Privacy Policy
HomeschoolMonkey Privacy Policy
Privacy Protection
This policy establishes how we handle the information we learn about you when you visit our site. Protecting the privacy and personal data of our visitors is of utmost importance to us. Protecting your privacy and your personal data is an important aspect of the way we create, organize and implement our activities on-line and off-line.
Linkages Characteristics
The specific practices outlined in this privacy statement apply to the HomeschoolMonkey website. Other bodies/entities may have different practices. You are encouraged to review the privacy statements of other bodies/entities when visiting their websites. Our website includes links to third party web servers for online purchases and advertisements.
Purpose Specifications and Data Collection
In general, you can browse the HomeschoolMonkey website without disclosing any personal information about yourself. HomeschoolMonkey uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is Google’s free web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how their visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously, and much like examining footprints in sand, it reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. The cookie is used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. A different cookie is used for each website, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites. Analytics requires that all websites that use it must update their privacy policy to include a notice that fully discloses the use of Analytics. To disable this type of cookie, some browsers will indicate when a cookie is being sent and allow you to decline cookies on a case-by-case basis. In addition to declining cookies, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on in your browser, which prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your website visits.
Cookies and other Technology
As described above, we sometimes collect anonymous information from visits to our site to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and we also measure visitor activity on the HomeschoolMonkey website, but we do so in ways that keep the information anonymous. We use the information that we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs periodically to measure the traffic to our site, the number of pages visited and the level of demand for pages and topics of interest. The logs may be preserved indefinitely. We collect the anonymous information we mentioned above through the use of various technologies, one of which is called “cookies”. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner, you can disable your cookies.
We collect the personal data that you volunteer by email. Any information you send to HomeschoolMonkey via email immediately becomes the sole property of HomeschoolMonkey and is covered under the HomeschoolMonkey copyright. By sending us such information, you agree that any such material may be deleted, modified, repackaged, or otherwise altered in any way by the owners of HomeschoolMonkey, their representatives, employees, or heirs, including for any legal commercial use.
Blogging and other comments
The HomeschoolMonkey website allows you to leave comments about posts to the website. Anything you write in a comment on this website immediately becomes the sole property of HomeschoolMonkey and is covered under the HomeschoolMonkey copyright. By leaving comments on the website, you agree that any such material may be deleted, modified, repackaged, or otherwise altered in any way by the owners of HomeschoolMonkey, their representatives, employees, or heirs, including for any legal commercial use.
Links
Throughout the HomeschoolMonkey website, you will find links to third party websites. Please note that HomeschoolMonkey is not responsible for the privacy policies or content on third party sites.
Adverstisements
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. The following information is specific to Google advertising:
•Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies, including Double Click (DART) cookies, to serve ads on the HomeschoolMonkey website.
•Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users of the HomeschoolMonkey website based on their visit to the HomeschoolMonkey website and other sites on the Internet.
•Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Bookstore
HomeschoolMonkey is an associate of Amazon.com. When you click on any link on the HomeschoolMonkey website to view or order a book or other item you are automatically visiting a separate site operated by Amazon.com which is governed by the Amazon.com privacy policy. To view Amazon.com’s privacy policy, click here.
Notifications of Changes
As HomeschoolMonkey creates new services that may generate a need to amend this privacy statement, HomeschoolMonkey will highlight such changes on the HomeschoolMonkey web site privacy page.
Updated July 20, 2010