Privacy Policy
This page was last updated on March 1, 2025.
Harmel Academy of the Trades respects your privacy. Any personal information we collect will be used only internally to serve you more effectively. To assure you of your privacy, we provide the following notice to help you understand our commitment to security, what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit the site, how we may use that information, and how you can correct that information.
Commitment to Security
Safeguards
We have appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of any information you may have provided on our site. We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged on our site.
Credit Card Safety
Ordering with Harmel Academy of the Trades is a secure transaction. All transactions in Harmel Academy of the Trades’ e-commerce outlets are handled by verified PCI compliant payment processors. Harmel Academy of the Trades does not record or retain any credit card data when handling or placing orders. Orders placed online or manually entered are submitted directly to our third-party payment processors securely using encrypted (scrambled) technologies.
Information We Collect
Automatically Collected Anonymous Information
As on most websites, certain anonymous information about your visit is automatically logged when you visit a Harmel Academy of the Trades website. This may include information about your IP address, domain name, browser type, access time, and referring website address. This information is not personally identifiable and is only used in aggregate for internal analytics.
Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information is any information about you as an individual that would enable someone to contact you; for example, your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. Harmel Academy of the Trades will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it voluntarily.
This website’s content is intended for adults and we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who you believe has submitted personal information to this site, please contact us immediately.
How We Use This Information
Automatically Collected Anonymous Information
Harmel Academy of the Trades uses your information only as permitted by law. Aggregated information is generally used for marketing and progress research. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with information obtained from other users to learn which pages are visited most frequently or which features are most attractive. Aggregated information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners, but cannot be used to contact you individually.
Personally Identifiable Information
When you provide Harmel Academy of the Trades with your personally identifiable information, we will use it only for the purpose for which it was provided. We also may use it to notify you about updates to our website and to contact you for marketing purposes. We do not rent, sell, or exchange your personally identifiable information with any third party.
You may also choose to disclose personally identifiable information about yourself for the purposes described below.
E-mail Newsletters
When you request a e-mail newsletter from us, we will collect and store your e-mail address to provide you with the requested newsletter. We may also send you occasional special offers and information from Harmel Academy of the Trades that we think would be of interest to you. You may change your subscribed e-mail address, opt-out of receiving special e-mailed offers, or remove yourself from any mailing list by following the instructions contained in every newsletter.
Donations, Subscriptions, Sponsorships, Store Products or Events
When you make a donation to Harmel Academy of the Trades, or request a subscription, store product, sponsorship or event registration, we will collect and store your name, address, and other basic personally identifiable information to provide you with the requested product or service and for billing purposes.
Cookies and Advertising
Cookies
A cookie is a small file sent to your browser from a Web server to be stored on your computer. A cookie cannot give access to your computer or any information stored on your computer. Cookies save information about your preferences and behavior on our site so that we can provide you with a more customized experience.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. To view more information on cookie settings, visit:
How to Update Your Information
E-mails and Newsletters
You may subscribe and unsubscribe to Harmel Academy of the Trades newsletters by email. In addition, each Harmel Academy of the Trades newsletter you receive will contain instructions on how to unsubscribe.
If you would prefer not to receive email from Harmel Academy of the Trades, please contact us and request to be removed from our mailing lists. We ask that you do not mark Harmel Academy of the Trades’s emails as spam because your email provider may place a site-wide ban on all Harmel Academy of the Trades emails, personal and bulk, to and from Harmel Academy of the Trades.
Donations, Subscriptions, Sponsorships, Store Products or Events
You may contact us by phone or email regarding your donations to Harmel Academy of the Trades, subscriptions, sponsorships, store orders, or event registrations.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about any changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. Please check this page periodically for changes.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
Harmel Academy of the Trades
hello@harmelacademy.org
PO Box 150264
Grand Rapids, MI 49515