birth date, your address, your phone numbers, your e-mail address, and the details you enter to enable us to follow up to your enquiry.
We may use the Usage Information and Device Information to enhance your visitor experience on the Website. We track the pages that you browse in order to identify ways we can best serve our customers and allow customers to quickly navigate the Website. We keep track of the pages our customers visit within the Website in order to improve our Website and create a more personalized Website experience. The Company does not sell, rent, or lease Personal Information to third parties, except as required by law in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes, or to establish our legal rights.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information 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 we use to support our business.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Angus Valley Monstessori Schools, USA, LLC, our customers, or others.
Use of Cookies
The Website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a digital data file that is stored on your Device when you visit the Website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We may use temporary cookies that expire once you close your browser and persistent cookies that stay on your Device until you delete them.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell our web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the web pages on our Website, a cookie helps us recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the same page on the Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. We do not use cookies to store or gather Personal Information.
Your browser settings usually allow you to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Website. Therefore, we recommend that you enable your web browser to accept cookies to help us personalize your experience on the Website.
Security of your Personal Information
The Company is committed to safeguarding the security of your information. We utilize reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We secure your Personal Information in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. To safeguard your sensitive Personal Information, we utilize encryption protections so that your information is protected.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we use commercially reasonable security measures to protect data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to us. We are not responsible for disclosure of your information due to unauthorized actions of third parties, errors in transmission, or other causes beyond our reasonable control.
Links to Third Party Sites
The Website may contain links to other websites, including but not limited to our Instagram and Facebook pages (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not operated by or under the control of the Company, and the Company is not responsible for the information gathered by any Linked Site. Any Personal Information you provide on a Linked Site is provided to the third party operating that Linked Site and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy (if any). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of such Linked Sites, and the Company is not responsible for the privacy and security policies and practices of such Linked Sites. You should learn the privacy and security policies and practices of the Linked Sites before providing such Linked Sites with any Personal Information. The Company is providing any links to Linked Sites to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Company of the Linked Sites or their operators.
Privacy Issues Regarding Children
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of Personal Information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This does not mean that all examples of that category of Personal Information were in fact collected by us, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of Personal Information would only be collected if you provided such Personal Information directly to us.
Category Examples Collected by us
Category A: Identifiers including a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Yes
Category B: Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)) : A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some Personal Information included in this category may overlap with other categories
Yes
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information)
No
Category D: Commercial information Records and history of products or services purchased or considered
Yes
Category E: Biometric information Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data
No
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity Interaction with our Service or advertisement
Yes
Category G: Geolocation data Approximate physical location
No
Category H: Sensory data Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
No
Category I: Professional or employment related information, current or past job history or performance evaluations
No
Category J: Non- public education information Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records
No
Category K: Inferences drawn from other Personal Information Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes
No
Under CCPA, Personal Information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
- Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
- Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
- Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you. For example, from the forms you complete, preferences you express or provide through the Website, or from your purchases of our product.
- Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your activity on the Website.
- Automatically from you. For example, through cookies we or our Service Providers set on your Device as you navigate through the Website.
- From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of the Website, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that we use.
- Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
- We may use or disclose Personal Information we collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
- To operate the Website and provide you with our service.
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve the Website.
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your contact information to ask a question about the Website, we will use that Personal Information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your Personal Information register for billing services, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate billing statements.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- As described to you when collecting your Personal Information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
- To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Please note that the examples provided above are not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how we use this information, please refer to the “Use of Your Information” section above.
If we decide to collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes we will update this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of Personal Information for business or commercial purposes:
- Category A: Identifiers
- Category B: Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
- Category D: Commercial information
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of Personal Information were in fact disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.
When we disclose Personal Information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Sale of Personal Information
As defined in the CCPA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s Personal Information by the business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that we may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing Personal Information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.
Please note that the categories listed below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of Personal Information were in fact sold, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared for value in return.
We do not sell and have not sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of Personal Information:
- Category A: Identifiers
- Category B: Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
- Category D: Commercial information
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Sale of Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors under the age of 16 through the Website, although certain third-party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.
We do not sell the Personal Information of Consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to the sale of Personal Information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by contacting us.
If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us with sufficient detail to enable us to delete that information.
Sharing of Personal Information
We may share your Personal Information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:
- Service Providers
- Payment processors
- Our affiliates
- Our business partners
- Third party vendors to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your Personal Information in connection with products or services we provide to you
Your rights under CCPA
- The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:
- The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Information are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Information is being used.
- The right to request. Under CCPA, you have the right to request that we disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of Personal Information. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that Personal Information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
- The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.
- If we sold your Personal Information or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of Personal Information categories sold.
- The categories of Personal Information categories disclosed.
- The right to say no to the sale of Personal Information (opt-out). You have the right to direct us to not sell your Personal Information. To submit an opt-out request please contact us.
- The right to delete Personal Information. You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will delete (and direct our Service Providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our Service Providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
- The right not to be discriminated against. you have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your consumer’s rights, including by:
- Denying goods or services to you.
- Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
- Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you.
- Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
Exercising your rights under CCPA
In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can contact by sending us an email: [email protected]
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to your Personal Information.
Your request to us must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative.Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
- We cannot respond to your request or provide you with the required information if we cannot:
- Verify your identity or authority to make the request.
- And confirm that the Personal Information relates to you.
- We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.
For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information. Once we receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from you, if we are selling your Personal Information we will stop selling it. To exercise your right to opt-out, please contact us.
The Service Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on the Website that sells Personal Information as defined by the CCPA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of your Personal Information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.
Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser you use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.
Mobile Devices
Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:
- “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
- “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third-party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.
Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.
California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with your account.
Be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.