Privacy policy

(a) Website Owner. SCHOOLPOSTERS.COM LLC, an Ohio limited liability company ("SchoolPosters"), is the owner of this website ("SchoolPosters Website"). This online privacy notice discloses SchoolPosters information practices for this SchoolPosters Website, including what type of personal identifiable information is requested in order to make a purchase, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.

(b) Website Visits. In general, you can visit the SchoolPosters Website without any personal information.

(c) Website Transactions. At times, SchoolPosters will need personal information regarding a customer or a prospect. For example to process an order or provide a subscription, SchoolPosters may need to know a customer's name, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card details. It is SchoolPosters’ intent to inform you know before SchoolPosters collects personal information, such as user's name and/or address on the Internet.

(a) Identifying Information. In order to make a purchase or to access designated subscriber services and/or restricted areas within the SchoolPosters Website, if any, SchoolPosters will request a user to provide certain personal identifying information, which may include: name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, facsimile number, method of payment, and, if applicable, credit card number. SchoolPosters may request additional information necessary to establish and maintain customer's account.

(b) Service Quality Monitoring. Some Website transactions may require a customer to telephone SchoolPosters, or SchoolPosters to call the customer. SchoolPosters will not contact you by telephone without your prior consent, except to confirm an order placed online and/or to inform a customer of the status of such order. Customers should be aware that it is SchoolPosters’ practice to monitor, and in some cases record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.

(c) Information from Children. SchoolPosters does not sell products or services for purchase by children, and will not collect or post information from a person under the age of eighteen (18). SchoolPosters does not use personally identifying information from children for marketing or promotional purposes, and does not disclose such information to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. Without limiting the foregoing, SchoolPosters will at all times comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and any similar state statute or law as applicable.

(a) Limited Uses Identified. Without customer's prior consent, SchoolPosters will not use your personal identifiable information for any purpose other than that for which it is submitted. SchoolPosters uses personal identifiable information to reply to inquiries, handle complaints, provide operational notices and in program record-keeping. SchoolPosters also processes billing and business requests related to SchoolPosters Website participation.

(b) Marketing Uses. Unless customer opts-out, SchoolPosters reserves the right to provide customer with information about SchoolPosters' Website, SchoolPosters’ products and services, and related information in which customer has indicated an interest.

(c) Stored Information Uses. SchoolPosters stores the information provided by customer and the information entered on the SchoolPosters Website. Stored information is used by SchoolPosters: to support customer interaction with the SchoolPosters Website; to deliver customer purchases; and/or to contact customer again about other SchoolPosters services and products.

(a) Mergers and Acquisitions. Circumstances may arise where for business reasons, SchoolPosters decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize its businesses in the United States or some other country. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal identifying information to prospective or actual purchasers, and/or receiving such information from sellers. It is SchoolPosters' practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.

(b) Agents. SchoolPosters employs or engages other companies and individuals to perform business functions on behalf of SchoolPosters. These persons are provided with personal identifying information required to perform their functions, but are prohibited by contract from using the information for other purposes. These persons engage in a variety of functions which include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer services.

(c) Affiliated Businesses. SchoolPosters works closely with affiliated businesses operating website stores, providing services or selling products on each other's Websites. These businesses identify themselves to customers. Customer information related to a transaction with an affiliated business is shared with that affiliated business.

(d) Disclosure to Governmental Authorities. Under certain circumstances, personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to a judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants or orders.

(a) No Tracking of Personal Information. SchoolPosters’ Website(s) are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information not entered by visitors. Through website access logs SchoolPosters does collect clickstream data and HTTP protocol elements, which generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used for internal purposes by technical support staff for research and development, user analysis and business decision making, all of which provides better services to the public. The statistics garnered, which contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information, may also be provided to third parties.

(b) Use of Cookies. SchoolPosters, or its third party vendors, collects non-identifiable and personal information through the use of various technologies, including "cookies". A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that a Website can transfer to customer's hard drive through customer's browser. The cookie is then stored on customer's computer as an anonymous tag that identifies the customer's computer, but not the customer. Cookies may be sent by SchoolPosters or its third party vendors. Customer can set its browser to notify customer before a cookie is received, giving an opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. Customer may also set its browser to turn off cookies; however, some Websites may not then work properly.

(c) Use of Web Beacon Technologies. SchoolPosters may also use Web beacon or other technologies to better tailor its Website(s) to provide better customer service. If these technologies are in use, when a visitor accesses these pages of the Website, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by SchoolPosters or by its suppliers. Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If customer does not want cookie information to be associated with customer's visits to these pages, customer can set its browser to turn off cookies; however, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.

(d) Collection of Non-Identifiable Information. SchoolPosters may collect non-identifiable information from user visits to the SchoolPosters Website(s) in order to provide better customer service. Examples of such collecting include: traffic analysis, such as tracking of the domains from which users visit, or tracking numbers of visitors; measuring visitor activity on SchoolPosters Website(s); Website and system administration; user analysis; and business decision making. Such information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." SchoolPosters or its contractors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics.

(e) Collection of Personal Information. SchoolPosters collects personal identifying information from customer during a transaction. SchoolPosters may extract some personally identifying information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information, such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level (not at an individual level) to help SchoolPosters understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level.

(a) Commitment to Online Security. SchoolPosters employs physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information. Billing and payment data is encrypted whenever transmitted or received online. Personal information is accessible only by staff designated to handle online requests or complaints.

(b) No Liability for Acts of Third Parties. SchoolPosters will exercise all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of customer personal information. However, transmissions protected by industry standard security technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, SchoolPosters shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal information due to no fault of SchoolPosters.

(a) Changes to Privacy Policy. SchoolPosters reserves the right to change its privacy policy statement at any time.

(b) Opt-Out Right. A customer or potential customer has the right at any time to cease permitting personal information to be collected, used or disclosed by SchoolPosters and/or by any third parties with whom SchoolPosters has shared and/or transferred such personal information. Right of cancellation may be exercised by contacting SchoolPosters. After processing the cancellation, SchoolPosters will delete customer or prospective customer's personal information from its database.

(a) Information Maintained by SchoolPosters. Upon customer's request, SchoolPosters will provide a reasonable description of customer's personally identifiable information that SchoolPosters maintains in its data bank.

(a) Questions, Problems and Complaints. If you have a question about this policy statement, or a complaint about SchoolPosters’ compliance with this privacy policy, you may contact SchoolPosters.

(b) Terms of Use. If customer chooses to enter into a purchase order and/or to subscribe to SchoolPosters’ services, customer's action is hereby deemed acceptance of SchoolPosters practices described in this policy statement. Any dispute over privacy between customer and SchoolPosters is subject to the provisions of this notice and to SchoolPosters' Terms of Use and Terms and Conditions for Online Sales which are hereby incorporated herein and which can be read at https://schoolposters.com/policies/terms-of-service & https://schoolposters.com/pages/terms-and-conditions-for-online-sales.