This policy describes the types of information Louisiana Key Academy may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.lkaschools.com ("Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information (“Privacy Policy”). Louisiana Key Academy may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the bottom of this policy, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notification by adding a statement to the homepage of our website. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you interact with us to stay informed about our practices.

This policy applies to information Louisiana Key Academy collects on the Website and in e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and the Website or Louisiana Key Academy. It does not apply to information collected by Louisiana Key Academy offline or through any other means, or any third-party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how Louisiana Key Academy will treat information. If you do not agree with Louisiana Key Academy’s policies and practices, please do not use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website after Louisiana Key Academy makes changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. If you are registering an account or using the services on behalf of an individual or entity other than yourself, you represent that you are authorized by such individual or entity to agree to this Privacy Policy on such individual’s or entity’s behalf.

We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. We do not allow use of our services by minors without prior consent or authorization by a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information directly from minors. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at info at lkaschools.com. By agreeing to these terms, you affirm that you are the parent or guardian of any minor whose Personal Information is provided to Louisiana Key Academy by any means, including through the Website, and that you have the legal right to provide the minor’s Personal Information to Louisiana Key Academy. If you do not have the legal right to do so, you should not provide any Personal Information about any minor to Louisiana Key Academy.

Information Louisiana Key Academy Collects About You and How Louisiana Key Academy Collects It

Louisiana Key Academy collects several types of information from and about users of the Website, including, but not limited to students and prospective students (all of whom are minors) in which it has legitimate interests, including information:

• by which you or a student or prospective student may be personally identified, such as name, email address, postal address, phone numbers, credit card number, gender, birthday, personal interests, gender, race, financial status, academic history, medical history, personal and behavioral characteristics, etc., when you visit our Website, complete an application online or by phone, save your information with us online, contact us with a question or concern, or participate in a survey. We may also maintain a record of the purchases you make online or by phone. We may combine all of this information with information about you that we acquire from our joint marketing partners or from unrelated third-parties ("Personal Information");
• that is about you individually, but does not identify you, such as age, gender, and Internet browser; and/or
• about your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website and usage details.

If you communicate with Louisiana Key Academy by, for example, e-mail or letter, any information provided in such communication may be collected as Personal Information.

Louisiana Key Academy collects this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to Louisiana Key Academy or on or through the Website.
• Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.
• From third-parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us 

• The information Louisiana Key Academy collects on or through the Website may include:
• Information that you provide on the Website. When you donate through the Website. Louisiana Key Academy may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact Louisiana Key Academy.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out through the Website and of the fulfillment of your requests. You will be required to provide Personal Information before purchasing merchandise on or through the Website.

How Louisiana Key Academy Uses Your Information

Louisiana Key Academy uses information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

• To make decisions about admissions.
• To process a donation, including to send you emails to confirm your donation.
• To communicate with you and to send you information by email, postal mail, telephone, text message, or other means about our school, services, and programs, unless you have directed us not to contact you with promotional communications.
• To help us address problems with and improve our site design, products, and services.
• To analyze trends and statistics.
• To protect the security or integrity of our website and our business.
• To contact you if necessary.
• For any other purpose, with your consent.

Louisiana Key Academy may also use your information to contact you about our own services and potentially third-parties' goods and/or services that may be of interest to you. If Louisiana Key Academy chooses to do this and you do not want us to use your information in this way, we will provide a mechanism through which you can decline such contact.

Louisiana Key Academy may use the information it has collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to Louisiana Key Academy’s advertisers' target audiences. Even though Louisiana Key Academy does not disclose your Personal Information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

Louisiana Key Academy may disclose aggregated information about Website users, without restriction. Louisiana Key Academy may disclose Personal Information that it collects or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To employees who need to know. 
• To contractors, service providers, or affiliated entities who manage our customer information and perform services on our behalf, such as fulfilling promotions, sending communications to our customers, conducting surveys. Louisiana Key Academy does not authorize any of these service providers to make any other use or disclosure of your information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. 
• For any other purpose disclosed by Louisiana Key Academy when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.
• If Louisiana Key Academy believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect its rights, property, or safety, or to protect Louisiana Key Academy’s customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• To respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties.

You may choose not to provide Louisiana Key Academy with any Personal Information. In such an event, you can still access and use some of the services on the Website; however you will not be able to access and use certain key features of the services and/or the Website that require your Personal Information, such as making donations through the Website.

Third-party Advertiser Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our trusted partners use cookies and other technologies in our related services, including when you visit our Site or access our services. 

A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assign to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences, and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services. 

The Site uses the following types of cookies:

1. 'session cookies' which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed; 
2. 'persistent cookies ' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in; 
3. 'third party cookies' which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third party analytics companies who monitor and analyze our web access.
4. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.

We also use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about your use of the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users access the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site and services. Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit sites, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Children Under the Age of 13

The Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to, or on the Website. Louisiana Key Academy does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to Louisiana Key Academy or on the Website, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If Louisiana Key Academy learns that it has collected or received Personal Information from or about a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, Louisiana Key Academy will delete that information. If you believe Louisiana Key Academy might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us. 

Public Information

Any information that you may reveal in a review posting or other online discussion or forum is intentionally open to the public and is not in any way private. You should not disclose any Personal Information or personally identifiable information in any public forum. 

Data Security

Louisiana Key Academy has implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Louisiana Key Academy follows accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted, both during transmission and once Louisiana Key Academy receives the Personal Information. However, you should understand that there is no such thing as complete security, and Louisiana Key Academy does not guarantee that there will be no unintended disclosures of your Personal Information. If Louisiana Key Academy becomes aware that your Personal Information has been disclosed in a manner not in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Louisiana Key Academy will use reasonable efforts to notify you of the nature and extent of the disclosure (to the extent Louisiana Key Academy knows that information) as soon as reasonably possible.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where Louisiana Key Academy has given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Louisiana Key Academy asks you not to share your password with anyone. You must promptly notify Louisiana Key Academy if your contact data is lost, stolen, or used without your permission. In such an event, we will remove that contact data from your account and update our records accordingly.

Louisiana Key Academy further urges you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Louisiana Key Academy uses commercially reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Information, Louisiana Key Academy cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. Louisiana Key Academy is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. 

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of the Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding Louisiana Key Academy’s disclosure of personal information to third-parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write Louisiana Key Academy at the address provided below.

International Data Privacy

Our Website may be accessed globally, but our computer systems and servers are currently based in the United States. This means Information we collect will be processed by us in the U.S. where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Economic Area. If you are not a United States resident and you access or use our Website from outside the United States, you agree to transfer certain information outside your home country to us. You also consent to the collection and/or processing in the United States of Information we collect from you. However, we recognize the importance of respecting the privacy of those who visit and choose to take advantage of the items and information offered on our web sites. For that reason, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact information listed below, and we will remove your personal information from our records and refrain from any future collection, at no cost to you. Please also note that you have the right to correct inaccurate personal data or to have personal data deleted, or transferred, provided that such correction, deletion, or transfer is not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data. As a matter of policy, we retain user’s personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services. 

Links to Other Websites

The Website may contain links to third-party websites to which Louisiana Key Academy has no affiliation. Louisiana Key Academy does not share your Personal Information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy policies or practices. Please be aware that you may be on a different site and that this Privacy Policy only contains the policies for the Website. A link to a third-party website does not constitute or imply endorsement by Louisiana Key Academy. Additionally, Louisiana Key Academy cannot guarantee the quality or accuracy of any information contained on any third-party website. If you decide to visit any third-party website, you should read that website’s privacy policy.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and Louisiana Key Academy’s privacy practices, contact us at: 

3172 Government Street

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806

225.298.1223

Last modified: August 2023