Thank you for visiting the WorldStrides website. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we would like to share our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This privacy policy applies to all information collected on our websites.
Collection and Usage of Personal Information
- Online registration and payments: When you register online or make a payment online for a WorldStrides program, you are required to enter information such as name, address, email address, phone number, and credit card information through an online form. All of your information is transmitted in an encrypted format.
- Third-party travel vendors: Because our travel programs are offered in conjunction with the services of other companies such as airlines and hotels, we need to share some of your personal information with those companies, only to the extent that it is necessary to complete your travel arrangements.
- Online registration, surveys, and contests: When you participate in an online contest or survey, WorldStrides may ask you for personal information such as your name and email address. Your participation in online contests and surveys is voluntary. Information collected from online registration, contests, surveys, or online forms may be used to provide you with special promotions or online information that we believe might be of interest to you.
- Requesting information: If you fill out a form to request information on leading a WorldStrides program, we may contact you to provide information on becoming a WorldStrides Program Leader.
- Refer a Friend: When you submit information about another educator for our “Refer a Friend” program, we may contact that teacher in regards to leading a WorldStrides program.
- Opting out of WorldStrides communications: To respect the privacy of our users, we provide the opportunity to opt out of certain types of communication. You may also email us directly at update@worldstrides.org at any time if you would like to unsubscribe from our email service.
- Collection and usage of non-personal information: WorldStrides collects site traffic data from our site. We also use information about IP addresses, types of web browsers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), referring and exit pages, operating systems, date/time stamps, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, and track users’ movements. This information is only for aggregate use and is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
- Encryption: WorldStrides takes great care to ensure the secure transmission of our users’ financial information. When you provide us with financial information in order to register online or make an online payment for a WorldStrides program, we transmit that information in an encrypted format. We use VeriSign SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Once we receive your data, we make our best effort to ensure its security in our systems.
- Links to third-party websites: worldstrides.org contains links to other web sites. When you click on one of these links, you are entering another web site for which WorldStrides has no responsibility. We do not endorse or take responsibility for content, accuracy, advertising, goods, and services offered or any other aspect of such linked sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all other sites, as their policies may be materially different from this WorldStrides Privacy Policy.
- Questions: If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to email us at update@worldstrides.org.