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IDEAS For Us Privacy Principles

 

Our mission at IDEAS For Us is to provide a world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

 

Our Privacy Policy is fueled by our commitment to the following Privacy Principles:

 

We’re deeply committed to creating a safe and secure online environment for you.

 

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We established ourselves as a not-for-profit organization so that our mission of education and your trust.

 

We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us, and we take the protection of your information very seriously.

 

We do not display advertising on IDEAS For Us. Our mission is to provide you with a better learning experience, not to sell you random products.

 

About IDEAS For Us and Our Privacy Policy

 

IDEAS For Us (“IDEAS For Us”, “us”, or “we”) feels strongly about protecting your privacy. We understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to creating a safe and secure environment for learners of all ages. This Privacy Policy applies to https://ideasforus.org/, our mobile application, and online services (collectively, our “Service”), which are all owned and operated by IDEAS For Us. This Privacy Policy describes how IDEAS For Us collects and uses the information you provide on our Service and describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

 

We use the data we collect to provide you with a better experience and fulfill our mission of providing a world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

 

Our Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from our members and others who visit and use our Service, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. By visiting or using our Service, you consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Your use of our Service and any information you provide on our Service are subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Service. Any capitalized terms used but not defined within this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms of Service.

 

What Information Do We Collect?

 

We take the information you provide to us very seriously, and we strive to put you in control of decisions around your information.

 

You can use many features of the Service without registering for an account or providing any other personal information. If you create an account on the IDEAS For Us Website, or communicate with IDEAS For Us, you may provide to IDEAS For Us what is generally called “Personal Information” or “Personal Data,” such as your full name, birthdate, email address or other information that can be used to identify you. Information which cannot be used to identify you as an individual is “de-identified” or non-personal information.

 

We collect information, including personal information, in a variety of ways which may vary according to your use of the Service and your account settings. The categories of personal information we collect may include:

 

  • Contact and profile information
  • Account and authentication information from third-party integrated services
  • Location information
  • Information about your browser or device
  • Donation and applicant data
  • Non-personal information which may be linked to your Personal Information or Membership to Service

Below, we describe examples of the categories of information we collect from and about you when you use our Service:

 

Information you provide to us and information we receive about you from others.

 

Contact and Profile Information

 

When you create an account on the IDEAS For US website, or communicate with us, we may collect personal information including your name, email address, and birthdate. After you register, you may also choose to provide additional information in your profile, such as your nickname, location (city), and other personal or demographic information. In addition, we may ask you for personal information at other times, such as when you contact our technical support team, send us an email, complete a user survey, or otherwise communicate with IDEAS For Us.

 

Information From Integrated Sign-On Services

 

If you decide to register through or otherwise grant access to a third-party social networking or integrated service (what we call an “Integrated Service”), such as Facebook, Google, Clever or similar single sign-on service, IDEAS For Us may also collect Personal Information that is already associated with your Integrated Service account. You may also have the option of sharing additional information with IDEAS For Us through an Integrated Service, as controlled through your settings on that Integrated Service. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise IDEAS For Us will treat the information as Personal Information and will use it in the ways described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Information Obtained From Other Users

 

We make available certain features on our Service that allow other users to provide us information about you.

 

Information Provided by Partners and Other Sources

 

We may also receive information from third party organizations with which we partner to provide educational services. If we combine or associate information from other sources with Personal Information that we collect through our Service, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

Information We Collect to Enable Your Participation in Special Programs or Features

 

From time to time, IDEAS For Us may feature a special program or activity we offer in partnership with a third party. If you participate in these special programs, IDEAS For Us may collect personal information from you to facilitate those programs. For example, Facebook participants may be asked to provide information related to event logistics and prize awarding and processing (e.g., contact information, dietary restrictions, shirt sizes, etc.), and Student Studies program participants may provide information regarding study habits and test scores (e.g., the number of hours studied, modules or tests taken, scores earned, etc.).

 

Information About How You Access and Use the Service

 

We process Personal Data to operate, improve, understand and personalize our Service. We use Personal Data for the following purposes:

 

  • To meet or fulfill the reason you provided the information to us.
  • To communicate with you about the Service, including Service announcements, updates or offers.
  • To provide support and assistance for the Service.
  • To create and manage your Account or other user profiles.
  • To personalize your experience, website content and communications based on your preferences, including targeted offers and ads served through the Service.
  • To process orders or other transactions.
  • To respond to user inquiries and fulfill user requests.
  • To market, improve, and develop the Service, including testing, research, analysis, and product development (including creation, enhancement, and distribution of Profiles).
  • To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Service.
  • To comply with our legal or contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Service.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • For any other business purpose stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

 

Information About Your Use of Our Service

 

We may collect usage information about your use of our Service, such as the number of problems you have attempted, the number of videos you have viewed, and the amount of time spent to complete a problem. This enables us to better tailor educational experiences that are most appropriate for you.

Location information

 

We may collect and use information about your location (such as your country) or infer your approximate location based on your IP address in order to provide you with tailored educational experiences for your region, but we don’t collect the precise geolocation of you or your device. You may be able to change the settings on your computer or mobile device to prevent it from providing us with any location information.

 

Payment and applicant information

 

If you pay IDEAS For Us through any payment source, we may obtain your name and mailing address to send a thank you note, or if you apply for a job with IDEAS For Us via an online recruiting, we will obtain the information you provide in your application for that purpose.

Usage and Device Information

 

To provide a personalized learning and high-quality experience for our users, we may use various technologies that automatically record certain technical information from your browser or device when you visit our website, read our emails, use our Service or otherwise engage with us. This information is typically collected through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, Flash objects, log files, and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”). These tracking technologies cookies collect information about how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on the Service), information about your browser and online usage patterns (e.g., Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, pages viewed, whether you opened an email, links clicked), and information about the device(s) you use to access the Service (e.g., mobile device identifier, mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and model, and whether you access the Service from multiple devices). We may collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Sites and to understand more about the demographics of our users. You can learn more about Google’s practices at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and view its currently available opt-out options at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We may also work with third party partners to employ technologies, including the application of statistical modeling tools, which permit us to recognize and contact you across multiple devices. Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our users, we are unable to respond to Do Not Track signals set by your browser at this time.

 

We use or may use the data collected through tracking technologies to better display our website, to save you time, to provide better technical support, for promotional purposes, and to track website usage. For example, cookies help us to:

 

  • Keep track of whether you are signed in or have previously signed in so that we can display all the features that are available to you.
  • Remember your settings on the pages you visit, so that we can display your preferred content the next time you visit.
  • Customize the function and appearance of the pages you visit based on information relating to your account; for example, in order to default you to a particular study level, or to remember customized settings for a report.
  • Track website usage for various purposes including sales, marketing, and billing.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features and services (particularly those that require you to sign-in) may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.

 

Deleting cookies does not delete Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as Flash objects and HTML5. You can learn more about Flash objects – including how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies – on Adobe’s website or by clicking here. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. Please consult your browser’s “Help” function to learn more. If you choose to delete Flash objects from our sites, then you may not be able to access and use all or part of the sites or benefit from the information and services offered.

 

We and our third-party partners may also use cookies and tracking technologies for advertising purposes.

How We Use the Information We Collect

 

IDEAS For Us uses this information in the following ways:

 

  • To provide and enhance our Service.

IDEAS For Us uses the information you provide or that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features of our Service.

 

  • To personalize your experience.

We use the information to personalize your experience while using the Service, including on various devices you may use to access the website. For instance, IDEAS For Us remembers your recent activity so we can recommend the most appropriate content for you on your next visit and provide personalized learning experiences.

 

  • To communicate with you.

We use your information to communicate with you about your account and respond to inquiries. We may also use your Personal Information to provide you with information about IDEAS For Us’s features, services and other offerings that may be of interest to you.

 

  • To understand, improve, and develop our Service.

IDEAS For Us uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect from users to understand and analyze the usage trends, learning behaviors, and preferences of our users, to improve the way the website works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.

 

We may also use information to maintain, develop, support, and improve our website and other educational products and services.

 

  • To enable your participation in IDEAS For Us partnership arrangements.

We use your information to enable your participation in programs or features we may offer in partnership with third parties, to the extent you wish to participate in such programs.

 

For personal data subject to the European Union General Data Processing Regulations (“GDPR”), we rely on several legal bases to process the data. These legal bases include where:

 

The processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations in our Terms of Service or other contracts with you (such as to provide you the Service as described in our Terms of Service);

 

You have given your prior consent, which you may withdraw at any time (such as for marketing purposes or other purposes we obtain your consent for from time to time);

 

The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, a court order or to exercise or defend legal claims;

 

The processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, such as in improving, personalizing, and developing the Service, marketing the Service, such as new features or products that may be of interest, and promoting safety and security as described above.

 

If you have any questions about or would like further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

 

How We Share or Transfer Data

 

IDEAS For Us takes great care to protect the information you provide us. We do not rent or sell Personal Information that we collect from users with third parties.

 

IDEAS For Us will disclose personal information when you post content which is visible to others on the Service, when you consent or instruct us to share your personal information with third parties, or when we have a legitimate business or legal need to share your information. We may also disclose anonymous or aggregate information that does not reasonably identify you as an individual. To learn more, see additional description below.

 

When Information is Visible to Others on the Website by Default

 

Certain features and functions of the website shares or makes your information accessible to others. As with most online services, once you make your Personal Information available to others online, it may be collected and used by the recipients or any other website visitor without restriction. You may wish to use a nickname or alias in your profile if you do not want your personal information shared with others in this way. For example, your personal information may be visible to others in the following circumstances:

 

Information you post to public spaces of the website. When you post a question or answer to the website, your profile, which could include your name, short biography, and city-level location, as well as the content of your posted comment, is visible to others on the website.

 

Connecting with a Coach. When your account is connected to a Coach on the website, the Coach will be able to see your profile information and your activities on the website, such as which videos you have watched, the questions and responses you post, and other usage information. Coaches may also be able to see your name (not only your username) as well as your email address, if you include that information in your account profile.

 

With Your Consent or According to Your Instructions

 

You may provide consent or authorization to share your personal information with third party applications or services in several ways. Please note that these third parties are not governed by IDEAS For Us or the terms of this Privacy Policy. We recommend you review the privacy policy of any third-party application or service before authorizing access to your IDEAS For Us account information.

 

We may share data with social networks at your request. Some of our users choose to connect their IDEAS For Us account with social networks. This functionality is entirely optional. If you have explicitly agreed that we may do so, IDEAS For Us may disclose your Personal Information through a social network or similar service (like Facebook/Meta or Google). To control the information that you share, you have the option of modifying your IDEAS For Us or social network settings or disconnecting your social network account from your IDEAS For Us account.

 

We may share data with third-party applications that you authorize. Third-party application developers and service providers (commonly known as “App Developers”) may build complementary services for our platform, such as a mobile application for visually-impaired learners to access our resources, or may use our IDEAS For Us content to build unaffiliated applications and services. If you connect your IDEAS For Us account to an application or service or approve access to your IDEAS For Us account by a third party application or service, you consent to IDEAS For Us sharing your information with that third party.

 

We may share data in connection with special programs you participate in. If you participate in special programs where IDEAS For Us partners with third parties, IDEAS For Us may share data collected from or about you with its third-party partners to facilitate the program or services being offered. For instance, if you participate in IDEAS For Us ‘s program with a third-party platform, IDEAS For Us may share information regarding your study habits, tests taken, and test scores with this third-party platform. These program partners may use your information we share with them as described in their own privacy policies.

 

We may share information with your consent. IDEAS For Us does not share your Personal Information with third-party organizations for their marketing or promotional use without your consent. In some instances, you may be able to grant us permission to share your Personal Information with authorized partners, not-for-profit organizations, and other entities that are not affiliated with IDEAS For Us. In these cases, we will only provide to these third parties the information you have authorized or asked us to share to these third parties. You may also choose to share content with others by email, or by posting IDEAS For Us content to social media sites such as Facebook/Meta or Twitter. These third parties may use your information as described in their own privacy policies.

 

We May Share Anonymous or Aggregate Data With Others

 

We may use data which has been de-identified and/or aggregated for product development, research, analytics, and other purposes, including for the purpose of analyzing, improving, or marketing the IDEAS For Us Services. In certain occasions, IDEAS For Us may share this data with business partners to improve our services or offerings. If we disclose information to authorized business partners to conduct research on online education or assist in understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns for certain programs, content, services, promotions, and/or functionality on our Service, such data will be aggregated and/or anonymized to reasonably avoid identification of a specific individual.

 

Other Instances Where We May Share or Disclose Information for Legal or Business Purposes

 

We will share data with employees and service providers. IDEAS For Us may share information with our employees and trusted vendors, third party service providers and other individuals to provide services or products for us or on our behalf, which could include analytics, hosting, marketing and similar services. When we share personal information with third party service providers or vendors, these third parties are contractually obligated to maintain the security and confidentiality of that personal information.

 

We may share data in the context of a change of business, including a merger or acquisition. In the event that IDEAS For Us is involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, change of control, or any form of sale of some or all of our assets, your personal information may be transferred or disclosed in connection with such business transaction. If the transaction involves the transfer of Student Records to a third party, we will require the new owner to continue to honor the terms provided in this Privacy Policy, or we will provide the School with notice and an opportunity to opt-out of the transfer of Student Records by deleting Student Records before the transfer occurs.

 

Other instances. IDEAS For Us may release Personal Information if we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (d) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of IDEAS For Us, our users, or the public; or (f) as required or permitted by law.

 

Messages from IDEAS For Us

 

We may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services, or other third-party products and services we think you may enjoy. For example, if we partner with a not-for-profit organization running a contest in your region, we may send you an email notifying you of the partnership or contest. We will not share your information with the third party unless you opt-in to participate in the partnership or contest, and if so, the information we would share would be limited to that needed to facilitate your participation in the contest and enable you to redeem your prize. You can unsubscribe from these mailings at any time.

 

Sponsored Content

 

IDEAS For Us does not display any third-party advertisements on the website. From time to time, we permit third parties to sponsor content displayed on our Service. For example, for-profit organizations may wish to sponsor all content related to a particular educational topic, content will always be labeled (e.g., “Sponsored by ___”). IDEAS For Us does not share any of our users’ Personal Information with these sponsors without explicit consent, and these sponsors do not have the ability to track or collect information about our site visitors or users. As a non-profit organization, IDEAS For Us relies on our sponsors, donors, and other contributors to provide funding necessary to provide the Service to our users.

 

Please note: From time to time, we may display YouTube video content created by third parties and not by IDEAS For Us. While IDEAS For Us -created video content does not display video advertisements, third party content may include advertising which we cannot control.

 

Third Parties and Online Advertising

 

Interest Based Advertising

 

IDEAS For Us does not display any targeted advertising on our website. However, we participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements on other websites, apps or services, including on Facebook and other social networks, or on other devices you may use. These third party ad networks use tracking technologies to recognize your browser or device and to collect information about your visit to our Service to provide you customized content, advertising and commercial messages which may be more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research.

 

Please note that we use our best efforts and take multiple steps to avoid the collection of information for targeted advertising purposes when we believe the Service is being used by students or children under 13. For example, we take steps to inhibit these third-party advertising networks from collecting information for targeted advertising purposes on webpages with child-directed content or when a student or child user logs into the website.

 

To learn about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources, at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices , and/or the DAA’s resources at http://www.aboutads.info/choices . You may also manage certain advertising cookies by visiting the EU-based Your Online Choices at http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ . You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some – but not all – interest-based ads served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.

 

Please note that opting-out of receiving interest-based advertising through the NAI’s and DAA’s online resources will only opt-out a user from receiving interest-based ads on that specific browser or device, but the user may still receive interest-based ads on his or her other devices. You must perform the opt-out on each browser or device you use.

 

YouTube

 

IDEAS For Us uses YouTube to display video content on the website. YouTube incorporates tracking technologies, which may be present in the YouTube videos embedded on the Service, which may collect information from your browser when you view the video on the website, including device identifiers and/or cookie IDs. This information is collected directly and automatically by YouTube and its partners, and IDEAS For Us does not participate in these data transmissions. IDEAS For Us does not provide any Personal Information, such as usernames, to YouTube.

 

IDEAS For Us has taken steps to minimize this tracking activity, to the extent we have controls over a third-party’s practices. We have turned on “Privacy-Enhanced Mode” for YouTube videos displayed on the Service. We also utilize Google’s “child-directed treatment” tags to alert Google that these YouTube videos may be embedded on webpages visited by children or students. You can learn more about Google’s practices at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners . You may also be able to control ad tracking through YouTube by visiting the Google Ad Settings page, currently available at: https://adssettings.google.com .

 

Your Choice and Options Relating to Data Collection and Use

 

At IDEAS For Us, we use Personal Information as needed for the purposes for which it was collected or where you have consented to our use of your Personal Information. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information we store, and use is accurate, complete, and up to date. If you discover that Personal Information or other data pertaining to you is inaccurate, incomplete, or out-of-date, please update your account information or contact us as outlined below.

 

You Can Choose Not to Provide Us With Personal Information

 

You may always decline to provide your Personal Information with IDEAS For Us. Registration is not required to access most of our online resources. If you decline to register, however, IDEAS For Us will not be able to provide to you certain features and functionalities found on our Service. You may later enable or access those features by providing IDEAS For Us with the necessary Personal Information.

 

You can choose to provide only information which does not reasonably identify you to others. We recommend you select a username which is not related to your actual name, for example. You can also decline to provide any optional data in your public profile.

 

You Can Disconnect us From Integrated Services

 

You may revoke IDEAS For Us’s access to your account on any Integrated Service, such as Google or Facebook/Meta, at any time by updating the appropriate settings in the account preferences of the respective Integrated Service. You should check your privacy settings on each Integrated Service to understand and change the information sent to us through each Integrated Service. Please review each Integrated Service’s terms of use and privacy policies carefully before using their services and connecting to our Service.

 

You Can Unsubscribe from Email Communications

 

IDEAS For Us may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services, or products and services we think you may enjoy. Only IDEAS For Us (or our vendors or service providers operating on our behalf) will send you these emails. You can choose not to receive these emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in any e-mail. Please note that you are not permitted to unsubscribe or opt-out of non-promotional messages regarding your account, such as account verification, changes or updates to features of the Service, or technical or security notices.

 

California Children’s Privacy Rights

 

If you are under the age of 18 residing in California, you are entitled to request removal of content or information you have posted publicly on our Service. To delete your entire account and remove all of your information displayed publicly on the Service, log into your account and select “delete your account” through Settings. To request deletion or de-identification of a specific question, answer or other post displayed publicly on the website, please email us at contact@ideasforus.org for assistance. You must be able to identify the particular post you wish to be deleted or de-identified so that we can locate it on the website. Please note that removal of your content or information does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal, as there may be de-identified or recoverable elements of your content or information on our servers in some form. Additionally, we will not remove content or information that we may be required to retain under applicable federal and state laws.

 

How to Access, Update, or Delete Your Personal Information

 

We want you to have access to your information, so that you can help keep it as accurate as possible. If you register and provide IDEAS For Us with Personal Information, you may update, correct, or delete your account and information at any time by reviewing your profile information and preferences on your account settings page.

 

How to Delete Your Information

 

To request deletion of your personal information at any time, please email us at contact@ideasforus.org. Please note that your information will be retained in backup for up to one week. If you log back into your account within 24 hours, your account will not be deleted, and you will need to go through the deletion process again.

We may not be able to delete data in all instances, such as information retained in technical support logs and other business records. We will not be required to delete any information which has been de-identified or disassociated with personal identifiers such that it can no longer be used to reasonably identify a particular individual.

 

Unless we receive a deletion request, we will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as is reasonably useful for operational purposes. For example, we may retain certain data as necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, for recordkeeping or other legitimate business purposes, or if required by law. We may also retain information which has been de-identified or aggregated such that it can no longer reasonably identify a particular individual. All retained personal information will remain subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

 

Our approach to Data Security

 

Data security is important to you, and to us.

 

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting your account access or making corrections to your information. For example, we may ask you to provide certain Personal Information to confirm your identity, and we may require that you create and use a password to access certain parts of our website. You should create and maintain a strong password to help ensure the security of your account.

 

We try to ensure that our Service and information sent to us are safe, but no security measures are perfect.

IDEAS For Us uses certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information and other information we maintain in connection with our website. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any or all of the information you transmit to IDEAS For Us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, IDEAS For Us makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. When you enter sensitive information, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) or similar technologies. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and will notify you of the security incident in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

 

Users and Records

 

IDEAS For Us is a for-profit organization dedicated to providing, educational content. We strive to implement best practices to protect the privacy of all of our student and non-student users, alike.

 

International Visitors

 

Our Service is operated and managed on servers located within the United States. If you choose to use our Service from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that differ from United States law, then you acknowledge that IDEAS For Us will transfer your personal information to the United States for the purpose of performing the Service according to our contract (e.g., our Terms of Service) and for any other purpose for which you provide explicit, informed consent.

 

European Union Data Protection

 

Residents in the European Union are entitled to certain rights with respect to personal information that we hold about them:

 

Right of access and portability. The right to obtain access to your personal information, along with certain related information, and to receive that information in a commonly used format and to have it transferred to another data controller;

 

Right to rectification. The right to obtain rectification of your personal information without undue delay where that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete;

 

Right to erasure. The right to obtain the erasure of your personal information without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed;

 

Right to restriction. The right to obtain the restriction of the processing undertaken by us on your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of that personal information; and

 

Right to object. The right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal information, and to object to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, to the extent it is related to such direct marketing.

 

You may also have the right to make a complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority. A list of Supervisory Authorities is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm . If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law. In some cases our ability to uphold these rights for you may depend upon our obligations to process personal information for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request.

 

Links to Other Sites

 

The website may link to and may be linked by websites operated by other entities or individuals. Some of these websites, such as the IDEAS For Us Facebook/Meta page, may be co-branded with our name or logo. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot always control the activities of, such other third-party websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of those third-party websites.

 

Changes and Updates to This Privacy Policy

 

IDEAS For Us may modify or revise this Privacy Policy from time to time IDEAS For Us will notify users of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy with an updated date of revision on our website. If we change this Policy in a material manner, we will do our best to notify you of the changes by posting a notice on our website. Your continued use of the website following the effective date of such update constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy.

 

Contacting IDEAS For Us

 

Please contact IDEAS For Us with any questions or comments.

By email: contact@ideasforus.org

PRIVACY POLICY IN SUMMARY….

 

Who we are

 

Our website address is: https://ideasforus.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it.

 

Comments

 

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

 

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Media

 

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.

 

Cookies

 

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

 

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

 

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

 

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

 

Embedded Content from Other Websites

 

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

 

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Learning Management System

 

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

 

– Send you information about your account and order

 

– Create your account for our LMS

 

If you register a free account then we will store your email address. We store information about you for as long as your account exists. We store course progress, including completion status, quiz scores, assignments and/or essay submissions (if applicable). We will also store comments on courses, lessons, topics, assignments, and essays if you choose to leave them.

 

Payments

 

In this subsection you should list which third party payment processors you’re using to take payments on your store since these may handle customer data.

 

When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to the payment processor, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

 

We Collect Information About You During the Checkout Process on our Store

 

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

 

Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed. Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping. Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order! We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

 

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

 

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
  • If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 3 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

 

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

 

Who on Our Team Has Access

 

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

 

Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information. Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

 

What we Share With Others

 

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —

 

Payments

 

We accept payments through Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to these payment platforms, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

 

Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details HERE.

 

Analytics

 

How long we retain your data

 

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

 

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide 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.

 

What rights you have over your data

 

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

 

Where we send your data

 

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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