1. Introduction
We are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and providing a safe, online environment for young writers, students, educators, and parents / legal guardians. In our commitment to protect the privacy of children, Appwizards has taken the Student Privacy Pledge which commits us to policies and practices surrounding the collection, use,
maintenance and disclosure of personal information from Students. This is the Privacy Policy of the Appwizards LTD. (“Appwize,” “us,” “our” and “we”) owns and operates the Eton.News Platform, Eton.News website, related mobile apps (together, the “Site and other services that we provide including through the Site (the “Services”). It describes the information that we collect from you as part of the normal operation of our Site, and how we use, disclose, and protect that information. By accepting the Privacy Policy in registration or by visiting and using the Site, you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Service. Eton.News rests on cloud-based web servers hosted by our third-party service provider (currently, Amazon AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon). Amazon’s policy is to host in the location of the customer’s choosing, which for us is the Ireland. Our third-party hosts may host your data in servers located in the U.S. or elsewhere. We also use other intermediaries, like payment processors, that may be in the U.S. or elsewhere, and when you or we use their services in connection with your account on our Services, your payment information may transit to them internationally to wherever they or their facilities are situated. Please be aware that as a result the information you provide to us may be processed outside of your home jurisdiction, and our third-party service providers, including hosts and payment processors, may as a result be subject to the laws of other countries, which may not be as
protective as the privacy laws in your country. By using the Site and Application you agree to this.
In this Privacy Policy, we use these terms:
- Member – Eton.News platform has different types of members - this term is used to describe a registered user of the Site, whether that person is an Educator, Student or a regular member as defined below:
- Educator – an individual who is either a teacher or other educator and who signs up on their own behalf, or an individual who signs up on behalf of an educational institution, in each case to use the Service in relation to a particular class, educational institution, school district or other educational jurisdiction.
- Regular Member – an individual who signs up for a single general user account.
- Student – an individual under 18 who is a student in the educational institute.
- Users – People who browse our Site and use the Application without becoming Members (i.e. without registering) are called "Users" of our Site.
- Stories/ Articles – User Content created on the Site in the formats supplied by Eton.News platform, such as news Articles mobile articles, stories, and user-provided metadata associated with them such as descriptions.
- Project –A self-contained environment that enable a creation of a single newspaper or a single mobile application.
- Classroom Dashboard – A section on Eton platform where Educators can administer their classroom editorial activity.
- Assessment – An automatic and manual assessment on the quality of a written Story\ Article.
- Connected parent or legal guardian – A parent or legal guardian who is connected to an under 13 Student account, allowing them to view their child’s classwork, and receive notifications about their writing activity.
- Review – A written review of a story by Appwize Staff.
- Review Ticket – A limited number of these are provided to paying members that may be redeemed for Reviews.
2. Information that we collect
In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. To become a Member, we require you to provide various contact and identity information and other personal information as indicated on the relevant forms on the Site, and you are no longer anonymous to us. On these forms we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to
become a Member. Information you provide:
- All Members are required to provide a username and password.
- In addition: All Members provide an email address (a parent’s or legal guardian’s email address if the Member is under 13).
- Educators provide school name, school location and school ID number.
- Educators may invite Student by email, class and his name.
- To purchase services, you are asked for an email address, and you are redirected to PayPal to continue the payment. Appwize does not store any payment information.
- If you send us personal correspondence, such as support or other emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities on the Site, we may save such information.
Program and Site information
When you use Eton Platform, we collect certain Program information about your use of the Site, such as your progress.
In addition to Program information that you provide, we collect, and we use third party services to assist us in collecting and understanding, Program and Site usage information. For example:
- Appwize and our third-party service providers may collect certain information, such as comments to be filtered, while you are engaging with our Site. As a result, some of your information, including personal information, may be shared with our service providers in order for them to perform their tasks.
- Appwize and our third-party analytics services providers may collect certain information, such as browser type, operating system, the pages you visit, and which links you click to get to those pages, automatically while you are engaging with our Site. As a result, some of your information, including personal information, may be shared with them in order for them to perform their tasks.
We ensure that we only collect and share with our third-party service providers the minimal amount of information we need in order to assess this Program and Site usage information. We review all of our third-party service providers to ensure that they commit to us to protect and secure your information in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We use cookies to collect some of this Program and Site usage information. A cookie is a small data file that may be sent by a website or application and stored on the hard drive of your computer. A cookie stores information related to your browser that allows us to recognize your browser when you return and to remember your preferences. You
may reject cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use the Site or some of the features of the Site. To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, check the “Help,” “Tools” or similar section of your browser. By using Eton Platform, you agree to the use of cookies.
3. Children Under 13
In the event that the Site or Service is used by individuals under the age of 13, Appwize will comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under
the age of 13 without prior consent of their parent or legal guardian. We collect only the minimally required personal information from children under 13, and do not condition participation by them in any Eton.News
feature with a request for personal information. Parents or legal guardians may view their child’s work, and view
comments on their child’s stories via the parent email that is associated with their child’s account. Parents or legal guardians of Members under 13: We may use your email address (the one that is associated with your child’s account) to
send you information regarding your child’s Eton.News account, activity on their stories, new Assessments, and your child’s grades (if applicable). In the case of Regular Members, parents or legal guardians of a minor
child may also review or request that we delete their child’s personal information, ask us to deactivate their child’s account, or revoke any consents they have provided for their child by contact us. Note that we may take reasonable steps to verify your identify and your relationship to the child before completing your request. If your child is a Student associated with a class on Eton platform, you may access your child’s information through their classroom Dashboard,
and contact us for the information if needed.
4. How we use your information
How we use Information you provide:
- Username and password: We allow you to sign in to Eton platform and to create your profile page and keep it updated when you create new Stories.
- Email address: We use your email address to send you information regarding your Eton.News account, activity on your stories, Article Assessments and grades (if applicable). You may change your preferences or unsubscribe at any time. Certain communications from us relate to your account or the operation of the Site and you must cancel your account with us in order to stop receiving those communications.
- Class grade level: Helps Educators identify which class their Students belong to and differentiate instruction and help the AI Assessment tools to adjust the level of expertise assessed.
- Portfolio Picture: Will be used when your article will be published. It’s not a mandatory and can be left blank.
- Stories and Comments: Along with images loaded by you these make up the core of the Site, and are part of its normal operation.
- Usernames: Allow Educators to effectively administer the Students in their classes.
- Support correspondence: We use this to assist you in your use of the Site.
How we use Program information:
We use Program Information to (1) provide information regarding your (or your child’s) writing and stories
on Eton platform, (2) serve aassignments to Students when assigned by an Educator (3) Allow Educators to evaluate articles and grade them. In addition, we may use anonymized Program Use Information to improve
and demonstrate the efficacy of Eton platform, and in marketing or promotions.
How we use Site usage information:
We use Program Information to (1) provide information regarding your (or your child’s) writing and stories on Eton platform, (2) serve aassignments to Students when assigned by an Educator. In addition, we may use anonymized Program Use Information to improve and demonstrate the efficacy of Eton platform, and in marketing or promotions.
How we use Article content in the AI Assessment tools:
Our AI assessment module use anonymized article content to evaluate the grade. The assessment uses the following: Article content, Class grade and the article genre. No personal information is used.
5. How we may share your information
We do not ever sell or rent your information. We never use or disclose to anyone the information that we collect for
third-party advertising, and we never use or disclose the information that we collect from Students or children under 13 for any kind of behaviourally-targeted advertising. We will only share the information you provide to us in the following
circumstances:
- Legal Requests, Emergencies. We cooperate with law enforcement inquiries and demands for information that are made under force of law. Therefore, we may provide personal information to law enforcement agencies in what we believe to be emergency situations, where we have a good-faith belief that we are required to do so by statute, court order, legal process or lawful authority, and to our legal counsel in connection with the foregoing. We may also disclose personal information to third parties if we believe, in good faith, that disclosure is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, to take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our Site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Appwize, our users or others.
- Sale. If Appwize becomes involved in a sale of its business or other change of control transaction, whether by way of a sale of some or all of its assets, or if its owners propose to sell their interest in the company, or otherwise, the acquirers will acquire all of the information we have, together with the rest of our business, upon the completion of the applicable transaction, provided, however, that your information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy.
- We sometimes hire third parties to perform certain business-related functions for us. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases, hosting services, moderation, analytics, assessing articles to build our AI structure and processing payments. When we employ another company to provide services to support Appwize, we provide them with only the information that they need to perform their specific function. Our third parties are legally obligated to keep your personal information confidential and use it only for our specific purpose. Our third-party providers are required to maintain reasonable security practices, to use the information only for the purpose of helping us deliver the Services to you, and to prevent disclosure of the information to unauthorized parties. We may also share certain aggregated, anonymized information with third parties in order to assess Program and Site usage information. This information does not include or disclose any personally identifiable information.
6. Your Access and Opt-Out Rights
Following your registration on the Site, you may review or change the information you have provided about yourself within your account and account settings. If you disclose personal information in any area of the Site and wish to have it removed, please contact us. If you contact us, we will ask you to verify your identity before we provide you with information or make changes. If you are a parent or legal guardian who has provided us with personal information about a minor child, you may
review or revise that information at any time by logging into your account and accessing your classroom dashboard or Member content. If you contact us to review or amend the information, we will ask you to verify your identity before we provide you with information or make changes. You may also choose to opt out of email messages and newsletters from
us. To opt out, simply click on the “unsubscribe” button that appears on emails or update your preferences within your account settings. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a minor child, you may also have the right to access certain information about your child. Note that if you contact us, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identify and
your relationship to the child before completing your request.
7. Data retention
As Appwize deals primarily with creative expression, we do not typically delete or expire Stories or accounts as long as the Member maintains an active account with Eton platform. We may retain aggregated, anonymized information for some of the purposes described in Section 4.
8. Security
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of your data. Appwize has multiple security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control. These include encryption of data in transit, regular software security updates, periodic risk assessments, and remediation of identified security vulnerabilities in a timely manner. However, please be aware that no
data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit or otherwise provide to us and you do so at your own risk. If you create an account, you will be asked to select passwords for yourself to access Eton.News, and this password will be used to allow you to use Eton platform. You are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and for any activity that occurs under your account credentials, whether or not authorized by you. If you create an Educator account, you may be provided with a Class Code and asked to select passwords for yourself and (where you create Student accounts) Students to access Eton platform, and these passwords and Class Code will be used to allow you and your Students to use Eton.News. You are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your and your Students’ account password(s) and Class Code, and for any activity that occurs under your account credentials, whether or not authorized by you. Please notify us of any unauthorized use of your account or any suspected breach of
security. Appwize will comply with all applicable laws in the event of an unauthorized disclosure of personal information.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Appwize may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on this page of our site. If we make any material change to this Agreement, we may also notify you via the email address you provide to us on registration, or as otherwise required by law and ask that you consent to those material changes. Contact us at Appwizards LTD. Hagefen 302, Truman village , 7315000, Israel or email info@eton.news
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