Band Leadership Online Courses

The purpose of this policy is to establish and promote the ethical, legal, and secure use of computing and electronic communications for all members of the Mind Spark, Inc websites and course management systems.

General
Mind Spark, Inc respects the privacy of every individual who visits our site. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that this Web site may collect and how we may use that information. Mind Spark, Inc reserves the right to alter this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy at this location.

Definition
Mind Spark, Inc websites refer to any site that contains *.mindspark.net; *.bandleadership.com as the domain. This includes all of our online campus sites.

Any links or external websites referenced on our sites are not covered under our privacy policy and care should be taken when accessing sites outside of our domain.


Personal Data
Mind Spark, Inc will not collect any personally identifiable information about you, such as name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address ("personal data") through our site unless you have provided it to us voluntarily on our public pages or through our online course management systems. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it to us.

When you do provide us with personal data, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise: we may process that information in order to fulfill a request you have placed with us; we may update our database; we may store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services; we may use that information to contact you; and/or we may provide other third parties with aggregate—but not individual—information about visitors to, or users of, our site for research purposes.

Children/Direct Notice to Parents
Mind Spark, Inc has no intention of collecting any personal data from individuals under 13 years of age without parental consent. Where appropriate, we will specifically instruct those under age 13 not to submit such information on our site and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure parental consent to such submissions.


Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer/Cookies
When you view our site, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a Web site to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer's hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or "help" screen to learn more about these functions.


Public Forums
This site may make message boards available for public use. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information; you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. All material submitted as part of a course that is not open to the public will only be accessible to those students and teachers that are members of that course.


Security
This Mind Spark, Inc website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via our site, this information is encrypted and remains secure during all stages of transmission.