Privacy Policy

Introduction

Media Source Hotspot and its affiliates understand that your privacy is important to you. Media Source Hotspot is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and the personal information that you may provide as you access and use the materials on this Site. In this written Privacy Policy, Media Source Hotspot describes the scope and breadth of our commitment to privacy. Media Source Hotspot may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any material changes to our policy will be reflected on this page, so that you remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it. By exploring and using this Site, and by submitting information as you use this Site, you agree to Media Source Hotspot’s use of such information as described herein. This Site may contain links to external sites, which sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and Media Source Hotspot does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.

Information That We Collect, and How We Use It

Media Source Hotspot collects information from our users when they create their account for this Site, when they request copies of publications, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities, or register for conferences and other Media Source Hotspot-sponsored events. Some of our Site’s registration, enrollment, account setup and other forms may ask users to give us contact information, unique personal identifiers, financial information, information about users’ children such as their age, grade and/or first and last name, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information. We may use this data to tailor the user’s experience on our Site. We sometimes aggregate demographic information, and the types of systems and browsers of users for internal purposes, so that we may better understand the user population of our Site, identify subject areas of interest, and determine whether the Site is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors. Media Source Hotspot also may conduct user surveys on the Web, which usually are intended to provide Media Source Hotspot with information on a number of areas, such as user identity, user viewing habits, whether or not users found what they were searching for, whether the Site content is relevant to user needs, and the like. Media Source Hotspot uses the information gathered from such surveys to improve our web content, navigation, and overall visitor experience.

Any personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, subject areas of interest, etc., allows Media Source Hotspot to inform you about updates to the Services and to notify you about other products and services offered by Media Source Hotspot or its business partners that may be of interest to you. In some cases we may disclose or sell the information to third parties who perform services on our behalf or in collaboration with us and have a need to access the information in connection with those services. In addition, Media Source Hotspot may disclose contact information for you in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to Media Source Hotspot. Individuals that subscribe to e-mail newsletters are given the opportunity to opt-out of promotions, news, and information at the time of sign up. Our Site also provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the points where we request information. You may also feel free to contact us as indicated below.

E-Mail Addresses

We may collect the email address of Users and the those of subscribers for whom Users purchase subscriptions. We will use those email addresses primarily for identifying and authenticating our Users. We will not share any e-mail addresses with any third party or send unsolicited e-mail to any of the addresses we collect, except in certain limited circumstances in the framework of cooperation with those third parties as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Cookies

Media Source Hotspot may use browser cookies on this Site to keep track of your visit to our Site. A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Use of cookies may allow Media Source Hotspot to provide a higher quality, more relevant, customer experience. Use of cookies may also allow Media Source Hotspot to automate entry into password protected portions of the Site so that you will not need to re-enter your password each time you visit our Site. We may also use cookies to track which areas of the web site are most popular with our users and to further Media Source Hotspot’s understanding concerning overall use of the site. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or a help screen to learn more about these functions and how to use them. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies.

This Site may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how Users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Site. By using this Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Security Process

Media Source Hotspot has in place technological and operational security processes designed to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or contractor having access to any personally-identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personally-identifiable information, Media Source Hotspot cannot guarantee that your personally-identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons.

Links to Other Websites

In many cases when you click an area of a page on the Media Source Hotspot Site, it will redirect you to another website. This Site includes links to other websites that partly host and manage the Services. In order to make use of the Services, you will need to access other websites. To improve your user experience, at times, when the Media Source Hotspot Site redirects you to other websites, you will not be required to enter a separate username or password, and you will be able to determine that you have arrived at another website by observing the URL address in your browser. Notwithstanding the smooth user experience that we aspire to provide you when redirecting you from the Media Source Hotspot site to another website, Media Source Hotspot is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-Media Source Hotspot websites to which we link and/or redirect you from the Media Source Hotspot Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third party websites and not to use them if those privacy policies are not acceptable to you.

Legal Process

Media Source Hotspot complies with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. Media Source Hotspot may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to United States or other legal authorities without express user consent if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the Terms of Use  of this Site or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through this Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

Change and/Delete Information

You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to this Site. To do so, please log in and access the My Account area of this Site or email us directly at CustomerService@mediasourcehotspot.com. 

User Performance

As a User uses the Media Source Hotspot curriculum, this Site or another website which hosts and manages the relevant learning platform may collect information about the User’s performance. We or our business partner use this information to better improve the User’s experience, as well as in aggregate to improve the Services. We will never disclose this information in a manner in which it can be linked or associated with the User’s identity. Only authorized employees of Media Source Hotspot, its affiliates and business partners, the student User, and the authorized User that created the student’s account can view both the identity and performance of the student User.

Use of This Site

Your access to and use of this Site are subject to certain terms and conditions, which are presented in our Terms of Use.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or Media Source Hotspot’s practices as we operate this Site, please contact us. All terms defined in the Terms of Use will have the same meaning in this Privacy Policy.