Privacy Policy

Effective April 20, 2024

This policy covers Schooloaded Edutainment Communities.

What information Schooloaded collects and Why

To give you the best possible experience using Schooloaded, we collect information from your interactions with our network. We use common internet technologies, such as cookies and web server logs. We collect this basic information from everybody, whether they have an account or not.

The information we collect about all visitors to our website includes:

• The visitor’s browser type
• Referring site
• The date and time of each visitor request
• We also collect potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

We use this information to:

• Provide, test, improve, promote, and personalize Schooloaded Services
• Fight spam and other forms of abuse
• Generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how people use Schooloaded Services

For you to create an account on Schooloaded and use our Services, we need to collect and process certain information. Depending on your use of the Services, that may include:

• Communications you send to us (for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem);
• Information that you submit on or to Schooloaded in the form of reactions, comments, or messages to other users;
• The email address associated with your Twitter account, if you choose to sign up using your Twitter credentials. Schooloaded will also request permission to access additional information (these permissions are governed by Twitter’s privacy policies and can be managed through your Twitter privacy settings). We never post anything to your Twitter without your permission.
• The email address associated with your GitHub account, if you choose to sign up using your Github credentials. Schooloaded will also request permission to access additional information (these permissions are governed by GitHub’s privacy policies and can be managed through your GitHub privacy settings). We never post anything to your GitHub without your permission.
• You also have the option to give us more information if you want to, and this may include “User Personal Information.”

Information Disclosure

We do not share, sell, rent, or trade User Personal Information with third parties for commercial purposes.

We do share certain aggregated, non-personally identifying information with others about how our users, collectively, use Schooloaded. For example, we may share information about the popularity of different programming languages for advertising partners.

We do host first-party advertising on Schooloaded. We do not run any code from advertisers and all ad images are hosted on managed Schooloaded servers. For more details, see our section on Advertising Details.

We may use User Personal Information with your permission, so we can perform services you have authorized.

We may share User Personal Information with a limited number of third-party vendors who process it on our behalf to provide or improve our service, and who have agreed to privacy restrictions similar to our Privacy Statement. Our third-party vendors are listed below.

Advertising Details

We target advertisements based solely upon:

• Details of the page where the advertisement is shown, including:
  • The name and keywords associated with the page or article being viewed
    • We allow advertisers to target ads to a list of keywords advertising.

We may place ads in:

• Sidebars
• Below articles
• On search result pages
• On tag pages

All registered members can disable advertisements — where reasonable — through their Settings page. For instance, it’s not feasible to disable certain advertisements in the form of recognition posts, site-wide contests, dedicated sponsorship pages, etc.

Comments

Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

 If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

 If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who do we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

 If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where is your data sent?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Third-Party Vendors

We may share your account information with third parties in some circumstances, including: (1) with your consent; (2) to a service provider or partner who meets our data protection standards; (3) for survey or research purposes, after aggregation, anonymization, or pseudonymization; (4) when we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process; (5) when we have a good faith belief that doing so will help prevent imminent harm to someone.

Data Storage
Schooloaded uses third-party vendors and hosting partners for hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology we need to run Schooloaded. By using Schooloaded Services, you authorize Schooloaded to transfer, store, and use your information in the United States and any other country where we operate. All service providers and third-party vendors are required to meet our data protection standards.

Site monitoring
Schooloaded uses a variety of third-party services to diagnose errors and improve the performance of our site. We aim to minimize the amount of personal information shared, but the information may include your IP address or other identifying information. All service providers and third-party vendors are required to meet our data protection standards.

Payment processing
Schooloaded does not process payments directly — we rely on third-party services such as Stripe, Shopify, and Paypal to receive payments and store any payment information.

Third-Party Embeds
Some of the content that you see displayed on Schooloaded is not hosted by Schooloaded. These “embeds” are hosted by a third-party and embedded in Schooloaded. For example: YouTube videos, Codepens, Twitter tweets, or GitHub code that appear within a Schooloaded post. These files send data to the hosted site just as if you were visiting that site directly (for example, when you load a Schooloaded post page with a YouTube video embedded in it, YouTube receives data about your activity). Schooloaded does not control what data third parties collect in cases like this, or what they will do with it. Third-party embeds on Schooloaded are not covered by this privacy policy; they are covered by the privacy policy of the third-party service. Be mindful when interacting with these services.

Tracking & Cookies
We use browser cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you return to our Services. Third-party vendors may also use cookies for various reasons.

Schooloaded uses a specific cookie to facilitate the use of Google Universal Analytics for users logged in to the Applications or the Platforms (“Logged-In User). If you are a Logged-In User, Schooloaded may use your Schooloaded user ID in combination with Google Universal Analytics and Google Analytics to track and analyze the pages of the Services you visit. We do this only to better understand how you use the Website and the other Services, to offer improvements for all Schooloaded users; and to tailor our business and marketing activities accordingly, both generally and specifically to you. Google Analytics cookies do not provide Schooloaded with any Personal Information. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

You may opt out of this feature by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, by setting your web browser to refuse cookies, or by setting your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

Data Security
We use encryption (HTTPS/TLS) to protect data transmitted to and from our site. However, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, so we can’t guarantee security. You use the Service at your own risk, and you’re responsible for taking reasonable measures to secure your account.

Administrative Emails from Schooloaded
Sometimes we’ll send you emails about your account, service changes or new policies. You can’t opt out of this type of “transactional” email (unless you delete your account).

When you interact with a transactional email sent from Schooloaded (such as opening an email or clicking on a particular link in an email), we may receive information about that interaction.

Non-administrative Emails from Schooloaded
Upon creating a Schooloaded account, you will be opted into the Schooloaded Newsletter and other non-administrative email. Your email address and user profile information may be stored by a third-party email provider such as MailChimp or Sendgrid. You can opt out of non-administrative emails such as digests, newsletters, and activity notifications through your account’s “Settings” page and at the link of the footer in any non-administrative email you receive from us.

When you interact with a non-administrative email sent from Schooloaded (such as opening an email or clicking on a particular link in an email), we may receive information about that interaction.

Deleting Your Personal Information
You may request the deletion of your personal information and account by emailing [email protected].

To protect information from accidental or malicious destruction, we may maintain residual copies for a brief period. But, if you delete your account, your information and content will be unrecoverable after that time.

Data Portability
If you would like to request a copy of your user data, please email [email protected].

Business Transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization or sale of assets such that your information would be transferred or become subject to a different privacy policy, we’ll notify you in advance of any such change.

Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time. If we change this Privacy Policy in the future, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and update the “Effective Date,” above, to reflect the date of the changes.

Questions
We welcome feedback about this policy at [email protected].