Effective Date: November 2, 2023
Ashland Driving School, LLC (“ADS”, “we”, “our” or “us”) collects information from you when you visit our website, www.driving-school-ashland-ma.com (our “Site”), or use our online platform that connects businesses with prospect lists for targeted marketing (our “Platform”). Anyone can visit our Site. However, you must create an account with us (“Account”) and log into that Account in order to use most of the features of our Site and access our Platform. In this Privacy Policy, “Visitors” refers to those who visit our Site without logging into an Account. “Users” refers to those Visitors who log into an Account.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and in its entirety. It describes what information we collect from you, including information that can directly or indirectly identify you as an individual (“Personally Identifiable Information”), how we use, share, and protect that information and the choices we offer to you to manage or control that information. You acknowledge that by visiting our Site or using our Platform, you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you consent to our collection, use and sharing of your information, including Personally Identifiable Information, in the manner described herein. If you do not agree with all the provisions of this Privacy Policy, you may not visit our Site or use our Platform.
We encourage you to contact us with questions about your privacy and this Privacy Policy by emailing or mailing us using the information below:
Phone Number: +1-508-310-6660
Mailing Address: Ashland Driving School LLC, 162b Pond St, Ashland, MA 01721
Collection of Information
This section of this Privacy Policy explains what information we collect from Visitors and Users and how we collect it.
Visitors
If you are a Visitor, we do collect or store your Personally Identifiable Information from you but only if you voluntarily provide it to us via contact forms or sign-up process. We do use cookies, web beacons or other tools to automatically collect information when you visit our Site e.g., Google Ads, Social Media Ads, or other providers.
Users
If you are a User, you must provide certain Personally Identifiable Information to us when you create your Account, including:
- The first and last name, and age of a parent or guardian(s) and/or student.
- An email address and phone number.
- Chosen password for your Account.
- Payment information including billing address and form of payment.
When you use our Platform, we will also collect the following information:
- Transaction Information: Details related to your orders of data, information, and other materials we provide (“Orders”) and payments for Orders, including the date and time of your payments, the amount charged and any other information we deem necessary to verify payments.
- Usage Information: Information about your use of our Platform, including your preferences, settings, and the features of our Platform that you use.
- Device Information. Information about your device, including the model, operating system and version, preferred language, unique device identifier, serial number, and your device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address.
We also use Google Analytics, Google Ads, Social Media Ads, and Other Ads to track your usage of our Platform.
Use of Information
This section of this Privacy Policy explains how we may use the information we collect from Visitors and Users.
Visitors’ Personally Identifiable Information
If you are a Visitor, we may use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us to respond to your inquiries and send you information and updates about us and our services.
Users’ Personally Identifiable Information
If you are a User, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information for the following purposes:
- To provide, maintain, optimize, and improve our Platform, including preventing fraud and abuse, addressing issues with functionality, facilitating payments, developing new features, and providing support.
- To set up your Account and provide you with ongoing access to your Account/Student Portal and fulfill your Orders.
- To process and respond to your Orders, inquiries and requests.
- To understand your present information to you through the Platform that is relevant to you, and/or student.
- To communicate with you about changes to our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.
- To send you promotional messages and information about our services and our Platform; and
- To detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our Terms of Service or be illegal.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may use information that cannot directly or indirectly identify you as an individual, including Personally Identifiable Information that has been aggregated and stripped of personally identifying information (“Non-Personally Identifiable Information”) for any purposes that we may deem appropriate, including to learn about how you use our Site and our Platform, what features you like or find valuable and how we can improve the quality and usefulness of our services.
Disclosure AND SHARING of YOUR Information
Personally Identifiable Information
We may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information in the following situations:
- With your prior consent.
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to provide our Site and our Platform, including those who provide delivery and hosting services and data analytics services.
- To a buyer or successor in interest in the event that we participate in a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business or a merger or consolidation with a third party.
- When it is necessary in our opinion to do so to prevent, investigate, detect or prosecute criminal offenses or attacks on the technical integrity of our Site, our Platform and our network.
- To protect our rights, property and safety, including the safety of Users, our employees and other contractors and service providers.
- To comply with any subpoena, court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including our Terms of Service; and
- To defend against legal claims.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may disclose Non-Personally Identifiable Information to anyone we choose without restriction.
Your Choices
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us. This section describes mechanisms we provide for you to control certain uses and disclosures of over your Personally Identifiable Information.
If you are a Visitor, you cannot view the Personally Identifiable Information we have collected from you, but the only information we collect if you have not established an Account with us is information you voluntarily provide.
If you are a User, you may edit all the Personally Identifiable Information that is associated with your Account at any time through our Site. Also, you view and access your Orders through the Platform. You may deactivate or delete your Account at any time through our Site once you are logged into your Account. Please note that once you delete your Account, we will delete all the information associated with your Account.
You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us via email by following the instructions in those messages. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional email messages, such as messages with information about your Account, your Orders and your inquiries, questions and/or comments.
We do not track your activities across the internet. Therefore, we do not use “do not track” signals or respond to “do not track” requests.
Protection of Your Information
Our Security Measures
We work hard to prevent unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold. In particular:
- We have adopted industry-standard security practices.
- We limit our collection of Personally Identifiable Information to what we need to provide our Site and our Platform; and
- We restrict our internal access to your Personally Identifiable Information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
How You Can Protect Your Security
If you are a User, your Personally Identifiable Information and the other information associated with your Account are password protected for your privacy and security. You can help protect against unauthorized access to your Account by keeping your password secret at all times and limiting third party access to your computer.
Disclaimer
Please note that no information security practices are 100% secure or immune from circumvention. We can’t give you an absolute guarantee that your Personally Identifiable Information will always be secure. If we learn of a security breach that jeopardizes, or may jeopardize, the security and confidentiality of your Personally Identifiable Information, we will attempt to notify you electronically (subject to any applicable laws) at the email address associated with your Account so that you can take appropriate protective steps.
The full technical info about our website
The full technical info about our sign-up part of website
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Third Party Services
Our Site and our Platform and any material that we send to you may contain links or otherwise provide access to third party websites and services. We also work with third party service providers to provide our services. Please be aware that we have no control over the policies and practices of third parties, including those relating to the collection of information through their websites and applications (“Third Party Practices”). We are not responsible for Third Party Practices.
Children’s Information
We are committed to protecting the privacy of young children, and therefore we do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from persons under the age of 13. No part of our services, our Site or our Platform is directed to persons under the age of 13. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT VISIT OUR SITE OR USE OUR FORUM AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. If we discover that Personally Identifiable Information has been collected from a person under the age of 13 without verified parental consent in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will immediately delete such information.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements or for other purposes. If we make significant changes in the way we treat your Personally Identifiable Information, we will provide notice of such changes to you by sending an email message to the email address associated with your Account or by posting a notice prominently on our Site. Changes will take effect seven (7) days after we post or send you notice. If you object to any changes, you may cease all visits to our Site and all use of our Platform. By continuing to visit our Site and use our Platform after we publish or communicate a notice about any changes to this Privacy Policy, you consent to those changes.