We respect the privacy of our users and the concerns of parents for their children visiting our site. We strive to be in compliance with the policies of CARU, the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.

Please be aware of the terms of our website's privacy policy:

1. Consent to Privacy Policy
2. Collection of Personal Information
3. How we Use Your Information
4. Other Information We May Collect
5. Google, as a Third Party Vendor
6. Burst Ad Network, as a Third Party Vendor
7. Tribal Fusion Ad Network, as a Third Party Vendor
8. Chitika Ad Network, as a Third Party Vendor
9. Netseer Ad Network, as a Third Party Vendor
10. Valueclick Media, as a Third Party Vendor
11. Cox Digital Solutions Corporation, as a Third Party Vendor
12. Privacy of Children Online

Consent to Privacy Policy
By providing Apples4theteacher.com with Personal Information, you signify that you agree with the terms of our current Privacy Policy as posted here. If you do not agree with any term in this Policy, please do not provide any Personal Information.

If you choose not to provide Personal Information, you may not be able to do certain things, like access particular areas of our website, enter sweepstakes or contests, or send us e-mail.

Collection of Personal Information
Apples4theteacher.com does not collect more personally identifiable information than necessary to participate in any of the site's activities, and we do not sell or transfer any personally identifiable information collected at this site to third parties without consent.

We may also collect Personal Information from you about a third party (e.g., our website might allow you to send an electronic “referral” to a friend, in which case we will need that person’s name and e-mail address). Please note that we use such information only for the specified purpose (e.g., to mail a page link to a friend) and we will not contact the third party again unless and until the third party contacts us.

How we Use Your Information
Information collected for our newsletter is only used by Apples4theteacher. It is NOT shared with any 3rd party service.

Other Information We May Collect
"Cookies" are files or pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot "run" on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information, or transmit it to anyone.

Apples4theteacher.com may use cookies to collect other information during your visit to our web site, such as the particular site areas you visit and the products or services you buy through our web site. We collect this information to better tailor our site and our products to your interests and needs. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities at our site. For example, our site can recognize that you have provided Personal Information to us and refrain from requesting the same information a second time.

Site measurement statistics may be used to personalize your web site experience, as well as to evaluate - anonymously and in the aggregate - statistics about usage of the web site. Information about your computer, such as your IP address (a number assigned to your computer whenever you surf the Internet), the type of Internet browser you are using and the type of computer operating system you are using may also be collected. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies, however, if personally identifiable information was previously provided, cookies may be tied to such information. This is to ensure that our web site presents the best web experience for visitors, and that they are an effective information resource.

Google as a Third Party Vendor

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
• Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Burst Ad Netowrk as a Third Party Vendor

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Tribal Fusion as a Third Party Vendor

Chitika Privacy Policy

• Chitika does not collect any personally identifying user-level information.
• Chitika’s contextual targeting services solely rely on cookie-level tracking containing no personally identifying information.
• When users visit a page in the Chitika network, one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - are set to the computer that uniquely identifies the users browser.
• Chitika uses cookies to improve the quality of the targeting service by storing anonymous activity data and tracking user trends, such as how people search and browse. Users can reset their browsers to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
• Chitika will not collect or use any user-level personally identifiable information without prior consent from its clients.
• Chitika encourages and promotes business practices that protect and honor the privacy of users.
• You can opt-out of receiving Chitika cookies by using the button at the following page: http://chitika.com/privacy_policy.php

Netseer, as a Third Party Vendor

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes NetSeer Inc.'s ("NetSeer") collection and use of personal information from Internet users visiting the NetSeer website located at NetSeer.com and other sites owned and operated by NetSeer (collectively, the "Site").  By using the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Policy and agree to accept the terms of the Policy as currently posted on the Site.  Any changes to this Policy will be effective upon posting. If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact NetSeer at privacy@netseer.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED

Personally identifiable information ("PII") is data that identifies a specific individual, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, and birth date.  NetSeer does not collect PII.

NetSeer's web servers automatically collect non-personally identifiable information ("NPII") about Site visitors, such as demographic information (age, gender, city or state), and "click stream data." Click stream data includes information such as a Site visitor's IP address, web pages viewed as well as date and time, and browser and platform type. These automated server functions do not collect this information in a manner intended to identify a Site visitor. 

NetSeer uses a common Internet technology called "cookies" to collect NPII about Site visitors. A cookie is a small text file written to an Internet user's browser that contains unique information about the Internet user. Cookies permit the Site to recall information from a Site visitor's previous visits and customize the Site for the visitor's future use. Cookies do not collect or transmit PII. 

You may opt-out of our services at anytime by either disabling cookies in your browser preferences or by clicking here:

2. HOW INFORMATION IS USED

We use NPII for a variety of purposes, including the administration and operation of the Site, designing and developing new products and services, and generally improving the overall quality of your experience with the Site and NetSeer services. 

3. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The Site may include links to other sites that are controlled by parties other than NetSeer. NetSeer does not control the data collection policies of any website linked to the Site and no third-party sites are covered by this Policy. Site visitors choosing to access such third-party websites should carefully review the individual privacy policies governing any such websites.

Valueclick Media, as a Third Party Vendor

Display Member Privacy Policy

Welcome to ValueClickMedia.com, a division of ValueClick, Inc. (hereinafter "ValueClick Media", “we” or “us”). All references to “ValueClick Media”, “we” or “us” in this Privacy Policy shall refer only to ValueClick Media excluding Lead Generation (as defined below).

At ValueClick Media, privacy is a top priority and we provide this Privacy Policy to outline our practices and procedures with respect to information collection and use to enable you to make an informed decision about sharing information with us. ValueClick Media is an advertising network which means we may deliver advertisements to the websites you visit.

Please note that this Privacy Policy applies solely to ValueClick Media, excluding ValueClick Media’s lead generation component (“Lead Generation”) which is addressed in a separate privacy policy linked as follows: Click Here for Lead Generation’s privacy policy. All other ValueClick, Inc. entities are governed by separate privacy policies found on such entities’ websites.

ValueClick Media is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative which works to address important privacy and consumer protection issues in emerging media. For more information, please click here.

INTRODUCTION

Acceptance of Terms.
Please read this policy carefully since by visiting this website (“Website”) and/or sharing information with us, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy may be revised or updated at any time by us. This page was last updated as of the date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Summary.
We have included a table summarizing our practices solely for your convenience and reference purposes. This table, however, is not an exhaustive description of our privacy practices and should not be construed to define, limit, or describe the scope or extent of our Privacy Policy. As a result, we urge you to read the entire document.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
As part of our on-going efforts to ensure the best possible experience for all recipients of ValueClick Media advertising, we may use log files, web beacons and cookies to collect data from browsers, advertiser and third party sites (“Sites”) to aggregate Information. The Information collected is used for marketing purposes, enables us to determine which advertisements perform well, allows us to more effectively match advertisements and website content to your interests, assists us in improving the operation of our services, helps us to maintain the quality of our services, enhances our services to our business partners and clients and enables us to provide general statistics to our business partners and clients regarding use of ValueClick Media’s services.

“Log files” track actions occurring on Sites and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, click data and types of advertisements viewed.

"Web beacons" are electronic files used to track your navigation of a website or collection of sites, the completion of transactions, submittal of applications and browsing behavior.

"Cookies" are files (e.g. HTTP cookies) that are stored on your Internet enabled device (which includes your computer, BlackBerry or other PDA). Cookies are used to improve the experience web users have when they see web advertisements and ensure that when a web user clicks on an advertisement, they are sent to the correct click-through destination. We may use Cookies to estimate the total reach of an advertising campaign, as well as frequency of display. This allows advertisers to determine with greater accuracy the composition of the audience they reach. Cookies are also used to control the delivery of a series of advertisements to a web browser, and to limit the number of times a web browser receives any one advertisement.

There are two classes of Cookies based on how long they remain on your system: (i) “Session Cookies” are used only during your visit to the Sites and are erased once you close your browser, and (ii) “Persistent Cookies” remain on your browser for 2 years from your last visit to the Sites and enable us to remember you on subsequent visits to the Sites and provide more relevant content to you on such Sites.

There are many misconceptions about Cookies, some of which we will try to address in this policy. Cookies cannot erase your hard drive or otherwise damage your computer and do not tell us an e-mail address or any other PII. ValueClick Media does not and cannot use Cookies or web beacons to retrieve PII from your computer.

A useful resource on understanding Cookies may be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
 

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

Information Shared by ValueClick Media.
ValueClick Media will only share your Information for the limited purposes provided for in this Privacy Policy. This includes sharing Information (1) to enable third party service providers to assist or facilitate in the services we provide to our clients; (2) to comply with applicable laws and regulations or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information received by Us, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (3) to enforce our terms of use or to protect our rights ; (4) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service; (5) with other ValueClick Entities and third party marketing partners (including advertisers and publishers) for marketing purposes; (6) with vendors, administrative service providers, technology providers, and carefully selected partners for data validation, enhancement, information verification and suppression services or (7) for any other purpose for which you provide consent. We also may share Information with advertisers, publishers and other third parties for marketing purposes, but such Information does not include PII. While ValueClick Media strongly encourages clients and partners to adopt responsible approaches to online marketing, ValueClick Media is not responsible for the information practices of such clients and partners. The collection, use, and disclosure of information by clients and partners are subject to their respective privacy policies, which may differ from this Privacy Policy.

In the event that ValueClick Media is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from you as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your Information is treated, transferred, or used.

Information Collected by Third Party Sites.
Please be aware that the websites of our advertiser clients as well as the websites on which we place advertisements or any third party websites linked to one of our sites also may collect information from you. Such information may include non-personally identifiable information through the use of Cookies and other technology and any personally identifiable information you may choose to give in registering and transacting with such website. Although we choose our business partners and clients carefully, ValueClick Media is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of such websites you visit to determine how they handle any information they collect from you.

YOUR CHOICES

ValueClick Media also offers an “opt-out Cookie” to block the placement of future ValueClick Media Cookies on your system for 10 years from the time you opted out. If you have multiple internet browsers or users on the same computer, you will need to perform the opt-out operation for each browser and/or user. If you or your privacy software deletes the opt-out Cookie from your computer, you will need to repeat the process.

Install the ValueClick Media Opt-Out Cookie

Please note that the above link for an opt-out Cookie is only applicable to ValueClick Media and not any other ValueClick company website. Also, please note that use of the opt-out Cookie will affect our ability to provide you content and advertisements that will more effectively match your interests and may prevent us from controlling the frequency with which you may view any particular advertisement. Please report any problems related to the opt-out process to privacy@valueclickmedia.com.

PROCESSING AND STORING YOUR DATA

FOR EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS

The European Union ("EU") maintains strict privacy laws. These rules differ significantly from the laws of the United States of America (“US”). To reconcile these differences, the US and the EU have created a safe harbor (“Safe Harbor”) that defines mutually acceptable privacy operations. For more information see http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

ValueClick Media complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries.  We have certified that we adhere to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement.  To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view the company's certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

In compliance with the Safe Harbor Principles, we commit to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information.  In the first instance, European Union citizens with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact: privacy@valueclickmedia.com.   ValueClick Media  has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Safe Harbor Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU Safe Harbor, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Thus, if you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed by ValueClick Media you may contact:  

Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.
BBB EU Safe Harbor
4200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: 703-276-0100
Web: www.us.bbb.org
Email: eusafeharbor@council.bbb.org

Network Advertising Initiative.
ValueClick Media is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). The NAI is a cooperative of online marketing and analytics companies committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data management practices and standards. For more information, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org.

Security.
ValueClick Media employs appropriate measures to ensure the security of all Information and We routinely evaluate our practices to identify security threats or opportunities for the improvement of our services. No transmission of information is guaranteed to be completely secure. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise data security. You acknowledge and agree to assume this risk when communicating with us.

CHANGES

As the standards governing Internet privacy continue to evolve, ValueClick Media may find it appropriate or necessary to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. As a result, we reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and shall post such changes on the Website. Our Website will state the date the Privacy Policy was last updated. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you use this Website to make sure you understand how your information will be used. If we materially change how we use your Information, we will notify via a prominent notice on the Website prior to implementing the change

RETENTION

We retain Non-PII for use to more effectively match advertisements and website content to your interests for no more than eighteen (18) months.  Aggregate reports generated from such data may be retained for a longer period.

MISCELLANEOUS

Children’s Privacy.
ValueClick Media is very sensitive to the issue of the privacy rights or children. ValueClick Media Websites and services generally are neither developed for, nor directed at, children.

Your Representations.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE OVER PRIVACY IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND APPLICABLE SITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. You also agree that you have provided notice to, and obtained consent from, any third party individuals whose Information you supply to us with regard to: (a) the purposes for which such third party's Information has been collected; (b) the intended recipients or categories of recipients of the third party's Information; (c) which of the third party's data are obligatory and which data, if any, are voluntary; and (d) how the third party can access and, if necessary, rectify the data held about them. It is the express wish of the parties that the Privacy Policy and all related documents have been drawn up in the English language and that the English version of this Privacy Policy shall be the sole version used in interpreting and enforcing this Privacy Policy. C'est la volonté expresse des parties que la présente convention ainsi que les documents qui s'y rattachent soient rédigés en anglais.

Cox Digital Solutions Corporation, as a Third Party Vendor

Cox Digital Solutions Corporation: Privacy Policy for Consumers & Opt-Out Program
January 2011

Cox Digital Solutions is committed to privacy and to giving you choice in the advertising that you view. This privacy policy explains the types of data we collect, how we use it, and how long we keep it. We also provide you with the ability to opt out from receiving targeted advertising from advertisers and publishers (i.e., website owners) using our services.

What we DON’T Collect: Cox Digital Solutions does not collect any personally identifiable information. This is information that would allow someone to know both your name and contact or financial information such as a telephone number, email address, complete street address, or credit card number.

About Children: Children are people too. We don’t collect children’s (or anyone else’s) personal information.

What do we Collect? To deliver the most relevant advertising to you, Cox Digital Solutions collects anonymous data when you visit a site that uses our services. That data may include the URL of the site or page you visited, your IP address (which provides some level of geographic detail more general than zip codes), the time of day, and the category of ads that were presented to you or that you interacted with. We may collect information regarding the interaction (for example, pausing or rewinding a video advertisement). We may collect information that tells us what led you to the site within Cox Digital Solutions (referring URL or search query). This information is stored on our servers with a random numeric id – and we store that numeric ID, encrypted, in your browser as a cookie. Collectively, we refer to all of this information as “cookie targeting data”. None of this information can be used to personally identify you.

What we do with the data we collect: Using the cookie targeting data, we can specify characteristics shared by groups of users that may be desired for an advertising campaign (we only target ads against aggregated information). We can also use cookie targeting data to affect the number of times you are presented with a particular ad or set of ads within a period of time (so-called “frequency-capping”). For example, a pet food producer would like to present its product to consumers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area and are possibly interested, based on browsing history, in pets. If we determine that the Cox Digital Solutions cookie on your browser may be associated with viewing pet-related website and with an IP address in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may be more likely to be presented with an advertisement from that producer. And we determine otherwise, you may be less likely to be presented with an advertisement from that producer. Cox Digital Solutions does not have a mechanism for advertisers to know the personal identity of the person receiving the targeted advertisements. We may share with third parties aggregated, non-personally identifiable information, such as the number of users who visit a publisher site or the number of users who clicked on a particular advertisement. This information does not identify you individually. The examples of our use of cookie targeting information are not comprehensive. In general, we will use cookie targeted data to facilitate the requirements of advertisers so long as such use does not personally identify you. Website Privacy Policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the websites that you visit. You should contact website publishers directly should you have questions concerning their use of your information such as, for example, communications you may or may not wish to receive.

How long do we keep the Data? Cox Digital Solutions stores cookie targeting data is for 60 days. Certain data, such as the category of ads on specific sites and pages are retained, in aggregate, to inform our decision engine for serving the most relevant ads to any consumer on a non-targeted basis. Frequency-capping cookie data is retained on the consumer’s browser for as long as specified in specific campaign requirements. Cox Digital Solutions’s servers do not store frequency-capping cookie data.

Opt Out Program. As part of our commitment to giving you control and transparency, we provide you with a way to determine if your browser has an Cox Digital Solutions cookie and a way to opt-out of receiving cookie-targeted online ads from networks hosted on Cox Digital Solutions’s platform. Click here to learn more.

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you have any questions about anything in this Privacy Policy, or about collection of personally identifiable information, or information generally, please contact Cox Digital Solutions via privacy@coxds.com or:

Cox Digital Solutions
Office of the General Counsel
1000 Cherry Avenue, Suite 200
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA

Privacy of Children Online
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our systems. Apples4theteacher.com encourages parents to go online with their kids. Here are a few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:

• Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
• Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
• Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's information is treated.

Check out the FTC's Site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data/child.shtm for more tips on protecting children's privacy online.

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