Explorer Preschool's Online Privacy Policy

This document sets forth the Explorer Preschool Online Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) for this Web site, www.explorerpreschool.org (the “Site”). If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this Site. This Privacy Policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities or other Explorer Preschool Web sites.

Explorer Preschool adheres to the European Union Safe Harbor principles as set forth by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from the European Union.

Changes in Privacy Policy
All "personal information" ("personal information" is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of such collection. Explorer Preschool reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice of material changes on the home page of the Site. If as the result of such changes, you want to alter the ways in which Explorer Preschool is allowed to use your personal information, you can do so by following the procedure described in the section entitled “Updating your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences.” You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after such notice has been posted for thirty (30) days with the following exception:  If at the time you provide personal information to Explorer Preschool you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, Explorer Preschool will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if Explorer Preschool sells assets (or the assets of a division or subsidiary) to another entity, or Explorer Preschool (or a division or subsidiary) is acquired by or merged with another entity, Explorer Preschool may provide to such entity personal information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent.

Entities collecting personal information
Personal information on this Site is collected by Explorer Preschool. Explorer Preschool ’s address is 2700 Booksin Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 USA, and its telephone number is 408-723-0757.

The Site contains links to other sites at which personal information is collected. In such instances, unless expressly provided to the contrary, the collection and use of your personal information will be governed by the privacy policy applicable to that site. That privacy policy should identify the entity that is collecting your personal information.

Updating your personal information and privacy preferences
You have the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences at any time. With respect to Registration Information (as defined in the section entitled "Protection of Your Personal Information"), this may be accomplished by linking to your account, where you can view and make changes to your personal information. You may also access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences (such as whether you wish to receive promotional communications from Explorer Preschool) by writing or calling Explorer Preschool at:

Explorer Preschool
Attn: Membership Chair
2700 Booksin Ave.
San Jose, CA 95125
USA

Telephone Number 408-723-0757

Please include your name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us.

Personal information submitted through this Site that is not Registration Information is not accessible online. To access and/or correct such information, you may write Explorer Preschool at:

Explorer Preschool
ATTN: Secretary/Membership Chair
2700 Booksin Ave.
San Jose, CA 95125
USA

In your correspondence, please indicate with as much detail as possible the location on this Site where you provided your personal information.

Collection of personal information
As a visitor to this Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information. In connection with other activities, such as utilizing online software applications, Explorer Preschool may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, Explorer Preschool may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including ZIP code), e-mail address, telephone numbers, and other personal information. When ordering products or services on the Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

When you use the Site, Explorer Preschool may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its services. Explorer Preschool also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Site. Without expressly informing you in each particular circumstance, we do not match such information with any of your personal information.

Explorer Preschool has established relationships with various service providers whose services are available to you from this Site or from Web sites that are linked to this Site. Typically, these providers offer services that Explorer Preschool members might find useful. In order to use those services, you may be required to provide personal information to the providers. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, personal information that you provide while you are visiting a provider’s Web site will be subject to the privacy policy posted on such site, and personal information that you provide while on this Site in conjunction with a provider’s service will be subject to this Privacy Policy. You should be aware that our agreements with these service providers often provide that they will share with Explorer Preschool personal information collected from you. In such instances, Explorer Preschool may use this information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. In the situation where sites have an Explorer Preschool “look and feel,” and you reasonably believe you are on an Explorer Preschool site, the site is collecting information in a solely intermediary capacity and does not use personal information for secondary purposes.

In order to reduce errors in our database, authenticate our users, and prevent abuse of our system, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submit to us with information from third-party sources. For example, we may supplement your Registration Information with address information provided by the U.S. Postal Service to qualify your information and prevent errors in our database.

How your personal information is used
Explorer Preschool collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. Your personal information is also used to keep you informed about the activities of Explorer Preschool.

Explorer Preschool may collect information about the use of the Site, such as the types of services used and how many users we receive daily. This information is collected in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually. Explorer Preschool may use this aggregate, non identifying statistical data for statistical analysis, marketing, or similar promotional purposes.

Your choices with respect to personal information
Explorer Preschool recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on this Site. Except in the particular circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, Explorer Preschool will also not provide your name to other companies or organizations without your consent.

There are other instances in which Explorer Preschool may divulge your personal information. Explorer Preschool may provide your personal information, if necessary in Explorer Preschool ’s good faith judgment, to comply with laws or regulations of a governmental or regulatory body or in response to a valid subpoena, warrant, or order or to protect the rights of Explorer Preschool or others.

Protection of your personal information
The personal information that you provide in connection with registering yourself as an Explorer Preschool member is classified as Registration Information. Registration Information is protected in several ways. Access by you to your Registration Information is available through a password and unique customer ID (currently your email address). This password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. In addition, your Registration Information resides on a secure server that only selected Explorer Preschool personnel and contractors have access to via password. Explorer Preschool encrypts your personal information and thereby strives to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to Explorer Preschool.

Personal information that you provide that does not constitute Registration Information also resides on a secure server and is only accessible to selected Explorer Preschool personnel and contractors via password. Since this information is not accessible by you, you will not be asked to select a password in order to view or modify such information.

Please note that any information you post to a public bulletin board or chat room, such as the Explorer Preschool Message Board (the “Forums”), is available to all persons accessing that location. Your e-mail address will not automatically be posted on the Forums unless you modify the default setting to permit that. Your e-mail address would then be available to all persons accessing the Forums. In addition, you should be aware that the Forums offer a service in which subscribers are e-mailed a copy of all messages posted to the Forums on a particular topic. Consequently, if you post a message to the Forums, your e-mail address will be sent to those subscribers that have indicated an interest in the topic of your message.

Use of cookies
When you visit this Site, you can browse the Site and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to improve our Site, we use “cookies” to track your visit. A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your identification card and enables Explorer Preschool to record your passwords and preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to access those pages.)

While Explorer Preschool uses cookies to track your visit to explorerpreschool.org, and our Web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, Explorer Preschool does not generally use this information to identify you personally. However, if you expressly provide consent for explorerpreschool.org to "remember" the unique identifier that you select when you register for various activities on the Site, that unique identifier will be stored on a cookie on your computer, linked to your Registration Information, and your navigation path around the Site will be tracked. We associate this data to understand how our Site and services are being used so we can understand our customers and offer appropriate products and services.

Privacy complaints
Explorer Preschool takes its users’ privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that Explorer Preschool has not complied with this Online Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information, you may write Explorer Preschool at the following address:

Explorer Preschool
ATTN: President
2700 Booksin Ave.
San Jose, CA 95125
USA

In your letter, please describe in as much detail as possible the ways in which you believe that the Explorer Preschool Online Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your complaint promptly.

Please note that if you provide Explorer Preschool with inconsistent privacy preferences (for example, by indicating on one occasion that third parties may contact you with marketing offers and indicating on another occasion that they may not), Explorer Preschool cannot guarantee that your most recent privacy preference will be honored.

Also, please note that Explorer Preschool is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non Explorer Preschool Web sites to which this Site or any other Explorer Preschool Web site may link. You should review the privacy policy of such sites before using the sites.