Privacy
Privacy Policy
Charter School Capital, Inc. d/b/a Grow Schools (“Grow Schools” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.growschools.com or access any of the services provided through the website (collectively, the “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
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- On the Website.
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- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
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- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Grow Schools or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
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- Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at hello@growschools.com.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
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- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“);
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- That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as geographic location, IP address, and in the case of our portal, board position, term of office, wire transfer information, and certain additional information regarding your organization; and
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- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
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- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
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- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
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- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to any of our services, using our portal or other services, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
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- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
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- Your search queries on the Website.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection and Tracking Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
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- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
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- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). This Website honors Do Not Track browser settings.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
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- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
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- Speed up your searches.
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- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
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- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
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- Google Analytics. We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this Website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this Website, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this Website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
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- To present our Website and its contents to you.
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- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
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- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
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- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
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- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
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- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
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- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form) or adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
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- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
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- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, including to service providers who assist us with our marketing and who host our website, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Grow Schools’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Grow Schools about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
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- To third parties and our affiliates to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
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- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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- To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Grow Schools, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
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- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
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- Promotional Offers from Grow Schools. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Grow Schools to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes, or by sending us an email stating your requests hello@growschools.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at hello@growschools.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Your California Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to hello@growschools.com or write us at 1000 SW Broadway, Suite 1800, Portland, OR 97205.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at hello@growschools.com.
Updated: September 22, 2023