Privacy Policy

Welcome to SkoolofCode, a web-based service platform that instructs the young learners how to code now available at www.skoolofcode.us . This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is part of the terms of use agreement of the web site(s) SkoolofCode.us, SkoolofCode.com, SkoolofCode.in, and SkoolofCode.org , applications, and other web sites (“web sites”) produced by the owners of these web sites, PotKinPie LLC. (“SkoolofCode” or “we”). SkoolofCode respects your concerns about privacy.

We want you to understand the types of information we collect, and how we secure and use them. Below terms apply to how we collect, secure, store, maintain, and use the information we collect through our web sites.
When you use these web sites, as a user, you agree to our collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of information as described in this Privacy Policy, which the user declares to have read, understood and accepted when registering as such. There may be additional terms, policies, and notices applicable specifically to our products, services, or applications (“Offerings”), and you will be presented with those at the places where you would download, access, or subscribe to these Offerings. Please contact us at learn@skoolofcode.us if you have any questions.

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We may revise or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time in the future. To know the most current revision, read the Last Updated version specified at the top left corner. All information we collect is subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected unless you specifically consent to additional use.

Information Collected or Received

Though our web sites do not collect your information, information about you can be collected or received in four (4) ways: (1) use of one or more of our Offerings (2) you voluntarily provide (e.g., by signing up for email alerts), (3) automatic collection (e.g., through cookies or use of our Offerings), and (4) by third parties (e.g., social networks).

Personal Information

Personal Information means information that may be used to readily identify, contact, or locate you, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number. We do not consider Personal Information to include information that has been aggregated or de-identified so that it does not allow a third party to easily identify a specific individual.

(1) Use of our offerings

Our Offerings include instructor-led online courses that teach young learners how to code. We offer these in small group class setting as well as individual private classes. We may collect or you may provide you and your child’s information, including personally identifiable information, in the process of using our Offerings, or other services we may offer from time to time and you may subscribe to.

(2) Voluntary submission

You may provide your Personal Information (“Personal Information”) to us when you choose to use our web sites or Offerings. Because we change our Offerings and features from time to time, the information you provide us also may change. The following are some examples of situations in which you may provide information to us:

• Licensing, downloading, or subscribing to our Offerings;

• Signing up for email alerts or subscribing to receive other information;

• Complete a survey;

• Using a mobile device, such as a phone, to access our Offerings or communicate with us;

• Contacting us, such as by email, including for technical support or customer service; and

• By switching on the recording feature during the classes that records your facial and voice features.

The Personal Information we collect from you will vary depending on your interactions with our web sites and use of our Offerings.

(3) Automatic collection.

Our web sites or Offerings may collect some information automatically when you visit or use them. We typically aggregate the data that we collect automatically, if any, and use them in statistical form to determine trends among groups of users, rather than using them to identify individuals.

Our web sites and Offerings may collect information automatically through technologies such as web browsers or cookies from our Offerings and other software. We may use this information for improving our Offering, addressing technical issues, preventing fraud, and conducting data analytics.

The type of information that we may automatically collect include: • Technical information about your computer, device, hardware, or software you use to access the Internet or our web sites, such as IP address or other information about your device;

• Usage information and statistics about your interaction with our web sites, which may include the URLs of websites visited, number of clicks, and other usage statistics;

• Crash reports with information about your system and the crash when a Offerings or application crashes;

• Information that facilitates a personalized experience, such as Offerings progress; and

• The location of your device, such as may be derived from your device’s IP address;

• Collection by third parties who provide certain features or tools used for creating our web sites. These features, if any, are subject to those third parties’ privacy notices and policies.

• For our use of Cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy as specified below herein.

(4) From third parties

In some cases, other parties may provide us with information about you, or allow us to collect information about you. We generally collect or receive information from other parties in the following ways: (1) you use our Offerings at a website that is not controlled by us (e.g., such as an App Store or a social network link and (2) you choose to use a social feature of our Offerings. In some cases, we are not able to control the amount or type of information that other parties make available to us. In those cases, we use only the data that we need to provide the types of services we think our users want and expect. Although we cannot control your privacy settings at those websites or how those other parties protect your privacy, once we receive information about you, we will treat it in accordance with this policy.

Download Our Offerings from an App Store (delete if not necessary)?

We may also receive information about you from an App Store when you download, subscribe to, or use our Offerings using our mobile applications. Those sites may provide us with information regarding you. Those parties determine what information they will collect from you and further details of what information they collect and how that information is used will be governed according to the privacy terms and policies of those parties.

Use Our Offerings at Third Party Websites

When you subscribe to our Offerings at or through a website not controlled by us, such as a social network, that website may allow us to access to certain information about you. The privacy policies applicable to those sites would govern their use of your information.

Use Our Offerings at Third Party Websites

When you subscribe to our Offerings at or through a website not controlled by us, such as a social network, that website may allow us to access to certain information about you. The privacy policies applicable to those sites would govern their use of your information.

Social Features of Our Offerings and Applications

When you choose to use a social feature of our Offerings, you allow us to receive information about you from social networks. If you choose to use one of our social features, you may be asked to log into a social network through our Offerings or applications. The social network may then provide us with information about you and your connections.

Links to Other Sites

Our web sites may provide contain links to, and allow sharing content on, third party websites and services. By providing such links to third party websites or services we are not endorsing, authorizing, representing, recommending, or affiliated with those third parties, nor are we endorsing their privacy policies or practices. We encourage reading the privacy policies of these third party websites and services to understand how they collect, use and share information.

How We Use and Share Information

In general, we do not actively solicit or collecting your information. In the event we do, we may use your information:

• To communicate with you or respond to your requests;

• To better understand your interests and preferences;

• To develop, deliver, and improve our products and services;

• For sharing with parent or instructor groups;

• Sales, marketing; and usage reporting;

• To enforce our licenses or terms of service;

• For security purposes;

• To facilitate certain services by service providers to the extent necessary;

• For internal purposes such as auditing and data analysis; and

• Other relevant purposes that may deem appropriate by SKoolOfCode.

We may also disclose information about you: (i) if we are required to do so by law, legal process, or a reasonable request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials, (ii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, or (iii) if necessary to protect the vital interests of another individual (such as to prevent death, bodily harm, or serious damage to property). We reserve the right to transfer information about our users in the event we sell or transfer all or substantially all our business or assets.

Cookie Policy

When you visit our web sites, either directly or by clicking through hyperlinks appearing on third party web sites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns, which may include:

• Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data

• The resources that you access and use on the web sites.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our web site or Offerings and to deliver a better and more personalized service to you, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our web site according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our web site.

• Customize your experience to better match your interests and preferences or simply facilitate your signing-in to use our Offerings.

Some of the industry-wide technologies include cookies, flash cookie, or beacons. A cookie stores certain information on your computer. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. By allowing your browser settings to accept cookies from our web site or Offerings, you consent to our placement of cookies on your personal computer and/or mobile device. However, users of our web site and Offerings may set their browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. Like most web sites, if you turn your cookies off, some features of our web site or Offerings may not function properly. If you do not wish to share such automatically collected information with us, then you should take steps to limit the passive collection of data by changing your browser settings to disable cookies. We reserve the right to use and disclose any non-Personal Information, as well as any other non-Personal Information we collect, with our advertisers and other third parties at our discretion.

Personally Identifiable Information

If and when we request you to provide us with Personal Information for any purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, you will be provided with below choices:

• Use our web sites without providing any Personal Information. We may collect certain limited information automatically.

• Opt out of receiving our messages by using the opt-out mechanism provided in the message.

• Change your privacy settings on other parties’ websites or social networks.

• Change your browser settings to block cookies.

How We Protect Personal Information

In the event we collect your Personal Information, we maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your Personal Information from accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use and other unlawful forms of processing.

We may use Personal Information we collect to (1) improve our web site of Offerings and enhance your experience with our Offerings (2) enable us to provide a safer community for all of our users, Instructors, and applicants, and (3) communicate with us. We may use your Personal Information to register and service your account, update your instructor or applicant profile, contact you for questions and feedback, enable students or instructors to search for you, verify information you provide us, help protect the safety and integrity of the web site users, and provide targeted promotional messages or content on the web site, via email (for which you have an option to opt-out) or other advertisements on our web site or third party websites.

Links to Other Websites, Offerings, or Applications

This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, Offerings, or applications not owned or controlled by SKoolOfCode, even if we link to their sites or they link to our site.

Children’s Privacy

SKoolOfCode is committed to protecting the privacy of children and abide by the provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Though we do not intentionally collect Personal Information from persons under the age of 18 (“children” or “child”), our Offerings are mostly intended for children. In registering children for our Offerings, we always require the parent’s or the legal guardian’s explicit consent to register children for our Offerings. This is done through submission of a signed Parental Consent Agreement. Upon submitting such consent, the parent or guardian may create an account for, assist with registration, and provide self-reported Information on behalf of his or her child. The parent or the guardian assumes full responsibility for the actions of the child in using our Offerings. We require the parents or guardians to ensure that the information that they provide us about their children is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate.

As noted in the Parental Consent Agreement, you consent to SKoolOfCode, its agents or learning partners to video record the classes attended by the Students that may contain your child’s Personal Information such as the face images, voices, etc. that the Student may consent to recording during the classes. Further you also consent to SKoolOfCode’s use of class session video recordings for the purpose of sharing with parent groups, feedback, instructor training, sales and marketing, usage reporting, and for other relevant business purposes, as they deem appropriate.

If you are the parent or guardian of a child and you believe that we have inadvertently received Personal Information about your child, please contact us as described in the How to Contact Us section of this Privacy Policy and we will delete the information, if any, from our records.

In the event that SKoolOfCode is notified or becomes aware that our Offerings have been used, an account is created by a child, or we store information of a child without the consent of a parental or a guardian, SKoolOfCode shall be and is authorized to delete, such account or information in its entirety. SKoolOfCode also reserves the right to revoke any license to use its Offerings or an account used by a child without the appropriate consent of a parent or guardian.

Information Transfer

When you use our web sites, you acknowledge that we may transfer information about you as described in this policy. However, we will treat your Personal Information subject to the protections described in this policy.

• Registration information

When you create a SKoolOfCode Student Account (for your child) or when your child creates an account with your consent, you will be required to provide certain Personal Information, which may include the child’s first and last name, a user name (which can be the child’s email address), a password, the country in which you reside, gender, time zone, phone number, or other information.

When you create a SKoolOfCode Instructor Account (for Instructors), you will be required to provide certain Personal Information, which may include your first and last name, a user name (which can be your email address), a password, the country in which you reside, your gender, your time zone, your current job, or other information that you provide to us in your profile, which may include: your time availability, location and address, pictures and videos you choose to post, your phone number, and your Skype account, etc.

• Recordings

For prospective Instructors, we may conduct telephone and video interviews, including mock classes, and we may record such interviews and mock classes. The purpose of the recording is to expedite the interview and facilitate the Instructor evaluation processes. The recorded audios and videos will be kept strictly confidential in our servers for a commercially reasonable period of time, and may share with prospective students or their parents. We may also record the audio and video interviews of the classes, Q&A sessions, etc. including actual classes experience. The purposes of the recording may include evaluation of Instructors, student progress, and enhance the future classroom effectiveness, collaboration, and facilitating the Instructor and class evaluation processes. The recorded audios and videos will be kept strictly confidential in our servers for a commercially reasonable period of time, and may share with prospective students, parent groups, and for other purposes as required.

We may disclose the recorded audios and videos to the public or share the recorded videos with any third parties as needed without seeking your further and specific consent. Classroom Videos and their contents recorded during the classes are the sole and exclusive property of SKoolOfCode and Instructors do not have any permission or right to use such video recordings for any purpose other than for use with the business objectives of SKoolOfCode, only as requested by the SKoolOfCode and only with the prior written consent of SKoolOfCode.

SKoolOfCode may use such video recording for any purpose as it may deem appropriate and Instructors consent to such use by SKoolOfCode without the need for any notice to Instructors.

• Testimonials

We may post customers’ testimonials on our web sites, which may contain Personal Information from you. Once you accept this Privacy Policy, you give us your consent to publish any testimonial, post, comments, and any other representations you have made through our web site or our Offerings, along with your name if provided. BY CREATING AN INSTRUCTOR OR A STUDENT APPLICANT ACCOUNT AND AGREEING TO INTERVIEW WITH US, YOU CONSENT TO OUR RECORDING THE TELEPHONE AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS AND USE THEM AS DESCRIBED IN HERE.

• Social media features

Our web sites include may include social media features and widgets, such as the Facebook "Like" and "Share" buttons. These features may collect your IP address, the URL of the page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our web site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of their providers. You should review the privacy policies or terms of these providers

• Sharing with Affiliates

Your Personal Information may be stored in our databases, which is access restricted to only key members of our company. Following termination or deactivation of your account, our servers or our affiliated companies, or our service providers may retain information associated with your profile for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, audit, or other business purposes permitted by laws.

• Sharing with third parties

We may share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf, which may include website hosting, bank payment, advertising services (including but not limited to retargeted advertising), and other services of an administrative nature. We may also share your information with third party companies that we partner with to provide certain services to you in connection with our Offerings. These partners’ collection and use of information is subject to their privacy policies and other terms. You should review such privacy policies and terms.

• Sharing with registered students and parents

In order to increase our class-booking rate, we share with registered users (e.g., students and their parents) certain Personal Information about the Instructors included in your profile. We may also include in your profile any company reviews you have posted on our web site. If you post information in any of our online forum, that information may be viewed by any visitors to our web site or registered users who accesses the forum.

• Background Checks

When you create your Applicant Account or Instructor Account, you authorize us to utilize third party service providers to use your Personal Information to scan on a variety of sources, which may include, but are not limited to, national criminal databases, sex offender registries, certain media streams, terrorist watch lists, criminal and fugitive watch lists, fraud watch lists, law enforcement reports, and other data to perform verification checks on the Personal Information you provide us. The results of any Verification checks will be made available to us. For the legitimate business purpose of protecting the safety and integrity of the web site and Skoolofcode.com users, you also authorize us to utilize a third party consumer reporting agency to use your Personal Information to run periodic background checks on you when you register with us.

• Not use for profit (rent or sell)

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose, share, sell or rent Personal Information collected to third-party organizations for their direct marketing or promotional use without your consent, except that it may do so as part of a specific program or feature for which you will be notified and have the ability to opt-out. Specifically, we do not share your bank account information with any third parties, except for the purpose of making salary payments for Instructors.

• As required by law

We may access, preserve, and disclose your Personal Information or other account information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to (a) comply with law enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (b) respond to your requests; or (c) protect your, our or others’ rights, property, or safety.

• Merger and acquisition

If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of our business and/or our assets to another organization in a merger, acquisition, or other corporate restructuring transaction, dissolution or liquidation, your Personal Information collected may be among the items sold or transferred. You will be notified of any such change in corporate ownership or use of your Personal Information, and your choices regarding the information.

• Security

We are dedicated to protecting your Personal Information and take reasonable security measures to ensure that they are treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. We do not accept liability for unintentional access, use or disclosure of your information.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this policy, if you need to report a problem, please contact our privacy team or at:
PotKinPie LLC.
Attn: Privacy Team
11228 171st Pl NE
Redmond, WA, 98052
Email: learn@skoolofcode.us
This policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our Personal Information practices or relevant laws. We will indicate at the top of this policy when this policy was last updated. Please review this policy every time you access or use our web sites to make sure that you have reviewed the most recent version.

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