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Policies
Privacy Policy updated August 31, 2009
This
privacy policy discloses how we, OMNICOURSE.COM, collect, use, share, and
protect information gathered about you on our Site.
This
policy only applies to information that we collect through our Site and
does not apply to information that we may collect from you in other ways
(for example, this policy does not apply to information that you may
provide to us over the phone, by fax or through conventional mail). In
addition, please note that this policy does not apply to your student's
educational records - those records are protected by the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act and we at OMNICOURSE.COM are committed
to compliance with that law.
Comprehensive and non-personal
information collected automatically
Each
time you visit our website, we log non-personal information, such as your
IP address, domain name, the name of the Web page from which you entered
our website, which pages you visit on our website, and how much time you
spend on each page. We use this information to monitor and improve our
website and for internal analysis. In particular, we use IP addresses to
analyze trends, administer the website, and gather information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Use of cookies
Our
website uses "cookies" to help personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is anonymously placed on your
hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or
deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you. We
use cookies to keep track of how you are using the Sites, to tailor Web
content to your interests. If you have registered your student for an
OMNICOURSE.COM course, cookies will speed up and ease your access to the
log in page and help with your navigation throughout the site.
OMNICOURSE.COM cookies do not contain personal information about the
parent(s) or student enrolled in OMNICOURSE.COM.
Please
note: We will not share or sell non-comprehensive information contained
within cookies to any third party.
You
also have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline
cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features
of our Sites or have some of our services on the Sites function properly.
If you choose to decline cookies, you will not be able to access the log
in page, or have access to the OMNICOURSE.COM program.
Personal information you provide
You
can use portions of our Site without divulging any personal information
including your email address. Our Site does not collect personal
information about individuals except when such individuals specifically
provide such information on a voluntary basis, for example when you
request additional information by contacting us, post a message to a
message board, request help, or access and add to or change the
information on your account information page after you have logged into
your account. When you register your student for OMNICOURSE.COM we may
collect information regarding you and your student but all such
information will be collected over the phone, by fax or through
conventional mail. You will
be required to register through an affiliated company, CVENT.
Once you have registered your student with OMNICOURSE.COM, through
our CVENT affiliate, there will be a personal information page that may
contain some or all of your personal information. You may also be assigned
a Member ID and password and may create, at your discretion, a Member ID
for your student any time you are logged on, if you are an independent
student. If you are with a
school system, your teacher will do this for you.
The
Member ID also referred to as your Username will be used to recognize you
and your student on log in portion of the OMNICOURSE.COM Site. The Member
ID may in some cases allow OMNICOURSE.COM to recognize: your first and
last name; registration ID; type of account, such as teacher,
administrator, parent or student (if you created a separate Member ID and
password for your student); school affiliation or the OMNICOURSE.COM
course in which your student is enrolled; integration number; and the
e-mail address you provided. The Member ID and log in will also allow you
to track your student's attendance, school work and testing and to submit
relevant portions of same to OMNICOURSE.COM, all which abide by State
and/or National standards and regulations.
OMNICOURSE.COM,
and/or its teaching staff, may use personal information provided by you on
your account information page to contact you about your student's
progress, testing or attendance, customer service and quality control
procedures. To the extent third party vendors assist OMNICOURSE.COM and/or
its affiliates in the provision of online products or services, those
vendors are provided the minimum amount of data required to perform the
tasks for which they have been engaged, have no independent rights to such
data, and have agreed to adhere to the OMNICOURSE.COM Privacy Policy.
OMNICOURSE.COM
may use the personal information on your account information page to
provide you with information about new products and services available
through OMNICOURSE.COM. You can request to opt out of receiving such
information by making a request in writing to privacy_policy@OMNICOURSE.COM.
You
can review, edit, and delete the personal information that you have
provided to OMNICOURSE.COM by making changes to your account information
page in your account set up when your OMNICOURSE.COM course was purchased
as applicable. Please be advised that if your student is enrolled in,
OMNICOURSE.COM the deletion of certain of your personal information may
result in your student no longer being able to be enrolled in such program
or utilize of the log in page. Doing
so will result in a re-enrollment fee.
Personal information provided by parents
about children
We
understand that our student users who are under 13 years of age need
special safeguards and privacy protection and it is our intent to fully
comply with the Student's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
OMNICOURSE.COM does not collect personal information from student online
at any point. OMNICOURSE.COM only receives personal information about your
student directly from you when you enroll your student into an
OMNICOURSE.COM Health and Physical Education Course. You can review any
personal information that OMNICOURSE.COM has regarding your student by
reviewing your online account information page after you’ve logged in
and/or making such a request in writing to privacy_policy@OMNICOURSE.COM
. You can request to opt out your student from the use of personal
information by OMNICOURSE.COM, affiliates and acting on behalf of
OMNICOURSE.COM, by making a request in writing to privacy_policy@OMNICOURSE.COM
. Please be aware that if you make such a request to opt your student
personal information out of use by OMNICOURSE.COM, affiliates or acting on
behalf of OMNICOURSE.COM, your student can no longer continue to be
enrolled in a OMNICOURSE.COM. Therefore, a request by you for
OMNICOURSE.COM, and affiliates acting on behalf of OMNICOURSE.COM to no
longer use your student's personal information will terminate your
student's participation in the OMNICOURSE.COM course program in which they
are enrolled and their use of their log in name, and Member ID.
Message boards and chats
We
may offer OMNICOURSE.COM message boards and chat rooms to you, the
parent(s), on our Sites. Please be aware that anyone may read your
postings on a message board or in a chat room. Furthermore, any
information which you submit to be posted to a message board or in a chat
room, including your information from your account information page and
Username, will be disclosed and available to all users of that message
board or chat room, and is therefore no longer private. We cannot
guarantee the security of such information that you disclose or
communicate online in public areas such as message boards and chat rooms,
and you do so at your own risk. We reserve the right to monitor the
content of the message boards only and to republish your postings from
message boards or chat rooms elsewhere on the Web or otherwise in any
format.
Links
The
Sites may contain links to other websites, chat rooms or other resources
that we provide for your convenience ("Linked Sites"). These
sites are not under the control of OMNICOURSE.COM, and OMNICOURSE.COM is
not responsible for the content available on any Linked Site. Such links
do not imply OMNICOURSE.COM 's endorsement of material on any Linked Site
and OMNICOURSE.COM expressly disclaims all liability with regard to your
access to such Linked Sites. Access to any other websites linked to the
Sites is at your own risk.
Our commitment to security
To
prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the
correct use of information, we have put in place commercially reasonable
physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure
the information we collect. We also use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
protocol on your account information pages to protect sensitive personal
information.
Notification of Changes
As
we continue to develop our Web site, this privacy policy likely will
change. We will post all changes to this policy on this page and will
indicate at the top of this page the policy's effective date. We therefore
encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you
understand our current privacy policy.
Copyright
OmniCourse.com is copyright (C) 2008-2009
The full text of the purchased course is included in the
curriculum.
This course is not free software; you cannot redistribute it and/or modify it or any later version other than what is asked for educational purposes.
You must abide by all copyright notices and restrictions contained on the OmniCourse.com. You may not copy, distribute, enter into a database, display, perform, create derivative works of, transmit, or otherwise use any materials from the OmniCourse.com (including computer programs or other code).
Refund policy
Omnicourse.com is very straightforward about our refund policy because we’ve created our curriculum for a select market of students and teachers. It is because of this niche that we do not refund your purchase amount after you have your first log in to your home page at OmniCourse.com.
Login times, dates and frequencies are tracked by administrators to log hours for bandwidth and attendance. For more information on this please see the privacy policy
reference at the top of the page.
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