At World Reach, Inc., we are committed to respecting your privacy and recognizing your need for appropriate protection of your privacy and management of personally identifiable information. Therefore, we established our privacy policy and strictly follow our policy. Please read the following to understand how we use your personal information or personally identifiable information. By registering as a member on our website, applying for our learning programs or purchasing our services, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

Collecting Your Personal Information

"Personal information" or "personally identifiable information" is the information given by you to World Reach, Inc. in the process of registering to become a member, applying for the learning courses and purchasing services or merchandise through our websites. Such information include, your name, address, email address, phone numbers, company name and address, date of birth, gender, personal interests and other information that is easily identifiable as yours.

We maintain a record of your English writing materials if you are taking our English learning programs. We also maintain a record of your purchases.

Whether or not to provide such information is completely your own choice. But, if you choose not to provide the information that we request, you may not be able to receive information from us, register as a member for member benefits, apply for our learning programs or purchase our services.

Using Your Personal Information

We use your personal information for internal purposes, such as confirming and tracking your application, order, subscription or registration, analyzing trends and statistics, informing you of our new services, events, products and offers.

We maintain your writing materials for the purpose of keeping track of your learning progress and giving you appropriate guidance. This record will not be shared with any other persons or parties except among our teaching staff and management. If you are under 18 years old and your parent or guardian purchased the program for your benefit, the result with be shared with the parent or the guardian.

We also use the information on your learning progress for the purpose of giving you appropriate recommendations on reading materials and reference books.

We may contract with companies or persons to provide certain services including credit card processing, shipping, data management, promotional services, etc. We call them our Service Providers. We provide our Service Providers with the information needed for them to perform these services. We also ask our Service Providers to confirm that their privacy practices are consistent with ours.

In certain instances, we may disclose your personal information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities that may be causing injury to you, to World Reach, Inc., or to others. We may also disclose your personal information when we believe the law requires it.

Protecting Children

World Reach, Inc. does not sell services and products for purchases by children. We sell services and products for young students for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use our services and products only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Children under the age of 18 should always ask their parents or guardians for permission before providing any personal information to anyone online. We urge parents and guardians to participate in their children's online activities and use parental control or other web filtering technology to supervise children's access to the web.

Cookies

Our websites use "cookies". A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Generally, we use cookies to remind us of who you are, tailor our products and services to suit your personal interests, assist our online service to track visits and to process your order, track your status on learning programs, contests, promotions and/or analyzing your visiting patterns. You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not accept it.

Security

We use sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your personal information that you share with us. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our web sites, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will do our best to protect its security on our systems.

We strongly recommend that you keep your password in a safe place and not to disclose it to anyone. Also remember to sign off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place such as a library or Internet café.

Links to Third Party

Our websites may contain links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on such linked sites may be different from our privacy policy. You access such linked sites at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a linked site before disclosing any personal information on such site.

Policy Changes

When we make changes to our privacy policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on our website. Those changes will go into effect on the date posted in the notice. The new policy will apply to all current and past users of our website and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent. This policy was posted in January 2004.