Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 27, 2026
Last Updated: July 27, 2026
Free School Community Children & Family Foundation, Inc. respects the privacy of the children, families, donors, volunteers, partners, scholarship applicants, and other individuals who interact with our organization.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information obtained through www.freeschoolcommunity.org, our scholarship programs, events, forms, communications, and related services.
By using our website or submitting personal information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Organization Responsible for Your Information
Free School Community Children & Family Foundation, Inc. is responsible for the personal information covered by this Privacy Policy.
Our contact information is:
Free School Community Children & Family Foundation, Inc.
2139 N University Drive, Suite #5296
Coral Springs, Florida 33071
United States
Email: Admin.FreeSchoolCommunity@gmail.com
Telephone: +1-786-453-8552
Privacy-related requests should include the words “Privacy Request” in the email subject line.
2. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with the Foundation.
A. Contact and Communication Information
When you contact us, request information, volunteer, become a partner, sponsor a child, or complete a website form, we may collect:
• First and last name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing address
• Organization or company name
• Communication preferences
• Information contained in your message
• Records of our communications with you
B. Scholarship Application Information
When a scholarship application is submitted, we may collect information about the applicant and the applicant’s parent or legal guardian, including:
• Applicant’s full name
• Date of birth and age
• Address and contact information
• Parent or legal guardian’s name and contact information
• School or educational institution
• Grade level or enrollment status
• Academic records or educational achievements
• Information concerning financial need
• Household or family information
• Essays, personal statements, references, or recommendations
• School acceptance or enrollment documents
• Identification or age-verification documents
• Uploaded files and supporting materials
• Information needed to pay an educational institution
• Records concerning scholarship eligibility, evaluation, selection, and payment
Scholarship applicants should provide only the information requested in the application.
C. Donor and Sponsorship Information
When you make a donation, sponsor a child, support a scholarship, or participate in a fundraising activity, we may collect:
• Donor or sponsor name
• Contact and billing information
• Donation amount and date
• Donation designation or program preference
• Payment status and transaction reference
• Tax receipt information
• Communication and recognition preferences
• Whether you wish to remain anonymous
Payments may be processed through banks, payment platforms, or other third-party payment providers. We generally do not receive or store complete credit card or bank account numbers when payment information is processed directly by those providers.
D. Event and Program Information
When you register for or participate in an event, workshop, camp, giveaway, mentoring activity, or community program, we may collect:
• Participant and parent or guardian information
• Age or date of birth
• Registration and attendance information
• Emergency contact information
• Relevant accessibility or accommodation requests
• Program eligibility information
• Consent and release forms
• Photographs, video recordings, or testimonials, where permission has been obtained
Please do not submit medical or other highly sensitive information unless it is specifically requested and necessary for participation.
E. Newsletter and Marketing Information
When you subscribe to our mailing list, we may collect:
• Your email address
• Your name, when provided
• Subscription date
• Communication preferences
• Records showing whether an email was delivered, opened, or selected, where supported by our email provider
F. Member Account Information
If website membership or account functionality is enabled, we may collect:
• Name and email address
• Username or profile information
• Login and account activity
• Password credentials in encrypted or protected form
• Membership preferences and communications
G. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, our website platform and authorized service providers may automatically collect:
• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type
• Device type and operating system
• Approximate geographic location
• Pages visited
• Date and time of access
• Referring website
• Website interactions
• Cookie identifiers
• Security, diagnostic, and server-log information
We may use cookies and similar technologies as described below.
3. How We Collect Information
We may collect personal information:
• Directly from you
• From a parent or legal guardian
• From a scholarship applicant
• From schools, references, or educational institutions
• Through website forms, applications, emails, telephone calls, and events
• Through donation and payment providers
• Through website hosting, analytics, and communication providers
• From publicly available sources, where appropriate and lawful
4. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
• Operate and maintain the website
• Respond to inquiries and requests
• Administer scholarship applications
• Confirm applicant eligibility
• Evaluate and select scholarship recipients
• Communicate with applicants and parents or guardians
• Verify enrollment with educational institutions
• Pay scholarship funds directly to approved educational institutions
• Process donations and issue acknowledgements or receipts
• Administer sponsorship, volunteer, partnership, and community programs
• Register participants for events and workshops
• Send newsletters and organizational updates
• Maintain member accounts
• Recognize donors, sponsors, volunteers, or scholarship recipients when permission has been obtained
• Improve our website, programs, and communications
• Prevent fraud, misuse, and security incidents
• Maintain accounting, tax, audit, and organizational records
• Comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, and reporting obligations
• Protect the rights, safety, and property of the Foundation and others
We will not use scholarship application information for unrelated advertising or commercial marketing.
5. Information Concerning Children and Minors
Our programs and scholarships may serve individuals under 18 years of age.
A parent or legal guardian should submit or approve applications and registrations involving a minor. Children under 13 should not independently submit names, contact details, photographs, documents, or other personal information through the website.
When information concerning a minor is collected, we seek to:
• Collect only information reasonably necessary for the program
• Obtain appropriate parent or guardian authorization
• Restrict access to authorized personnel and reviewers
• Use the information only for the stated program purpose
• Avoid publicly displaying the information
• Obtain separate permission before publishing a child’s name, photograph, video, testimonial, or scholarship story
• Retain the information only as long as reasonably necessary
• Allow a parent or legal guardian to request access, correction, or deletion
A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child submitted personal information without appropriate authorization should contact us immediately.
6. How We Share Personal Information
We do not sell or rent personal information.
We may disclose information only when reasonably necessary to the following categories of recipients:
Website and Technology Providers
We may use website hosting, database, cloud-storage, email, form-management, security, and analytics providers to operate the website and communicate with visitors.
Payment and Financial Service Providers
Donation and payment information may be shared with banks, payment processors, accounting providers, and financial platforms needed to process or document a transaction.
Scholarship Reviewers
Scholarship information may be shared with authorized Foundation directors, employees, volunteers, selection committee members, or professional advisers who need the information to evaluate an application.
Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of applicant information and use it only for the scholarship selection process.
Educational Institutions
For selected applicants, we may contact or share necessary information with a school or educational institution to:
• Confirm enrollment or acceptance
• Verify tuition charges
• Arrange payment
• Confirm the proper use of scholarship funds
• Complete required reporting
Program Partners
Limited information may be shared with organizations helping us deliver an event, workshop, sponsorship, mentoring activity, or community program.
Professional and Legal Advisers
Information may be shared with accountants, auditors, attorneys, insurers, consultants, or other advisers where reasonably necessary.
Legal and Safety Disclosures
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
• Comply with a law, court order, subpoena, or government request
• Protect a child or another person from harm
• Investigate fraud, misuse, or a security incident
• Protect the Foundation’s legal rights or property
• Enforce our website terms or program requirements
With Your Permission
We may share information for another purpose when you or the appropriate parent or guardian has given permission.
7. Donor and Recipient Privacy
We respect requests for donor anonymity.
We will not publicly identify a donor, sponsor, scholarship applicant, scholarship recipient, child, or family without appropriate authorization.
When publishing impact stories, photographs, testimonials, or program results, we may use aggregated, anonymized, or limited information. A separate release or consent may be required before identifiable information concerning a child or family is published.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
• Maintain website security
• Support member login and session functionality
• Remember preferences
• Operate forms and website features
• Understand website performance and usage
• Detect technical problems
• Measure communications or campaigns, where permitted
Cookies may include:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for security, website operation, account login, and core functionality. They generally cannot be disabled through the website’s consent controls.
Functional Cookies
These cookies help remember visitor settings and improve website functionality.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website. Analytics cookies will be used only where permitted and, when legally required, after consent has been provided.
Marketing Cookies
We do not use personal information collected from scholarship applicants for targeted advertising. If marketing technologies are introduced in the future, visitors will be provided with appropriate notice and choices.
You may control cookies through our cookie banner, where available, or through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.
9. Email Communications
We send newsletters and promotional communications only where a person has subscribed or where otherwise legally permitted.
You may unsubscribe by:
• Selecting the unsubscribe link included in an email
• Contacting us at Admin.FreeSchoolCommunity@gmail.com
Unsubscribing from newsletters will not prevent us from sending necessary administrative communications concerning a scholarship application, donation, event registration, volunteer activity, or other active relationship.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
• Complete the purpose for which it was collected
• Administer scholarships and programs
• Maintain financial, donation, tax, and audit records
• Resolve disputes or inquiries
• Protect children and participants
• Meet legal, regulatory, insurance, and contractual requirements
Scholarship applications that are not selected will be periodically reviewed and securely deleted or anonymized when they are no longer needed.
Records concerning scholarship recipients, payments, donations, and financial transactions may be retained longer when required for accounting, tax, reporting, audit, or legal purposes.
Newsletter information is normally retained until the individual unsubscribes or the mailing list is discontinued.
11. Information Security
We use reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information from:
• Unauthorized access
• Loss
• Misuse
• Alteration
• Improper disclosure
• Destruction
These safeguards may include access restrictions, password protection, secure website connections, service-provider controls, staff confidentiality requirements, and periodic deletion of unnecessary records.
No website, email system, cloud service, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors should avoid submitting information that has not been requested.
12. International Data Processing
The Foundation operates from the United States and supports programs in Jamaica.
Personal information may be stored or processed in the United States, Jamaica, or other countries in which our service providers operate. Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country.
Where required, we will use appropriate measures to protect personal information transferred across national borders.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
• Request confirmation that we hold your personal information
• Request access to your information
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
• Request deletion of information
• Withdraw consent
• Object to or restrict certain uses
• Unsubscribe from marketing communications
• Request a portable copy of certain information
• Submit a privacy complaint
Parents and legal guardians may exercise these rights concerning information collected about their minor children, subject to reasonable identity and guardianship verification.
To submit a request, email Admin.FreeSchoolCommunity@gmail.com with the subject “Privacy Request.”
Please include enough information for us to identify the relevant record. We may request reasonable verification before completing a request.
Certain information may be retained when required by law or when needed for legitimate accounting, scholarship administration, fraud prevention, safety, legal, or audit purposes.
14. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to Facebook, YouTube, payment platforms, schools, partner organizations, or other third-party websites.
We do not control the privacy, security, or content practices of third parties. Information submitted directly to a third party is governed by that party’s privacy policy and terms.
Visitors should review the privacy practices of a third-party service before submitting personal information.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our programs, website features, service providers, or legal obligations change.
The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website, email, or another appropriate method.
16. Contact Us
Questions, complaints, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information may be directed to:
Free School Community Children & Family Foundation, Inc.
2139 N University Drive, Suite #5296
Coral Springs, Florida 33071
United States
Email: Admin.FreeSchoolCommunity@gmail.com
Telephone: +1-786-453-8552
Please use the subject line “Privacy Request” for privacy-related communications.