Privacy

Privacy Policy

We prioritize your privacy and work hard to protect the information you share with us when you use our services. Please read our privacy policy below to learn more about when, why and how we collect, use and share your personal information.

State Law Privacy Rights: See the State law privacy rights section below for important information about your rights under applicable state privacy laws.

This Privacy Policy describes how Athena Classical Academy LLC, ("Athena Classical", "Academy"," "we", " us " or "our") handles personal information that we collect when you visit our sites https://www.athenaclassical.org, https://www.athenaclassical.com, https://www.athenaclassical.net (the "Website"), and any other digital properties that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Service"), as well as through social media, our marketing activities, and other activities described in this Privacy Policy. Academy may provide additional or supplemental privacy policies to individuals for specific products or services that we offer at the time we collect personal information. Your privacy is important to us so we operate our Service with your privacy in mind. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with a clear explanation of what personal information we collect, when, why and how we collect, use and share your personal information and it explains your statutory rights.

We strongly urge you to read this Privacy Policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to personal information before you use our Service.

Personal information we collect

Information you provide to us. Personal information is information that can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name, email address, phone number, etc. Personal information you may provide to us through the Service or otherwise includes:

Contact data, such as your first and last name, email address, billing and mailing addresses, occupation, and phone number.
Demographic Information, such as your city, state, country of residence, and postal code.
Account and profile data, such as the username and password that you may set to establish an online account on the Service, interests, preferences, and any other information that you add to your account profile.
Communications that we exchange with you, including when you contact us through or via the chat features or social media; voluntarily respond to our questionnaires, surveys or requests for market research; or otherwise communicate with us through the Service.
Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your orders on or through the Service, including order numbers and transaction history.
Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them.
User-generated content, such as photos, images, videos, comments, questions, messages, reviews, works of authorship, and other content or information that you generate, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Service, including information you make available via our forums, message boards, and blogs, as well as associated metadata.
Payment information needed to complete transactions, including payment card information or bank account number. Note that your payment card information is processed directly by our third-party providers (see How we share your personal information, below).
Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Third-party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:

Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.
Data providers, such as information services and data licensors that provide demographic and other information.
Our affiliate partners, such as our affiliate network provider and publishers, influencers, and promoters who participate in our paid affiliate programs.
Business and marketing partners, such as joint marketing partners.

Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Service, our communications and other online services, such as:

Device data, such as your computer's or mobile device's operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Service, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.

Cookies and similar technologies. We use cookies and similar technologies (such as web beacons, pixels, tags and scripts) to improve and personalize your experience, provide our Service, analyze website performance and for marketing purposes. For more information, and to learn more about how we use cookies and your control over these cookies, see the Your choices section, below.

How we use your personal information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:

Service delivery. We may use your personal information to:

provide, operate and improve the Service and our business;
establish and maintain your account and user profile on the Service;
enable you to participate in our loyalty and other promotional programs;
enable security features of the Service, such as by sending you security codes via email or SMS, and remembering devices from which you have previously logged in;
communicate with you about the Service, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications; and
provide support for the Service, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

Marketing and advertising. We, our service providers and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:

Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications about our products, services or promotions that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing section below.
Interest-based advertising. We and our third-party advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction (including the data described in the automatic data collection section above) with the Service, our communications and other online services over time, and use that information to serve online ads that we or they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms. You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising in the Your choices section, below.

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
protect our, your or others' rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies;
enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and
prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

With your consent. In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data. We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

Further uses, in some cases, we may use your personal information for further uses, in which case we will ask for your consent to the use of your personal information for those further purposes if they are not compatible with the initial purpose for which information was collected.

How we share your personal information

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection.

Affiliates. Our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Service providers. Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our business (such as hosting, online chat functionality providers, information technology, customer support, email delivery, product delivery, marketing, consumer research and website analytics).

Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on the Service is collected and processed directly by our payment processors, such as Stripe. For example, Stripe may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy, https://stripe.com/privacy.

Advertising partners. Third-party advertising companies for the interest-based advertising purposes described above.

Third parties designated by you. We may share your personal information with third parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. For example, we may share your personal information with third-party advertisers with whom we are collaborating to offer you additional services such as contests and promotions. We will share personal information that is needed for these other companies to provide the services that you have requested.

Business and marketing partners. Third parties with whom we offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as required by applicable law or as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above.

Business transferees. Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations of or due diligence for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests of Athena Classical Academy LLC or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Other users and the public. Some of your personal information, including your user-generated content, such as the pictures associated with product reviews, are visible to other users of the Service and the public. For example, other users of the Service or the public may have access to your information if you chose to make your profile or other personal information available to them through the Service, such as when you provide comments, reviews, survey responses, or share other content. This information can be seen, collected and used by others, including being cached, copied, screen captured or stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines), and we are not responsible for any such use of this information.

Your choices

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users.

Access or update your information. If you have registered for an account with us through the Service, you may review and update certain account information by logging into the account.

Opt-out of marketing communications. You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us via our contact forms on our websites. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

Cookies and other technologies. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Service may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also configure your device to prevent images from loading to prevent web beacons from functioning.

Blocking images/clear gifs: Most browsers and devices allow you to configure your device to prevent images from loading. To do this, follow the instructions in your particular browser or device settings.

Advertising choices. You may be able to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by:

Browser settings. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings.
Privacy browsers/plug-ins. By using privacy browsers or ad-blocking browser plug-ins that let you block tracking technologies.
Platform settings. Google and Facebook offer opt-out features that let you opt-out of use of your information for interest-based advertising:
Google: https://adssettings.google.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads
Ad industry tools. Opting out of interest-based ads from companies participating in the following industry opt-out programs:
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Digital Advertising Alliance: optout.aboutads.info.
Mobile settings. Using your mobile device settings to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.

You will need to apply these opt-out settings on each device from which you wish to opt-out.

We cannot offer any assurances as to whether the companies we work with participate in the opt-out programs described above.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send "Do Not Track" signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track". To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Declining to provide information. We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services.

Other sites and services

The Service may contain links to third-party websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions nor are they subject to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

Retention of personal information

We generally retain personal information to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. However, in some circumstances, we will retain your personal information for longer periods of time. We will retain personal information for the following purposes: (i) as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations and to provide our Service, e.g. so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenge; and (ii) in relation to personal information from closed accounts to comply with applicable laws, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our Service terms and take other actions as permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we may consider factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

When we no longer require the personal information we have collected about you, we may either delete it, anonymize it, or isolate it from further processing.

Security

We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect and maintain the security of our Service in preventing unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or damage to it through industry standard technologies and internal procedures. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and despite the safeguards we have in place, we may not always succeed in securing your personal information.

International data transfer

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.

Children

The Service — this website, the accounts it provides, and any enrollment or purchase made through it — is intended for adults. Only a parent or legal guardian aged 18 or over may create an account, enroll a student, or make a payment. Students do not register for or use the Service themselves.

We do hold personal information about students, because a parent or guardian gives it to us when they enroll a child — for example the student's name, grade, and the discipline, format and hours they are enrolling for. We use that information to place the student correctly, to teach them, and to administer their enrollment.

If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us at info@athenaclassical.org. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Service from a child without the consent of the child's parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

Opt-out preference signals, and Do Not Track

Some browsers can broadcast a Global Privacy Control signal on your behalf. We treat that signal as a valid request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information. When we detect it, advertising is switched off automatically and cannot be switched back on from this site.

Some browsers can also send a Do Not Track signal. There is still no common standard for what a site should do in response; we treat it as a request not to be measured, and leave analytics off while it is present.

Both signals are detected automatically. You do not need to tell us, and you do not need an account for them to take effect. You can see what we have detected, and change your choices, on your privacy choices page.

Cookies and your choices

This site stores nothing in your browser except your light or dark theme preference and a record of the privacy choices you make here — neither of which is sent to us. Analytics and advertising technologies load only if you turn them on.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). We recommend that you check this periodically for any updates or changes.

How to contact us

Email: info@athenaclassical.org
Mail: Athena Classical Academy, P.O. Box 226, Diablo, CA 94528

Your privacy rights

The rights available to you depend on where you live. California residents should read the California section; residents of the other states with comprehensive privacy laws should read the section after it.

In either case, these rights are not absolute, and we may decline a request where the law permits. We may also be unable to act on a request that does not give us enough detail to confirm your identity or to understand what you are asking for.

For the purposes of these sections, "Personal Information" carries the meaning given to "personal data", "personal information" or a similar term in the applicable law, and "Sensitive Personal Information" the meaning given to "sensitive personal information", "sensitive data" or a similar term, except that neither includes information the law exempts.

California privacy rights

This section applies to residents of California, under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.

Right to know. You can ask us for the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you, the categories of sources it came from, our business or commercial purpose for collecting it, the categories of third parties we disclose it to, and the specific pieces we hold.
Right to access. You can ask for a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you, in a portable form where we can readily provide one. For Personal Information collected on or after 1 January 2022, this is not limited to the preceding twelve months; we will look back further unless doing so proves impossible or would take disproportionate effort, in which case we will tell you so.
Right to correct. You can ask us to correct Personal Information about you that is inaccurate.
Right to delete. You can ask us to delete the Personal Information we have collected from you, subject to the exceptions the statute allows — records we must keep to complete a transaction, to comply with a legal obligation, or for our own internal uses that you would reasonably expect.
Right to opt out of sale or sharing. You can direct us not to sell your Personal Information, or to share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not currently sell or share Personal Information. If that ever changes, the control on your privacy choices page will take effect and this policy will say so first.
Right to limit the use of Sensitive Personal Information. We do not intentionally collect or process Sensitive Personal Information as the statute defines it, so there is nothing here to limit. If that changes, this policy will say so.
Consumers under 16. We do not sell or share the Personal Information of anyone under sixteen. We hold information about students under sixteen — a student's name and grade, and the discipline, format and hours they are enrolled for — because a parent or legal guardian gives it to us in order to enrol that student, and we use it to place and teach the student and to administer their enrolment.
Right to non-discrimination. We will not deny you service, charge you a different price, or give you a different standard of teaching because you exercised any of these rights.

Deidentification. We do not attempt to reidentify deidentified information derived from Personal Information, except that we may do so to test whether our deidentification processes comply with applicable law.

Personal Information we collect, use and disclose

The categories below use the definitions in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.140. We do not sell or share any of it.

Category (§1798.140)	What we hold	Why	Disclosed to
Identifiers	Guardian and student name, email address, city; IP address if you consent to analytics	To arrange placement and teaching, and to reply to you	Service providers only
Customer records (§1798.80(e))	Name and contact details given when enrolling	Enrolment and administration	Service providers only
Protected classification characteristics	A student's grade, which indicates approximate age	To place a student at the right level	Service providers only
Commercial information	Courses enquired about or enrolled in, and payment records	To provide and administer teaching	Payment processor, service providers
Internet or network activity	Pages viewed and referring site, only if you consent to analytics	To understand which pages are read	Analytics provider
Geolocation data	The city you tell us, at city level only	To say which formats reach you	Service providers only
Education information	Placement notes and progress in our own courses	To teach the student	Not disclosed

We do not collect biometric information, sensory data, professional or employment information, or draw inferences to build a profile about you.

Privacy rights in other states

This section applies to residents of Virginia, Oregon, Texas, Minnesota, Maryland, Indiana, Nebraska, New Jersey and other states with a comprehensive privacy law that applies to us. Not every right below exists in every state, and some are available only to residents of states whose statutes grant them.

Right to confirm and access. You can ask whether we process Personal Information about you and obtain a copy of it.
Right to correct. You can ask us to correct inaccuracies in the Personal Information you have provided.
Right to delete. You can ask us to delete Personal Information we have collected about you.
Right to data portability. Where the law provides it, you can obtain your Personal Information in a portable and readily usable format.
Right to appeal. If we decline a request, you may appeal that decision. We will inform you in writing of the outcome and the reasons for it, within the period the applicable law allows, and tell you how to contact your state Attorney General if you disagree with it.
Right to opt out of targeted advertising. You can opt out of the processing of your Personal Information for targeted advertising. We do not currently process it for that purpose.
Right to opt out of profiling. We do not use Personal Information to engage in profiling or automated decision-making producing legal or similarly significant effects — including effects on housing, education, employment, health care, credit or criminal justice.
Right to opt out of sale. We do not sell Personal Information.
Right to non-discrimination. You may exercise these rights without penalty.

Exercising your rights

To make a request under either section, write to info@athenaclassical.org. Tell us which right you wish to exercise and enough about yourself for us to find your records. You can also use the controls on your privacy choices page.

Opt-out preference signals. We honour the Global Privacy Control as a valid opt-out of the sale and sharing of Personal Information. You do not need to make a request for it to take effect, and you do not need an account.

Verification of identity, and authorised agents. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request to know, access, correct or delete, and we may confirm the state you live in. To verify identity we may ask for identification, a declaration under penalty of perjury, or other information, where the law permits. You may use an authorised agent, in which case we may need to verify the agent's identity and their authority to act for you — by a valid power of attorney, or by your written and signed permission together with the information we need to verify you.

Last Updated: September 8, 2026