AM Pathways to Success Foundation, Inc.Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 12, 2026Last Updated: September 12, 2026
AM Pathways to Success Foundation, Inc. (“AM Pathways,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and security of the students, parents, guardians, volunteers, donors, employees, partners, and community members we serve.
This Privacy Policy explains how AM Pathways collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares personal information obtained through our website, enrollment and scholarship processes, tutoring and educational programs, volunteer activities, events, communications, and other organizational activities.
1. Information We May Collect
AM Pathways may collect information necessary to provide educational services, administer our programs, communicate with families, manage volunteers and donors, evaluate program effectiveness, and operate the organization.
Information may include a parent or guardian's name, address, telephone number, email address, emergency contact information, and relationship to the student.
For students, we may collect information such as name, age, date of birth, grade level, school, academic needs, enrollment information, attendance, tutoring records, educational goals, diagnostic assessment results, academic progress information, report cards or other educational records voluntarily provided by a parent, guardian, school, or authorized partner.
We may also collect payment or scholarship-related information, program applications, consent and authorization forms, photographs or media when appropriate consent has been obtained, and information submitted through our website or online forms.
For volunteers, employees, contractors, donors, vendors, and community partners, we may collect contact information and other information reasonably necessary to manage those relationships, including volunteer applications, training records, background-check documentation or status, donation information, and organizational affiliations.
2. How We Use Information
AM Pathways may use personal information to enroll students in our programs; assess academic needs; determine appropriate instructional groups; administer diagnostic assessments; develop personalized educational pathways; provide ELA, mathematics, test-preparation, and other educational services; monitor attendance and academic progress; communicate with parents and guardians; prepare student progress and impact reports; administer scholarships and financial assistance; process payments; coordinate volunteers and tutors; evaluate program outcomes; meet grant and funder reporting requirements; conduct approved events and outreach; maintain program safety; and comply with applicable legal or contractual requirements.
We seek to collect only information reasonably necessary to accomplish legitimate educational, operational, safety, and organizational purposes.
3. Student and Children's Information
Protecting student information is particularly important to AM Pathways.
Whenever practical, information concerning children is collected from or with the knowledge and authorization of a parent or legal guardian rather than directly from the child.
AM Pathways does not knowingly use children's personal information for behavioral advertising, sell children's personal information, or permit students' personal information to be used for unrelated commercial marketing.
Parents and legal guardians may contact AM Pathways to request access to personal information maintained about their child, request corrections to inaccurate information, ask questions about how information is being used, or request deletion of information when continued retention is not required for legitimate program, contractual, legal, safety, or recordkeeping purposes.
Although qualifying nonprofit organizations generally are not subject to the COPPA Rule, AM Pathways seeks to follow appropriate child-privacy safeguards consistent with the principles underlying COPPA. The FTC recommends that nonprofit organizations provide privacy policies and COPPA-style protections to child visitors.
4. Educational and Assessment Information
AM Pathways may use educational assessments, curriculum platforms, tutoring-management systems, learning-management systems, and other educational technology to provide services to students.
Student assessment information may be used to identify academic strengths and skill gaps, determine instructional placement, create individualized learning pathways, monitor student progress, evaluate academic growth, and demonstrate program impact.
When AM Pathways uses third-party educational technology providers or service providers, information may be shared with those providers only as reasonably necessary for the services they provide, subject to applicable agreements, privacy protections, and security practices.
5. Information Received From Schools and Community Partners
With appropriate authorization or pursuant to an applicable agreement, AM Pathways may receive student information from schools, school districts, parents or guardians, community organizations, educational institutions, or other program partners.
Such information will be used for legitimate educational and program purposes and handled according to applicable agreements, consent requirements, and privacy obligations.
6. How We Share Information
AM Pathways does not sell personal information.
We may share limited information with service providers and partners when reasonably necessary to operate our programs. These may include educational assessment and curriculum providers, tutoring-management or customer relationship management systems, payment processors, background-check providers, technology providers, schools or school districts, authorized community partners, grant administrators, and other organizations supporting program delivery.
We may also disclose information when required by law, court order, government requirement, or when reasonably necessary to protect the safety, rights, or welfare of a student or another person.
Whenever feasible, grant reports, community impact reports, presentations, and public communications use aggregated or de-identified student information rather than personally identifiable student information.
7. Photographs, Video, and Media
AM Pathways may photograph or record programs, activities, or events for educational, outreach, fundraising, reporting, or promotional purposes.
When an identifiable minor is featured, AM Pathways will follow its applicable parent or guardian media-consent procedures.
Declining optional media authorization will not prevent an otherwise eligible student from participating in AM Pathways educational programming.
8. Donor Information
AM Pathways respects the privacy of its donors.
Donor information may be used to process contributions, provide receipts and acknowledgments, maintain financial records, communicate organizational updates, and meet applicable financial, tax, auditing, and reporting requirements.
AM Pathways does not sell or rent donor lists or donor personal information for third-party marketing purposes.
9. Website Information and Cookies
When visitors use our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website hosting, security, analytics, or other technology providers. This may include IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referral information, and cookies or similar technologies.
AM Pathways may use this information to maintain website security, understand website usage, improve website functionality, and evaluate community outreach.
We do not intentionally use website tracking technologies to create advertising profiles of children.
10. Data Security
AM Pathways uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
Access to student and family information should be limited to personnel, tutors, volunteers, contractors, service providers, and authorized partners who reasonably require the information to perform their responsibilities.
No method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, AM Pathways cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Data Retention and Deletion
AM Pathways retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, administer programs, evaluate outcomes, meet grant or contractual obligations, maintain appropriate business and financial records, resolve disputes, protect participants, and comply with applicable legal requirements.
When information is no longer reasonably required, AM Pathways may securely delete, destroy, or de-identify it according to organizational procedures.
This approach is consistent with the FTC's child-privacy guidance that information should not be retained longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
12. Parent and Guardian Choices
Parents and legal guardians may contact AM Pathways regarding information maintained about their student.
Subject to applicable legal, contractual, educational, safety, and recordkeeping requirements, parents or guardians may request to review their child's information, correct inaccurate information, withdraw certain optional permissions, request deletion of certain information, or ask that certain information no longer be used for an optional purpose.
Withdrawal of consent for optional uses will not affect information already lawfully used or disclosed before the request was received.
13. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website or communications may contain links to websites, forms, educational platforms, social-media services, or other resources operated by third parties.
Those organizations maintain their own privacy and security practices. AM Pathways encourages parents, guardians, volunteers, donors, and other users to review the privacy policies of third-party services they use.
14. Email, Text Messages, and Program Communications
By providing contact information to AM Pathways, individuals may receive communications reasonably related to enrollment, tutoring sessions, assessments, attendance, program updates, events, payments, scholarships, volunteer activities, fundraising, or organizational operations.
Individuals may request to discontinue optional promotional communications. Certain administrative or transactional communications may still be necessary while an individual participates in an AM Pathways program or maintains another relationship with the organization.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
AM Pathways may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our programs, technology, service providers, organizational practices, or applicable requirements.
When material changes are made, the updated policy will include a revised “Last Updated” date and may be communicated through our website or other appropriate means.
16. Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or AM Pathways' handling of personal information may be directed to:
AM Pathways to Success Foundation, Inc.Greater Augusta / Central Savannah River Area, GeorgiaWebsite: ampathways.orgEmail: [Insert official privacy/contact email]Telephone: [Insert official telephone number]Mailing Address: [Insert official mailing address]
Effective Date: September 12, 2026Last Updated: September 12, 2026
AM Pathways to Success Foundation, Inc. (“AM Pathways,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and security of the students, parents, guardians, volunteers, donors, employees, partners, and community members we serve.
This Privacy Policy explains how AM Pathways collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares personal information obtained through our website, enrollment and scholarship processes, tutoring and educational programs, volunteer activities, events, communications, and other organizational activities.
1. Information We May Collect
AM Pathways may collect information necessary to provide educational services, administer our programs, communicate with families, manage volunteers and donors, evaluate program effectiveness, and operate the organization.
Information may include a parent or guardian's name, address, telephone number, email address, emergency contact information, and relationship to the student.
For students, we may collect information such as name, age, date of birth, grade level, school, academic needs, enrollment information, attendance, tutoring records, educational goals, diagnostic assessment results, academic progress information, report cards or other educational records voluntarily provided by a parent, guardian, school, or authorized partner.
We may also collect payment or scholarship-related information, program applications, consent and authorization forms, photographs or media when appropriate consent has been obtained, and information submitted through our website or online forms.
For volunteers, employees, contractors, donors, vendors, and community partners, we may collect contact information and other information reasonably necessary to manage those relationships, including volunteer applications, training records, background-check documentation or status, donation information, and organizational affiliations.
2. How We Use Information
AM Pathways may use personal information to enroll students in our programs; assess academic needs; determine appropriate instructional groups; administer diagnostic assessments; develop personalized educational pathways; provide ELA, mathematics, test-preparation, and other educational services; monitor attendance and academic progress; communicate with parents and guardians; prepare student progress and impact reports; administer scholarships and financial assistance; process payments; coordinate volunteers and tutors; evaluate program outcomes; meet grant and funder reporting requirements; conduct approved events and outreach; maintain program safety; and comply with applicable legal or contractual requirements.
We seek to collect only information reasonably necessary to accomplish legitimate educational, operational, safety, and organizational purposes.
3. Student and Children's Information
Protecting student information is particularly important to AM Pathways.
Whenever practical, information concerning children is collected from or with the knowledge and authorization of a parent or legal guardian rather than directly from the child.
AM Pathways does not knowingly use children's personal information for behavioral advertising, sell children's personal information, or permit students' personal information to be used for unrelated commercial marketing.
Parents and legal guardians may contact AM Pathways to request access to personal information maintained about their child, request corrections to inaccurate information, ask questions about how information is being used, or request deletion of information when continued retention is not required for legitimate program, contractual, legal, safety, or recordkeeping purposes.
Although qualifying nonprofit organizations generally are not subject to the COPPA Rule, AM Pathways seeks to follow appropriate child-privacy safeguards consistent with the principles underlying COPPA. The FTC recommends that nonprofit organizations provide privacy policies and COPPA-style protections to child visitors.
4. Educational and Assessment Information
AM Pathways may use educational assessments, curriculum platforms, tutoring-management systems, learning-management systems, and other educational technology to provide services to students.
Student assessment information may be used to identify academic strengths and skill gaps, determine instructional placement, create individualized learning pathways, monitor student progress, evaluate academic growth, and demonstrate program impact.
When AM Pathways uses third-party educational technology providers or service providers, information may be shared with those providers only as reasonably necessary for the services they provide, subject to applicable agreements, privacy protections, and security practices.
5. Information Received From Schools and Community Partners
With appropriate authorization or pursuant to an applicable agreement, AM Pathways may receive student information from schools, school districts, parents or guardians, community organizations, educational institutions, or other program partners.
Such information will be used for legitimate educational and program purposes and handled according to applicable agreements, consent requirements, and privacy obligations.
6. How We Share Information
AM Pathways does not sell personal information.
We may share limited information with service providers and partners when reasonably necessary to operate our programs. These may include educational assessment and curriculum providers, tutoring-management or customer relationship management systems, payment processors, background-check providers, technology providers, schools or school districts, authorized community partners, grant administrators, and other organizations supporting program delivery.
We may also disclose information when required by law, court order, government requirement, or when reasonably necessary to protect the safety, rights, or welfare of a student or another person.
Whenever feasible, grant reports, community impact reports, presentations, and public communications use aggregated or de-identified student information rather than personally identifiable student information.
7. Photographs, Video, and Media
AM Pathways may photograph or record programs, activities, or events for educational, outreach, fundraising, reporting, or promotional purposes.
When an identifiable minor is featured, AM Pathways will follow its applicable parent or guardian media-consent procedures.
Declining optional media authorization will not prevent an otherwise eligible student from participating in AM Pathways educational programming.
8. Donor Information
AM Pathways respects the privacy of its donors.
Donor information may be used to process contributions, provide receipts and acknowledgments, maintain financial records, communicate organizational updates, and meet applicable financial, tax, auditing, and reporting requirements.
AM Pathways does not sell or rent donor lists or donor personal information for third-party marketing purposes.
9. Website Information and Cookies
When visitors use our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website hosting, security, analytics, or other technology providers. This may include IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referral information, and cookies or similar technologies.
AM Pathways may use this information to maintain website security, understand website usage, improve website functionality, and evaluate community outreach.
We do not intentionally use website tracking technologies to create advertising profiles of children.
10. Data Security
AM Pathways uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
Access to student and family information should be limited to personnel, tutors, volunteers, contractors, service providers, and authorized partners who reasonably require the information to perform their responsibilities.
No method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, AM Pathways cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Data Retention and Deletion
AM Pathways retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, administer programs, evaluate outcomes, meet grant or contractual obligations, maintain appropriate business and financial records, resolve disputes, protect participants, and comply with applicable legal requirements.
When information is no longer reasonably required, AM Pathways may securely delete, destroy, or de-identify it according to organizational procedures.
This approach is consistent with the FTC's child-privacy guidance that information should not be retained longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
12. Parent and Guardian Choices
Parents and legal guardians may contact AM Pathways regarding information maintained about their student.
Subject to applicable legal, contractual, educational, safety, and recordkeeping requirements, parents or guardians may request to review their child's information, correct inaccurate information, withdraw certain optional permissions, request deletion of certain information, or ask that certain information no longer be used for an optional purpose.
Withdrawal of consent for optional uses will not affect information already lawfully used or disclosed before the request was received.
13. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website or communications may contain links to websites, forms, educational platforms, social-media services, or other resources operated by third parties.
Those organizations maintain their own privacy and security practices. AM Pathways encourages parents, guardians, volunteers, donors, and other users to review the privacy policies of third-party services they use.
14. Email, Text Messages, and Program Communications
By providing contact information to AM Pathways, individuals may receive communications reasonably related to enrollment, tutoring sessions, assessments, attendance, program updates, events, payments, scholarships, volunteer activities, fundraising, or organizational operations.
Individuals may request to discontinue optional promotional communications. Certain administrative or transactional communications may still be necessary while an individual participates in an AM Pathways program or maintains another relationship with the organization.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
AM Pathways may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our programs, technology, service providers, organizational practices, or applicable requirements.
When material changes are made, the updated policy will include a revised “Last Updated” date and may be communicated through our website or other appropriate means.
16. Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or AM Pathways' handling of personal information may be directed to:
AM Pathways to Success Foundation, Inc.Greater Augusta / Central Savannah River Area, GeorgiaWebsite: ampathways.orgEmail: [Insert official privacy/contact email]Telephone: [Insert official telephone number]Mailing Address: [Insert official mailing address]