Information about our Organisation and Web site

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like University of Metaphysical Sciences . We are based in USA .

Our principal activities are:

• online courses, classes
• spirituality instruction

Our privacy policy covers University of Metaphysical Sciences and its Web site:

Organisation Name:	University of Metaphysical Sciences
Address:	P.O. Box 4505
City, Zip:	Arcata , 95518
State:	CA
Country:	USA
Controller:	UMS Faculty
Web Sites(s):	www.umsonline.org

Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access
You can access our Web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.

The services and links of our Web site

Our Web site enables you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data.

Our Web site does not include links to third party Web service providers.

Automatic Collection of Information

We do not use cookies on our Web site.

We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

We may collect and use personal data for the additional purposes of:

• Enrollment Applications Scholarship Applications
• Work Trade Applications

If we wish to use your personal data for new purposes, we offer you the means to consent to those new purposes:

• by indicating in a box at the point on the site where personal data is collected by sending an email ( newsletter@umsonline.org )
• by sending postal mail to this address ( P.O. Box 4505, Arcata, CA 95518 )

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

We take specific steps to protect the privacy of children by:

Additionally, to ensure that children's privacy is respected on our Web site, we:

• If anyone tells us they have children on their enrollment form when telling us about themselves, we do not ask names or any information about the children at all.
• Also, NO information about any student or associate is available for public viewing whatsoever.

We do not provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page, or at those sites on our Web site where we collect personal data.

Disclosure and Visitor Choice
We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations.

Confidentiality / Security

We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

• primary personal data (such as name and contact details) other personal and profiling data (such as physical description, leisure activities)
• Answers to enrollment form questions
• Answers to scholarship form questions
• Answers to work trade form questions

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• unauthorised access improper use or disclosure unauthorised modification
• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, by:

• sending an email ( ums@umsonline.org )
• sending postal mail to this address ( P.O. Box 4505, Arcata, CA 95518 )
• calling this telephone number ( 707-822-2111 )
• Only if an enrollment form or other form has been filled out is any information collected
• Only if a registration on the forum is completed is any information collected
• Only by requesting to be on the email is any information collected

Upon request, which you can indicate by:

• sending an email ( ums@umsonline.org )
• visiting this url ( http://umsonline.org/cf/StudentCenter/login.cfm ) Personal information can be viewed free anytime at the student center on your personal student center page.
• sending postal mail to this address ( P.O. Box 4505, Arcata, Ca 95518 )

We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a month. - although we may before require proof of your identity -. We will provide the information at a charge of $15 .

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data rectified or amended

Without proper proof of identification, we reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data.

We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

Privacy Compliance

There are no national laws or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organisation.

There are no global or regional regulatory or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organisation.

In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instrument, we are voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure

Self Assessment procedure

Name or designation of the privacy policy person or service	University of Metaphysical Sciences
URL	www.umsonline.org
Address	P.O. Box 4505, Arcata, CA 95518
Country	USA

Privacy Support

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact:

	Contact
Name/designation :	UMS Staff
Address :	P.O. Box 4505, Arcata, CA 95518
Phone Number :	707-822-2111
Fax Number :
Email address :	ums@umsonline.org

We do not recommend another means by which visitors' concerns may be addressed.