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What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how FacultyCentral treats personal information that FacultyCentral collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, phone number, or grades and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that FacultyCentral does not own or control, or to people that FacultyCentral does not employ or manage.

Please read the following statements to learn more about FacultyCentral’s privacy policy.

1. Information Collection and Use

     General

• FacultyCentral collects personal information when you register with FacultyCentral, when you use Services and when you visit FacultyCentral pages.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, address, zip code, telephone number, email address, birth date, gender, grade level, and major. You may update or review this information at any time by selecting the “my profile” option. Once you register with FacultyCentral and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

     Children

• Children under age 13 will not be allowed to register with FacultyCentral and create an account without their parent’s permission. Before a child under age 13 may participate in any Services requiring registration (e.g., emailing, message boards or other forums), the child’s teacher must first obtain the parent’s permission. If at any time after a parent gives permission, the parent desires to review the child’s personal information, request that it be deleted or refuse to allow any further collection of the child’s information, the parent may contact FacultyCentral. If you have additional questions regarding your child’s use of his or her account, you may contact FacultyCentral.
• FacultyCentral will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.

2. Information Sharing and Disclosure

• FacultyCentral does not rent, sell, or share personal information about its members with other agencies other than members’ school and except to provide products or services  requested by the member under the following circumstances: 
• In order to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• In order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of FacultyCentral's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• Student information is available to his/her instructors.
• Member names may be displayed on their messages, or to other members of an online group that they have joined.

3. Inappropriate Content, Advertising, Spam, etc.

• To provide a safe environment for its members, FacultyCentral reserves the right to monitor activities and content for any form of inappropriateness including unauthorized advertising, spam, materials and messages that do not adhere to FacultyCentral's Term Of Use, or anything that FacultyCentral find inappropriate.
• All unauthorized content are subject to removed without notice if they are reported by members and visitors, encountered during random monitoring, or prompted by suspicious activities.

4. Cookies

• FacultyCentral may set and access FacultyCentral cookies on your computer.
• When you create an account, FacultyCentral uses a cookie to store a unique, random ID. FacultyCentral uses this ID to identify you anonymously to enable you to enter various channels as a member and to visit member-restricted areas of the site without having to login on each page. Please see cookies for more information.

5. Changes to this Privacy Policy

• FacultyCentral may update this policy with or without a notice to members.
• By using FacultyCentral.com or its Services, you signify your assent to the FacultyCentral.com Privacy Policy Statement. If you do not agree to this statement, please do not use the FacultyCentral.com Web site or its Services. Your continued use of FacultyCentral.com or its Services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.