The Academy for Lifelong Learning (The Academy) places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy was created in order to demonstrate The Academy’s firm commitment to the privacy of our members and website users. This policy explains what types of information is collected by The Academy’s website, www.AcademyLL.org, and how this information is used.

What Personally Identifiable Information is Collected

The Academy members who register for www.AcademyLL.org and individuals who sign up to receive The Academy e-communications voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name, e-mail address, phone, and address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always “opt out” at any time if you do not wish to receive our messages.

IP addresses

The Academy uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.councilofnonprofits.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.

Cookies

www.AcademyLL.org uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. Your actions and feedback give us a better idea of your preferences for our website. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us better guide you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.AcademyLL.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.

No Third Party Marketing

The information we collect is never sold or loaned to third parties.  It is used solely for Academy services.

How Your Information May Be Used

We use your personal information to provide you with personalized services; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your membership application; etc. We may also use your information to track visitors and their actions on our website. This helps us understand which features are the most popular and therefore better serve our users’ needs. It also allows us to provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.

Opt Out

You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us.

Email Privacy

The Academy does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.

External Links

www.AcademyLL.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.AcademyLL.org domain, and The Academy is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.

Modifications

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy policy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed  your agreement to the changed terms.