Welcome and thank you for your interest in the ITCH website (the "Website") and the educational services and content made available on the Website (the Website and such services and content collectively, the "ITCH Services") by Ucodemy, LLC. ("Ucodemy" or "We"). This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information on or through the Website and through all services and/or features made available on or through the Website (the Website and all services available on or through it, the "ITCH Services"). Ucodemy values the privacy of the visitors to the Website and users of ITCH Services (individually, "User" and collectively, "Users"), and makes it a priority to protect any personally identifiable information that it obtains from its Users.
This Privacy Policy describes what information Ucodemy gathers from you, how Ucodemy uses that information, and what Ucodemy does to protect that information. By using ITCH Services (whether or not you register for an account for ITCH Services), you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want information about you to be used in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not access, browse or otherwise use ITCH Services or any part thereof.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Ucodemy Terms of Service. Your use of ITCH Services or any part thereof and any personal information you provide on or through ITCH Services are subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and Ucodemy's Terms of Service.
Services: ITCH has a public facing academy at itch.ucodemy.com and provides custom private websites, also under the ucodemy.com domain, for each school academy. The main facing website for itch.ucodemy.com, being a public website, is only for use for those over 13, and is intended for teachers to try student accounts before purchase for their school. Teachers should purchase a class course, or a school subscription for their students for access to their own private workspace, and disclose to parents the use of such services if their students are under 13. Because this private workspace is entirely under the school control, Ucodemy is not held responsible for any sharing of content or personal information within this school environment and does not share this with any other schools, teachers, or students. The users and content may be deleted by the designated school academy administrator, which is set up for each academy. Please contact hello@ucodemy.com for any contact information for a particular academy. As such, the administrator is responsible for the sharing within this closed environment and fulfill corresponding COPPA requirements.
User-provided Information: ITCH has student and teacher accounts.
Students: For students, the teacher decides what signup information will be used by the school. The school is in control of any sharing withing the school academy provided by ITCH. It is up to the teacher to decide if they provide their actual name or not. Student accounts can be based on email or user id, but as they are not share or accessible outside the academy it is the privacy of the school to determine if these account id's contain any personally identifiable information
Teachers: When a teacher registers for an account for ITCH Services or at any later time, you may provide to Ucodemy what is generally known as "personally identifiable information" (such as your name, password, age, gender, email address, postal mailing address, zip code, and home/mobile telephone number). From time to time, Ucodemy may also ask you to provide other information if you so choose and if Ucodemy deems it necessary or helpful in the provision of ITCH Services or any part thereof. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving Ucodemy the permission to use and store it consistent with this policy.
Information available from Facebook and social networking services: Ucodemy may, now or in the future, permit you to register for an account for, or sign in to, the ITCH Services by providing some or all of the required account information through certain third party social networking and/or authentication services, such as Facebook Connect and Google OpenID. Ucodemy may access and use any information from your applicable social networking service account that you have configured to be made available to third parties in this manner, including your personally identifiable information. All such information will stored and used consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish such information to be provided to Ucodemy, you may update, correct, or delete your applicable social networking service account information and preferences at any time by making the appropriate choices in the settings for such social networking service account. However, if you do so, you may not be able to sign in to ITCH Services and access certain services or features available thereon through such social networking service account.
"Cookies" Information: When you visit the Website, whether or not you register for an account, Ucodemy may send one or more cookies - small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on a website. Ucodemy may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Website. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser "Help" file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. However, without cookies you may not have access to certain services or features available on ITCH Services. Third party content displayed in connection with ITCH Services may also contain cookies set by such third party. Ucodemy does not control these cookies and you should check the privacy policy of such third party to see whether and how it uses cookies. "
Automatically Collected" Information: When you access or use the Website or any other part of ITCH Services, Ucodemy's servers may automatically record certain information from your browser by using different types of technology, including standard log files, "clear gifs" or "web beacons." Such "server logs" may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring or exit pages, click stream data, operating system and the dates and times that you visit the Website. Additionally, Ucodemy may record certain information regarding your use of features Ucodemy may make available on or through the Website, such as information regarding the services you have used, the business or investment areas of interest to you or you have invested in, the investors or technical experts you have followed on or through the Website, your past activities, projects or proposals, and the like.
Third Party Web Beacons: Ucodemy may also implement third party content, such as textual or graphical links, on the Website that uses "clear gifs," "web beacons," or other similar techniques, which allow the third party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser, or implement similar tracking mechanisms, in connection with your viewing of that third party content displayed on the Website or otherwise made available through ITCH Services. This information is collected directly by such third party, and Ucodemy does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third party's own data collection, use, and disclosure policies and Ucodemy is not responsible for, reviews or controls those policies.
Your communications: When you send email or other communications to Ucodemy, Ucodemy may retain such email or other communications and collect information associated with such email or other communications such as the content, date and time of such messages.
Information from Other Sources:Ucodemy may also obtain your information, including personally identifiable information, from other Users, and third parties and sources other than ITCH Services. If Ucodemy combines or associates information from other sources with personally identifiable information that it collects through ITCH Services, it will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Ucodemy uses the information that you provide or that it collects in order to establish and enhance the services provided to you. Ucodemy generally uses such information to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on ITCH Services. Ucodemy uses such information to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of its Users, both individually and as part of certain categories of Users, in order to engage and provide better service to each such User, to improve the way ITCH Services work and look, and to create new features and functionality.
Ucodemy may use the information that you provide or that it collects in order to periodically provide you with email about new data or courses provided through ITCH Services. Ucodemy may also provide you with information, newsletters or offers about Ucodemy's features and services that may be of interest to you. However, you will always have the option to opt out of receiving such information.
Ucodemy may use the email address you provide at registration to provide you with any notices Ucodemy is required to provide you in accordance with Ucodemy's Terms of Service.
Ucodemy may use "cookies" information to: (a) remember some of your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website; and (b) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed or statistical tracking of actions users take when interacting with ITCH Services.
Ucodemy's employees, agents and contractors must have a legitimate business reason to obtain access to the personally identifiable information you may provide to register for an account for ITCH Services and in general will not have access to any personally identifiable information provided.
ITCH Services enable you to share your User Submissions (as that term is defined in the Terms of Service with other Users. Any personally identifiable information that you choose to include in, or that is associated with, such User Submissions will be accessible by such other Users. Once you make your personally identifiable information available to others in any of these ways, it may be collected and used by the recipients without restriction. Therefore, Ucodemy strongly recommends that you think carefully about what information you transmit or post to or through ITCH Services.
Ucodemy may disclose your personally identifiable information to other Users if you direct and authorize Ucodemy to communicate in that manner with such Users on your behalf, for example for the purpose of entering into a trasaction related to educational content, etc. Ucodemy may also disclose your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright law) or respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. In some cases, Ucodemy may make such disclosures without first providing notice to you.
Ucodemy also reserves the right to disclose User information that it believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; to protect Ucodemy from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend itself against any third party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of ITCH Services; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Ucodemy, its Users, or others.
In the event that Ucodemy is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, it reserves the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that it has collected from its Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. However, in such cases, Ucodemy will provide you notice before your personally identifiable information is transferred to and becomes subject to the privacy policy of a different entity.
ITCH Services may make certain automatically collected information about your interactions and activities on the Website, such as the educational content you have accessed in the past, publicly available on the Website. Any such publicly available information will be accessible by other Users. Ucodemy may disclose automatically collected and other aggregate non-personally-identifiable information to third parties in order to assist such parties in understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns related to certain investment issues, and the content, services, and/or functionality available on or through ITCH Services.
You may, of course, decline to share any or all of your personally identifiable information with Ucodemy, in which case Ucodemy may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on or through ITCH Services. If you register for an account for ITCH Services, you may update, correct, or delete your account information and preferences at any time by going to your account settings page.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can choose to configure your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
ITCH Services may be linked to internet websites operated by third parties not affiliated with Ucodemy. These third-party websites may use technology to send, directly to your browser, some of the links that appear on the Website. These third parties may automatically receive your IP address if this happens. These third parties may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to personalize the content they send to you. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party websites. ITCH's Privacy Policy does not apply to, and Ucodemy cannot control the activities of, such other third party websites. Please be aware that Ucodemy does not warn you when you have chosen to link through to another website from the Website.
Ucodemy does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information on or through ITCH Services from persons under 13 years-of-age without their parent's or legal guardian's consent (please see clause below on teacher consent). If Ucodemy learns that personally identifiable information has been collected from persons under 13 years-of-age through ITCH Services without their legal guardian's consent, then Ucodemy will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 has a registered account with ITCH Services or Ucodemy has received any personally identifiable information of that child without your consent, then you may alert Ucodemy at hello@Ucodemy.com and request that Ucodemy delete that child's personal information and/or account from its systems.
Teacher consent in lieu of a parent. With regard to school-based activities, COPPA allows teachers and school administrators to act in the stead of parents to provide consent for the collection of personal information from children. Schools should always notify parents about these activities. For more information on parental rights with respect to a child’s educational record under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), please visit the FERPA site.
On occasion, in order to respond to a question or request from a child, Ucodemy may communicate with a child through our online support ticket system. If the child has a valid email address then our support system communication will also go to their email address. It is the direction of the teacher and administrator of the service if the child's account will use an email address or user id.
Ucodemy uses certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. Ucodemy cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Ucodemy, and you do so at your own risk. Once Ucodemy receives any information from you, it makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of its systems. However, this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of Ucodemy's physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If Ucodemy learns of a security systems breach, then it may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Ucodemy may post a notice on or through ITCH Services if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.
ITCH Services may be accessed and/or used by Users located outside the United States. If you choose to use ITCH Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personally identifiable information outside of those regions to the United States and by providing your personally identifiable information on or through the Service you consent to that transfer.
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.
You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.
Ucodemy reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of the the privacy policy at any time by posting such changes from time to time on the Website. Ucodemy will send a notification of any updates to our Terms of Service or Privacy policy to all registered academy administrators. The academy administrator is responsible to communicate these changes to their academy users as necessary. Your continued use of ITCH Services after such changes have been published on or through ITCH Services constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes. For any material modifications to the Terms or in the event that such modifications materially alter your rights or obligations hereunder, such amended Terms will automatically be effective upon the earlier of (i) your continued use of ITCH Services with actual knowledge of such modifications, or (ii) 30 days from publication of such modified Terms on or through ITCH Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the resolution of any dispute that arises between you and Ucodemy will be governed by the Terms in effect at the time such dispute arose.
On request, all teacher, student data and projects can be deleted from our system within 5 business days from sending the request from the registered administrator of the academy.
Please contact Ucodemy with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or to have any user or personal information removed from our system by email at: hello@ucodemy.com or by mail at:
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