In A Nutshell
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
- Third party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website
- The use of advertising cookies enables third party vendors to serve ads to you based your visit to our website and/or other sites on the Internet
- Visitors may opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, UpperClassroom.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. UpperClassroom.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how UpperClassroom.com’s visitors use our website. From time to time, UpperClassroom.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our website.
UpperClassroom.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. UpperClassroom.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to UpperClassroom.com choose to interact with UpperClassroom.com in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that UpperClassroom.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive UpperClassroom.com updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, UpperClassroom.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with UpperClassroom.com. UpperClassroom.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
UpperClassroom.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, UpperClassroom.com may monitor the most popular pages using Google Analytics. UpperClassroom.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, UpperClassroom.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
UpperClassroom.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on UpperClassroom.com’s behalf or to provide services available at UpperClassroom.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using UpperClassroom.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. UpperClassroom.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, UpperClassroom.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when UpperClassroom.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of UpperClassroom.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an UpperClassroom.com website and have supplied your email address, UpperClassroom.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with UpperClassroom.com and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. UpperClassroom.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. UpperClassroom.com uses cookies to help UpperClassroom.com identify and track visitors, their usage of the UpperClassroom.com website, and their website access preferences. UpperClassroom.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using UpperClassroom.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of UpperClassroom.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If UpperClassroom.com, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that UpperClassroom.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of UpperClassroom.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by UpperClassroom.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, UpperClassroom.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in UpperClassroom.com’s sole discretion. UpperClassroom.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
