Last Updated: October 2013
This is the official privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for the Get Schooled Foundation (“Get Schooled”, "we" or "us")
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective to you immediately upon posting. Notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy may be posted on the Site’s homepage. However, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use often for updates. We may also e-mail you about these changes.
We collect information you provide directly to Get Schooled, such as when you register for an account, enroll or sign up for features and functions available on our Site, participate in promotions, or in the course of any other exchanges of information, transactions and activities.
We also collect information about you when you access or use our Site, including:
We may use information about you for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or otherwise disclosed to you, including to:
We may store and process information about you in the United States and other countries.
We do not share personal information about you with third parties, except in the limited circumstances listed below or as otherwise disclosed to you:
Get Schooled takes reasonable measures to help protect your information in an effort to prevent loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
You may update or correct information about yourself by logging into your account at any time or by emailing us at [email protected]. You may also email us if you wish to deactivate your account, but please note that even after you deactivate your account, we may retain archived copies of information about you for a period of time that is consistent with applicable law.
You may opt out of receiving promotional emails or text messages from Get Schooled by following the instructions in those messages, calling 1-206-467-4863 or sending an e-mail to [email protected]. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as messages about your account.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our users who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or write us:
Getschooled.com CA Privacy Coordinator
Get Schooled Foundation
1515 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10036
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
The additional protections we provide for children under the age of 13 are set forth in this Children's Privacy section, and this section will govern over any conflicting provisions in our general Privacy Policy as set forth above. Any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices with respect to children should be directed to:
Get Schooled Foundation
Attn: John Branam
1515 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10036
212-846-4203
[email protected]
We knowingly collect limited amounts of information from children under the age of 13, which may include their names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthdates, passwords, information about the schools they attend and their parents' or legal guardians' email addresses. This information may be collected in connection with a specific request by a child to participate in Get Schooled activities and to receive email updates. We may also collect personal information from children if they send us an email or otherwise communicate with us through the Site.
When using the Site, some information is also automatically collected, such as a child's IP address, access times, and browser type and language. We treat this information as personal information if we combine it with or link it to any of the identifying information mentioned above. Otherwise, it is used in the aggregate only. We may also automatically collect certain information from children through the use of "cookies," but we only use such cookies for the internal operation of the Site. If we link cookies to any personally identifying information, we will treat this information as personal information. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but if you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies.
We may use personal information collected from children as follows:
We do not share such personal information about children with third parties except as follows:
We are prohibited by law from conditioning a child's participation in an activity on the child's disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.
Parents and legal guardians have the option to consent to the collection and use of their child's personal information without consenting to the disclosure of that information to third parties. Parents also have the right to review the personal information collected online from their child, ask to have it deleted, and refuse to permit us to collect any further personal information from their child. To make such requests, please contact Get Schooled at [email protected].