Akademia Performance Solutions Privacy Policy
Akademia Performance Solutions, LLC (“Akademia Performance Solutions”) works to ensure your privacy and the security of your data. We want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. This Privacy and Data Security Policy describes the privacy policies applicable to Akademia Performance Solutions’ business operations and websites. Effective January 1, 2019.
Why We Collect Personal Information: We collect personal information because our customers have retained us to collect and maintain it. We also collect personal information to fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research and because it helps us deliver a superior level of customer service.
Information We May Collect:
Information You or Your Fraternal Organization May Provide. One of Akademia Performance Solutions’ primary services is to collect, maintain and manage individually identifiable information about chapters, their undergraduate members and new members/pledges. As a result, we may maintain contact information including but not limited to phone numbers, email addresses, and other personally identifiable information about individuals. We obtain this information from you, your chapter, alumni/ae organizations associated with your chapter, your college/university, your Inter/National Headquarters and other membership-based organizations of which you may be a member or potential member. We also obtain this information from transactions you initiate with us and some of our business partners and from information you provide to us.
Information You Submit. Among other things, when you submit your goals, class schedules, and academic performance information we may retain those communications to make our system work effectively and deliver the results expected from our service and and enhance your experience with us and the experience of the other members of your organization.
Akademia Performance Solutions may use an Internet device called a cookie and other technologies to store login or other information on your computer, mobile phone or other device. Cookies and other technologies simplify your access and make our website work for you. In some instances, we offer you the choice of having your user name stored in a cookie so that you do not have to reenter it when you return to this site. We do not store bank account information or credit card numbers in cookies. No other site can read a cookie, and we cannot read a cookie that another website wrote to your computer. Most Internet browsers are set to accept cookies. To fully use our website, you must enable your Internet browser to accept cookies. If you choose not to accept cookies, some aspects of this website may not display properly, or you may not be able to access certain information.
When you access our website, our servers automatically record information your browser sends to us. We collect some non-personally identifiable information about your experience with our website through standard weblogs, including IP address, what browser is being used, pages you visit and the domain name from which you entered our site. Some data may be traced to an individual, but we do not normally seek to identify individuals unless we believe that someone is using our site improperly.
We never rent, sell or provide any personally identifiable information about you to other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you or our customers have requested, when we have your permission or under the following circumstances:
In order to enhance and strengthen academic performance as well as other benefits of membership in the membership-based organization(s) to which you belong, some personally identifiable information about you and some information you submit (such as your academic activities and performance) will be available to other members of the organization(s) to which you belong and the legal entities associated with the membership-based organizations to which you belong, including your inter/national headquarters, alumni/ae associations, chapters and other related entities (collectively referred to as “Affiliated Member-Based Organizations”). These other members and Affiliated Member-Based Organizations may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address books or copy and paste functions to capture and export information about you from this website. Members and friends agree, as a condition of use, to use the search functions solely for the convenience of the members and friends so that they may establish contact with other members and/or friends for the sole purpose of conducting the business of the organization. Email, addresses and other contact information may not be used for any personal or commercial gain, including, but not limited to business ventures, philanthropic causes, political campaigns, etc.
Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, mailing address, phone number and email address are considered publicly available and may be published on the Internet. If you post information on any Akademia Performance Solutions-developed website, you should be aware that information you share is visible to other users and the public. Personal information you submit might be read, collected or used by other individuals.
To protect your confidential information, we only work with companies, vendors and strategic partners that agree to maintain strong confidentiality protections and limit the use of the information we provide. We do not permit these companies to sell to other third parties the information we provide to them. To serve your needs, we may share information with trusted service providers who perform certain services on our behalf including, but not limited to trusted companies, vendors and strategic partners with whom Akademia Performance Solutions or one of your Affiliated Member-Based Organizations has a strategic relationship or that performs work for Akademia Performance Solutions or one of your Affiliated Member-Based Organizations to provide products or services to you.
Akademia Performance Solutions-developed websites may contain links and applications to other websites including but not limited to Facebook, Linked-In, Google and others. We do not own third-party applications you use or interact with through any Akademia Performance Solutions-developed website. By using these third-party links, applications and services, you may make some information about you available to them. To help those applications and sites operate, they may receive publicly available information automatically when you visit them, and additional information when you formally authorize or connect your account with an Akademia Performance Solutions-developed website to them. You should review the privacy policies for these specific applications and websites for more information. Should you find a link to information you find objectionable, please contact us. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Akademia Performance Solutions.
We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders or other requests (including criminal or civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to defend against legal claims, to prevent imminent bodily harm, to protect and defend the rights and property of Akademia Performance Solutions, our customers and others, to take action regarding illegal activity and to enforce our website terms, conditions and policies.
We take appropriate safety measures (including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards) to protect against unauthorized access as well as anticipated and unanticipated hazards to the information that we store about you. We keep your personal information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). SSL encrypts your personal information before it leaves your computer, ensuring that no one else can read it. We also use automated and social measures to enhance security, analyze account behavior for fraudulent or otherwise anomalous behavior, may limit use of site features in response to possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal content and may suspend or disable accounts for violations of this policy and other website terms and conditions. We also train our employees to protect customer information. Akademia Performance Solutions employees who have access to confidential information must treat it confidentially and may not disclose it to unauthorized parties. Employees who violate Akademia Performance Solutions’ privacy policy are subject to a range of disciplinary actions, including termination.
A visitor to the Akademia Performance Solutions website or customer websites developed by Akademia Performance Solutions who does not log-in, request information or initiate a transaction, is not asked to reveal any individually identifiable information. We collect some non-personally identifiable information about visitors through standard weblogs, including IP address, what browser is being used and the domain name from which a visitor entered our site. Some data may be traced to an individual, but we do not normally seek to identify individuals unless we believe that someone is using an Akademia Performance Solutions site improperly.
The Akademia Performance Solutions website and services provided by Akademia Performance Solutions are not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our website in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age.
Akademia Performance Solutions is headquartered in the United States of America. Please be aware that any information you provide to us or we obtain because of your use of services provided by Akademia Performance Solutions may be processed and transferred to the United States and be subject to United States law. The privacy and data collection laws in the United States may not be equivalent to such laws in your country of residence. By using and participating in any Akademia Performance Solutions-developed website or providing us your information, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage and processing of information to and in the United States.
To keep up with the rapidly evolving Internet environment and changing legal requirements, Akademia Performance Solutions will from time to time review and revise this Privacy Policy. When any change is made to this policy, we will revise the effective date at the beginning of this policy. Individuals, chapters, headquarters and customers are encouraged to check back often to learn about any changes to this policy.
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