Online Privacy Policy
Guiding Hands School, Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy. You are welcome to use our website without identifying yourself or divulging personal information. If you choose to give us your personal information, you control how much and what information you provide.
This Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on the Guiding Hands School public website, www.ghandsschool.com (Ghandsschool.com), and does not apply to other websites.
Personal information of Ghandsschool.com users is collected, used, and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement. Other websites that Ghandsschool.com links to may have their own privacy statements.
Collection of your Personal Information
When you sign up for the Guiding Hands School emails, we ask for your name, address, telephone number, email address, and the topics about which you want to receive emails. We use the information you provide to send you the latest news and updates from Guiding Hands School.
We work closely with other child and family agencies and allied organizations. However, we never share with them information that you give us through the Ghandsschool.com website without your consent.
Use of your Personal Information
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will provide those companies only the personal information they need to deliver their services. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.
Control of your Personal Information
To unsubscribe from our mailing list, click here. To contact us by email for general questions or comments, send a message to contact@ghandsschool.com. To contact us or unsubscribe by US Mail, send a letter with your full name and email address to Guiding Hands School, 4900 Windplay Dr., El Dorado Hills, CA 95792. To unsubscribe via telephone, please call us at 916.939.0553 during regular business hours.
Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information
We care about the safety and privacy of children online, and we comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13.
How do we protect your information?
Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Our computer systems have restricted access limited only to those persons and organizations necessary to the proper functioning of Guiding Hands School, Inc. This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data, including credit card information, is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
IP Addresses and Log File Data
We log IP address, which is the location of your computer or network on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. There is no personal or identifiable information collected in our log files.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact Guiding Hands School via email at contact@ghandsschool.com or by US Mail at Guiding Hands School, 4900 Windplay Dr., El Dorado Hills, CA 95792.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
Changes to this Privacy Statement may occasionally be made. When Guiding Hands School, Inc. posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the home page of Ghandsschool.com. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how we will use your personal information, Ghandsschool.com will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Ghandsschool.com is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Ghandsschool.com welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that Ghandsschool.com has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by telephone, email, or US Mail.
Guiding Hands School
4900 Windplay Drive
El Dorado Hills, CA 95792
916.939.0553
contact@ghandsschool.com