Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals does not read any of your private online communications.

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals and Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals collects and uses your personal information to operate the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals and its affiliates. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals, in order to determine what Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals pages, or register with Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals site or services, a cookie helps Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Homeschool Websites & Membership Portals at info@homeschoolportals.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.