Digital Respons-Ability Privacy Policy

Digital Respons-Ability operates the https://respons-ability.net website, which provides resources and more to educate and empower students, parents and educators on digital citizenship. We also provide courseware to organizations like local education entities (LEAs) that work within their existing platform. We are a content provider, not a platform.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, which is our courseware and/or the Digital Respons-Ability website.

If you choose to use our Service then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off, Some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.

Digital Respons-Ability uses Google Analytics to collect top level information about how visitors utilize our website. The Google Analytics cookies store information about what pages people visit where they came from and what they click on. Information supplied by Google Analytics helps us analyze site traffic to identify areas to improve the website visitor experience. No personal information (for example, names or addresses) is gathered or stored, so this information cannot be used to identify individuals. For an overview of privacy at Google, click here. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Digital Respons-Ability may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Digital Respons-Ability or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Digital Respons-Ability; and/or (c) act under exigent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Digital Respons-Ability, or the public.

Third-Party Data Sharing

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our Service;
  • To provide the Service on our behalf;
  • To perform Service-related services; or
  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Any transactions through our website are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. 

Children’s Privacy

Digital Respons-Ability is committed to protecting student data privacy. We do not handle student data. We are a content provider. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13.

We do collect information from children through our student surveys in classrooms. These surveys are anonymous, and we share the data with the aggregate with one of our subcontractors to better improve our teaching. We do not advertise to students and never sell any personal identifiable information of children under 13 to any third parties. 

All Student Data provided by the platform where our courseware is utilized is and will continue to be the property of and under the control of the LEA. We do not store any student data on our website. 

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Digital Respons-Ability does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Website Disclaimer

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF THE SITE OR RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE SITE. YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION ON THE SITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

E-mail Communications

We commit to doing our best to contract only with future companies that adhere to the student privacy pledge.

  • We commit to doing our best to contract only with future companies that adhere to the student privacy pledge.
  • We collect your email address in order to:
  • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
  • Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
  • Send you additional information related to our services
  • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

To be in accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:

  •       Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
  •       Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
  •       Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
  •       Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
  •       Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
  •       Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us through our email: contact@respons-ability.net

Effective as of January 11, 2025