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Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 07, 2021 

This Privacy Policy describes how Cedarmore Corporation Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center. (“Cedarmore Corporation”, “we”, “us”, and/or “our”) handles the personal information we collect from and about you or your children when you or your children visit our Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center website, www.BFOWDLC.cedarmore.org (“the Site”); or when you otherwise interact with us. It also describes certain legal rights you may have, subject to applicable law, and how you can exercise them. 

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information about identified or identifiable individuals, such as their name and email address, and includes “personal data” as defined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and “personal information” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). 

By using Cedarmore Corporation Service, you confirm you have agreed to the Cedarmore Corporation Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center Terms of Use, to the extent permitted by law, and have read and understood this Privacy Policy. 

A Note for Minors: In order to register for Bishop Frank O. White Literacy Center classes you must be over the age of 18. Parents registering for Cedaremore Corporation Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center on behalf of their child, must give their consent at the time of registration to permit us to collect Personal Information from their child.

 

Information We Collect 

Information you give us directly

 We collect information that you voluntarily provide in the following ways:

·      Information collected when you request information or register for a class on Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center. When you fill in forms and surveys on our Site including when you request additional information about our Service or contact us, we may require that you provide us with certain information such as your first and last name, email address, phone number, and time zone, as well as you or your child’s name, age, gender, ethnicity; how you heard us; and any other information that you believe is relevant for us to know. If you choose to Donate to the Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center, we require that you provide us, or our third-party payment processor, with your name, email, contribution, payment card information, and billing address.

·      Information collected through you or your child’s participation in classes and other virtual events. To enable our virtual classes and other live events, we use third-party services, such as Zoom, to stream video and audio feed of interactions between students and instructors as well as the contents of any communications enabled by integrated chat functions. Certain information is captured incidentally through you or your child’s participation in such events, including you or your child’s image, voice, movements, physical environment, and any other information provided during the event. Ordinarily, neither we, nor Zoom, retain this information. However, from time to time, we may record special events and make those recordings accessible to other users of Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center. If we do so, we will indicate that the event will be recorded.

·      Log data. Like many websites, Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Site may collect certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This may include information about the devices you use to access our Service (including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, and operating system); the address of the web page visited before and after using our Service; details about your interactions with our Service (such as the date, time, length of stay, and specific pages accessed during your visits); search terms used to reach our Service; and usage information (such as the number and frequency of visitors to our Service). We use this information to help us design and administer our Site, improve our Service, and gather broad demographic information that helps us identify visitor preferences.

·      Student activity data. We may also collect certain information about students’ activity at some point. For instance, we may collect information about when a student is working on a project or whether a student has completed a particular task or assignment in order to help our instructors monitor how a student is progressing throughout the week and to help the Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center improve its Service.

 

How We Use Your Information 

We use the information described above to:

·      Provide you with the Service if you are or become a registrant; 

·      Deliver a high-quality and customized learning experience; 

·      Process your donations through our Service; 

·      Operate and improve our Service, including monitoring and analyzing usage, trends, and activities related to the Service;

·      Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages and information about the rules of the Site and Service; 

·      Identify, fix, and troubleshoot bugs and service errors; 

·      Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments, and suggestions; ! Communicate with you about services, classes, and events we offer and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you; 

·      Post testimonials from parents; 

·      Improve our educational, networking, marketing, social, and recruitment strategies; 

·      Protect against, identify, investigate, and respond to misuse of our Service or other unlawful behavior; and

·      Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected. We do not use Personal Information to engage in targeted advertising to children and we do not create or build personal profiles of students other than for educational purposes or as specifically authorized by a parent or legal guardian.

We do not use Personal Information to engage in targeted advertising to children and we do not create or build personal profiles of students other than for educational purposes or as specifically authorized by a parent or legal guardian.

How We Share Your Information

We may share information about you with certain third parties in the following circumstances:

  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.

  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

  • Legal requirements. We may share Personal Information when we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, including lawful requests from public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also share Personal Information when we believe it is necessary to protect the Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center’s rights and property, to protect the safety of our users, and to defend against legal liability.

  • With your Consent. We may share Personal Information with third parties with your consent and at your direction, including if we notify you that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide that information.

We may also share aggregate or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you, for various purposes including compliance with various reporting obligations; for business or marketing purposes; or to assist third parties in understanding our users’ interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality available through the Service.

 

Our Legal Bases for Handling Your Personal Information

The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to use or disclose your Personal Information. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds are as follows: 

·        Legitimate interest. In most cases, we handle Personal Information on the ground that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities such as the following in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals: 

o   Providing the Service pursuant to our agreement with our customers; 

o   Marketing our business; 

o   Protecting our customers, personnel, and property; 

o   Analyzing and improving our business; 

·       Legal compliance. We need to use and disclose Personal Information in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations. 

·       To honor our contractual commitments to an individual. Some of our processing of Personal Information is to meet our contractual obligations to the individual to whom the Personal Information pertains. 

·       Consent. Where required by law, and in some other cases, we handle Personal Information on the basis of implied or express consent. For instance, in relation to direct marketing, we will obtain and rely on your consent in relation to the processing concerned.

Your Rights and Choices 

You have a variety of rights and choices related to our use of your Personal Information. 

·      Opting out of email marketing. You can opt out of receiving our promotional emails and texts at any time by following the instructions included in those communications. Please be aware that it may take up to 10 days for us to process your request, and you may continue receiving promotional communications from us during that period. If you opt out of receiving such communications, please note that we may continue to send you nonpromotional communications (such as emails related to our business relationship or emails about changes to our legal terms). 

·      Restricting cookies/Do Not Track. Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center does not change its behavior in response to web browser “do not track” signals. However, you can configure most browsers to reject cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you a chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You can consult the help section of your browser to find out how to do this. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Service. 

·      Limiting information available through social media platforms. If you want to limit or stop receipt of information from third-party social media platforms, you can change your privacy settings on those other websites. You also may choose not to use social features we make available. 

·      Access, update, or delete your information. If you are already a user, you may access, update, or delete Personal Information you have provided by emailing us. You may also remove certain optional information that you no longer wish to be publicly available through the Service, such as your photo or avatar. Subject to the terms of your agreement with us, you may terminate your account by emailing us at BFOWDLC@cedarmore.org. Please note that we may keep certain Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations or for legitimate business purposes, such as to resolve disputes or enforce our agreements. We may also keep cached archived copies of Personal Information for a certain period of time. 

·      Data Requests. In some instances you may be eligible to request that we provide access to and/or a copy of certain Personal Information we hold about you; ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased; object to our processing of your Personal Information; request that we restrict certain processing; transfer your Personal Information to a third party; or honor your withdrawal of consent for certain processing of your Personal Information. We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate interest or to comply with a legal obligation. Before responding to your request, we may require that you provide us with additional information to confirm your identity. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorities applicable to your situation. However, we invite you to contact us with any concern, as we would be happy to try to resolve it directly.

If you are a resident of California, California law requires us to disclose the following information with respect to our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information. 

·      Notice of collection. Although the information we collect is described in greater detail in the “Information We Collect” section above, the categories of Personal Information that we have collected – as described by the CCPA – including in the past 12 months are: 

o   Identifiers, such as name, email address, mailing address, and IP address. We collect this information directly from you, from your child or from third-party sources.

o   Other individual customer records, such as phone number, billing address, and payment card information. This category includes personal information protected under pre-existing California law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), and overlaps with other categories listed here. We collect this information directly from you, from your child, or from third-party sources. 

o   Commercial information, such as purchasing information and engagement with our Service. We collect this information directly from you. 

o   Demographic information, such as ages of students. We collect this information directly from you or your child. 

o   Internet activity, such as referring and exiting pages and your interactions with our Service. We collect this information directly from your device. 

o   Geolocation data, such as IP address. We collect this information directly from your device. 

o   Financial Information, such as payment information or financial account numbers in order to provide you with services. We collect this information directly from you. 

o   Employment information, such as company name and job title. We collect this information directly from you. 

o   Sensory information, such as photos, videos, and voice recordings. We collect this information directly from you or your child. 

o   Inferences, such as information about your interests and preferences. We collect this information directly from you or your child or through automatic data collection means. 

·      Business or commercial purpose for collecting and using Personal Information. We collect each category of Personal Information listed above for the business or commercial purposes described in the “How We Use Your Information” section above. 

·      Categories of sources of Personal Information. We collect each category of Personal Information listed above directly from you, through automatic data collection means, or through the third-party sources described in the “Information We Collect” section above. 

·      Categories of Personal Information disclosed. In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the categories of Personal Information listed above in the circumstances described in the “How We Share Your Information” section above. 

·      Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information. We may share each category of Personal Information listed above with the third parties described in the “How We Share Your Information” section above. 

·      Right to know. California residents may request disclosure of the specific pieces and/or categories of Personal Information that we have collected about them, the categories of sources for that Personal Information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, the categories of Personal Information that we have disclosed, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared. To request this information please contact us at BFOWDLC@cedarmore.org.

·      Right to opt-out. Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center does not sell Personal Information to third parties for monetary value. However, the term “sale” is defined broadly in the CCPA. To the extent that “sale” under the CCPA is interpreted to include any of the data uses described in the “How We Use Your Information” section above, California residents are entitled to opt out of the “sale” of data at any time. To exercise this right, please contact us at BFOWDLC@cedarmore.org. 

·      Deletion. You may request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected about you (subject to certain exceptions). Please be aware that we may keep certain information as required or permitted by applicable law. To exercise this right, please contact us at BFOWDLC@cedarmore.org or using our contact information below. 

·      Authorized agent. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government-issued identification. To verify the request, we may contact you directly. 

·      Right to non-discrimination. Limiting use of, or deleting, your Personal Information may affect features and uses that rely on that information. However, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights, including denying you goods or services, providing you with a different level or quality of services, or charging you different prices or rates for services. 

·      Shine the Light. California Civil Code § 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of Personal Information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared Personal Information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below. 

Children’s Privacy

Many features of our Service are intended for adults, including parents or legal guardians and instructors. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children in connection with these features. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold where applicable) has given us Personal Information without your consent, please contact us at BFOWDLC@cedarmore.org. 

When we do intend to collect Personal Information from children, we take additional steps to protect children’s privacy, including: 

·      Notifying parents about our information practices with regard to children, including the types of Personal Information we may collect from children, the uses to which we may put that information, and whether and with whom we may share that information;

·      In accordance with applicable law, and our practices, obtaining consent from parents for the collection of Personal Information from their children, or for sending information about our products and services directly to their children; 

·      Limiting our collection of Personal Information from children to no more than is reasonably necessary to participate in an online activity; and 

·      Giving parents access or the ability to request access to Personal Information we have collected from their children and the ability to request that the Personal Information be changed or deleted.

Links to Other Websites and Third-Party Content 

We may provide links to third-party websites, services, and applications that are not operated or controlled by Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Digital Literacy Center. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those third parties. The fact that we link to a website, service, or application is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any thirdparty service before providing any Personal Information to or through them. 

Data Transfer

 Personal Information we collect may be stored and processed for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy in the United States where we are based or in any country where we have operations or where we engage vendors or service providers. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you originally provided the data. 

Our Service is not targeted to users outside of the United States. By using our Service or submitting your Personal Information to us, you agree to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Data Retention 

We only keep your Personal Information for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as required by law, or as necessary to resolve disputes and enforce our rights and agreements. To dispose of Personal Information, we may anonymize it, delete it, or take other appropriate steps. Data may persist in copies made for backup and business continuity purposes for additional time. 

Security

Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Digital Litracy Center uses generally accepted administrative, physical, and technical safeguards we believe are appropriate to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your Personal Information. Although we make reasonable efforts to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the Internet and storing information electronically. Cedarmore Bishop Frank O. White Digital Litracy Center cannot and does not guarantee absolute security. 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

 We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. If we make changes to this policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on our Site and indicate when it was last revised. You are advised to review this policy periodically to stay informed of our practices. If we make material changes, we may provide you with additional notice, such as posting a statement on our homepage or sending you an email notification, if we have your email address on file. Your continued use of the Service after the revised Privacy Policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood, and agreed to the current version of this Privacy Policy, to the extent permitted by law. 

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or how we protect your Personal Information please contact us at BFOWDLC@cedarmore.org or write us at 165 Lakeview Avenue, Freeport, NY 11520.