Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 10, 2009

Here at the Math inquiries Project (“MiP”), we understand and respect your concerns about the use of your personal information. We believe that you should know what information about you we collect, as well as how that information is used, maintained, and, in some cases, shared. The following sets forth our privacy practices and policies.

We will collect information about you when you register to post messages on one of our discussion forums, when you transmit information to us via our website or by email, and when you otherwise use this website. By doing any of the foregoing, you assent to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not engage in any of these activities.

Information Collected About You and Our Use of Such Information

The following describes the types of personal and other information we may collect about you, and how we use and maintain that information:

Contact Information

In general, you may visit our website without revealing any personal information other than technology-related information described in the section below.  However, certain sections and features of our website are only available to registered users of our website, who must enter a unique user ID and password.  We collect and store personal information related to each user ID when you register for an account and use our website.  We also collect and store any personal information and other data you have provided to us via our website, by email, or otherwise.  Specifically, we collect and store in a database your name, mailing address, and email address, and may also collect and store your phone number, date of birth and other information you may provide to us.

We use this information to ask you whether you want to participate in a focus group, and to otherwise communicate with you about the focus groups and other features of the Math inquiries Project.  We also use this information to respond to any inquiries you may submit to us, to track and monitor usage of our website and to communicate with you about your account and your use of our website.  In addition, we may use this information to send you periodic publications associated with MiP, unless you inform us that you opt out from receiving such communications via email. We also use your contact information to operate this website; in particular, to facilitate postings on our discussion forums.

Website Information

Our website collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the website.  This aggregate information is collected site-wide, and includes anonymous website statistics. Our website also employs browser cookies to store users’ preferences and record session information.  “Cookies” are bits of information that are stored by your browser on your hard drive.  This technology allows for the storage of user preferences, user ID and password, if applicable, and remembers you when you take action on our website.  You can turn off the “cookie” function through most standard browsers; however, some features on our website may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. 

In addition, when you visit our website our system automatically collects information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, domain names, referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of these page views, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.  This information is used to analyze trends, administer the website, improve the design of our website, track user movement, and otherwise enhance the services we provide.

Other Information

We may retain any data you provide to us in an email or other inquiry, for the purpose of tracking the types of questions that we receive.

When Your Information Will Be Shared or Disclosed

We routinely provide your name, mailing address, and email address to Constant Contact, Inc., an unaffiliated third party that manages our mailing list and prepares communications with users of our website and any of the discussion forums on our website.  (To understand what Constant Contact may do with information about you in its custody, you should check its privacy policy, available at http://www.constantcontact.com/privacy_guarantee.jsp.)  We may also disclose information to other companies that we contract with to support or manage our website if necessary.

We will comply with any subpoenas, court orders or other legal processes for any of the information about you in our possession, and we may use such information to establish or exercise our legal rights, or to defend against legal claims.  We reserve the right to disclose information about you, including data on which pages you have visited, to third parties if we feel it is necessary to protect our systems, website, business, users or others.

In addition, information about you in our possession may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which your personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company. MiP does not guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all terms of this policy.

Security

Whenever MiP handles information that you disclose on our website, regardless of where this occurs, we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.  MiP uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information.  Information transmitted through our website is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.  Unfortunately, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.  Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems but we do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure.

Children’s Privacy

Although our website may be accessed by children under the age of 13, we will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from such children. If we become aware that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our databases.

Other Websites

For your convenience, this website may contain links to other websites, or you may be otherwise referred to other websites. This privacy policy does not apply to these linked websites. Each website should be checked for its own privacy policy.

Changes to this Policy

MiP may from time to time update this privacy policy. In the event that MiP merges with, or is acquired by another company, a change to this privacy policy may result. Whenever a change to this policy is significant, we will place a prominent notice on this website.

Governing Law

Our website is controlled by MiP from our offices within the State of California, United States of America.  By choosing to visit this website or otherwise provide information to MiP, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this privacy policy will be governed by the law of the State of California.  If you are accessing our website from any region with regulations or laws governing personal data collection, use or disclosure that differ from United States laws or regulations, please note that through your continued use of our website, which is governed by the laws of the State of California and the United States of America, this privacy policy and our Terms of Use (available at http://www.mathmirror.org/tou.html), you are transferring personal information to the United States of America and you consent to that transfer.  You also consent to the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with our website in the federal and state courts of Sacramento County in the State of California.  You also agree to arbitrate such disputes and to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Use or other agreement we have with you.

Update Information / Suggestions

If you would like to update or correct any information that you have provided to MiP through your use of this website or otherwise, or you have suggestions for improving this privacy policy, please send an email to webmaster@mathmirror.org.