ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension Privacy Policy

ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension
Privacy Policy of www.readingcomprehension.ca
 
Privacy Policy
Effective date: June 7, 2022
 
Dianne Macdonald ("us", "we", or "our") operates the www.readingcomprehension.ca website and the ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension application (the "Service").
 
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. Our Privacy Policy for ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension was created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy website.
 
We use your data to provide and feedback to improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.readingcomprehension.ca

Information Collection and Use
​We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected: Personal Data
The only personal information you are required to enter is your name and a valid email address. This is to ensure that valid users are signing up for accounts.  Your information will never be used for anything other than this application, nor will it be sold or otherwise provided to third parties. It is important to note that participants' real names or full names are not required for their participation. 

Types of Data Collected: Usage Data
The application collects data associated with the email address you use, on each participant that you enroll, in the form of:
  • How many minutes participants used the application each day.
  • Which words were learned each day.
  • Which words were not learned each day.
  • How many trials did it take to learn a word each day.
  • How many days was the app not used in a week.
  • The total time that you spent on the app per day and per week.
  • Survey information on how many times you were able to use the words in the app, outside of the intervention.
  • Scores on assessments of oral vocabulary and reading words (number of words correct and incorrect).
This information is meant to benefit the parent, educator or clinician for the purpose of monitoring progress. 

Use of Data Collected​
ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension uses the collected data for various purposes:
  • To provide and maintain the Service
  • To analyse how children learn new words.
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To provide analysis so that we can improve the Service
  • To monitor the usage of the Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

Transfer of Data
​If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Canada and process it there.
The data may be transferred to — or maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data
Legal Requirements 
ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension may disclose your Data in good faith or belief that such action is necessary to:
  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of ARC Activities for Reading Comprehension
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

​Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties only have access to your Data and Personal Information to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Links To Other Sites
​Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy
Although our Service addresses those under the age of 18 ("Children"), we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 or their families. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and on our website at www.readingcomprehension.ca .
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
  • By email: dianne@communication-works.ca
  • By visiting this page on our website: www.readingcomprehension.ca