Effective June 1, 2015
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is designed to assist you in understanding and making informed decisions when using the site about how personal information about you may be obtained, used, shared, and disclosed by Spanish is Fun, LLC (“SIF”). The Policy also describes how you can opt out of some uses of personal information and explains what may be collected on the SIF website (“Website”), how the information is used and under what circumstances it may be disclosed to third parties. Among reasons that SIF collects information is to provide better services to all users of the Website.
The Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Website, sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of the Website. Depending on your activities when visiting the Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
SIF generally agrees to keep the Policy posted on the Website. You should review it frequently, as SIF reserves the right to change it from time to time without prior notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting of the revised Policy. Without your consent, SIF will not use your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time it was collected unless SIF’s policy changes or is otherwise in that respect. WHEN YOU ACCESS THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR TO ANY CHANGES THAT MAY BE SUBSEQUENTLY MADE, IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING THE WEBSITE.
Types of information collected and how used
Personal information is information that may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your name, postal address, email address, and telephone number, among other things. When you visit the Website, it does not collect personal information about you unless you voluntarily provided it. This can be done by sending an email to, subscribing for a newsletter, and or requesting information and or material from the Website or service providers who participate in use of the Website, or in other ways. If you provide personal information to us, SIF might receive additional information about you from other sources and combine that additional information with the personal information you provided. If you communicate through this Website, the content of your communications, your e-mail address along with any responses from this Website may be retained. The protections for such electronic communications are the same as used to maintain information received by mail and telephone. The information collected may be used to notify you about changes to the Website, new services and special offers you may find valuable. Lists used to send offers can be developed and managed under the Website’s standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of personal information. As a user of the Website, you have the opportunity to notify SIF of your desire not to receive such offers by unsubscribing via an e-mail sent for that purpose. In certain circumstances, SIF may request, allow, or otherwise provide you an opportunity to submit your personally identifiable information in connection with a feature, program, promotion or some other aspect of the Website. For instance, you may: (a) provide your name, mail/shipping address, e-mail address, credit card number and phone number when registering with the Website, using services offered through the Website; (b) provide certain demographic information about you (e.g., age, gender, purchase preference, usage frequency, etc.) when participating in a survey, or poll; or (c) post a product and or services rating and recommendation on the Website. Certain information may not be personally identifiable when standing alone (e.g., your age), but may become so when combined with other information (e.g., your age and name). Whether or not you provide this information is your choice; however, in many instances this type of information may be required to participate in a particular activity, realize a benefit that the Website may offer ,or gain access to certain content on the Website.
The personally identifiable information you submit to SIF is generally used to carry out your requests, respond to your inquiries, better serve you, or in other ways naturally associated with the circumstances in which you provided the information. SIF may also use this information to later contact you for a variety of reasons, such as customer service, to provide you with information or services or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive, to provide you with marketing or promotional information for products or services, or those of SIF’s parent company, subsidiaries or other affiliated companies (if any), to communicate with you about content or other information you have posted or shared with SIF, or service providers who use the Website, via the Website or with regard to your use of the Website and, in the discretion of SIF, changes to the Website and or Website policies, for internal business purposes, or for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information, or as otherwise set forth in this Policy. You may opt-out from receiving future promotional information from SIF, or direct that SIF not share your information in the future with any affiliated companies or third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
In certain instances SIF may also share your personally identifiable information with its third-party vendors who use the Website and or who are performing functions on behalf of SIF, or on behalf of affiliated companies of SIF (e.g., vendors that process credit card orders, deliver merchandise, administer promotions, provide marketing or promotional assistance, analyze data, assist with customer service, and the like). In addition, SIF may share your personally identifiable information with participating sponsors to a program or promotion, and with third parties who assist SIF in using the content or other information that you have posted or shared with SIF via the Website. Further, SIF may share your personally identifiable information with third parties such as promotional partners of SIF and others with whom SIF has marketing or other relationships, among others..
SIF may provide personal information to its affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for SIF, based on SIF’s instructions and in compliance with the Policy and any appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Non-personal information is information about you or your activities through which you cannot be personally identified. When you visit the Website, it may collect such information. Examples include the type of browser and operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the pages you visit on the Website and how long you spend on each page, and the unique number assigned to your server or Internet connection. This type of information can include certain personally identifiable information that has been de-identified (i.e., information that has been rendered anonymous). SIF and or its third party service providers may obtain non-personal information about you from information that you provide, either separately or together with your personally identifiable information. SIF and or its third party service providers may also automatically collect certain non-personal information from you when you access the Website. This type information may be used for a variety of purposes, including monitoring use of and improving the Website as well as for internal analysis. The Website may utilize a standard technology called “cookies” to provide the Website’s personalization feature and web server logs to collect information about how the Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at the Website, and websites visited just before the Website. This information may be collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information may be associated with you as an individual.
Non-personal information is used in a variety of ways, including to help analyze site traffic, understand customer needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional activities and to improve the services of SIF. SIF may use your non-personal information by itself or aggregate it with information SIF has obtained from others. SIF may share your non-personal information with its affiliated companies and third parties to achieve these objectives and others, but remember that aggregate information is anonymous information that does not personally identify you. SIF may provide an analysis and certain non-personal information to third parties (who may in turn use this information to provide advertisements tailored to your interests), but this will not involve disclosing any of your personally identifiable information.
Information you provide about a third party. If you send someone else a communication from the Website, such as sending Website content to a business, supplier, service provider, friend, or other person, the information you provide (names, e-mail addresses, etc.) ma be used to facilitate the communication and may not be used for any other marketing purpose unless SIF obtains consent from that person or SIF explicitly say otherwise. Please be aware that when you use any send-to- functionality on the Website, your e-mail address may be included in the communication sent.
Information third parties provide about you. SIF also may, from time to time, supplement the information it collects with outside records from third parties in order to enhance its ability to serve you, to tailor its content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that it believes may be of interest to you. SIF may combine the information it receives from those other sources with information it collects through the Website. In those cases, SIF will apply this Policy to any personal identifiable information received, unless otherwise specifically disclosed by SIF at the time you provide your personally identifiable information.
Personal and or other information. In addition to any personally identifiable information or other information that you choose to provide to SIF on the Website, SIF and its third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies, now and hereafter devised, that automatically collect certain website usage information whenever you visit or interact with the Website. This information may include browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, the source of the request, the preceding page view, and other similar information. SIF may use this usage information for a variety of purposes, including and such as to enhance or otherwise improve the Website. In addition, SIF may also collect your IP address or some other unique identifier for the particular device you use to access the Internet, as applicable (collectively, referred to herein as a “Device Identifier”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer, and SIF may identify your device by its Device Identifier. When analyzed, usage information helps SIF determine how the Website is used, such as what types of visitors arrive at the Website, what type of content is most popular, what type of content you may find most relevant, and what type of visitors are interested in particular kinds of content and advertising. SIF may associate your Device Identifier or website usage information with the personally identifiable information you provide and may treat the combined information as personally identifiable information. Website usage information may be collected using various methods, such as web beacons, cookies, mobile device identifiers, and embedded scripts, among other methods.
Information collected through passive means may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. In the latter case it will be treated as personally identifiable information.
Information shared. SIF will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside SIF if it has a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; enforce applicable Terms and Conditions of Service, including investigation of potential violations; detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; and, to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of SIF, Website users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
The Website does not have a policy of selling or renting your personal information to third parties. It may be shared with unrelated third parties, including contractors that provide services to the Website. For example, the information may be provided to third parties that assist with the operation or maintenance of this site or that may be retained to deliver newsletters, information, or other items to you. When personal information is provided to third parties, they may be required to exercise reasonable care to protect your personal information, and restrict the use to the purposes for which it was provided to them. Also, non-personal information may be used for a variety of purposes, including statistical or demographic analysis and improvements in the design and content of this site.
Other uses. If you send SIF an e-mail with questions or comments, SIF may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and SIF may save your questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons, SIF does not recommend that you send non-public personally identifiable information, such as passwords, social security numbers or bank account information, to it by e-mail. Further, SIF may communicate with you by e-mail under the following circumstances: (a) if you request a particular service or sign up for a feature that involves e-mail communications; (b) if it relates to requests you have made to and or purchases you have made from or through SIF (e.g., product/services updates, customer support, etc.); (c) if SIF is sending you information about products and services; (d) if you consented to being contacted by e-mail for a particular purpose; (e) if you send SIF an e-mail, post information on the Website or otherwise submit information to SIF electronically, SIF may e-mail you to follow-up or otherwise communicate with you with respect thereto; (f) to provide you legal notices or notices with respect to your use of the Website; or (g) to otherwise facilitate a transaction between you and SIF and or someone else. In certain instances, SIF may provide you with tools on the Website that will allow you to set your preferences for receiving e-mail communications from SIF and or other persons; that is, to agree to some communications but not others. You may “opt out” of receiving future commercial e-mail communications from SIF by clicking the “unsubscribe” link or following the other instructions included at the bottom of most e-mails that SIF sends; provided, however, SIF reserves the right to send you transactional e-mails such as customer service communications.
Your California Privacy Rights: Residents of the State of California, under certain provisions of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing at:
Children under the age of 13. The features, programs, promotions and other aspects of the Website requiring personally identifiable information are not intended for children. SIF does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe he or she has disclosed personally identifiable information to SIF, please contact SIF at Silvia Cubillos Velez: HYPERLINK “mailto:director@siflanguageschool.com” director@siflanguageschool.com or HYPERLINK “mailto:Learning@SIFlanguageschool.com” Learning@SIFlanguageschool.com Phone 303 2000622. A parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) may review and request deletion of such child’s personally identifiable information as well as prohibit the use thereof.
Exceptions to the Policy. The Policy applies to all of the services SIF offers. It excludes services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Policy. Furthermore, it does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products, services, or sites that may be displayed to you on the Website, or other sites linked from the Website. The Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies and organizations who advertise on and or provide services through the Website, and who may use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.
Regarding the Website’s links to other websites, note that SIF, the Website and or its operator are not responsible for the information collection or privacy practices of such websites. You should consult privacy policies of other websites before you visit those sites or provide any personal information to those sites. SIF, the Website and or its operator may provide information at the Website about programs and events that are sponsored by or co-sponsored by other firms or organizations. If you register for any of these events, SIF, the Website and or its operator may have no control over the third-party sponsor’s use of your personal information.
Third party applications may be available via the Website. The owners of these applications (“Third Party Owners”) may collect personally identifiable information from you and may have their own policies and practices. SIF is not responsible for how Third Party Owners or their applications use your personally identifiable information. These Third Party Owners may have their own terms of service, privacy policies or other policies and ask you to agree to the same. SIF is not responsible for these policies or the practices of Third Party Owners. Be sure to review any available policies before submitting any personally identifiable information to a third party application or otherwise interacting with it.
SIF, the Website and or the operator thereof reserves the right to disclose your personal information if it is believed that the Website is being used to commit unlawful acts; if disclosure of your personal information is required to comply with applicable laws or regulations or with a court or administrative order, or will help to enforce any applicable terms of use; to protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; or to protect the safety and security of our site or third parties; and or information when legally compelled to do disclose, such as when it is believed, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of the sites and or operator’s legal rights.
Security
Although it is believed that security measures are employed that reasonably appropriate to protect your personal information, neither SIF, the Website nor its operator guarantees that such security precautions will protect against the loss or misuse of your personal information. Similarly, neither SIF, the Website, nor its operator can guarantee the privacy of personal information you transmit over the Internet or that may be collected in transit by others, including contractors that provide services to SIF, the Website and or to its operator.
By using the Website you understand and consent to the transfer of your personal information across national borders and to the storage and processing of your information in a country that may not provide the same level of privacy protection that your country provides.
Revisions
SIF, the Website and its operator reserve the right to revise this Policy at any time without notice. Please review this Policy periodically for changes.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding this Policy, or if you wish to opt out of the use of your personal data by this site and or it operator, you may send an email to Silvia Cubillos Velez or write to learning@siflanguageschool.com, director@siflanguageschool.com or call 303-200 0622
