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Privacy Policy Updated: October 2012 Identity of Registrants SpelllingCity.com provides spelling practice on a website where teachers and parents can post word lists. To maximize privacy and security, we require teachers and parents to set up accounts if they wish to post word lists or comments. In addition, we verify each user with a verification email that assures that the email that they registered under is actually available to them. This does not verify identity beyond the confirmation of the email. You should be aware that if you register for an account as a parent or educator, your name and user name become viewable by the public. VocabularySpellingCity.com has no method for verifying whether someone who registers as a teacher at a particular school is truly that teacher or works at that school. All VocabularySpellingCity.com users should be aware of this possibility and take appropriate precautions. When made aware of a fraudulent account, VocabularySpellingCity.com will take measures to ban that user. However, these measures are limited to closing the particular account and banning future registrations using the particular email. Appropriateness Display of Registrant Identify What about the collection of information by third parties? Our web site contains links to web sites not maintained by VocabularySpellingCity.com. The privacy and data collection practices on any linked web sites are entirely separate from those of VocabularySpellingCity.com and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We cannot guarantee that student users will not go to another site where personal information from them is solicited. VocabularySpellingCity does have limited advertising on the site and takes measures to maintain the appropriateness of the advertising material to the educational mission of VocabularySpellingCity. Google's Adsense service is our primary supplier of advertising Google's activities includes placing "cookies" on user computers in order to track user movement through various websites on the internet. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. What security measures do we take? VocabularySpellingCity.com takes reasonable steps to ensure that all information received from our online visitors remains as secure as possible against unauthorized access and use. All personal information provided by customers is kept in our secure database and is protected by our security measures, which are periodically reviewed. Remember that no data transmission over the internet is 100% secure and any information disclosed online can potentially be collected and used by parties other than the intended recipient. Children's Privacy Guidelines VocabularySpellingCity.com exists to serve educators, parents and students and strives to provide a safe, positive experience for children. To ensure this, we adhere to the following policies:
Your use of this site is conditioned on and deemed to constitute your acceptance of these terms. You should return to and review this policy frequently, since it is subject to modification from time to time without notice, and your continued use of the site is conditioned upon and deemed to constitute your acceptance of any such modifications. VocabularySpellingCity.com's mission is to maximize the educational value of this website and its usefulness to educators, parents and students. Registration with VocabularySpellingCity.com includes an option to receive periodic email updates about VocabularySpellingCity and other services and products that might be of interest. VocabularySpellingCity is supported in part by Time4Learning.com and Time4Writing.com. Time4Learning.com is an online learning service popular as a homeschool curriculum, for afterschool supplementary education, and for summer skills sharpening. Time4Writing.com provides unique online services that help students learning to write. |
