Caryl Technologies,LLC Privacy Policy Effective on 05/20/07
Effective on 05/20/07
Caryl Technologies,LLC is proud to power your Voice and Internet site. We are
dedicated to providing easy-to-use, powerful and affordable sites. At Caryl Technologies,
we are equally committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement was developed
to give you a full understanding of terms and conditions relating to information
collected through your organization’s site. This Privacy Statement pertains only
to the information that Caryl Technologies collects or that is provided to us by
you or your organization. Your organization may have its own policies addressing
collection, use and sharing of personally identifiable information. For information
about your organization’s policy, please contact your organization directly. This
Privacy Statement applies only to ASP-Delivered sites and NOT to sites hosted by
your organization or a Third-Party Hosting Facility. Please contact your organization’s
Primary Contact to Caryl Technologies to learn if this Privacy Statement applies
to you.
Caryl Technologies collects personal information via registration. Registration
occurs in two ways:
1. Self-Registration. If you choose to become a registered subscriber, we will ask
for personal information from you through your organization’s site powered by Caryl
Technologies.
After we collect this information from you, it may be verified by
an official at your organization. So that the registration process is compliant
with federal law under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you
are first asked for your birth date. Birth date information is collected only to
validate your age and is not stored. Children under 13 years of age are not allowed
to register themselves with your organization’s Caryl Technologies site. Before
a child under 13 may access features that require registration, the organization
must first obtain a signed parental consent form. Consent is received by the organization,
the organization is responsible for providing parent access to the child’s profile
so the parent may, at any time, review, modify delete the child’s personal information.
A parent also has the right to refuse to further collection of the child’s information.
If you have questions regarding your profile, please contact your organization’s
Primary Contact to Schoolwires. If you are over 13 years of age, you are required
to supply your First and Last Name, Email Address, Mobile phone number, mobile provider,
Sign-In Name and Password. These fields are labeled to indicate that they are required.
The following fields are labeled as optional: Title, Address, City, State, ZIP Code,
Phone and Fax. After registration, the Site Director for your organization may decide
to assign to you a role or roles (viewing privileges). Based upon your designated
role(s), you may have access to additional information or services. If you have
questions concerning your role(s), please contact your organization’s Primary Contact
to Caryl Technologies.
2. Pre-Registration. You may be pre-registered by your organization in one of two
ways. Either way, your organization may not share personal information for children
under 13 years of age with Caryl Technologies without first receiving parental consent.
Your registration information may be shared with Caryl Technologies via a school-provided
list. Caryl Technologies would use this list to conduct a batch import of information.
A school-designated individual may input registration information for you. Information
collected for registration may also be used to (1) provide you with important information
about your school’s site, such as updates or notices, (2) improve our product and
services, (3) improve customer service and/or (4) in aggregate, guide our internal
marketing efforts. No personally identifiable information will be shared with third
parties. Additional information may be requested of you in other situations, for
example, if you submit a customer support request or a content submission request.
In such instances, the goal of collecting additional information is to serve you
more effectively and efficiently. It is important to understand that sites powered
by Caryl Technologies are used to present and archive information supplied by content
contributors designated by your organization. Caryl Technologies does not supply
the organization-specific content appearing on your organization’s website. Once
posted to the Internet, content supplied by content contributors at your organization
is public information available via the Internet.
Privacy of Children
Caryl Technologies is dedicated to the privacy of children under
13 years of age. We do not collect or entice (by use of contests, games, prizes,
or other enticements) from children more information than is needed to access services.
We will not share any personal information about children with third parties. As
a parent or legal guardian for children under 13, you may review your child’s personal
information. After your child’s parental consent form is submitted, an individual
at your organization will supply you with your child’s Sign-In and Password. If
you would like to refuse to allow any further collection or use of your child’s
information, please contact your organization’s Primary Contact to Schoolwires.
How We Use Information
Profile We do not associate information that we collect through log files or third
parties with your personal profile. The information is provided voluntarily by you
when you register for the site. A profile is stored information that gives you access
to certain features as well as the ability to personalize certain features. Your
profile can be used only by you, Caryl Technologies and your organization. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer tied to information about you.
The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. Caryl
Technologies uses session or dynamic cookies to let us know when a user is signed
in. Once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. When a user is signed
in and depending on the user’s assigned role(s), additional services become available
through our menu system. Again, depending on your assigned role(s), cookies may
offer the following benefits after Sign-In: A personalized salutation greeting Content
tailored to your role(s) Use of services that require Sign-In Session time-out,
a security feature You can disable cookies in your browser’s preferences. If you
disable cookies in your browser, you may still use your school’s site. Services,
however, that require Sign-In will not work if cookies are disabled. We do not use
web beacons (single-pixel gifs) to count visitors or deliver co-branded services.
Log Files Like most standard website servers, we use log files. We use a tracking
utility that analyzes log files to summarize user movement. This includes internet
protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, referring domain name, internet service provider
(ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp and number of hits and
page views. Log files are not linked to personally identifiable information. Caryl
Technologies uses data gathered from the tracking utility to guide sales and marketing
decisions, to update client sites as requested and to monitor system performance.
As mentioned above in the Profile section, we do not tie log files to personally
identifiable information. Communications from the Site Service Announcements From
time to time, it may be necessary to send out a strictly service-related announcement.
For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might
send you a notification email. Users cannot opt-out of these communications though
they can deactivate their account. (See section entitled Modifications to Personal
Information later in this Statement.) However, these communications are not promotional
in nature. E-Alerts and Subscriptions E-Alerts and Subscriptions is an optional
feature that allows registered users to subscribe to content on a site. If your
organization purchased the E-Alerts software option, you can use two different kinds
of E-Alerts: Broadcast E-Alerts: These are accessed by Site and Subsite Directors
to send an email message to a specific group or multiple groups of users (i.e.,
users assigned the same viewing permissions[roles]). Content E-Alerts: These provide
for automatic email notification to users whenever significant changes are made
to one or more homepages or sections to which they subscribe. Please note that the
content editors decide whether to send an E-Alert to subscribers. The email message
that users receive contains a link to the actual homepage or section, allowing them
immediate and direct access. Users can disable this feature by checking the “OFF”
option for the “Your E-Alerts are” question. The default option is OFF. Registered
users can also modify site homepage or section subscriptions by clicking the “Edit
Subscriptions” button. Customer Service As necessary, Caryl Technologies may communicate
with you via email, phone or online to provide requested services and in regards
to account-related issues. Sharing When Required by Law Though we make every effort
to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required
by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply
with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on your
organization’s site. District and School Editors Users who have been assigned editorial
positions of Site or Subsite Directors have access to all registered user information
strictly and solely on their organization’s site. Contact your organization’s Primary
Contact to Caryl Technologies for more information regarding who has been assigned
these positions and how this position-assigning process works for your organization.
Business Transitions In the event Caryl Technologies goes through a business transition,
such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its
assets, your personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets
transferred. You will be notified by a prominent notice on our corporate website
prior to a change of ownership or control of your personal information. For more
information, see the Caryl Technologies Privacy Policy Statement Changes section.
Links Your organization’s site may contain links to other sites. Caryl Technologies
is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such sites. Caryl Technologies
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Schoolwires. Surveys
and Feedback Forms From time to time, our site may request information from you
through surveys or feedback forms. Participation in these surveys or feedback forms
is voluntary. If personal information is requested, Caryl Technologies will fully
disclose this to you prior to submission. Information collected is used for the
purposes of improving our product and services and understanding our audience. Security
Caryl Technologies takes security seriously and employs measures to protect your
information. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example, a customer service representative) have access to personally identifiable
information.
If Caryl Technologies hosts your site, the servers that store personally identifiable
information are in a secure environment. Personal information is stored in password-controlled
servers with limited access. If you have any questions about the security of your
organization’s web site, please send a message to security@schoolwires.com. If your
organization hosts your site or chose to host with a Third-Party Hosting Facility,
your organization or the Third-Party Hosting Facility is responsible for ensuring
security. Contact your organization’s Primary Contact to Caryl Technologies for
information regarding its security provisions.
Modifications to Personal Information
There are three ways your personal information can be modified: If your personally
identifiable information changes (such as ZIP code, phone, email or postal address),
or if you no longer desire full access to Caryl Technologies services, you may update
or delete your personally identifiable information. This can be done by Signing
In and clicking on the Access My Info button at the top of your organization’s page.
Site and Subsite Directors have access and the ability to update personal information.
These Editors only have access to their organization’s user information. For children
under 13 years of age, your organization is responsible for first validating receipt
of the parental consent form. Caryl Technologies may gather information from Site
Directors in your organization which would allow Caryl Technologies to conduct a
mass user import to update user information. For children under 13 years of age,
your organization is responsible for first validating receipt of the parental consent
form. Caryl Technologies Privacy Policy Statement Changes If we change our privacy
policy, we will post the revised policy to www.schoolwires.com/policies and other
places we deem reasonable and appropriate to keep you informed. When material changes
affecting users under 13 years of age are made to this privacy policy, Caryl Technologies
will post a change notification announcement on all of our clients’ Caryl Technologies
sites. This announcement will include a link to the current privacy policy. The
same notification procedure will be followed for users over the age of 13. If Caryl
Technologies materially changes how it uses personal information about children
under age 13, Caryl Technologies will have the school obtain verifiable parental
consent for the new use of children’s personal information.
Usage Implies Consent By using sites powered by Caryl Technologies, you consent
to this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to this Privacy Statement, please
do not use Caryl Technologies services.
Caryl Technologies Corporate Site: www.CarylTechnologies.com When visiting the Caryl
Technologies corporate site at www.CarylTechnologies.com, personally identifiable
information is collected in several ways. For example, we may ask for contact information
when you correspond with us, request a demonstration, register for a seminar, inquire
about special offers or programs, etc. Depending on the nature of your submission
of personally identifiable information, a Caryl Technologies representative may
contact you to gather or share additional information. No personally identifiable
information will be shared with third parties.
Contact Information At Caryl Technologies, we take privacy issues very seriously.
If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us.
- Caryl Technologies, LLC
- ATTN: Privacy Officer
- PO Box 1068 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
- Phone: 888.804.3622
- Email: privacy@CarylTechnologies.com
- URL: www.CarylTechnologies.com
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact
Caryl Technologies.