CarpooltoSchool.com respects our users' privacy. We understand that you have put
your trust in us to ensure that your family's information is kept confidential and
secure. The purpose of this privacy statement is to inform you what personal information
we may collect from you, how we use such information, the choices you have regarding
our use of the information and your ability to review and correct your information.
As you know, our primary purpose in collecting information from you is so that CarpooltoSchool.com
can assist you with carpool matching and carpool arrangements. We also collect information
from you to improve your experience and to communicate with you about our services
and updates to those services. We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable
information, including your name, address, e-mail address or contact information,
to third parties.
We reserve the right to change this privacy statement at any time. If our privacy
statement changes, we will post the revised privacy statement on our website. Please
refer to the date at the bottom of the privacy statement to determine the effective
date of such policy. If you have questions about this statement or need additional
information regarding our privacy practices, please contact
technicalsupport@CarpooltoSchool.com.
We collect information about you when you sign-up for CarpooltoSchool.com, including
your: name, address, email address, telephone number, work number, cell phone number,
cell phone carrier, emergency contact information, gender, child(ren)'s name, gender,
date of birth and special instructions relating to your child as specified by you.
We also collect the name, dates, description, times and location of your child(ren)'s
activities. We also request your child(ren)'s coach's name and contact information.
It is your choice as to whether you would like to provide your information to us.
You will still be able to view most of our website pages even if you choose not
to provide information about yourself and/or family members. However, please be
aware that if you choose not to provide the requested information, you will be unable
to use our service, or access certain services, offers and content on our website.
CarpooltoSchool.com may also collect certain information from visitors to and customers
of the Site, such as Internet addresses. This information is logged to help diagnose
technical problems, and to administer our Site in order to constantly improve the
quality of the Service. We may also track and analyze non-identifying and aggregate
usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and customers and provide
such information to third parties.
We use the information you provide us to provide the carpooltoschool.com services.
Specifically, we will use your contact information to send you email and text messages
with notifications and reminders of carpool schedules and to provide you with updates
to the schedule. We will also provide to persons/families that you have selected
to be a part of your carpool group your contact information, information about the
time, date, and location of the relevant events and special instructions regarding
your child(ren). SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS
‘HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION' SECTION, IN NO EVENT WILL YOUR CHILD(REN)'S SCHEDULE,
PICK UP LOCATION, DROP OFF LOCATION, NAME OR SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS BE SHARED WITH
ANY INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE OF YOUR USER GROUP.
From time to time, we may use your information to contact you via e-mail, regular
mail, or telephone to determine whether you are happy with our services and/or send
you customer satisfaction surveys. We may also contact you to advise you of offers,
promotions or other information from our sponsor companies. When you first sign
up to participate in carpooltoschool.com, you have the option of not to receive
these communications by clicking on the indicated box in the sign up process. Further,
after you have signed up, you retain the ability to "opt out" of such communications
by editing your profile and clicking on the indicated box. (You will not be able
to opt out, however, of viewing sponsor information that may appear on our website
and in the email and text message reminders relating to your carpooling arrangements.)
For instructions regarding editing your information, please refer to "Editing, Updating,
Correcting and Deleting Your Information" below.
Although we do not share your personally identifiable information (name, address,
email address, telephone number) with our sponsor companies, we may share general
non-identifying information with our sponsors about you, including but not limited
to: general demographic and geographic information of our users and their children.
In the unlikely event of a sale of some or all of our business, we will disclose
your personal information to a purchaser that agrees to abide by the terms and conditions
of this privacy policy. Finally, we reserve the right to use and disclose your personal
information where required by law, in response to legal process and law enforcement
requests and/or when, in our sole discretion, it is necessary to protect your/your
child(ren)'s safety and interests or the interests of carpooltoschool.com and/or
its affiliates. By accepting use of carpooltoschool.com's services, you expressly
understand and agree that carpooltoschool.com may provide information about your
child(ren) to either parent of the child(ren) (and/or legal guardians of the child(ren)
as the case may be), regardless of the relationship or custody arrangements between
the parents and carpooltoschool.com expressly disclaims disclosure of information
to such sources. In addition, please be advised that, in an emergency situation
that may affect the health or safety of a child, CarpooltoSchool.com, may, in its
sole discretion, disclose personal information about you or your child(ren) to appropriate
sources. In such an emergency situation, CarpooltoSchool.com will attempt to contact
you first before disclosing such information but if such attempt is unsuccessful,
you understand and agree that carpooltoschool.com may disclose such information
and shall not be liable for such disclosure.
To edit, update or correct your information, simply click on "edit my settings"
on the website and make the required changes. If you need additional support, please
email
technicalsupport@carpooltoschool.com.
Please note that any requests to remove or update your personal information through
our email support may take up to ten days.
We take special care to protect the safety and privacy of children. Our websites
are general audience sites. We do not knowingly permit anyone under the age of 16
to register with us. We also do not send email correspondence to anyone who tells
us that they are under the age of 13 without their parent's consent. We urge parents
and guardians to participate in their children's online activities and use parental
control or other web filtering technology to supervise children's access to the
web.
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server
and stored on your computer's hard drive. Generally, we use cookies to remind us
of who you are, tailor our services to suit your personal interests, estimate our
audience size, track visits to our site and to process your registration, track
your status in our promotions, contests and sweepstakes, and/or analyze your visiting
patterns. You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify
you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to
accept it. If you choose not to accept the cookie, we may not be able to track your
registration. Nor will we be able to recognize you as a signed up user to allow
you access to your account information.
We take reasonable precautions, including use of sophisticated encryption and authentication
tools, to protect the security of your personal information that you share with
us. Despite these security measures, no data transmission over the Internet can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to or from our website, and you do so at your own risk. Therefore, we cannot
be and are not responsible for unauthorized access to your information that is the
result of hackers or others who have obtained access through illegal measures, hardware
or software failures, acts of God or any other factors that compromise the security
of the data we collect. We urge you to keep your password in a safe place and not
to divulge it to anyone. Also remember to log off your account and close your browser
window when you have finished your visit to ensure that others cannot access your
account.
Our website, emails and text messages may contain links to websites operated and
maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on
such linked sites may be different from our privacy policy. You access such linked
sites at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a linked site
before disclosing any personal information on such site.