Privacy Policy

Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) has established this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.icsresources.org.

This site contains links to other sites. ICS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

ICS is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at several different points on our website.

We use IP addresses to help us analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Our site uses ‘cookies’. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie enables us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site, but is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas of our site.

In order to receive certain updates or use certain features of our Web site, a user may have to first complete a registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. If asked for, it is optional for a user to provide unique identifiers, but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site and our email communications with respect to content and personal topics of interest.

ICS processes its donations through a third party service. This relationship is 100% confidential and secure. After a completed donation is accepted by the third party’s server and authorized, credit card information is destroyed and a finalized report is sent through to ICS. No information other than to diagnose problems with the transaction server is retained by the third party. They do not resell, retransmit, or retain any information about transactions or personal contact information for donors it processes on behalf of ICS.

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. This includes a firewall and 24 hour monitoring of site activities by our hosting service provider as well as 128-bit SSL encryption (where allowable by law) on all transaction oriented operations between you and ICS via our transaction service provider.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or database administrator) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they are required to do to ensure our customers’  information is protected. Finally, the servers that we use to store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

Occasionally, ICS’S website may include links to other websites. ICS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can be done by writing to us through our Contact Us form.

Our website provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.

The following options are available for removing information from our database to discontinue receiving future communications or our service.

• You can unsubscribe or change your email preferences online by following the link at the bottom of any email you receive from ICS.
• You can notify us offline through the form on our Contact Us page of your desire to be removed from our email list or contributor mailing list.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our website or your dealings with the website, please send it to us through our Contact Us form.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes here so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.