Privacy Policy

Higher Achievement is committed to protecting the privacy and security of our visitors at www.higherachievement.org. In order to ensure your privacy, we have established the following practices:

Information we collect

We collect information online and offline that is voluntarily given.

If you subscribe to Higher Achievement’s emails, request additional information about Higher Achievement, submit a donation online, or participate in any of the other services on the Site that require personal information, we may request your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address in order to respond to your inquiries. Higher Achievement may collect and store the information you choose to provide us, including name, address, and email address, in order to periodically send you information about Higher Achievement programs, events, partnerships, and opportunities to donate.

Donations

If you make a donation to Higher Achievement, Higher Achievement will collect the necessary financial information to process the donation. All requests to remain anonymous shall be honored.

To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will be used for purposes necessary to process the donation and will not be shared with others for their own commercial purposes. The privacy of information that is provided by a donor through a third-party service provider is governed by such service provider’s privacy policies.

Note: We participate in one or more campaigns organized by the United Way. Any personal information that is provided by participants when they register for such a campaign will be handled in accordance with the privacy policy posted on the website for that campaign.

Use of Cookies and Tracking

We use various software programs such as Google Analytics that summarize visitor activity data, which may include: TCP/IP addresses, URLs visited on the Higher Achievement Site, and referring Websites, applications and sources.

Also, like many others, this site uses cookies to help us personalize your experience. Cookies allow websites to store your preferences so that it can recognize you when you come back and can respond appropriately.

Generally, Higher Achievement may use cookies and the information they provide to: (a) remind us of who you are; (b) access your account information in order to deliver to you better and more personalized service; (c) estimate our audience size; (d) determine the nature and extent of repeat usage; and (e) measure certain traffic patterns to understand how users’ habits are similar or different from one another, so that Higher Achievement may improve our site. We also use many cookies on the higherachievement.org domain for the purposes of traffic collection and analysis, third-party advertising modeling and remarketing, and testing for conversion rate optimization.

International Residents

Our Website is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you access the Website from any region or country with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

We do not share personal information

Higher Achievement never sells, rents, leases or exchanges the information obtained from donors with other organizations. Use of personal information will be limited to the internal purposes of Higher Achievement. We will not send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.

Children’s Privacy

Higher Achievement complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), which protects the privacy of children using the Internet. This website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not solicit or knowingly collect personal information from minors.

Links to Other Sites

This website may have links to other sites outside of the www.higherachievement.org domain. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these sites and suggest you review their privacy statements.

Contact Information

We welcome comments, suggestions, and other feedback regarding this privacy statement and our website. Please relay all comments to info@higheracheivement.org.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Higher Achievement reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time without notification. Any such changes will be reflected on this Privacy Policy page. Andy change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on our website. Please check this page periodically for changes or updates that may affect you.

Opt-Out Instructions

All disclosure to us is voluntary and you may at any time decide to rescind the information you provided to us.

If you do not want to receive future communications from us, please let us know by sending us an email to info@higherachievement.org.

If you would like to change or modify information you have previously provided us, please contact us at info@higherachievement.org.

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