Thank you for visiting the Comfort Crew Academy website
(“Site”) Through the Site, Comfort Crew Academy aims to extend our mission to
use proven resources to help military kids and their family connect and build resiliency
in the face of extraordinary challenges.
"Comfort Crew Academy" also is referred to as
"we," "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy.
PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
Comfort Crew Academy strives to provide safe, entertaining
and educational content. We take this seriously and recognize the importance of
privacy concerns especially in the digital environment.
With this in mind, we have adopted this Privacy Policy for
our Site. On our Site, we collect personal information in two forms. One form
is information that we expressly request you to provide in connection with
certain activities. The second form is anonymous information that we
automatically collect from your computer, phone or other device.
Our Privacy Policy is based on the following principles:
1. You are free to choose whether or not to engage in any
activity on our Site that involves your submission of personal information,
such as your name, email address, phone number or other information that can be
used to identify or contact an individual, whether online or offline. We will
ask you for such information expressly. Most of the activities on our Site do
not require you to submit any personal information.
2.
When we ask you to submit personal information, we will explain in the sign-up
or collection process how we will use the information (such as requesting an
email address when you sign up for a newsletter). We will use the information
only as we have stated, other than in Special Circumstances which are described
below (such as in relation to law enforcement or a business transfer).
3. We use the anonymous information that is automatically
collected from your device, such as a computer's Internet Protocol address, a
mobile device identifier, operating system, or general location such as zip
code, to support internal operations so that we can understand and monitor the
usage of our Site and improve the performance of the Site.
4. There is no behavioral advertising on our Site which means that you will not see any advertising that is targeted to you based on your combined activity on our Site and your activity on other Sites and apps.
Third parties that we use to assist with the Site are
required to follow this Privacy Policy. .
5. Our
collection of personal information on the Site that is directed to children
under 13 is intended to follow the principles of the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act ("COPPA"), a U.S. law designed to protect the online
privacy of children under the age of 13.
6. We do not knowingly collect, use or share personal
information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental
consent or as permitted by law. Parents or guardians may review, modify, or
delete their child’s personal information, or withdraw consent, by contacting
us using the contact information provided at the end of this privacy policy.
- 7. We do not make personal information collected from children publicly available nor do we enable children to so on our Site. We will not condition a child's participation in any activity or service on the disclosure of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity.
8. Parents may contact us comfortcrewacademy@comfortcrew.org
to review, update or delete any of their children's personal information that
we may have collected and to elect for us not to collect any additional
personal information from their children.
9. We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time by
posting the updated Privacy Policy online. We will not change how we handle
previously collected information without providing notice and obtaining
parental consent where necessary.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY
We use the anonymous information that is automatically
collected to support the internal operations of the Site. Some of this
information is collected through third-party analytics tools. Internal
operations include the following:
·
to monitor metrics such as total number of
visitors and traffic to understand which activities and services are
most popular to understand the pages where visitors enter our
Site and the pages viewed to reduce the repetition in the promotional
messages that users see on our Site to understand generally the location of our
users (e.g., zip code information) to recognize the browsers used to visit our Site,
so that the content is adapted for the relevant browser to diagnose and fix technical problems.
When you visit a Site, we may use cookies and similar
technologies like pixels and web beacons, to collect this anonymous information
for the purpose of the internal operations of our Site. A "cookie" is
a piece of information that a web site or app transfers to a user's device for
record-keeping purposes. As a user moves from one page or screen to another, a
cookie is used to tell us that it is the same device. We may also use a cookie
to keep track of your selections. You may set your device to accept or not
accept cookies and you may delete any cookies that you have received. However,
should you decide to disable any cookies we place on your device, you may not
be able to use certain services or features on our Site. A "web
beacon" is a one-pixel image (which may be visible or transparent), which
may be embedded on a web page or e-mail message, and which may also provide us
with information about usage of that page or e-mail message.
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Law Enforcement and Safety. We may access, preserve and
share your information when we have a good faith belief that it is necessary
to: (i) respond to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or
subpoena) or otherwise to take action because we believe it is required or
advisable under the law; (ii) detect, prevent and address fraud and other
illegal activity; (iii) respond to your requests for customer service; or (iv)
limit our legal liability or to protect the rights, property, or personal
safety of ourselves, any user of our Site, a third party or the general public
including as part of investigations.
Business Transfer. If we sell or otherwise transfer part or
the whole of Comfort Crew Academy or our assets to another organization (e.g., during
a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution,
liquidation), your personal information, and any other information collected
through our Site may be among the items sold or transferred. The buyer or
transferee will be required to honor the commitments we have made in this
Privacy Policy.
Security Notice. In the unlikely event that we believe that
the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have
been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a
notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible
under the circumstances, and, to the extent you have given us your e-mail
address, we may notify you by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a
means of such notification.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We contract with third parties to provide certain services
to facilitate the operations of our Site ("service providers"), such
as to manage the analytics information about usage of our Site. Our service
providers will be given access to your information only as is reasonably
necessary to provide the services for which they are contracted. They will be
required to abide by the terms of this Privacy Policy in their handling of
personal information.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION
Your information collected is through the Site may be stored
and processed in the United States or any other country in which we or our
service providers maintain facilities. We or our service providers may transfer
information that we collect about you, including personal information across
borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or
jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or
other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from
U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal
information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data
protection laws as your jurisdiction. By using the Site you consent to the
transfer of information to the U.S. or to any other country in which we or our
service providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information
about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to maintain the security of information but cannot
guarantee that information security measures are fail-safe or guarantee that
information on a Site may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
Our Site maintains technical and organizational steps to keep information
collected secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical
access to our database servers and use of electronic security systems and
password protections to guard against unauthorized access.
OTHER WEB SITE AND SERVICES
Our Site may link to other website or apps, including content offered by third parties that we do not control and whose privacy and data collection practices may differ from ours ("Third-Party Site"). We are not responsible for the practices employed by any website or services linked to or from our Site, including the information or content contained within them.
When you go via our link to a Third-Party Site, you become
subject to their terms of use and privacy policies rather than ours. You should
review these other website privacy policies regarding any personal information
that they may collect about you.
ONLINE SAFETY
Involvement in your family's online lives is one of the most
important safety tools available. In addition, we encourage you to educate
yourself and your child on privacy concerns. We recommend, as a starting point,
the following guide published by the federal government,
http://www.onguardonline.gov/articles/0031-kids-privacy.
The Site is operated by The Comfort Crew for Military Kids, located at 8127 Mesa Dr. Ste B 206 #117 Austin, TX 78759. We use the following service providers: LearnWorlds. Please contact us if you have any questions about us or our service provider.