PRIVACY POLICY

BillingsSpanishAcademy.com is an online Spanish education center. The site is owned and run by Spanish Academies LLC. Your use of the site and response to our feedback form is very important to us and we understand the importance of privacy. We maintain an online privacy policy to give our visitors confidence that their personal information will not be misused.

This policy explains how we use the personal information you submit. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically. If you use our services, you agree to these terms.

Collection of Personal Information

When you complete a feedback form we request information about you. We collect personally identifiable information such as your name and email address. We also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring web site address.

What We Do with Collected Information

We use this information to communicate with you like when we respond to an inquiry that you make and we may send you messages about special offers, promotional announcements and consumer surveys. You may, at any time, opt out of receiving such information. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service, respond to any problems that may arise and to gauge user trends to determine what part of our services are most popular with users.

Sometimes we will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from third parties not affiliated with Spanish Academies LLC. If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide, with your consent, your information to the third party. However, you should note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties not affiliated with Spanish Academies LLC. Any information users give to another party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy Policy. Spanish Academies LLC is not responsible for information given to other parties. Please review their privacy policies prior to providing any information to third parties.

We may, at times, produce reports for advertisers containing aggregate information about our users such as demographic and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely with advertisers to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users. We will never include any personal information of our users in these reports.

We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.

Cookies

As you browse this website, cookies are placed on your computer's hard drive. (Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your hard drive.) Cookies allow us to track the areas of the site visited, and help us match your address and credit card information with your authentication so you don't need to retype the information each time you visit our site.

We also use cookies to gather usage information, such as the number and frequency of visitors to our site and its various pages. Third parties may serve some of these cookies. We analyze this data to determine which parts of our site customers like and which parts need improvement. Automatically logged information is also used to analyze trends and to administer the site.

Cookies may also be placed on your computer by our vendors and affiliates, such as Google. Spanish Academies LLC does not control these third party cookies and you should check the privacy policy of these third parties. You may be able to opt out of the use of cookies at the third party sites.

If you wish, you can adjust your web browser to block the use of cookies. We recommend that you set your browser to accept cookies to take full advantage of our website.

Usage Tracking

An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Internet so that your computer can be identified by the main computers, known as “Web servers,” that “serve up” Web pages.

Spanish Academies LLC and/or its affiliates collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregated information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When site users request pages from this web site and/or its affiliates’ sites, our servers log the site users' IP addresses. We do not normally connect IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a site users’ session will be logged, but the site user will remain anonymous to us. The content management system logs error messages and security related events (such as users logging in and out). For anonymous users, this information is linked to IP address only. For users logged in, this information is linked to the users’ accounts, which contain personally identifiable information. Also, any time a user enters information into a form on the site, the IP address of the user is recorded, and if the user is logged in, then the action is linked to that user account. Date, pages accessed, referring URL, and IP address are the information collected through tracking technologies. This information is used in aggregate (i.e. with personally identifiable information stripped out) to provide website utilization statistics to our advertisers and sponsors. The information is also used to provide services, to assist in customer service requests, to resolve errors, and to prevent security incursions against our site. In no case is the tracked personally identifiable information kept on the server for more than seven days, while the derived aggregate information is kept indefinitely. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a site user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site terms of use or terms of service or to protect our service, site, site users or others.

Disclosure

As a matter of policy and unless otherwise stated herein, Spanish Academies LLC does not sell your personally identifiable information to other people or non-affiliated companies. However, we reserve the right to use your personally identifiable information to notify you of certain products and services about which you may have interest, and to investigate violations of the terms and provisions of this Policy or the Terms of Use. In addition, Spanish Academies LLC aggregates personally identifiable information from its database and discloses non-personally identifiable elements to third parties for marketing, promotional and other commercial purposes. We reserve the right to sell, rent or disclose your personally identifying information to third parties without further notification.

When we contract with other companies to perform services (such as web hosting, credit card processing, user analysis, survey management), these companies may have access to your personally identifying information. By contractual agreement, these companies must treat your information in strict confidence, and not permit its sale, rental or disclosure to third parties. We will not be liable for any damages that may result from the misuse of your personal information by these companies.

From time to time, we may partner with companies whose products we believe will interest our users. In conjunction with these partners, we may occasionally send promotional announcements to customers. To request that your name be excluded from these mailings with our marketing partners, simply email admin@spanishacademies.com and send us a note indicating your preferences.

We also provide analyses of our users in the aggregate to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties. We do this so that we and our advertisers can understand you better, and so we can keep bringing you first-rate services. We may also disclose, on an anonymous basis, literal statements made by our members.

Security and Access

For transmitting your personal information to us, we use a secure server (SSL), which encrypts all of your personal information. This encryption process ensures that the information you give us is protected against unauthorized access.

We have implemented technology and security features, as well as strict internal guidelines, to safeguard the privacy of your personal information from unauthorized access or improper use. We will continue to enhance our security procedures as improvements become available. While we make every effort to ensure that your information is secure with us, no data transmission over the Internet can be completely guaranteed as secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Disclosure of Personal Information in the Event of Merger or Asset Sale

Spanish Academies LLC could merge with or be acquired by another business entity or all or substantially all of their respective assets could be acquired. Should such a combination, acquisition or transaction occur, you should expect that Spanish Academies LLC will share some or all of your personally identifiable information with the acquiring or merged entity in order to continue serving you and others information, updates and offers concerning the websites.

Third Party Links

Spanish Academies LLC does not monitor, control or endorse the information collection or privacy practices of any third parties including, without limitation, any co-branded, partner or affiliated sites which are not owned or operated by Spanish Academies LLC, or other third parties who may provide services through this site. Please be aware that this site may contain links to other websites on the Internet and the services may be provided by such third parties. Spanish Academies LLC assumes no liability or responsibility for the information collection and privacy practices of such third parties. Please consult each website's privacy policy. In addition, Spanish Academies LLC is not responsible for the content or data collection practices of any third party websites, including a third party's use of cookies or other data-collection applications. Even though certain information collected by such third parties might not identify you personally, we strongly encourage you to become familiar with their privacy practices and to contact them if you have any questions about their respective privacy policies and practices.

On behalf of various sponsors, this site may provide sponsored links to third-party websites or resources (“Linked Sites”). Spanish Academies LLC neither controls nor has reviewed or approved the content that appears on such Linked Sites. You acknowledge and agree that Spanish Academies LLC is not responsible for the legality, accuracy or inappropriate nature of any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such Linked Sites. You further acknowledge and agree that Spanish Academies LLC shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods and services available on or through any such Linked Site.

Visitors Outside the United States

Spanish Academies LLC and the servers that make this site available worldwide are located in the United States. All matters relating to these sites are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio in the United States. Any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By visiting our sites and submitting information, you authorize this transfer.

Security

Spanish Academies LLC uses secure server software (SSL) to process all website transactions. SSL encrypts information transmitted over the Internet, including personal data such as credit card number, name and address. Spanish Academies LLC cannot warrant or guarantee the security of its servers, nor can it guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. Spanish Academies LLC places a priority on the security of personally identifiable information and we undertake reasonable security measures that comply with federal regulations to protect the data that resides on our servers.

Spanish Academies LLC cannot definitively ensure that all of your personally identifiable information and communications will remain private and will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Policy. Therefore, although we maintain and make every effort to comply with industry privacy standards, we do not promise, nor should you expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

Contact

If you have questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact our wed administrator at admin@spanishacademies.com.

Or you can contact us by mail at:

Web Administration
Spanish Academies LLC
6740 Clough Pike
Suite 203
Cincinnati, OH 45244

Updated December 2008