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Effective and Last Reviewed: September 19, 2022
Hackersjack offers a cloud-based online learning platform that provides a knowledge hub for kids to learn to respect cyber security in a fun and safe environment. We partner with schools to provide the opportunity to incorporate these critical life skills into a school curriculum. This privacy policy explains what information we may collect about you when you visit our website hackersjack.com (our "Website") or when you use our platform (our "Platform") (together our "Services"). We reserve the right to change this privacy policy. When we do so, we will update the "Effective and Last Reviewed Date" listed above. Your continued use of our Services after that date indicates your consent to those changes.
Collection of your personal information
In order to use our Platform, we need to collect some information from and about you.
If you are a school teacher, we will collect information from you in order to set up your Hackersjack classroom account. This includes your name, contact information, username and credentials to access the platform, the name of the school where you teach, the grade level you teach and the number of kids in your class.
To allow students in your class to access the Platform, a school or school district official will need to provide us with some information about the participating students. To set up a student account, we will need the student's name, school assigned id number, grade level, class information and school email address. We will also collect student demographic information to ensure our Platform is reaching all demographics within a school community.
To follow your learning progress, we will collect information about what lessons are completed and the results of any assessments. We may also ask students to complete a survey to learn about their experience with our Platform.
When you visit our Website, we collect certain information automatically through cookies and other technologies. This includes your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, the pages you visit, your browser, operating system and access dates and times. We use this information to improve, monitor, analyze your use of and administer our website.
Use of your personal information
We use the information we collect from you to provide our Services and for the following purposes:
- To offer our Platform and full functionality of the Platform, including the ability to create accounts on our Platform, access and participate in lessons on the Platform along with tracking progress and scores on assessments.
- To improve our Services, develop new offerings and perform analytics.
- To confirm our Services are effectively reaching all demographics.
- To send administrative messages about your use of the Platform, including technical notices, updates, and support messages.
- To send you information about your use of the Platform.
- Consistent with our obligations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), we will use "personally identifiable information" from "education records", as those terms are defined in FERPA, as directed by the school or district for their educational purposes.
- To offer our Website and its information and services.
- To manage our relationship with you, including respond to messages and questions.
- To notify you of any changes to our Services.
- To enforce our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and any licensing agreements.
- We may use and retain aggregated, de-identified information to develop and improve our educational products, to demonstrate the efficacy of our products, including in the marketing of our products.
Sharing of your personal information
To provide you with full optimization of the Services, we may need to share your information as described below:
- Information associated with classroom accounts will be shared with the school or school district official that set up the account. These accounts may also be shared with other individuals at the school that are authorized to access these accounts.
- We use service providers to help us operate our Services and provide us with certain analytics and other services. We hold our service providers to confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.
- Authorized law enforcement, regulatory or government agencies, courts or third parties where we reasonably believe that such disclosure is required under applicable law, to establish or defend our legal rights, or to protect your safety or the safety of others using our Services.
- In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, bankruptcy or other business change, we may need to share your information.
We do not sell your information or share it with third-parties for advertising purposes.
Children's Privacy
Currently, the Hackersjack Platform is offered only to schools, school districts and other educational or learning institutions. We comply with FERPA and relevant state laws concerning the privacy of students. We do not collect information from a child until we have obtained the required consent. Schools that use our Platform as an educational tool may create a classroom account and provide consent for us to collect personal information from the student.
We only collect the amount of information needed to provide the service.
Access
If you would like to review, correct, update or request that we delete personal information you or your students have provided to us, you may do so by contacting us using the contact information below.
Third-Party Links
Our Services may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these linked websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these sites before providing any personal information.
Security
We have taken appropriate security measures to safeguard your personal data by implementing reasonable technical and physical security measures based on the type of data we process.
Retention
For Platform users, we retain your information for as long as you have an account with us. After a period of inactivity, we will deactivate your account and delete your personal information. You may contact us to request that we delete your account using the contact information below. We may de-identify information for analytics purposes. De-identified information will be retained indefinitely.
Do Not Track
Our Website does not respond to do-not-track signals.
Contacting us
Hackersjack welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please contact us via schools@hackersjack.com.
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1015 15th Street, NW Suite 600
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Terms of Use
The Hackersjack Website is comprised of various Web pages operated by Hackersjack Website.
The Hackersjack Website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the Hackersjack Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
Modification of these terms of use
Hackersjack Website reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Hackersjack Website is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the Hackersjack Website.
Links to third party sites
The Hackersjack Website may contain links to other Web Sites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Hackersjack Website and Hackersjack Website is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Hackersjack Website is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. Hackersjack Website is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Hackersjack Website of the site or any association with its operators.
No unlawful or prohibited use
As a condition of your use of the Hackersjack Website, you warrant to Hackersjack Website that you will not use the Hackersjack Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Hackersjack Website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Hackersjack Website or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Hackersjack Website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Hackersjack Websites.
Use of communication services
The Hackersjack Website may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
- Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
- Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.
- Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
- Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
Hackersjack Website has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Hackersjack Website reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Hackersjack Website reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.
Hackersjack Website reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Hackersjack Website's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Hackersjack Website does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Hackersjack Website specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Hackersjack Website spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Hackersjack Website.
Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
Materials provided to Hackersjack website or posted at any Hackersjack website
Hackersjack Website does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Hackersjack Website (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Hackersjack Website or its associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Hackersjack Website, its affiliated companies and necessary sub licensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Hackersjack Website is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Hackersjack Website's sole discretion.
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
Liability disclaimer
THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. HACKERSJACK WEBSITE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE AT ANY TIME. ADVICE RECEIVED VIA THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PERSONAL, MEDICAL, LEGAL OR FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE TAILORED TO YOUR SITUATION.
HACKERSJACK WEBSITE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. HACKERSJACK WEBSITE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL HACKERSJACK WEBSITE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF HACKERSJACK WEBSITE OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE HACKERSJACK WEBSITE.
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Termination/Access restriction
Hackersjack Website reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Hackersjack Website and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. GENERAL To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia. and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Hackersjack Website. Use of the Hackersjack Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Hackersjack Website as a result of this agreement or use of the Hackersjack Website. Hackersjack Website's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Hackersjack Website's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Hackersjack Website or information provided to or gathered by Hackersjack Website with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Hackersjack Website with respect to the Hackersjack Website and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Hackersjack Website with respect to the Hackersjack Website. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent an d subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be drawn up in English.
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All contents of the Hackersjack Website are: Copyright 2022 designed & built by Hackersjack and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved.
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The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
The example companies, organisations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organisation, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.