Privacy Policy – Suzuki Association of the Americas

Who we are

Our website address is https://suzukiassociation.org

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Member Directory & Teacher Location Service

The Suzuki Association of the Americas, Inc. (the “SAA”) is a non profit, professional voluntary member organization. It does not have governmental or regulatory authority or jurisdiction over its members, which include teachers from many states. The information presented in the Directory is not verified by the SAA. The Directory is not a referral service, and the SAA does not recommend any specific teacher or SAA member.

The Directory is provided solely as a service to SAA members to locate SAA members who have not opted out of the Directory. Because some members of the SAA have elected to OPT OUT of inclusion in the database, the fact a particular person is NOT listed in the Directory does not mean that they are not a member of the SAA.

The Directory is a compilation work protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and other applicable laws, and is owned solely by the SAA. All rights that are not expressly licensed to you below are expressly reserved to the SAA.

Your use and access to the Directory is subject to the following conditions. If you do not agree to abide by these conditions of use You may not use the Directory and must immediately close access to the Directory database. By using, accessing or viewing the Directory, you agree as follows:

Except for the Browser’s ordinary caching function, and except for your own personal, internal use to locate or contact an SAA member, the user of this website and database (”You”) may not download, republish, resell, transfer, duplicate, create derivative works from (e.g. create compendiums of statistical information or lists of members) or otherwise make any use of the information provided in the Directory.
You MAY NOT, under any circumstance, use any of the information in the Directory for the purpose of sending unsolicited commercial electronic mail (email), regular U.S. postal mail (or other common carrier), or to make telephone calls, to any person listed in the Directory for purposes of soliciting from them:
1. the purchase of any product or service;
2. the contribution to any political, social, humanitarian, philanthropic or religious organization; or
3. for any illegal purpose, for example and without limitation, to harass such person.
You MAY NOT use information contained in the Directory to engage in activity that violates the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others.
When you opt-in to the Teacher Location service, you are agreeing to share information from your profile page, including, but not limited to:
- Name
- Location
- Phone
- Email address