FAQs

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Your dashboard provides all of the information you need for an upcoming class or internship. Parents, instructors, ASE applicants and mentors with accounts will all have dashboard views in addition to household views.

If you are a parent or guardian registering your student(s) for classes, your Household view includes:

Household Contacts: These are the people (usually grown-ups) who manage the account for students participating in classes or camps and pay for enrollment. There is the option to provide a primary contact and a secondary contact.
Students: These are the people (usually kids) who attend classes and camps. Each student listed under your household includes their date of birth, current school, medical and media releases, emergency contact and any special needs.

The PARENT DASHBOARD includes:

Class information: Building and classroom locations and any additional information about upcoming classes.
Find our more about your dashboard.

If you are a student applying for or participating in an ASE internship, your Household view includes:

Application information: This is your application and the internships for which you have applied and ranked.

The STUDENT DASHBOARD includes:

Updates: The status of your application, such as whether a recommendation has been received, or if you've been accepted into an internship.

If you are an instructor, your Household view includes:

Your information: This is your Household Account and includes all of your contact information.

The INSTRUCTOR DASHBOARD includes:

Class information: Building and classroom locations and any additional information about upcoming classes.

If you are an mentor, your Household view includes:

Your information: This is your Household Account and includes all of your contact information.

The MENTOR DASHBOARD includes:

Potential intern information: This includes a list of the interns applying for your apprenticeship opportunity and their applications, as well as your rankings of each intern applicant.

Note that if you are both a parent and an instructor or a mentor, you will need a unique email address and dashboard for each role.

Policies: Classes & Camps

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If you find that once you have registered for a class you have had a change of plans and need to withdraw, please cancel through the Enrollment Screen on your Parent Dashboard.

Cancellation Date	Amount Retained by Saturday Academy
More than 30 Days Prior	20% of Tuition Paid
15-30 Days Prior	50% of Tuition Paid
0-15 Days Prior	100% of Tuition Paid

While cancellations on our part are a rare occurrence, they do happen occasionally. We do everything that we can to avoid it, but at times we must make the hard decision to cancel a class. If Saturday Academy cancels a class and cannot reschedule, we offer a full refund of the tuition paid. Cancellations may be due to:

Weather
- If a class is cancelled due to weather, we make every effort to reschedule. We do not issue refunds for a change in program due to weather if we are able to reschedule the class.
Instructor illness or emergency
- In this case, we do our best to find a replacement instructor or reschedule the class before cancelling.
Health and COVID 19
- Saturday Academy used to require a doctor’s note for an illness-related refund. However, given the Oregon Health Authority's recommendations and guidelines regarding the COVID-19 virus, if your child is being quarantined (including self-quarantine at home), we will refund the tuition paid.
Low-Enrollment
- As a nonprofit, each of our classes require a minimum number of total enrollments in order to run. This ensures a quality class as well as financial viability. If enrollment is lower than 3 students, we will make the call to cancel with advanced notice to give you time to readjust to the inconvenience. Please help us avoid low enrollment by encouraging friends to sign up!

If you have any questions or concerns about a class cancellation, contact Eric Polgar, Director of Operations.

Saturday Academy is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others except as outlined below.

Registration

In order to use certain parts of this website, users may be asked to first complete a registration form. During registration, users may be asked to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used only to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. Users may also be asked to provide demographic information (such as zip code, age or gender). To support SATURDAY ACADEMY's mission to provide science education to students, we may share general demographic statistics about the users of our site with other organizations. SATURDAY ACADEMY will not share specific information about an individual user without that user's consent.

Purchases

We request information from our customers during online purchases of our services. During purchases, users must provide contact information (like name, mailing address email address, and phone number) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used only for billing purposes and to fill the customer's order. If we have trouble processing an order, contact information is used to get in touch with the customer. SATURDAY ACADEMY does not share individual purchase information with any other commercial enterprise.

Email Communication

Saturday Academy offers regular email communications for visitors interested in receiving information about our programs. We do not sell or rent our email mailing lists. Subscribers may unsubscribe from our email lists at any time by clicking the link provided at the bottom of each email communication.

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Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Saturday Academy website.

Sharing

Saturday Academy may share aggregated demographic information to support our mission to bring science education to all people. We will not share any personal information that can identify any individual person without that person's permission.

Saturday Academy may use outside companies for services such as order fulfillment or credit card processing. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

If Saturday Academy cooperates with another party to provide specific services, we may share names, or other contact information with the third party for users who request such services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing requested services.

Security

We take every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline using industry standard systems.

If you have any questions about the security of our website, please contact us.

Notification of changes to our privacy policy

If Saturday Academy decides to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

To correct or update information collected through this web site, or if you have questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, call 503-200-5858 or send mail to:

Saturday Academy
5000 N Willamette Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97203

Cancellation Policy

See cancellations/withdrawals tab.

Media Release Information

Do we have your permission to use your child's image on our website or in print materials? One of the best ways for us to show students what is like to be in one of our classes, camps or internships is through photos and videos! The more we can get, the better. Occasionally we take photos or video footage of classes and camps. We do not use names with photos and will not share any images with any outside parties. As you register, click the media release option to let us know whether or not you agree to letting us use your child's image on our website or in print materials.

Click here to view the Media Release Waiver

Medical Consent

By registering, you agree to give consent to treat my student in case of a medical emergency. You understand that all efforts will be made to contact you immediately in the event of an emergency.

Permission for Travel

Students could be outside their classrooms during class hours, but are always supervised by Saturday Academy staff. For classes that involve field trips, whether walking, van, bus or public transportation, students are with their instructor at all times. By registering, you give permission for you child to participate in any potential field trip(s) associated with this Saturday Academy class. For questions about a specific class, please call 503-200-5858.