Online School Management Services Inc.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) of Online School
Management Services, Inc. (“OSMS”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) applies to use of the
Online School Payment service and our website. In this statement, “you” or
“your” means any person or entity using or accessing our service or our website
osp.osmsinc.com (which may include such person’s guardian, agent, or
other legal representative acting in their representative capacity). Children
(under age 18) are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that children
not submit personal information to us or use our services.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
The privacy of the consumers who use this site is of
utmost importance to us. We respect your privacy and have instituted and enforce
policies to ensure that your personal information is handled safely and
responsibly. Personal information means any information that uniquely identifies
you as an individual such as name, address, phone number, or email address and
any financial information such as credit card and bank account numbers.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AND ITS USE
When you visit our site, we automatically capture your
browser type, browser version and Internet provider as well as the paths that
you take as you move from page to page. None of this information is retained in
such a way as to identify you as an individual. This is for internal statistical
reporting only and may be used to improve the content and layout of our website.
Personal information that you provide voluntarily is
collected in order to complete your payment transaction. This may include
information such as your name, address, phone number, email address and data
associated with your payment method (credit card or bank account information).
We also capture the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer
to the Internet. This is retained and used only in the event that there are
issues relating to the origin of a payment transaction. Additionally, we may ask
you to send us additional information (for example, additional forms of
identification) by a variety of methods (for example, by e-mail, through our
website, by phone, or fax) so that we can verify information you have provided
to us, prevent fraud, or otherwise protect the integrity of our services. We may
also collect and retain correspondence (including e-mail, letters, and faxes)
you send to us and we send to you.
Your personal information is not sold or shared with
anyone for any purpose other than to process and achieve successful completion
of your payment transaction, verify and account for such transactions, provide
customer service (including improving our products and services), enforce our
agreements with you, and resolve disputes concerning transactions. Identifiable
information is shared only with those parties entrusted with the processing of
your payment, which include our credit card processors, your credit card company
and/or bank, and your student’s school. Additionally, we may provide
identifiable information to third parties so we may verify your information,
enforce our agreements, prevent fraud, or otherwise protect the integrity of our
services. Please note that this Statement does not apply to information we are
required to disclose by law (including civil subpoenas), that we in good faith
believe is appropriate to cooperate with investigations of fraud or other
illegal activities, or in cooperation with law enforcement and other
governmental agencies.
We may fully use and disclose aggregated data, which is
data not tied to personally identifiable information.
CHOICES REGARDING ENTRY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Other than automatically captured data as noted above,
the entry of your personal information is strictly voluntary. However, certain
information is required if you choose to complete a payment using the website or
our services, and you cannot use our services without providing required
information.
COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
We are committed to protecting the personal information
that we collect. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, an industry standard for
transmitting data securely over the Internet, is used to encrypt the information
before it is transmitted to us. Once we receive the information, your data is
protected through a combination of strictly enforced procedures and a secured
computer network designed in accordance with best practice guidelines. Multiple
firewalls, multiple layers of data encryption and an Intrusion Detection System
are all used to protect your data.
We restrict our employees’ access to nonpublic personal
information about you to those individuals who need to know that information to
provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This Statement may be changed, modified or amended at
any time. However, such changes will not permit the selling of personally
identifiable information collected prior to or after the change or provision of
personally identifiable information to a third party, except as specified
herein, as required by law, or with your written consent. Updates will be posted
to our website noted above. You are responsible for revisiting the website to
review any updates.
Our site may have links to third party websites. These
sites are governed by their own privacy policies (if any), and we are not
responsible for their operations, including their information practices.
If you cease to use the Online School Payment service,
our information practices in this Statement, as amended from time to time, will
continue to apply.
If you have any concerns or questions regarding this
Privacy Statement, you may contact us at [email protected] or 1-877-378-8290.