Last updated: December 20, 2019
The Folk School Alliance is a project of the Folk Education Association of America (FEAA), a 501c3 Nonprofit. The mission of the Folk Education Association of America is to identify, support, and facilitate community-based, learner-led education as a strategic tool for community organizing. This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Folk School Alliance website. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order, manage event logistics.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email or U.S.P.S. in the future to tell you about offers, events, new materials or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only individuals who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be use and aggregated for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site or to report on folk education/folk schooling which may help to support or advance the work of folk educators.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us immediately. We can be contacted at FEAA@folkschoolalliance.org.