This Web site (the Site) is brought to you by Pearson Education, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates (Pearson). At Pearson, we are concerned about protecting the privacy of all users of our online content, especially children. This Privacy Statement tells you if and how we collect, protect, use and share any personal information gathered on this site.
This Privacy Statement is part of the Terms of Use posted on this Site. Pearson may revise the Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement) from time to time through an updated posting, and you should therefore review the Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement) periodically for revisions or updates. Revisions are effective upon posting and your continued use of this Web site following the posting of revisions to the Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement) will indicate your acceptance of such revisions.
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WHAT INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
Pearson considers the following to be personally-identifying information: your first and last name, email address, home address, phone number, social security number, and, if linked with your other personally-identifying information, your date of birth and other personal interests and hobbies.
This Site does not collect personally-identifying information about a user except for information that is voluntarily provided to us so that we can serve the user's needs and our legitimate business purposes. For example, when the user makes an online purchase, we need to retain certain personally-identifying information to respond to the order. Our policy is treat our users personally-identifying information confidentially and not to share this information with third parties. We may, however, share this information with other companies or divisions within the Pearson Education family who will also treat this information confidentially. Pearson may use this information to help us imp
SPECIAL NOTICE TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN
As used below, Child or Children refers to individuals 12 years old or under.
PARENTS: Pearson encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their Children and to participate in the activities offered on this Site. No personally-identifying information should be submitted to or posted on this Site by Children without the consent of their parent or guardian. We encourage parents and guardians to monitor their Children's online use, and to help us protect their privacy by instructing them never to provide personally-identifying information on this Site or any other Web site without permission. We are also prohibited by law from conditioning a Child's participation in any activity on this Site on the Child disclosing more personally-identifying information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.
CHILDREN: Please do not give your full name, email address, home address, telephone number or any other personal information that would enable someone to contact you either online or offline, without first asking your parent or guardian and teacher for permission.
Pearson does not knowingly collect personally-identifying information from Children on this Site either directly or passively except when a Child may voluntarily submit such information through a public posting area or through a "Contact Us" link on an area of this Site directed at Children. If a Child e-mails us via a "Contact Us" link on any area of this Site directed at Children, any personally-identifying information submitted will only be used to respond to the Child on a one-time basis and will thereafter be deleted from our records. In addition, if we have actual knowledge that a Child is sending or posting personally-identifying information on any area of this Site where it could be viewed or accessed by third parties, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete such personally-identifying information as soon as is reasonably practicable after we become aware of the situation. We will never request personally-identifying information from a Child in any of our public posting areas Please note that any online store that may be accessed from this Site is intended for parents, teachers and other adult purchasers over the age of 18 and requires the submission of personally-identifiable information to fulfill and service any transactions.
Except as stated below, Pearson will not provide a Childs personally-identifying information to third parties. We may disclose a Child's personally-identifying information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may (either intentionally or unintentionally) be causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may also disclose a Child's personally-identifying information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
PUBLIC POSTINGS
Users of this Site (especially Children) should note that any personally-identifying information that is voluntarily posted to any public area of this Site (such as a message board or chat area) may be accessible to all users of the Site and therefore may be collected and used by others. We strongly encourage Children not to post any personally-identifying information in a public area of this Site. Pearson may monitor these posting areas from time to time (but is under no obligation to do so). If Pearson becomes aware that a message posted in a public area of this Site includes personally-identifying information regarding a Child, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete this information as soon as is reasonably practicable. However, Pearson will have no liability whatsoever with respect to any Childs or other users posting of any personally-identifying information to a public area of this Site.
COOKIES
Cookies are small text files that a Site transfers to your computers browser. Pearson may employ "cookie" technology on this Site; however, cookies will only be used to track non-personal information such as type of browser, operating system, domain names and IP addresses in order for us to improve our visitors' online experience, measure traffic patterns, and control security. We do not typically link IP addresses to any personally-identifiable information.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Site may contain links to other Web sites that may be owned and operated by Pearson, affiliates of Pearson, or third parties not affiliated with Pearson. The information practices of these other Web sites are covered by their own terms and policies, and not by this Privacy Statement or any other policies or terms applicable to this Site. These other Web sites may collect and use information in a manner that differs from this Privacy Statement. We strongly recommend that you review any terms of use, Privacy Statement and/or similar information of any other Web site before providing any information to that Web site or using its products and services.
E-MAIL
This Site may allow a user to contact Pearson directly via e-mail through the use of the "Contact Us" link on the Site. If a user e-mails Pearson directly through the use of the "Contact Us" link, any personally-identifying information submitted by such user (including e-mail address) will only be used to respond on a one-time basis to such user and will thereafter be deleted from Pearson's records.
OWNERSHIP
This Site is owned and operated by Pearson and the contents of this Site are protected by copyright of Pearson and/or its licensors.
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS
If you have any concerns, comments, or questions about this Privacy Statement or about privacy on this Site, please contact us by e-mail, telephone or mail. Our telephone number is (800) 234-5832. You may also send us an email message: technical.support@pearson.com. Our mailing address is Pearson Education, Inc., One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, Attention: Webmaster.