Privacy Statement
The Association of Waldorf School of North America (鈥満＝巧缜��, 鈥渨e,鈥� 鈥渦s,鈥� and 鈥渙ur鈥�) respects individual privacy and values the confidence of our members, program participants, and our community. This Privacy Statement sets out the privacy principles that we follow with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide through our website, www.waldorfeducation.org (our 鈥渨ebsite鈥�) and at our events you may attend. If you have registered to use our alumni platform, please also review the .
Please read this entire Privacy Statement before using our website or submitting information to 海角社区.
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海角社区鈥檚 mission is to support schools through collaborative regional work, professional and resource development, accreditation, community outreach, and advocacy. Any information we collect serves to further our mission,聽including but not limited to the following:
- Provide relevant information to our potential members, active members, affiliated schools, and the public
- Respond to inquiries relating to 海角社区, member schools, and Waldorf education
- Promote 海角社区 events, programs, and activities
- Perform our contractual obligations with members in good standing, registered attendees at our events, and subscribers of our publications and other products/services.
- Administer and manage our school accreditation programs
You can access some areas of the website without submitting any information to us. However, if you wish to access additional content available on this website, such as the member portal, or participate in some of 海角社区鈥檚 activities, we may ask that you provide us personally identifiable information/personal data for the following purposes:
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Personal Data That You Voluntarily Provide To Us. 海角社区 only collects personal data you voluntarily submit to 海角社区. The types of personal data we collect vary based on the programs, services, and products you wish to engage in, but may include聽your name, school affiliation and contact information, telephone number, email address, postal address and payment information.
Automatically Collected Data.聽When you visit the website, we collect and store certain other information automatically that may not identify you personally:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you access the Internet.
- Type of browser and operating system used to access our website
- Date and time you access our website
- The pages on our website that you access
We use this automatically collected data in the form of summary statistics to help us make our website more useful to our visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest.
We will use the information you provide to us in order to carry out 海角社区鈥檚 mission purpose and relevant programs and activities, to fulfill our contractual obligations, and for internal use (by 海角社区 staff, board/committee members, and consultants) such as performing marketing studies, research projects, and program development in support of 海角社区鈥檚 mission purposes.
- 海角社区 Agents/Selected Vendors: your personal data may be used within 海角社区 or by a company acting as an agent of 海角社区 for operational support purposes, including but not limited to聽event and program registration, content management and analysis, system maintenance, email distribution, printing, and mailing.
- 海角社区 Business Partners and Affiliates: 海角社区 may share your personal data with carefully selected business partners and affiliates whose products and services may be of interest to our members and community. All 海角社区 business partners and affiliates are obligated to implement opt-out mechanisms and honor any opt-out requests by recipients in compliance with applicable laws.
- 海角社区 Conference/Meeting Attendee list: 海角社区 uses contact information to process conference and meeting registrations. The list of 海角社区 conference and meeting registrants, including the attendees鈥� contact information gathered as part of registration, is provided for one-time use to authorized exhibitors for that one conference/meeting. Attendees may opt-out of being included on the foregoing list at the time of registration.
There may also be times when we share de-identified data or aggregate information鈥攕uch as the number of hits per page鈥攚ith our business partners and with advertisers, sponsors, and other third parties in an effort to customize or enhance the content and advertising on the website for our users.
When you terminate your membership or cancel the website account access, 海角社区 may continue to share information about you according to our legal and regulatory requirements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, 海角社区 may disclose your personal data as required by law or as needed in legal proceedings when 海角社区 believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
In addition, in the event of a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale or transfer of some or all of our assets to a third party, we may also disclose your personal data to the third parties concerned or their professional advisors. In the event of such a transaction, the personal data held by 海角社区 will be among the assets subject to the transaction.
海角社区 does not disclose credit card information provided by its members and customers. When members and customers choose to pay using their credit cards, 海角社区 submits the information needed to the appropriate clearinghouse through secure payment gate sites (e.g., PayPal) to conduct the transactions.
You may request to see your personal data, to correct your personal data, to delete your personal data or to obtain your personal data in a portable and readily usable format by sending a request to us at privacy@awsna.org. Such requests will be processed as soon as practicable, and in no event more than 45 days after they are received.
The website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. 海角社区 does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If 海角社区 discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal data, we will delete the child鈥檚 personal data unless a parent or guardian provides verifiable consent to 海角社区.
The website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under 海角社区鈥檚 control. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) as part of the purchase process, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
When you submit information to 海角社区 through our website, you should be aware that your information is transmitted across the Internet and that no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Although we take reasonable security measures to protect your information when we receive it, you also need to ensure you take appropriate steps to protect your information.
The website may contain links to other third-party websites that are not affiliated with 海角社区. 海角社区 has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such sites.
The website includes social media features, such as the X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn buttons, that run on our website. These features may collect your Internet Protocol address and which page you are visiting on our website and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
海角社区 will occasionally update this Privacy Statement. Any changes to our Privacy Statement will be posted here so that users will know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices and this Privacy Statement.
Last Updated: April 2026
