Pedagogy is committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all users. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through Pedagogy’s website(s) and all partner sites and governs online data collection and usage by Pedagogy.
Collection and Tracking of Personal Information:
We request information about you to provide you with the most efficient and enhanced service(s) possible. We collect personally identifiable information such as names, e-mail addresses and demographic information such as age and postal code. We also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times, and referring website address. This information is collected during registration on the site or in response to specific requests; for example, when signing up for a newsletter and submitting evaluations. Information collected at one Pedagogy website will be available within the Pedagogy family of websites.
What We Do With Collected Information:
We use personal information so that we may display personalized content to our visitors, send newsletters, e-mails, features, promotional material, surveys, and other updates to our users. A user may opt out of receiving such information at any time. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service, respond to any problems that may arise, and to gauge user trends to determine what part of our services are most popular with users. We may extend offers to users on behalf of our partners about a particular product or service that may be of interest to you, but we will never give out your name or personal information at any time without your permission. Although Pedagogy may receive a fee from our partners for this service, Pedagogy sends all the offers so that your personal information is never shared with any outside third party. We may produce reports for advertisers containing aggregate information about our users such as demographic, age and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely with advertisers to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users. We will never include any personal information in these reports. We allow users of our website to send articles or links by e-mail to other parties who may be interested in them. We do not retain any e-mail addresses (unless you are a member who already has voluntarily provided your e-mail address) of either the sender or recipient of such articles or links after they are sent. We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation, or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.
Use of Cookies:
Your browser offers cookies which store small amounts of data on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information about you and cannot be used to identify you personally. Cookies simply assist us in tracking which of our features you like best. Cookies also enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. You can accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser and our websites are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features of our site will not be available to you. We may also place a cookie on your browser so that this and other websites owned by Pedagogy will recognize you as a unique, anonymous user. This will enable us to make sure that you do not see the same ad over and over, to sequence ads in a series, and to measure more accurately the number of unique visitors across the network of Pedagogy websites.
Use of Web Beacons:
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons, which are also called single-pixel gifs. These images allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We also may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information, but they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our website usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, originating IP address, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Some of our Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help us determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
Controlling Your Personal Information:
A user may change, correct, modify, or delete any personal information they may have provided to Pedagogy anytime by visiting the My Dashboard page. Users can also unsubscribe from any newsletters or opt out of various promotional e-mailing at any time by visiting the Newsletters or Profile section in the My Dashboard or clicking on "unsubscribe" links at the bottom of each of our newsletters or e-mails.
Security of Your Personal Information:
Pedagogy employees are made aware of its privacy practices through periodic communications and training. We limit access to private and confidential data only to those employees with a specific need to retrieve this information and we store data on multiple service systems, in controlled, secure environments. To maintain our level of security, we conduct both internal reviews and external audits of our security measures and procedures on a regular basis.
Children's Privacy:
Some portions of the Pedagogy website may be used by children under the age of 13. Pedagogy has a system in place to effectively screen its users to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. Our site and services may collect information about children under 13, including e-mail forum participation and chat rooms. Use of such activities requires initial registration by the participant. Children under the age of 13 who wish to register are asked to have a parent or legal guardian do so for them. Except as authorized under COPPA, Pedagogy will not collect online contact information from a user under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
Changes in Corporate Structure:
In developing our business, we might sell certain assets or the company, or parts of it, may be sold, merged, or otherwise transferred. In such transactions, user information, whether personally identifiable or otherwise, may be one of the transferred assets.
World Wide Visitors:
Our website and the servers that make this site available worldwide are in many different countries. All matters relating to these sites are governed by the laws of the countries in which they are located. Any information you provide will be transferred to those countries for storage. You authorize this transfer by visiting our sites and submitting information.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy:
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to maintain the highest protection for our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the policy when you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make changes in how we handle previously collected personal information that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so.