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Mountain Aster Academy
Privacy Policy
Last Updated on September 19, 2025
What type of information do we collect?
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
How do we collect information?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. When you submit an application to be considered for the research mentoring program, we collect other personal information, including the names and contact information of references, as well as your CV. Please be assured that all information that is submitted is confidentially maintained and that we do not share it with any other institution. For those who submit applications online, we maintain an e-copy of these documents until we receive your hard-copies of the research application and reference letters. Subsequently, these materials are deleted from our website.
Why do we collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate the Services;
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To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How do we store, use, share and disclose your personal information?
Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
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All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. We also use PayPal to receive payments; you may find their privacy notice here: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full
How do we communicate with our site visitors?
We may contact you to notify you to collect fees or monies owed, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, and postal mail.
Questions and Requests regarding your contact information
​If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, or if you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you please contact us at rector@hmaacademy.org or send us mail to: 105 Mountain Aster Place, Black Hawk, Colorado 80422
Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.