This Privacy Policy describes how Al-Manar Academy (operated by Al-Manar Foundation Inc.) collects, uses, and protects information gathered through our website at almanarfoundation.org. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data responsibly.

Al-Manar Academy is a K–9 Islamic private school located at 122 Schiller St, Buffalo, NY. Our website address is http://almanarfoundation.org. The school is operated by Al-Manar Foundation Inc., a 501(c) non-profit organization.

When you submit a contact or admissions inquiry form on our website, we collect your name, email address, phone number, and the content of your message. We use this information only to respond to your inquiry. We do not share it with third parties for marketing purposes.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval, your profile picture may be visible in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, we set temporary cookies to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Login cookies last for two days; screen option cookies last for one year. If you select "Remember Me," your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.

Pages on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles from third-party websites (e.g. YouTube, Google Maps). Embedded content behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content.

We may use anonymized analytics tools to understand aggregate website traffic and improve our content. Individual visitors are not personally identified through analytics.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Contact form submissions are retained for as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry, then deleted.

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

We take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or loss. Our website uses HTTPS encryption for data in transit. We limit access to personal data to staff who need it to respond to your inquiry.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Contact form submissions are delivered via email to school office staff only.