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Privacy Notice
Greenheart International
Effective Date: 1/9/2019
This privacy notice describes how Greenheart International collects, uses, and discloses Personally Identifying Information (also known as “PII”) or Personal Data (collectively “Personal Information”) from and about users of Greenheart International websites. This privacy notice also applies to any associated paper forms. Please read this privacy notice before using Greenheart International websites or submitting any personal information.
These practices may be changed at any time. Changes will be posted along with the date of the change. You should review this privacy notice when you visit Greenheart International websites to make sure that you understand how Personal Information is collected, used, and disclosed.
The Personal Information you provide to us is only used to:
We may use non-Personal Information for additional reasons described in the remainder of this privacy notice.
If you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with questions or comments, we may retain your comments for future reference.
Greenheart collects Personal Information, which is information that on its own or in combination with other information may be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual. Examples include:
Greenheart International collects other information that relates to you but does not identify you. Examples include clickstream data and web-browsing information (such as the date and time you visit a website, whether you click on various advertisements or links and the search terms you enter when using a website), and information about your computer, device and internet connection, and geographic location.
We collect Personal Information from you in the following ways:
We may share information gathered by us from Greenheart International websites with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in providing services to you. We may do so when:
Information provided under one of the four preceding bullet points will not be used by those receiving it for marketing purposes, unless specifically authorized by the user.
Third parties who provide webhosting services or other services that make possible the operation of Greenheart International websites and the services you request through the websites may have access to information that you provide us to the extent that those third parties require access to our databases to service the websites.
In connection with the sale or transfer of all or part of our assets, we reserve the right to transfer information we have obtained from or about you.
We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive information from us.
Greenheart International websites are hosted and maintained in the United States of America. Your Personal Information may be transmitted to countries outside of the European Economic Area, including the United States of America. You can obtain details of the mechanism under which your personal data is transferred outside the EU by contacting us. If your Personal Information is transferred outside the European Economic Area to third party service providers, we will take steps to ensure that your Personal Information receives the same level of protection as if it remained within the European Economic Area, including by entering into data transfer agreements using the European Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses, or by relying on certification schemes such as the EU–US Privacy Shield.
Greenheart International websites use cookie and tracking technology to collect non-Personal Information. Our system also automatically gathers information about areas you visit on our websites, and about the links you select from within one of our websites to the other areas of the World Wide Web or elsewhere online. We use such information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our websites. This way we know which areas of our websites are preferred by our users, which areas need improvement, and what technologies are being used so that we may continually improve our websites. Personal Information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology, however, if you previously provided us with your Personal Information, cookies may be tied to such information. Aggregate cookie and tracking information may be shared with third parties but that aggregate information does not identify individual website users. Our web servers do not record visitor email addresses unless that information is submitted by the visitor. We may determine what technology is available through your browser to provide you with the most appropriate version of a web page. Greenheart International uses Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Gravity Forms, Yoast, Formstack, Calendly, GoOverseas, and other web traffic tracking tools.
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Greenheart takes steps to secure your Personal Information. We exercise care in providing secure transmissions when we need to transfer your Personal Information from our servers. Our websites use secure server software encryption, which is indicated by https in the url of the website. Encryption is a common method of ensuring that information remains private. Greenheart International cannot guarantee or warrant that the information that you transmit to us, or any communications is completely secure.
Greenheart International only retains data for as long as necessary for the purposes indicated in this privacy notice or for such other period as may be permitted or required by law.
For children age 14-16, Greenheart International takes additional steps to protect their Personal Information. We do not intend to collect Personal Information from children aged 13 or younger. These additional steps include:
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Please contact us using the following information for more information about this privacy notice, to notify us of a concern or complaint, or to exercise any of the individual rights you may have.
Data Protection Officer
By mail: 742 N LaSalle Dr. Chicago, IL 60654 Suite 300, USA
By email: click here
By phone: +1 312-944-2544
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By Sarah Tolman, F-1 High School Program Coordinator
Though she’s only been in the United States for a few months, it has not taken long for Elisa to adjust to life as an American teenager. That was her goal, after all, when she applied for the F-1 High School Academic Program in the U.S.
“I’ve always wanted to know what it’s like to live in a different country, live as a teenager…an American teenager!”
The experience so far has lived up to her expectations. Elisa was placed with a great host family in the small East Coast town of Groton, Massachusetts. This is a pretty stark contrast compared to her home of 11 million inhabitants, São Paolo in Brazil. Elisa says she still prefers living in big cities but that she has loved the experience of living in a small town so far. Less chaos, beautiful changing leaves (which doesn’t happen at all in Brazil), and she’s only an hour away from the historic city of Boston. Elisa is soaking up the New England fall in the best way possible. For Halloween, she carved pumpkins with her host family, dressed up as a cat and went to a Halloween dance with her host sister (who is also in high school). They don’t celebrate Halloween at all in her home country, so this has been a huge highlight for Elisa. And though she’s only staying for one semester, she made sure that her flight home isn’t until January, so that she can experience some great American traditions: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Elisa’s English level is impressive. She’s been studying English for 6 years now and has learned a lot of her vocabulary from American movies and music. Even with her advanced language level, she acknowledges that it takes a lot of courage to go up to new people and start a conversation in a language that isn’t your native tongue. She’s made that a goal to accomplish while at an American school: to gain confidence when meeting new people and improve her conversational language.
Luckily, she already feels more confident than she did when she first arrived in August. She mentions that it’s easier to meet a wide variety of people at her school here in the U.S. than at her Brazilian school, because of the different class structure:
“[In Brazil] we only have one class and we stay with this class until the end of the year, so I usually don’t interact a lot with people from other classes, so I guess here changing every day, makes me know a lot of people.”
She also noted that at her school in the U.S. (Groton-Dunstable Regional High School), in comparison to her school in Brazil, the students are more enthusiastic about the idea of being a part of a team. Though Elisa didn’t join any sports teams, she did become a member of her school’s art club. One of their activities as a club was painting students’ faces for a Friday night football game. So Elisa has found her own way to be a part of the school spirit, just another step towards immersing herself into the role of an American teen.
Though Elisa had visited the U.S. before participating in this program, there were still some aspects of American culture that surprised her, even surpassed her expectations. She knew Americans were friendly, but has been pleasantly surprised by how truly open and interested students at her school are in learning about her home country and culture.
Her time in the U.S. is limited, but Elisa still has many things to look forward to. For one thing, she’s excited to see snow for the first time in her life. Other goals on her to-do list include: more visits to Boston, seeing a Broadway Musical and a trip to six flags with a group of international students. Squeezing in all of these awesome activities into one semester isn’t an easy task, but Elisa is up to the challenge. When she returns to Brazil, she already knows that she will miss her new friends and the American school system. Most of all, she’ll miss her host family and the fact that they are always ready to take her on different outings and partake in different activities together.
The only way to truly experience what it’s like to be a “typical American teenager,” is to be courageous like Elisa and attend high school in America.