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Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Privacy
Electronic privacy rights and protecting your privacy are of the utmost importance the Nashville Alliance for Public Education. The following discloses our information gathering usage and practices of The Nashville Alliance for Public Education web site visitors, recipients of our email messages and donors. The site offers several opportunities to register for promotional and informational mailings, as well as conduct online donations. We are continuously examining our internal procedures and technology to insure privacy.

The Information we collect and track
At times we may use your IP address when necessary to diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. We also track browser types to help understand our visitors’ needs related to our web site design. To the extent feasible, we will do so in a way that makes your personal information non-personally identifiable by aggregating data or removing identifying characteristics. Donations: online donations require contact information such as your name, company, email address, financial information such as credit card number and expiration date. Email Messages: When you register for email communications, we will request your name, email address and areas of interest. Each email we send will also contain an option to opt- out of receiving future emails of any sort from the Nashville Alliance for Public Education. Event Registration: For the convenience of our donors and supporters, online event registration requires contact information such as name, email address and financial information such as credit card number and expiration date.

Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that enable our systems to recognize your browser. Client-side cookies are used to track point of entry, point of exit and page usage statistics in order for us to track and measure the success of our web site in meeting your informational needs or the success of a particular awareness or fundraising campaigns. Although browsers automatically accept cookies, you can change your browser to prevent cookies whenever you are sent a cookie. If the user rejects the cookie, they may still use the site but they may be limited to the access of some areas within the site.

Sharing and Usage
We will never sell, rent or share individual non-public personal information with anyone without your advance permission, except as permitted by types of third parties (e.g. auditors, attorney services) or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees (vendors, auditors) managing the information for the purposes of contacting you, sending materials based on your request for information or for acknowledging your donations.

Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our user’s information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. The Nashville Alliance for Public Education takes care to reinforce the importance of security for visitors on our website and privacy among our employees. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Online Donor Security: Our online donation and event registration processing partner, SofterWare, has committed the necessary resources to ensure your donation information is safe and secure. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. To this end, SofterWare has partnered with Peer 1, one of the largest server hosting facilities in the world. Peer 1 brings a level of security unmatched by anyone in their field. They are well known to have the most secure, redundant hosting facility available today. Email Security: email addresses received will not be sold, rented or shared with any other company outside of Emma, our email marketing partner and Softerware, our online donor processing partner.

Email Marketing
Individuals that receive email communications from the Nashville Alliance are given the opportunity to opt out of any email marketing communications by clicking on the opt out option. Email addresses received through the web site will not be sold, rented or shared with any other company outside of Emma, our email marketing partner and Softerware, our online donor processing partner.

Links to other websites
The Nashville Alliance for Public Education is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any of the links in which we link. Survey and Contests From time to time we may offer a survey or a contest to our visitors of which we may ask for personal information. Notifications of Changes If we change our privacy policy, we will post these changes to our web site to ensure visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.