PRIVACY POLICY

Published: March, 2019
Updated: May, 2020

ttSchoolPal.org is a company under the Makesi Paul Solutions Group, cares about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal data only as it is needed for us to deliver to you, our website and services, (collectively, our “Services”). Your personal data includes information such as:

• Name
• Address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Child/Children’s Name
• School Name
• School Class
• School Address
• Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.

Our Privacy Policy is intended to describe to you how and what data we collect, and how and why we use your personal data. It also describes options we provide for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data that we process.

If at any time you have questions about our practices or any of your rights described below, you may contact us at ttschoolpal.org

What information do we collect?

We collect information so that we can provide the best possible experience when you utilize our Service.  Much of what you likely consider personal data is collected directly from you when you:

1. create an account or purchase our services (example: billing information, including name, address, email address, credit card number, label information, including your child’s name and child’s school);
2. request assistance from our customer support team (example: telephone number);
3. complete contact forms (example: email); or
4. participate in contests and surveys, or otherwise participate in activities we promote that might require information about you.

However, we also collect additional information when delivering our Services to you to ensure necessary and optimal performance.  These methods of collection may not be as obvious to you, so we wanted to highlight and explain below more about what these might be (as they vary from time to time) and how they work:

Account related information is collected in association with your use of our Services, such as account number, purchases, information requests, and customer service requests and notes or details explaining what you asked for and how we responded.

Cookies and similar technologies on our website allow us to track your browsing behavior, links clicked, items purchased, operating system type, and to collect various data, including analytics, about how you use and interact with our Service. This allows us to provide you with more relevant service offerings, a better experience on our site and to collect, analyze and improve the performance of our Service We may also collect your location (IP address) so that we can personalize our Services.

How we utilize information?

We strongly believe in both minimizing the data we collect and limiting its use and purpose to only that (1) for which we have been given permission, (2) as necessary to deliver the Services you purchase or interact with, or (3) as we might be required or permitted for legal compliance or other lawful purposes. These uses include:

Delivering, improving, updating and enhancing the Services we provide to you.  We collect various information relating to your purchase, use and/or interactions with our Services. We utilize this information to:

• Improve and optimize the operation and performance of our Services (again, including our website)
• Diagnose problems with and identify any security risks, errors, or needed enhancements to the Services
• Detect and prevent fraud and abuse of our Services and systems
• Collecting aggregate statistics about use of the Services
• Understand and analyze how you use our Services and what products and services are most relevant to you.

Often, much of the data collected is aggregated or statistical data about how individuals use our Services, and is not linked to any personal data, but to the extent it is itself personal data, or is linked or linkable to personal data, we treat it accordingly.

Sharing with trusted third parties.

We may share your personal data with affiliated companies within our corporate family, with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our own Services, and with trusted third party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:

• Processing credit card payments
• Serving advertisements
• Conducting contests or surveys
• Performing analysis of our Services and customers demographics
• Communicating with you, such as by way email or survey delivery
• Customer relationship management.

We only share your personal data as necessary for any third party to provide the services as requested or as needed on our behalf. These third parties (and any subcontractors) are subject to strict data processing terms and conditions and are prohibited from utilizing, sharing or retaining your personal data for any purpose other than as they have been specifically contracted for (or without your consent).

Communicating with you

We will contact you directly regarding products or services you have purchased from us, such as necessary to deliver transactional or service-related communications. We may also contact you with offers for additional services we think you’ll find valuable if you give us consent, or where allowed based upon legitimate interests. You don’t need to provide consent as a condition to purchase our goods or services. These contacts may include:

• Email
• Text (SMS) messages
• Telephone calls
• Automated phone calls or text messages.

You may also update your account preferences with respect to receiving communications from us by signing into your account and visiting your “Account Settings” page.

If we collect information from you in connection with a co-branded offer, it will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the information and whose privacy policy applies. In addition, it will describe any choice options you have in regards to the use and/or sharing of your personal data with a co-branded partner, as well as how to exercise those options.

If you believe that anyone has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us ttschoolpal@gmail.com.

Transfer of personal data abroad.

Our servers are located in a country other than the country where our services are located, if you utilize our Services, your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders. In this cases, your personal data is handled according to this Privacy Policy.

Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests.

We co-operate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.

To the extent we are legally permitted to do so, we will take reasonable steps to notify you in the event that we are required to provide your personal information to third parties as part of the legal process.

Website analytics.

We use web analytics tools provided by service partners such as Google Analytics, to collect information about how you interact with our website, including what pages you visit, what site you visited prior to visiting our website, how much time you spend on each page, what operating system and web browser you use and network and IP information. We use the information provided by these tools to improve our Services. These tools place persistent cookies in your browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website. Each cookie cannot be used by anyone other than the service provider (ex: Google for Google Analytics). The information collected from the cookie may be transmitted to and stored by these service partners on servers in a country other than the country in which you reside. Though information collected does not include personal data such as name, address, billing information, etc., the information collected is used and shared by these service providers in accordance with their individual privacy policies.

Third-party websites.

Our website contains links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party sites.  Please read the privacy policy of any website you visit.

How you can access, update or delete your data.

To easily access, view, update and/or delete or to update your subscription preferences, please sign into your Account and visit “Account Settings.” Please email us at  ttschoolpal@gmail.comfor additional information and guidance for accessing, updating or deleting your data.

If you make a request to delete your personal data and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased, the request will be honored only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any Services purchased or required for our legitimate business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements.

If you are unable for any reason to access your Account Settings or our dedicated Privacy Team, you may also contact us by one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

How we secure, store and retain your data?

We follow industry standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate.

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or business purposes. These might include retention periods:

• mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to our business operations;
• for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or
• needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records.

If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal data, you can contact our privacy team at  ttschoolpal@gmail.com.

Age restrictions.

Our Services are available for purchase only for those over the age of 18.  Our Services are not targeted to, intended to be consumed by or designed to entice individuals under the age of 18. If you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal data, please contact us.

Changes in our Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page, at least thirty (30) days prior to the implementation of the changes.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices or our Services, you may Contact Us. We will respond to all requests, inquiries or concerns within thirty five (35) days.