Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://literacyacademy.com

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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.

If you upload images to the 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 websi

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.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also 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.

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.

The privacy of your personal data is maintained by cutting edge server technology. Whenever you enter personal data (and credit card data) on our website it is encrypted using SSL (secure socket layer) technology. We pay a licensing fee to maintain that security on our server while PayPal guarantees the security of your payment information through a similar encryption. We do collect aggregate information on what pages consumers’ access or visit in order to optimize pet product selection for our customers. The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our Web-site, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for individual consumers and used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes.
We will never (and have never) sold, traded or otherwise given, customer e-mail addresses or other personal data to a third party.

Credit Card Transaction Guarantee: We utilize Stripe (and PayPal) to process all of our credit card transactions. Both companies are on the leading edge of encryption technology and fraud prevention. We guarantee the security of all credit card transactions on our website - we have much invested in our business and will continue to invest time and resources into obtaining the latest encryption technology to guarantee the security of all of our credit card transactions. TO DATE we have never had a problem with fraud or credit card information being hacked! We are proud of that and want you to know that you can rest assured when using your credit card on our website.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending an e-mail, calling or writing, and telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our company.