Privacy Policy

This Online Privacy Statement describes how we treat user data collected during your visit to the Universal Academy of Florida site. The Universal Academy of Florida site is uaftampa.org and includes all web pages whose domain name contains uaftampa.org. This is not the online privacy statement for other Universal Academy of Florida websites that don’t contain these domain names unless those websites link directly to this Online Privacy Statement. Neither is it the online privacy statement for other websites (e.g., blogs or social networking sites) where Universal Academy of Florida has a presence, such as Universal Academy of Florida pages on social media platforms. Finally, this is not the online privacy statement for the websites of any Universal Academy of Florida affiliate organizations. In all of those cases, site-specific privacy terms apply and are posted accordingly.

Privacy and the Internet

The Internet, generally speaking, is not a private place. As you visit websites, use search engines, and conduct business on the Internet, many different companies and organizations are gathering information about your online behavior by tracking your searches, visits, and transactions, and then matching that data with other information about you. There are some things you can do to prevent your information from being collected.

Universal Academy of Florida takes many steps to protect your privacy when you visit the Universal Academy of Florida website. In order to advance our marketing and outreach, we do allow some tracking to take place. How and when we do so is explained below.

Our Collection and Use of Information About You

Like most websites, we may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from your browser when you visit uaftampa.org. The information that we collect with these automated methods may include your IP address, cookie information, browser type, system type, and the referring URL.

We use this information to measure and improve our site’s performance. On occasion, we also access this information to investigate or maintain its stability and security.

Certain pages on the Universal Academy of Florida site may invite you to share personally identifying information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number. Sharing that information will allow you to make a donation, join our email list, register for an event, or participate in other similar online activities. We may use that voluntarily submitted data to:

Fulfill your orders or transactions.
Contact you about other Universal Academy of Florida activities or news, or about opportunities to support the work of Universal Academy of Florida.

When We May Share Your Information With Other Organizations

When we give you an opportunity to voluntarily submit information about yourself, we may give you the option of indicating that you permit us to share that data with other parties such as Universal Academy of Florida-affiliated organizations. We will not share your data with such parties unless you have indicated that you permit us to do so.

However, you may choose not to participate in this type of exchange by visiting our contact page and submitting a request to opt-out.

Our Email List

If you sign up for our email list, we may collect data by using an embedded image to track whether you open our email and by using a URL that enables us to identify that you have taken an action, such as clicking a link in an email.

This allows us to build a more effective communications program, to inform you about the Universal Academy of Florida projects you care about most.

How We Work With Third-Party Service Providers

We work with a variety of trusted third-party service providers who help us operate our organization and deliver services. For example, outside service providers may help us analyze traffic on our site, process credit card transactions, or facilitate marketing activities. To the extent that any service provider has access to personally identifiable data about you, we require that service provider to promise that it will keep that data confidential and use it only for the purpose of carrying out the functions we have engaged it to perform. That is true both as to passively collected data and as to voluntarily submitted data.

In some instances, we may agree to allow a service provider to take aggregated and anonymized data about activity on the Universal Academy of Florida site and use that data for other purposes, such as improving the vendor’s products or benchmarking for the vendor’s other clients. But we won’t agree to that unless we believe, in each instance, that the data won’t be recombined with other information to create any record about you as an identifiable individual.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies to improve website performance, to remember user preferences and settings, and to collect analytic data. By “cookies” we mean small text files placed on your computer by websites you visit. “Cookies” may also refer to local storage, which is a mechanism similar to cookies where the information is stored within your web browser. In some instances, we place these cookies ourselves. In other instances, we allow outside service providers to place these cookies, but only if those providers agree to the terms described above under “How We Work with Third-Party Vendors.”

We use cookies as follows:

Website Performance

Website performance cookies allow Universal Academy of Florida to improve the visitor experience by making the website easier to use. For example, they may enable us to save you time when filling out a form by populating it with information you provided in previous visits.

Registration

If you are visiting our website as a registered user, for example, when you manage your subscriptions for our email lists, we place cookies in your browser that allow our website to recognize that you are logged in.

Analytics

We use analytics tools that place cookies, in order to give us a better understanding of how people engage with our website. That in turn allows us to gauge the current performance of Website features, and to develop better content. Analytics cookies provide us with information like:

How many individual visitors we have
How many visitors are new or returning
How often visitors come to the website
What content they’ve visited
How visitors interact with particular pages or content

In addition, if you click on a link in an email we send, a cookie may be generated that enables us to identify you.

How Certain Content Hosts May Place Cookies and Gather Information About You

Our site is connected in a variety of ways to content residing on other platforms. We provide links to content on social media platforms and to content on other sites. Our site also features embedded media, such as videos, that are hosted on other platforms but viewable directly through the buttons we provide. To learn about how those content hosts treat the data they collect through cookies and otherwise, see their respective online privacy policies and other posted guidance.

Security Measures and Data Transmission

We have taken physical, electronic, and managerial measures to safeguard the information we collect online. We work to ensure data accuracy and protect against unauthorized access to and improper use of the information.

Information that can be readily linked to you personally, such as your name and address, is stored on secure servers and is not publicly accessible (unless, as discussed above, you have chosen to have us disclose information about you). Additionally, all data transmitted to and from our website, including credit card numbers, is encrypted using industry-standard measures to provide an additional level of security.

Procedure When We Update This Statement

Our privacy statement may change from time to time. We will post changes on this page and, if significant, provide a more prominent notice on our website.

Procedure for Updating Your Personal Information or Preferences

If you wish to withdraw or change personal information you shared with us previously or adjust personal preferences, such as your preferences regarding email lists, you may contact us to update our records. You have the following options to do this:

Send e-mail to: uaf@uaftampa.org and include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.

Send mail to our address: Universal Academy of Florida, 6801 Orient Road, Tampa, FL 33610.

To send us any other feedback, please visit: https://www.uaftampa.org