Refunds are issued within two weeks of the cancelation date. Not attending does not entitle you to a refund; when you enroll or sign up for a class, you have space reserved. CANCELLATION of a class must be made a minimum of 5 business days before the class starts to be eligible for a full refund, See our Refund Policy

KCrayons Agreements, Termination, Refund, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy  

Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines Kinder Crayons LLC DBA Kcrayons (" we ", " our " or " the Company ") practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at kindercrayon.org, its afilates, operational salling, and promotional (" Sites "), or otherwise share personal information with us (collectively: " Users ").


Responsible authority within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/protecting-consumer-privacy-security. 

Privacy Policy 

User Rights

You may request to: 

 

  1. Receive confirmation as to whether or not personal information concerning you is being processed, and access your stored personal information, together with supplementary information. 
  2. Receive a copy of personal information you directly volunteer to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. 
  3. Request rectification of your personal information that is in our control.
  4. Request erasure of your personal information. 
  5. Object to the processing of personal information by us. 
  6. Request to restrict processing of your personal information by us.
  7. Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

 


However, please note that these rights are not absolute, and may be subject to our own legitimate interests and regulatory requirements. 


If you wish to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, or receive more information, please contact our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) using the details provided below: contactus@kindercrayon.org



Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Retention periods will be determined taking into account the type of information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated, unused information at the earliest reasonable time. Under applicable regulations, we will keep records containing client personal data, account opening documents, communications and anything else as required by applicable laws and regulations. 

We may rectify, replenish or remove incomplete or inaccurate information, at any time and at our own discretion.

Grounds for data collection 

Processing of your personal information (meaning, any information which may potentially allow your identification with reasonable means; hereinafter " Personal Information ")

Personal Information—information that tells us who you are or that provides information about you (such as your childcare and family service history and preferences), and 

Technical Information—information about your visit that is not linked to your identity.

Thar is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations towards you and providing you with our services, to protect our legitimate interests and for compliance with legal and financial regulatory obligations to which we are subject.


When you use the Site, you consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and other uses of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.


We encourage our Users to carefully read the Privacy Policy and use it to make informed decisions. 

What information we collect?

We collect two types of data and information from Users. 


The first type of information is un-identified and non-identifiable information pertaining to a User(s), which may be made available or gathered via your use of the Site (“ Non-personal Information ”). We are not aware of the identity of a User from which the Non-personal Information was collected. Non-personal Information which is being collected may include your aggregated usage information and technical information transmitted by your device, including certain software and hardware information (e.g. the type of browser and operating system your device uses, language preference, access time, etc.) in order to enhance the functionality of our Site. We may also collect information on your activity on the Site (e.g. pages viewed, online browsing, clicks, actions, etc.).


The second type of information Personal Information which is individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or may with reasonable effort identify an individual. Such information includes:

 

  • Device Information: We collect Personal Information from your device. Such information includes geolocation data, IP address, unique identifiers (e.g. MAC address and UUID) and other information which relates to your activity through the Site.

  • Registration information: When you register to our Site you will be asked to provide us certain details such as: full name; e-mail or physical address, and other information. 
  • Personal Information—information that tells us who you are or that provides information about you (such as your childcare and family service history and preferences), and 
  • Technical Information—information about your visit that is not linked to your identity. 
  • The Personal Information we collect when you use our Sites may include your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. We request Personal Information when you a product or service, use our mobile applications, register for newsletters, participate in certain promotional activities, fill out surveys, participate in online demonstrations, register for online workshops or training, contact KCrayons. or KCrayons Childhood and Parenting Education Center support, engage in banking or finance transactions, and correspond with us. 


When you visit our Sites, we also collect technical information such as the website you visited before our Site, the pages you visit on our Sites, the website you visit next, the browser you use, your computer's IP address, and any search terms entered on our Sites. We use cookies (see section "Use of Cookies") and other technology to collect this data. In general, we do not connect this Technical Information with the Personal Information we collect from you. 


 

How do we receive information about you?

We receive your Personal Information from various sources:

 

  • When you voluntarily provide us your personal details in order to register on our Site;
  • When you use or access our Site in connection with your use of our services;
  • From third party providers, services and public registers (for example, traffic analytics vendors).

 

How is the information used? With whom do we share the information?

We do not rent, sell, or share Users’ information with third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use all the information we collect to provide our clients with superior service and a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience when using our Sites. In particular, we use information for the following types of activities: 
We use Personal Information to provide the best childcare, and or parent and family services that fit for your family needs, live, online or webcam workshops, and online services, other product services, service, and information requests, send you service confirmations, administer your account, and send you marketing communications. For example, we use the information for delivery, payment, and client service.
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We use Technical Information, on an aggregated basis, to understand client behavior and demographics, to help run our Sites more efficiently and monitor the level of activity on our Sites, and to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising. If you contact us, we may also save your correspondence or comments. We use this information to help us provide better service in the event you contact us again. 
We may also use the information we collect from you to provide you with advertisements about our products and services on the Sites, on other websites, and through mail and email, to protect the security and integrity of the Sites and our business, and as otherwise indicated in our Terms of Use. 
We never sell your information to any company or marking business. We never disclose your information without your authorization other than the service that you are requesting and preauthorized us.  
We may use the information for the following:
  • Communicating with you – sending you notices regarding our services, providing you with technical information and responding to any customer service issue you may have;
  • To communicate with you and to keep you informed of our latest updates and services;
  • To serve you advertisements when you use our Site (see more under "Advertisements"); 
  • To market our websites and products (see more under "Marketing"); 
  • Conducting statistical and analytical purposes, intended to improve the Site.
In addition to the different uses listed above, we may transfer or disclose Personal Information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies and subcontractors.

In addition to the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy, we may share Personal Information with our trusted third party providers, who may be located in different jurisdictions across the world, for any of the following purposes: 
  • Hosting and operating our Site;
  • Providing you with our services, including providing a personalized display of our Site;
  • Storing and processing such information on our behalf; 
  • Serving you with advertisements and assist us in evaluating the success of our advertising campaigns and help us retarget any of our users;
  • Providing you with marketing offers and promotional materials related to our Site and services; 
  • Performing research, technical diagnostics or analytics;
We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to affiliates or third parties. We partner with third-party companies that provide related products and services such as tax refund settlement products, audit protection and workflow automation tools. When you enroll for these services or products of a third party with which we conduct business, and with your specific consent, we will share your name or contact information to the extent necessary for the third party to provide such products or services. These parties are not granted permission to use personally identifiable information for any purpose other than providing these services. 

We may, from time to time, email you about related products and services offered by our affiliates and carefully selected partners. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (such as e-mail address, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred by us to the affiliate or the third party. If you do not wish to receive future emails about these products and services, you can unsubscribe or opt out by clicking on the opt-out link at the bottom of the applicable email, and we will make every effort to process your request within ten (10) business days. If you choose to opt out of these emails about related products and services, we will continue to send you transactional and relationship email communications as a KCrayons family provider. 

We may also disclose information if we have good faith to believe that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce our policies (including our Agreement), including investigations of potential violations thereof; (iii) investigate, detect, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or other wrongdoing, suspected fraud or security issues; (iv) to establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims; (v) prevent harm to the rights, property or safety of us, our users, yourself or any third party; or (vi) for the purpose of collaborating with law enforcement agencies and/or in case we find it necessary in order to enforce intellectual property or other legal rights.

Cookies

We and our trusted partners use cookies and other technologies in our related services, including when you visit our Site or access our services. 

A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assign to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services. 

The Site uses the following types of cookies:

a. 'session cookies' which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed; 

b. 'persistent cookies' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in; 

c. 'third party cookies' which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third party analytics companies who monitor and analyze our web access.

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.

We use a tool which is based on the Snowplow Analytics technology to collect information about your use of the Site. The tool collects information such as how often users access the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. the tool does not collect any Personal Information and is only used by our Site hosting and operating service provider to improve their Site and services.

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)

In order to present our contents correctly and graphically appealing across all browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts) on this website. Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid multiple loading. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or does not allow access, content will be displayed in a default font. 
  • Calling script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. In theory, it is possible - but currently also unclear whether and, if so, for what purposes - that operators of corresponding libraries collect data.

  • The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

Third party collection of information

Our policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent you disclose your information to other parties or sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Accordingly, we encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each third party that you choose to disclose information to. 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals whom we do not employ or manage, including any of the third parties which we may disclose information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. 

How do we safeguard your information?

We take great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Site and your information. When you make a purchase on the Sites, we use third-party provider that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to safeguard your credit card information while it is being sent to us. The SSL encryption is designed to make the information unreadable by anyone but us. This security measure is working when you see either the symbol of an unbroken key or closed lock (depending on your browser) on the bottom of your browser window. 

We take the protection of your data very seriously. All data collected through our Sites is protected by a secure server. In addition, we use SSL to secure the transmission of data from the internet to our systems. 

All data is maintained and backed-up on a regular schedule to provide adequate redundancy and ensure that the integrity of information is never jeopardized. 

All of our employees are subject to strict guidelines regarding confidentiality, and internal access to your data is limited to those employees with a business reason for using such data.

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All of our employees sign non-disclosure agreements to protect your data. We also take appropriate disciplinary measures whenever necessary to enforce these rules. 

Although we take reasonable steps to safeguard information, we cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access or abuse our Site, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access.

Transfer of data outside the EEA 

Please note that some data recipients may be located outside the EEA. In such cases we will transfer your data only to such countries as approved by the European Commission as providing adequate level of data protection, or enter into legal agreements ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

Advertisements

 We may use a third-party advertising technology to serve advertisements when you access the Site. This technology uses your information with regards to your use of the Services to serve advertisements to you (e.g., by placing third-party cookies on your web browser). 

In general, we disclose client information to other companies for only the following reasons: • to assist credit card processors and other companies that perform services for us and who have agreed not to use any of our information for any other purpose, or • to assist a government investigation, verification or similar purposes, if required by law, subpoena or court service, or otherwise necessary for fraud prevention or to maintain the security and integrity of the Sites and our business, or 

• With the appropriate government authorities if we suspect a child abuse or neglect, your child life, your life or other people life is in danger. 

• as needed to enforce our Terms of Use, or 

• If a company purchases our business or assets. 


You may opt-out of many third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") and the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA"). For more information about this practice by NAI and DAA members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt-out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI and DAA members, please visit their respective websites: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/ and http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/ .

Marketing

We may use your Personal Information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, etc. ourselves or by using our third party subcontractors for the purpose of providing you with promotional materials, concerning our services, which we believe may interest you.  

Out of respect to your right to privacy we provide you within such marketing materials with means to decline receiving further marketing offers from us. If you unsubscribe we will remove your email address or telephone number from our marketing distribution lists. 

Please note that even if you have unsubscribed from receiving marketing emails from us, we may send you other types of important e-mail communications without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. These may include customer service announcements or administrative notices.

Corporate transaction

We may share information in the event of a corporate transaction (e.g. sale of a substantial part of our business, merger, consolidation or asset sale). In the event of the above, the transferee or acquiring company will assume the rights and obligations as described in this Privacy Policy.

Minors

We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. The Site is not designed for or directed at children. Under no circumstances shall we allow use of our services by minors without prior consent or authorization by a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at. 


Our Sites are target to parents no to their children. Our sites are not targeted at children of any age, and we do not collect information from any children under age 18. Only parents or legal guardian might provide information about their family members in regarding for the service. 


Updates or amendments to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to periodically amend or revise the Privacy Policy; material changes will be effective immediately upon the display of the revised Privacy policy. The last revision will be reflected in the "Last modified" section. Your continued use of the Platform, following the notification of such amendments on our website, constitutes your acknowledgment and consent of such amendments to the Privacy Policy and your agreement to be bound by the terms of such amendments.

How to contact us

If you have any general questions about the Site or the information we collect about you and how we use it, you can contact us at



KCrayons, 

Holistic Family Childcare

P. O. Box 78

Stamford, CT 06904

contactus@kindercrayon.org.


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