Children’s Privacy Policy
Wonders in Education (“Wonders in Education,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) acknowledges the necessity of providing enhanced privacy safeguards concerning the Personal Information we gather from children under 13 (“child” or “children”) using our Services. This Children’s Privacy Policy delineates our practices regarding the collection, utilization, disclosure, and parental consent procedures concerning the Personal Information obtained from children. It constitutes a component of, and employs terms as defined in, our overarching Privacy Policy.
This Children’s Privacy Policy takes precedence over any conflicting provisions in our overarching Privacy Policy. References to “parent” or “parental” encompass legal guardians.
1. Collection, Utilization, and Parental Consent for Personal Information:
We market and distribute our products to adults who purchase or subscribe to our Services, which may then be utilized by children under the supervision of these adults. Our Services provide online educational tools accessible to children and may collect Personal Information from them, as defined by COPPA. We outline instances of such collection below and detail our procedures for parental notice and seeking verifiable parental consent.
We refrain from knowingly collecting, utilizing, disclosing, or storing any Personal Information from children without prior verifiable parental consent. In instances where we do collect Personal Information from a child, we limit it to what is reasonably necessary for participation in the Service and retain it only for the duration necessary to fulfill the request, ensure Service security, or as mandated by law. Should we inadvertently collect information from a child in violation of COPPA, we will promptly delete it and attempt to notify the child’s parent. If you suspect that we have collected Personal Information from your child without consent, please reach out to us.
2. Account Creation and Student Login Credentials:
As outlined in our overarching Privacy Policy, children are not permitted to purchase or subscribe to any Service directly. Our account creation feature is solely intended for use by adult teachers or parents, with measures in place to prevent children from submitting Personal Information through this avenue.
An adult teacher or parent purchaser may establish an account for a child by generating the child’s student login credentials. We collect student login credentials each time a child logs into the student portal to access the Services. Additionally, the student’s user credentials are recorded and displayed on the online classroom roster in the teacher portal. This information is exclusively used to authenticate the student’s login and facilitate their access to the Services. Our staff is prohibited from disclosing student login information; such information is strictly controlled by the teacher.
3. Correspondence With Us:
As articulated in our overarching Privacy Policy, we collect and retain Personal and Non-Personal Information from users who choose to communicate with us via our website, email, or newsletter sign-ups. Children are not permitted to directly communicate with us through these channels, with measures in place to prevent the submission of Personal Information by children. However, if a child does correspond with us, we collect their Personal Information solely to respond to their request for assistance on a one-time basis, after which we promptly delete it.
4. Automated Information:
We automatically receive and record certain technical information from a child’s browser, including their IP address, solely for internal purposes. We aggregate this information to generate access logs for trend analysis, such as page usage, browser preferences, and geographical data. Our access logs do not contain any information uniquely associated with individual IP addresses or Personal Information.
5. Student Account Activity:
Certain activities on our Services allow children to create or manipulate content and save it on our platform. Some of these activities do not require children to provide any Personal Information. If a Service requests or allows a child to provide Personal Information within their created content, we seek prior verifiable parental consent to collect such information. Examples of content that may include Personal Information include:
Student voice recordings: Children may record themselves reading texts, play back the recordings, and send them to their teachers.
Open-text fields: Children may draft and submit written responses to various prompts.
We do not utilize student voice recordings or information provided in open-text fields for internal purposes; instead, we transmit these recordings and content to the child’s teacher for review or download. Students are prohibited from sharing such recordings or information with anyone else and cannot privately communicate using the Service.
Additional educational information, such as time logged in, reading rate, and assessment scores, is collected as the child progresses through the Service, enabling adaptation to the child’s needs and informing the teacher of their progress.
6. Consent—Parents:
For parent purchasers, if we intend to collect the outlined Personal Information from a child, we provide parental notice and seek verifiable parental consent via the email address provided during account creation. Our initial email details the Personal Information collected from children, the collection process, its utilization, disclosure, how parents can consent to the collection, and parental rights over such information. This email includes an activation link for consent confirmation. After a reasonable time delay, we send another email confirming consent and explaining how parents can revoke it.
7. Consent—Schools as Agents of Parents:
Where a school or school district contracts with us to provide the Services solely for the benefit of their students and school system, the school or district may consent to the collection of children’s Personal Information on behalf of parents. We encourage schools and districts using our Services to notify parents of their utilization.
8. Sharing Personal Information Collected From Children:
9. Parental and School Access and Control Over Personal Information:
As per our overarching Privacy Policy, parents with access to the parent portal can review progress reports showing student activity, progress, login details, earned rewards, and rankings. We encourage parents to obtain access to monitor their child’s account activity.
Parents or schools acting as parental agents can request to review, delete, or halt further collection or use of a child’s Personal Information. Teachers with access may remove children by deleting them from their classroom roster. Parents can request this by contacting the associated account holder. We take steps to verify that the requester is indeed the child’s parent or authorized school agent. It’s important to note that such requests may lead to account termination. Upon a school’s written request, we will delete any collected Personal Information and provide written verification of its destruction.
If you no longer wish for a mobile application to collect a child’s Personal Information, you can uninstall the application using standard uninstall processes available on the device or via the relevant mobile application marketplace.
10. Protection of Children’s Personal Information:
Our general Privacy Policy details the technical, administrative, and physical security measures employed to safeguard all information collected through our Services.
11. Contact Us
Inquiries About the Children’s Privacy Policy:Â
For any questions or comments regarding this Children’s Privacy Policy, please contact us using the provided information at in**@****************on.com
