Privacy Policy
Updated August 4th, 2023
Introduction
We at Curriculink LLC (a Delaware company, hereafter "Curriculink") would like to give you a Privacy Policy that's short and in plain English. We adhere to privacy laws in every state in the United States of America. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and disclose the information of visitors to our website (the "Site"). If you have any questions, please reach out to legal@curriculink.com, and we will be more than happy to assist. If you do not agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy, then you may not use the Site any further and may reach out to us to delete any data that you have already provided to us.

Information We Collect from Registered Users On Our Site

Data	How We Use It	With Whom We Share It
Email Address	Curriculink transactional emails (e.g. password recovery) Curriculink marketing emails (e.g. feature releases)	Services that help us validate emails (e.g. Postmark) Services that help us send Curriculink transactional emails (e.g. Postmark) Services that help us send Curriculink marketing emails (e.g. Postmark) Services that host our databases
Online Resource Suggestion Search Queries	Suggesting online resources for lessons	Services that help us search online (e.g. Serper) Services that host our databases
State	Context for AI-generated unit plans Prioritization of future state-based features	Services for AI generation (e.g. OpenAI) Services that host our databases
Timezone	Time localization	Services that host our databases
Various Server-Side Logging Details	Improving user experience	Services that host our databases

Various Server-Side Logging Details Collected
In order to refine our user experience, we have implemented various analytics on our server in order to see how users interact with our website. This is distinct from other tracking tools that other companies may use that are client-side (such as cookies). Examples of logs include how many lessons a user has generated, or how many people go to their user settings to edit things. This can help us determine how the average user goes about our website, so that we can make certain things clearer and more useful. It can even help us keep our website (and your data!) secure, because we can track how many invalid password attempts may be occurring, for example. At this time, we do not share these logs with any third-parties, because we do not use the analytics providers that others use. Technically it is stored in a database with servers owned by a third party, but broadly speaking, this data is basically not shared with anyone else.

Billing Information Collected by Payment Processors
When signing up for our paid services, users enter credit card information. This is done via third-party payment providers such as Stripe or Braintree by Paypal. Aside from the billing address information specified above for sales tax computation, we do not store credit card information such as card numbers in our database. Our third party providers have their own storage procedures to comply with Payment Card Information (PCI) standards, and information can be found on their respective websites.

Information We May Obtain About Users via Email Analytics
In order to ensure we are delivering the best experience to our users, we leverage additional technologies in our emails provided by Postmark, a service that provides email services to us, including but not limited to transactional and marketing emails. The technologies allows us to determine answers to questions like the following:

• Are our emails even getting to our users' respective inboxes?
• Are users not bothering to open our emails?
• Are users opening our emails, but not finding our content interesting enough to be worth clicking the links?
• How can we do better to ensure we're delivering content that our users care about?

The first technology we use is placing a tracking pixel in the email. This allows us to track the open rates of our emails and gather information such as the time and date of the email's delivery, the IP address of the recipient, and the type of device used to open the email. This information is used solely for analytical and marketing purposes and is not shared with any third parties (other than Postmark, who collects it). More details on this technology -- including on how you, as a user, can use certain mail clients or privacy options to block this -- may be found at the below third-party link: https://postmarkapp.com/developer/user-guide/tracking-opens.

The second technology we use involves tracking links in our emails. In plain English, it helps us determine whether you just happened to access our website from elsewhere on the Internet, or if you instead clicked a link originating from your email. More details may be found at https://postmarkapp.com/developer/user-guide/tracking-links.

Information We May Obtain About Users via Email Content
All users -- registered or unregistered -- may reach out to us from time to time to provide personal information. Email data may be retained in accordance with applicable data retention laws. Email data may also be deleted in accordance with applicable user privacy laws.

No Child Accounts
As of the time of this Privacy Policy's effective date, the Site does not support dedicated accounts for children. All accounts are intended for use by an adult, who can understand and consent to our Privacy Policy. We request that adults do not permit their children to use the account.

Our Use of Cookies
We use cookies for the sole purpose of supporting user login. This includes the "Remember Me" functionality that logins can provide. Other than this, we do not use cookies to the best of our knowledge.

How We Protect Your Information
We take the security of your personal information seriously. As such, we take reasonable measures to protect it from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. We use industry-standard encryption to protect your personal information during transmission, and we store your personal information on secure servers.

Your Rights
You have the right to access, correct, delete, and restrict the processing of your personal information. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. Furthermore, you may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, or if you would like to exercise your rights regarding your personal information, please contact us at legal@curriculink.com.

California Privacy Rights
The Site adheres to the various privacy laws enacted by all states, including the state of California. If you have any questions about your privacy rights as a Californian, please reach out to legal@curriculink.com.

GDPR Compliance
Curriculink was founded to support homeschooling in America before it grew to facilitate traditional educators as well. Our payment processing configuration does not attempt to support non-US residents. As such, we do not intentionally conduct business with EU residents. Having said that, we strive to comply with the GDPR to the extent feasible. If you are an EU resident and believe we have collected or processed your personal information in violation of the GDPR, please contact us at legal@curriculink.com. We will promptly investigate your concern.

Do Not Track
You can set a preference in your browser called "Do Not Track" to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. While privacy is clearly an important consideration to us, we do not handle or respond to "Do Not Track" signals. This is because no clear standard has yet been adopted, to the best of our knowledge.

Information That Third Parties Collect
We do not host advertisements on the website, nor do we sell or give your information to any third parties except where required by law or to facilitate your use of our website as detailed earlier in our Privacy Policy. To the best of our knowledge, we have not consented to any other collection of your data by any third parties. To the extent that information is provided to third-party AI generation tools, we believe at the time of this writing that such third-party tools do not persist data that we provide to them via the API they have provided to us. Aside from known third-party integrations, our website contains proprietary code that was written by the owners and employees of Curriculink. It also contains open source code in accordance with relevant licenses. It is possible that our code may at times inadvertently contain references to scripts that allow third parties to collect some of your data. To the best of our knowledge, however, this is not the case.

Links to Third Party Websites
We provide several links to third parties throughout our Site. Some of these may be affiliate links for which we earn a commission if you visit or purchase something on that third party site. Some of these sites may place cookies or attempt to track you in ways that we are not aware of. These links are provided for your convenience, but you access them at your own risk and under the Privacy Policy of that third party.

Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify registered users via email. We will also post a notice of the updated Privacy Policy to the Site via a temporary banner or any other method as may be necessary. Your continued use of our Site after the effective date of any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

Thank You
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy and for trusting us. Once again, please contact us at legal@curriculink.com with any questions.