Privacy Policy

OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy is designed to clearly and simply explain how, when and why we collect personal information. It also covers what your rights are and how you can get in touch.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

 The Services collect various types of information from and about its users (“Personal Information”), such as:

  • Voluntarily provided information which may include a user’s name, address, email address, race or ethnicity, gender, age, and health information, billing and/or credit card information etc., which may be used when you use or purchase Services and to deliver the Services you have requested.

  • Real-time location data, as in GPS location information.

  • Stored information and files, where voluntarily provided, including personal contacts and address book information.

  • Device information, which may include information about the user’s mobile device and internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number.

Information automatically collected when visiting or using our Services, which may include details of the user’s access to and use of the Services, including traffic data, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit to our website or application or use of our Services, error information, clickstream data, other communication data and the resources that the end user accesses and uses on or through the application, cookies, third party tracking technologies and server logs. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). We use cookies to receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our website and application through your computer or mobile device. A “cookie” is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while the user is browsing. On your computer, you may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser, and you may have similar capabilities on your mobile device in the preferences for your operating system or browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our website or use certain parts of our application. Unless you have adjusted your browser or operating system setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website or use our application.

  • Web Beacons. Pages of our website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit SpEd Connect, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

  • Third Party Cookies and Tracking Technologies. Our service providers (such as, for example and without limitation: Google, Shopify Klaviyo, DojoMojo, Daasity, Emotive, and Kickbooster) may also use online identifiers such as cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies to collect and store information about you (e.g. click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, hardware/software information, cookie and session ID) when you use our website. The information they collect and store may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect and store information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. The Services may analyze the behavior of users to our website or interactions with our emails in order to provide our users with personalized purchase recommendations and to tell which mailings appeal most to our users. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For example, you can find out more about how Google uses data when you visit our website or application by visiting “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps”, located at google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

  • Social Media Advertising Services. We use social media advertising services provided by social media companies, such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. These social media companies provide web analytics and related advertising services on or in conjunction with our website. With their help, we and our users can keep track of what users do after they see or click on a social media advertisement, keep track of users who access our website or advertisements from different devices, and better provide advertisements to our target audiences. The data from social media companies is also saved and processed by the social media sites themselves. Such social media sites can connect this data with your social media accounts and use it for its own and others advertising purposes, in accordance with their privacy notices available on the homepage of each social media website.

  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

  • Details of your order for our Services. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our website or application.

 It is the intent of the Services to use Personal Information only for the purpose for which it was requested and any additional uses set forth through the Services.

You also may provide information to be transmitted to third parties you engage (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are transmitted to others at your own risk.  Although we limit access to certain information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of the third parties with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

We May Combine Information About You

The information we collect through our Services, automatically, or from third parties may be combined. It helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website and application according to your individual interests, speed up your searches, and to recognize you when you return to our website and application.

Use of Information Collected

SpEd Connect may collect and may make use of Personal Information to present our website, application, and their contents to you, to assist in the operation of our Services, to ensure delivery of the Services you need and request, to provide you with notices about your subscription, including expiration and renewal notices, and to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. At times, we may find it necessary to use Personal Information as a means to keep you informed of changes to our website or application or Services that may be available to you from www.spedconnect.comspedconnect.io. SpEd Connect may also be in contact with you with regards to completing surveys and/or research questionnaires related to your opinion of current or potential future services that may be offered.

SpEd Connect may feel it necessary, from time to time, to make contact with you on behalf of other external business partners with regards to a potential new offer which may be of interest to you. If you consent or show interest in presented offers, then, at that time, Personal Information, such as name, email address and/or telephone number, may be shared with the third party. If you wish to change your choice, you may do so at any time by sending us an email stating your request at privacy@spedconnect.comspedconnect.io.  

 SpEd Connect may deem it necessary to follow websites and/or pages that our users may frequent in an effort to glean what types of services and/or products may be the most popular to users or the general public.

Disclosure of Information

SpEd Connect does not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Information for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may also disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. SpEd Connect may disclose your Personal Information to:

  • Affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. These entities provide IT and infrastructure support services, emergency response technology, marketing, advertising and promotion, and payment processing services;

  • fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; for example, when you direct us to send an emergency alert to a family member or friend;

  • Third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures;

  • Any other third party with your consent;

  • Remain in conformance with any decrees, laws and/or statutes or in an effort to comply with any process which may be served upon SpEd Connect;

  • Maintain, safeguard and/or preserve all the rights and/or property of SpEd Connect;

  • Effectuate a corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a merger, a sale of assets, or bankruptcy; and

  • Perform under demanding conditions in an effort to safeguard the personal safety of users of www.spedconnect.comspedconnect.io and/or the general public.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Information. When possible, these organizations are under contractual obligations to use this data only for providing the services to us and to maintain this information strictly confidential. These third parties may, however, aggregate the information they collect with information from their other users for their own purposes. In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Information, which include:

  • Promotional Offers from SpEd Connect. If you do not wish to have your email address used by SpEd Connect to promote our own Services, you can opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email or other marketing communications you receive from us. This opt out does not apply to information provided to SpEd Connect as a result of  your use of our Services.

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

  • Disclosure of Your Information to Affiliates and Third Parties. By using our Services, you consent to our sharing of your Personal Information with our affiliates and third parties for their promotional purposes. If you wish to unsubscribe from such affiliate and third parties’ promotions, you can do so by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email or other marketing communications you receive from us or them. If you wish to opt-out of such sharing, please email us at privacy@spedconnect.comspedconnect.io.

  • Targeted Advertising. To learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options, visit the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) websites (aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org). Please note that if you choose to opt out, you will continue to see ads, but they will not be based on your online activity. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can also opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NAI on its website.

 

Children Under The Age of 13

With parental consent, SpEd Connect may collect Personal Information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If we learn that we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under the age of thirteen (13) without parental consent, we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system's database. Parents have the right to review their child’s Personal Information; to have their child’s Personal Information deleted; and to refuse further collection, use, and/or disclosure of their child’s Personal Information by notifying us. As a parent, you understand that SpEd Connect has a legitimate interest in providing your child’s Personal Information collected via the Services to external providers for the sole purpose of administering or providing the Services. Anyone under the age of thirteen (13) must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use our Services.

Unsubscribe or Opt-Out

All users and/or visitors to our Services have the option to discontinue receiving communication from us and/or reserve the right to discontinue receiving communications by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe to our Services please send an email that you wish to unsubscribe to privacy@spedconnect.comspedconnect.io. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt-out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe and/or opt-out.
 

Your California Privacy Rights

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives California residents certain rights regarding the personal information that businesses collect about them. These rights are:

  • The right to know about the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared.

  • The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions).

  • The right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information.

  • The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights.

If you wish to contact us in order to exercise any of these rights, then please email us on privacy@spedconnect.comspedconnect.io, referring to the CCPA. We will respond to your request within 45 days.

We never sell your personal data.

International Data Transfers

In some cases, we (or our third-party data processors) may need to store, transfer, or process your personal data outside of the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA). Where this happens, we ensure adequate safeguards are in place so that your data is protected in line with both the UK and EU GDPR. This will usually mean one of the following:

  • The country that the data is being transferred to has been deemed as having an adequate level of protection by the European Commission and the ICO.

  • We will put in place a contract with the recipient of your personal information that contains model clauses approved by the European Commission and the ICO.

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK-GDPR) requires that we always have a lawful basis before processing your personal information.

Therefore, we will only process your data if we have a contractual or legal obligation, a legitimate interest or where we have your consent. You can remove your consent at any time by contacting privacy@spedconnect.comspedconnect.io.

Response to Do Not Track Signals

We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

Links to Other Web Sites

Our website does contain links to affiliate and other websites. SpEd Connect does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects Personal Information. The Privacy Policy applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.

Security

We have implemented measures designed to help secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information to your emergency contacts for the emergency notification features of the Services, we do not control what your emergency contact does with the information you share through the Services. Before you add a contact for us to provide notifications to, please consider what information you would like shared with that individual.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to or by our Services. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Services.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy related to our Services, please feel free to contact us at the following email, telephone or mailing address.

Email: privacy@spedconnect.io

Telephone: 

Mailing Address:

SpEd Connect LLC

510 Austin Avenue

Waco, TX 76701 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is regularly reviewed and updated at least once every 12 months. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page.

If you are a SpEd Connect user, we will notify you of any changes which result in a significantly different or new use of your data and give you the option to agree to the new use. 

The policy was last updated on 3/24/2022