At Little Learner Children’s Academy in Minooka, we understand the paramount importance of privacy, especially when it comes to the information of the families and little learners entrusted to our care. This Privacy Policy is designed to clearly articulate our practices regarding the collection, use, and protection of your information when you interact with our services, primarily through our website. Our commitment is to provide a secure and transparent environment, fostering the trust that parents place in us, which we believe is reflected in the positive feedback and reviews from our community. By using our services, you are agreeing to the terms outlined in this policy, which is designed to be in accordance with best practices for data protection and user privacy.
Interpretation and Definitions
To ensure clarity and understanding, the following terms are defined as they are used throughout this Privacy Policy. These definitions apply regardless of whether the terms appear in singular or plural form.
Interpretation
Words with capitalized initial letters have specific meanings as defined below. These definitions hold true whether the words are used in singular or plural form.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Account refers to a unique account created for you to access specific services or sections of our Service.
Company (referred to as “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this document) is Little Learner Children’s Academy – Minooka, located at 496 Prairie View Dr, Minooka IL 60447.
Cookies are small digital files placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by websites. They contain details of your browsing activity and are used for various functions, including enhancing website user experience.
Country refers to: US.
Device means any tool used to access our Service, such as computers, smartphones, or tablets.
Personal Data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. This could include data that can directly or indirectly identify someone.
Service refers to the Website operated by Little Learner Children’s Academy – Minooka.
Service Provider means any third-party entity (natural or legal person) that processes data on behalf of the Company. This includes companies or individuals employed by us to facilitate the Service, provide services on our behalf, perform tasks related to the Service, or assist in analyzing Service usage.
Third-party Social Media Service refers to any social network platform through which a User can log in or create an account to use our Service, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Usage Data is data collected automatically, generated either by using the Service or from the Service’s infrastructure itself. Examples include the duration of a page visit or your IP address.
Website refers to the Little Learner Children’s Academy – Minooka website, accessible at https://minooka.littlelearnerchildrensacademy.com/.
You refers to the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company or legal entity they represent, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
At Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka, we collect data to enhance your experience and improve our services. Our data collection practices are focused on providing a better service to you and ensuring the safety and security of our online environment.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
When you use our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This information helps us to respond to your inquiries, provide you with relevant information, and personalize your experience. Personal Data we may collect includes:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, County, ZIP/Postal code, City
This information is typically collected when you fill out contact forms, subscribe to newsletters, or request information about our programs.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically as you interact with our Service. This type of data helps us understand how our website is being used, allowing us to improve navigation, design, and overall user experience. Usage Data may include:
- Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (IP address)
- Browser type and version
- Pages of our Service that you visit
- Time and date of your visit
- Time spent on those pages
- Unique device identifiers
- Other diagnostic data
When you access the Service through a mobile device, we may also collect information such as the type of mobile device, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser, and other mobile diagnostic data.
This data is often collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies, which are explained in more detail below.
Information from Third-Party Social Media Services
To streamline your experience, our Service allows you to create an account and log in using Third-party Social Media Services like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. If you choose to do so, we may access and collect Personal Data that is already associated with your social media account, such as:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your activities or contact list associated with that account
This integration helps simplify the registration and login process. You may also have the option to share additional information with us through your Third-Party Social Media Service account. By providing such information, you grant us permission to use, share, and store it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We utilize Cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our Service and store certain information. These technologies help us to:
- Improve and analyze our Service performance
- Personalize your experience
- Provide essential functionalities
The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: These are small files placed on your Device. You can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, disabling cookies may limit your ability to use certain parts of our Service.
- Flash Cookies: Certain features of our Service may use Flash Cookies (local stored objects) to collect and store information about your preferences or activity. These are managed differently from Browser Cookies. For details on managing Flash Cookies, please refer to Adobe’s settings guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_
- Web Beacons: Sections of our Service and our emails may contain web beacons (clear gifs, pixel tags, single-pixel gifs). These electronic files allow us to count users who have visited pages or opened emails and gather website statistics, such as recording section popularity and verifying system integrity.
Cookies can be “Persistent” (remaining on your device after you go offline) or “Session” Cookies (deleted when you close your browser). We use both types for different purposes:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies (Session Cookies, Administered by Us): These are crucial for providing you with Website services and enabling feature usage. They authenticate users and prevent fraudulent account use, essential for service functionality.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies (Persistent Cookies, Administered by Us): These cookies identify if users have acknowledged and accepted the use of cookies on the Website, ensuring compliance with cookie consent regulations.
- Functionality Cookies (Persistent Cookies, Administered by Us): These allow us to remember your preferences, such as login details or language preference, enhancing personalization and avoiding repeated preference entries.
For more detailed information about the cookies we use and your choices, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of this Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka uses collected Personal Data for various purposes aimed at improving our services and your experience. These purposes are essential for the effective operation of our academy and website, and contribute to the positive experiences often highlighted in parent reviews regarding our commitment to care and communication. Specifically, we may use your Personal Data for:
- Providing and Maintaining our Service: To ensure our Service is functional, secure, and operating as expected, including monitoring usage patterns to identify areas for improvement.
- Managing Your Account: To manage your registration and user account, providing access to different Service functionalities available to registered users and personalizing your experience.
- Performance of a Contract: To fulfill obligations related to any purchase contracts for products, items, or services you obtain through our Service, ensuring smooth transactions and service delivery.
- Contacting You: To communicate with you via email, phone, SMS, or other electronic means, such as push notifications, regarding updates, informative communications, security updates, and other necessary information related to Service functionalities, products, or contracted services. This ensures you are always informed and connected.
- Providing News and Offers: To deliver news, special offers, and general information about similar goods, services, and events that may interest you, based on your previous interactions, unless you have opted out of receiving such information.
- Managing Your Requests: To effectively attend to and manage your inquiries and requests to us, ensuring timely and helpful responses to your needs.
- Business Transfers: In the context of business changes like mergers, divestitures, restructurings, reorganizations, dissolutions, or sale/transfer of assets, your information may be involved in the transfer. This ensures continuity of service in such events.
- Other Purposes: For data analysis, identifying usage trends, evaluating the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and to assess and improve our Service, products, marketing strategies, and overall user experience. This ongoing analysis helps us refine our offerings and better meet your needs.
Situations Where We May Share Your Personal Information:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party Service Providers to support our operations, such as monitoring and analyzing Service usage and contacting you on our behalf.
- For Business Transfers: In scenarios involving mergers, sales of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of our business, your personal information may be shared or transferred as part of these transactions.
- With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, requiring them to adhere to this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies under common control.
- With Business Partners: To offer specific products, services, or promotions that may be of interest to you, we may share your information with our business partners, always with a focus on enhancing your experience and providing value.
- With Other Users: When you voluntarily share personal information in public areas of the Service or interact with other users, that information may be visible to all users and potentially distributed publicly. This is relevant if our Service includes community features.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any purpose if we have obtained your explicit consent to do so, ensuring you have control over your data.
Retention of Your Personal Data
Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka will retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Our data retention practices are designed to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies, while also ensuring we have the necessary information to continue providing and improving our services.
Specifically:
- We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent required to comply with applicable laws, such as tax or reporting requirements, and to maintain necessary business records.
- Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, primarily for internal analysis purposes to improve Service functionality and security. However, Usage Data may be retained for longer periods if legally required.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other locations where our Service Providers are located. This may involve transferring your information to — and storing it on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection laws may differ.
By consenting to this Privacy Policy and submitting your information, you agree to this potential transfer. Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka takes all reasonably necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, regardless of where the data is processed. We ensure that adequate controls are in place, including robust security measures, to protect your Personal Data during any international transfers.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka is committed to protecting your privacy. Disclosure of your Personal Data is limited and carefully considered, primarily occurring in the following circumstances:
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred as part of these business changes. In such cases, you will be notified before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. We will ensure transparency and inform you about any changes in data handling practices.
Law Enforcement
Under specific circumstances, the Company may be legally required to disclose your Personal Data if mandated by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities, such as courts or government agencies. We will comply with such legal obligations while ensuring the disclosure is limited to what is legally necessary.
Other Legal Requirements
The Company may disclose your Personal Data in good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation: To meet requirements under applicable laws and regulations.
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company: To safeguard our assets and legal rights.
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service: To address potential fraud or illegal activities.
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public: To ensure safety and security in cases of potential harm.
- Protect against legal liability: To mitigate legal risks and liabilities.
We are committed to responsible data handling and will always strive to disclose the minimum necessary information in these situations.
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your Personal Data is of utmost importance to us at Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka. We implement a variety of security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, it’s important to acknowledge that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely infallible.
Our security measures include:
- Regularly updating our security protocols to meet industry best practices.
- Using encryption technologies to protect sensitive data during transmission.
- Implementing access controls to limit who can access Personal Data.
- Providing regular training to our staff on data security and privacy practices.
Despite these efforts, absolute security cannot be guaranteed. We encourage you to take precautions to protect your personal information when using the internet.
Children’s Privacy
Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka is deeply committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our Service is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone in this age group without verifiable parental consent.
If you are a parent or guardian and become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us immediately. If we discover that we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will take prompt steps to remove that information from our servers.
In cases where we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires parental consent, we may require your parent’s consent before collecting and using that information, ensuring full compliance with child privacy protection laws.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit, as we have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. Links to external sites are provided for convenience and informational purposes only and do not imply endorsement or responsibility for their privacy practices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or service offerings. When we make changes, we will notify you by posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page. In cases of significant changes, we may also provide more prominent notice, such as via email or a notification on our Service, prior to the changes becoming effective. We will also update the “Last updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy to indicate the latest revision.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates or changes to stay informed about how we protect your personal information. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as soon as they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices at Little Learner Children’s Academy Minooka, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are committed to transparency and are here to address any inquiries you may have.
You can reach us by email at: [email protected]
