This website, and the various content, features and services offered on this website (collectively, the "Site"), is owned and/or operated by TeachTown ("TeachTown," "we," "us," "our" or similar pronoun). TeachTown is committed to respecting your online privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you share with us. TeachTown has established this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to let you know what information we may collect from you on the Site and how we may use and share that information. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site. Except as expressly provided herein, this Privacy Policy applies only to information that we collect on the Site and does not apply to information which we may collect by other means.

In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself. However, in order to access the Internet functions of the software or post on the message board, we require you to register for an account and provide Personal Information. Moreover, other features or services may require you to provide Personal Information. For example, we may collect certain Personal Information if you choose to subscribe to a mailing list, participate in special offers, sweepstakes or other promotions, or send questions or comments to us via e-mail.

We may also collect certain demographic information (such as gender or age) and information about your interests and preferences ("preferences information"). In many cases, such demographic and preferences information is optional. In other cases, such as online surveys, we collect this information on an anonymous basis. However, if we link any demographic or preferences information to any Personal Information, then such demographic and preferences information will be treated as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

For some features of the Site, you may be able to submit information about other people. For example, you as a "Facilitator" may submit information about the student who is using the TeachTown software ("Student"). Before submitting any information about a student, you must first agree to a Facilitator Agreement and confirm that you have the legal authorization to submit the information. If at any time, the authorizations to share the students' information changes or there are any new restrictions on your or TeachTown's rights to share or use the student's information, you must notify TeachTown immediately at support@teachtown.com.

To the extent that you, as a Facilitator, are an agent, representative, or employee of an educational institution ("School") subject to the restrictions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232(g)) and the regulations thereunder (34 CFR Part 99), as may be amended from time to time (collective, "FERPA"), you are subject to obligations and restrictions with respect to the handling and disclosure of personally identifiable information contained in the school records of students that you maintain or that the School with which you are affiliated maintains regarding its students, with respect to any data that may be accessed, obtained, received, extracted or otherwise used by TeachTown (or which may be disclosed in any manner to TeachTown by or on behalf of you or your School), in individualized or aggregate form, in connection with the School's use of the Service and Software, in whole or in part, pursuant to Agreement. On behalf of yourself and your School, you hereby: (1) acknowledge and agree that, as part of the Software and Service provided by TeachTown for School from time to time, TeachTown may have access to, or may otherwise obtain, extract or receive, School's data that may include data subject to FERPA's requirements; and (2) TeachTown can rely, is relying and will continue to rely on School's full compliance with the applicable obligations imposed by FERPA, as any such obligations may be amended or modified from time to time.

To the extent that you as a Facilitator are posting or receiving Personal Health Information as a Covered Entity within the meaning of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and related regulations thereunder, including without limitation, 45 CFR Parts 160, 162, and 164, as amended, HIPAA shall govern the consequent designation of TeachTown as your business associate and shall apply when TeachTown acquires any information in the course of its duties under the Agreement that is Protected Health Information ("PHI") received from, or created or received by TeachTown on your behalf under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. On behalf of yourself as a Covered Entity, you hereby: (1) acknowledge and agree that, as part of the Software and Service provided by TeachTown from time to time, TeachTown may have access to, or may otherwise obtain, extract or receive, PHI that may include data subject to HIPAA's requirements; and (2) TeachTown can rely, is relying and will continue to rely on Covered Entity's full compliance with the applicable obligations imposed by HIPAA, as any obligations may be amended or modified from time to time. TeachTown's Notice of HIPAA Privacy Practices can be found at http://www.teachtown.com/HIPAAPrivacyPractice .

You also may be able to submit information to invite another adult to be a Facilitator for a Student using the TeachTown software. If you sign an adult up to be a Facilitator, you may submit the recipient's e-mail address. TeachTown will use and store any such information that we collect from you about another person to carry out your request. We also may use the information of the third party adults who you invite to be a Facilitator for our own internal and our affiliated companies' internal marketing purposes.

From time to time, TeachTown may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of the Site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page and which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on. We collect this information through the use of "cookies" and other tracking technologies, which are discussed in greater detail below. We collect this information in order to determine which areas of the Site are most popular and to enhance the Site for visitors. We may group this information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of the Site to our existing or potential business partners, sponsors, advertisers or other third parties, or in response to a government request. TeachTown may also group demographic and preferences information and responses to surveys that we collect from visitors into aggregate data for the same purposes. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify you or any other visitors to the Site.

Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A cookie is a small text file that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. For example, we may use cookies to collect information about website activity and to maintain your shopping experience in our online store. We never save credit card information in cookies. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser. However, please be aware that some features of the Site may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our Site is accessed. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web. Web servers, the computers that "serve up" webpages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We may link the information we record using tracking technologies to Personal Information we collect about Facilitators at the Site for our own and our affiliated companies' internal marketing and advertising efforts. We will not link the information we collect through tracking technologies for marketing purposes to the personal information submitted about the students using the TeachTown software. In addition, we reserve the right to use IP addresses and other tracking technologies to identify a visitor only when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the Site's policies, to protect the Site, our customers or others, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

Pop-up blockers or stoppers prevent extra pop-up windows (usually advertisements) from opening in your browser. Pop-up blocking software often has negative effects on other "good" software. If you disable JavaScript pop-up ad windows, you may also disable other website functionality that uses JavaScript. If you're using a pop-up blocker that allows you to manage a list of "pop-up friendly" sites, please refer to your Help files and add the URL of this Site to your approved list to ensure maximum functionality at the Site.

With respect to the Personal Information we collect, we may retain and use that information for several purposes. For example, we may use your Personal Information to send e-mails to our mailing list subscribers, respond to your questions, or establish an account for you. We may also use Personal Information to ensure compliance with our policies and applicable law. We use your e-mail address as a customer identifier on the Site. In addition, we may send you periodic communications by e-mail or regular mail, such as news updates, special promotional offers or information on our products or services which may be of interest to you. If you later wish to opt-out of receiving such promotional communications from us at any time, simply follow the instructions in Section VII. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to send you certain non-promotional communications relating to the Site, such as service announcements, e-mail related to purchases you have made account updates, or similar administrative or transactional messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

We may sometimes use other businesses to perform certain services for us, such as maintaining the Site and our mailing lists, processing orders and delivering products, sending postal mail and providing marketing assistance and data analysis. We may provide Personal Information to those businesses when that information is necessary for them to complete a requested transaction or otherwise perform their duties. TeachTown will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on TeachTown's behalf.

As TeachTown develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell our business assets. Customer information is generally one of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus, in the event that TeachTown or all of its assets are acquired, facilitator information would be one of the transferred assets.

TeachTown fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities, and may in its sole discretion disclose Personal Information or other information to satisfy any law, regulation, subpoena, or government request, or in connection with litigation. TeachTown reserves the right to release Personal Information or other information about users who we believe are engaged in illegal activities or are otherwise in violation of our Terms of Use Agreement, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order, if we believe in our sole discretion that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate the Site, or to protect the rights or property of TeachTown, its affiliates, or any of their officers, directors, or employees, agents, third party content providers, suppliers, sponsors, or licensors. TeachTown also reserves the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities we reasonably believe in our sole discretion to be unlawful.

This Paragraph applies solely to California residents who have an established business relationship with TeachTown. TeachTown does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. If we collect your Personal Information, we may make that Personal Information available to facilitate usage of TeachTown products and services, only as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you decide that you do not want us to share your Personal Information for TeachTown's marketing and promotional purposes, please send an email to support@teachtown.com. In this email, state whether: (i) you would like to opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from TeachTown in general, or via email, postal mail, instant messaging, and/or by phone; (ii) you would only like to opt out of TeachTown's newsletters; and/or (iii) you would like TeachTown to not share your Personal Information with third parties for TeachTown's marketing purposes. Your opt out request will be processed within thirty (30) days of the date on which we receive it.

2. When you receive an e-mail from TeachTown, it will contain a link that allows you to stop the delivery of e-mail messages from us. If you decide to use this opt-out link, you will no longer receive special offers, new product introductions, or e-newsletters from TeachTown; however, you will continue to receive non-promotional e-mails from us, such as order confirmations.

TeachTown intends to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure. When you transmit Personal Information from your PC to our servers, your information is protected by both a "firewall" (a combination of computer hardware and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing information within our computer network) and industry standard SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your Personal Information.

If you create an account on the Site, you may be asked to choose a password for your account, in which case your online account information shall be protected by your password. We recommend that you do not disclose your password to any other person. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.

This Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and TeachTown does not knowingly collect any Personal Information from such children. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on the homepage of the Site for a reasonable period of time after such changes are made that this Privacy Policy has been updated, and by changing the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or believe that TeachTown has acted inconsistently with this Privacy Policy, please Contact Us at http://www.teachtown.com/ContactUs, or
TeachTown, Inc.
16461 Sherman Way, Suite 240
Los Angeles, CA 91406
Tel: (800) 283-0165

Please note that you may have cookies placed on your computer by third party websites that refer you to the Site. Although we do not share your Personal Information with these third party websites, they may be able to link certain non-personally identifiable information we transfer to them with Personal Information they previously collected from you. Please review the privacy policies of each website you visit to better understand their privacy practices. In addition, TeachTown would like to inform you that anytime you click on links (including advertising banners), which take you to third party websites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies.

As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have relationships at the Site with third party ad server networks. However, we may at some point engage third party ad server networks to serve advertisements within or in connection with the Site. Because your web browser must request these advertising banners from the ad networks' servers, these companies can send their own cookies to your cookie file, just as if you had requested a web page from the Site. Please note that if an advertiser on a third party ad server network asks us to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, women ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, women ages 18-34 who have viewed educational items) and you respond to that ad, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. However, we would only authorize third party ad servers to employ anonymous cookies for ad delivery and anonymous targeting. We would not knowingly permit a third party ad server to collect Personal Information about you. If you want to prevent a third party ad server and/or third party service provider from sending and reading cookies on your computer, you must visit each third party ad server network's website individually and opt out (if they offer this capability).

If you use our message board or other public venues, you will be identified on those venues on the Site by the name you submit. Please be aware that the name and information you choose to provide will be viewable by all users of our message boards or other public venues, so please use caution when choosing your name or providing any information. Information that you provide on message boards or other similar venues may also be viewable by the general Internet public. We cannot be responsible for any Personal Information you choose to post on public venues and we recommend careful consideration before you post such information. You agree that you will not disclose Personal Information relating to any other person in a public area of the Site without that person's express consent as required by any applicable law including HIPAA or FERPA.

This Privacy Policy and the privacy practices of TeachTown will be subject exclusively to the laws of the State of California within the United States. TeachTown makes no representation that this Privacy Policy and our practices comply with the laws of any other country or jurisdiction. Visitors who use the Site and reside outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. If you reside outside of the United States, by using our Site, you consent to the transfer, processing and use of your information outside your country.