Last updated: October 20, 2005

America Learns knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting America Learns, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Site Visitors, Service Users and/or Customers Does America Learns Gather?

Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us and Information Organizations We Serve Give Us: We receive and store any information from the organization who purchased a license for you to use the America Learns service, as well as all information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. Click here for examples of such data.  We receive names and contact information of individuals using America Learns from the organizations we serve. You can choose not to provide certain information to the organization who purchased a license for you to use the America Learns service, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of the service’s features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as personalizing our resource databases to your needs, responding to your requests, improving our services, and communicating with you.

Does America Learns Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others.

• Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell, merge with, or buy subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that America Learns, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
• Protection of America Learns and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our contract terms and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of America Learns, our users, or others. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
• With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

What Choices Do I Have?

• As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information to the organization that has licensed the service for you to use.

Notices and Revisions

If you choose to visit America Learns, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and the terms of the Contract negotiated between America Learns and the organization who paid for a license for you to use this service. If you have any concern about privacy at America Learns, please send us a thorough description to gary@americalears.net, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes, and our Privacy Notice will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and terms, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you.

Information You Give Us

You provide most such information when you complete a paper-based or online survey or questionnaire on our Site, when you write America Learns or call America Learns and give America Learns such information.

*Example of Such Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyze using internal or third party services  include any content you submit via any form, including any survey and questionnaire on the Site or through e-mail, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; and the phone number you used to call America Learns, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other visitors, users and customers to improve our services. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.