Teach Upbeat Privacy Policy
Last updated: May, 2021
Purpose:
TeachUpbeat.com (“Company”, “us”, or “we”) understands that your privacy is important and is committed to protecting it by following our Privacy Policy. The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to explain to you the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit or interact with our website www.teachupbeat.com (“Site”), and what our practices are for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
By using our Site, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including updated versions of it if you continue using our Site. You should therefore read this Privacy Policy carefully as it constitutes a binding agreement between us and you. By using our Site, you also represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or country.
What Does this Privacy Policy Apply To
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through our Site. It does not apply to: (i) information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party; or (ii) information collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on our Site.
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, some of which can be used to identify you personally, including but not limited to, first name, last name, responses to survey questions about the teaching culture at your school, demographics information, and the date and time of your visit to our Site. We may also collect information from you if you communicate with us such as by sending us emails or establish an account through our Site.
We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us through our Site, and automatically as you navigate through our Site such as information that may include details of the usage of our Site, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies (see “Our Cookies Policy” below).
Our Cookies Policy
We may use cookies to collect certain information about your usage of our Site (e.g., links clicked, web pages viewed, etc.). Cookies are small text files that are saved to your computer or device by our Site or third party sites that enable certain features or functionality. Cookies can be “first party” cookies which are cookies sent by our Site or “third party” cookies which are sent by third-party sites or service providers. We or our service providers may use cookies or similar technologies in combination with your account information to help authenticate you when you use our Site, to remember your preferences and registration information, to enhance and personalize your experience on the Site, and to present and help measure and research the usage of our Site. You may disable cookies by turning on a “Do Not Track” feature in your web browser or deleting or flushing them manually. However, if you do so, certain features or functionality of our Site may no longer work properly such as storing your preferences.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To analyze data to inform school administrators, who may also be users of our Site, about opportunities for school culture improvement;
To present our Site and its contents to you;
To provide you with information and to respond to your inquiries, including sending you transaction based emails that you will not able to opt-out from;
To notify you about changes to our Site;
To conduct research and analyze data to improve our Site or services;
To comply with any legal obligations; and
For any other purpose with your consent or any other purpose for which you provided your information.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We will not sell or provide your personal information to any third party for their marketing purposes. We may also disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Privacy Policy, namely:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties who we use to support our business and who are required to use such information only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
To third parties to analyze data regarding our Site, or with third parties who may assist us in servicing, maintaining, or troubleshooting our Site;
To a buyer or other successor to our business in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred;
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
To enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy; or
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our Site, our users or customers, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies, organizations, or law enforcement for the purposes of fraud protection.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We aim to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Cookies and Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You should also have a feature in your web browser to flush or delete all cookies, or a “Do Not Track” feature. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts or certain features or functionality of our Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Marketing Communications From Us. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by us to promote our Site or services, you can opt-out by either checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by logging into the Site and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to admin@teachupbeat.com. We will take reasonably commercial efforts to process your opt-out requests within forty-eight (48) hours of receiving them during normal business hours. Please note, however, that at times we may have to send you transaction or service related emails (e.g., confirming account creation) that you will not have the option to opt-out from.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
If you wish to change or delete your personal information, you may send us an email at admin@teachupbeat.com to correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. Please be advised that we cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we have a legal obligation to preserve the information, or believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. We utilize industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to safeguard the account creation and registration process and signup information.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password and any other login information confidential. We ask you not to share your password or other login information with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not 100% secure at all times. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site and will not be liable for any disclosure or loss of your information during transmission over the Internet. Any transmission of personal information is therefore at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
Links to Third Party Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us such as links to social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus. These third party links are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement by us of the activities or content of these third-parties’ websites or any association with their company or operation. We do not control these third party websites and are therefore not responsible for their privacy or data practices. These third party websites may have their own privacy policies and any information you provide to these other sites will be governed by their privacy policies and practices and not ours. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any website you visit before using that website or providing any personal information about yourself to that website.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to us through our Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information through our Site, register for an account on the Site, use any of the interactive features of the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including but not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as soon as practicable. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13 years of age, please contact us at admin@teachupbeat.com.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: admin@techupbeat.com.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may at times update or change our Privacy Policy. We will post such updated versions on our Site. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring that you periodically visit our Site and this Privacy Policy page to check for any changes.