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Individuals' privacy is important to Montessori Education Centers Associated. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information policy and practices. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available throughout the montessorieca.org web site. Our privacy and public records obligations are governed solely by applicable Illinois statutes and by any applicable U.S. federal laws.. Notice About the Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected by or submitted
to official MECA web sites. The following information explains
the Internet privacy policy and practices that MECA has adopted
for its official web sites. In legal terms, it shall not be construed
as a contractual promise, and MECA reserves the right to amend
it at any time without notice. Automatically Collected Access Information:
Optional information: When you send MECA an e-mail, we collect your name, e-mail address, and the content of your e-mail. When you complete an online form, we collect all the data you choose to fill in or confirm, including credit or debit card information if you are ordering a product or making a payment, as well as information about other people if you are should you choose to provide it. MECA may use web traffic analysis tools to analyze patterns of use on the montessorieca.org web site. These tools do not create individual profiles for visitors and only collects aggregate data. The Way We Use Information Client information is used to route the requested web page to your computer for viewing. In theory, the requested web page and the routing information could be discerned by other entities involved in transmitting the requested page to you. We do not control the privacy practices of those entities. Essential and nonessential technical information helps us respond to your request in an appropriate format [or in a personalized manner] and helps us plan web site improvements. Optional information enables us to provide services or information tailored more specifically to your needs or to forward your message or inquiry to another entity that is better able to do so, and also allows us to plan web site improvements. We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our web site. For example, we may report that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. We may keep client information from our systems indefinitely after the web page is transmitted, but we do not try to obtain any information to link it to the individuals who browse our web site. However, on rare occasions when a "hacker" attempts to breach computer security, logs of access information are retained to permit a security investigation and in such cases may be forwarded together with any other relevant information in our possession to law enforcement agencies. Under the US Freedom of Information Act,
any records in our possession at the time of a Freedom of Information
Request
might be subject
to being inspected by or disclosed to members of the public for
any purpose they may desire. As indicated above, client information
may be retained after transmission of the requested web page and
might be available for inspection. We generally use return e-mail addresses only to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are generally not used for any other purpose and by MECA and state policy are not shared with outside parties. Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without a clear notice on the particular site and without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. Use of Cookies Montessori Education Centers Associated web sites use "cookies." Often a cookie enables the MECA web site to tailor what you see according to the way you entered the site (i.e., if you entered by pushing a button identifying yourself as a student, your subsequent views of information might be tailored for student audiences). Providing Information is Your Choice There is no legal requirement for you to provide any information at our web site. However, our web site will not work without routing information and the essential technical information. Failure of your browser to provide nonessential technical information will not prevent your use of our web site but may prevent certain features from working. For any optional information that is requested at the web site, failure to provide the requested information will mean that the particular feature or service associated with that part of the web page may not be available to you. Our Commitment To Data Security To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online, consistent with the policies of MECA and with the laws and regulations of the State of Illinois. Questions Regarding Your Privacy For
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