Privacy Policy

Please read the complete Privacy Policy below as well as our Terms of Use, and contact us if you have any questions.

General Information Collected:
When visiting our site SchoolMoney.org (“SchoolMoney.org”), some general information may be collected including: IP address (your computer’s unique signature) Operating system (e.g., Mac OS X, Windows 7) Browser software (e.g., Firefox, Chrome, Safari) Internet Service Provider (e.g., Comcast, Time Warner Cable). The information we collect is aggregated to reflect the population as a whole rather than focused on individuals. We use it to help us better understand the people who visit our website and to continually improve our products and services. In addition, like many other sites with paid advertising, we disclose some of this non-personally identifiable, aggregate information to advertisers to inform them of the number of people who have seen and clicked on their advertisements.

Cookies:
Our website uses cookies for the purpose of collecting information about your use of our site and for running certain features, like the ability to leave comments and email articles. We may also automatically collect your IP and referring website addresses, browser type, domain name and website access times. Our web-based email service may not function unless your browser is set to accept cookies. You can turn off cookies or delete them through your browser, but that will affect your online experience.

About Advertising and Tracking:
We use third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect information when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, telephone number) about your visits to our website in order to provide advertisements on our website, other sites and other forms of media about goods and services that may be of interest to you. They may also use this information to track the effectiveness of those ads.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit networkadvertising.org. To specifically control which advertising Google will display, click here.

Note that newer browsers versions have built-in support to stop tracking from advertisers.

Email Subscriptions:
We use the following third party companies for our newsletter subscriptions: Our email newsletter is sent out through AWeber.com. Our feed is handled by Feedburner. For AWeber’s privacy policy, click here; for Google’s privacy policy (Feedburner is owned by Google), click here.

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Comments:

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Registered Users:

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Media:

If you upload images to the website, or your are allowing us to upload your images, you should avoid uploading or sending images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Where Your Data Goes:

We are a company based in the US and we use US companies for analytics and email management. Please refer to these companies’ privacy policies for up-to-date information about where your data is processed. Our newsletters are sent out through AWeber.com and Feedburner which also handles our RSS feed. For AWeber’s privacy policy, click here; for Google’s privacy policy (Feedburner is owned by Google), click here.

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Links:
Be aware that when you click on ad banners, you may be redirected to other sites not operated by SchoolMoney.org. You are responsible for information that you provide to these sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that requests personal information. Note that this policy does not cover the privacy practices of these linked sites.

Third Party Service Providers:
 Agents and affiliates of SchoolMoney.org may process individual user data as required to provide services for which the user has registered. Features on the website that utilize third party service providers include email notification services and credit card processing services.

From time to time we may partner with third party service providers to offer additional products and services within the website. To participate in these offerings (which are purely optional), you may be asked to provide personal information and agree to terms and conditions relating to the third party service provider. Such requests for information will be displayed and requested by the third party in a straightforward manner with explanation as to whose privacy statement governs the collection of such information.

Changes to our Privacy Policy:
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to protect our users and to comply with best practices employed by other publishers and regulatory organizations across the industry. We recommend that you check the Privacy Policy when you visit our website to be sure that you are aware of and understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy, or in how we use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make any retroactive material changes in how we handle previously collected personal information unless you allow us to do so, or unless we are legally required to do so, and in such a case we will email registered website visitors information on material changes to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated June 16th, 2018.