Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (Policy) sets forth the Academic Network, LLC (ANW, we, or us) policies regarding the collection and use of information relating to the website located at www.shapingamericasyouth.com (Site). When we refer to ANW, we, or us, we mean our entire company, including our affiliates and subsidiaries.

ANW respects the privacy of visitors to our online site. ANW will only collect personally identifiable data, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, when it is voluntarily submitted to us at our website. This statement discloses the privacy practices of ANW. By using the ANW website, the user agrees, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time, so please check back periodically. ANW and/or the companies we hire and are affiliated with will use this information to comply with your requests for information and to better serve you. We will refer to your information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services. We may use that information to contact you. We are the sole owner of information you voluntarily submit to us.

Certain areas of the Site contain information intended only for registered users. Accordingly, ANW reserves the right to limit certain areas of the Site to those persons who register and meet the qualifications imposed by us. This Policy addresses our privacy practices relating to general use of our Site as well as its use by any registered user.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

Personally Identifiable Information ("Personal Information") is information that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name, email address, telephone number, or similar information. ANW only collects Personal Information that you choose to share with us, such as when

1. Contacting us via email or clicking on a “contact” button
2. Registering online
3. Upon registration for access to those areas of our Site intended only for registered users

• Registered Users
  

  To be a registered user, you must provide us with certain Personal Information, including your name, profession, email address, postal mail address, and title. We will use this Personal Information to review and verify your registration information. We may use your Personal Information to send periodic marketing or promotional notices to you or notify you of any changes to this Policy. You can always opt-out of receiving these communications from us by following the "opt-out" procedures described below.

• General
  

  Any information you provide to ANW must be true, accurate, current, non-misleading, and consistent and relevant for the purpose for which you are providing the information. If you are a registered user, you must have the authority to provide the information submitted to and through the Site, and understand and agree that we may from time to time verify such authority.

  If you contact ANW via the Site, we will only use your Personal Information contained in your email to respond to your specific inquiry or comments in the email. We may retain your email for a period of time, but will not use any of your Personal Information for any purpose other than responding to your email.

• Usage Data
  

  The Site automatically tracks certain information about your behavior while visiting the Site. The information gathered includes only the URL from which you accessed this Site, and which URL you visit next. We collect and store this aggregate information in order to measure the Site's performance and improve the Site's design and functionality. We may also share this aggregate information with third parties to illustrate how the Site is used and for other marketing purposes. If you are a registered user, we may use your Usage Data with or without your Personal Information, in order to measure the Site's performance and improve the Site's design and functionality. We may also share this aggregate information with third parties to illustrate how the Site is used and for other marketing purposes.

• Use of Cookies
  

  This ANW website also uses information in aggregate form to track the total number of visitors to our site, the number of visitors to each page of our site, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. No personally identifiable information is available in this process. This ANW website uses a technology called “cookies.” A cookie is a token that a server gives to your browser when you access a website. Cookies are capable of storing many types of data. Cookies help provide additional functionality to the site or to help us analyze site usage more accurately. For instance, our server may set a cookie that keeps you from having to enter a password more than once during a visit to our site. In all cases in which cookies are used, the cookie does not collect personal identifiable information without notice to you.

  Most web browsers allow the user to deny or accept the cookie feature. However, please note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features (e.g. customized delivery of information) available on ANW websites. Further information about cookies can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm.

  We collect non-personal information about your use of our website and your use of the websites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of “cookies.” Every computer is assigned a different cookie by ANW. The information collected by cookies helps us dynamically generate content on web pages or in newsletters; and allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors’ sites, how many people open our emails, and for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user’s log-in, as navigation aides and as session timers, but not to retain personal information about you.

  Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the “help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookies, certain functions and conveniences or our website may not work properly, but you do not have to accept our cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link non-personal information from cookies to personally-identifiable information without your permission and do not use cookies to collect or store personal information about you.

Opt-Out Choices

To "opt-out" of

1. Receiving communications from ANW (except for communications necessary for your use of the Site)
2. Having your personally-identifiable information disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes
3. Any other consent previously granted for a specific purpose concerning your personally identifiable information

Send an e-mail to ANW at anw@academicnetwork.com.

Use and Disclosure

Subject to applicable law, we and our Service Providers (as described below) may disclose your Personal Information:

• To unaffiliated third parties that are under contract to perform services for or on behalf of ANW (Service Providers), and are required to uphold and maintain ANW’s policies with respect to privacy and the treatment of your Personal Information (e.g., vendors maintaining our computer databases or performing marketing activities for ANW relating solely to services provided by ANW and its affiliates);
• To other persons as permitted by applicable law or regulation;
• To law enforcement personnel and agencies, or as part of a legal process, in order to protect our property or in furtherance of an investigation regarding a breach of the Site rules and policies, unauthorized access to or use of the Site, or any other illegal activities.

Any access to such information will be limited to the purpose for which such information was provided to our affiliate, subsidiary, or Service Provider. Our affiliates, subsidiaries and Service Providers may be located throughout the world. Accordingly, information may be sent worldwide to countries which have a different level of privacy protection than the United States.

Consent to Processing

By using our Site, or providing information to ANW, you understand and unambiguously consent to the collection, processing, transfer, and use of information in the United States and other countries and territories, for the purposes set forth in this Policy. You hereby consent to the collection, processing, and disclosure by ANW of your Personal Information as described under this Policy, including but not limited to the transfer of your Personal Information between ANW's Service Providers, sponsors, affiliates, and subsidiaries in accordance with this Policy. For further certainty, any consent relating to a right to transfer information referred to in this paragraph shall be deemed to include your consent to the transfer of the applicable Personal Information to a jurisdiction which may have a different level of privacy protection than that available in your own country.

Reviewing or Changing Information

If you are a registered user, you may request to review, change, or delete information previously provided to us by modifying your contact and program profile at the Update Program information page or by sending an e-mail to anw@academicnetwork.com. Requests for changes to or deletions of your Personal Information should be made by you directly.

Disclosure to Linked Sites

This Policy applies only to www.shapingamericasyouth.com. ANW, its sponsors, affiliates, and subsidiaries operate many websites for different purposes and in multiple jurisdictions where local laws may apply. This Site includes links to both our affiliated sites and to non-ANW websites, including access to content, products, and services of such affiliated and non-affiliated sites (Other Sites). In some cases, these Other Sites are made available via "framing technology", and may appear to be part of this Site. However, prior to accessing Other Sites or non-ANW content via the ANW Site, a dialogue box will inform you that you are about to leave the Site, and will prompt you for your consent to proceed. Although some of the entities controlling these framed sites are under contract with ANW, we urge you to familiarize yourself with the individual privacy and other terms for each linked or framed site prior to submitting your Personal Information.

Disclosure of Aggregate Information

ANW may provide aggregate information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for the aggregate information. We require parties with whom we share aggregate information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.

Sale or Transfer of Information

In the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, dissolution, or sale or transfer of substantially all of the assets of ANW, registration data and/or usage data collected about you from the Site may be sold, assigned, or transferred to the party acquiring all or substantially all of the equity and/or assets of ANW in order to permit the party to continue the operation of the Site, including the restricted areas. Subject to your ability to opt-out as described above, by using this Site and submitting your information to us, you consent to the sale and transfer of your information as described in this paragraph.

Security

ANW takes seriously the security of the information it collects. ANW has therefore implemented technology and security policies and procedures intended to reduce the risk of accidental destruction or loss, or the unauthorized disclosure or access to, such information, reasonably appropriate to the nature of the data concerned.

Updates to Privacy Policy

ANW may, in its sole discretion, update this Policy at any time and from time to time, by posting the amended Policy on this Site. The amended Policy shall be effective upon posting, and your access to or use of the Site following an update shall be deemed consent to the revised Policy. If you are a registered user, amendments to this Policy may be sent to you via email or other form of communication as you have requested. We urge each visitor to refer back to this page regularly and especially prior to providing or updating any personal information. This Policy may not be otherwise amended without the written consent of ANW.
This Policy was last updated on August 28, 2004.

Contact, Questions, Comments, Complaints

If you would like to communicate with ANW regarding privacy issues or have questions, comments, or complaints about this Policy or Site, please forward such communication to: anw@academicnetwork.com.

Copyright Notice

All of the trademarks, service marks, and logos displayed on this Site are registered and unregistered trademarks of ANW, its affiliates or subsidiaries, or third parties who have licensed their trademarks to ANW or one of its affiliates or subsidiaries. In addition, all content, including but not limited to text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics or other material contained on this Site or in commercially-produced information presented to you through the Site by ANW, its affiliates, or ANW's third party licensors ("Content") is protected by copyright, patents, or other proprietary agreements and laws, and you are permitted to use Content only as expressly authorized by ANW, its affiliates, or its licensors. Nothing contained herein transfers any right, title, or interest in the Site or the Content to you. You may download, view, copy and print Content, subject to the following: (a) the Content may be used solely for personal, informational, or internal business purposes; (b) any and all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary rights notices must appear on all copies, including the copyright notice at the bottom of the page; (c) the Content may not be modified or altered in any way; and (d) no graphics may be used separate from accompanying text. Except as provided above, you may not use, download, upload, copy, print, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, post, transmit, frame, mirror on another Web service, use any meta tags, inline any graphics, or distribute any Content or information from the Site in whole or in part without the express permission of ANW. Requests for such permission should be made to anw@academicnetwork.com. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Please be advised that ANW enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law. Certain products, services, or company designations for companies other than ANW may be mentioned in the Site for identification purposes only. Such designations are often claimed as trademarks or service marks. In all instances where ANW is aware of a claim, the designation appears in initial capital or all capital letters. However, you should contact the appropriate companies for more complete information regarding such designations and their registration status.