This Privacy Policy describes how the Center for Educational Progress (“CEP,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, collects, uses, and shares information when you visit our website, contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, enter a contest, make a donation, or otherwise interact with us.
Information We Collect
We may collect personal information you voluntarily provide to us, including your name, phone number, email address, organization or affiliation, and other contact details. We may also collect information related to your inquiry or participation, including messages you send us, contest and competition submissions, research correspondence, and newsletter preferences. In addition, we may collect records of communications with you, including emails, phone calls, text messages, and chat messages. When you use our website, we may also collect certain usage data such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring pages, and similar analytics data.
How We Use Information
We use your information to respond to your inquiries and corrections, to administer contests and research programs, to deliver our newsletter and research updates where you have asked for them, and to process and acknowledge donations. We may also use your information to improve our website, publications, and internal operations, to maintain security and prevent fraud or misuse, and to comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies.
Text Messaging (SMS) and Phone Communications
If you provide your phone number and consent to receive text messages, you may receive SMS or phone communications from us related to your inquiry, including replies, scheduling and confirmations, contest and program updates, and follow-up communications. Message frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. You can opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP. For help, reply HELP or contact us using the contact information listed below. Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of any donation, entry, or participation.
How We Share Information
We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers that help us operate, such as phone and SMS providers, email and newsletter providers, our CRM platform, website hosting providers, analytics providers, and payment processors that handle donations. These providers may only use your information as needed to provide services on our behalf and must protect it appropriately. We do not sell your personal information. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, except as necessary to provide messaging services.
Cookies and Analytics
We may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to improve website functionality, understand how our research is read, and enhance the user experience. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.
We use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies on this website to operate and secure the site, understand how visitors use it, measure the performance of our marketing, and improve the experience. These include analytics and website tracking that records pages viewed, referring source, campaign and click identifiers, device and browser attributes, and interactions such as clicks and form submissions; call tracking telephone numbers that record which marketing source produced a call together with call metadata such as the calling number, date, time, and duration; and form and submission tracking that records when a form is started and submitted and the information entered into it.
By continuing to use this website, you consent to the use of these technologies and to the collection, recording, storage, and analysis of the resulting information as described in this policy. If you do not consent, please discontinue use of the site. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings, and you may contact us using the details below with any questions about our tracking.
These technologies are operated on our behalf by our website and marketing provider, which processes the resulting data as our service provider and may also use aggregated or de-identified information to operate and improve its own services. We do not sell your personal information. We honor opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control (GPC).
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as needed to carry out our work, comply with legal obligations including donation and nonprofit recordkeeping requirements, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Children’s Privacy
Our work concerns education, and some of our contests and programs may be of interest to students. Our website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Where a contest or program is open to minors, we require entry through a parent, guardian, or participating educator. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your Choices
You may request access to the personal information we hold about you, request correction or deletion of your information subject to legal and operational requirements, opt out of marketing and newsletter emails by using the unsubscribe link, and opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at:
Center for Educational Progress
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN 33-2563070
contact@educationprogress.org