This Privacy Policy serves as our online notice under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") and contains important information about how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information we collect about Children who use our website (defined below). In this policy, "Child" or "Children" means a user under 13 years old. This COPPA Policy also explains how a parent or guardian ("parent" or "you") can restrict the collection, use and/or disclosure of your Child's information and how you can request deletion of your Child's information.
This COPPA Policy applies to Child users of HigherLMS, a learning management system that schools, including administrators and teacher end users (collectively, "Schools"), use to facilitate learning outcomes.
Any personal information we collect about non-Child users (e.g., students over 13 years old, teachers, and parents) through our website. All such personal information is subject to the HigherLMS Privacy Policy, available here.
To use the website, Schools may submit personal information about their students or ask Students to provide personal information to HigherLMS. When a School uses our website in the classroom or an educational setting, the School provides consent to this collection and use of personal information from and about Children as required under applicable laws, including COPPA.
HigherLMS, LLC operates the website and will collect personal information about Children as described in this COPPA Policy. We can be contacted at:
HigherLMS, LLC
709 S Albany Ave
Bolivar, MO 65613
privacy@higherlms.com
We collect information about Children directly from Children and/or their Schools, as well as automatically through a Child's use of our website. We will not require a School or Child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to use our website.
We may collect a Child's name and other personal information when a School provides it to us. For example, through our website, Schools can create assessments and track their Students' learning progress. In doing so, Schools may require the Child's personal information in order to track and archive evidence of learning. Schools decide how they will use our website and Schools are responsible for ensuring that their collection and use of personal information from Children through the website complies with applicable laws. If you are a parent and you have questions about your Child's School's use of our website, you should discuss your questions with your Child's School.
Parents can tell us to stop collecting personal information from their Children; however, in such cases the Children will not be able to use our website. If you direct us to stop collecting and using your Child's personal information, we will notify the School of your request and disable your Child's use of our website.
We may automatically collect information about a Child's use of our website through our servers and in log files, such as the following: domain name; browser type and operating system; web pages viewed; links clicked; the length of time spent on our website; the length of time our website are used; the referring URL, or the webpage that led a user to our Site; language information; device name and model; operating system type, name, and version; and activities within our website. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements around the website, gather demographic information about our user base, and better tailor our website to our users' needs. Except as noted in this COPPA Policy, we do not link this automatically collected data to a Child's personal information.
We may also collect IP address, device identifier or a similar unique identifier from Child users of our website; we use such identifiers solely to support the internal operations of our website in the same manner as described above, including to maintain or analyze their functioning; perform network communications; authenticate users or personalize content; and protect the security or integrity of users and our website. We never use unique identifiers to track Child users across third-party apps or websites.
We use personal information about Children to provide the website. We do not use personal information about Children for our own commercial purposes.
We use the personal information that we collect about Children for the following general purposes:
When a School provides a Child's name and other personal information, we use that personal information for the following additional purposes:
We do not sell personal information about Children, and there is no means for a Child to make his or her personal information public through our website (though Schools may choose to share a Child's information and responses with the Child's classmates or with other teachers). We will disclose the personal information that we collect about Children only as follows:
Schools may provide Children with links to third-party educational and learning resources located on third-party websites or apps, through our website. Any access to and use of such linked websites and apps is not governed by this COPPA Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites and apps. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites and apps.
Parents and Schools have a right to review and correct the information we have collected about their Child(ren) and Students, respectively, and to delete it, and to tell us to update it or stop using it. To exercise these rights, you may contact us at privacy@higherlms.com. You will be required to authenticate yourself as the Child's parent or School to receive information about that Child. Please note that we cannot delete copies of information that a Child's School has already collected and/or copied, and copies of information that you have deleted may remain in archives for a period of time.
This COPPA Policy is current as of the effective date set forth above. We may change this COPPA Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. If we make any changes to this COPPA Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from a Child, we will provide your Child's School with notice of the revised COPPA Policy and request renewed consent in advance of such change becoming effective. The revised COPPA Policy will also be posted and highlighted on our website.