Last modified: 1/24/2022

Privacy Across Borders (“PAB”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. 

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.privacyacrossborders.com (our “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means; or
  • Any third parties, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the PAB Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

What Type of Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website:

  • This Website is hosted by WordPress and makes use of website usage tools provided by WordPress. Those tools can capture information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as when you visited the website, page and post views, search engine terms used to arrive at this Website, file downloads from this Website should you initiate any, which country you are viewing the website from, clicks to different links on our Website, and how you were referred to our Website; and
  • If you contact us at pab@wcl.american.edu, we will have records and copies of your email correspondence, which include your email address and any other personal information you include in your email correspondence to us.

How We Collect This Information

  •  When you email us at pab@wcl.american.edu, we will have the email address from which you sent  the email along with any personal information you have chosen to include in the email.
  • Because this Website is hosted by WordPress, it has access to certain tools to help track and assess technical usage data. These tools use cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. WordPress categorizes these cookies as “necessary” and “non-necessary.”  Necessary cookies are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Non-necessary cookies are provided by third parties and help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You have the opportunity, through a pop-up banner, to accept or opt out of these cookies when you first visit our Website. If you wish to withdraw your consent later to these cookies, please email us at pab@wcl.american.edu.

In any event, we will not seek to associate website usage data with any individual.

Who has access to your data?

When you access our website, WordPress.org will retain anonymized data about your activity on the website. Otherwise, we do not share your information with third parties or affiliates. We will not sell your data or ask for your personal information unless it is used for a service. We will not share your information with law enforcement unless required by law. 

How long do we retain information for?

PAB retains your information acquired through email indefinitely until you request it to be deleted. If you want PAB to delete your email correspondence, please email pab@wcl.american.edu.

GDPR Compliance

If you are an EU citizen and interact with our website, it is possible that the processing of your personal data will be deemed to fall under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). 

For purposes of GDPR:

PAB is the controller when processing your personal data. If you email us at pab@wcl.american.edu, you consent to our processing any personal information you have included in your email for purposes of responding to you. If you consented to the use of non-necessary cookies when presented with the cookie banner on first navigating to our site, you consent to the collection of certain usage data from site visits as described in the cookie section of this privacy policy.

Our processing is based on our legitimate interest to communicate with our Website visitors and provide free, educational resources. 

What are your rights under the GDPR?

If the processing of your personal data falls under the GDPR, you have several rights. This includes: 

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights related to automated decision making and profiling

You can revoke consent at any time. To do so, please email us at pab@wcl.american.edu. Please note that we do not associate technical usage data with any individual. If you wish to exercise any of the foregoing as it relates to such technical usage data, we may not be able to identify or retrieve that data.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at:

pab@wcl.american.edu