Do a World of Good

Help us make a difference worldwide.

sign up now!

Start your adventure

Travel abroad….no language skills needed!

sign up now!

Choices!

Summer, Short-Team, Academic, Private. We have it all!

sign up now!

host a student

Accept our invitation to experience the rewards of hosting.

sign up now!

Privacy Policy


Terra Lingua USA is committed to upholding the confidentiality and security of your personal information. The information below explains what we do with the data we collect and applies to information submitted anywhere on this site.


The information we collect

Terra Lingua USA collects information voluntarily provided to us through this site. Terra Lingua USA does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals.


How your information is used

    Except as provided herein, we collect and use your personal and non-personal information for internal purposes only or for gather aggregate and anonymized data. We may use your information in the following ways:

  • - To conduct routine business operations such as billing, identification, authentication, contact purposes and general research. As part of our routine business operations, we may transfer your Personal Information to certain third parties with whom we contract for the limited purpose of providing services such as web hosting, email, and credit card processing. These service providers are obligated to protect your information, and they do not use your Personal Information for their own commercial purposes.
  • - To employ internal marketing techniques such as tracking customer preferences to provide a customized site experience and communicating with you about services, special offers, and other services.
  • - To enhance our services.
  • - To gather generic product, location and other contributed information to make reports based on aggregate anonymized data, which we may use internally.
  • - To comply with court and governmental orders.


Cookies

Terra Lingua USA does utilize cookies. A “cookie” is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. This information helps Terra Lingua USA to know how and when our site is visited and which pages are viewed.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visit/s to www.tlusa.org. This means that you might see an Terra Lingua USA ad when browsing the internet because you visited the www.tlusa.org site.

We use non-personally identifiable information collected through a “cookie” to improve the design and content of our site, to enable us to personalize your Internet experience, analyze trends, gather broad demographic information, administer the site, and for other Terra Lingua USA purposes.


Security

Terra Lingua USA will not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any personally identifiable information to any third parties outside our partner organizations and those working directly with them in connection with Terra Lingua USA activities. We will only disclose personally identifiable information we maintain to those not directly working in connection with Terra Lingua USA activities when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.

Personal information collected by Terra Lingua USA and our websites is stored in secure operating environments and can only be accessed by Terra Lingua USA employees, consultants, or volunteers exclusively for the management of the Terra Lingua USA program operations. At present, we centralize records of personal information in the United States of America only. Therefore, we may transfer your personal information to other countries, including but not limited to the United States of America, and may perform some of our data processing of your personal information outside your country of residence. The transfer and processing of your information may be governed by the laws of the United States of America, or another jurisdiction, which may not offer the same rights and remedies as the laws in your country of residence. Terra Lingua USA will protect your personal information no matter where we process or store it, following this privacy statement. By submitting your personal data to Terra Lingua USA, you hereby consent to this transfer and processing of your personal information.

We use a variety of security measures, including SSL, encryption, and authentication tools, to help protect your information. We do not retain your Personal Information for longer than is necessary for our business purposes. When we no longer need your Personal Information, we dispose of it safely.

Our security measures include standard international data protection measures as well as those described in the EU GDPR implementing regulations. These measures, may also include periodic system-wide password resets with high password strength requirements. We strongly discourage password sharing. Due to the nature of the information and related technology, we cannot be held responsible if you share your own login credentials with others. If we learn of a security breach, then we will immediately reset your account password and attempt to notify You as per GDPR guidelines to take appropriate steps.


Data Controller (EU/EEA)

We process Personal Data both as a processor and a controller as defined by the Directive and the GDPR. The Terra Lingua USA entity which you as a User entered an agreement with when using our Services will be the Processor for the User data as outlined above in “Collection of Information” section in accordance with Directive and GDPR and we will be the Processor.

For other data, as outlined in the “Collection of Information” section, the User will be the Controller in accordance with Directive and GDPR and we will be the Processor.

For other data, as outlined in the “Collection of Information” section, the User will be the Controller in accordance with Directive and GDPR and we will be the Processor.

All data collected by our users through surveys will be stored exclusively in secure hosting facilities provided by Amazon Web Services. We have a data processing agreement in place with its provider, ensuring compliance with the Directive. All processor hosting is performed in accordance with the highest security regulations. All transfers of all data internally in the EEA is done in accordance with this processing agreement.

Contact information for the EEA Data Controller Processor:

    At any time you can contact us to:

  • - Request access to information that we have about you (which is only your user name)
  • - Correct any information that we have about you
  • - Delete information that we have about you
  • - If you have any additional questions, please contact
    Terra Lingua USA
    3 Helen Rd,
    Terryville, CT 06786
    United States of America
    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Opting-Out or Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences

You have the right to access, correct and delete inaccuracies in your Personal Information and privacy preferences on the Services at any time by signing into your account and editing your Personal Information in your account profile. You may also do so by contacting us via telephone, postal mail, or email.

If at any time you wish to request the personal data we’ve collected about you, withdraw your consent to our processing of your data or opt out of our use of your information for internal marketing purposes or for compiling aggregate risk reports, you may do so by sending a written notice to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Note that your withdrawal of consent may prevent us from providing the Services to you.


Contact information

Terra Lingua USA
3 Helen Rd,
Terryville, CT 06786
United States of America

Should you have any questions or requests concerning the information submitted, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Back to top