About JA - Privacy Policy
Our General Policy
Junior Achievement of Washington recognizes the importance of protecting
information we may collect from visitors to our site. Our policy is to use the information
we acquire from visitors to our sites for internal purposes only, and we maintain
appropriate security measures to keep this information private. The only
exception is "Postings" which is discussed above. Your browser, however,
does automatically tell us the type of computer and operating system you are using.
Users can visit the site without revealing any information
about themselves. If one chooses to give us personal information
via the Internet for the purposes of correspondence, processing an
order, or providing a subscription to a publication, then it is our intent
to let you know how we will use such information.
If users tell us that they do not wish to have this
information used as a basis for further contact,
we will respect those wishes. We do keep track of
the domains from which people visit us. We analyze
this data for trends, insights and statistics, and then we
discard it. Information may be maintained on an opt in
basis only for receipt of communication and products from
Junior Achievement of Washington.
Junior Achievement of Washington takes
precautions to keep the user information disclosed to
us secure, and such information will not be disclosed to
third parties for commercial purposes. To prevent unauthorized
access, maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use
of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic,
and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information
we collect. Junior Achievement of Washington uses SSL
encryption for all financial transactions to protect personal information.
If you provide an email address or other personal information (excluding
financial information) when you visit our site, we may enter such information
into one of our data bases so we can contact you to ask your input, provide
information about our programs and events, and request contributions. If you
would like us to withhold your information from such an exchange, please contact us.
Use of Cookies
Certain sections of the Junior Achievement of Washington web site use "cookies"
to store user information. A cookie is a small string
of text that a web site can send to your browser. A
cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on
computer viruses, or capture your email address. Currently, web sites
use cookies to enhance the user's visit; in general, cookies can securely
store a user's ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which
parts of a site have been visited, or keep track of selections in a "shopping cart."
Cookies help us understand which parts of our web sites are the most popular, where
our visitors are going, and how long they spend there. We use cookies to study traffic
patterns on our site so we can make the site even better.
Cookies were originally designed to help a web site distinguish a user's
browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences
that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. If you are just
browsingJunior Achievement of Washington's web site, a cookie
identifies only your browser. If you become a registered user on Junior Achievement of Washington(with a user ID and password), we may use cookies so that
we can provide personalized information that we believe will be of value to you based
on preferences you have indicated while visiting the site. It is possible to set your
browser to inform you when a cookie is being placed - this way, you have the
opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. If you are just browsing our
site and are not a registered user, you do not have to accept a cookie and you can
still continue browsing the site. However, if you are visiting a site where you will be
accessing a confidential account, you must accept that site's cookies because they are
essential for site administration and security.
User Agreement
If you have any questions about this User Agreement, contact Junior Achievement of Washington.
If you do not agree with these terms of this User Agreement, you may not use the site.
Junior Achievement of Washington reserves the right to change this User Agreement
at any time without notice.
