Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes the information that Technology for Education Consortium (“TEC”) and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“we,” “our” or “us”) collect through the www.techedconsortium.org website (the “Site”) and through your use of our membership services and how we use it, how we protect it, and the choices you can make about your information. Throughout this Privacy Policy “information” includes personal information about you.

PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY or the terms of use (the “Terms”), DO NOT USE OR VISIT THE SITE. BY USING OR VISITING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS.

CONSENT:

If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the Site is hosted in the United States. Therefore, your information, including any personal information provided through the Site may be processed and stored in the United States. As a result, United States federal and state governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States. Your use of the Site or your submission of any information to us will constitute your consent to the transfer of your information outside of your country of residence, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country. Please contact us at info@techedconsortium.org if you have any questions about how your information may be processed or stored in the United States.

Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information in the manner described below.

1.    You may voluntarily provide us with information, including:

  • Your name, title, school district, school, email address, user name, a password, and any other information that you provide in registering on the Site and in using our products or services and other information to use the Site;
  • Information when you contact or interact with us (for example, regarding support); and
  • Any other information you voluntarily provide us with including your comments, content or information in connection with using the Site.

2.    Any information we may receive through a third-party social networking service may be used as described in this Privacy Policy.

3.    We may automatically collect other information about you, including:

  • Web browser type
  • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address
  • Domain name of your Internet service provider
  • Your geographic location
  • The Site pages that you visit and the time of your visits
  • Aggregated information that cannot be used to specifically identify you when you use or visit the Site.

4.    We may collect information about school districts from publicly available sources.

5.    We may combine any of the information we collect from publically available data sources and directly from our members and use it in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information that we collect for the following purposes, including:

  • The purposes for which you provided it
  • For fulfillment of requests
  • To identify you as a user of the Site
  • To create or add to your registered account
  • To send you information about your relationship with us
  • To contact you with information that we believe will be of interest to you
  • To process and respond to your inquiries (for example, regarding support or other requests)
  • For research that we or a third party may perform regarding the Site
  • To create anonymous data, which we may use for any purpose
  • To compile aggregate data for internal and external business purposes
  • To generate and review reports and data about our user base and service usage patterns
  • To analyze the accuracy, effectiveness, usability or popularity of the Site
  • To improve the content and features of the Site
  • To prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft and otherwise protect our users and our business
  • To administer and troubleshoot the Site
  • As otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, the Terms or the TEC Data Policy.

How Your Information is Disclosed

Information may be disclosed to third parties in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please note that a user may choose not to share certain information as described in “Your Choices Regarding Your Information” below.

1.    Third Parties. We may use third parties to perform functions in connection with the Site. We may share information about you that they need to perform their functions and in accordance with our agreements with them.

2.    Business Changes. If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, joint venture, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, [conversion] or other transaction, we may share or transfer your information to a third party or parties in connection therewith.

3.    Subsidiaries and Affiliates. We may also share your information with any subsidiary or affiliate of ours for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any subsidiary or affiliate of ours will be required to maintain that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

4.    Investigations and Law. Regardless of the choices you make regarding your information (as described below) and to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may disclose information about you to third parties to:

  • To enforce or apply the Terms or the TEC Data Policy
  • Comply with law, in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process or cooperate with government or law enforcement officials or private parties, including laws outside of your country of residence
  • Protect our rights, reputation, safety and property, or that of our users or others
  • Protect against legal liability
  • Establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims
  • To investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected illegal activities, suspected fraud, the rights, reputation, safety or property of us, users or others, violation of the Terms or the TEC Data Policy, our policies or agreements or as otherwise required by law.

5.    Aggregated Anonymous Information. We may share aggregated anonymous information relating to visitors to and users of the Site with affiliated or unaffiliated third parties.

6.    TEC Data Policy. We may disclose information about you in accordance with the TEC Data Policy.

7.    Cookies; Do Not Track. Please see Cookies; Do Not Track below.

 

Cookies; Do Not Track

 

1.    Cookies. We, along with third parties, use cookies. Cookies are small bits of information that are transferred to and stored in separate files within your computer’s browser. Persistent cookies remain on the visitor’s computer after the browser has been closed. Session cookies exist only during a visitor’s online session and disappear from the visitor’s computer when they close the browser software. You can instruct your browser to stop accepting cookies. But if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions or all functionality of the Site.

Third parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual user’s online activities over time and across different websites when a user uses the Site.

 

Below are links regarding opting out of different analytics.

 

Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. Website owners can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. Please review the following links to better understand Google’s practices:  https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.To opt out, please see: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

To opt out of Crazy Egg, please see https://www.crazyegg.com/opt-out

 

To opt out of Mixpanel, please see https://mixpanel.com/optout/

 

  1. Do Not Track. At this time, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent from Web browsers or other mechanisms that provide users the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about a user’s online activities over time and across third party websites.

 

Security

While we take reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures to protect the information you submit via the Site against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. No Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Email sent to or from the Site may not be secure. You should use caution whenever submitting information online and take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies to the Site. The Site may contain links to other websites to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. Links from the Site do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed those websites. The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to these websites. We neither can control nor are responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites. We suggest contacting these websites directly for information on their privacy policies.

 

Your Choices Regarding Your Information

You have choices regarding the use of information on the Site.

1. Changing Your Information. You may make changes to your information, including keeping your information accurate or deleting your information, by contacting us at membership@techedconsortium.org.

2.   Cookies; Do Not Track. Please see Cookies; Do Not Track above.

Children

We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under age 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any personal information through the Site. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal information from an individual under age 18, please contact us immediately at info@techedconsortium.org.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any information. This Privacy Policy was made effective on the date indicated above.

How to Contact Us

Please feel free to contact us at info@techedconsortium.org if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.