Who We Are
We are the College Autism Network (CAN). Our website address is: https://collegeautismnetwork.org. You may contact us at [email protected] at any time with any questions.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
Comments
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
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 website.
Contact Forms
If you use the “Contact Us” feature you will be sharing your name and contact information with this website and the organization. Because this form generates an email to various individual email accounts, the information submitted through the form cannot be erased entirely.
Cookies
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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. Log-in 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 log-in 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.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
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.
Who We Share Your Data With
Our website uses Google Analytics to track website usage data. Details about how Google uses data can be found on their privacy website and policy website.
We share data with our email list management service, whose privacy policy is available.
Our payment processing services include Stripe (Privacy Policy), PayPal (Privacy Policy), and GoFundMe (Privacy Policy). Data used by these services are subject to their service-specific privacy policies.
How Long We Retain Your Data
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 any of their personal information, with the exception of their username, at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
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, and we will use automated mechanisms in an attempt to do so. Moreover, although we can make efforts to delete user data from this specific website, data retention, disclosure, and deletion policies and policies of associated third party plugins, services, and sites are outside the control of this organization. We may not remove any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Data Collected to Manage Your Membership
At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to setup your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.
At checkout, we may also collect your billing address and phone number. This information is used to confirm your credit card. The billing address and phone number are saved by our site to pre-populate the checkout form for future purchases and so we can get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order. At checkout, we may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to our payment gateway to process your purchase. The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are saved by our site to use for reference and to send you an email if your credit card will expire before the next recurring payment.
We collect information about you during the purchase process (PayPal, Stripe, and/or 2Checkout), as well as information relating to your performance on our site (for example, courses or other materials accessed). We store account-related information for as long as your account exists. We store progress, including completion status, quiz scores, assignments and/or essay submissions (if applicable). We will also store comments on courses, lessons, topics, assignments, and essays if you choose to leave them
When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.
Who On Our Team Has Access
Members of our leadership team have access to the information you provide us. These individuals can access items like the following:
- Order information such as your enrolled courses, course progress and username / email address.
- Any additional information added in your WordPress User Profile can also be visible to the administrator(s).
