PRIVACY POLICY
What this privacy policy covers?
SchoolCountry takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn
more about our privacy policy.
How SchoolCountry Uses Your Personal Information?
This policy covers how we treat personal information that we collect and
receive, including information related to your past use of our products and
services. Personal information is information about you that is personally
identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that
is not otherwise publicly available.
This privacy policy only applies to SchoolCountry.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that SchoolCountry
does not own or control or to people that SchoolCountry does not employ or
manage.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
General
SchoolCountry collects personal information when you register with School
Country, when you use SchoolCountry products or services, when you visit School
Country pages and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. SchoolCountry may
combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from
business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address,
gender, postal code. For some financial products and services, if
offered, we might also ask for your address and information about your assets.
When you register with SchoolCountry and sign in to our services, you are not
anonymous to us.
SchoolCountry collects information about your transactions with us, including
information about your use of financial products and services if they are
offered.
SchoolCountry automatically receives and records information from
your computer and browser, including your IP address, cookie information,
software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.
In addition, when you use SchoolCountry services, you may choose to
make some of your personal information public. If you post personal information
online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties in return and SchoolCountry will not be responsible for the
use or misuse of such information.
SchoolCountry uses information for the following general purposes:
to customize the content you see, fulfill your requests for products and
services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide
anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. SchoolCountry is not
responsible for the accuracy, completeness, veracity nor reliability of any
content, products or services which may be accessed or advertised to you and
SchoolCountry will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of the
same.
Children
Any accounts to be made or deleted will be only done by parents. Parents can see
what their children are doing on the website.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
SchoolCountry does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with
other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services
you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following
circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with
SchoolCountry under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your
personal information to help SchoolCountry communicate with you about offers
from SchoolCountry and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not
have any independent right to share this information.
Parents have the option of allowing SchoolCountry to collect and use their
child's information without consenting to SchoolCountry sharing of this
information with people and companies who may use this information for their own
purposes.
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or
exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,
situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of SchoolCountry's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if SchoolCountry is acquired by or merged
with another company. In this event, SchoolCountry will notify you before
information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
SchoolCountry works with vendors, partners, and other service providers in
different industries and categories of business.
Cookies
SchoolCountry may set and access cookies on your computer.
Advertisers or other companies do not have access to SchoolCountry's cookies.
SchoolCountry uses web beacons to access cookies inside and outside our network
of web sites and in connection with SchoolCountry products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the School
Country service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the
SchoolCountry Newsletter, that are considered part of your SchoolCountry
account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products
or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal
regulations to protect personal information about you.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
SchoolCountry may update this policy. We will notify you about significant
changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the
primary email address specified in your SchoolCountry account or by placing a
prominent notice on our site.