Privacy
Educational Web Services Privacy Policy v1.0
Educational Web Services is committed to providing you with excellent service. Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy practices for the entire Foundation Web Services site (which covers fdnwebserv.com).
Overview
Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We at Foundation Web Services are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of our clients and other visitors to our Web site. Whether you are a customer of our various services or a visitor to our site, we assure you that we do not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us. You should also be assured that we do not provide or sell information about our clients or site visitors to vendors.
Please note that our site contains links to other sites. Educational Web Services is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites.
If you feel that we are violating this Privacy Statement, please contact us at (805) 756-6477
Information We Gather from You
Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.
There are two ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information:
- E-mail Request for Information - We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to contact us via e-mail to ask questions, request information and materials, register or sign up for services, or provide comments and suggestions. You may also be offered the opportunity to have one of our representatives contact you personally to provide additional information about our services. To do so, we may request additional personal information from you, such as your name and telephone number, to help us satisfy your request.
- Clients - If you choose to become a client for one of our services, we will request certain information from you. Depending on the type of service that you request, you may be asked to provide different personal information. For certain services, we may require your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number, IP address, and/or social security number. Other services may require different or supplemental information from you in order to establish your account. For a detailed listing of the type of personal information requested for our various services, please refer to the enrollment page for the particular service
Statistical Information About Your Visit
When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics
about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather
about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people
visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit, from which
domains our visitors come and which browsers people use. We use these statistics
about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to
help us improve the performance of our Web site.
Use of Cookies
We only use "cookies" as described in this Section. A "cookie" is a piece of
information that our Web site sends to your browser, which then stores this
information on your system. If a cookie is used, our Web site will be able to
"remember" information about you and your preferences either until you exit your
current browser window (if the cookie is temporary) or until you disable or
delete the cookie. Many users prefer to use cookies in order to help them
navigate a Web site as seamlessly as possible. You should be aware that cookies
contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to
"invade" your hard drive and return to the sender with personal or other
information from your computer. If you choose not to accept a cookie, you will
still be able to use our Web site.
Sending you responses and updates
We generally respond to any e-mail questions, requests for service, and other
inquiries that we receive. We may also retain this correspondence to improve
our, services, and Web site, and for other disclosed purposes. Frequently we
retain contact information so that we can send individuals' updates or other
important information about our services.
Surveys
From time-to-time we may request information from customers via surveys.
Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore
has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information
will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction
with this Web site, and improving our customer service and product offerings.
Our Security Procedures
We consider the protection of all personally identifiable information we
receive from our Web site visitors and clients as critical to our mission.
Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against the
loss, misuse, and alteration of any information we receive from you. As with any
transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some element of risk
involved in sending personal information.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use our customers' personally identifiable information then we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Statement.
Our mailing address is:
Educational Web Services
Foundation Admin Bldg 15
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
For more information on this document please email Dustin DeBrum