We Respect Your Privacy - Our Policy

General Privacy Information

This privacy policy applies to Edvantage Press and all Edvantage Press affiliated websites in the course of our business in North America. This privacy policy is designed to inform all with whom we may interact in the course of our business in North America as well as others who purchase our products about our practices regarding collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, including information you provide over the telephone, by mail or facsimile and via our websites (edvantagepress.com, bcscience.com, edvantagestore.com, aponline.ca, bcmath.com, bcsocials.com, floridascience.com, and edvantagebooks.com). This privacy policy does not apply to personal information about our employees or information that is not personal information.

Does Edvantage Press Collect Information?

Edvantage Press collects personal information from you that you provide to us voluntarily. Such personal information may include personal contact information, such as name, address, telephone number and email address; your personally identifiable comments/questions about our products and services; and information required to order our products and services (including credit card and purchase order information).

We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature. We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes. Like many websites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the "Do we use 'cookies'?" section below for information about cookies and how we use them.

If we obtain personal information from third parties, for example, to send promotional mailings, we seek assurances that the provider has received consent to provide that information to us.

How Does Edvantage Press Use The Personal Information You Have Provided?

We use and disclose this personal information for the following purposes:

• to respond to your requests for information.
• to fulfill your orders, to process your credit card, money order and cheque payments and to collect amounts you owe.
• to personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• to allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• to administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• for internal research to better understand your needs and how we can improve.
• to send you product information and special offers, including sample materials sent to educators, that we think you may be interested in.
• as required and permitted by law; to enforce our Terms of Use.
• as required for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• if you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us, please refer to the "How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?" section below. If you have not opted-in to receive e-mail newsletters, you will not receive these e-mails. Visitors who register or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and 'members-only' content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include edvantagestore.com. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Your personal information may be used by Edvantage Press and shared with others connected with financing, insuring, selling, assigning or otherwise disposing of all or part of Edvantage Press business or assets, including for the purposes of permitting such parties to determine whether to proceed with such transaction or business relationship, or to fulfill any disclosure obligations we have to such parties. If we do sell or assign all or part of our business, the purchaser or assignee will be able to use and disclose personal information to the same extent, under the same conditions and for substantially the same purposes as Edvantage Press, as described in this privacy policy.

Consenting To The Use Of Your Personal Information

Generally, if you provide us with your personal information, we will assume that you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of such information as described in this privacy policy.

Depending on the means of collection, your consent may be in writing, electronically submitted or oral. Consent may also be implied, such as when you provide your name and contact information so that we may meet your requests for products or information. By using this website or any of our websites, you consent to our privacy policy.

In certain circumstances our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information without consent is permitted by law; for example, to collect a debt you owe us.

Security

We take the protection of your personal information very seriously. Every reasonable measure will be employed to prevent theft, loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification of your information.

Our edvantagestore website employs special measures to protect your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.

Please understand that we cannot guarantee the absolute security of our Web site or the security of any electronic submission, since no Internet or other electronic means of transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free. Your use of the Internet and electronic mail or other means of electronic communication is at your own risk. It is recommended that you take special care in electronically transmitting any of your personal information.

Do We Use "Cookies"?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard dritve through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting customer service.

Web Site Linking

Our privacy policy does not apply to other places on the Internet you may visit as a result of references or links you find on this site. Please read the privacy policies of other Internet sites you visit, as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

Access to Information

Edvantage Press may establish and maintain a file of your personal information for purposes described in this privacy policy. To request access to, or correction of, your personal information, contact us via our website contact page. Edvantage Press may not be able to provide access to your information in certain cases where doing so would reveal personal information about a third party or confidential commercial information; if it is protected by solicitor-client privilege; or if it was generated in the course of a formal dispute resolution process.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding your personal information, you may contact us via our website contact page.

Edvantagestore.com - Opting Out, Removing or Modifying Information You Have Provided To Us

If you have established an account at our ecommerce website edvantagestore.com, you may wish at some point to modify or remove information associated with your account. To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the "My Account" section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the "My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Privacy Statement Updates

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy. If the policy changes significantly, we will post the changes on our website. The last revision to this privacy policy was made on June 19, 2006.