PRIVACy POLICY

AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED DATA

We and our service providers may use various technologies to collect data automatically about your use of our Website. We use this automatically-collected data for our operational purposes such as to administer and improve the site. We also use these technologies to personalize your experience with HISA. The technologies that we use may include, for example:

  • Log Files, which may collect information such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, geographic location, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data.
  • Persistent and session cookies.
  • Flash cookies (or local stored objects), which are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
  • Web beacons, which may be embedded in our Website or used in HTML-based emails and newsletters to help measure the effectiveness of our electronic communications. If you would prefer to receive newsletters that do not contain such technologies, you can request text-only newsletters.
  • If you make a payment for products or services on our website, the details you are asked to submit will be provided directly to our third party service providers via a secured connection.

Your browser may offer tools to reject or delete cookies. If you reject cookies on your browser, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site may be limited. Even if you set your browser to reject cookies, we may continue to collect data automatically through other technologies.

HISA may use service providers, such as Google Analytics, that may use cookies to collect information about your online activities. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control these activities, you may visit http://www/google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe that we may have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, please contact us at info@headwayinstitute.org to request deletion of that information.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE WEBSITE AND YOUR CHOICES

If you provide your contact information, including by subscribing to our mailing list or asking to receive other materials, we will use your email address to send the requested materials. We may also send emails notifying you of other newsletters and materials that may be of interest to you. If you make a donation through the Website, we may contact you for our fundraising and development purposes using the email address that you provide.

Choice/Opt-out

Newsletters and Promotional Communications: We provide you the opportunity to opt out of receiving newsletters and promotional email communications from us. If you no longer wish to receive electronic newsletters and/or promotional communications, you may opt out of receiving these communications by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication. After you opt out, we may continue to send invitations to donate to HISA unless you opt out separately from donation invitations as described in the paragraph below.

Donations: HISA may use your personal information to invite you to donate to us. If you prefer not to receive such correspondence, you can opt out by emailing info@headwayinstitute.org (Please note that opting out of donation emails will not affect your other HISA subscriptions, as each subscription is handled individually).

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

Aggregate Information

At times, we share aggregated demographic information about our user base with selected thirdparty partners. We may also share de-identified information in our discretion. This aggregated or de-identified information does not identify individual users.

Visitor’s & Partner’s Personal Information

We may disclose visitor or partner personal information that we collect in the following ways:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, agents, or service providers that we use to support our business and provide our services, in which case we make reasonable efforts to ensure that they are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use or share it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent.

As required by law; when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety of HISA, our customers or others; and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on the HISA.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by HISA. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.

CORRECTING OR UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may ask to correct, update or deactivate your personal information within our communications systems by emailing us at info@headwayinstitute.org. If you are a partner and would like to correct, update, or deactivate your personal information in our partner database, please also contact us by emailing info@headwayinstitute.org.

SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us. HISA uses commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect the security of your personal information

CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

We may periodically modify this privacy statement without further notice to you. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified on the page. Please revisit this page to check for any changes.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy or our information practices, please contact us at: info@headwayinstitute.org +1 (586) 284-6558