Accessibyte recently made some updates to clarify a few points in the privacy policy. Our practices have not changed. These changes were simply to clarify a few things and ensure our privacy policy can't misinterpretted.
We are also now certified with a kidSAFE seal.
Students, teachers and parents can feel confident that our data and privacy policies are here to support them. These changes continue our trend of transparency and user support when it comes to data practices.
Specific changes are noted below. Our full policy can always be found here.
1. kidSAFE
Accessibyte.com is certified by the kidSAFE Seal Program. The kidSAFE Seal Program is an independent safety certification service and seal-of-approval program designed exclusively for children-friendly websites and technologies, including online game sites, educational services, virtual worlds, social networks, mobile apps, tablet devices, connected toys, and other similar online and interactive services. Click on the seal or go to www.kidsafeseal.com for more information.
2. Overview
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- We don’t sell your information.
- We do require use of cookies but don’t track you beyond what is required for purchases, login and program use on this site.
- Only the teacher who created their account can see student data.
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- We respect online privacy.
- We don’t sell your information.
- We are not part of an ad network.
- We do require use of cookies but don’t track you beyond what is required for purchases, login and program use on this site.
- Only the teacher who created their account can see student data.
- Student users cannot send each other information.
- We do not collect personally identifiable information from student users beyond a username and password which you control.
3. Cookies
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“Analytics” cookies (e.g. Google analytics cookies), which help us to determine the popularity and usage patterns of our web pages by collecting information about how visitors use our Site. Performance or analytics cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
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“Analytics” cookies (e.g. Google analytics cookies), which help us to determine the popularity and usage patterns of our web pages by collecting information about how visitors use our Site. Performance or analytics cookies cannot be used to identify you personally. These cookies are not part of Google AdSense or any other ad network.
4. Advertising
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J. Advertising: We may use or allow third-party companies to generate advertisements on the Site. Such companies may use cookies (see section 3.D) or similar technologies to tailor the advertisements you see on the Sites and to track your response (if any) to their advertisement. These cookies do not contain or generate any PII.
Changes
This section has been removed. We never ended up relying on these advertisements. While we have some exciting collaborations with other companies in the works, we’ll always be very clear when linking directly to their websites and won’t rely on cookies to do so.
5. Data & Subscription
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- C. Data storage and account termination: If you wish to have your data permanently removed from our server, you can contact support@accessibyte.com to request removal. If you wish to have your subscription ended before the established expiration date you may contact support@accessibyte.com and the subscription will be cancelled.
Why did we make these changes?
Accessibyte Online has been live for about 18 months now. During that time we've worked with many individuals, schools, state agencies and government agencies around the world. We've reviewed our policies with them to ensure our practices support our users.
As the internet changes, so do the requirements of online policies. Further clarification that we keep our user's data private will happen from time to time. We'll always side with our users when it comes to their data.