By using the Website, you agree to the Privacy Policy as stated below.
At Torrington Christian Academy (“Torrington Christian Academy”, “we” or “us”), we understand and respect your concerns about the privacy and security of your personal information. We are committed to maintaining and using your information responsibly. We collect information for one reason—to help serve you better. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy. It explains what types of information we collect, how that information is used, to whom it is disclosed, and how it is safeguarded. This Privacy Policy applies to all information previously or currently provided to or collected by us. By interacting with Torrington Christian Academy, including using the website www.tcact.org (the “Website”), you consent to our use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. We may change our Privacy Policy, and when we do we will publish the changes here. For this reason, we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically.
Personal Information Protected: We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information.
Security: We use the integration of Stripe for all online payments which is a secure payment processing platform. To learn more about stripe security, go to: https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe
Collected Information: We may collect personally identifiable information that you provide, such as your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, email address, credit card information, birth month; identifiers such as user name, account number and password; and preferences information such as wish lists, order history and marketing preferences when you:
- Make a purchase;
- Enroll in promotional program;
- Participate in interactive features on the Website such as product reviews;
- Sign up to receive emails or other notifications from us;
- Enter a contest or sweepstakes;
- Fill out a survey;
- Create an Torrington Christian Academy account;
- Use a social media service like Facebook or Instagram to communicate with us; and
- Submit a request to our Customer Service department.
We automatically gather your IP address, time and date of visit, browser type, referring/exit pages and operating system. We may log this information for system administration, order verification, internal marketing and system troubleshooting purposes.
Cookies or Pixel Tags: Like most websites, the Website employs various types of technology, including cookies and pixel tags that receive and store information when you interact with the Website. Cookies are small files that are stored by your browser on your computer when you visit a website. They enable you to shop on the Website and are used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalize your online browsing and shopping experience. For instance, we use cookies to remember what items are in your shopping cart, to recognize you when you return to the Website, to study how customers navigate the Website, and to deliver personalized marketing. Cookies do not store personally identifiable information. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from websites or to remove cookies from your hard drive but, if you do, you will not be able to access or use portions of the Website. Consult your browser’s ‘help’ section for instructions on how to disable cookies. You can learn more about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Pixel tags, also called web beacons, are tiny graphic images on the Website and in our emails. They assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a specific action has been taken, like viewing a web page on the Website or opening an email.
Use of Information: We may use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To process, track, and fulfill your order;
- To communicate with you about the status of an order, and respond to your questions and concerns;
- To respond to customer service requests;
- To send you requested product and service information;
- To send product updates;
- To identify your product and service preferences;
- To administer your account;
- To administer sweepstakes or contest;
- To deliver coupons, newsletters, marketing communications, and ads;
- To administer promotional programs;
- To improve the effectiveness of the Website and our marketing efforts;
- To conduct research and analysis;
- To display content based upon your interests; and
- To prevent fraudulent transactions.
Sharing Information with Third Parties: Torrington Christian Academy does not sell, rent or license any customer personal information about our customers to any third party. We also may share your information with companies that provide support services to us (such as shipping, name, and address verification; customer service; contest administration; email distribution; and promotions fulfillment) or that help us market our products and services. These companies are not authorized to use the information we share with them for any other purpose or to send you unsolicited mail. We may also share information that you elect to make available to the public on the Website or social media networks. For example, if you post a product review on the Website or interact with us on social media sites and elect to make it available to the public, your information will be accessible on the Website and our social applications. With your prior consent, we may share names and addresses from our mailing list with carefully chosen marketing partners. We may also share aggregated statistical or demographic information with third parties in a manner that does not reveal personally identifiable information.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on us.
Links to Other Websites: For your convenience, the Website may include links which will take you to other websites that are not under our control. These websites have their own privacy and security policies which you should review. Torrington Christian Academy has no responsibility for linked websites.