PRIVACY POLICY
This is the Internet Privacy Policy for the
www.edisonlearning.com web site. You can write to us at
EdisonLearning, Inc., 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
10175. We can be reached by email at
privacyinfo@edisonlearning.com, or you can call us at 1-
212-419-1700.
The www.edisonlearning.com website is designed to facilitate the
sharing of ideas, the communication of EdisonLearning’s initiatives
and to improve the overall effectiveness of our staff, clients,
partners and schools.
EdisonLearning, Inc. (“EdisonLearning”), the sponsor of the
www.edisonlearning.com web site, values individual privacy, and we
want to give our web site visitors the opportunity to know what
information we collect about them and how EdisonLearning collects,
protects, uses, discloses and otherwise manages the information
gathered, in conformance with applicable law. At certain
points on the www.edisonlearning.com web site, you may be asked to
submit information that may personally identify you (“Personal
Information” or “Personally Identifiable Information”). All
Personally Identifiable Information that we gather is collected in
a fair and non-intrusive manner, with your consent, in order to
better serve you. Personally Identifiable Information that
you submit via this web site is only accessible to EdisonLearning’s
employees, contractors and service providers who need the
information for the purposes for which it is collected or as you
consent.
This privacy policy applies to the collection of Personal
Information at www.edisonlearning.com. Different privacy
policies and procedures may apply to the collection of Personal
Information by individual school websites and to information that
EdisonLearning obtains offline.
Unless otherwise stated by EdisonLearning, the content for this
website, including images, artwork, graphics, commercials,
photography, text and information is subject to copyrights,
trademarks and is intellectual property that is owned, controlled
or licensed by EdisonLearning. All title, rights and interest
to the referenced properties are reserved by EdisonLearning.
Access to the website and any downloading, printing or other
authorized use of the content does not transfer any title, right or
interest in the property or otherwise from EdisonLearning.
Hard copies of material from this website must include copyright
notices found with the material.
EdisonLearning reserves the right to limit authorization to this
site at will. EdisonLearning does not authorize the reproduction,
publication, display, modification, sale or distribution of content
of this site in any manner or by any medium, or to create any
hyperlink or other reference or connection to or from this site
without the express written permission of EdisonLearning.
THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENTS AND YOUR USE OF BOTH ARE PROVIDED TO
YOU “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNES FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON
INFRINGEMENT OR ACCURACY OF CONTENTS.
The content of this website may contain substantive and
typographical errors or omissions and EdisonLearning disclaims any
responsibility for any such errors. EdisonLearning retains
the right to discontinue, edit or delete content from the website
at any time without notice.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
For the areas of the www.edisonlearning.com web site where the
collection of Personally Identifiable Information is necessary, you
will be aware that such information is required because you will
have to complete an online form. We may collect Personally
Identifiable Information from you, for example, when you visit
areas on the www.edisonlearning.com where you can submit your name,
address and/or other Personal Information. The Personal
Information that you submit is gathered only on a voluntary basis;
you may choose not to provide Personal Information and you will
still be able to visit most of the web site, although you may not
be able to participate in certain interactive activities.
We may collect limited Personally Identifiable Information,
including, but not limited to your name and/or any “nickname,” date
of birth, email and postal address and any other information that
would allow someone to identify or contact you, as well as
information about your personal/product preferences, survey
responses and online activities, if any, that is known by
EdisonLearning. We may also collect limited Personal
Information about others from you including, but not limited to,
name and email address.
We may collect Personal Information for one of several different
purposes, for example:
• to administer your participation in a
contest or sweepstakes and for other purposes stated on the entry
form, such as to allow us to contact you notification of a
potential prize you may have won; • to allow us
to send you the specific information or materials that you have
requested, such as a newsletter, or other materials; •
to inquire regarding employment or business
opportunities with EdisonLearning; • to help
improve our web site and our services, or to customize your
experience at our web site.
We may combine this information with other generally or publicly
available information to help us identify our visitors' preferences
or interests.
You can choose not to allow us to use or your Personally
Identifiable Information for direct marketing purposes by
indicating your preference at the time of collection, by responding
to the promotional email in the manner provided for or by
contacting our privacyinfo@edisonlearning.com. If you have
not opted-out of receiving marketing materials, we may also use,
but will not disclose, your Personal Information to promote and
market additional goods, services and special offers from us and
our affiliates. Otherwise, we do not provide your information
to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. At
any time you may “opt out” of future contacts by unsubscribing from
our contact list or contacting privacyinfo@edisonlearning.com.
We sometimes use the non-Personally Identifiable Information
that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and
to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We may
use this information in the aggregate (grouped with information
from other users) to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you
products, programs, or services.
Typically, we will seek consent for the use of your Personal
Information at the time of collection. In certain circumstances,
consent may be sought after the information has been collected but
before use (for example when we want to use information for a use
not previously identified). The form of consent we seek,
including whether it is express or implied, will largely depend on
the sensitivity of the information and the reasonable expectations
of the individual in the circumstances. You may withdraw
consent at any time, subject to legal and contractual restrictions
and reasonable notice. If you wish to withdraw consent,
please contact privacyinfo@edisonlearning.com. We will inform
you of the implications of withdrawing consent at or before the
time of withdrawal.
We will not, as a condition of the supply of a product or
service, require you to consent to the collection, use or
disclosure of information beyond that required to fulfill the
explicitly specified and required purposes for which the
information is being required.
Sharing of Personal Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, EdisonLearning will
not disclose your Personal Information to a third party, unless you
request or otherwise consent to such disclosure, or disclosure is
required or authorized by law.
We do not sell information to third parties. We may share
information with agents, affiliates or service providers who act
for or on behalf of EdisonLearning in connection with the business
of EdisonLearning, or for further processing in accordance with the
purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected. We require
our agents, affiliates and service providers to agree in writing to
maintain the confidentiality and security of Personal Information
they maintain on behalf of EdisonLearning and not to use it for any
purpose other than the purpose for which we retained them. We also
require any third parties we retain to protect Personal Information
disclosed by us [in accordance with all applicable state, federal,
and foreign privacy requirements and the general privacy principles
described in this Privacy Policy]. Your Personal Information may be
provided to a courier or freight forwarder in order to fulfill an
order you may have requested from us or supply a promotion prize or
award. EdisonLearning may also share statistical or demographic
information in aggregate form with service providers for marketing
or research purposes. This aggregate data will not contain any
information that personally identifies you.
Although we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may
need to disclose Personally Identifiable Information in certain
limited circumstances, specifically: (1) to comply with a judicial
proceeding, a court order, or subpoena, or as otherwise may be
required by law; (2) to enforce our policies or contracts, or to
collect amounts owed to us; (3) to protect users of our sites and
our sites from fraudulent or abusive use; (4) to protect
EdisonLearning’s rights or property (including without limitation
in the event of a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, or transfer of
control or assets or other business venture involving
EdisonLearning,, or any of the business or assets of
EdisonLearning); (5) during emergencies when safety is at risk, as
determined by EdisonLearning, or (6) otherwise where necessary for
the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. The
Personally Identifiable Information you provide is considered a
company asset and may be included among transferred assets if
EdisonLearning, or any or all of EdisonLearning’s subsidiaries or
affiliates or any of their assets is ever acquired by a third
party. In addition, from time to time, server logs may be
reviewed for security purposes; for example, to detect unauthorized
activity on the web site. In such cases, server log data,
containing IP addresses, would be shared with law enforcement
bodies in order that they may identify users in connection with
their investigation of the unauthorized activities.
Cookies and Other Information Collected Using Technology
When you visit the www.edisonlearning.com web site, we may
collect some information about you using software or other
technology where it may not be readily apparent to you that it is
being collected. For instance, when you come to our site your
IP address is collected so that we know where to send information
you are requesting. An IP address is often associated with the
place from which you enter the Internet like your ISP (Internet
service provider), your company, or your school. The
following information is logged by our web servers during visits to
the web site: IP addresses, type of operating system, time and
duration of visit, web pages visited and browser type. We do
not link server log information to any other information in a way
that would enable the identification of visitors to the web
site. We may analyze server log information in order to
improve the web site and to customize the web site for users.
When you visit our web site, we place a text file called a
“cookie” in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive.
Cookies are pieces of information that a web site sends to your
computer while you are viewing the web site. These pieces of
information allow the web site to remember important information
that will make your use of that site more useful. Internet
companies use cookies for a variety of purposes.
We use cookies to help improve your future visits. We may
also track data such as the total number of visits to our web site
and the number of visitors to each page of our web site. We
may use this information, in aggregate form, for system maintenance
and to better understand how our visitors use our site and services
so that we can make them better. You can choose to have your
computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can
choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser
(like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each
browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to
learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies
off, you won't have access to many features that make your
experience on our web site more efficient and some of our services
will not function properly.
Our websites may also use small pieces of software code called
“web beacons” or “clear Gifs” to collect anonymous and aggregate
advertising matrix, such as counting page views, promotion views,
or advertising responses. A web beacon is an electronic image
called a single-pixel or clear GIF. Web beacons can recognize
certain types of information, such as a user's cookie number, time
and date of a page view, and description of the page where the web
beacon is placed. You may render some web beacons unusable if
you choose to reject their associated cookies. These web
beacons may be used to deliver cookies that conform with our cookie
policy above.
Banner Advertisements and Links to Other Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to EdisonLearning and
www.edisonlearning.com and does not include third-party web
sites. Our site may include banner advertisements or contain
links to other sites operated by third parties whose information
practices may be different than those at this site. Other Internet
sites you visit may have their own privacy policies or no policy at
all. Other web sites might use Personal Information
differently than our policy permits. EdisonLearning, does not
guarantee the standards of any web site not related to this
site. EdisonLearning is not responsible for the content,
practices, or password information practices of the web sites
operated by these third parties. In addition, these banner
advertisements and links do not constitute sponsorship,
endorsements, or approval by EdisonLearning of the content,
policies, or practices of these web sites.
Please note that the privacy policies of affiliates and/or third
party web sites may differ from those of EdisonLearning. You should
carefully review the relevant third party web site's privacy policy
and terms of use in order to understand its policies and practices
regarding the collection and use of Personally Identifiable
Information before providing any Personal Information.
A Note to Parents/Guardians
EdisonLearning takes special measures to help maintain and
protect the personal privacy of children under 13 years of age for
the purposes of complying with the Children’s Online Privacy and
Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA") in the United States.
The www.edisonlearning.com web site is a general audience site
that is neither designed nor intended to collect any Personally
Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13.
At the www.edisonlearning.com web site we have put in to place
certain screens to ensure that children under 13 do not submit
Personally Identifiable Information, and we do not knowingly accept
any information from children under the age of 13. However,
if the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 believes that
the child has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information,
the parent or guardian of that child should contact us at
privacyinfor@edisonlearning.com if they want this information
deleted from our files. If EdisonLearning otherwise obtains
knowledge that it has Personally Identifiable Information about a
child under 13 in its files, we will delete that information from
out existing files so that it is not in retrievable form.
Data Integrity and Security
We strive to keep any information you provide as secure as
possible, and we require our agents, affiliates and service
providers to follow the same high standards. We have implemented
technical and organizational measures designed to help secure your
Personally Identifiable Information from theft, accidental loss,
and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure or
destruction.
EdisonLearning takes reasonable steps to ensure that data is
reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.
International Visitors
While we operate internationally, the servers that will host,
store and process information relating to www.edisonlearning.com
are currently based in the United States. Unless otherwise
specified, data submitted to www.edisonlearning.com will be
processed by us in the United States, where data protection and
privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as
in other parts of the world. By providing Personally Identifiable
Information to us you authorize the export of such Personally
Identifiable Information to the United States and its storage and
use as specified herein, which includes the use of cookies as
described above.
Changes
EdisonLearning will maintain Personal Information in accordance
with this Privacy Policy. In the future, we may modify this
Privacy Policy. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we
will post those changes to this Privacy Policy. We will use
information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the
information was collected. However, if we are going to use
Personally Identifiable Information in a manner different from that
stated at the time of collection we will notify users by email.
Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. If users have opted-out
of all communications with the site, or deactivated their account,
then they will not be contacted, nor will we use their Personally
Identifiable Information in this new manner.
How You Can Access, Control and Update Information About
You
We want to be sure that we keep only the most accurate and
up-to-date Personal Information in our records. Therefore, whenever
you believe that your Personal Information needs to be updated, you
can email us at privacyinfo@edisonlearning.com to update your
contact information.
You may choose at any time to remove your name, telephone
numbers, and postal and email addresses from the lists we use to
send notices or updates and elect not to receive correspondence
from us by sending us an email at
privacyoinfo@edisonlearning.com.
You may contact privacyoinfo@edisonlearning.com to access or
update your Personal Information.
To protect your privacy, we will take reasonable steps to help
verify your identity before granting access or making changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints, please contact
privacyoinfo@edisonlearning.com or contact us at the following
mailing address: EdisonLearning, Inc., 521 Fifth Avenue, New York,
New York 10175.
We will address your concern and attempt to resolve any
problem. If we do not satisfactorily address a complaint
within thirty (30) days, any dispute, controversy or claim shall be
settled by an arbitration administered by the American Arbitration
Association (“AAA”). All arbitrations will be conducted in English.
Judgment rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court
having jurisdiction. The costs of the arbitration will be
borne equally by the parties. New York, New York, U.S.A. shall be
the site of all hearings, and such hearings shall be before a
single arbitrator. You may also submit complaints to the Federal
Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm or via
phone at (202) 382-4357.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 6, 2008.