PRIVACY POLICY
Autism Assistance Resources and
Information (“AARI,” “company”, “I”, “we” or “us”) is dedicated to respecting
the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes what
information is collected from you on https://www.autismassistanceresources.com/
(hereinafter the “website”) and how it is used. This Privacy Policy applies to this
website and any products or services that we offer that link to this policy. The
term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits, or views the website.
By visiting and using the website, you
accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the
website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your
acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website
if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We respect the privacy of children and
“child” means an individual under the age of 13. This policy is in accordance
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). This website's
information and content are only intended for people over the age of 18. This
website is not intended for children under the age of 13. Without prior
parental or guardian consent, we do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose
personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that
personal information was collected without parental or guardian consent from a
child under the age of 13, please contact us to have that information deleted.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW IT
IS USED
When you access the website,
you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not
limited to your name, email address, phone number, address, avatar image,
credit card information when you make a purchase on the website (“personal
information”).
This information is
collected when you register on the site, place an order, subscribe to a
newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the website, provide comments
or any other feedback, fill out a form or use the live chat or enter any other
information on the website to communicate with us. From time to time, we may
also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online
surveys that we may post on our website.
Your personal information
is used to personalize your experience, improve the website to better serve
you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or
transactions, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services or
products, provide you offers, promotions and to follow up with you through
correspondence (email, live chat, or phone). We may also use this information
to provide you offers and promotions from our partners and/or our affiliates in
exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Just like other websites,
this website automatically collects certain information about you through Log
Data and Google Analytics. Log Data is information about your computer’s
Internet Protocol Address, which is your “IP” address, browser information,
Internet Service Provider’s information, your operating system, and your browser
type. Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your
location, browsing history, the pages you visit, the equipment you used to
access the website, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to
your use of the website.
This information is used
to analyze website statistics related to user behavior and interests, improve
our performance and your use of the website and to further enhance our products
and services offered to you. Please see Google’s Privacy and Terms to learn
more about their privacy practices.
COMMENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
If you leave a comment,
the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can
recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them
in a moderation queue. When you leave a comment, your name, email address and
website/organization name is not shared with a third party and may be used to
communicate with you.
Social media accounts and
sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and others) can track your personal information.
Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you
will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is
no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used
by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use,
storage or dissemination of such publicly-disclosed personal information by you.
Any such interactions via
comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related
to misuse of your information by others.
USE OF COOKIES
The website may use cookies to
facilitate your use of the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of
data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s
hard drive when you are viewing the website. Just like other websites, we
automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information including
but not limited to your IP address, geographic location, language preference,
date and time of visitors.
Some features of our
website may use Flash cookies, which are small files stored on your computer by
websites that use Adobe Flash Player. They can store data such as preferences,
settings and usage information like which pages you visit. The main difference
between traditional cookies and flash cookies is that they are not managed
through the browser but locally on your computer.
When you leave a comment on our website,
you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These
are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again
when you leave another comment.
If you have an account and you log in
to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser
accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when
you close your browser.
We may use cookies for various reasons
such as optimizing and personalizing your browsing experience, checking our
website analytics, saving your preferences and settings for future use, serving
ads based on your liking and interests, affiliate marketing and posting
comments on our website.
This information is only collected to
better serve and understand your user experience on the website. You have
the option of turning off cookies on your computer should you wish to do so. If
you choose to do that, you may not be able to view all the features and content
of this website.
USE OF
WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS
In conjunction with the use of
cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, which are also known as clear
GIFs, web bugs or pixel tags to collect general information about your use of
our website. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behavior
data. This information may be relevant to third parties such as the ad networks
used on our website to tailor the advertising based on your behavior and
interests.
We may use social media pixels to
track and collect general information about your use in compliance with
different social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and others) for the
purpose of promoting products, tracking conversions, remarketing, running
target advertisements and so forth.
Third parties like Facebook may use
their own cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect and receive
information from our website for the purpose of providing target
advertisements. You may see our ads on Facebook or YouTube after you have
visited our website.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND USE
We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products
or services on the website. Once you click on a third-party link and leave this
website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and
Conditions.
Articles on this website
may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, etc.).
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the
visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about
you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your
interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with
the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We may use Google AdSense
advertising along with any other third-party advertising on the website. Google
is a third party that also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the
purpose of providing a positive user experience. Third-party vendors such as
Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website.
You can opt-out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.
We have no control over
these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we
responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should
contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. You
also agree that your use of these third-party websites is solely at your risk.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
As a general rule, we do not disclose
your personal information to third parties without your consent with the
exception of the following circumstances:
- We may disclose your information to our trusted third parties that
work with us such as our website hosting partners, email marketing service
provider, other service providers that assist in the operation of the
website, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide
you products and services offered here.
- We may disclose your information to contractors or third parties we
use to support our business. These parties may use your data only to provide
the services requested by us and for no other purpose, and they are bound
by contractual obligations to keep your information confidential.
- We may disclose your information in order to comply with state or
federal regulations related to copyright infringement lawsuits or any
other legal claims related to the website.
- We may disclose your information to enforce our website or product terms
and conditions or terms of sale and any other agreements we may have
entered into for billing and collection purposes.
- We may disclose your information to our successor and/or acquiring
party in the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, dissolution or
partial sale in the future. However, your personal information will be
transferred to the acquiring party in accordance with this privacy policy.
EMAIL MARKETING
You have the option of
opting in or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in,
you agree to receive newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials and
any other content related to this website. When you send an email, your email
message along with email address and responses are saved for communication purposes
with you. This information is kept confidential and we do not share, sell or
trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in
this privacy policy.
If you are in the European
Union and opt-in to receive any of our free products or services and/or
purchase any products or services through our website then you will be subscribed
to receive our free email newsletter once you affirmatively consent to it.
Please see the Opt-Out section below should you wish to
“unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.
But if you are NOT in the
European Union then you will be automatically subscribed to receive our free email
newsletter once you opt-in to receive any of our free products or services and/or
purchase any products or services through our website. Please see the Opt-Out section
below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.
OPT-OUT
We comply with the
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and do not spam or send misleading information. Should you
wish to no longer receive communication from us, you have the option of
unsubscribing by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email we send to
you or by contacting us.
As for third party
websites, please contact them directly to unsubscribe and/or opt-out from their
communications.
We are in compliance with
the GDPR along with the email marketing service we use to collect your
data.
GDPR VISITOR RIGHTS (FOR EU AND UK
CUSTOMERS AND VISITORS)
If you are located in the European
Union (“EU”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), you are entitled to certain rights
and information listed below under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR).
We will retain any information you
choose to provide to us until the earlier of:
- You ask us to delete the information by sending a request to autismassistanceresources@gmail.com.
Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to
access paid or free content previously provided to you.
- Our decision to cease using our existing data providers.
- The Company decides to no longer be in business or continue to offer
the services.
- The data is no longer needed to provide you service, is too costly to
maintain further retention, or the Company finds it outdated.
You have the right to request access to
your data that we store and have the ability to access your personal data.
You have the right to either rectify or
erase your personal data. You have the right to verify the accuracy of your
personal data and have it corrected or removed completely
You have the right to seek restrictions
on the processing of your data. When you restrict the processing of your data, we
can store your data but cannot process it further.
You have the right to object to the
processing of your data in certain circumstances including but not limited to
direct marketing, profiling, scientific or historical research purposes,
statistical purposes, automated decision making and profiling and tasks based
on legitimate interests or in the public interest/exercise of official authority.
You have the right to the portability
of your data. You have the right to request your personal data from us, receive
it and transfer it to another controller.
You have the right to withdraw consent
at any time. If you have provided consent to the Company’s processing of your
personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent any time without
affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior
to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a
complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related
to the GDPR.
We require only the information that
is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require
you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of
entering into a contract with us.
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING DATA UNDER
THE GDPR
Under the GDPR, we may process your
data under the following legal basis:
- Consent: when you give us
clear consent to process your personal data for one or more specific
purpose.
- Contractual Necessity: when processing your
personal data is necessary to fulfill a contract with you.
- Legal Obligation: when processing of your
personal data is necessary to comply with the law such as data related to
taxes or employee records.
- Vital Interests: when processing of
your personal data is necessary to protect your life or health.
- Public Interests: when processing of
your personal data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out
in the public interest or for official functions.
- Legitimate Interests: when processing of
your personal data is necessary to further our legitimate interests such as
marketing activities.
YOUR STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
State consumer privacy laws may give
their residents additional rights in terms of how we use their personal
information. These privacy rights vary depending on the local laws that apply
to you.
California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights
to:
·
Confirm whether we process their personal information.
·
Access and delete certain personal information.
·
Data portability.
·
Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted
advertising and sales.
California, Colorado,
Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:
·
Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking
into account the information's nature processing purpose.
·
Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that
produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Nevada
provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain types of
personal information being sold by a business. The opt-out option does not apply
to all types of data, however; it does protect sensitive medical or financial
data, for example. Please note that we do not currently sell data that triggers
the opt-out requirements of that statute.
To exercise any of these
rights above under different states, please contact us with your request at autismassistanceresources@gmail.com
and please include your name, email address, and mailing address.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)
AND CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT (CPRA) COMPLIANCE AND YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
If you live in California, you have
additional rights under California law, and we comply with the CCPA and CPRA because
we may have visitors from California on our website. Here are your legal rights
under CCPA/CPRA:
- You have the right to
know the categories of personal information we have collected, sold or disclosed
about you to third parties.
- You have the right to
opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information with third parties.
If you are under the age of 16, you have the right to opt in to such
sales, or to have a parent or guardian opt in on your behalf.
- You also have the
right to access your personal information, which we will provide within 30
days of such request.
- You have the right to
know what personal information is collected from you and how it is used, which
we explained in this Privacy Policy.
- You have the right to
correct your personal information.
- You have the right to
have your personal information deleted, subject to some exceptions.
- You have the right to
equal service, price and no discrimination
- You have the right to
data portability and right to request your personal information and use it
for your own purposes.
- You have the right to
consent and/or limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal
information.
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
COLLECTED AND DISCLOSED FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE
The types of personal information we
collect and how we use it have already been listed above, but under the
CCPA/CPRA, the following categories of personal information may have been collected
and disclosed for business purposes in the previous 12 months:
- Identifiers such as your name,
address, phone number, email address and other similar identifiers
- Protected
classification characteristics such as your age, gender,
religion and disability information
- Commercial information such as your use of
our products and services
- Internet/Network information
such as your IP address, search history, browser and device
information
- Geolocation data such as the
information about your physical location or movements
- Sensory information such as audio,
electronic, photos or other visual information
- Professional or
Employment Information such as your job history including
previous employer and performance evaluations
- Biometric information
such as fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, genetic and
physiological activity patterns. We do not collect any biometric
information from you.
- Education information
such as records related to your educational institution (grades, transcripts,
class lists, student schedules and so forth). We do not collect any such education
information.
- Inferences such as information
reflecting your interests, preferences, characteristics, physiological
trends, and abilities.
- Other Personal Information
such as information provided by you directly when you fill a form on
our website, register for an event scheduled by us, post a comment on our
website or social media, make a purchase from us, your account login or credentials
allowing you to access a product or account, telephone number, and any
other information you provide to us.
- Sensitive personal
information such as your social security, driver’s license, state identification
card or passport number. We do not collect this sensitive personal
information from you.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE
We collect this personal information directly
from you, from your browser or device, use of cookies, service providers, our
business partners, affiliates, or from third parties. We do not sell your personal
information to third parties.
We use the information we collect for
various purposes depending on how you interact with us. These purposes include:
- To provide our
services or products to you including invoices and statements
- To create, maintain
or secure your account with us
- To process your
requests, purchases, transactions and payments
- To communicate with
you about your account and our products/services
- To market or
advertise our new products and promotions to you via email or other social
media, to answer your questions, and to understand your needs and
preferences.
- To improve our website,
products, services, content and advertising and personalize them to your
interests and preferences
- To better understand
the demographics of our users, analyze data and usage trends
- To help you share our
content, products, services, and your experience working with us with your
friends and followers on social media
- To hire or evaluate
you as a candidate when you seek employment with us
- To protect our website,
products and services from misuse and to ensure security
- To process payments or
to prevent theft and fraud
- To transfer business
in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy
where we may sell, transfer or share some of our business assets including
information related to our customers. In those instances, you will be notified
of such ownership changes as well as the rights you have regarding your
personal information.
- To comply with legal
requirements and to enforce our terms and agreements with you
- To assess or carry
out a merger, dissolution, restructuring, reorganization, or other sale or
transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as part of a bankruptcy or
similar proceeding, in which personal information about our website users,
including our email list, is one of the assets transferred.
We may also use your
information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of
collection. We may combine different types of information that we collect about
you for any of the purposes described above.
Please be advised we DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION to third parties and have never sold your personal information. We
do not intend to sell your personal information in the future either.
Under the CCPA and CPRA, you still have
the right to opt-out of sharing your personal information and send us a “do not
sell or share my personal information” request. If you would like to exercise any
of your rights under California law, please submit a verifiable consumer request
to us by sending us an email at autismassistanceresources@gmail.com.
Only you, as the person registered
with the California Secretary of State, or someone you authorize to act on your
behalf, can make such verifiable consumer requests related to your personal
information.
Your verifiable consumer request must
provide sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person
you are claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such
person about whom we had collected personal information. You must describe your
request with enough details such as your first and last name, address and your
country that allow us to properly understand the request and respond to it.
Please note we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal
information unless we first verify your identity or authority to make such a request
and confirm that the personal information relates to you. We will make all attempts
to respond to your request within 30 days of receipt.
The above-mentioned California privacy
rights are not absolutely guaranteed because there are some exceptions that
allow us to refuse your request. We are only required to respect these rights
if we are acting as a business under the CCPA/CPRA and the requested rights
have been granted and applied to you under the CCPA/CPRA.
CALIFORNIA’S “SHINE THE LIGHT” ACT
Pursuant to California’s “Shine the
Light Act,” you are permitted to request information about the manner in which
we share certain categories of information with third parties for their
marketing use. We may disclose your personal information to our affiliates or
other related third parties such as service providers, vendors for their use in
marketing to you, so we can provide the products and/or services offered on this
website to you. When we disclose such information, your personal information is
still kept confidential and between us and that third party. It is not used for
any other purpose that’s not permitted under the laws.
DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
This privacy notice for California residents
supplements the information included in the previous sections of this privacy
policy. California and Delaware law also requires us to state whether we honor “Do
Not Track” settings in your browser regarding targeted advertising, and please
note we do not monitor or respond to Do Not Track browser requests.
You can also enable
or disable Do not Track in your browser. This is a setting that tells websites
not to track your online activities. To enable or disable it, go to the
"Privacy" or "Security" tab in your browser's settings
menu. Depending on which browser you're using, you may find the option under
"Do Not Track Requests" or something similar.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain your information
as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy,
unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may also
retain and use your information to continue offering you our products and
services, comply with our legal and accounting obligations, resolve disputes
and enforce our agreements.
SECURITY
The security of your personal
information is important to us, and we strive to follow generally commercial
industry standards to protect your personal information submitted to us
voluntarily and automatically. However, no method of transmission over the
Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your
information. When you make a credit card purchase or purchase through any means
on the website, you will be directed to a third-party vendor to complete the transaction.
Any information you provide during the checkout process is not stored on our
website but instead provided to the third-party vendor that completes the
purchase transaction.
By using this website, you agree to hold
us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your
personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible
for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge
and consent.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
This privacy policy is effective as of
January 31, 2024 and will be updated and modified as needed. You are
responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to
this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon
our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our website after
the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy
policy.
CONTACT
For any questions or comments regarding
the privacy policy, please contact us at autismassistanceresources@gmail.com.
