PRIVACY POLICY
By visiting this website you agree to be
bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree
please do not use or access this site or our services. School Specialty Media is
a division/subsidiary of School Specialty, Inc. ("School Specialty"). If you feel
that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first
contact the Customer Service Department of School Specialty by email at
info@schoolspecialty.com.
Information Collection and Use
School Specialty is the sole owner of the
information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information
to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. School Specialty
collects information from our users at several different points on our website.
We use your information to facilitate the services we provide you in the sale and
distribution of products and services that you request. We maintain a file for you,
with information obtained from your current and past activities on the site, for
use in troubleshooting problems and enforcing our Terms & Conditions of Use.
At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems. You agree that
we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing
and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product
offerings, and customize our site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve
our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
User ID and Password
Your user ID and password are a contract
between you and your school district or purchasing institution and are to be kept
private at all times. It is an express violation of the contract between your purchasing
institution and Learn360 for you to share your user ID and password with someone
who is not a member of Learn360 and legal action will be taken.
If your password has been compromised for
any reason, you should immediately change your password and notify us at
support@Learn360.com.
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Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the
user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies streamline browsing
by saving data that you would otherwise have to reenter continuously. For instance,
setting a cookie on our site ensures that you do not have to log in your password
more than once, which saves time and allows for full access all of the features
of our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our siteMost cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they
automatically delete from your hard drive at the end of a session. When you close
your browser, the cookie simply terminates.
You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although that
may hinder the use of certain features on our site and you may be required to reenter
your password more frequently during a session. The "help" portion of the toolbar
on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies,
how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). We have no access to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We also collect non-personally identifiable
information though our Internet log files, which record data such as IP addresses,
browser types, domain names, and other anonymous statistical data involving the
use of the Website. This information may be used to analyze trends, to administer
the Website, to monitor the Website's use, and to run reports on usage of media
assets. We may link this information to personally identifiable information for
the above mentioned and other purposes, such as personalizing your experience on
the website and evaluating our Internet systems.
Sharing
As we continue to develop our business,
we might sell or buy business operations or assets. In such transactions, customer
information is generally one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event
that the School Specialty Media division of School Specialty, Inc., or substantially
all of its assets or shares is acquired, customer information will be one of the
transferred assets. We may, at any time, partner with another party to provide specific
services. When the user enrolls in these services, we will share names, or other
contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide their services.
Such parties are not permitted to use personally identifiable information except
for the purpose of providing their services.
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Surveys & Contests
Occasionally, our site may request information
from users via voluntary surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or
contests is completely voluntary and the user will choose whether to disclose information. Information requested may
include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic
information. Contact information will be used to notify
winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this site.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect
our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website,
it is protected both online and off-line. [what does this mean?] When users enter
sensitive information into our registration/order form it is encrypted and protected
with SSL, the industry’s leading encryption software..
, We also do everything in our power to protect user information
off-line. All User information stored in our offices is restricted; access is granted
only to those employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example, our billing clerk or a Customer Service representative). Our employees
must use password-protected access to the company's local area network. Furthermore,
ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Any time
new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance
we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure that user information is protected.
Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifiable information
are kept in a secure environment.
It is important for you to protect against
unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when
finished, especially when using a shared computer.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy statement,
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. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify
users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with
the privacy statement under which the information was collected.
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