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Our Company
When we say "we" or "The Advancement Counsel" or “theadvancementcounsel.com” in this privacy policy, we refer to The Advancement Counsel, a company operating out of Massachusetts. Accordingly, all information we receive may be shared among the different parts of The Advancement Counsel in connection with our operations, and all information that is subject to this privacy policy will be used in accordance with this privacy policy by all parts of The Advancement Counsel. However, "The Advancement Counsel" does not include the subsidiaries and businesses of The Advancement Counsel that are not in the business of providing advancement services for Catholic Schools in the United States.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate The Advancement Counsel’s newsletter submissions and membership areas in order to provide you with information on services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "contact information" (i.e., information that could be used to contact you such as full name, postal address, phone number and email address as well as your computer's unique IP address (if any)), "financial information" (i.e., passwords, credit and debit card numbers and bank and other financial institution account numbers) and "demographic information" (e.g., zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, purchase history information and age as well as IP addresses that are not unique to your computer) from you. Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect contact information or financial information from children under the age of 13.
Use of Contact Information
Order and Payment Processing (if applicable)
Customer Service
We use contact information to help us efficiently perform transactions, deliver the services you have requested, perform quality assurance, sales analyses, and other business analyses. Additionally, we may contact you with news and upcoming special events.
Contacting You for Special Offers
After you provide us with an email address in connection with signing up for membership or newsletters, you may visit the "My Account" section of the Site, where you will be given the opportunity to tell us not to use that email address to send you promotional emails and update your account information.
Divulging Your Contact Information for Legal and Administrative Reasons
We may disclose specific contact information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of The Advancement Counsel or other visitors to the Site or users of services or products provided by The Advancement Counsel. Also, your contact information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy, of The Advancement Counsel.
Use of Financial Information
If appropriate, we use financial information to check your qualifications, help us efficiently perform sales and other transactions on the Site, deliver the goods and services you have requested, enroll you in the discount, rebate and other programs in which you elect to participate and to perform quality assurance. In some cases we may use, and consequently we may provide to service providers, your financial information to help us perform some of these tasks. In such cases, we will require these service providers to enter into agreements with us regarding the confidential handling of your information. We may also provide your financial information to your credit card issuer, financial institutions or credit card processors to process transactions and for their other purposes. We may disclose specific financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of The Advancement Counsel or other visitors to the Site or users of services or products provided by The Advancement Counsel. Also, your financial information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy, of The Advancement Counsel.
The Advancement Counsel will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any use or disclosure of your financial information by a third party to whom The Advancement Counsel is allowed to disclose your financial information under this privacy policy.
Use of Demographic Information
We may use your demographic information to perform business analyses or to tailor the Site and communications to your interests. Any time that we are allowed under this privacy policy to share your contact information or financial information; we may also share your demographic information along with it.
Other Web Sites Collect Information From You Too!
On the Site, we place links to other web sites operated by other parties. Some of these other web sites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other web sites or these other web sites' business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web 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 Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
IP Address
Like most e-commerce websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most websites, the Site uses cookies to help it keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to facilitate the retrieval of information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the Site. On the Site, others may place or read cookies on your browser as well. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Site.
Geographic Location of Information
The Site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to help protect the security of commerce transactions. We encrypt your contact information and financial information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial information on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be transferred to and maintained in whole or in part on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and may be stored on equipment or in facilities leased or licensed from third parties.
Contacting Us Regarding Privacy
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or would like to contact us regarding the information you have submitted to us, you can contact us at the following address:
Jay Gould, Partner
The Advancement Counsel
11 Holly Lane
Beverly, MA 01915
(617) 331-3345
Email: jgould@theadvancementcounsel.com
If, to the extent required by law or otherwise, we notify you that the security of the information you submit has been compromised, then you agree that we may give you such notice by email instead of by regular mail.
Copyright © 2005 The Advancement Counsel
All Rights Reserved. January 3, 2005.
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