Privacy Policy
When you visit columbiacollegeconsulting.com (“this Website”), you trust Columbia College Consulting, LLC (“I,” “me,” and “my”) with your information. I’m committed to protecting the privacy of you, my visitor, by taking precautions both online and offline to protect your information when you use this Website. This Privacy Policy applies to Columbia College Consulting, LLC so that you can understand my information practices with this Website, like what information is collected, how it is used, your choices regarding its use, and security procedures to protect misuse.
You can navigate the majority of this Website without providing any personal information that identifies you. However, if you'd like me to individually contact you to respond to your request for details about my services, I’ll need identifiable information about you so that we can connect. By using this Website, you imply consent to my use of your information. If you don’t agree with my Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, then please don’t provide your personal information and discontinue using this Website.
Information Collection and Use
When you use this Website, the following types of information are collected by Columbia College Consulting, LLC:
Personally Identifiable Information (or basic information that can personally identify you): The only personally identifiable information collected on this Website is the information that you voluntarily provide when you use the "Contact" feature on this Website, which requests your name, email, phone number, reason for contact, and grade level. This information is collected for the purpose of enabling you to be individually contacted, allowing me respond to your request for more information about my services.
Aggregate Visitor Information (or basic information about visitors’ use this Website): This data, such as frequently visited website pages and the number of users from the U.S. and other countries, gives me insight so that I can improve the experience of this Website. This data is anonymous, collected through non-identifying and aggregate information that doesn’t contain any personally identifiable information. This Website also uses analytics cookies that do not contain personally identifiable information. You don’t need to enable cookies to visit my Website, but disabling or blocking them may make it difficult or impossible to use this Website.
This Website is hosted on Squarespace, which allows me to use an online platform to share more about my services and have you contact me. This information is stored through Squarespace's data storage, databases, and general Squarespace application. It stores your data on a secure server behind a firewall. However, no company, including Squarespace, can fully eliminate security risks associated with the transmission of personal information, and you do so at your own risk. For details, see Squarespace's Privacy Policy or Terms of Service.
Sharing Information
Columbia College Consulting, LLC is the sole owner of information collected; and as such, the personally identifiable information (i.e., name, email, phone number, reason for contact, and grade level) that you voluntarily provide will not be rented, shared, or sold with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Columbia College Consulting, LLC without your consent. In the following exceptional cases, I have the right to disclose your information without permission if I have good-faith belief that such action is necessary:
To enforce Terms of Use or respond to claims related to your use of this Website.
To meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable government request.
To protect the rights, property, and safety of Columbia College Consulting, LLC, my clients, my visitors, or the public.
To transfer to a third-party successor in the event that Columbia College Consulting, LLC is involved with an acquisition, merger, or sale.
Controlling Information
To reiterate, personally identifiable information (i.e., name, email, phone number, reason for contact, and grade level) can only be provided voluntarily by you for the purpose of enabling you to be individually contacted. I retain this information for as long as it’s necessary to perform a requested service, and I may email you in the future to tell you about promotional offers, new services, or significant changes to my Privacy Policy. You may request to confirm, correct, delete, or update information you provide by contacting me via email, and you can opt out of future contact at any time by contacting me via email as well.
Securing Information
A layer of security is applied to your visit of this Website, which you can verify by looking for a lock icon in your address bar and the “https” at the beginning of this Website address.
To reiterate, only Columbia College Consulting, LLC is granted access to the personally identifiable information you voluntarily provide, as I need the information to individually contact you regarding my service. I use reasonable technological, physical, and other measures to keep your information protected from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the personal information. Due to the nature of the internet and related technology, I can’t guarantee the security of your personal information and I expressly disclaim the obligation.
Children’s Privacy. This Website is not intended for use by individuals under 13 years of age. I don’t knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under the age of 13 at this Website. If a parent learns that a child has submitted personally identifying information to this Website, the parent should contact me via email and that information will be deleted.