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ChalkCast, Inc. (“ChalkCast, “us”, or “we”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to chalkcast.org, learn.chalkcast.org, our mobile application, and online services (collectively, our “Service”), which are all owned and operated by ChalkCast.
This Privacy Policy describes how ChalkCast collects and uses the information you provide on our Service, and describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. "You" or “your” means a visitor or a user (whether logged in or not) of our Service.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Services, which governs your use of ChalkCast Services.
You can join a class session without registering for an account or providing any personal data. The following table describes the data that ChalkCast collects from you when you join a session, whether you identify yourself or not, and what we do with that data:
| Data Collected | How and When? | How is the Data Used? | Required for Joining a Session? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Display Name | As an optional field when a user joins a class session | - Display Name is used to provide a welcome login and to identify you to others in the same room or session - If no display name is entered, we automatically assign a random animal name to be used for display in chat and attendance reports | No |
| Written chat message | As part of usage of our chat feature | - Chat messages are used to provide a chat transcript to the instructor or user who created the room - ChalkCast may use chat messages in a de-identified format to improve our product | No |
| Guest Attendance | When you join a session, we assign you an alphanumeric identifier, and timestamp when you join and leave a session | - Join and leave timestamps are used to provide an attendance report to the instructor or the user who created the room - ChalkCast may use join and leave timestamps in a de-identified format to improve our product | Yes |
If you would like to create a room and a class session, you must register with an account. The following table describes the data that ChalkCast collects from a user who creates an account.
| Data Collected | How and When? | How is the Data Used? | Required for Account Creation? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google ID | If you choose to sign up using your Google account, we collect Google ID once you have given us permission during account creation | - Google ID is used to authenticate you without requiring a password - It is also used to apply your Google email address and your Google Display name to your ChalkCast account profile. By default, Google email addresses are not stored in a format that allows ChalkCast to contact you | Yes, if signing up using Google |
| One-way hash of email address (NOT the actual email address) | If you choose to sign up using an email address, we ask for your email address | - We store a one-way hash of your email address for the purposes of login. By default, email addresses are not stored in a format that allows ChalkCast to contact you | Yes, if signing up using email address |
| Email domain, first, and last characters in email address | During account creation, either through Google or email signup | A masked email address is displayed in your profile so that you know which email address is associated with your account. By default, email addresses are not stored in a format that allows ChalkCast to contact you | Yes |
| Display Name | - If you choose to sign up using your Google account, we collect your Google Display name once you have given us permission during account creation - If you choose to sign up using an email address, we ask for an optional Display Name - You can enter or change your Display Name in your Account profile | - Display Name is used to provide a welcome login and to identify you to others in the same room or session - If no display name is entered, we automatically assign a random animal name to be used for display on your nameplate and in chat | No |
| Actual email address | If you forgot your password, we ask you to enter your email address associated with your account | We temporarily store this email address to send you a reset password email | No |
| Written chat message | As part of usage of our chat feature | - Chat messages are used to provide a chat transcript to you or the user who created the room - ChalkCast may use chat messages in a de-identified format to improve our product | No |
| Guest Attendance | When you join a session, we assign you an alphanumeric identifier, and timestamp when you join and leave a session | - Join and leave timestamps are used to provide an attendance report to you or the user who created the room - ChalkCast may use join and leave timestamps in a de-identified format to improve our product | No |
On occasion, we collect student and teacher testimonials to promote our learning philosophy. Testimonials are published with the permission of the participating Student, their parent or legal guardian, or Teacher. Testimonials include Personal Information such as name, school, likeness and photo or video of the person being profiled.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
We do not sell ads or Personal Information, or use Personal Information for financial gain. Per the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA), ChalkCast does not use, disclose, or compile any student Personal Information for the purpose of marketing or advertising commercial products or services. We do not disclose any student Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes.
To provide the best user experience, we may use various technologies to remember your past activity and provide you with a more streamlined process.
For example, whether or not you have a ChalkCast account, when you use ChalkCast for the first time, we send a token that is stored in your browser’s local storage, so that we can tie all future ChalkCast sessions back to you.
As we add more features to our services, our Privacy Policy will change. However, we will not change how we use any Personal Information we have already collected in any material way without also providing notice of the change and obtaining user consent, or the consent from a school or district, if applicable.
As soon as we implement changes, we will notify users about updates. Within 24 hours of an update, we will post the revised Privacy Policy to our website, and display a notification banner on our homepage, on our sign up page, and any other place on our site we deem to have high traffic. For any significant changes to our policy, we will also contact users directly via email if their email address has been explicitly shared with ChalkCast.
In addition, ChalkCast will maintain a changelog that will document a list of notable changes by date to make it easier for users to track when and what changes were made.
If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send an email with your questions or comments to support@chalkcast.org or write us:
ChalkCast, Inc.
2309 Manor Road
Austin, TX 78722
This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 17, 2021
This Privacy Policy was last updated on June 17, 2021
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