Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 30, 2021
Introduction.
Because we respect your privacy, New Teacher Collective (“we,” “us,” or “our”) has established the following Cookie and Privacy Policy (“Policy”) so that you can make an informed decision regarding your information. This Policy applies to information collected from any and all users of our website, www.newteachercollective.org (“Site”) and any and all persons who use or purchase our services or who contact us, whether by email, telephone, or otherwise.
The sections below explain how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information as well as what rights you have with respect to this information. The terms 'you' and ‘your’ refer to anyone who accesses or uses the Site or any of our services as well as any person who otherwise contacts us and communicates any information to us.
2. Consent to and Acceptance of this Policy.
By submitting any information by email or otherwise to us, or by your continued use of this Site, you expressly agree to this Policy, as well as to the collection, use, and disclosure of information as described by this Policy. If you do not or cannot agree to the provisions of this Policy, you must immediately cease access and use of this Site and any of our products or services.
3. Modification of this Policy.
We reserve the right to limit, modify, or otherwise add to, amend, eliminate or suspend this Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. The effective date is stated at the top of this page following the words “Effective Date.” Changes to this Policy will be posted on this Site and, unless otherwise noted, will take effect at the time of posting. You are encouraged to review this page to stay current on the terms of this Policy.
4. Information Collected.
New Teacher Collective collects two kinds of information from users of this Site and our content, products, and services: Personal Information and Non-Personal Information. Personal Information is any information that identifies a unique natural person. Non-Personal Information is any information that is not Personal Information.
We do not collect any Personal Information about any Site user unless such person voluntarily provides it to us. Accordingly, you may access and navigate this Site without disclosing or transmitting any Personal Information; except if you create an account with us, you will be asked to provide your name and an email access and account creation may be required if you wish to use certain services or access certain other content on the Site.
If you do not want to disclose any Personal Information, you may choose not to provide it to us or to create an account with us.
5. Sources and Uses of Collected Information.
The information we collect comes from four sources: (1) Site and service users who voluntarily provide information, (2) web server logs, (3) web beacons, and (4) cookies. Web server logs are maintained in the process of hosting this Site by the hosting company. Web beacons are small files on certain web pages, also known as “action tags, “web tags,” “pixel tags,” and “clear .gifs,” and “one pixel .gifs,” provided by our advertisers in order to help them understand online traffic and the effectiveness of their advertisements. Cookies are small text files stored locally by a user’s browser, if that user’s browser has the option enabled.
Web server logs, web beacons, and cookies (if your web browser accepts them) collect information automatically from Site users. However, this information is only Non-Personal information relating to Site visitation, which is collected primarily so that we or our service providers may analyze this anonymous data in order to improve user experiences and our Site and our products and services, but we may also use such information for other lawful purposes, including improving our Site rankings or marketing our services or those of third parties. We may also use aggregated or anonymized Personal Information for any lawful purpose, including without limitation improving, advertising, or marketing our or third-party services.
A.User-Submitted Information.
The submission of any Personal Information to us is completely voluntary, as is any use of any of our services or the creation of any account. Any information submitted or transmitted, by email or otherwise, related to creating any account or purchasing, or otherwise obtaining, our services is requested and collected when and only when practically required by the provision of our services to you, and no Site user is required to use or purchase any service from us.
If you choose to communicate with us by email, by phone, through contact forms on the Site, in writing, or otherwise, we may collect the information you’ve provided in these communications, including any Personal Information you may have provided. Use of our Site’s summit registration and contact forms as a means of communication with us requires you to provide your name and email address and, generally, in communicating with us you may be asked to provide your name, email address, phone number, and perhaps mailing address. Any information transmitted or provided by or through any communication with us will be used primarily so that we can respond to your communication or inquiry, if any, and provide our services, support, or make follow-up communications as may be required or appropriate.
If you provide or submit your phone number to us, you expressly consent to allow phone calls and text messages from us or any of our members, employees, representatives, agents, or affiliates, even if your number is registered through a state or federal “Do Not Call” list. This permission applies equally to a landline, cellular, or internet-based telephone number.
In order to purchase any service from us, you will be redirected to Stripe or a similar third-party payment processor in order to complete your transaction. In order to complete purchases with our third-party payment processors, you will generally be asked to provide your name, billing address, and credit card information to this payment processor. However, this information will not be transmitted to, maintained by, or in any way used by New Teacher Collective.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, by completing a form on our Site or otherwise, you will have to provide your email address to us in order to receive our newsletters. Accordingly you expressly consent to permit us to send email communications to the address you provided in order to subscribe to our newsletter and to our sharing of this information with Mailchimp or another similar third-party service provider.
You alone are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, quality, reliability, legality, confidentiality, and security of the information you choose provide to us or any of our third-party service providers, whether submitted through our Site, by email, or otherwise.
Any information you submit to us by email or otherwise is transmitted at your own risk and you expressly agree that we will not be liable or responsible in any way for any consequences resulting from your submission of any information to us or our third-party service providers.
B.Web Server Logs.
In order to host and maintain our Site, we or our third-party service provider may maintain web logs that collect information standard to such log entries, including without limitation: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, timestamps, browser information, pages accessed, and the website from which you arrived at our Site. Any such information is anonymous and Non-Personal Information. Currently, our website is host and managed by SquareSpace.
Web server logs are used to detect and diagnose problems with our web server(s), to protect our Site and its content from inappropriate use or attack, to administer and maintain our Site, and to otherwise provide and improve our Site and services.
C.Web Beacons.
Our Site also uses web beacons provided by third-party advertisers to gather information about the visitation Site users in order to manage the effectiveness of certain advertisements and otherwise improve our online advertising. Web beacons are small image or similar files that generally collect some of the information collected by web logs and they are used track the webpages and links used in order to access the websites of third-party advertisers in order to help them understand online traffic and the effectiveness of their advertisements.
D.Cookies.
Our Site and associated applications, if any, use cookies to retain user information in order to provide consistent user experiences and to monitor the accessibility, performance, and stability of our Site so that improvements may be made. Cookies are small text files stored on a user’s computer in order to retain that user’s setting and distinguish that computer from others. Cookies do not contain Personal Information and contain only Non-Personal Information generally similar to that information collected and maintained by web logs. You can prevent our Site and any other from creating cookies and/or collecting any of your information by adjusting the appropriate setting(s) of your web browser.
Use of Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a service that provides us with information about how our Site is used and accessed. Google Analytics uses cookies to aid in this analysis. These cookies may permit Google to track users or devices over time and across other websites. As with other cookies, these cookies do not contain Personal Information.
Google uses information from cookies to provide reports on Site activity and to provide other services for us. By accepting cookies from this Site, you consent to the processing of information from such cookies by Google for the purposes set out above. For more information, please see Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.
6. Opting Out of Cookie Use.
It is your choice whether to accept cookies from this Site or any other. Your browser creates and retains cookies depending on its settings. Most modern browsers are, by default, set to accept cookies.
You can disable the use of cookies, or delete existing cookies, by changing the appropriate setting in your browser. However, by disabling cookies, features of this and many other websites may not function properly or as intended without the information contained in those cookies.
If you are unsure how to disable or delete cookies stored by your browsers, go to the “Help” tab or page of your browser to find the relevant instructions. If questions or difficulties remain, you are encouraged to perform a web search for information about disabling or deleting cookies for your specific web browser.
7. Disclosure of Personal Information.
We will never sell your information in a way that personally identifies you, and we do not disclose such information to third parties for their own independent marketing or business purposes. However, we may disclose Personal Information to third parties in any of the following circumstances:
With Your Consent or At Your Direction: We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties when you consent to or request the disclosure;
When Legally Required: We may disclose your Personal Information in order to comply with applicable laws or to respond to a valid legal process or order, including from law enforcement or other governmental agencies; and
In Order to Protect our Site or Others: We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties when necessary or appropriate: for the protection our clients (e.g. to prevent spamming or attempts to defraud users of this Site); to operate and maintain the security of this Site (e.g. to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks); or to protect the rights or property of New Teacher Collective, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of this Site.
8. How Information is Protected: Practices and No Liability.
We use physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help protect your information. For example, we use Secure HTTP, SSL technology, and other encryption and security measures to help safeguard your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no security measure is fail proof. As a result, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not intercept information when transmitted electronically, nor that it will not be lost or corrupted when it is sent or stored electronically. We never store credit card or payment account numbers on our systems or devices. All electronic payments are processed by a Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) compliant credit card processor.
9. Personal Information of Children.
We consider anyone under the age of 13 (or such older age as may be specified by applicable data protection laws) to be a child. We do not intentionally or knowingly collect, or try to collect, Personal Information from, about, or of children. Where Personal Information from a child is or has been collected, we will use reasonable efforts to undertake one or both of the following: (i.) verify that consent has been given by that child's parent or guardian or (ii.) remove any such information from our databases and systems.
10. Response to “Do Not Track” (DNT) Requests.
At this time, our web server and services are not able to respond to ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) requests or signals. If this is important to you, feel free to contact us at hello@newteachercollective.org to express your opinion.
11. Opting Out of Future Communications.
You may opt out of any future communications at any time. Simply contact us by email at: hello@newteachercollective.org, include the subject line “Communication Opt Out” and clearly indicate in the body of your message that you would like to unsubscribe from some future communications or all of them. Please be sure to clearly identify yourself in a way that permits our verification and we will remove your email address from our contacts.