Tinybop Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and especially the privacy of your children.

This is a legally binding contract between you and Tinybop Schools. Please make sure you read it, because it is important. We’ve tried to make it as clear as possible, but we welcome your feedback to schools.support@tinybop.com if you have suggestions or questions.

Welcome to Tinybop, a studio of educators, designers, developers and artists building playful experiences that inspire creativity, curiosity and a love of learning. Tinybop, Inc. (“Tinybop”, “we”, “us” and “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and especially the privacy of children.

This is a legally binding contract between you and Tinybop Schools. Please make sure you read it, because it is important. We’ve tried to make it as clear as possible, but we welcome your feedback to schools.support@tinybop.com if you have suggestions or questions.

ACCEPTING THESE TERMS

Please read these terms before using the site. If you do not agree to these terms, you may not register for the site. If we make material changes to these terms, we’ll let you know either through the site or via email (at the email address you provide). If you do not agree to those changes, you may send a request to cancel your account to schools.support@tinybop.com. If we do not hear from you within ten days, the revised terms will apply to you.

DEFINITIONS

We’re going to use some shorthand to make this easier to read. When we say “we,” “us,” or “our,” we mean Tinybop Schools, Inc. When we say “site,” we mean tinybopschools.com and the services offered through that site. When we say “applications,” we mean the web, mobile, and tablet applications we develop and the services offered through those applications.

When we say “personal information,” we mean information that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, or email address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of that information.

When we say “anonymous information,” we mean information that is not associated with your personal information and does not, by itself, permit the identification of you. Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data. Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process and understand your data more effectively.

IMPORTANT THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

The site is for administrators, teachers, and students.
In the site, we can collect robust analytics. We can ask for an email addresses of teachers and administrators. We can collect IP addresses and map those to locations.

The main content of the apps is for teachers and students.

In the apps, we only collect behavior within the app and no personal data (no IP addresses, no voice recordings, no email addresses, etc). We might display or capture recordings or photographs on device but they do not hit our servers and the recorded content is never used to create a data portraits of users.

WE ONLY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT STUDENTS FOR YOUR USE

We share your concern for the privacy of students and only collect personal information about students on the Site to create reports for your classroom use. We ask for the names of students but you may provide a real name or an alias. We will store students’ information, but will not share it with any third parties, except as necessary to provide the services offered, to monitor usage, and to improve the Site. For example, we may store students’ personal information to report to teachers and administrators if a student opened a model, how much time they spent in a model, or which interactions they completed in a model. This information is for the use of teachers and administrators only.

We do use third party analytics services that collect anonymous information about Site usage. You will find more details about that below.

WE ONLY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU GIVE US

When you register with the site, you may be asked to provide certain personal information, including your name, and/or a username, and/or email address. We will store your personal information, but will not share it with any third parties, except as necessary to provide the services offered, to monitor usage, and to improve the site. For example, we may store your personal information along with your files and data on a third party server such as Amazon Web Services; or we may use a third party analytics tool like Amplitude to learn how you are using Tinybop Schools, and how we can improve that experience. We also use your personal information to send you notifications about the services and to respond to your customer support requests. We will never share your personal information with advertisers or send you promotions for unrelated services.

On our site [and in our applications], you may use real names or aliases, as you think appropriate, to create accounts or profiles for both children and adults.

We may ask for your email address so that we can send you newsletters about our products and services. You may click unsubscribe in any newsletter to stop receiving them.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use your personal information to:

  • operate, maintain, and improve our sites, products, and services.
  • respond to comments and questions and provide you customer service.
  • send support and administrative messages.
  • communicate about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us and our selected partners.
  • protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.

HOW WE MAY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your personal information:

  • with your consent. For example, through our applications, you may have the ability to send messages to others.
  • when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.
  • for legal, protection, and safety purposes.
  • We may share information to comply with laws.
  • We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal process.
  • We may share information to protect the rights and property of Tinybop Inc., our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms.
  • We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
  • We may share information with those who need it to do work for us.

PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE PROCESSED IN THE UNITED STATES

Your personal information may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

YOU MAY CONTACT US ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may send us questions or requests about your personal information by mail or email. You can request to change how we may contact you, opt-out of our sharing with others, and update your personal information. Please find our contact info below.

WE COLLECT ANONYMOUS INFORMATION ON OUR SITE & IN EMAILS

And we may share aggregated and/or anonymized data with others for their own uses.

On our site, we automatically collect anonymous information about you and your computer. For example, when you visit our site, we collect your computer operating system type,‎ browser type,‎ browser language,‎ the website you visited before browsing our site,‎ pages you viewed,‎ how long you spent on a page,‎ access times,‎ Internet protocol (IP) address, and information about your use of and actions on our site.

On our site, we may collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us make our site and your visit better. We use cookies to see which parts of our site people use and like and to count visits to our site.
On our site and in our emails, we may collect information using digital images called web beacons. We use web beacons to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use web beacons to tell if you open or act on our emails.

On our site and in our emails, we may use third party analytics services, such as Google Analytics to collect information about how you use and interact with our site and our emails. Such third party analytics services may use cookies to gather information such as the pages you visited, your IP address, a date/time stamp for your visit, and which site referred you to our site. We use these analytics services to help us analyze how people use our site, to improve our site, and to customize the content you may see based upon your interests. For more information about how Google Analytics uses this information, please refer to its privacy policies made available on its website.

WE COLLECT ANONYMOUS INFORMATION IN OUR APPLICATIONS

And we may share aggregated and/or anonymized data with others for their own uses.

We may use third party analytics services, as described above, to collect anonymous information in our applications to help us build better apps. This information may include type of device, duration of play, location by country, and engagement with app features.

YOU MAY OPT OUT OF MARKETING EMAILS & SOME COOKIES

Every email we send you includes a link to unsubscribe. If you click through and unsubscribe, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business dealings with you.

You can typically remove and reject cookies from our site from your browser settings. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our site works for you.

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Tinybop Inc. legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Tinybop Inc. may process your Personal Data because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you
  • You have given us permission to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
  • To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Tinybop Inc. will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Tinybop Inc. will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Tinybop Inc. will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Tinybop Inc. may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Tinybop Inc. may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Tinybop Inc.
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Tinybop Inc. aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Tinybop Inc. relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Amplitude Analytics
Amplitude Analytics is an usage analytics service that reports of user activity. It helps us know which parts of the apps are popular. For more information on the privacy practices of Amplitude please visit their privacy policy: https://amplitude.com/privacy

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

PLEASE NOTE: ABOUT THE SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take steps to help protect personal information. No company can fully prevent security risks, however. Mistakes may happen. Bad actors may defeat even the best safeguards.

OUR CONTACT INFO

We welcome your questions or comments about this privacy policy. Write us:
Tinybop, Inc.
Attn: Privacy
540 Atlantic Avenue, 5th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Call us: 516-500-1967
Email us: hi@tinybop.com

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this privacy policy. If we make any changes, we will note the date here.
Last revised on: May 20, 2018

The definitions in this policy were adapted from the Editorially Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.