SILICON VALLEY CAMP'S PRIVACY POLICY


SILICON VALLEY CAMP website, www.sv.camp (the "Website"), is intended primarily for parents and guardians of our campers and potential campers, but also for potential employees and others interested in learning about our program. We strongly believe in the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how SILICON VALLEY CAMP treats the personal information we collect through our Website. By using and accessing our Website, (for persons not covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)), or by providing consent as to your personal information (defined below) when you enter or provide your information to use, register, or sign up for programs, you are accepting the practices, terms and conditions described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected online through our Website and does not describe the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained offline or through any means other than our Website.



In keeping with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) ‒ the law that protects children's online privacy ‒ and the guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, SILICON VALLEY CAMP limits the collection of personal information from children. We do not collect personal information from children from our Website.



WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We get information about you in a range of ways.

Information You Give Us When Registering. If you register your child or children for SILICON VALLEY CAMP, we collect your‎ name,‎ postal address,‎ email address,‎ phone number,‎‎ password; and we collect billing information (e.g., credit card number, expiration date, etc.), information regarding your children's birth date, school and health information, and other information you directly give us on our Website.



If you enter your personal information on our website, without registering for a class, we collect the information you enter which could include the items listed above, for the purpose of contacting you to inquire if you wish to complete registration. If you do not respond or if you respond that you do not wish to receive such e-mails, we will not send further communications to you but may store your personal information in an "Unsubscribe" list. For European residents subject to the GDPR, we will delete your information if you do not respond or if you respond that you do not wish to receive such e-mails.



Information Automatically Collected About Your Child(ren). While participating in our programs, we automatically log some information about your child's actions while using our software products, including visit counts, uploads, and content viewed, to improve usability and assess effectiveness for learning.



Information Automatically Collected About You. We automatically log information about you and your computer when you visit our Website, as explained in more detail below. This includes computer operating system type,‎ browser type and language, how long you spent on a page,‎ access times,‎ geolocation, and information about your use of and actions on our Website.



Log files. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit website pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to track users' movements around the Website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.



Cookies. We or our third party service providers (Google Analytics) may log information using "cookies." Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us make our Website and your visit better. We use cookies to store your password so you do not have to enter it again, as well as to determine your preferred location when you tell us your preferred location on our Website so that it is easier to access relevant pages in future visits to our Website. We may use cookies to see which parts of our Website people use and like and to count visits to our Website.



USES OF INFORMATION

We use your personal information as follows:

– We use your personal information to operate, maintain, and improve our Website, products, and services. Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us when registering, we will send you a confirmation email which summarizes the information you provided to us during registration and the consent, release, and waiver that you have agreed to when registering.



– We use your personal information to process and deliver contest entries and rewards (we have contests in which we give various prizes to a registrant who uses ACH for registration or who registers by a certain date.)



– We use your personal information to respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.



– We use your personal information to send information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.



– We use your personal information to link or combine user information with other personal information.



– We use your personal information to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.



– We use your personal information to provide and deliver products and services that you, our customers, request.



SHARING OF INFORMATION

We do not sell or share your personal information with other third parties, other than sharing aggregate demographic information to the extent necessary with our own contractors to provide or improve our Website or services, including a payment processing company to process your credit card and ACH payments and a moderation company to review photo and video content to make sure it's appropriate, unless we have obtained specific consent from you to do so. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes. We may share personal information as follows:

– We may share personal information with your consent. For example, we may take photographs or video during the sessions to be used for promotional purposes including, but not limited to: daily photo galleries, website, program brochures.



– We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding. In such a case, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via e-mail and/or a notice on our Website of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.



– We may share information to protect the rights and property of SILICON VALLEY CAMP, our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use, if any.



– We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.



LEGAL DISCLAIMER

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.



OPTING OUT, INFORMATION CHOICES, INFORMATION CHANGES

If you no longer wish to receive our promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by emailing us at ivan@sv.camp to opt-out. If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your registration, account, and our business dealings with you. For European residents subject to the GDPR, we will delete your information upon request, and not send further emails to you. If your personally identifiable information changes, if you wish to access your information or obtain a copy of it, or if you no longer desire our service or wish your personal information to be deleted, then you may access and update your profile (including personal information) with us by logging into your account or by contacting us, as stated above. For European residents subject to the GDRP, if your personal data is processed in a way that does not comply with the GDPR, you may lodge a complaint with supervisory authorities of your jurisdiction, who are obliged to inform you of the progress and outcome of your complaint. You also have the right of appeal to national courts against a legally binding decision concerning you made by a supervisory authority. You can typically remove and reject cookies from our Website with your browser settings. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our Website works for you.



CALIFORNIA 'DO NOT TRACK' NOTICE

We do not track your website activities over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising, and therefore we do respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Visit http://www.networkadvertising.org or http://www.aboutads.info if you wish to learn more about your options to not accept tracking cookies for the purpose of receiving targeted interest-based advertisements.



CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Website page, our Website homepage, or other places we deem appropriate. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 1th, 2020.



PARENTAL NOTICE REGARDING THE CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT ("COPPA")

Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), we must provide you with direct notice before collecting "personal information" from your child. Effective July 1, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") updated COPPA to reflect changes in technology, and now considers a photograph, video, or audio file containing a child's image or voice to be a child's "personal information." For more information about COPPA, please visit https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0031-protect....



Your privacy and your child's privacy are important to us. We do not share any of your information or your child's information with any third party, except in the limited fashion described above whereby your child collaborates, participated, or was included on a project.



CHANGES IN THIS COPPA STATEMENT

We may change this COPPA Notice. If we decide to change our COPPA notice, we will post those changes to this Website page, our Website homepage, or other places we deem appropriate. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. This COPPA notice was last updated on February 1st, 2020.