This policy explains what information Chip-Free Schools may collect, why it may be used, how advertising and analytics services may operate, and what choices visitors have.
1. Information we may collect
Information you provide: When you email us, we receive your email address and the content of your message. Please do not send sensitive information about a child, student, family, disability, diagnosis, disciplinary matter, or school record unless it is essential and appropriate for the request.
Technical and usage information: Hosting, security, analytics, and similar systems may record an IP address, browser, device type, approximate location, referring page, pages viewed, timestamps, and diagnostic data.
Consent and preference information: We may record privacy choices needed to respect consent preferences and applicable requirements.
2. Why information may be used
- To operate, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the website.
- To respond to messages, correction reports, and privacy requests.
- To understand general traffic and improve navigation and content.
- To prevent spam, abuse, malicious activity, and security incidents.
- To display and measure advertising if advertising services are enabled.
- To comply with applicable obligations and enforce website terms.
3. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files or identifiers stored on a browser or device. Depending on the services enabled, they may support essential operation, security, preferences, analytics, advertising, frequency control, consent records, and aggregated reporting.
| Category | Typical purpose |
|---|---|
| Essential and security | Core functions, protection from abuse, consent records, and technical stability. |
| Analytics | Understanding general traffic, page performance, and content usefulness. |
| Advertising | Displaying, limiting, securing, measuring, and—when permitted—personalizing advertisements. |
| Preferences | Remembering settings that improve the visitor experience. |
Visitors can restrict cookies through browser controls. Where legally required, a consent message should provide choices before non-essential technologies are used.
4. Google advertising and third-party vendors
If Google AdSense or another Google advertising service is enabled, Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies may enable Google and its partners to serve personalized or non-personalized advertising, subject to consent choices and applicable requirements.
Visitors can manage Google ad personalization through Google Ads Settings. Additional opt-out choices may be available through AboutAds. Non-personalized ads may still use limited storage or identifiers for purposes such as frequency capping, fraud prevention, and aggregated reporting.
5. Analytics and service providers
We may use hosting, security, analytics, caching, consent-management, email, and advertising providers. Those providers may process information according to their own policies and responsibilities. The specific providers used may change as the website is maintained.
6. Children’s privacy
Chip-Free Schools is written for adults, including parents, educators, and school leaders. It is not directed to children and does not knowingly request personal information from children under 13. We do not ask students to create profiles, submit school records, or share private information through the website.
A parent or guardian who believes a child has sent personal information may contact us to request review and deletion. Do not use our email address as a substitute for a school’s safeguarding or emergency reporting procedure.
7. Sensitive school and student information
Do not send identifiable education records, medical details, disciplinary records, passwords, private student communications, photographs, or other sensitive material unless legally appropriate and strictly necessary. We may delete unsolicited sensitive information when it is not needed to handle the request.
8. External links
Articles may link to schools, governments, research institutions, technology providers, publishers, or other third parties. External websites have their own privacy practices. A link does not transfer responsibility for those practices to Chip-Free Schools.
9. Data retention and security
Information is retained only for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described here, including security, correspondence, legal compliance, and dispute resolution. Reasonable safeguards are used, but no website or transmission method can guarantee absolute security.
10. Privacy choices and rights
Depending on location and applicable law, visitors may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent. Requests may be sent to contact@chipfreeschools.com. We may need to verify a request before acting on it.
11. International processing
Website providers may process data in countries different from the visitor’s country. Relevant providers are responsible for using appropriate safeguards where required.
12. Policy changes
We may update this policy when site features, providers, or applicable requirements change. The revised date at the top identifies the latest published version.