Faith Academy Privacy Policy

Last updated: (February 2020)

Faith Academy (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://faith.edu.ph. This document informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from use of our website as well as personal information collected by other means. By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection And Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. This includes but is not limited to the following:

Basic personal information such as full name, nickname, physical address, e-mail address, telephone and mobile numbers, and username and password;
Sensitive personal information such as age, birthdate, nationality, gender, and occupation; and,
Other sensitive personal information and records such as, but not limited to, the following: photo, educational background (i.e. transcripts, letters of recommendation from previous schools), employment records, mission organizations details and records, church affiliation information, medical records, family background, spouses and children’s names, financial details, valid identification cards and licenses, salary, basic pay, statutory obligations such as HDMF or Pag-IBIG, SSS, PhilHealth and withholding tax, and other benefits.

Please be aware that you are responsible for keeping your records up-to-date.

Data Sharing

Except in limited circumstances, noted below, we do not and are not allowed to share your personal data with third parties. By using our website or attending our school, you are giving your consent, to authorize Faith Academy to disclose your personal data to accredited/affiliated third parties or independent/non-affiliated third parties, whether local or foreign in any of the following circumstances or to the following bodies:

The use or disclosure is reasonably necessary, required or authorized by or under law (such as for criminal investigation, as requested by court of law);

To our affiliates, subsidiaries, partner companies, organizations, or agencies including their subcontractors or prospective business partners that act as our service providers and contractors;
Law enforcement and government agencies when authorized by law or government regulations, or
when public interest so requires.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this Log Data.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that is pertinent to our community at Faith Academy.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal data we collect, use or disclose are accurate, complete, and up-to-date. We strictly enforce our Privacy Policy within Faith Academy, and we have implemented technological, organizational and physical security measures to protect your personal data we hold from loss, misuse, modification, unauthorized or accidental access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. We put in effect these safeguards:

We keep and protect your personal data using a secured server behind a firewall, deploying encryption on computing devices and physical security controls.

We restrict access to your personal data only to qualified and authorized personnel who hold your personal data with strict confidentiality.
Any personal data that you provide on our website is initially processed and stored by Faith Academy. Using a secured connection, only authorized Faith Academy personnel can then access and download your personal data from faith.edu.ph.

Faith Academy reserves the right to retain your personal data whether in our files located in the Philippines or in cloud servers, or in under certain circumstances such as when your personal data may be necessary to resolve disputes, or if Faith Academy is required to do so by law or in the good faith; provided that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation and/or protect and defend the rights or property of Faith Academy. If Faith Academy is required to retain any portion of your personal data for such purposes, it shall use reasonable efforts to limit such data to what is necessary to accomplish the particular purpose.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 1, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have questions about the Terms or if you wish that we modify or delete your personal information that we have collected, you can contact us at:

MCPO Box 2016, 0706 Makati City, Philippines or [email protected]

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

THE SCHOOL MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIALS AND/OR CONTENT AND/OR LINKS ON THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. BY YOUR ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE USING THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ANY LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE SCHOOL DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION, MATERIAL, CONTENT, TEXT, GRAPHICS, EMAIL RESPONSES, LINKS AND OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE OR ON ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY WEBSITE. THE SCHOOL DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE, ITS SERVERS, OR MESSAGES SENT FROM THE SCHOOL ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE SCHOOL SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, OR ITS CONTENT OR ANY THIRD PARTY MATERIAL OR WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE AND IN ANY RESPONSES TO YOU ARE INTENDED TO BE FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND ARE NOT CONFIDENTIAL. ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE YOU DO AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONSULTING WITH THE SCHOOL OR OTHER PROVIDERS.