1. Information Collected During Your Use of this site
In order to purchase PEI publications and products, users are required to provide PEI with contact information (such as your name and email address), possible unique identifiers (such as a password), and demographic information (like your zip code).
Certain information, such as passwords and email addresses, is collected in order to, among other things, verify your identity.
PEI does not share web site information with anyone.
If you decide to purchase our publications and/or products in our catalog, PEI will need to collect certain financial information, such as your credit card number, credit card expiration date, and billing address ("Financial Information"). Financial Information that is collected is used to process your order for publications and products. PEI does not share Financial Information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to process your orders.
2. Our Use of Your Information
We use customer contact information from the registration form to send you information about our services and promotional material from some of our partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. We may use your IP address to help protect ourselves and our partners from fraud.
3. Our Disclosure of Your Information
We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described in this Privacy Policy without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. We may also offer you the option to attract visitors to your site through participation in search engines, comparative shopping services, or similar distribution opportunities.
PEI will never willfully sell, lease, or rent any personally identifiable information about you or your business to any third party.
PEI cannot ensure that all of your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to the government or by court order under certain circumstances, or other situations may arise requiring such disclosure. In addition, you authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. This site contains links to other sites. PEI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
4. Security
In order to maximize protection of your information, PEI uses state-of-the-art technology to protect your data from use, misuse, or alteration by unauthorized third parties. Currently, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to protect your data and secure your transactions. SSL encrypts all your personal information, including your credit card number, name, and address, as it is transmitted over the Internet. Of course, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure, and PEI does not warrant that your information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data on or through the use of the PEI site is at your own risk.
5. General
If you have any questions about this privacy policy statement or the practices of this site, please contact PEI.
You may also send mail to the following postal address:
Patriotic Education, Inc.
501 West 23rd Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
