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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 9th, 2023

1. INTRODUCTION

The Comprehensible Classroom (a/k/a “Classroom”) respects your privacy. We strive to use information to provide the best possible service while respecting the confidentiality of information we are entrusted with. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we may receive or collect when you use our services, as well as some of the methods we use to safeguard your personal information.

2. WHAT WE COLLECT

We collect and store the following personal information from you either via our website or during our correspondence, including but not limited to:

  1. Full Legal (and preferred) name(s)
  2. Phone Number
  3. Email address
  4. Home Address
  5. Billing Address (if different from the home address)
  6. Username

3. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Your information is stored on secured third party servers behind multiple layers of protection, including firewalls and encryption. While we use third party providers to provide our Platform, we are ultimately responsible for the security of your information. This is a responsibility we do not take lightly. For inquiries about this policy or the data collected and stored by The Comprehensible Classroom, please contact us using the information provided below. 
    
Email:  [email protected]

4. POLICY ON SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

With the limited exception of the third party applications and situations discussed in this section, and in section VII below, we do not share your personal information with anyone outside of our team unless legally required to do so. 
In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of Classroom’s assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

5. HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

Your personal information is used in association with the software license granted to you. You are welcome to review the terms and conditions of that license here. We use your information to contact you related to maintaining your license and access to our software as well as provide you updates as to product improvements, etc.

In addition to being associated with your license, we also maintain a database of active and inactive users for the purposes of tracking site traffic, application interactions, etc. This data is then used to make relevant improvements, fixes, or enhancements to the software tools we provide to you.

Finally, we may, with your consent, send you updates and newsletters about The Comprehensible Classroom and other products or services you may be interested in. 

6. STORED INFORMATION

Information listed in  “II.  WHAT WE COLLECT” above may be stored on The Comprehensible Classroom storage platforms including, but not limited to off site servers provided by Digital Ocean or other service providers. Any and all stored information is backed up to multiple locations in order to ensure data continuity. 

The Comprehensible Classroom strives to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. To that end, you are welcome to inquire as to what information we currently have in our possession about you. In addition, so that we can provide you with the best possible service, we ask that you update your information when it changes so any information used to serve you remains as accurate as possible.
Finally, as previously mentioned, we do collect data about your usage while on the site. This data may or may not be directly associated with your username and other identifiable information. This is to allow us to continually improve our products and services over time and debug potential issues which you may encounter. 

7. ADDITIONAL USES & DISCLOSURES

Unless otherwise described in this Policy, we may also share the information that we collect from you through our Platform as follows:

  1. Affiliates. We may share your information with any of our affiliates. 
  2. Service Providers. We may provide access to your information to select third - parties who perform services on our behalf. These third - parties provide a variety of services to us including but not limited to: billing, sales, marketing, advertising, market research, fulfillment, data storage, analysis and processing, identity verification, fraud and safety protection and legal services. As we retain new service providers, we generally seek contractual assurances from these service providers that they will not use you information in any manner other than to help us provide you with the services and products available from The Comprehensible Classroom. 
  3. Legal Requirements. We may disclose your information when required by law or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process we receive; (b) establish or exercise our legal rights, including enforcing and administering agreements with users; or (c) defend Classroom against legal claims. If we are required by law to disclose your information, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you unless (1) we believe in our sole discretion that providing notice could create a risk of injury or death, or that harm or fraud could be directed to The Comprehensible Classroom or its users; or (2) we are precluded from providing notice by law. We will attempt to provide the notice by email if you have given us an email address. While you may challenge the disclosure request, please be advised we may still be legally required to turn over your information.
  4. Prevention/Investigations Pertaining to Fraudulent or Illegal Activities. We may disclose your information to whomever necessary when we believe it appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Terms of Use or any other legal terms governing use of our Platform, and/or to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of other users.

8. CHILD SUPERVISION

While we certainly don’t have any “mature” or otherwise “adult” content on our site; the site, and the business, are not intended for use by children. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (16 CFR Part 312), we do not collect or store any personal information in regards to children under the age of 13 years old. Any information from a minor under the age of 13 to which we discover having received it in violation of this policy will be deleted including any and all of that information/accounts associated with this minor. If you believe we have any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us using the contact information below.

9. SECURITY 

We employ physical, procedural, and technological security measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. The Comprehensible Classroom may use encryption, passwords, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. No security measures, however, are 100% failsafe. Therefore, we do not promise or guarantee, and thus, you should not expect your personal information or communications will not be collected, disclosed and/or used by others. You should take steps to protect yourself against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a strong password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, keeping your log-in and password private, and not recycling passwords from other websites or accounts. The Comprehensible Classroom is not responsible for the unauthorized use of your information nor for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords, or for any activity on your Account via unauthorized password activity.  

10 .NOTIFICATION RELATED TO A KNOWN BREACH 

While unlikely, in the event of a data breach, we will endeavor to notify you of the exposure of your personal information within a reasonable period of time (a) after having discovered, or being notified of the breach, and (b) after we have stabilized the Platform from additional breaches. Once the Platform has been re-secured and is no longer susceptible to further data breaches, you will be notified using the information you have provided to us in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

11. COOKIE POLICY 

Cookies, not the kind you eat, consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the owner in providing the service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which cookies are installed may also require the user’s consent.

Where the installation of cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document. 

12. REVISION OF PRIVACY POLICY 

This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. The Comprehensible Classroom may change this policy at any time and will post its updated policy on our Platform, sending users a message or otherwise notify you when you are logged into your account. The Comprehensible Classroom encourages you to review this policy regularly for any changes. Your continued access to or use of our Platform will be subject to the terms of the then - current policy.

13. EUROPEAN UNION PRIVACY RIGHTS

As of the date of publishing this Privacy Policy, we DO NOT directly solicit individuals to utilize our Platform from within the European Union, or any jurisdiction outside of the United States. Furthermore, we do not intend for individuals outside of the United States of America to use the Platform for its intended purposes. As such, we do not operate our Platform in strict compliance with GDPR standards. If you are located outside of the United States of America, please do not utilize our Platform.

As a general matter, under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), we are required to disclose individuals with the information regarding how their personal information is collected and processed for residents residing within the European Union (“EU”). Some of the types of personal information we collect would be email addresses, telephone numbers and birthdates. To view a more detailed list of the toes of information we collect, please refer back to “II.  WHAT WE COLLECT” and “IV. HOW YOU INFORMATION IS USED.”

The Comprehensible Classroom is a business entity located in the United States of America (“USA”), individuals who reside out of the country and specifically within the EU will have their information transferred from the EU to the USA. These residents have the right to object to, or restrict data processing, the right to erasure of personal information, and the right to data portability which allows individuals to obtain and use their personal information for their own uses on other platforms. Another right these individuals have is to be able to make a complaint with a local data protection authority. All these rights are specific to individuals within the EU and do not apply to individuals residing exclusively within the USA, or any other county not affiliated with the EU. 

14. FLORIDA DIGITAL BILL OF RIGHTS

On June 6th, 2023, Florida Governor Ron Desantis signed into law Senate Bill 262 named the “Florida Digital Bill of Rights” (“SB 262”) to go into effect on July 1st, 2024.

For further information on Florida Digital Bill of Rights, please visit SB262.com

15. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”), we are required to inform such individuals of the personal information we may collect. CalOPPA is defined as the collection of personal information through the internet regarding an individual who is living in California. Some of the personal information we ask our users to give us, which would fall under the CalOPPA would be email address, telephone number and birthdate. To view a complete list of the types of information we collect, please refer back to “II.  WHAT WE COLLECT” and “IV. HOW YOU INFORMATION IS USED.”

For further information on CalOPPA, please visit consumercal.org.

16. NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTS 

While we don’t specifically market to individuals in Nevada, we recognize that some of you may be visiting our website from there. Under Nevada law, certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of their personal information for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information to additional persons. This personal information includes legal name, physical/mailing address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online. While we don’t sell your information, you’re welcome to email us and let us know you’d like to take advantage of your rights under Nevada law. 

17. GOVERNING LAW

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Vermont and by using our Platform, you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state of Vermont. 

18. CONTACT US

We value your opinions and suggestions. Please email us with any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy at [email protected].

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