Privacy Policy
The American Barista & Coffee School On-line Registration Security Information
The American Barista & Coffee School is committed to giving its customers a pleasurable and secure e-commerce experience.
Credit card fraud is rare on the Internet, but it could happen. If you experience credit card fraud, simply notify your credit card company in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures. Most companies will either cover all of the fraudulent purchases or hold you liable for a maximum of $50.00.
Our security:
Before entering your credit card information, you will notice that your browser will switch to secure mode. This is normally shown by a key or lock symbol on your browser's status bar. This tells you that you have successfully begun to encrypt [scramble] information transferred from you to the Internet. This technology is known as SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] and is known to be a very safe means for encrypting data over the Internet. We support up to 128-bit security depending on the country you live in and the browser you are using.
PRIVACY
Our customer pledge: coffeeschool.org and The American Barista & Coffee School respect your privacy. In order to provide you with the most accurate information and the best customer service, we record a variety of information from your visit to our site. For your protection, we provide this notice explaining our on-line information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
What personal information do we collect and how do we use it?
When you register for a class on-line at coffeeschool.org, we collect your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information. We use this information to process your class registration and to communicate with you about your class registration. In processing your class registration, we only share your personal information with outside parties to the extent necessary to process your class registration.
Information about customers and visitors shared with third parties
- We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
- We share information about our customers and visitors with trusted service providers who provide coffeeschoo.org with specific services and/or administer activities offered on the coffeeschool.org site.
- We also may use non-identifying and aggregate information [as opposed to identifiable individual information] about our customers and/or visitors to better design our website and we may provide it to advertisers and other third parties.
Links to/from other sites
To enhance your experience, the coffeeschool.org site may have links to other sites on the Internet that are owned by third party vendors and other third parties [external sites], or you may come to coffeeschool.org from a link from an external site. These other web sites will have their own rules on privacy that you should review. coffeeschool.org is not responsible for the privacy policies of external sites.
Cookies
coffeeschool.org uses a feature of your Internet web browser called a cookie to assign an identification code to your computer. Cookies are files that your web browser places on your computer's hard drive. We only use cookies to keep track of classes you register for, to tell us whether you have visited coffeeschool.org previously, and to help us determine whether you came to coffeeschool.org from a particular Internet link or banner advertisement. We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer unless such information was knowingly and willingly provided by you to coffeeschool.org. Cookies do not provide us with access to any credit card information.
Third-Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
Should you have any further questions about our policies feel free to contact us:
The American Barista & Coffee School
1028 SE Water Avenue, Suite 275
Portland, Oregon 97214
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