Privacy Notice
Effective Date: 22 May 2008
Updated: 31 January 2020
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Freely Educate and our website; https://freelyeducate.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:
- What information we collect;
- With whom it is shared;
- How it can be corrected;
- How it is secured;
- How policy changes will be communicated; and
- How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order or giveaway item.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Sharing
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. We use third-party advertising companies (Google) to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (e.g., advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Update 25 May 2018: Readers in the EU: You’re served non-personalized ads. “Although these ads don’t use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.” (Google’s wording)
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. Please let us know if any of our links are directing to content that is obviously different than our intention – we will delete or update the links as soon as we are aware of them.
Surveys & Giveaways
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or giveaways. Participation in these surveys or giveaways is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and email address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Your information is not shared unless you are the giveaway winner. In that case, you’ll be requested to provide your mailing address and permission will be requested to share it with the giveaway provider.
