Privacy Policy

PRIVACY & DISCLOSURE POLICIES

Teaching Exceptional Thinkers is a place for teacher collaboration, professional development and useful resources, tips and tricks from my home away from home to yours. It is a positive place for teachers and educators to find the resources they need to grow professionally. Our website address is: teachingexceptionalthinkers.com.

COPYRIGHT

All text, images and content on this website are copyright and must not be used without permission. Stealing will not be tolerated.

Teaching Exceptional Thinkers takes your privacy seriously and will never share or sell your personal information or email address. You receive emails from Teaching Exceptional Thinkers only after you have given your explicit consent through a opt-in form with a checkbox that you must click before opting in OR in some cases there may be a double opt-in process (by clicking a confirmation email) after you ask to sign up for the email list. You may opt-out of this email list at any time, by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email you receive from us.

Teaching Exceptional Thinkers is fully compliant with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) as of May 22, 2018. We use Mailerlite as our email software provider and Siteground as a website host, all of which are fully GDPR compliant companies.

As a user of this site, you have the following rights:

The Right To Information & The Right To Access:

This Privacy Policy serves to inform you that your data (name and email address) will be used to send you occasional updates about Teaching Exceptional Thinkers, and free monthly printable emails. You will be directed towards this Privacy Policy when subscribing to Teaching Exceptional Thinkers.

The Right To Object & The Right To Withdraw Consent:

You may unsubscribe from our email list at any time, for any reason, after you have given your consent to be on our list. Your data will be retained by Teaching Exceptional Thinkers for the entire duration of which you choose to remain on our email list.

The Right To Erasure (also known as “The Right To Be Forgotten”):

You may unsubscribe from Teaching Exceptional Thinkers’ email list at any time, by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email you have received from us.

The Right To Rectification:

You have the right to request to change, update or modify any personal data we have that you believe is incorrect. To do so, please send a request to Christy@teachingexceptionalthinkers.com. The Right To Restrict Processing & Rights in Relation to Automated Decision Making and Profiling: Teaching Exceptional Thinkers uses cookies on this site, and collects aggregate information through tools such as Google Analytics.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to do so.

Additionally, the website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Third-party service providers’ use of your personal information are dictated by their respective privacy policies.

Google Analytics:

Specifically for analytics providers, we use Google Analytics Google Analytics which is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

Askimet:

This site is part of a network of sites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the site is shared with a service provided by askimet.com. For privacy policy details, please see the Askimet Privacy Policy. The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 14 days.

Automattic:

the company responsible for WordPress and the additional add-ins/plug-ins we use in Jetpack products. Specifically, site statistics, Gravatar Hovercards, blog subscriptions, searching, notifications, and Akismet (spam blocking). Automattic’s Privacy Policy is listed here for your review: https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/. JetPack’s feature-specific Privacy Policy can be reviewed here: https://jetpack.com/support/for-your-privacy-policy/

MailerLite:

Teaching Exceptional Thinkers newsletter is sent using the Mailerlite service and requires your explicit consent. By subscribing to the newsletter, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to Mailerlite for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy (https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy) and Terms (https://www.mailerlite.com/terms-of-service).

Information Collected Automatically

Like many websites, Teaching Exceptional Thinkers and our service providers, such as Google Analytics, use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information when you interact with us through your computer or mobile device. Using these technologies helps us recognize you, customize your experience and make relevant marketing messages. Here are some of the types of information we collect:

Log & Device data. When you visit our site, we may automatically record information (“log data”), including information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site. This log data may include your web address you came from or are going to, your device model, operating system, browser type, unique device identifier, IP address, mobile network carrier, and time zone or location.
Cookie data. We may use “cookies” (a small text file sent by your computer each time you visit our site) or similar technologies to record log data. When we use cookies, we may use “session” cookies (that last until you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (that last until you or your browser delete them). To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such capabilities. You can opt out of receiving emails from us. Please see the Your Choices section below.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use information that we collect about you to:

Provide our Products and Services. We will use your information to provide our products and services to you.
Understand and improve our products. We will perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others. We do this to help make our products better and to develop new products.
Communicate with you.
- We may send you emails about new product features or other news about us or on topics relevant to products or services you purchased or that you opted in to receive. You may opt out of these at any time. Visit the Your Choices section below.
- Responding to your requests. We will also use your information to respond to your questions or comments.
- We may contact you to inform you about changes in our services, our service offering and other important service related notices such as changes to the privacy policy or about security or fraud notices.
Ensure security on our website against spam.

DISCLOSURE

Teaching Exceptional Thinkers is a participant in the Amazon.com Inc. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This means that if you decide to purchase something via a link originating from my website, I may receive a small commission for the product(s) you purchase, at no additional cost to you.

This blog is a source of income, which helps me offset the costs of maintaining this website and make an income for the free resources I provide. This means I may sell products and/or promote products other businesses sell.
I will only promote products I have personally used and feel will be beneficial to my readers.
I would never compromise this integrity to make a profit.
You can trust me! I am always happy to answer any questions you have at Lori@thekfiles.com.

COMMENTS POLICY

When commenting on my blog, site, or social media pages, please be courteous! Teaching Exceptional Thinkers is a positive place for teachers and educators to learn together. So, please leave helpful, constructive comments. Discriminatory, hateful, profane or otherwise inappropriate comments will not be tolerated. Teaching Exceptional Thinkers reserves the right to delete these comments without notice. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

I am always happy to hear from you. If you have questions, please contact me by email at christy@teachingexceptionalthinkers.com.

These policies were last updated on March 23, 2019. Any changes or amendments to these policies will be updated here.