What information is collected on this Website?

Information You Provide to Us

“Personal Information” is information that can be used to identify you as an individual or allow someone to contact you. We may collect Personal Information such as your name, date of birth, postal addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, photograph, gender, donation information, credit card and other payment information, purchase, site browsing and transaction history, year you plan to begin study, current grade, other demographic information, interests and any other information you provide to us online. For example, we collect Personal Information when you conduct a transaction on this Website, fill out an inquiry form via this Website or our partner’s site, register for information about our digital products, sign up for our newsletters, make online purchases of products or tickets to events, complete any quizzes or surveys, or submit a comment or question to us by email or other communication method, or similar feature on this Website. We may also collect additional Personal Information contributed by you, if we provide you with the capability to upload a photo or contribute to a blog or other social forum on this Website.

Information Gathered Automatically

When you visit a Website, some information is automatically collected by us. For example, our servers automatically collect your IP address when you visit this Website, and we may associate that with your domain name or that of your Internet access provider. We receive data from or about the computer and/or mobile device that you use to access and/or install the Website, including data about the computer’s or mobile device’s operating system and the browser used to access the Website. We may also capture certain “clickstream data” pertaining to your site usage (such information referred to as “Website Usage Information”).  Clickstream data includes, for example, information about your computer or mobile device, web browser and operating system and their settings, the referring page that linked you to the Website, the pages, content or ads, to the extent ads have been included on the Website, that you see or click on during your visit and when and for how long you do so, items you download, the next website you visit when you leave the Website, and any search terms you have entered on the Website or a referral site.

Information Obtained from Third Parties

We may supplement the information obtained from you with information that is obtained from third parties. The type of information that is shared with us could include, for example, contact information (like name and email address) and user demographic information (like zip code or age), as well as other types of Personal Information and non-personally identifiable information. We will use such supplemental information received or obtained from third parties in accordance with this Policy.

How is your information used?

We and our service providers may use the information we collect from and about you to perform a variety of functions, including the following:

• enabling users to use this Website and its features
• enabling prospective candidates to apply to WPMA programs
• developing new offerings, including mobile apps and other interactive products
• responding to your requests, questions, and concerns
• informing users about the availability of new features and offerings
• facilitating the provision of software updates and product support for applications and programs
• informing users of the availability of content supplements for existing applications
• sending you marketing and other communications, including information about our and others particular programs, services, events, and products that we think might be of interest to you
• protecting our rights and property
• to prevent fraud
• displaying ads to you on our Website or other websites pertaining to your interests and history with us
• customizing our Website to your interests and history with us
• other purposes disclosed when Personal Information is submitted to us

We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both Personal Information and Website Usage Information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources (including third parties) as described above. We or our service providers may also use your information to assess the level of interest in, and use of, our digital products, Websites, our emails and our other messaging campaigns both on an individual basis and in the aggregate.

Do we share Personal Information and Website Usage Information with others?

Yes.  We may share the information we collect on this Website with others for a variety of reasons.  In addition to the kinds of information sharing you might expect, such as sharing within WPMA and with third parties who need your information in order to provide services to us (or on our behalf), and sharing what you voluntarily post to public areas on this Website with other Website users, we may share your information:

• with our affiliates and other third parties for their marketing and other purposes, unless you tell us not to by following the instructions in the Opt in and Opt out section of this Policy
• with our co-sponsor(s) if we obtain your information in connection with a contest, offering, or other promotional activity that is jointly offered by us and any third parties, unless you instruct us not to by following the instructions in the Opt in and Opt out section of this Policy
• when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud or respond to a government, judicial or other legal request, or to comply with the law

In addition, we may share non-personally identifiable Website Usage Information (including aggregate data) with others for their own use, in a form that does not include your name or contact information.

Furthermore, when you use our Websites, certain information you post or share, such as comments, or other content or information, may be accessible to faculty, staff, and other users of the Website.

Opt In and Opt Out

You may have the right to “opt in” and/or “opt out” of certain of our uses and disclosures of your Personal Information.

If you want us not to share (or stop sharing) your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing use, please send us an email at: [email protected] indicating that you are asking us to stop sharing your information with third parties. Please note that we will not be responsible for any communications that you may receive from entities that received your Personal Information prior to the date of your request.  In these cases, please contact that entity directly.

Our Websites that are mobile applications may have features to “push” messages to you. You can opt out of receiving those messages through functionality offered based on your mobile device.

We may choose to display advertisements on this Website and elsewhere, and such advertisements may be customized to your interests and preferences based on your Personally Information and Website Usage Information collected through our Websites unless you opt out by emailing [email protected].

Please understand that it may take us a few months to process any opt out request and that even if you opt out of receiving certain correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us.

Social Networking

We maintain a presence on several social networking and blogging platforms, including, without limitation, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, and we may also incorporate some third party social networking features onto our Websites. Through these platforms and features, as well as additional platforms and features, whether now known or hereafter developed, we may receive some Personal Information and some Website Usage Information about you, and this Policy applies to the information that we collect through such platforms.  However, such third party social networking platforms and blogging platforms have their own privacy policies which explain how they will use, protect and share your information, including any information you share on those platforms through our Websites, and we encourage you to read them.

Text Messaging

By submitting your mobile phone number, you consent for WPMA to send text messages (“Text Messaging”) about WPMA to the mobile device associated with that number through any mechanism (including through an automatic system), including, but not limited to, messages to applicants to regarding lesson scheduling, feedback, and messages during an emergency.   Message and data rates may apply. You may not consent on behalf of someone else or provide someone else’s phone number.  We will use any information we collect in connection with our Text Messaging in accordance with this Policy.

Security

While we endeavor to protect the security and integrity of sensitive Personal Information collected via our Websites, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that any information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.  If you correspond with us by email, text message, or even through web forms like a “contact admissions” feature on this Website, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure.  A third party could view the information you send in transit by such means.  We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.

If we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our care may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development.  If a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to notify you as promptly as possible under the circumstances.  If we have your email address, we may notify you by email.  You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification.

“Linked-To” Websites

This Website may contain links, banners, advertisements or other features that lead to other websites, including sites from which you may obtain our mobile applications.  We are not responsible for these other sites and their privacy practices, and their privacy policy, and not this one, will govern the collection of your information on those sites.   We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each website visited after leaving this Website to learn about how your information is treated by others.

Children

While WPMA offers programs for children, and provides information about those programs on this Website, this Website is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older.  We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from Users under thirteen (13) without prior verified parental consent.  If you are under the age of thirteen (13), please do not provide Personal Information of any kind whatsoever.

Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to change this Policy from time to time, and such changes will be effective with respect to this Website immediately upon posting on this Website.  We will notify you of material changes to this Policy by other means, including, for example, by posting the revised Policy with the date it was revised on this page or by email. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the information we collect.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy practices, you may contact us at [email protected].