Privacy Policy
At Tri Area Driving School, we recognize that privacy is important. This
Policy applies to all of the services offered by Tri Area Driving School or its
subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, Tri Area Driving School's
"services"). In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain
our privacy practices, we post separate privacy notices to describe how
particular services process personal information, which are accessible by
contacting our office.
Tri Area Driving School adheres to the principles of Notice, Choice, Onward
Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered
with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Michigan Department of State.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us
through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Tri Area Driving
School Inc., 6272 Midland Rd; Freeland, MI 48623 USA.
Information you provide - When you sign up as a Tri Area Driving School student
or other Tri Area Driving School service or promotion that requires
registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your driving history,
criminal background, and current health). We may combine the information you
submit under your account with information from other Tri Area Driving School
services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and
to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you
the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
User communications - When you send email or other communication to Tri Area
Driving School, we may retain those communications in order to process your
inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are
owned and operated by Tri Area Driving School. We do not exercise control over
sites or links from within our various pages. These other sites may place their
own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal
information from you.
Tri Area Driving School only processes personal information for the purposes
described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific
services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
Providing our services to students;
Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our
services;
Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process personal information by
referring to the privacy notices for particular services.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you
to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner
different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your
consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those
described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer
you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those
other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes
other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service
notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which
case Tri Area Driving School may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Tri Area Driving School only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of Tri Area Driving School in the following limited
circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive
personal information.
We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other
trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information
on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information
based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such
information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety
of Tri Area Driving School, its users or the public as required or permitted by
law.
If Tri Area Driving School becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any
form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before
personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of students who graduated or found employment.
Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the
management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include
internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to Tri Area Driving School employees,
contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate,
develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
Tri Area Driving School processes personal information only for the purposes for
which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and
processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the
personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our clients to update or correct their
personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Tri Area Driving School services, we make good faith efforts to
provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this
data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not
otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We
ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be
accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may
decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing in backup locations), or for which access is not otherwise required. In
any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this
service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate
effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or
delete users' personal information. We provide the details for these procedures
in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
Tri Area Driving School regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy.
Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or
Tri Area Driving School's treatment of personal information by contacting us
through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Tri Area
Driving School, 6272 Midland Rd; Freeland, MI 48623 USA.
When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is Tri Area
Driving School's policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her
concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities,
including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding
the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Tri Area Driving
School and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we
expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy
changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page
by its effective date.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel
free to contact us any time through this web site or at Privacy Matters, c/o Tri
Area Driving School Inc., 6272 Midland Rd; Freeland, MI 48623 USA.