Privacy Policy
Overview:The Bold Inventors Studio ( thereafter called "TBIS") takes user privacy seriously. This Policy describes how we handle information collected in relation to access and use of www.theboldinventors.studio (the "Site"). When you access or use the Service, you are deemed to consent to the collection, use, retention, transfer, structuring, manipulation, storage, transmission and/or disclosure (collectively, “processing”) of your information as described in this Policy and in accordance with applicable laws.
We design and operate our technology and services with our users’ protection and privacy in mind, and we make every effort to be transparent in our data collection and use practices.
Our education product includes individual parent accounts to be created and maintained ONLY by the parents to keep track of individual student learning and maintain control over their student data. If a teacher creates the individual account then the same terms and conditions apply to them for use of that account in their classroom by their students.
We do not use student or children’s personal information for advertising purposes, including targeted advertising.
We do not rent or sell student data.
TBIS uses industry standard protocol to ensure that student data is encrypted and transmitted securely from end to end and at rest.
We limit the data collected from students or children to only that which is necessary to meet the educational purposes of TBIS
We do not collect sensitive data like biometric or health data or behavior data.
The product is not intended and does not allow for social interactions between students.
Users and Parents are able to delete student personally identifiable information at any time.
We provide prominent notice to users and send out email notices to customers before making any material changes to our Privacy Policy.
TBIS complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
DefinitionsFor purposes of this policy, we will use the following definitions:
Personally identifiable information (PII) is information that can identify a user of the Services, including his or her e-mail, name, and address. It also includes PII combined with non-PII.
What Type Of Information Do We Collect And Why? During the registration process for any of our subscriptions, we ask the subscriber to provide us with a name, email address, phone number, and billing information. We also ask you to provide username and password. We use the information to create and service the account, fulfill the subscription and send you service-related announcements. For instance, we may send newsletters with information ,emails about routine maintenance, new feature launches or product recommendations related to your subscription. We may also use this contact information to request feedback on our products and services, to inform future customer service and product improvements. If you are registering for a free trial, we will use the information to create a free trial account and to send occasional promotional emails and other marketing campaigns. You may opt out of promotional email messaging at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the messaging.
Students:We do not collect PII of students through account creation. We have created our inquiry based lessons and other content on a collaborative tool called padlet.com to collect student responses in form of text,voice,video,photo,links and other formats.We do not share this information publicly and require all users to do the same. By reading and agreeing to our privacy policy ,you are also agreeing to the Privacy policy of Padlet.com
https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe
Children Under Age 13:In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): TBIS does not collect personally identifiable information from children under 13, without a parent or guardian's consent. Parents and guardians of children under 13 who use any of the TBIS products have certain rights under COPPA and TBIS recognizes those rights. At any time, parents/guardians using a home product may request to review the personal information we collected from their child, request that we make no further use of that information or request that we delete it. To exercise your right to delete information, please use the contact information below.
Contact information for newsletter and surveys: On the adult-facing pages of our Services, including pages that do not require log in, adult users may choose to sign up for newsletters, promotional offerings, or participation in surveys, all of which require contact information. The submitted contact information will be used for promotional purposes, and you may opt-out at any time. An opt-out link or instructions on how to opt-out will be included at the bottom of such messages. Registration for newsletters, promotional offerings, and surveys participation are not intended for minors.
Information we collect when you contact us: When you send us messages through our system or by email or through other online platforms, we collect the information you provide, including your message and any contact information you include. We use and retain such information to respond to your request, facilitate support to you in the future and to optimize our support services.
Feedback: Certain features we offer include an option to provide us with feedback. The feedback feature does not identify the user submitting it. If we receive personally identifiable information through a feedback form we take steps to immediately delete that information. We reserve the right to use feedback for any purpose with no obligation to you.
Information Collected Automatically:We automatically receive and record information on our server logs from a user’s browser. This may include the IP address, pages of BrainPOP visited, the time spent on those pages, and access times and dates. We use this information to better display our Services, maintain a user’s session, identify the country the user is located in, monitor, analyze use of and administer our website, and to better tailor it to your needs.
To collect this information, we use technological tools including:
Cookies. A cookie is a small data file sent from a website or application and stored on your computer or device. Cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you return to TBIS, remember your login information, enable access to paid content and monitor potential account misuse. Cookies also allow us to better understand how you interact with BrainPOP and to monitor aggregated usage. You can set your browser to detect some cookies, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie.
How Long We Retain Personal Information?Users are able to delete their personally identifiable information at any time by contacting us. Once that information is deleted from our end, it is deleted from our servers
We will retain, use and share anonymous or aggregate and de-identified information for lawfully permissible purposes, including developing and improving educational products and services, educational research purposes, evaluating, informing and demonstrating the effectiveness and efficacy of our products and services.
How We Share Your Information? We may provide Personally Identifiable Information to our partners, business affiliates, and third party service providers who operate some of its functionalities. These includes a third party subscription app called Paid Members App,our credit card processing service from Stripe ( Security) and Mailchimp,a company that provides marketing emails on our behalf. These third parties service providers practice commercially reasonable security measures and use your Personally Identifiable Information solely as it pertains to the provision of their services. They do not have the independent right to share your Personally Identifiable Information or use it for any unrelated purposes.
By reading the privacy policies and security information of our partners from their links above you also agree to their Privacy policies
We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or others' safety, investigate fraud, and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or legal process.
We also reserve the right to transfer your Personally Identifiable Information in case of a corporate restructuring (such as a merger, acquisition or other disposition of our business), as long as the receiving entity adopts this Privacy Policy regarding your information.
We may use parents' and teachers' email addresses collected when registering to create an account with us ,with third parties business partners for marketing purposes when the individual has opted in to receive such communication. You may opt out of promotional messaging at any time as described in the Opt Out section below.
Security :We strive to maintain security policies and procedures that are designed to protect your information.
We apply a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL or HTTPS) encrypting technology to encrypt data in transit between the server and the browser remains encrypted.
Only limited TBIS personnel have access to the database, and personnel only access it when necessary to provide services. We used the services of weebly to host our website and follow all industry-standard privacy and security practices
While we strive to maintain industry-standard privacy and security practices, it should be noted that no industry system is fail proof, and we are not responsible for security incidents not reasonably foreseeable or reasonably within our control. In the event of unauthorized access to Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify the affected subscriber(s) in accordance with applicable law, and as appropriate, coordinate with the subscriber to support notification of affected individuals, students, and families.
Links To Third Party Sites: While using our Services, you may be referred to or linked from or to third party sites as part of our additional resources.While these websites do follow Industry-standard privacy practices, you should keep in mind that once you leave TBIS and visit a third party site, our privacy policy is no longer in effect. We are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies on these other sites. By browsing and interacting with any other website, you are subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read those rules and policies carefully before proceeding.
Social Networks:Adult facing pages within our Services contain social network sharing plug ins or widgets. These plugins may provide information to their associated social networks or third-parties about your interactions with our web pages that you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plug-in or widget. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking websites, you should read their privacy disclosures, to learn what information they collect, use, and share. We are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies at these social networks or third party sites.
Opt Out: If you have subscribed to receive marketing messaging from us, or if you receive an unwanted email from us, you can opt-out of receiving future emails by clicking the opt-out link in the email .
For California ResidentsAs a California resident, you have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights include:
Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal InformationWe share personal information with service providers who support us in delivering the Services as described above.
Using TBIS Outside The US If you are using the Services outside the United States, you consent to having your information and data transferred to the United States. If you are in any jurisdiction with laws or regulations governing internet use, including collection, use, and disclosure of personal data, different from those of the United States, you may only use the Services in a manner that is lawful in your jurisdiction. If your use of the Services may be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use them. If your use of the individual accounts may be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use it.
Changes To Our Privacy Policy :Changes to this policy or any of the pages linked in this policy may be required in order to address changing technology and threats, changing laws, or as we release new or amended services. Should we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice and request your consent. In the event of any non-material changes, we will provide prominent notice as required by law. Posting the modified privacy policy on our Services and providing notice as stated above will give effect to the revised Privacy Policy Your continued use of the Services constitutes your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the revised Privacy Policy, please refrain from using the Services and/or leave this website(s) or app(s).
Contact Information: If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by emailing [email protected]
We design and operate our technology and services with our users’ protection and privacy in mind, and we make every effort to be transparent in our data collection and use practices.
Our education product includes individual parent accounts to be created and maintained ONLY by the parents to keep track of individual student learning and maintain control over their student data. If a teacher creates the individual account then the same terms and conditions apply to them for use of that account in their classroom by their students.
We do not use student or children’s personal information for advertising purposes, including targeted advertising.
We do not rent or sell student data.
TBIS uses industry standard protocol to ensure that student data is encrypted and transmitted securely from end to end and at rest.
We limit the data collected from students or children to only that which is necessary to meet the educational purposes of TBIS
We do not collect sensitive data like biometric or health data or behavior data.
The product is not intended and does not allow for social interactions between students.
Users and Parents are able to delete student personally identifiable information at any time.
We provide prominent notice to users and send out email notices to customers before making any material changes to our Privacy Policy.
TBIS complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
DefinitionsFor purposes of this policy, we will use the following definitions:
Personally identifiable information (PII) is information that can identify a user of the Services, including his or her e-mail, name, and address. It also includes PII combined with non-PII.
What Type Of Information Do We Collect And Why? During the registration process for any of our subscriptions, we ask the subscriber to provide us with a name, email address, phone number, and billing information. We also ask you to provide username and password. We use the information to create and service the account, fulfill the subscription and send you service-related announcements. For instance, we may send newsletters with information ,emails about routine maintenance, new feature launches or product recommendations related to your subscription. We may also use this contact information to request feedback on our products and services, to inform future customer service and product improvements. If you are registering for a free trial, we will use the information to create a free trial account and to send occasional promotional emails and other marketing campaigns. You may opt out of promotional email messaging at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the messaging.
Students:We do not collect PII of students through account creation. We have created our inquiry based lessons and other content on a collaborative tool called padlet.com to collect student responses in form of text,voice,video,photo,links and other formats.We do not share this information publicly and require all users to do the same. By reading and agreeing to our privacy policy ,you are also agreeing to the Privacy policy of Padlet.com
https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe
Children Under Age 13:In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): TBIS does not collect personally identifiable information from children under 13, without a parent or guardian's consent. Parents and guardians of children under 13 who use any of the TBIS products have certain rights under COPPA and TBIS recognizes those rights. At any time, parents/guardians using a home product may request to review the personal information we collected from their child, request that we make no further use of that information or request that we delete it. To exercise your right to delete information, please use the contact information below.
Contact information for newsletter and surveys: On the adult-facing pages of our Services, including pages that do not require log in, adult users may choose to sign up for newsletters, promotional offerings, or participation in surveys, all of which require contact information. The submitted contact information will be used for promotional purposes, and you may opt-out at any time. An opt-out link or instructions on how to opt-out will be included at the bottom of such messages. Registration for newsletters, promotional offerings, and surveys participation are not intended for minors.
Information we collect when you contact us: When you send us messages through our system or by email or through other online platforms, we collect the information you provide, including your message and any contact information you include. We use and retain such information to respond to your request, facilitate support to you in the future and to optimize our support services.
Feedback: Certain features we offer include an option to provide us with feedback. The feedback feature does not identify the user submitting it. If we receive personally identifiable information through a feedback form we take steps to immediately delete that information. We reserve the right to use feedback for any purpose with no obligation to you.
Information Collected Automatically:We automatically receive and record information on our server logs from a user’s browser. This may include the IP address, pages of BrainPOP visited, the time spent on those pages, and access times and dates. We use this information to better display our Services, maintain a user’s session, identify the country the user is located in, monitor, analyze use of and administer our website, and to better tailor it to your needs.
To collect this information, we use technological tools including:
Cookies. A cookie is a small data file sent from a website or application and stored on your computer or device. Cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you return to TBIS, remember your login information, enable access to paid content and monitor potential account misuse. Cookies also allow us to better understand how you interact with BrainPOP and to monitor aggregated usage. You can set your browser to detect some cookies, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie.
How Long We Retain Personal Information?Users are able to delete their personally identifiable information at any time by contacting us. Once that information is deleted from our end, it is deleted from our servers
We will retain, use and share anonymous or aggregate and de-identified information for lawfully permissible purposes, including developing and improving educational products and services, educational research purposes, evaluating, informing and demonstrating the effectiveness and efficacy of our products and services.
How We Share Your Information? We may provide Personally Identifiable Information to our partners, business affiliates, and third party service providers who operate some of its functionalities. These includes a third party subscription app called Paid Members App,our credit card processing service from Stripe ( Security) and Mailchimp,a company that provides marketing emails on our behalf. These third parties service providers practice commercially reasonable security measures and use your Personally Identifiable Information solely as it pertains to the provision of their services. They do not have the independent right to share your Personally Identifiable Information or use it for any unrelated purposes.
By reading the privacy policies and security information of our partners from their links above you also agree to their Privacy policies
We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or others' safety, investigate fraud, and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or legal process.
We also reserve the right to transfer your Personally Identifiable Information in case of a corporate restructuring (such as a merger, acquisition or other disposition of our business), as long as the receiving entity adopts this Privacy Policy regarding your information.
We may use parents' and teachers' email addresses collected when registering to create an account with us ,with third parties business partners for marketing purposes when the individual has opted in to receive such communication. You may opt out of promotional messaging at any time as described in the Opt Out section below.
Security :We strive to maintain security policies and procedures that are designed to protect your information.
We apply a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL or HTTPS) encrypting technology to encrypt data in transit between the server and the browser remains encrypted.
Only limited TBIS personnel have access to the database, and personnel only access it when necessary to provide services. We used the services of weebly to host our website and follow all industry-standard privacy and security practices
While we strive to maintain industry-standard privacy and security practices, it should be noted that no industry system is fail proof, and we are not responsible for security incidents not reasonably foreseeable or reasonably within our control. In the event of unauthorized access to Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify the affected subscriber(s) in accordance with applicable law, and as appropriate, coordinate with the subscriber to support notification of affected individuals, students, and families.
Links To Third Party Sites: While using our Services, you may be referred to or linked from or to third party sites as part of our additional resources.While these websites do follow Industry-standard privacy practices, you should keep in mind that once you leave TBIS and visit a third party site, our privacy policy is no longer in effect. We are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies on these other sites. By browsing and interacting with any other website, you are subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read those rules and policies carefully before proceeding.
Social Networks:Adult facing pages within our Services contain social network sharing plug ins or widgets. These plugins may provide information to their associated social networks or third-parties about your interactions with our web pages that you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plug-in or widget. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking websites, you should read their privacy disclosures, to learn what information they collect, use, and share. We are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies at these social networks or third party sites.
Opt Out: If you have subscribed to receive marketing messaging from us, or if you receive an unwanted email from us, you can opt-out of receiving future emails by clicking the opt-out link in the email .
For California ResidentsAs a California resident, you have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights include:
- Right to Know and Access Information: You may request access to the personal information we maintain about you in the ordinary course of business. This may include what personal information we collect, use, or disclose about you. We may not fulfill some or all of your request to access as permitted by applicable law.
- Right to Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal information. Depending on the scope of your request, we may refrain from granting your request, as permitted by applicable law. For example, we may be legally required to retain your information in our business records.
- Right to Opt Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information: California law considers certain uses of personal information, such as sharing your personal information with a third party in order to serve ads to you to be a “sale.” We do not sell personal information of children or students.
Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal InformationWe share personal information with service providers who support us in delivering the Services as described above.
Using TBIS Outside The US If you are using the Services outside the United States, you consent to having your information and data transferred to the United States. If you are in any jurisdiction with laws or regulations governing internet use, including collection, use, and disclosure of personal data, different from those of the United States, you may only use the Services in a manner that is lawful in your jurisdiction. If your use of the Services may be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use them. If your use of the individual accounts may be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use it.
Changes To Our Privacy Policy :Changes to this policy or any of the pages linked in this policy may be required in order to address changing technology and threats, changing laws, or as we release new or amended services. Should we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice and request your consent. In the event of any non-material changes, we will provide prominent notice as required by law. Posting the modified privacy policy on our Services and providing notice as stated above will give effect to the revised Privacy Policy Your continued use of the Services constitutes your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the revised Privacy Policy, please refrain from using the Services and/or leave this website(s) or app(s).
Contact Information: If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by emailing [email protected]