Living Classrooms Foundation ("LCF") (collectively "we," "our," or "us") including Sail250 Maryland & Flyover Baltimore (sail250maryland.org) maintains publicly accessible websites and online services, including mobile applications or apps ("the Sites") to inform and engage our community about our mission, events, and activities. We use these websites, apps, and online services to share information about our educational services and resources and to enhance communication between LCF and the community. We know that you value your privacy. We want you to know that it is important to us too. That is why we have created this Privacy Statement to describe the ways in which we collect, use, and disclose information about you through our publicly accessible websites that link to this Privacy Statement, including the central LCF website www.livingclassrooms.org, and mobile apps (collectively, the "Sites").This Privacy Statement applies in addition to any other applicable privacy rights, and other state and federal laws and regulations.

What information do we collect?Information You Provide – Many portions of the Sites allow you to share information with us. For example, you may use the Sites to create an account, respond to polls and surveys, apply for a job, or otherwise contact us with a question, comment, or request.While using these features, you may choose to provide certain information to us, such as your name, home address, and email address. If you would not like us to have information that is highly personal or sensitive to you, please do not provide it through the Sites.Information Automatically Collected from You – Like publishers of most websites, we and our service providers automatically collect certain technical information from users of the Sites. The purpose of this data collection is to analyze how people navigate the Sites and then use that analysis to make changes that improve user experience. We may collect this information using "cookies," which are small text files that the Sites save on your computer using your web browser and accesses when you return, or similar technologies. This information is not used to track individual users or create user profilesThis information includes, but is not limited to, your Internet Protocol address; the date and time of your visit; the pages the Sites that you visited; the web address of the link you followed to reach the Sites; the type and version of your web browser; and the operating system of your computer. The Sites may also include third-party applications, that rely on cookies.If you do not want the Sites to collect information using cookies, you can set your web browser to reject cookies from the Sites. Each browser is different, so you should check your browser’s "Help" menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you reject or block cookies from the Sites, however, the Sites may not function as intended.

How do we use this information?
We use this information only for purposes directly promoting the educational, instructional, administrative, business, and support services mission of LCF, including, but not limited to:

  • responding to your requests for information.

  • customizing your experience when using the Sites.

  • improving the Sites, such as by tailoring our content to your needs and preferences.

  • generating and analyzing statistics about use of the Sites.

  • protecting our rights, property, the security or integrity of the Sites, or the personal safety of our employees, users or visitors to the Sites, or the public; and

  • detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, violations of our Terms of Use, violations of law, or other misuse of the Sites, or responding to legal claims against us.

Keeping your privacy in mind, we have taken steps not to:

  • collect, maintain, or use your personal information that we collect through the Sites for purposes beyond those we describe in this Privacy Statement.

  • use your information we collect through the Sites for behavioral targeting of advertisements to you; or

  • maintain a personal profile of you other than to support an account that you have created or use through the Sites

Under what circumstances do we disclose this information?
We disclose information only for purposes directly promoting the educational, instructional, administrative, business, and support services mission of LCF. We do not sell user information to third parties. Nor do we disclose user information to third parties except as permitted by applicable privacy laws and only then in the following circumstances:

  • with our offices, and other appropriate staff to enable them to perform the functions described above.

  • with service providers who work on our behalf, whom we require to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal laws regarding data privacy.

  • as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process; and

  • when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary (a) to protect our rights, property, the security or integrity of the Sites, or the personal safety of our employees, users of or visitors to the Sites, or the public, or (b) to detect, prevent, or respond to fraud, violations of our Terms of Use, violations of law, or other misuse of the Sites, or to respond to legal claims against us.

Links to other web resources
The Sites may link to other web resources that may be useful to you, you should recognize that when you click on a link to an external website, that website’s information privacy practices will be governed by the privacy statement of that website, and not this Privacy Statement
How is your information secured?
We strive to maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security safeguards of our computer systems that are designed to safeguard the information collected by the Sites. However, no information system can be 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
Modification
As the Sites evolves, LCF may update this Privacy Statement. Modifications will be posted on the Sites and the “date of last revision” date at the bottom of this page will be revised. In addition, for material changes to the Privacy Statement, as determined in our sole discretion, we will include a notice on the Sites that directs users to a copy of the latest Privacy Statement and/or send a communication to users for whom we have contact information notifying them of changes.