Privacy Policy
Last updated 3/1/2009
K12Genie Inc. is committed to providing privacy for our web site visitors as well as recipients of our email messages. We promote the tenets of opt-in email and privacy among our partners and employees. We are continuously evaluating our internal procedures and technology to ensure privacy at all levels of our organization.
Information Tracked
At times we may use your IP address when necessary to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. We also may track browser types to help us understand our visitors’ needs related to our web site design. To the extent feasible, we will do so in a way that makes your personal information non-personally identifiable by aggregating data or removing identifying characteristics.
There are registration and application sections of our web site where input forms require your name, e-mail address and other information. By submitting such forms, you give us permission to send email messages to you containing information relating to your interest in and business with K12Genie.com and K12Genie Inc. services.
Cookies
Client-side cookies are used to verify the login status of visitors and registered users of our web site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If visitors reject a cookie, they may still use our site; however, they may not be able to log in, or access all areas of our site. (Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences.)
Security and Privacy
K12Genie.com uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We store the information in a database in a secure environment at our secure data center.
We will never share, sell, or rent your individual personal information with or to any individual or organization without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you, processing your business transactions, or sending you e-mails related to your business with K12Genie Inc..
Links to other Web Sites
K12Genie contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other web sites to which we link.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements appear on K12Genie.com and are sometimes delivered directly to users by third party advertisers or companies that place advertising. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party companies may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. K12Genie does not control these cookies placed by the third party companies. These companies, in turn, have no access to your contact information stored on K12Genie.com unless you choose to share it with them.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to K12Genie sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.
Personal Information
When you use K12Genie.com, you may set up your personal profile and provide information through various means. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.
Access and control over most personal information on K12Genie.com is readily available through the profile editing tools. Users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account.
We recommend that minors consult their parents prior to submitting any information to K12Genie.
User Posted Content
You post user content on the site at your own risk. We do not guarantee that user content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user content.
Unless specifically requested, we do not solicit nor do we wish to receive any confidential, secret or proprietary information through our website, by e-mail or in any other way. Any information, creative works, demos, ideas, suggestions, concepts, methods, systems, designs, plans, techniques or other materials submitted or sent to us (including, for example and without limitation, submissions or posts to our chat rooms, message boards, blogs, or other method of communication) will be deemed not to be confidential or secret, and may be used by us in any manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
By submitting materials to us, you represent that this material is original to you, that no other party has any rights thereto, and you grant us and our affiliates a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully transferable, assignable and sublicensable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and incorporate in other works any submitted materials (in whole or part) in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional and/or commercial purposes. We cannot be responsible for maintaining any submitted material that you provide to us, and we may delete or destroy any such material at any time.
Use of Collected Information
K12Genie may use aggregated user information and online habits to improve our services. In addition, this aggregated information may be sold to third parties. This information includes but is not limited to your reading or online purchasing habits.
Compliance with Laws
We may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena.
Notification of Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we will prominently post these changes to ensure that 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 prominently posting notice of the changes on our website. Any change to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately. Any such changes may affect our use and sharing of personal information that you provided to us before our notification to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit changes in our collection, use, or sharing of personal information that you have provided to us before the effective date of such changes, you must notify us before that effective date. Please be advised, however, that regardless of whether you provide such notice to us, the changes to this Privacy Policy will apply to any personal information that you provide to us on of after the effective date of such changes.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or this web site, please contact us at: info@k12genie.com.
