Privacy Policy

Pine Crest Preparatory School and its affiliates and subsidiaries (the “School,” “us,” “our,” or “we”) has developed this privacy policy out of respect for the privacy of individual consumers. This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about individuals who visit or interact with this website, purchase or inquire about any of our products or services.

Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through the site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on the website, enroll in or subscribe to our newsletter or marketing communications, request information, or use any of the other interactive portions of our website, or other technology platform. Through this website, we will collect information that can identify you and/or your activity.  

Additionally, whenever you communicate, interact, or do business with us online, we will be collecting personal information from you or about you in the course of our interactions or dealings with you.

Collection of Personal Information

The School collects the following categories of personal information about visitors to our website:

• Personal Identifiers & Contact Information, including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, email address, and phone number.
• Commercial or Transactional Data, including information regarding products or services provided, and purchasing history.  
• Internet Network Activity, including, but not limited to, the date and time of your visit to this website; webpages visited; links clicked on the website; browser ID; browser type and characteristics; device ID; operating system; form information downloaded; domain name from which our site was accessed; search history; and cookies.
• Mobile Device Data, including device type, and software type.
• Geolocation Data, including, but not limited to, IP Address and/or GPS location (latitude and longitude).
• Form and other Electronic Submission Data, when you submit information through any interactive form on our website, such as through the [“Contact Us” form] and search bar queries.
• Online Portal and/or Usage Information, including username and password, account history, usage history, file access logs, security clearance level, and any information submitted through the account.

How We Use Your Personal Information

• To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information.
• To provide your or our customers with the requested products or services.
• To process and submit financing applications, including to apply for credit, or credit pre-qualification.
• To process, complete, and maintain records on transactions.
• To provide warranty coverage on products and services.
• To retain your selection for Text opt in/opt out to ensure customers who opted out are not sent any text messages.
• To provide and communicate recall notifications to customers.
• To schedule, manage and keep track of customer appointments.
• To complete appraisals.
• To maintain records of when customers decline a service or sale.
• To respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for information, customer support online, Live Chat on the website or phone calls.
• To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
• To improve user experience on our website.
• To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
• To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of the website.
• To contact you by email, telephone, mail, SMS, or other equivalent forms of communication regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, services, or other information you requested or asked the School to provide to you.
• To detect security incidents.
• To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use 

Disclosure of Personal Information

The School may disclose your personal information to/with the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:

• Financial institutions
• Government agencies
• Marketing support vendors and vendors that support managing or hosting the website
• Communication providers/vendors that facilitate, manage, and send/receive communications on our behalf via email, text/SMS, phone
• Lead providers (referral sources)
• Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
• Data analytics vendors
• Social media platforms
• Consumer reporting agencies or credit reporting agencies
• Consulting and investigation firms, including HR consultants, safety consultants, and workplace investigators
• Security and risk management vendors, including IT, cybersecurity, and privacy vendors and consultants
• Insurance carriers, administrators, and brokers
• Subsidiaries and affiliates 

Sale of Personal Information

We do NOT and will not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration, including the data of any minors.

Protection of Your Personal Information

We use reasonable and appropriate measures to safeguard the information you submitted to us through the Website or that we received about you through the Website, including:

• We keep automatically collected data and voluntarily collected data separate at all times.
• We use internal encryption on all data stores that house voluntarily captured data.
• We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.
• We restrict access to private information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.

Third Party Vendors

We may use other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services and running special promotions. Such parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use or store the information for any other purpose.

Business Transfers

In the event we sell or transfer a particular portion of our business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of our assets are acquired, consumer information may be transferred as part of the acquisition.

Compliance with Law and Safety

We may disclose specific personal information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect our employees or the public.

Use of Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies

Our website may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – places on the user’s device to remember information about the user, such as the user’s language preference or login information. 

This type of cookie is set by us and is referred to as a “first-party cookies.” Our website uses first-party cookies primarily to make the website work as you expect it to. For example, we use the information we collect through first-party cookies to allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, analyze how well our website is performing, and understand the content that you spent the most time reviewing. In some cases, we use first-party cookies to store information that we use for targeted advertising.

We also incorporate cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, and web beacons, from outside our website’s domain (“third-party cookies”). Third-party cookies gather information to enable our vendors to provide a range of services to us, including targeted advertising and measuring the success of our advertising campaigns. 

Information on Some of the Cookies in Use on our Site

For information on some of the cookies we use on our site and apps, please review the policies from our some of our vendors:

• Google Analytics
• Meta/Facebook
• YouTube

Essential Cookies   

Essential cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Non-Essential Cookies

Non-Essential cookies are not essential to the website functionality but serve some other unique purpose in three subcategories:

1. “Performance” cookies (sometimes referred to as static cookies) collect information about the user’s behavior on the website without collecting personal information, for example:

• Pages the user visits.
• Ads the user views.
• Ads or site features that the user clicks.

2. “Functional” cookies (sometimes called preference cookies) track and remember the user’s preferences and past choices on the website to provide a personalized user experience. For example, functional cookies can collect:

• Usernames
• Passwords
• Regions

3. “Targeting” cookies (sometimes called preference cookies) can track:

• Content the user views
• Links the user follows
• The user’s browser and device information and IP address

Please note: Organizations can use targeting cookies to track and influence users by building user profiles or displaying advertisements.

Cookie Management

You can control and manage cookies associated with your browser. If you are interested in controlling and managing cookies from your browser including any set by our Website, please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on different ways to configure your browser’s cookie settings.

If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you can download three third party programs that clean out tracking cookies.

• http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
• http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
• http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/

You may delete cookies from your web browser at any time or block cookies on your equipment, but this may affect the functioning of or even block the Website. You can prevent saving of cookies (disable and delete them) by changing your browser settings accordingly at any time. It is possible that some functions will not be available on our website when use of cookies is deactivated. Check the settings of your browser. Below you can find some guidance: 

• Safari
• Opera 
• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Mozilla

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals.

You can adjust your advertising preferences on mobile devices through your device settings. Below you can find some guidance based on your type of mobile device:

• Apple
• Android

DAA

Many advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), which maintains a self-regulatory program along with websites where people can opt out of interest-based advertising from their members. To opt-out of website interest-based advertising provided by the DAA’s participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info/

• To opt-out of data collection for interest-based advertising across mobile applications by participating companies, download the DAA’s AppChoices mobile application opt-out offering found here: https://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

Non-Participant Opt-Out Options 

• Some of our vendors do not participate in the DAA self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising or have developed their own processes for allowing consumers to opt-out: https://branch.app.link/optout
• Some devices and apps do not have access to web-based browser cookie opt-outs. To learn more about the advertising opt-outs provided by your mobile device's operating system (like iOS and Android) or the device manufacture, click here.

Aggregated or Pseudonymized Data

In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of our website, we conduct research on our website visitors’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the personal information provided to us. Such research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregated or pseudonymized basis. This aggregated or pseudonymized information does not identify you. We may share aggregated or pseudonymized data with affiliates and partners for business or research purposes. We may also disclose aggregated or pseudonymized user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to third parties for other lawful purposes.

External links

Our website contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.

Passwords

The personal data record created through your registration with our website can only be accessed with the unique password associated with that record. To protect the integrity of the information contained in this record, you should not disclose or otherwise reveal your password to third parties.

International Visitors

We do not target, market to, or offer our products or services to consumers outside of the United States. You agree not to submit your personally identifiable information through the www.pinecrest.edu website if you reside outside the United States. 

Consent to Terms and Conditions

By using this website, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and the revised effective date on this website. Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Consumers With Disabilities

This policy is in a form that is accessible to consumers with disabilities.

Questions About the Policy

This website is owned and operated by Pine Crest Preparatory School. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected] or call 954-492-4100.

This policy was last updated March 8, 2026