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Our Privacy Policy
Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, Inc. (“Junior Achievement of SVMB”) operates several websites including jasvmb.org, siliconvalley.ja.org, and montereybay.ja.org. It is Junior Achievement of SVMB’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Junior Achievement of SVMB collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Junior Achievement of SVMB’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Junior Achievement of SVMB’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Junior Achievement of SVMB may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Junior Achievement of SVMB also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Junior Achievement of SVMB does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Junior Achievement of SVMB’s websites choose to interact with Junior Achievement of SVMB in ways that require Junior Achievement of SVMB to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Junior Achievement of SVMB gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with Junior Achievement of SVMB are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Junior Achievement of SVMB collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Junior Achievement of SVMB. Junior Achievement of SVMB does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Junior Achievement of SVMB may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Junior Achievement of SVMB may monitor the most popular videos on the jasvmb.org site. Junior Achievement of SVMB may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Automattic does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Junior Achievement of SVMB discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Junior Achievement of SVMB’s behalf or to provide services available at Junior Achievement of SVMB’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Junior Achievement of SVMB’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Junior Achievement of SVMB will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Junior Achievement of SVMB discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Junior Achievement of SVMB believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Junior Achievement of SVMB, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Junior Achievement of SVMB website and have supplied your email address, Junior Achievement of SVMB may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Junior Achievement of SVMB and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Junior Achievement of SVMB takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Junior Achievement of SVMB uses cookies to help Junior Achievement of SVMB identify and track visitors, their usage of Junior Achievement of SVMB website, and their website access preferences. Junior Achievement of SVMB visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Junior Achievement of SVMB’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Junior Achievement of SVMB’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Junior Achievement of SVMB and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Junior Achievement of SVMB may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Junior Achievement of SVMB’s sole discretion. Junior Achievement of SVMB encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
