Montessori Unlimited

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Privacy Policy

Montessori Unlimited values our customers' participation, interests and needs and takes great pride in its relationships with its guests. In order to provide educational and daycare services as well as information regarding those services, Montessori Unlimited ("Montessori Unlimited" or "we") will occasionally ask you to provide us information about yourself and/or the children you have enrolled or seek to enroll at Montessori Unlimited. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect and how we use that information. Montessori Unlimited takes the privacy of your personal information very seriously and will use your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. When we collect personal information, including your name, e-mail address, home address, phone, or child's name or age, we use it only for internal purposes to improve our services to our customers. The information will not be shared or sold to any party outside Montessori Unlimited without your prior consent.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you can contact Montessori Unlimited at parentline@montessori.com.

By providing Montessori Unlimited with personal information, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy will take effect on May 1, 2008.

For visitors who provided personal information on our web site prior to the date that this Privacy Policy becomes effective, we will apply this Privacy Policy to personally identifiable information associated with that account only if the visitor accepts the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Once the visitor has accepted these terms and conditions, this Privacy Policy will also apply to personally identifiable information collected from that visitor prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy.

This Policy may be revised over time. If we are going to use or disclose your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time we collected the information, you will have a choice as to whether or not we use or disclose your information in this new manner. Any material changes will be effective only after we provide you with at least 30 days' notice of the amended Privacy Policy. We will post the amended Privacy Policy prominently on our web site so that you can always review what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check the Montessori Unlimited website at www.montessori.com at any time for the most current version of our Privacy Policy.

A Special Note About Children.

Although Montessori Unlimited provides educational and day care services, this web site is for the use of parents only. Montessori Unlimited does not collect personal information from minors (under the age of 18) and we ask that minors do not submit any personal information to us via this web site.

Additionally, in the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to montessori.com are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information submitted to us may be transferred to the acquiring entity.

Information We Collect.

Montessori Unlimited collects and stores a limited amount of personally identifiable information from the users of this website. That information is limited to your name, e-mail address, home address, phone, and/or child's name or age.

In addition, because of the way that World Wide Web communication standards work, when you arrive at or leave the Montessori Unlimited web site, we automatically receive the Web address of the site that you came from or are going to. We also collect information on which pages of our Web site you visit, the type of browser you use and the times you access our Web site. We use this information only to try to understand our visitors' preferences better and to manage the load on our web server, so as to improve our service and your experience with Montessori Unlimited. We do not track the Web sites that you visit before or after you leave the Montessori Unlimited website.

If you send us correspondence, including e-mails and faxes, we may retain such information in the records of your account. We will also retain customer service correspondence and other correspondence from Montessori Unlimited to you. We retain these records in order to measure and improve our customer service. We may, over time, delete these records as permitted by law.

Montessori Unlimited uses pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage our online advertising and promotions. These GIF files are provided by DoubleClick. These files enable DoubleClick to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring visitors to our Web site. The cookie was placed by us, or by another advertiser who works with DoubleClick. With both cookies and Spotlight technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address. For more information about DoubleClick, including information about how to opt out of these technologies, go here.

Use and Disclosure of Information.

We use the information we collect about you in order 1) to provide our services, 2) to provide customer service, 3) to improve our services and 4) to provide you information regarding our services. We give access to individually identifiable information only to those Montessori Unlimited staff members who require to fulfill these functions.

Montessori Unlimited will not share, sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties without your prior consent. Although Montessori Unlimited does not disclose this information to third parties, you have the right to inform us of your specific wish that your information not be disclosed to third parties and may do so by contacting us at parentline@montessori.com

We communicate with parents of children enrolled at Montessori Unlimited via e-mail, U.S. mail or telephone to provide requested services or resolve complaints. We may also contact these parents to send information about important changes to our services. Generally, these parents cannot opt out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional.

We may also use your information to send you other communications of a promotional nature. You can choose whether to receive these communications by notifying us of your decision to opt out of these communications at parentline@montessori.com.

Accessing and Changing Your Information.

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to such information at any time by requesting a copy of the information maintained by Montessori Unlimited about you at parentline@montessori.com Upon request, Montessori Unlimited will provide you a complete copy of the information maintained by Montessori Unlimited about you for your review and correction.

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