Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 13, 2021

BY ACCESSING OR USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Introduction

EDUCATION ASSOCIATES, LP (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website WWW.EDUCATIONASSOCIATES.NET, either directly or through any of the domain designations that redirect to this website, including WWW.EDASSOCIATES.COM, WWW.EDASSOCS.COM, and WWW.EDASSOC.NET, (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our Website. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights below for more information.

Information We Collect about You and How We Collect It

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as your real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, any information you provide to us to complete purchase orders, other similar identifiers, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); and/or
• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us;
• automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, submitting an order for any of our services, or requesting any further services. We may also ask you for information to fulfill complete service requests or when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
• Any information you uploaded, published, or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) through your customer portal.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website;
• information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• We do not engage in any type of behavioral tracking over time or across third-party websites or other online services.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better service, including by enabling us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• speed up your searches;
• recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, below.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• to present our Website and its contents to you;
• to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
• to provide you with notices about your account;
• to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it;
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
• for any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We do not disclose personal information to third parties, except:

• to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• to enforce or apply our Terms of Use  (WWW.EDUCATIONASSOCIATES.NET/TERMS-OF-USE) or Terms of Sale [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE’S TERMS OF SALE OF SERVICES] and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes;
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of EDUCATION ASSOCIATES, LP, our customers, or others, for example for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. We do not share or disclose any user information for the purposes of third-party advertising.
• Promotional Offers from the Company. Currently, we do not use information such as your email address or contact information to promote our own or third parties’ products or services. If our policy changes, and you do not wish to have your email address or other contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you will be given an opportunity to opt-out either by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, by replying to a click-wrap notification after such a policy becomes effective, by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes, or by sending us an email stating your request to ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out procedure does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience, or other transaction.
• Targeted Advertising. We do not use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to advertisers’ target-audience preferences. If our policy changes in the future, you will be notified and given an opportunity to opt-out either by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, by replying to a click-wrap notification after such a policy becomes effective, by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes, or by sending us an email stating your request to ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM.

We do not share or sell your personal information with third parties for advertising purposes. Regardless, we do not control how third parties may collect or use of any of your information to serve interest-based advertising. These third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights below for more information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use (WWW.EDUCATIONASSOCIATES.NET/TERMS-OF-USE).

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights below for more information.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit WWW.OAG.CA.GOV/PRIVACY/CCPA.

Although we do not share or sell information to third-party advertisers, California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM  or write us at: EDUCATION ASSOCIATES, LP, 717 K STREET, STE. 308, SACRAMENTO, CA 95814.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us through our Website is stored on secure third-party servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us by sending an email to: ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM or by writing us at:

EDUCATION ASSOCIATES, LP, 717 K STREET, STE. 308, SACRAMENTO, CA 95814.

Disputes and Cancellation

Members who wish to cancel their membership can send an email to ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM  with Terminate Registration in the Subject Line. Education Associates will delete all associated communication in their possession for users requesting this service.

If there are any disputes regarding cancellation of membership, please send an email with Dispute Resolution in the Subject line to ADMIN@EDASSOCIATES.COM.