Beaducation Privacy Policy
Beaducation is committed to protecting the privacy of its subscribers and other users of its online services. We follow these policies:
E-mail addresses: We ask subscribers who register for our online services to provide us with their e-mail addresses so we can send them e-mail updates, account and billing information, and information related to the Site. These addresses are used only to send e-mail updates, account and billing information, and information related to the Site to those subscribers. Beaducation never sells, rents, or lends e-mail addresses of users to anyone. E-mailed updates, account and billing information, and information related to the Site may contain advertising, and such advertising may be “targeted” based on demographic information, e-mail domains, or zip codes. Such targeting is done through processes internal to Beaducation, and information from subscribers is not made available to advertisers or anyone else outside Beaducation. Registered subscribers can change the e-mail messages that they receive, or stop receiving them altogether, at any time by visiting our providing notice to Beaducation of their determination not to receive further e-mail messages from Beaducation. Instructions for stopping e-mail notifications appear at the end of each e-mail message. E-mail addresses that we obtain in conjunction with the provision of services are used only to provide that service. We do not share them with anyone or use them for any other purpose except as specifically described herein.
Usernames and passwords: Each subscriber who registers on this site has a username and password. The subscriber's username is his/her email address. Passwords are set by the subscriber and are the private property of the subscriber. For reasons of security and privacy, we do not give out passwords to anyone. If you forget your password, you can reset it by requesting a password reset email or by calling Customer Care.
Advertising: Beaducation may enter into contracts with an outside companies from time to time to use its technology to deliver ads on our site. This allows us to deliver ads to users according to such factors as domain name and editorial content. Beaducation’s agreements with third-parties specifies that information about our users may only be used to deliver ads on our site and may not be aggregated with other information collected by the third-party companies. We do not provide any personal information, such as names, postal addresses, phone numbers, or e-mail addresses, to third-party advertisers. The only information the third-party advertisers receive is what is automatically passed by a Web browser, such as Internet Protocol number, domain name, and browser type.
Web Cookies:
"Cookies" are bits of text data sent from a Web server to
a user's computer to be retrieved later for purposes of
identification. On our site cookies are used to provide access to
certain areas, to track readership, to maintain user preferences,
and to enable certain ecommerce transactions.
Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.
Consequently, your Web
browser is probably set to accept cookies. If you would prefer not
to receive cookies, you
can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If
you choose to do so,
however, you should understand that it is possible that some areas
of our site will not
function properly when you view them.
Postal mailing lists:
Beaducation never rents its postal mailing list or e-mail addresses
to outside organizations.
Survey information: Beaducation may ask subscribers or other users to provide demographic or other information about themselves. This information is used to help us deliver information and advertising to users of our site. It is not shared with organizations outside Beaducation except when it is used to compile postal mailing lists for rental. Providing this information is optional.
Financial information: Beaducation collects financial information (usually credit-card numbers) only to bill for subscriptions or other products or services. We use an outside service/bank to process our credit cards. We do not keep Credit Cards on file.
Links to other sites:
This site contains links to other sites. Beaducation is not
responsible for the privacy
practices or content of those sites.
Public forums: This site may someday operate forums (such as “chat rooms”). Please remember that any information that is disclosed in those areas is public.
User-Generated Content Disclosure: Any personal information or image content you voluntarily disclose online in a manner that other users can view (including but not limited to: product reviews, on social media pages, in connection with contests and promotions, and on the Beaducation blog) becomes publicly available and will forever be the property of Beaducation. Your username, email, or other information may also be displayed when you post comments or upload images throughout the aforementioned sites. Beaducation is not responsible for the personal information users select to disclose in these forums. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit and you have full responsibility for the submission, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright. Contact us at cs@beaducation.com to request removal of your personal information from our site, blog, social media outlet, or other forum. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Modifying or canceling services: Subscribers can modify settings and information in our database by loggin into their account. You can also send an e-mail message to info@beaducation.com
Contacting Beaducation: If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of Beaducation or its online service, or any other aspects of this Web site, please contact:
Lisa Niven Kelly
Beaducation.com
365 Convention Way
Redwood City, CA 94063
650-261-1870
cs@beaducation.com
