APPERSON PRIVACY POLICY
Apperson, Inc. (“Apperson”), as a company dedicated to providing schools and youth-serving organizations with educational services, understands that privacy and data security are vital concerns to schools, youth-serving organizations, teachers, parents and students. Apperson shares these concerns. We are committed to protecting your personal information and satisfying the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable legal requirements through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes, in plain English:
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will handle it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, as described in How May We Change Our Privacy Policy? below. Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Services. This information includes the following:
Information You Provide Directly to Us. The information we collect on or through our Services may include the following:
Information We Collect Automatically. As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns, including:
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services, known as behavioral tracking. See below for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data. This data helps us to improve our Services and to deliver better and more personalized features to you, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include browser cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Services.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We may also use information we collect to contact schools and teachers about our own and third parties’ goods and services that we believe may be of interest. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please send us an email at graysquirrel@charactertree.com. For more information, see What Are Your Choices About How We Use and Share Your Information? below.
How Is Your Information Shared?
We may disclose aggregated information about users of our Services, and information that does not identify any individual, unless prohibited by the terms of our license agreement with you.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
We may also disclose personal information:
Other than as described above, we will never provide your information to anyone for any purpose under any circumstances, including for targeted advertising or marketing purposes.
What Are Your Choices About How We Use and Share Your Information?
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to give you the following controls over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Services may be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from Apperson. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Apperson to promote our products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to graysquirrel@charactertree.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, the email will have an “unsubscribe” feature that will allow you to opt-out of receiving future email distributions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may edit much of your personal information in your account settings within the Services. For information that cannot be edited by you or an account administrator, the account administrator may send us an e-mail at graysquirrel@charactertree.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.
We cannot delete all of your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
How Is Your Information Kept Secure?
We have implemented and maintain a comprehensive security program that is reasonably designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure through the use of administrative, technological and physical safeguards. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls and will be backed up on a regular basis. Any online payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorized disclosure, access, alteration or use of your information associated with your Apperson account, or of circumstances that could have resulted in unauthorized access to or disclosure or use of such information, we will notify you or the relevant school authorities, as appropriate, fully investigate the incident, and cooperate fully with any investigation of and response to the incident. Except as otherwise required by law, we will not provide notice of the incident directly to other individuals whose Information was involved, regulatory agencies, or other entities without prior written permission from you or the relevant school authorities, as appropriate.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Services. Except as otherwise agreed in our license agreement with you, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained within the Services.
What Is Our Data Retention Policy?
We will retain any personal information we collect through the Services only as needed to provide the Services to you. We also may retain and use your information as we deem necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
How May We Change Our Privacy Policy?
We post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes regarding how we treat your personal information, we will notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified in your account, if you have one, and provide appropriate online notice to you. Your continued use of the Services after receiving such notice means that you have consented to such changes. The date the Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the bottom of this page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active and deliverable e-mail address for you.
What If You Have Questions or Comments?
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us at graysquirrel@charactertree.com.
Updated: August 1, 2019