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PRIVACY POLICY (ISCHOOL)
Preliminary - This policy applies equally to Teachers, Adult Users and Student Users and the terms You, Your and User apply equally to both parties for the purpose of this Privacy Policy.
1 YOUR INFORMATION
1.1 ISchool shall at times collect information relating to Your use of the website. Such information may either be classified as “personal” or “non-personal”. Your personal information includes Your name, address, telephone number, email address, photograph, videos, educational and other qualifications, other background information, payment information and preferences etc., (“Personal Information”), and ISchool may collect Personal Information for purposes such as registration on the Website and for other purposes including but not limited to use of the various services provided by the Website. Please note that the above does not apply to children below the age of 12 years, for whom Article 4 of this Privacy Policy applies.
1.2 Your Personal Information will not be shared or sold by ISchool with any third-parties for any purpose, other than what you have consented to either under these terms or from time to time. However, Your Personal Information may be shared with third-parties under an order of a competent legal authority like a court of law. Further, ISchool may disclose Personal Information in circumstances where ISchool believes in good faith, that it is appropriate or necessary to do so in order to protect ISchool from - abusive, fraudulent or unlawful uses; from third-party allegations and claims; to assist government agencies; to protect the security and integrity of the Website; or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of ISchool, its Users or its employees. Your Personal Information may also be transferred or assigned by ISchool in the event of a merger, acquisition, sale or change of control of ISchool or the Website.
1.3 Further, such information may also have to be stored on servers which belong to third-parties and as described here and that You provide your consent to storage of Personal Information on third party servers and equipment.
1.4 Your Personal Information is only used for the following purposes:
- to enable You to use the Website and to exchange information with ISchool;
- to personalize your Website experience and to provide you with offers and other communications from ISchool, some of which may be done on an “opt-out” basis;
- for the administration and efficient functioning of the Website;
- in response to any request by an appropriate investigative authority under order from an appropriate judicial authority or under direct order from an appropriate judicial or quasi judicial authority.
1.5 Your password will either be chosen by You or will be verified and linked to your LinkedIn.com, Facebook.com, Twitter.com or Google+.com user accounts (the “Accounts”). We may use the information appearing in Your Accounts to verify your credentials, to establish your work history or to generally improve Your Website experience.
1.6 You also understand that Your personal information disseminated by You on the public forums of the Website shall be at your own risk and peril and that ISchool shall not be responsible for any consequences that may flow from Your having shared such information.
1.7 You also understand that while ISchool takes all necessary steps to protect your information, security hazards and risks cannot be fully ruled out or eliminated and that your use of the Website still carries risk of this nature with it.
1.8 Other than Personal Information, ISchool may also collect anonymous information about your usage of the Website and of other websites as well as other automatically collected information including location information, IP address, browser type, internet service provider, click stream data, operating systems etc., further, ISchool may record information related to Your use of the Website regarding the number of problems you attempt, the number of problems viewed, the time taken to solve such problems etc., (“Non-Personal Information”). Such Non-Personal information may be collected by us through cookies stored on your hard drive. You can choose to disable cookies on your web browser; however this will negatively affect your browsing experience of the Website. Such cookies are either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies lapse after you end Your session on the Website, however, persistent cookies may stay on your system until you clear them through your browser settings page. Cookies may also be installed on your system when you visit third-party advertiser pages; it is reiterated that ISchool does not control these third-party cookies or their interaction with Your system.
1.9 Such Non-Personal Information may be shared by ISchool with third-parties such as advertisers, marketers, sponsors etc., and may be used to improve ISchool's business model and customer needs. Such information will never identify You personally and will be collected and stored on a completely anonymous basis.
2 SECURITY AND EXTERNAL SOURCES
2.1 ISchool will use best practices to ensure that Your Personal Information is secure and not open to third-party access. ISchool puts in places physical measures to ensure such protection. ISchool shall continue to NOT be responsible for any breach of security in respect of the Personal Information in case of events outside ISchool's controls such as, but not limited to, earthquake, cyclone, tsunami and such natural disasters, as well as riots, acts of war, acts of terror, unauthorised computer attacks, system crashes, software or hardware defects etc., these and similar events are collectively classified as force majeure events.
2.2 ISchool shall not be responsible for any breach of security or any other consequence owing to Your having clicked on any third-party advertiser or such other links that appear on ISchool's website. The privacy policy and terms of use of the relevant advertising partner shall apply to all such transactions.
3 COMMUNICATIONS AND MISC
3.1 ISchool shall preserve and store all communication made with You on any subject. These communications may be used, amongst other things, as evidence during legal investigations initiated by competent legal authorities, for the protection of ISchool's interests in the case of dispute and for any other purpose stated here regarding the use of Personal Information.
3.2 You agree that the use of the Website authorises the transfer of Your Personal Information across international borders and permit ISchool to store and process such information in any country around the world.
3.3 These conditions may be changed without notice by ISchool from time to time. ISchool will not require your consent to change these conditions and Your continuing to access the Website will constitute as Your having given consent to such new terms and conditions of this policy.
3.4 All disputes in respect of this policy will be interpreted in accordance with the laws in force in Singapore. The courts at Singapore shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
3.5 You may contact ISchool in case of any queries at contact@iSchool.com
4 USERS AGED 12 AND UNDER
4.1 With respect to Personal Information collected from Users under the age of 12 years (“Child Users”), we are committed to only collecting names and email addresses of our Child Users. This information is not shared with any affiliates or third parties at any except in so far as storing such information on secure third-party servers to which access is restricted only to ISchool. Personal information collected from children is used solely by ISchool or other entities that provide technical, fulfillment or other services to ISchool.
4.2 Non-Personal Information related to Child Users may be collected and used in the manner provided herein.
4.3 We will also require Child Users to provide Personal Information related to a parent or guardian; whom we may contact from time to time for requisite permissions or information.
4.4 Participation of Child Users in online activities will be restricted in so far as all content containing Personal Information related to a child shall be screened or deleted from forums or message boards.
4.5 Parents of Child Users are strongly urged to monitor and supervise their children’s online activities.
