Privacy Policy

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at CHC Publishing, Inc., DBA Catholic Heritage Curricula, a Texas Corporation (“CHC”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at chc@chcweb.com. This Privacy Policy is subject to our Terms and Conditions.

When you visit our website www.chcweb.com, interact with our social media accounts, call us on the phone, send us an email, or use our services in other ways, you trust us with your personal information. In this Privacy Policy, explain what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue using our Sites and services. 

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our websites (such as www.chcweb.com), and/or any related services, communications, sales, marketing, or events (we refer to them collectively in this Privacy Policy as the “Sites”).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
  2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
  3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
  4. WITH WHOM WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED?
  5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
  6. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN?
  7. HOW DO WE USE CONTENT CONTRIBUTED BY USERS?
  8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
  9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
  10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?

 

  1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us such as name, address, contact information, passwords and security data, and payment information. 

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when placing an order, when making an account at the Sites, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when participating in activities on the Sites, or when otherwise contacting us. 

The personal information we collect can include the following:

Name and Contact Data. First and last name, email address, postal address, and phone number. 

Credentials. Passwords and similar security information used for authentication and account access. 

Payment Data. We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your credit card number and the security code associated with your credit card. All payment data is stored by our payment processor, and you should review its privacy policies and contact the payment processor directly to respond to your questions. 

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you interact with our Sites. 

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Sites. This information does not reveal your specific identify but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Sites and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operating of our Sites and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. 

Information collected from other sources

In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, and other outside sources. 

We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, as well as from other third-parties. Examples of the information we may receive from other sources include: social media profile information; marketing leads; and search results and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links). 

  1. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION? 

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent. 

We use personal information collected via our Sites for a variety of business purposes described below. 

  • To facilitate account creation and logon process. 
  • To send you marketing and promotional communications. We use your personal information to send you marketing emails only if you specifically signed up to receive these emails from us. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time. 
  • To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. 
  • Fulfill and manage your orders. We use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, and returns made through the Sites.
  • To protect our Sites. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Sites free and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention). 
  • To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies. 
  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond. 
  • For other business purposes. We may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Sites, products, services, marketing, and your experience. 
  1. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short: We do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your information with third-parties for their promotional purposes. We do share your information with third parties for other reasons, as detailed below. 

We may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, order fulfillment, data analysis, email delivery, web hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. 
  • Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. 
  • Law Enforcement. We may share your information if we are required to do so by law enforcement or regulatory agencies. 
  1. WITH WHOM WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED?

In Short: We only share information with the following third parties.

We only share and disclose your information with the following third parties. We have categorized each party so that you can easily understand the purpose of our data collection and processing practices. Please follow the links below to read the privacy policies of the third parties. If the link does not go to the third party’s privacy policy, please contact the company directly.

  • Address Verification during Checkout: Loqate
  • Law Enforcement or Regulatory Agencies
  • Order Fulfillment and Customer Service: 5 Stones
  • Sales Tax Calculations during Checkout: TaxJar
  1. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites.

  1. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN?

Our Sites are not intended for children under 18 years old. Anyone under the age of 18 must have parent or guardian permission to use our Sites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you know of a child giving us this type of information online, please contact us to have the account deactivated. Our contact information is provided at the end of this policy.

  1. HOW DO WE USE CONTENT CONTRIBUTED BY USERS?

Users may submit comments, feedback, testimonials, photos, descriptions, videos, suggestions, or other content (“Contributions”) to CHC. These Contributions may be submitted to CHC through the Contact Us and Submit a Photo! forms on our Site, through social media, in response to a survey, by email, by mail, or by any other form of communication currently used or later developed. Information we are bound to protect under our Privacy Policy—such as your full name, contact information, physical address, order history, and payment details—does not count as a Contribution.

When you submit a Contribution to CHC, you acknowledge and agree that: 

  1. You thereby grant CHC a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, and/or publicly display said Contribution. CHC will be entitled to publicly display said Contribution on our website, in our catalog, on social media accounts, in printed books, in promotional materials, and in any other medium currently used or later developed.
  2. You are the sole creator and owner of the Contribution. If you are submitting a photo that includes individuals besides yourself, you have received permission to share the photo from any adults in the photo and from a parent/guardian of any children in the photo. 
  3. To preserve your privacy, we will not attach personally identifying information to your Contribution when we publish or display it. We may accompany your Contribution with your first name and general location (state or country). If you mention someone’s name in your Contribution, we will omit the name and replace it with a general term such as “my son.” 
  4. CHC is under no obligation to compensate you or provide any form of reimbursement. 
  5. CHC may edit and/or excerpt your Contribution for the sake of clarity, to preserve your privacy, to correct spelling and grammar errors, to shorten a long Contribution, or for similar purposes. In no case will we edit the Contribution so as to change its meaning or attribute opinions to you that are different from those expressed in your original Contribution. A photo Contribution may be photo-edited to preserve your privacy, to improve the photo’s appearance (lighting, exposure), to remove distracting details in the background, to update the front covers of CHC products pictured in the photo, or for similar purposes.

 

8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short:  We aim to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee 100% security.

We aim to protect your personal information, but no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly access your information. Transmission of personal information to and from our Sites is at your own risk. You should only access the Sites within a secure environment.

  1. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?

In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. 

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information. 

 

  1. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?

Account Information: If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account, you can log into your account settings and update your user account. 

To terminate your account, you may contact CHC using the contact information provided below. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms and Conditions and/or comply with legal requirements. Additionally, the 3rd parties listed in section 4 may retain your information for longer periods of time. See their privacy policies for more details.

Opting out of email marketing: We use your personal information to send you marketing emails only if you specifically sign up to receive these emails from us. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. 

Contact Information: If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by email at chc@chcweb.com, by phone at (800) 490-7713, or by mail to:

Catholic Heritage Curricula

4020 N. MacArthur Blvd., Ste. 122-320

Irving, TX 75038-6422

Last revised September 27, 2023