PRIVACY POLICY

 

At playfulhomeducation.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy as an online visitor to our website. We use the information we collect about you to improve and maximize the services that we provide to you. playfulhomeducation.com respects the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you and adheres to the Privacy Policy below carefully. 

 

You may change your details at any time by informing us in writing via email, info@playfulhomeducation.com.

 

All information we receive from our customers, is protected by secure servers. Payments are accepted through third party secure payment gateway systems, and credit card information is not stored by us on our servers.

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Playful Home Education www.playfulhomeducation.com and its digital content are governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). ​ This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our website visitors (“you” or “your”) in accordance with the applicable data protection laws. By using our website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

 

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact or subscription form. In addition, you are able to create a user profile, which allows you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.

 

Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources.  You may link your Facebook or Google accounts to your user profile.  If you choose to link your Facebook and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name and email address associated with that account. 

 

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

 

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

 

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

 

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

 

To operate and maintain the Website; To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account; To send you promotional information, such as newsletters and marketing emails. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings; To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts; To respond to your comments or inquiries; To provide you with customer support; To track and measure advertising on the Website; To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity. We also use your information to respond to your inquiries and requests; to comply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights; and to improve and customize our website and services.

 

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics and Statcounter – these services track Website usage and provide information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. These services may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured.

We may disclose your personal information to the following third parties:

Service Providers: We may disclose your personal information to our service providers like Wix.com who help us provide and improve our services. These service providers may include email marketing service providers. 

Legal and Government Authorities: We may disclose your personal information to legal and government authorities as required by law or to protect our legal rights.

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This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

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We may however use in a general sense without any reference to your name, your information to create marketing statistics, identify user demands and to assist it in meeting customer needs generally. In addition, we may use the information that you provide to improve our website and services but not for any other use. 

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Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

 

ANONYMOUS DATA

 

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

 

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

 

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

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DATA SECURITY

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, and destruction. We implement measures such as encryption, firewalls, and access controls to ensure the security of your personal information. Data of unsubscribed individuals and inactive accounts are deleted from time to time. 

 

COOKIES

 

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics and Statcounter, as described herein.

 

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

 

ADVERTISING

 

Display Ads

 

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

 

Retargeting Ads

 

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

 

Affiliate Program Participation

 

The Website is a participant of the Amazon Affiliate Program. Affiliate marketing is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

 

NEWSLETTERS

 

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter and/or newsfeed, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

 

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

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You have the following data protection rights:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal information. You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to info@playfulhomeducation.com

• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information. To Modify – You may contact us at info@playfulhomeducation.com to modify or update your personal information.

• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information. In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info@playfulhomeducation.com

• Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal information.

• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

• Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.

• Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information. Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at info@playfulhomeducation.com to be removed from our mailing list. It may take about 30 days to process your request. Even if you opt out of getting marketing messages, we will still be sending you transactional messages through email and/or SMS about your purchases. 

To exercise your data protection rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

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SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

 

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

 

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately at info@playfulhomeducation.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

 

SECURITY

 

playfulhomeducation.com strives to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our website, and periodically updates its security measures in light of current technologies.

 

LINKS

 

This website may contain links to other websites. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that playfulhomeducation.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

 

CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY

 

As we plan to ensure our privacy policy remains current, this policy is subject to change. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review our privacy policy.

 

If you have any questions or concerns at any time about our privacy policy or the use of your personal information, please contact us info@playfulhomeducation.com and we will respond within 48 hours.

 

Last updated: April 2023

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