EDUCATION 2020's Privacy Policy
EDUCATION 2020 (E2020, Inc.), is committed to protecting you
and your family's privacy when you visit any of our family of web
sites, or use our electronic services, such as product
registration or technical support. EDUCATION 2020 does not
require anyone to register or share personal information
to visit most of our web sites. However, many of our sites and
online products require registration to access content or other
privileges provided. We do not knowingly collect and keep any
of your personal information unless you volunteer it. In addition,
we do not knowingly collect and keep personal information from
children under the age of 13 without parental consent. Please
review the information below to familiarize yourself with our
policies on web site privacy. By visiting any EDUCATION 2020
sites, you hereby agree to all the terms set forth within this
Privacy Policy and listed in the Terms of Use section.
A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS:
EDUCATION 2020 adheres to the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA) and the guidelines of the Children's Advertising
Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus,
Inc. Parents can help by spending time online with your children
and monitoring your children's online use. Please help us protect
your child's privacy by instructing them never to provide personal
information on this site or any other, or within any software
registration process, without your permission.
Does EDUCATION 2020 collect any personal
information about me if I'm 13 or older?
EDUCATION 2020 doesn't require anyone to share any personal information
about them in order to visit our web sites. However, many of
our sites contain special sections and privileges for registered
members. We do not collect any personal information from you
unless it is provided voluntarily, for example: when you sign
a guest book, register for contests, downloads, or free demos,
complete our online customer surveys, send online greeting cards,
purchase products, etc. Visitors to our sites must be 18 years
or older with a valid credit card to purchase products. The personal
information we may ask for includes first and last name, mailing
address, phone number, and an email address (in addition we may
collect credit card information and mailing and/or shipping address
information if you are purchasing products from one of our sites).
See below for how we use this information.
Does EDUCATION 2020 collect any personal
information about anyone under 13?
EDUCATION 2020 courseware is not intended for children under
13.
If we determine a child under 13 sends a request to us, we
keep their email address for long enough to respond to them.
EDUCATION 2020 deletes this information from our system after
we answer their question.
What does EDUCATION 2020 do with the
information we collect? Does EDUCATION 2020 share information
about me with others?
We use the personal information we collect for the purposes indicated
at the time you provide such information. For instance, if you
register in a contest, we will use the registration information
to notify contest winners; if you purchase a product, we will
use the information to fulfill the order; if you send an online
greeting card, we will use the information to deliver the greeting
to the provided recipient; etc. Only with consent at the time
we ask for information, we might also email or mail you to provide
you with information on upcoming EDUCATIN news and products,
web site updates, updates on your order, and promotions. With
your additional consent, we may also share information with third
parties so that they can inform you and your family about their
products, which might be of interest to you. EDUCATION 2020 never
knowingly promotes directly to children under the age of 18.
In addition, we may disclose personal information in the good
faith belief that we are required to do so by law, and/or in
cooperation with law enforcement or other government officials
in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property
infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose
us to legal liability.
Except for maintenance and security reasons, we never knowingly
share personal information that we receive from children under
13 with other companies. If you prefer, we will remove your name
from the list we provide to outside companies. To do so, please
email us at info@education 2020.com and use the subject line
"REMOVE." In special circumstances, EDUCATION 2020
may give other companies access to our information database,
but only if necessary for database or server maintenance, security,
or other similar services. In addition, EDUCATION 2020 may employ
other companies to perform functions on our behalf. Examples
include sending email, supplementing information or removing
repetitive or erroneous information from customer lists and providing
customer service. These entities have access to this information
to perform these functions on behalf of EDUCATION 2020 only and
may not use it for any other purpose. If we do provide access,
we require those other companies to sign confidentiality agreements
promising to keep secret any information they see. If EDUCATION
2020 believes that anyone's behavior on any of our sites may
damage us, our sites, or anyone else, we may disclose the relevant
personal information in order to prevent harm. In that case,
we might try to identify the wrongdoer, contact them, or bring
legal action against them. We may also disclose personal information
if we believe that the disclosure is required by law. In the
event that any of the assets relating to EDUCATION 2020 are transferred
or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information
may be transferred to the acquiring entity consistent with the
terms of such agreement.
How do I change my contact and information
usage preferences?
If, at any time, you want to stop receiving such updates and
product information from EDUCATION 2020 or our affiliates, contact
us to unsubscribe. It is recommended that you use the links at
the bottom of the email you last received for removal from the
email list.
Otherwise if you are receiving educator communications, contact
us at info@riverdeep.net. Please type "REMOVE" in the
subject line of the email.
We often have messages for our customers scheduled several
weeks in advance, so unsubscribe requests can take up to three
to four weeks to process through our system. Thank you for your
patience.
How does EDUCATION 2020 use cookies
and other similar tracking mechanisms?
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small file that we save on your computer's
hard drive which contains non-personal information. These cookies
help to give you faster access to pages you have already visited;
they allow you to personalize your pages; and they help you to
participate in some activities or events on the site and optimize
your shopping experience at our sites. We also use cookies to
help us figure out how many people visit our sites, which of
our web pages they visit, and how long they stay there. If you
are visiting any of our shopping sites cookies keep track of
items in your shopping cart and wish list. This information helps
us figure out which of our web features are highly successful
and which sites might need improvement. You can disable cookies
on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options
menus in your browser. Most browsers accept cookies automatically,
but allow you to disable them.
Session IDs
We use "Session IDs" to also allow EDUCATION 2020 to
identify a particular user across multiple web page requests.
This Session ID is maintained within your cookie file, where
possible. If cookies are not enabled, or if the user's internet
browser program does not support cookies then EDUCATION 2020
will place the Session ID in the requested web page. This allows
the end user to avoid having to continually re-enter certain
information such as account name and password for every web page
request. This Session ID "expires" whenever the user
closes their internet browser.
Web Site Tracking Reporting
Many of our web pages also contain special electronic images
(called a "single-pixel gif" or "gifs") that
allow us to gather only non-personally identifiable traffic statistics
and other aggregate information about visitors to our sites.
We use this technology to collect and accumulate anonymous data
that helps us understand and analyze the experience of people
visiting our web sites and, along with other information you
provide, customize your future visits and improve our web sites.
For example, we capture data on the type of browser used, operating
system software (e.g. Windows 95 vs. 98 or Macintosh), cookie
preferences (whether the user has them turned on or off), and
search engine keywords (what key words did a visitor use to get
to our site). We also record number of visits, paths taken, and
time spent on sites and pages within the EDUCATION 2020 sites.
Please keep in mind that none of this information is personally
identifiable and that we only distribute this information to
internal staff at EDUCATION 2020 and to partners that have signed
confidentiality agreements with us. Any information that we do
share with partners reflects overall web site or Internet usage
trends, not individual.
Log Data
For administrative purposes, we collect IP addresses, which is
the automatic number assigned to your computer when you surf
the web, as well as operating system, browser, URL clickstream
to, through and from our sites, reference site domain name as
well as log time and date every time you visit our sites. This
data is used to maximize the performance and efficiency of our
sites. While the cookie may store first name or user name in
the cookie it does not collect any personally identifiable or
on-line contact information like a full name and address, so
you and your family remain anonymous.
Email Tracking
We also include a small image in most emails that we send to
subscribers. As above, this allows us to gather only non-personally
identifiable traffic statistics and other aggregate information
about our email audience. These images notify special computers
when you open an email and if you clicked on a link within the
email. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our newsletters
and other emails so that we can make sure we're providing you
with the information and content in which you are most interested.
In addition, some advertising networks that serve ads on our
web sites or within our emails may use similar images or other
technology within their banner advertisements to track traffic
statistics. Naturally, once you leave our web sites or emails
by clicking on one of these advertisements, EDUCATION 2020 does
not have control over and is not responsible for the advertising
networks or other third parties and the data they collect.
Subscription Product Data Tracking
EDUCATION 2020 offers products available through its various
sites on a subscription basis. Use of these subscription services
shall constitute your consent to the terms of this privacy policy.
To facilitate these subscription products we may collect and
maintain certain information associated with your subscription.
This information includes, but is not limited to, your subscription
account I.D., records of your access to the subscription service,
start and end date of your subscription as well as any other
usage information that may be necessary to provide a well-maintained
service to all our subscribers.
External links and framed Web pages
Throughout our web site we include links to other web sites.
Our privacy policy does not apply to these external links. The
privacy policy of the third party web site governs the information
collection and usage on such third party site. We urge parents
and teachers to learn more about protecting children on the Internet
by visiting the following sites:
U.S. Department of Education's Parents' Guide to the Internet
SafeKids.com
Does EDUCATION 2020 ever collect information
without consent?
Except in the circumstances described above, EDUCATION 2020 does
not collect information passively through cookies or other tracking
mechanisms. Cookies DON'T contain any personal information about
a specific user. We don't use cookies or other non-consensual
methods to capture personally identifiable information, except
for certain activities like treasure hunts, which we discussed
above. EDUCATION 2020 doesn't use cookies for direct marketing
or promotional purposes. Cookies are not used to collect information
specifically about you or your family for sharing with third
parties.
What if the site uses banner ads?
Ads may be provided, in some cases, by a third party ad service
provider. The ad service provider may place or utilize their
own unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally
identifiable information about your visit to our sites, such
as the number of times you have viewed the ad. EDUCATION 2020
is not responsible for the collection of these cookies and is
not responsible for the actions of the ad service providers.
We may modify our policy from time to time. When this happens
we will notify you of the new policy by posting it on our sites.
Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to
all information we have about you. Please check our site frequently
to see any recent changes.
EDUCATION 2020 Online Curriculum Product
Privacy Policy
This Online Curriculum Product Privacy Policy applies to the
online practices of EDUCATION 2020., A Limited Liability Company,
and its affiliates only.
EDUCATION 2020's privacy policy applies to EDUCATION 2020's
online curriculum based products including Virtual Classroom,
Virtual Tutor, @Home, International and Professional Development
solutions. The EDUCATION 2020 Online Curriculum solutions on
require the disclosure of personally identifiable information.
Student Accounts
All student accounts for EDUCATION 2020 Virtual Classroom
solutions must be created by the student's teacher. EDUCATION
2020 will assign the student account id during the registration
process, which is typically some combination of the student's
first name and some letters of the last name or numbers. The
proposed name will not be the actual student's name. _Passwords
are assigned by the teacher and can be reset by teacher or school
administrator.
Teachers must obtain consent on behalf of the child's parents
in order to register any student under the age of 13 for any
EDUCATION 2020 Virtual Classroom solutions.
Registration
Teachers register their students for Virtual Classroom solutions
by providing a student name, password, grade. Address and student
specific information is optional and not required.
For additional information regarding registration, student
information and privacy policy guidelines, contact us at:
EDUCATION 2020™
Attn: Customer Service
7303 E. Earll Dr., Suite 200
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
877.2020.EDU / 877.202.0338
info@education2020.com
