This privacy notice lets you know what happens to any personal data that you give to us, or any that we may collect from or about you. It applies to all products and services, and case/examples where we collect your personal data.
Texas Public Charter Schools Association, and its affiliates Texas Charter Revolution and Charter Schools Now 501(c)(4) (“TPCSA,” “TCR,” “CSN,” or “we”) provide this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of (i) the websites located at http://www.txcharterschools.org, http://www.txcharterrevolution.org, and https://www.charterschoolsnow.org/ including any services, features, and content accessible or downloadable from such websites, and (ii) any other TPCSA, TCR, or CSN application, service or product licensed, downloaded or otherwise accessed by such users through third party websites or sources (collectively, the “Service”). TPCSA, TCR, and CSN are committed to protecting your privacy, including the privacy of any personal information that you may provide to us through use of the Service. Specific rights apply to data subjects in the European Union as set forth in the Section entitled Data Subjects in the EU.
By registering with TPCSA, TCR, CSN, or using the Service, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, and you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information and other non-personally identifying information by TPCSA, TCR, or CSN in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, please do not provide us with any information and do not use the Service.
As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “using” (and its corollaries) means and includes, with respect to information, subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis and using or handling information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, evaluating, modifying, deleting, using, combining, disclosing, and transferring information within our organization or among our affiliates within the United States or internationally.
TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changed or modified version of the Privacy Policy on the Service. Any such changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. Your continued use of the Service after any changes or modifications to the Privacy Policy are posted will be considered your acceptance of such changes.
TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN may collect personally identifiable and other non-identifying information from you by various means.
In this Privacy Policy, we refer to all information collected from or about you, including Personal Information and Non-Identifying Information, as “Your Information.”
When you register for an account, whether on TPCSA’s, TCR’s, or CSN’s website or through a TPCSA, TCR, or CSN application or other portion of the Service, we may require and/or request that you provide certain information, including both Personal Information and Non-Identifying Information. For example, we request that you provide your name, email address, telephone number, Organization Name, Organization Type, and Title.
We may also request and collect Personal Information and Non-Identifying Information about you when you administer or personalize your account after registration or otherwise interact with the Service and its functionality. For example, we may collect Your Information both when you enter promotions on or in connection with the Service as well as in connection with your transactions (such as, but not limited to, donations or the purchase of products) through the Service. Such transaction-related information may include payment information, such as information regarding your account with an online payment service provider. We may also collect Your Information from third party websites or other sources from which you download or access TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN applications, services or products that also make up part of the Service.
TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN may also use email links located in various portions of the Service to allow you to contact us with questions or comments you may have. We welcome these email communications and make efforts to respond to them where appropriate. Once TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN receive an email communication from you, we may send you future email communications relating to TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN products or services. If you choose to not receive such future email communications at any time, you may “opt-out” by contacting us as indicated below or by following the “opt-out” procedure set forth in each email communication, as applicable.
We use your personal data, including any of the personal data listed above, for the following purposes:
Please note this list is not exhaustive. You will need to record all purposes for which you process personal data.
We rely on the following legal bases to use your personal data:
We may share aggregated information that includes your Personal Information, Non-Identifying Information and Log Data (as described below) with TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN affiliates, partners, or other organizations and businesses who advocate on behalf of or represent charter schools, charter students or parents for purposes including, but not limited to, grassroots outreach, legislative outreach, fundraising outreach, and political outreach.
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform tasks (such as, but not limited to, maintenance services, database management, web analytics and improvement of the Service) or to assist us in analyzing how the Service is used. These third parties have access to Your Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use Your Information for any other purpose. We may also provide your Information to our business partners or other trusted entities for the purpose of providing you with information on goods or services we believe will be of interest to you, provided you may contact us to request that we not disclose your information for this purpose. See contact info at the end of this policy for email address.
We will transfer, store, and process information that we collect about you, as described in this Policy, in the United States. For EU Data Subjects this may not provide the same level of protection for your personal information as your home country. In addition, we may further transfer your information outside the United States for the purposes described in this Policy. By submitting any personal information or by using the Service, and without limitation to any other rights or obligations we have, you consent to such transfer to, and processing in, the United States and these other countries, and acknowledge that your information may be subject to access by law enforcement and other government entities, including courts and tribunals, in accordance with laws applicable in those jurisdictions.
TPCSA, TCR, and CSN are very concerned with safeguarding your information. We employ reasonable administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access or against loss, misuse or alteration by third parties. Your account is also protected with certain user credentials, such as a valid username and password. You are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person has access to your Account, username, or password. It is your sole responsibility to authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your user name, password, and account by third parties.
Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected on the Service in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining access to this information. We do not warrant or represent that your Account will be protected against loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties.
We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored “personal data” (as defined in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you via email or conspicuous posting on the Service in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
We apply a general rule of keeping personal information only for as long as required to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. However, in some circumstances, we may retain personal information for other periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements, or if required to do so by a legal process, legal authority, or other governmental entity having authority to make the request, for so long as required. In specific circumstances, we may also retain your personal information for longer periods of time corresponding to a statute of limitation, so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges.
For persons located in the European Economic Area (“EU Data Subjects”), we will process your personal information in accordance with the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of your rights under the GDPR, but the following briefly summarizes some of these rights and how we handle them:
When you browse certain portions of the Service, we may automatically collect and record standard user information and clickstream data about your visit (through the use of cookies and otherwise) as part of our analysis of the use of the Service and its structure and performance using tools such as Google Analytics. For example, when you or another user visits or requests a web page from our server, we may record the IP address of the user’s machine, the time, date and URL of the request and information about the browser being used, and other information regarding the visit, such as the pages visited on the Service, the time spent on each page, and any search terms used (collectively, “Log Data”). This information may be linked to personal information and can be used to personally identify you, as well as be aggregated and used to monitor and analyse use of the Service and to enable us to analyze traffic and trends, administer and improve the Service, identify and keep track of errors and bugs, and gather broad demographic information to become more familiar with where visits to the Service originate, how often the Service is visited and what parts of the Service are visited most often. We may also share such information with third party service providers assisting us with the foregoing. We also use this information to verify that visitors to the Service meet the criteria required to process their requests. We treat Log Data as Personal Information and use it in association with other Personal Information, as well as aggregate, analyze and evaluate such information for the same purposes as stated above regarding other Non-Identifying Information.
A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk. Like many websites, we also use “cookie” technology to collect additional website usage data, to improve the Service and in some cases to enable you to more easily log in to your account. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information. TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with the Service, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Service, and to improve the Service and our other products and services. A session cookie enables certain features of the Service and our service and is deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Service. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If your browser is set to refuse all cookies, however, some features of the Service may not function properly. We do not respond to do not track signals.
TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN reserve the right to transfer, and you hereby consent to the transfer of, any information (including without limitation Your Information) collected by or provided to TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN, in connection with a change or transfer of TPCSA’s, TCR’s, and/or CSN’s ownership or a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
The Service may contain links to third party websites (“Linked Sites”). Some of the Linked Sites may contain products, services, trademarks or other intellectual property that we own, while others may not. We provide the links to Linked Sites only as a convenience to you. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Linked Sites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such Linked Sites. Consequently, the operators of Linked Sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the Service. We encourage you to review the privacy policies on the Linked Sites. TPCSA, TCR, AND CSN DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THE ACTIONS OF, PRIVACY PRACTICES OF, OR INFORMATION CONTAINED ON, COLLECTED VIA OR USED BY LINKED SITES.
The Service is not directed to children (those under the age of 17). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children or allow them to register for an account on the Service. If you are a child, please do not attempt to register for an account on the Service or send any information about yourself to TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN. If we become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files. If you are a resident of the EU, we do not knowingly collect information from children.
Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code permits California residents to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, information related to the personal information disclosed by TPCSA, TCR, and/or CSN to third parties for direct marketing purposes, and the names and addresses of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. You may make one request each year by emailing us. See contact info at the end of this policy for email address.
We will not share your Personal Information in ways other than as described in this Privacy Policy unless you specifically elect to make your Personal Information available to third parties by selecting to “opt-in” in various places on the Service. Your “opt-in” elections will not, however, require us to share your Personal Information with any third parties. Further, you may “opt-out” of any prior elections and of receiving certain types of communications at any time by contacting us. See contact info at the end of this policy for email address.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at admin@txcharterschools.org.
