Last Updated: [June 30, 2024]
American Access Institute (“AAI,” “we,” “our,” and/or “us”) values the privacy of individuals who use the platform we offer, and related services (collectively, our “Services”). This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, and share information from users of our Services, including AAI school administrators (“Administrators”) and student users (“Users”). By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and procedures this Privacy Policy describes.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
A. Information Provided To Us.
Registration and Profile Information.
- Administrators. When Administrators sign up for an account, we ask for information such as email address, password, and nonprofit name. We ask Administrators to upload their students to an Excel sheet or CSV according to our Onboarding process, which is shared in more detail upon confirmation of proceeding.
- Users. When Users sign up for an account, we ask for the following information:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Email address
- Graduation Year
- Affiliated nonprofit organization
Payment Information.
Students are onboarded to the “Catapult” platform used by AAI without charge through nonprofit partner organizations. Those organizations also gain access without charge through the generosity of AAI’s donors. No payment information is required or collected.
Communications. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about them. For example, when you contact us through our Services, we receive your name, email address, the contents of their message, and any other information you may choose to provide, such as your phone number.
B. Information Collected Through the Use of Our Services.
Information from Cookies and Similar Technologies. We and our partners and service providers may collect information using cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies. By using the Services, you consent to the placement of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies in your browser and emails following this Privacy Policy. The information collected in this manner includes:
- Device Information. We receive information about you and your device, including IP address, web browser type, mobile operating system version, phone carrier and manufacturer, application installations, device identifiers, and referring URLs.
- Usage Information. When you use our Services, we automatically receive information about your interactions with our Services, like the dates and times of visits, and pages or content viewed.
We may use this information, for example, to ensure that the Services function properly, to determine how many users have visited certain pages, or to prevent fraud. We use the IP address to derive the approximate location.
We encourage you to review your web browser’s “Help” file to learn more about modifying your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from our Services, you may not be able to utilize all features of our Services to their fullest potential.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the information we collect to:
- Operate, maintain, enhance, and provide features of the Services, to provide information you request, to respond to comments and questions, and otherwise to provide support to website visitors, Administrators, and Users;
- Understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our website visitors, Administrators, and Users; to improve the Services, and develop new features and functionality;
- Provide adaptive learning and customized learning experiences to Users;
- Communicate with Administrators and Users, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service and to provide Administrators and Users with updates and other information relating to our Services;
- For our business purposes, such as audits, security, fraud monitoring, and prevention; and
- For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Use, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency
- We may use information about Administrators and other visitors, as well as de-identified information about Users, to provide and improve our Services, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our Services, including in our marketing.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Service Providers. We do not sell Users’ personal data. We may, however, share information we receive with service providers who provide services such as website hosting, payment processing, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services. These service providers may collect or have access to information in connection with the provision of our Services following applicable agreements.
As Required By Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to (a) ensure legal and regulatory compliance; (b) respond to or participate in the judicial process; (c) protect your safety or that of others, or the security of our Services; or (d) comply with law enforcement or regulatory requests and legal processes, such as a court order or subpoena.
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. To a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Additional Sharing Practices of Administrator and User Information:
User Content: User information is redacted and collected for research purposes only. Individual names or identifiable details including email are never disclosed.
Aggregated De-identified Data. Where legally permissible, we may share information about Administrators and Users in an aggregated de-identified form that cannot reasonably be used to identify Users to develop and improve our Services.
CHOICES
Email subscriptions.
From time to time, we send marketing e-mail messages to our users. If you no longer want to receive such emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out via the “unsubscribe” link provided in each such email.
THIRD PARTIES
Our Services contain links to trusted websites that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy will not apply to any activities or information you choose to disclose to these third parties.
SECURITY
We use certain physical, organizational, and technical safeguards that are designed to maintain the integrity and security of the information that we collect. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and thus we cannot and do not guarantee the security of your data.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Children under the age of 13 may not register or create accounts through our Services, or otherwise provide us with personal information. If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of this Privacy Policy, they may alert us at pd@americanaccessinstitute.org.
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
Our Services are hosted in the United States and intended for visitors located within the United States. If Administrators or Users choose to use our Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that they are transferring their personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer Administrator and User data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with storing and processing data, fulfilling requests, and operating our Services. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to our Services, Administrators, and Users consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We will post any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this page, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted. If we materially change how we use or share personal information previously collected from Administrators or Users through our Services, we will notify them through our Services, by email, or other communication.
UPDATE OR DELETE PROFILE OR OTHER INFORMATION
Administrators and Users always remain in control of the information they provide to us. Administrators and Users may review, edit, or delete any information submitted to us at any time by signing into their accounts and adjusting their profile settings. Administrators and Users may also delete their accounts at any time. If an Administrator or User deletes his or her account, all of the content and information provided to us will also be deleted. We will also delete any information about Users at the request of the nonprofit partner. If there are any questions about privacy on our Services, this Privacy Policy, or anything else related to our Services, administrators are encouraged to contact us at pd@americanaccessinstitute.org.
American Access Institute
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