Privacy Policy
Our Commitment
to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your
privacy we provide this notice explaining our online
information practices and the choices you can make about
the way your information is collected and used. To make
this notice easy to find, we make it available on our
homepage and at every point where personally
identifiable information may be requested. Our privacy
policy is designed to inform you of the types of
information we collect, how we use that information, and
the circumstances under which we will share it with
nonaffiliated third parties.
Information
Collection and Use
LEARN Northeast is the
sole owner of the information collected on this site. We
will not sell, share, or rent this information to others
in ways differently than we have disclosed in this
statement. LEARN Northeast
collects
information from our users through our newsletter sign
up and donation pages on our website.
Examples of the types
of nonpublic personal information collected at these
pages are:
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Name
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Address
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Web address
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Email address
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Phone Number
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Order Information
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Credit/Debit Card Information
Additionally, we collect nonpublic
personal information about you from the following
sources (in addition to our website):
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Information we receive from you on applications or
other forms
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Information about your transactions with us, our
affiliates and others
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Information we receive from a consumer-reporting
agency
Categories of Nonaffiliated Third Parties to Whom we May
Disclose Nonpublic Personal Information Nonaffiliated
third parties are those companies not under direct or
indirect ownership or control with
LEARN Northeast.
We only disclose personal information
about you to the following types of nonaffiliated third
parties: Financial services providers, such as companies
engaged in banking, credit cards, and consumer finance.
We may also share the information we
collect, as described above, with other nonaffiliated
third parties such as third parties who may assist us in
preparing monthly statements, and credit reporting
agencies to whom we report information about your
transactions with us.
Please be advised that any opt out
rights described below will not apply with the sharing
of information necessary for us to process applications,
such as with consumer reporting agencies, or to perform
services that you request.
By way of further example:
Registration
In order to use this website, a user
must first complete the registration form. During
registration a user is required to give their full
contact information. This information is used to
evaluate the application and contact the user about the
services on our site for which they have expressed
interest. In order for this website to properly fulfill
its obligation to our customers, it is necessary for us
to supplement the information we receive with
information from 3rd party sources. For example, to
determine if our customers qualify for our service as an
ISO, we use the name, driver's license, and social
security number to request a credit report for use in
evaluating the creditworthiness of the applicant.
Order
We request information from consumers
making purchases from our registered merchants within
our shopping cart and order processing interfaces. Here
a user must provide contact information (like name and
shipping address), financial information (like credit
card number, expiration date), and identity information
(like social security number or Federal Tax ID). This
information is used to fill customer's orders, for
billing purposes, and to verify the identity of the
consumer to protect against fraud. If we have trouble
processing an order, this contact information is used to
get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on
the user's hard drive containing information about the
user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any
personally identifiable information while on our site.
Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply
terminates
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze
trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and
gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Links
This web site contains links to other
sites. Please be aware that we,
LEARN Northeast,
are not responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by this Web site.
Operators may be subject to the FTC's privacy
regulations and if so, (i) the FTC's regulations contain
sample disclosures that operators may consider; and (ii)
operators may be required to send annual notices in
addition to initial disclosures to their customers.
Security
This website takes precautions to
protect our users' information. When users submit
sensitive information via the website, your information
is protected both online and off-line. When our
registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive
information (such as credit card number, social security
number, and/or Federal Tax ID), that information is
encrypted and is protected with SSL encryption software.
While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock
icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes
locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are
just 'surfing'. While we use SSL encryption to protect
sensitive information online, we also protect
user-information off-line. All of our users'
information, not just the sensitive information
mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific
job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer
service representative) are granted access to personally
identifiable information. Our employees must use
password-protected screen-savers when they leave their
desk. When they return, they must re-enter their
password to re-gain access to your information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our
security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well
as any time new policies are added, our employees are
notified and/or reminded about the importance we place
on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our
customers' information is protected. Finally, the
servers that we store personally identifiable
information on are kept in a secure environment, behind
a locked door or cage.
If you have any questions about the
security at our website, you can send an email to
revchildress@yahoo.com.
Site and
Service Updates
We also send the user site and
service announcement updates. We may close your account
and/or refuse additional services if Members
un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain
important information about the service. We communicate
with the user to provide requested services and in
regards to issues relating to their account via email,
fax, or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user’s nonpublic personally
identifiable information changes (such as your zip
code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we
will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or
remove that user's personal data provided to us. This
can usually be done by calling our headquarters at
1-866-242-4997
or by emailing our Customer
Support Department at
revchildress@yahoo.com
for more instructions.
Opt-out requirements:
As provided in this policy, we only
provide your nonpublic personal information to a
nonaffiliated third party in conjunction with the
services that you have requested that we provide to you.
All nonaffiliated third parties to whom we disclose your
nonpublic personal information are contractually
prohibited by us to disclose or use the information
other than to carry out the transactions that you have
requested. Accordingly, there is nothing for a user to
opt out of with respect to how we currently use their
non-public personal information.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so
our users are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any,
we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use
personally identifiable information in a manner
different from that stated at the time it was collected,
we will notify users by way of an email or US mailing so
as to enable users to "opt-out" if we use their
information in this different manner. We will use
information in accordance with the privacy policy under
which the information was collected.
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