Privacy Statement for Eclectic Homeschool Online

The Eclectic Homeschool Association has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Eclectic Homeschool Online.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. We use the information in generating visitor statistics that help us determine what our readers find interesting and for the purpose of selling page sponsorships.

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You may lose some functions of this website if you do so.

EHO Advertisers
We use the services of PayPal.com to accept online payments for our advertising products. We do not have access to the financial information you must supply PayPal when you subscribe. To learn more about PayPal's privacy policies visit their Privacy section.

This site contains links to other sites. Eclectic Homeschool Online is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We participate in a banner ad program on our Eclectic Weblinks Index pages. These ads will place cookies. The Eclectic Homeschool Online is not responsible for the privacy practices of the ad agencies that place these ads. Refusing these cookies will not interfere with your ability to use our Eclectic Weblinks Index. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.

With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
Amazon.com

Google.com

We also sell advertising space on EHO to companies with products of interest to homeschoolers. EHO gathers information on impressions and clicks from our banner advertising. From time to time our advertisers include their own tracking codes with their advertising URLs. They may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.

Our online support group, bible study, reviews, and other surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address). The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary in the context for which the information was provided. Support group contact information will be changed upon request.

We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like their email address). The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary for the specific contest they have entered. We collect postal information for the sole purpose of prize distribution.

We do not provide our mailing lists to 3rd parties for their use.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Security is provided by our webhost for our online files. To find out more about the company hosting our site, visit http://lfchosting.com

Children's Guidelines
We do:

1. NOT collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent
2. NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent
3. NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information with out prior parental consent
4. NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent**
5. NOT entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity

** Our discussion boards, mailing list, and chat room are provided for adults. We cannot prevent children from disclosing information in these areas, but we will remove any personal information posted as soon as we discover it or are informed of it. It is our goal to make the Eclectic Homeschool Online a safe place for all in cyber space.

Choice/Opt-Out
Our site does not provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. Why? Because we use information provided to us for the sole purpose for which it was given to us. If you fill out a form for another purpose, we don't put you on our mailing lists; you must subscribe to those yourself. We will not give your information to a 3rd party. We request this information only when we need it.

Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
1.email EHO Email

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
Beverly Krueger
Senior Editor
Eclectic Homeschool Online