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 fill out an inquiry form.

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.

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
• responding to your requests, questions, and concerns
• informing users about the availability of new offerings
• facilitating the provision of software updates and product support for applications and programs
• protecting our rights and property
• to prevent fraud

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 as described above.

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.

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.

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 through web forms like a “contact” 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.

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].