Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 17, 2025
At CJ Prentiss Education Resource Center (CJPERC), we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding data collection and your rights under applicable privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Who We Are
CJ Prentiss Education Resource Center (CJPERC) operates the website located at CJPERC We are an educational resource organization dedicated to providing valuable learning materials and support. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at nfo@cjperc.com or visit our website at https://cjperc.com.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal information: personal identifiers such as name, email address, IP address, and other contact information you provide; technical information including browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and website usage data; communication data such as messages, comments, and feedback you send to us; and educational data including learning preferences, course progress, and academic information when applicable.
How We Collect Information
We collect information through various means including information you provide directly through forms, registrations, and comments; automatic collection through cookies and tracking technologies; third-party integrations and embedded content; and communication with our support team.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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 and File Uploads
If you upload images to our 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. We recommend removing location data from images before uploading them to protect your privacy.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience on our website. 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.
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes: providing and improving our educational services, communicating with you about our programs and updates, personalizing your learning experience, ensuring website security and preventing spam, complying with legal obligations, and analytics and performance monitoring.
Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)
For users in the European Union, we process your personal data based on consent when you provide explicit consent for specific processing activities, contract to fulfill our obligations under any agreement with you, legitimate interest for website security, analytics, and service improvement, and legal obligation to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, etc. from third-party websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly. 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
We may share your personal information in the following circumstances: with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and services, when required by law, court order, or government request, in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, and if you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
International Data Transfers
If you are located outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
How Long We Retain Your Data
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to enable automatic approval of follow-up comments. Personal information is retained while your account remains active. Technical data is typically retained for 2-3 years for analytics and security purposes. Some data may be retained longer to comply with legal obligations. For users that register on our website, we 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.
Your Rights and Choices
You have the following rights regarding your personal data: the right to access and request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, the right to rectification and request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data, the right to erasure and request deletion of your personal data subject to legal limitations, the right to portability and request transfer of your data in a machine-readable format, the right to restriction and request limitation of processing under certain circumstances, the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. 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.
California Privacy Rights (CCPA)
California residents have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act including the right to know what personal information is collected and how it’s used, the right to delete personal information subject to exceptions, the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights. Note that we do not sell personal information as defined by the CCPA.
Children’s Privacy
Our services are not directed to children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, your data may be processed by our hosting providers and other service providers who assist us in operating our website and services.
Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting the updated policy on our website with a new “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information. Your continued use of our website after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us using the information provided at the beginning of this policy. We will respond to your inquiry within a reasonable timeframe as required by applicable law.
Supervisory Authority
If you are located in the European Union and believe we have not addressed your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 17, 2025 and governs the use of the CJ Prentiss Education Resource Center website.