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American Heritage/American Academy Schools has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.

American Heritage/American Academy Schools, subsequently to be known as AA/AH, respects the privacy of every individual who visits this website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information AA/AH may collect and how that information may be used. The school reserves the right to alter this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy at this location.

American Heritage School / American Academy Schools

Broward Campus

12200 W. Broward Blvd.
Plantation, FL 33325

Phone: (954) 472-0022

Palm Beach Campus

6200 Linton Blvd.
Delray Beach, FL 33484

Phone: (561) 495-7272

AMERICAN HERITAGE SCHOOLS’ WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

Scope and Definitions

American Learning Systems, Inc., d/b/a American Heritage Schools, and its affiliated and subsidiary entities (“AHS” or “we”) has developed this privacy policy out of respect for the privacy of our current and future parents, guardians, students, alumni, and visitors to our websites and campuses. This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about individual consumers who visit or interact with any of our websites, visit any of our schools, inquire about our educational institution, or our other products or services, or otherwise interact or do business with us.

Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through this site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on the website, complete an application, inquire about our schools, request information about our products or services, or use any of the other interactive portions of our website. Through this website, we will collect information that can identify you and/or your activity.

Additionally, whenever you communicate, interact or do business with us, whether online or at any of our physical campuses, locations, events, or facilities, or whether you are contracted to perform services for us we will be collecting personal information from you or about you in the course of our interaction or dealings with you.

The meaning of “personal information” may be defined based on your state of residence: in this policy, it means any information that can reasonably be used to identify an individual.

This privacy policy applies to “Consumers” as defined under various U.S. State consumer privacy laws, and all laws implementing or supplementing, or amending the foregoing, including regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, “U.S. Privacy Laws”).

This policy does not apply to information collected from or about job applicants regarding their application for employment or candidacy. This policy also does not apply to our current and former employees and their family members, dependents, and beneficiaries. 

Collection of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information 

Based on your specific transactions and interactions with us or our website, we will or may collect, and we have in the last 12 months collected, the following categories of personal information about you. For each category of information, the categories of third parties and service providers to whom we have disclosed the information in the last 12 months are referenced below. In jurisdictions where required by law, we limit our collection of personal information to what is reasonably necessary and proportionate to provide or maintain the services you have requested or reasonably expect in the context of your relationship with us. The examples provided for each category are not intended to be an exhaustive list or an indication of all specific pieces of information we collect from or about you in each category, but rather the examples are to provide you a meaningful understanding of the types of information that may be collected within each category.

Categories of Sensitive Personal Information Collected or Processed

Of the above categories of Personal Information, the following are categories of Sensitive Personal Information AHS may collect from or about consumers:

1. Personal Identifiers (social security number, driver’s license or state identification card number, passport number)
2. Account Information (your AHS account log-in, in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to the account)
3. Protected Classifications (national origin, gender, age, military status, disability, or familial status)
4. Biometric Information (used for the purpose of uniquely identifying you)
5. Specific Geolocation Data (IP address and/or GPS location, latitude & longitude)
6. Medical and Health Information
7. Personal data revealing race, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, military status, familial status, disability, or medical, mental, or physical health condition or diagnosis.
8. Personal data collected from a known child

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant, or from widely distributed media. 
• Information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience.
• Deidentified or aggregated information.

Sources of Personal Information

We may collect your personal information from the following sources:

• You the consumer, when you visit the website and voluntarily submit information through forms on the website or social media, enroll as a student, are a parent or guardian of a student, when you visit any of our campuses, events, or physical locations, when you purchase or inquire about any of our products or services. 
• Our employees, students, parents, guardians, contractors, vendors, suppliers, guests, visitors, other consumers, based on your interactions with them (if any)
• We utilize cookies to automatically collect information about our website visitors
• Surveillance cameras, recorded meeting, videos of events, at our or other physical locations
• Lead generators and referral sources
• Social media platforms
• AHS systems, networks, software applications, and databases you log into or use
• Third-party databases
• Our affiliated entities, including parent entities, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities

To Whom We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose, sell, or chare your personal information to/with the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:

• Financial institutions
• Government agencies
• Educational support, promotional, or other fulfilment vendors
• Tuition grant application vendors
• Marketing, tracking, and retargeting vendors and vendors that support managing or hosting the website 
• Communication providers/vendors that facilitate, manage, and send/receive communications on our behalf via email, text/SMS, phone, or that record, transcribe, summarize, or process phone calls and meetings.
• Lead providers (referral sources)
• Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
• Data and behavior analytics vendors
• Video content hosts and platforms (e.g., Vimeo, YouTube)
• Social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)
• Ad trackers (e.g., Google Ads)
• Consulting and investigation firms, including HR consultants, safety consultants, and workplace investigators
• Security and risk management vendors, including IT, cybersecurity, and privacy vendors and consultants
• Insurance carriers, administrators, and brokers
• Corporate entities (as opposed to a natural person) that provide or facilitate any of our products or services
• Our affiliates, including parent entities, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities

Reasons Why We Collect, Use, Retain, and Disclose Personal Information

We may collect, use, and disclose your personal information for any of the following purposes:

1. To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information, or a purpose reasonably associated with the context in which you provided the information and consistent with reasonable consumer expectations. 
2. To provide you or our parents, guardians, students, and consumers with the requested products or services.
3. To process and submit tuition grant applications.
4. To process, complete, and maintain records of transactions.
5. To retain your selection for Text, opt in/opt out to ensure parents and guardians who opted out are not sent any text messages.
6. To provide and communicate important information to parents and guardians.
7. To schedule, manage and keep track of appointments.
8. To evaluate and reward student achievements.
9. To maintain records of when consumers decline a service or request a refund.
10. To respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for information, consumer support online, phone calls, and inquiries.
11. To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
12. To comply with our contractual obligations to our marketing partners and vendors.
13. To engage in corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, as well as due diligence in proposed or pending corporate transactions.
14. To contact you by email, telephone calls, mail, SMS, or other equivalent forms of communication regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, services, or other information you requested or asked AHS to provide to you.
15. To embed and display video content hosted on third-party platforms.
16. To enable user interaction with hosted video content.
17. To improve user experience on our website and parent and student portals.
18. To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
19. To detect security incidents.
20. To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website.
21. To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible.
22. To verify and respond to consumer requests.
23. To prevent identity theft.

 Do We Sell Your Information?

We do NOT and will not sell or share your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration. However, we may sell or share some of your information to third parties for other valuable consideration, as noted in the table above. 

We may sell or share your personal information for the following business or commercial purposes:

1. Marketing activities
2. User experiences

Other than these exceptions, we do not and will not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Opt-Out Preference Signals

Our website may not respond to opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Controls (GPC) or Universal Opt-Out Mechanism (UOOM) which are user-enabled opt-out preference signals which can communicate a user’s “Do Not Sell or Share” request on behalf of the person or device. If you want to contact us to exercise your right not to have us sell or share your data, please submit a request using the method described in the “Submitting a Consumer Request” section below.

Notice of Rights of California Residents to Limit the Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information

We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes that give rise to a right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Notice of Right to Opt-Out of Profiling, Automated Decision Making, and Targeted Advertising 

Depending on your state of residence, you may have the right to opt out of targeted advertising and selling of your data. You may submit a request using the method described in the “Submitting a Consumer Request” section below.

We may create a profile regarding your interests and preferences for our products and services including your potential to purchase a product or service. For job applicants or independent contractors, we may create a profile regarding predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes for recruiting and hiring assessments and decisions. Depending on your state of residence, you may have the right to opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. 

U.S. Consumer Privacy Rights

Under the applicable U.S. Privacy Laws, depending on state of residence, Consumers may have the following rights, which can be exercised directly or, in certain cases, through an authorized agent:

Submitting a Consumer Request

You can submit any of the above types of consumer requests by sending an email to marketing@AHSchool.com. 

How We Will Verify That It Is Really You Submitting The Request:

When you submit a Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, or Right to Correct request through one of the methods provided above, we will need to confirm your state of residence to determine which rights apply and then we will need to verify your identity.

We will ask you to provide some information in order to verify your identity and respond to your request. Specifically, we will ask you to verify information that can be used to link your identity to particular records in our possession, which depends on the nature of your relationship and interaction with us. This process may require us to request additional personal information from you, including, but not limited to, your first name, last name, email address, phone number, state/province of residence, and/or country. During verification, we will only request the minimum personal information necessary to correctly identify you for the purpose of fulfilling your request.

In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above, particularly where these rights are not available in your state, or when we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems. If we are unable to comply with all or a portion of your request, we will explain the reasons for declining to comply with your request.

Designated Authorized Agent:

You may, depending on your state of residence, have the right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the above requests on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized power of attorney or (b) provide other written, signed authorization that we can then verify. We maintain the right to deny any request from an authorized agent that does not submit sufficient proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.

Retention of Personal Information 

We will retain each category of personal information in accordance with our established data retention policy and practice. In deciding how long to retain each category of personal information that we collect, we consider many criteria, including but not limited to the business or regulatory purposes for which the Personal Information was collected; relevant federal, state and local recordkeeping laws; applicable statute of limitations for claims to which the information may be relevant; and legal preservation of evidence obligations.

We apply our data retention procedures on an annual basis to determine if the business or regulatory purposes for collecting the personal information, and legal reasons for retaining the personal information, have both expired. If so, we will purge the information in a secure manner.

Co-Branded Services

From time to time, we may enter an arrangement with another company or educational institution that is not owned by or affiliated with us to provide additional features on the Website. These arrangements may include business partners, sponsors, and co-branded online services (referred to here as “co-branded services”). Any information, including personal information, that you provide on one of these co-branded services may be shared with these partners. By participating in activities or providing your information on these co-branded services, you consent to our providing your information to those partners. Separate privacy policies may apply to these partners’ uses of your personal information.

Third Party Vendors

We may use other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services and running special promotions. Such parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use or store the information for any other purpose.

Business Transfers

In the event we sell or transfer a particular portion of its business assets, information of consumers, contractors and applicants may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of our assets are acquired, information of consumers, contractors and applicants may be transferred as part of the acquisition.

SMS Terms of Service

By subscribing to our SMS program, you agree to receive recurring texts from the AHS for purposes that include two-factor authentication, service and account notifications, and security alerts. You provide your phone number to us voluntarily and solely so we can send you these communications. Your phone number is shared only with our SMS service provider, Finalsite Enrollment, and not with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes. 

You can opt-out any time by replying STOP or get assistance by replying HELP or contacting us directly at marketing@AHSchool.com.

Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply. Consent is not a condition of service.

Consent to Use of AI Technology

Certain AHS services and website features may be supported by third party vendors that utilize AI technology. When utilizing theses AI enhances features our vendors may record and transcribe information and may access the information in real-time and use the information for their own purposes, including to train their AI model. By using these features, you consent to the collection and analysis of any personal information provided. For more information on how Google and Shopify may use or disclose personal information, please review their privacy policies at https://safety.google/security-privacy/ and Shopify Privacy.

Compliance with Law and Safety

We may disclose specific personal and/or Sensitive Personal Information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect our employees or the public.

Use of Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies

Our website may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – places on the user’s device to remember information about the user, such as the user’s language preference or login information. 

This type of cookie is set by us and is referred to as a “first-party cookies.” Our website uses first-party cookies primarily to make the website work as you expect it to. For example, we use the information we collect through first-party cookies to allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, analyze how well our website is performing, and understand the content that you spent the most time reviewing. In some cases, we use first-party cookies to store information that we use for targeted advertising.

We also incorporate cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, and web beacons, from outside our website’s domain (“third-party cookies”). Third-party cookies gather information to enable our vendors to provide a range of services to us, including targeted advertising and measuring the success of our advertising campaigns. 

Below is a detailed list of the categories of first- and third-party cookies we use on our website. 

How we use cookies

We make use of cookies under the following circumstances and for the following reasons:

• Provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features
• Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts
• Identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website
• Compile data about website traffic and how users use the website to offer a better website experience
• Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits, such as remembering your login details or language preference, to provide you with a more personal experience, or to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website
• Track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you, including advertising by third parties on our website

Essential Cookies   

Essential cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but blocking these cookies will prevent the website from working correctly or might prevent the Website from working at all.

Non-Essential Cookies

Non-Essential cookies are not essential to the website functionality but serve some other unique purpose in three subcategories:

1. “Performance” cookies (sometimes referred to as static cookies) collect information about the user’s behavior on the website without collecting personal information, for example:
2. 1. Pages the user visits.
   2. Ads the user views.
   3. Ads or site features that the user clicks.
3. “Functional” cookies (sometimes called preference cookies) track and remember the user’s preferences and past choices on the website to provide a personalized user experience. For example, functional cookies can collect:
   1. Usernames
   2. Passwords
   3. Regions
4. “Targeting” cookies (sometimes called preference cookies) can track:
   1. Content the user views
   2. Links the user follows
   3. The user’s browser and device information and IP address

Please note: Organizations can use targeting cookies to track and influence users by building user profiles or displaying advertisements.

Information on Some of the Cookies in Use on our Site

For information on some of the cookies we use on our site and apps, please review the policies from our some of our vendors:

• Google Analytics
• Meta/Facebook

Cookie Management

You can control and manage cookies associated with your browser. If you are interested in controlling and managing cookies from your browser including any set by our Website, please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on different ways to configure your browser’s cookie settings.

If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you can download three third party programs that clean out tracking cookies.

• http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
• http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
• http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/

You may delete cookies from your web browser at any time or block cookies on your equipment, but this may affect the functioning of or even block the website. You can prevent saving of cookies (disable and delete them) by changing your browser settings accordingly at any time. It is possible that some functions will not be available on our website when use of cookies is deactivated. Check the settings of your browser. Below you can find some guidance: 

• Safari
• Opera 
• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Mozilla

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals. 

You can adjust your advertising preferences on mobile devices through your device settings. Below you can find some guidance based on your type of mobile device:

• Apple
• Android

DAA 

Many advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) which maintains a self-regulatory program along with a website where people can opt out of interest-based advertising from their members. To opt-out of website interest-based advertising provided by the DAA’s participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info/.

• To opt-out of data collection for interest-based advertising across mobile applications by participating companies, download the DAA’s AppChoices mobile application opt-out offering found here: https://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

Non-Participant Opt-Out Options 

• Some of our vendors do not participate in the DAA’s self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising or have developed their own processes for allowing consumers to opt-out: https://branch.app.link/optout
• Some devices and apps do not have access to web-based browser cookie opt-outs. To learn more about the advertising opt-outs provided by your mobile device's operating system (like iOS and Android) or the device manufacture, click here.

External Links

Our website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.

Passwords

The personal data record created through your registration with our website can only be accessed with the unique password associated with that record. To protect the integrity of the information contained in this record, you should not disclose or otherwise reveal your password to third parties.

Children Under the Age of 16

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

How We Protect the Information that We Collect

The protection of the information that we collect about visitors to this website is of the utmost importance to us and we take every reasonable measure to ensure that protection, including:

• We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.
• We restrict access to private information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.
• We keep automatically collected data and voluntarily collected data separate at all times.
• We use internal encryption on all data stores that house voluntarily captured data.

International Visitors

If you reside in the European Economic Area, European Union, Great Britain, or Switzerland, submitted personally identifiable information to AHS, and want to request a copy of, correct, delete, or limit the ways AHS  uses the information, send an email to marketing@AHSchool.com indicating your request. AHS will use reasonable and appropriate measures to honor your request.]

Consent to Terms and Conditions

By using this website, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

As our educational offerings evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and the revised effective date on this website. Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Consumers With Disabilities

This policy is in a form that is accessible to consumers with disabilities.

Questions About the Policy

This website is owned and operated by American Heritage Schools. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at marketing@AHSchool.com.  

**This policy was last updated December 5, 2025.