For Instructors and Parents:    Registration: The following Personal Information is collected from Instructors and Parents when they register for free a account: First Name, Last Name, Email.  Additional Information: The following Personal Information can be optionally entered by Instructors and Parents after registration: Bio, Gender, Birthday, Phone, Address   For Students:    Registration: The following Personal Information is collected from Students when they register for free a account: First Name, Last Name, Email or Username, Birthday. This information is not shared outside of the school or with any third parties except those needed for the provision of the service as outlined in this policy. As true of most Web Sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses referring/exit pages, We also use tracking technologies from third party service providers (as described below) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information you interacted with. Cookies, Beacons, and other Similar Technologies: Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Schoology and our tracking utility partners who provide online customer support and video management. These technologies are used to make it easier for you to navigate our site, to store your passwords so you don’t have to enter it more than once, analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements throughout the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.  Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising for Schoology on other sites based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML5 or Flash to collect and store information.  Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. To manage Flash LSOs please click here:&nbsp;http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html  We work with a number of third party service providers to help improve the quality of our service. These third parties do not share your information with any other third parties.   Parents have the right to refuse the site further contact with their child and to have access to their child's information and to have it deleted by contacting the school administrator.  Parents have the right to consent to the site's use of the child's personal information without having to consent to its disclosure of that information to third parties by contacting the school administrator. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and “hacker-proof,” and Schoology cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information managed by the site, whether transmitted to Schoology by you, your school, or your teacher. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate.  We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. We may disclose your or your child’s personally identifiable information in connection with business transfers and purchases. In this event this privacy policy will continue to apply unless we contact you and ask you to opt in to any changes before they are implemented.  We reserve the right to disclose your or your child's personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. 

Summary:
You are not allowed to use pseudonyms, as trust and transparency between users regarding their identities is relevant to the service.. This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation. Logs are kept for an undefined period of time. Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location. This service tracks which web page referred you to it. Information is gathered about you through third parties. You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting. Third-party cookies are used for statistics. Third-party cookies are used for advertising. This service still tracks you even if you opted out from tracking. Third parties are involved in operating the service. Third parties used by the service are bound by confidentiality obligations. This Service provides a list of Third Parties involved in its operation.. You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data. You can opt out of providing personal information to third parties. The service provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service. The terms may be changed at any time, but you will receive notification of the changes. Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction. Promises will be kept after a merger or acquisition. This service reserves the right to disclose your personal information without notifying you.