We want to ensure you know what data we collect and how we use it. We want users to fully understand and make informed decisions with regards to the information they share with us. In addition, we made a short video for students highlighting the most important details in our Privacy Policy in a format they can understand.

You should read this policy in full, but here are a few key points:

Personal Data We Collect: Please see this chart for the detailed categories of information we collect from each user type as well as this chart for more detail on our mobile app permission and our Online Tracking Technologies Policy. You can also find more details below.

How We Use the Information We Collect: We use the personal information we collect from students (or about students from teachers) to provide and improve the Service, for educational, security, and safety purposes, or as required by law. We will not require children to provide more personal information than is reasonably necessary in order to participate in the Service. See here for more information on our use of information collected from students, and here for additional information on our use of information collected from teachers, parents and other non-student users.

Data Retention: We will not retain student personal information for any longer than is necessary for educational purposes and legal obligations, or to provide the Service for which we receive or collect the student personal information. Additionally, we will delete personal information associated with student accounts if they are inactive. Note, however, some content within a student account, such as Artwork, will be kept after deletion of the account for school legal compliance reasons (e.g., maintenance of "education records" under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)). We store non-student user personal information for as long as it is necessary to provide products and Service to you and others. For non-student users, personal information associated with your account will be kept until your account is deleted or until we no longer need the data to provide the Service, whichever occurs first. Click here for more details on Data Retention.

What Student Information is Shown Publicly? No child can upload Artwork (and the associated title and statement) unless the child's teacher is utilizing the Class Portal feature and has certified that he/she received permission and either a) chose to act as an agent of the parent and consented on parents behalf using school consent or b) collected the appropriate parental consent prior to allowing the students access to the Class Portal. Additionally, no child uploaded artwork (and associated title and statement) is shown publicly unless the child's parent or legal guardian has given parental consent, regardless of whether or not school consent was utilized as the method of consent.

We Never Sell Personal Information: We will never sell or rent your personal information or non-personal information. We will only share personal information with a limited set of third-party service providers necessary to provide or develop our services (such as database hosting) or as required by law, and we will be transparent about who these service providers are. We will contractually require that these service providers process personal information in accordance with our instructions and consistent with this Privacy Policy and ensure that these service providers employ reasonable and comprehensive data protection and security protocols. See here for more details.

You own your data: We don't own any content or information you provide or we receive - you (students, parents and/or schools) will own your content and information.

Security and Privacy by Design and Default: We use security industry best practices to protect personal information, including using encryption and other security safeguards to protect personal information. We design products with security and privacy in mind from day one. See here for more information.

Transparency and Choice: We will be transparent about our practices, so that you can make meaningful choices about how your personal information is used. If we make a material change, we will provide prominent notice by posting a notice on our service or this website page and/or we will notify you by email (if you have provided an email address to us). See here for more information.

Right to Access and Correction of Data: We support access to and correction of student personal information by the student or their parent or legal guardian, either by 1) assisting the school in meeting its requirements for access by responding to requests we receive from schools, or 2) directly responding to requests from parents when the information is collected directly from a student and Artsonia obtains the parental consent (not the school). Teachers, parents and other users can contact us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below, or here to access, correct or update their personal information, or they can use the features in their account settings to do so. See here for more information, including about your additional rights of data portability and right to object or withdrawal consent.

Artsonia LLC ("Artsonia," "we," "us," and "our") is an online student art museum with Artworks published from thousands of schools worldwide. Thousands of teachers, parents and students use Artsonia every day. Teachers use it to manage school art galleries in a safe and educational manner, providing a positive and safe educational environment for students to showcase their creative works, developing students' pride and self-esteem and involving parents and relatives in student arts education. As a parent, if you create an account on Artsonia, teachers might send you newsletters about school art projects, or you might receive notifications from Artsonia of new Artwork your child has created. Additionally, you will be able to do certain other tasks, such as:

• View feedback from the art teacher
• Approve comments left on your child's Artwork
• Add and edit "fan club" members for your child

Parents can only access the above features and create an account linked to their child's school after receiving either 1) an email invite directly from their child's teacher or from their child via the Class Portal and using the link provided in that email (which embeds a unique parent code); or 2) through providing a unique parent code during registration after receiving a printed parent slip from the teacher.

By using the Class Portal feature, students can upload their artwork, photography, voice or videos (collectively referred to as "Artwork"), art titles and statements, view stats about their portfolio, and leave comments for other students. Students will not be able access the Class Portal unless the teacher has certified that he/she received permission and either a) chose to act as an agent of the parent and consented on parents behalf using school consent or b) collected the appropriate parental consent prior to allowing the students access to the Class Portal. Additionally, to use the Class Portal, students must enter or scan the unique school access code they receive from their teacher. After the unique school access code has been entered, students then select their name from a list of names shown to them or enter their name if using the Class Portal for the first time. This list of names shown consists of their first name, last initial, and grade. Additionally, at the teacher's option, they may enable a PIN feature which requires the student to also enter his/her PIN.

None of the Artwork of a student under 13, either submitted by students or teachers, will be shown publicly until Artsonia has also obtained parental consent. In addition, all Artwork will be reviewed by the teacher to determine if there is any personal information on the Artwork, title or artist statement. If the Artwork does contain personal information, the teacher will either remove or mask any student personal information or will indicate that the Artwork submission contains personal information. If the teacher indicates the Artwork contains personal information, then the Artwork will NOT be made public, and will instead be accessible by the teacher, parent and verified fan club members.

More information on how the Service operates is located here and your participation and use of the Service is governed by our Terms of Service ("Terms").

Our Privacy Policy explains:

• What information we collect and why we collect it.
• How we use and share that information.
• The choices and rights you have, including how to access, update and delete your information, and take your information out of Artsonia.

We will only collect, use, and share your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Artsonia may be acting as both a Controller and Processor as those terms are defined under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). For more information please see below.

This Privacy Policy applies whether you login to use Artsonia through https://www.artsonia.com (the "Artsonia Platform"), our mobile application (the "Artsonia App"), or any of our other products or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Service"). Additionally, this Privacy Policy applies if you browse the Artsonia informational website or buy Custom Merchandise located at https://www.artsonia.com (the "Artsonia Website"). If you use the Artsonia App, Artsonia Website, or the Artsonia Platform with multiple devices – these will synch with each other. In addition, this Privacy Policy also covers Artsonia's treatment of any personal information about our users that our partners or other third parties might share with us, for example, the teacher's National Education Association ("NAEA") membership ID number passed to us from NAEA.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites or services or practices of companies that Artsonia doesn't own or control, such as third-party services you might access through links or other features (e.g., social media buttons or third-party applications like Twitter on the Service). These other services have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them before providing them with personal information.

Our Privacy Policy is designed to provide transparency into our privacy practices and principles. We've tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you're not familiar with terms like personal information, cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. For students, we have a short video that highlights the most important details of our Privacy Policy that they should know about. We've also added a column on the right that provides short explanations of the legal language in plain English (it starts with "Basically...") to help even more with understanding, but it isn't legally binding.

Your privacy is important to Artsonia and a responsibility we take seriously, so we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions, we're here to help. You can visit the Artsonia Privacy Center to learn more about how we protect your privacy, or contact us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you accept and agree to this Privacy Policy.

Artsonia has also committed to a set of principles intended to safeguard student privacy, including responsible stewardship, protection, and transparent handling of student personal information.

Artsonia participates in the iKeepSafe Safe Harbor program. Artsonia has been granted the iKeepSafe COPPA Safe Harbor seal signifying its Website, Platform, and Apps have been reviewed and approved for having policies and practices surrounding the collection, use, maintenance and disclosure of personal information from children consistent with the iKeepSafe COPPA Safe Harbor program guidelines.

Artsonia holds the iKeepSafe FERPA Certification signifying its Website, Platform, and Apps have been reviewed and approved for having policies and practices that are compliant with the federal mandates for FERPA.

Artsonia is also a signatory to the Student Privacy Pledge, agreeing to a set of principles intended to safeguard student privacy, including responsible stewardship, protection, and transparent handling of student personal information.

Artsonia is an active member of the Future of Privacy Forum, which is an organization dedicated to student privacy leadership and scholarship.

Please visit our Privacy Center for details.

The statements that we make regarding the information we collect from or about students and how we use this information applies equally to all students regardless of their age. Accordingly, where this Privacy Policy references students or any information collected from or about students, our privacy policy applies to students under 13 years of age as well as students 13 years of old and above.

Artsonia collects the minimal amount of information from children necessary to use our Service. This information is necessary to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the Service and for security and safety purposes. Additionally, Artsonia follows the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) COPPA rules for parental consent. Prior to a student accessing Artsonia's Class Portal, the teacher must have certified that he/she received permission and either a) chose to act as an agent of the parent and consented on parents behalf under what is commonly referred to under COPPA as "school consent" or b) collected the appropriate parental consent. For more information on school consent, please see the FTC's COPPA FAQs.

Student Account Creation

If the teacher activates the Class Portal feature, the student's class is assigned a unique school access code provided by the teacher to connect with the class. This unique school access code is usually entered or scanned by the student to use the Service in the classroom. Next, we ask students to choose their name from a list shown to them or enter their name if using the Class Portal for the first time. The list of names shown to the student is their first name, last initial, and grade. Although not required under COPPA, we may also choose to impose parental consent requirements on students 13 and above at our discretion. Artsonia receives the parent email address of a child from the child's teacher or from the child themselves when logged into the Class Portal, which we will then use, consistent with the requirements of COPPA, to seek verifiable parental consent or provide parental notice (as applicable). We will not use parent emails provided this way to market our Service to the parent, unless the parent has separately created an account on our Service.

Artwork

Once the teacher has certified permission for activating the Class Portal, the child may then choose his or her name, and can continue to upload Artwork and any associated title and statement to that Artwork (which may contain personal information) and is collected by Artsonia. The students are assigned a unique screenname by Artsonia (which often but not necessarily consists of the students first name and a numerical suffix). This unique screenname (and not the student's entire first and last name) is what is shown on the Artsonia Website next to any student uploaded Artwork (including any student entered title and statement associated with the Artwork). Additionally, no Artwork uploaded by a child will be shown publicly until Artsonia has received parental consent from that child's parent or legal guardian, regardless of whether or not school consent was utilized as the method of consent.

Viewing and Commenting on Artwork

In addition to submitting Artwork and associated title and statement, while the student is accessing the Service through Class Portal, the student may enter in a comment (which also may contain personal information) on another student's Artwork (in order to teach children about digital citizenship). Prior to being posted on the public Artsonia Website, these comments are then proofread by the student's teacher and the teacher will confirm that there is no personal information contained within the student's comment (or alternatively, they can edit and remove the personal information). For more information about comment approvals and how to edit comments click here.

Beyond this, student access to our Service does not allow the child the ability to upload any other content to their account, or enter any other personal information. Children are also restricted from accessing certain features on our Service that would allow the child to post or disclose additional personal information. Currently:

• We DO NOT allow children under 13 to join a Fan Club.
• We DO NOT allow children under 13 to leave a comment on the Artsonia Website unless they are participating in the Class Portal which is moderated by their teacher.
• We DO NOT allow children under 13 to leave a teacher compliment on the Artsonia Website.
• We DO NOT allow children under 13 to submit a Contact Us inquiry.

In addition to the information entered by the child, we automatically collect some information from any use of our Service as set forth in the Information Collected Automatically section.

We also receive from the child's teacher (and link to the student's account) whatever name he or she has provided for the student, the student's current grade, and the feedback submitted by that teacher on the child's Artwork. Teachers can choose to provide full names for students (e.g., first name and last name) when setting up their class; they can also opt to only provide non-identifying information (e.g., just first name, only initials, or even just seat numbers). This chart details the personal information we collect, how we use it, and where it is stored.

We use this information to provide the Service to the child, for educational, security and safety purposes, or as required by law or to enforce our Terms. We will not require children to provide more personal information than is reasonably necessary in order to participate in the Service. If we discover that we have collected information from a child in a manner inconsistent with COPPA, we will take appropriate steps to either delete the information, or immediately seek the parent's consent for that collection. We do not disclose any personal information about children to third parties, except to service providers necessary to provide the Service, as required by law, authorized school personnel as directed by the child's school, or to protect the security of the Service or other users. Information collected from students (including personal information and information collected automatically) is never used or disclosed for third-party advertising. Additionally, personal information collected from students is never used for behaviorally-targeted advertising to students (first or third party). Lastly, children's personal information is never sold or rented to anyone, including marketers or advertisers. For the purposes of this disclosure, "sold" does NOT include the sale of merchandise that may contain personal information as sold within the Artsonia Gift Shop.

No child uploaded Artwork (and associated title and statement) is shown publicly unless the child's parent or legal guardian has given parental consent to Artsonia (even if school consent was utilized previously). Additionally, prior to the Artwork (and associated title and statement) being shown publicly, we first ask that the child's teacher review the Artwork uploaded by the child (and associated title and statement) to decide whether or not there is personal information of the child contained within the Artwork or the associated title and statement. If there is no personal information (or if the teacher removed or masked all personal information), then we require the teacher to represent to us that they have reviewed and approved the child uploaded Artwork and associated title and statement to the Artsonia Website for public posting. We will then delete from our servers any original (unmodified) artwork and associated title and statement that may have contained personal information. If the teacher reviews the Artwork and associated title and statements and determines there is personal information and does not mask or remove it, then the Artwork and associated title and statement will NOT be available on the Artsonia Website for public posting, but will be available to be viewed privately by teachers, parents and verified fan club members. Additionally, consistent with the requirements of COPPA, we ensure that any geolocation metadata that may be contained in the photos is removed prior to posting the files on the Artsonia Website.

In addition, a comment (which also may contain personal information) entered by a child while using the Service in the Class Portal, on another child's Artwork (in order to teach children about digital citizenship) may be shown publicly. Prior to being posted publicly, these comments are proofread by the child's teacher, and we require the teacher to affirmatively represent to us that they have reviewed and removed all personal information within the comment. Parents will also receive notification of the comments being posted to their child's Artwork.

Any comments left on a student's Artwork by non-students must first be approved by the student's parent before they are shown publicly on the Artsonia Website. Parents will receive notice when non-students leave comments about their child's Artwork and must approve the comment.

It is Artsonia's policy to protect the identity of the students showcasing their Artwork on Artsonia. Students' Artwork and comments will be identified by their unique screenname (which often but not necessarily consists of the artist's first name and a numerical suffix). This unique screenname (and not the student's entire first and last name) is what is shown on the Artsonia Website next to any student uploaded Artwork (including any related title and statement associated with the Artwork) and comment. Artsonia does not knowingly post the full first name and last names of students on the Artsonia Website or Service next to student Artwork or comments.

No student's feedback on their Artwork received from teachers is made available or visible to the public through Artsonia. All teachers in the student's school will be able to view the student's Artwork, title, statement and associated feedback and comments. If the teacher chooses to use the Class Portal feature, then students may view feedback within their student section.

Any artist awards earned by students are made available or visible to the public through Artsonia.

We will not retain a child's personal information for any longer than is necessary for educational purposes or legal obligations, or to provide the Service for which we receive or collect the child's personal information. Additionally, we only keep a child's personal information for as long as his or her student account is active, unless we are required by law or the child's school to retain it, need it to ensure the security of our community or our Service, or to enforce our Terms. Please note that deletion does not include student Artwork submitted by the student or teacher or messaging between a teacher and parent (i.e., the electronic newsletters or student activity reports) or teacher and student (i.e., teacher feedback) as we may be required to retain these at the direction of the school (e.g., for legal compliance reasons such as maintenance of "education records" under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) or "student records" under various state student privacy laws). Please click here to learn how to request deletion of this content.

Please click here for more information on our data retention policies surrounding children's personal information.

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child who is using Artsonia and they are participating at the direction of their teacher under school consent (you did not give consent directly to Artsonia, but the teacher obtained your consent or acted as your agent and consented on your behalf), please contact the appropriate official at your child's school to access, review, correct or delete any of your child's personal information in the Service. If the school determines that the request should be implemented, the school may either make the change themselves or submit the request to Artsonia by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below.

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child who is using Artsonia and have also given parental consent directly to Artsonia, you may access, review, correct, or delete any of your child's personal information in the Service by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. Any content uploaded (e.g., Artwork), however, that is shared as part of a class at a school is retained at the direction of the school (e.g., for legal compliance reasons such as maintenance of "education records" under FERPA); to correct or delete this content, please contact the appropriate official at your child's school. If the school determines that the request should be implemented, the school may either make the change themselves or submit the request to Artsonia by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. Additionally, at any time, you can refuse to permit us to collect further personal information from your child, and can request that we delete the personal information we have collected from your child by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below.

For either method described above, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such requests in a timely manner consistent with applicable law. We will need to verify your identity, for example by requiring that you provide acceptable forms of personal identification.

We collect two types of information about you: (1) information that you may choose to voluntarily provide us while using the Services (described below under Information You Provide to Us and (2) information collected automatically as a result of your use of the Services (described below under Information Collected Automatically). We may also receive information about you from third-party sources (as described below under Information Received from Third-Party Sources). The types and amounts of information collected will vary depending on whether the user is a teacher, parent, fan, customer (e.g. someone who purchases a custom keepsake), or student (e.g. we collect minimal information from students) and how they use Artsonia (e.g. if teachers join their school, we may need to collect school address information).

We ask for and collect the following personal information about you when you use the Service. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, for our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the Service, and to allow us to comply with our legal obligations. Without it, we may not be able to provide you with all the requested services.

There are currently five categories of users on our Service: teachers, parents, fans, customers (who purchase various products), and students. Additionally, as a non-logged in general visitor to the Artsonia Website you may provide personal information to us. We describe the information collected from students, including students under 13, in the How We Protect Children's Personal Information section above; for other users, we collect and store the information provided from each type of user as described below. Our use of the information set forth below is described further in the How We Use the Information We Collect section. If you are using the Artsonia App, we may ask you for certain mobile app permissions. We have also prepared this chart of the personal information we collect, how we use it, and where it is stored.

Information Provided by Teachers

• Account Sign-up and Profile Information: Any teacher who wishes to display their students' Artwork, lesson plans or other educational materials on Artsonia is required to register as a member and will be asked to provide some basic information such as first and last name, email address, phone number, password and a profile photo. A teacher may also choose to provide an additional personal description or "bio." The information provided during the registration process is used to communicate with the teacher as well as to create a public school gallery on Artsonia, which will list the teacher's name, profile photos (if provided), bio (if provided) and the name of the school. The teacher's name will also be used in automated emails from Artsonia, sent on behalf of the teacher, such as teacher-requested newsletters and student activity reports. If an Artsonia Website visitor sends a compliment to a teacher in the public gallery (the teacher's email is not shown publicly), Artsonia will deliver this compliment to the teacher's email address on file. Teacher profiles may be viewed by other teachers and by the general public on the Service.
• School Information: As a teacher, as part of the profile information you provide, you will be asked to provide the name and address of the school that you are associated with (or to associate your account with an existing school already recognized on the Service). By connecting you with your school, the Service may enable and provide additional collaboration features for teachers within the same school such as sharing roster students with other verified teachers in that school.
• Class Information: To organize Artwork and to allow students to use the Service, teachers input first and (optionally) last names of students in a student roster. It is entirely the teacher's choice what they enter here: for example, teachers could enter John S or John Smith. The first and last names are entered into separate fields, and unique screennames are then generated by Artsonia for each student, based on the entry in the first name field. Additionally, teachers will need to enter the student's grade (e.g. first grade), and optionally homeroom information as well as the student's parent email address. The parent email address given to Artsonia by the student's teacher will be used to obtain parental consent and will not be further by Artsonia unless the parent separately creates an account on Artsonia. Alternatively, teachers can also upload a spreadsheet to the Service with the students first and last names, current grade and parent email address. Student last names are used to identify students in the school roster and are only visible to verified teachers at the same school. Homeroom names are used to organize the roster for the teacher's benefit and are only viewable within that teacher's account. The student's first names are used in email correspondences to parents and Fan Club Members and is also the default caption (which can be edited) on all custom merchandise sold in the gift shop.
• Lesson Plans: As a teacher, you may choose to submit information about your lesson plans on Artsonia ("Lesson Plans"). Such information may include, the lesson title, grade level, content and achievement standards, objective of the lesson, how to assess the achievement of the objectives, the required materials, a description of the lesson procedure, resources, discussion questions, and links to sample artwork. Once you publish your Lesson Plans, they can be viewed by other teachers signed into the Artsonia Platform or Artsonia App, but they will not be viewable by the general public on the Artsonia Website. Additionally, you may choose to: 1) turn off the ability to allow other teachers to provide feedback on your Lesson Plans (the feedback will only be viewable by you unless you later elect to publish the feedback) and 2) opt-in to allow Artsonia to share your Lesson Plans with other artist and teacher organizations.
• Artwork: As a teacher you may elect to either turn on the Class Portal feature to allow students to upload their own Artwork (and corresponding title and statements) or you may choose to upload the student's Artwork yourself (as well as optionally providing the corresponding title and statement). The Artwork that you upload on behalf of the students, as well as the Artwork you approve while using the Class Portal, will not be shown publicly (along with the student's unique screenname) until Artsonia receives parental consent. Additionally, you may choose to upload your own Artwork, which will be immediately available to the public under a screenname you choose to represent you as the teacher, and will also be shown next to your teacher bio in the school gallery, which may display certain personal information entered with your bio, including your first and last name and photograph.
• Feedback: As a teacher, you can provide feedback on your student's Artwork. This feedback cannot be viewed by the general public through our Service. A student's feedback can only be viewed on Artsonia by that student (if the teacher utilizes the Class Portal feature), the teacher who wrote the feedback, that student's parents, and other teachers the class is shared with.
• Inviting Others: As a teacher, you can invite your students' parents to join the Service, for example by providing their email address. We will collect and store the email you provide with these requests, and will also treat this as personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
• Messaging: As a teacher, you can create an electronic newsletter to communicate with parents as well as student activity reports. We will store any content sent with the electronic newsletters (e.g., links text and images), to provide the Service, and to help teachers keep a log of their communications with parents.
• Testimonials: You may provide personal information (such as your name, photo and/or a video) if you choose to give us a testimonial. We post testimonials on our Service or the Artsonia Website which may contain this personal information in the testimonial. We obtain the individual's consent in advance to ensure we have permission to post this content publicly. To request removal of your personal information from our testimonials, please contact us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below.
• Fundraising Information: As a teacher, you may participate in fundraising on Artsonia if your school is located in the United States or Canada. If so, you may also provide a fundraising statement and photo which will be sent along with your full name in emails to parents and Fan Club Members, including to promote products (e.g. the custom keepsakes containing Artwork from the student's in the teacher's class). Additionally, once a teacher has received funds, they may enter additional personal information to redeem funds, including directly on third party sites (e.g. Amazon).

Teachers should be aware that, because personal information about themselves (i.e., their name, profile photo, bio and school) and any Artwork they submit (either their own Artwork or that of their students) is posted on the Artsonia Website and is publicly accessible to all users of the Artsonia Website, that information or content could be collected, used, and disclosed by others. Additionally, Lesson Plans can be viewed by other teachers as well as feedback on your Lesson Plans (if you elect to publish the feedback). Also, if you chose to do so, your Lesson Plans may be shared with other organizations. Artsonia is not responsible for the collection, use, or disclosure of such information or content by others you choose to share with, or those that view your information or content publicly. Artsonia does not publicly post teachers' email addresses on the Artsonia Website, and does not sell or share that list with third parties except where teachers have explicitly authorized Artsonia to do so, or to our service providers as necessary to provide the Service.

Information Provided by Parents

• Account Sign-up and Profile Information: As a parent, you may wish to sign-up for an account on Artsonia and connect to your child at a participating school. You will need a unique parent code from that child's teacher, which will either be sent home to you directly with your child or be sent to you via an email link from the email address provided by your child's teacher to Artsonia. You will then be asked to provide some basic information such as first and last name, email address (if you were not sent the link via email), phone number (optional), password, and relationship to the child (e.g. mother). The information provided during the registration process is used to communicate with the parent as well as to create a public school art gallery on Artsonia, which will list the parent's first name as well as the relationship to the child in the child's art gallery as a Fan Club Member. Parent profiles are not viewable by the general public on the Service, but first name and relationship to the child will be in the Fan Club Member list linked to the artist gallery. You may also create an account on behalf of your child that is not connected to a school by providing the child's first and last name and your email address. Only the information provided by you in the "first name" box will be used to create a unique screenname for your child and posted publicly.

  Please note that if you do not create an account on Artsonia, the email provided by your child's teacher will not be further used to send marketing communications to you. If you created an account on Artsonia, we will email you as further set forth under the section entitled Communications from Artsonia.

• Fan Club Information: As a parent, you may invite others to become fans of your child's Artwork. To do so, you provide certain information to Artsonia, such as the individual's first name, last name, relationship to your child and their email address. The information you provide in the "first name" box and relationships that you provide to Artsonia will be shown publicly alongside your child's art gallery. Artsonia will use the emails that you provide to send notifications to these individuals, including when new Artwork is published, and may send additional marketing emails. Fan Club Members always have the option to opt-out of any marketing communications using opt-out links at the bottom of emails received. See the section entitled Communications from Artsonia for more details.
• Artwork: As a parent (if you have a parent account on Artsonia) you may elect to upload your child's Artwork (and corresponding title and statements) yourself. The Artwork that you upload on behalf of your child will be shown publicly with the child's screenname.
• Comments on Artwork: As a parent, you will receive notice when anyone (student or non-student) leaves comments about your child's Artwork. If a non-student leaves a comment about your child's Artwork you must approve the comment prior to the comment being posted publicly (student comments will be approved by your child's teacher before being publicly posted). Please click here for additional information on how to edit or delete the comment.
• Inviting Others: As a parent you can also invite others to join the Service by utilizing your own native mobile application functionality through the Artsonia App, for example by email or SMS. We will collect and store the email and phone numbers you provide with these requests, and will also treat this as personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may also ask you for access to the contacts on your mobile device to prevent you from having to enter contact information for those invitations you send through our application and may store these contacts from your address book. If these individuals would like to request deletion of their information, they may contact us directly as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below.

Parents should be aware that, because 1) the information the parent types in the first name field textbox when registering on Artsonia or when adding Fan Club Member, or 2) the content they upload when adding any Artwork of behalf of their child or 3) any comments on their child's Artwork they approve, are posted on the Artsonia Website and are publicly accessible to all users of the Artsonia Website, that information or content could be collected, used, and disclosed by others. Artsonia is not responsible for the collection, use, or disclosure of such information or content by others.

Information Provided by Fans or Fan Club Members

• Account Sign-up and Comments: Any individual who wishes to sign-up as a fan of an artist ("Fan" or "Fan Club Member") will be asked to provide some basic information such as first and last name, email address, relationship to the child (e.g. aunt), and date of birth. Artsonia asks for the date of birth as only users over thirteen (13) years of age are allowed to leave comments on the Service (unless they are leaving comments in a school setting using Class Portal with their teacher approving the comments). The information provided during the signup process is used to communicate with the individual regarding the artist's activity and as set forth in the Communications from Artsonia section and the information provided in the "first name" box will be shown publicly alongside any comments left by the fan next to the student's Artwork in the public art gallery on Artsonia. Individuals may also choose just to provide a comment and not join an artist's Fan Club, but will still be required to fill out the "first name" field. All comments submitted by non-students, including those that choose to become a Fan Club Member, are first sent to the artist's parent for review prior to being publicly posted. A Fan may also choose to leave a comment for an artist by sending a postcard, and if so, the individual will be providing additional information as set forth under the Information Provided By Customers section below. Fan Club Member profiles are not viewable by the general public on the Service, but the artist's parents are able to view and edit the first and last name, email address and relationship of the Fan Club Member and may also remove any Fan Club Member.

Please note, that even if you did not join as a Fan Club Member yourself, you may have been added as a Fan Club Member by the child's parent (who also provided Artsonia your name, email address and relationship to the artist). The email provided either by you during a Fan Club Member signup or by the child's parent will be used to provide communications to you as set forth under the section entitled Communications from Artsonia. Any email communication you receive will provide an opt-out link if you wish to be removed as a Fan Club Member from the artist.

Information Provided by Customers (purchasers of product)

Online shoppers on the Artsonia Website must be over eighteen (18) years of age and must use a valid credit card or other valid payment method accepted by us to purchase products online. When an online order is placed, we collect information associated with the requested transaction, such as the customer's first and last name, mailing address, phone number, products ordered, shipping addresses, email address, and credit card information. We ask for this information so that we may fulfill the order. We will send a confirmation email to the address provided after the order is successfully placed. We also send a follow-up order satisfaction survey which may contain additional promotional offers. A customer may also provide personalization on the product (i.e. providing a student's name under the Artwork) and may also upload an image to Artsonia to use on products. If a customer wishes to upload their own image, they will additionally be asked their date of birth as this feature is restricted to users over thirteen (13) years of age. Credit card or other payment information is never shared with third parties, except those service providers needed to fulfill the transactions.

For additional information on our credit card security policies, please see our Data Security section below.

Information Provided by Users of the Artsonia Website

• Comments or Compliments: Any visitor to the Artsonia Website may provide additional information to Artsonia, such as when they choose to leave a comment for an artist, or compliment a teacher. This additional information may include, date of birth (as we restrict access to certain features on the Artsonia Website), first name, and the information typed in a comment or compliment.
• Contact Information: Additionally, any visitor to the Artsonia Website (including anyone signed in as a teacher or parent), may also choose to voluntarily provide additional personal information through the Service - such as a name, email address and telephone number - in order to request information from us. For example, when you send us an email asking a question, send us information through the "Contact Us" request, submit a support request, participate in a video testimonial about our Service, register for webinars or demonstrations, sign up for an Artsonia newsletter, or choose to participate in any research efforts with Artsonia to improve the Service. When you send us a message using the "Contact Us" page or via email, the email addresses and phone numbers collected are not further used to market to the individual beyond providing the services requested or responding to the requests.

Users of the Service should be aware that any personal information that is posted on the Service (such as your comment for an artist or compliment for a teacher along with your name) is accessible to other users of the Service and could be collected, used and disclosed by others. Artsonia is not responsible for the collection, use, or disclosure of such information or content by others.

Like most web-based services, we (or our service providers) may automatically collect information from your browser or your device when you use the Services or the Artsonia Website. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the Service and the Artsonia Website. For example, this could include the frequency and duration of your visits to the Artsonia Website or Service (similar to TV ratings that indicate how many people watched a particular show). If you visit the Service on different devices, we may link the information we collect from those different devices to help us provide a consistent service across your different. If we do combine any automatically-collected information with personal information, we will treat the combined information as personal information, and it will be protected as per this Privacy Policy.

The technologies and information we automatically collect include:

• Cookies and other similar technologies: We (or our service providers) use cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or device. We (or our service providers) may also use these technologies (never in student logged in areas of our Service) in connection with advertising their products outside of our Service. We don't allow third-parties to advertise directly on our Service (i.e. such as when an advertiser would bid to place an advertisement directly on a platform such as Twitter or Facebook). Like many services, Artsonia uses these technologies to analyze trends, gather demographic information about our user base, track your movements around the Artsonia Website, administer the Service, tailor the Service and Artsonia Website for you, and to help the Service and Artsonia Website work better for you - for example, to remember your login session as you browse the Artsonia Website. Please read our Online Tracking Technologies Policy for more details, including how to modify your cookie settings and a list of the tracking technologies we use.

• Local storage: We may collect, use and store information (including personal information) and preferences locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser local storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our website also may use HTML5 or other local storage to collect and store information. Please read our Online Tracking Technologies Policy for more details

• Device information: We may collect device-specific information such as your device type, device brand, operating system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types, and unique device identifiers. This helps us measure how the Service or Artsonia Website is performing and improve the Service and Artsonia Website for you on your particular device.
• Mobile application information: Certain mobile applications or "apps" include a unique application number. This number and information about your installation (for example, the operating system type and application version number) may be sent to Artsonia when you install or uninstall that application, such as when you install the Artsonia App, or when that application periodically contacts our servers, such as for automatic updates. Additionally, we may receive application state and crash log information which will help with "debugging" and for improvement of the Artsonia App.
• Location information: When you use our Service or browse the Artsonia Website, we may collect and process information about your geographic location, for example through IP address, GPS, Bluetooth or Wi-fi signals. We collect both coarse (i.e., city-level) location data and precise location data. We only collect coarse location data, unless you provide your full address information to us as either as a teacher registering for a school account or as a customer purchasing product.
  • We do not collect precise geolocation data from students. We will not store or track your device location on an on-going basis or without your permission. We do not share precise geo-location data with third parties, other than our service providers as necessary to provide the Service (such as fulfilling product orders).
• Server log data: Like most online services, when you use our Service or the Artsonia Website, even if you have not created an Artsonia account or logged in, we automatically collect and store certain information in our server log files. Examples include things like:
  • Details of how you used our Service or the Artsonia Website, such as your activity on the Service or the Artsonia Website, and the frequency and duration of your visits to the Artsonia Website, Artsonia Platform or Artsonia App
  • IP Address
  • Device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL
  • Telephony log information like your phone number and SMS routing information
• Cross-device collection: To provide users with a seamless online experience, we may link your identifiers on different browsers and environments to be able to provide a seamless experience across multiple devices and browsers without collecting or processing any additional identifying personal data.

This information helps us make decisions about what we should work on next - for example, by showing which features are most (or least) popular. We may use your IP address and share it with service providers to help diagnose problems with our Service, for security purposes, to manage the Service, to enhance the Services or Artsonia Website based on usage pattern for analytics, and for tracking online voting (e.g. restricting voting frequency).

Artsonia does not sell or rent any of your or your child's personal information to any third party for any purpose – including for advertising and marketing purposes. Third-party advertising is not permitted on our Service and personal information collected from students is never used for behaviorally-targeted advertising to students (first or third party). We use information, including personal information, collected through our Service for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including as set forth above under Information Collected Automatically. Our use of information collected from students is set forth above in the section How We Protect Children's Personal Information. In addition, we may use the information, including personal information, from non-student users we collect to:

• Provide the Services, Artsonia Website, products, or information you request
• Personalize the Artsonia Website, Services, content and experiences for you
• Communicate with you about your use of the Service, your account or transactions with us
• Respond to your emails, submissions, questions, comments, requests, complaints and provide customer service
• Send you information about features on our Service or changes to our policies and Service
• Optimize or improve the Artsonia Website, Services and operations and develop new products
• Send you security alerts, and support and administrative messages and otherwise facilitate your use of, and our administration and operation of, the Service and Artsonia Website
• For safety and security reasons, such as detecting, investigating and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal
• Notify and contact contest and sweepstakes entrants
• Provide parents and teachers information about events, announcements, offers, promotions, products, including third-party products, and services we think will be of interest to you
• For any other purpose for which the information was collected (e.g. fulfilling product orders)

To learn more about how we use your information for personalization and tracking, please see visit Online Tracking Technologies Policy.

We process this information given our legitimate interest in improving the Artsonia Website, the Service and our users' experience with it, in protecting the Service and the Artsonia Website, where necessary for the adequate performance of the contract with you, and to comply with applicable laws.

Additionally, we will process your personal information for the purposes listed in this section related to marketing given our legitimate interests in undertaking marketing activities to offer you products and services that may be of your interest. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in our marketing communications or changing your notification settings within your Artsonia account.

First and foremost, you should know that Artsonia does not sell or rent your (or your child's) personal information to any third party for any purpose - including for advertising or marketing purposes. Third-party advertising is not permitted on our Service and personal information collected from students is never used for behaviorally-targeted advertising to students (first or third party). Furthermore, we do not share personal information with any third parties except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy and as set forth below:

Other Users You Share and Communicate with on Artsonia: If you are a teacher, parent or fan, you may choose to share information or content through the Service with other Artsonia teachers, parents or Fan Club Members or to your children (if you are a parent). For example, things like your account or profile information and Lesson Plans (if you are a teacher), feedback created for students you teach (if you are a teacher), Artwork (if you are a parent or teacher), or other information you share with teachers, parents or Fan Club Members. Additionally, Artwork (and associated title and statement) posted by students may be shared with others if publicly posted on the Artsonia Website (which is only after Artsonia receives parental consent) and comments entered by students while in the Class Portal and approved by their teacher, will also be publicly posted on the Artsonia Website.

Please keep in mind that information (including personal information or children's personal information) or content (such as Artwork) that you voluntarily disclose to others - including to other Artsonia users you interact with through the Service (such as messages you might send other users or other teachers you collaborate with) - can be viewed, copied, stored, and used by the people you share it with. We cannot control the actions of people with whom you choose to share information.

Third-party Integrations on our Service: When, as a teacher, parent or student, you use third-party apps, websites or other services that use, or are integrated with, our Service, they may receive information about what you post or share. For example, when you share or invite others via Facebook or Twitter, these services receive the information that you share through this functionality, and information that you are sharing from Artsonia (e.g. a student's Artwork). Please see Social Media Features and third party Service Providers for more information. Information collected by these apps, websites or integrated services is subject to their own terms and policies.

Service Providers: We do work with vendors, service providers, and other partners to help us provide the Service and Artsonia Website by performing tasks on our behalf. We may need to share or provide information (including personal information) to them to help them perform these business functions, for example database management services, database hosting, and fulfilling product orders. These partners and service providers have limited access to your personal information to perform these tasks on your behalf, and are contractually bound to protect and use it only for the purpose for which it was disclosed and must adhere to confidentiality and security obligations in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Social Media Platforms: Where permissible according to applicable law, we may share certain limited personal information with social media platforms (such as Facebook) and other websites, applications or partners, to generate leads, drive traffic to our websites or otherwise market and advertise our products or services on those websites or applications (this will never include personal information of students). These processing activities are based on our legitimate interest in undertaking marketing activities to offer you products and services that may be of your interest. These social media platforms with which we may share your personal information are not controlled or supervised by Artsonia. Therefore, any questions regarding how your social media platform processes your personal information should be directed to such provider.

Aggregated Information and Non-Identifying Information: We may share aggregated information (information about our users that we combine together so it no longer identifies or references an individual user) and other de-identified, or non-personally identifiable information (such as statistics about visitors, traffic patterns and electronic postcard usage) including with users, partners, sponsors, or the press in order to, for example, demonstrate how Artsonia is used, spot industry trends, or to provide marketing materials for Artsonia. Any aggregated information and non-personally identifiable information shared this way will not contain any personal information.

Analytics Services: We may use analytics services, including mobile analytics software, to help us understand and improve how the Service and Artsonia Website is being used. These services may collect, store and use de-identified information in order to help us understand things like how often you use the Service and Artsonia Website, the events that occur within the application, usage, performance data, and from where the application was downloaded.

Legal Requirements: We may use or disclose information, including personal information, if we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to comply with the law, such as complying with a subpoena or other legal process. We may need to disclose personal information where, in good faith, we think it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Artsonia, our employees, our community, or others, or to prevent violations of our Terms of Service or other agreements. This includes, without limitation, exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection or responding to government requests. Where appropriate, we may notify users about the legal requests, unless (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law; (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon Artsonia, or its users. In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we will attempt to notify that user about the request after the fact where appropriate and where we determine in good faith that we are no longer prevented from doing so.

Sharing with Artsonia Companies: Over time, Artsonia may grow and reorganize. We may share your information, including personal information with affiliates such as a parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us, in which case we will require those companies to agree to use your personal information in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Change of Control: The Student Privacy Pledge requires us (and all pledgers) to commit to how we handle data in the event of a change to our organization such that all or a portion of Artsonia or our assets are acquired by or merged with a third party, or in any other situation where personal information that we have collected from users would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by that third party. Consistent with the Student Privacy Pledge and applicable state and federal laws, in connection with such a change to our organization, if any, this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your information, and any acquirer would only be able to handle your personal information as per this Privacy Policy (unless you give consent to a new policy). We will provide you with notice of an acquisition within thirty (30) days following the completion of such a transaction, by posting on our homepage, or by email to your email address that you provided to us. If you do not consent to the use of your personal information by such a successor company, subject to applicable law, you may request its deletion from the company. We may also make information, including personal information, available to a potential investor or purchaser (as their advisors) in advance of any such transaction completion.

In the unlikely event that Artsonia goes out of business, or files for bankruptcy, we will protect your personal information, and will not sell it to any third party.

With your consent: Other than the cases above, we won't disclose your personal information for any purpose unless you consent to it. Additionally, as discussed above, we will never sell or rent your personal information to advertisers or other third parties.

We try to be transparent about what information we collect, so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used. You control the personal information you share with us. You can access or correct this information at any time. You can also delete your account. We also provide you tools to object, restrict, or withdraw consent where applicable for the use of personal information you have provided to Artsonia. We also make the personal information you share through our Service or the Artsonia Website portable and provide easy ways for you to contact us.

You may exercise any of the rights described in this section by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below or making a request here. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request.

• Accessing, managing or correcting your personal information
• Delete your information from Artsonia
• Object, restrict or withdraw consent
• Take information out of Artsonia

Artsonia aims to provide you with easy access to any personal information we have collected about you. If that information is incorrect, we give you easy ways to update it, or to delete it, unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business (e.g., we need at least an email address for your account) or legal purposes. You have the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information concerning you (and which you cannot update yourself within your Artsonia account).

• Accessing Your Information: Upon request, Artsonia will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information, and if you are user of the Service, you may request access to all of your personal information controlled by Artsonia by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. In some cases, we won't be able to guarantee complete access due to legal restrictions - for example, you will not be allowed to access files that contain information about other users or information that is confidential to us.
• Managing Your Information: If you have registered for an account on Artsonia, you may update, correct, or delete some of your profile information or your preferences at any time by logging into your account on Artsonia and accessing your account settings page. You may also, at any time, update, correct, or delete certain personal information that you have provided to us by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. Please note that while your changes may be reflected promptly in active content, users that have previously accessed the content may still have access to old copies cached on their device or may have copied and stored your content. You may also exercise your control or choices with the communications we send you as set forth in Communications from Artsonia section below.
• Accessing Your Child's Information: Take a look at our Parental Choices section to see how you can obtain copies of your child's personal information.

We may reject requests for access, change or deletion that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing an existing practice), risk the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup systems).

Where we can provide information access and correction, we will do so for free, except where it would require a disproportionate effort.

If for some reason you ever want to delete your account (or your child's account, if you are his or her parent), you can do that at any time by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below.

When you delete your account, we delete your profile information and any other content you provide in your profile (such as your name, screenname, password, email address, bio, and profile photos) and depending on the category of user you are (i.e., teacher, parent, Fan Club Member or student) additional information such as teacher Artwork, comments, compliments, and information collected through mobile permissions you've granted. Information that you have shared with others, others have shared about you, or content other users may have copied and stored, is not part of your account and may not be deleted when you delete your account.

Additionally, please note, that even if your account is deleted, messages sent between teachers and parents or teachers and student are retained to assist schools with various recordkeeping or compliance obligations. This includes, for example, student activity reports and newsletters which we consider messaging between parents and teachers. Additionally, some content within a student account, such as Artwork, or student Artwork uploaded by a teacher or feedback from a teacher on a student's Artwork, will be kept after the student account is deleted for school legal compliance reasons (e.g. maintenance of "education records" under FERPA or "student records" under various state student privacy laws). If you would like this content deleted, please first put in a request to your (or your child's) school. If the school determines that the request should be implemented, the school may submit the request by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. For more details, please read "What happens when I terminate or delete my account?" in our HelpDesk.

We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, even after you update or delete personal information you have provided us from our Service or the Artsonia Website, your personal information may be retained in our backup files and archives for a reasonable period of time for legal purposes or for so long as is necessary in light of the purposes for which such records were collected or legitimately further processed.

Where you have provided your consent to Artsonia for the processing of your personal information by us you may withdraw your consent at any time by changing your account settings or by sending a communication to Artsonia specifying which consent you are withdrawing. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing activities based on such consent before its withdrawal.

Artsonia provides parents and teachers with the opportunity to withdrawal consent or ‘opt-out' of receiving any future marketing communications from Artsonia and its partners at any time. Please see the Communications from Artsonia section below for more information. Additionally, you can always decline to share personal information with us, or even block all cookies (for more information visit our Online Tracking Technologies Policy). However, it's important to remember that many of Artsonia's features may not be accessible, or may not function properly - for example, you may not be able to login to your teacher or parent account.

In some jurisdictions, applicable law may entitle you to require Artsonia not to process your personal information for certain specific purposes (including profiling) where such processing is based on legitimate interest. If you object to such processing Artsonia will no longer process your personal information for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for such processing or such processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. Additionally, in some jurisdictions, applicable law may give you the right to limit the ways in which we use your personal information, in particular where (i) you contest the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal information; (iii) we no longer need your personal information for the purposes of the processing, but you require the information for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to the processing and pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of Artsonia override your own.

If you are located in the European Union or the EEA, you have a right to lodge complaints about the data processing activities carried about by Artsonia with Artsonia's lead supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office. You can find their contact details here.

The security of your personal information is important to us. To prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, or improper use of your information, and to maintain data accuracy, we've established physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the personal information we collect. In particular:

• We periodically review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems.
• We perform application security testing; penetration testing; conduct risk assessments; and monitor compliance with security policies.
• When you enter any information anywhere on the Service, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) by default.
• Artsonia's database where we store your personal information is encrypted at rest, which converts all personal information stored in the database to an unintelligible form.
• We ensure passwords are stored and transferred securely using encryption and salted hashing.
• Artsonia's Website and the Service is hosted by third-party service providers at separate facilities, with whom we have a contract providing for enhanced security measures.
• Artsonia is in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Our alignment with this standard is reflected in the people, technologies and processes we employ.
• We restrict access to personal information to authorized Artsonia employees, agents or independent contractors who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

For additional information on our security practices, please visit our Privacy Center. Although we make concerted good faith efforts to maintain the security of personal information, and we work hard to ensure the integrity and security of our systems, no practices are 100% immune, and we can't guarantee the security of information. Outages, attacks, human error, system failure, unauthorized use or other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time.

If we learn of a security breach, we will attempt to notify you electronically (subject to any applicable laws and school reporting requirements) so that you can take appropriate protective steps; for example, we may post a notice on the Artsonia Website or elsewhere on the Service, and may send email to you at the email address you have provided to us. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

We store your personal information for as long as it is necessary to provide products and Services to you and others, including those described above. Personal information associated with your account will be kept until your account is deleted, unless we no longer need the data to provide products and services.

Please note that we may have to retain some information after your account is closed, to comply with legal obligations, to protect the safety and security of our community or our Service, or to prevent abuse of our Terms. You can, of course, delete your account at any time, as per the Deleting Your Account section. Additionally, please note, that even if your account is deleted, messages sent between teachers and parents or between students and teachers are retained to assist schools with various recordkeeping or compliance obligations. Additionally, Artwork uploaded by students or teachers on behalf of students are retained at the direction of the school (e.g., for legal compliance reasons such as maintenance of "education records" under FERPA or "student records" under various state student privacy laws) and will not be deleted until we receive direction from the school.

Student Data Protection Policy: We will not retain a student's personal information for any longer than is necessary for educational purposes or legal obligations, or to provide the Service for which we receive or collect the child's personal information. Additionally, we only keep a child's personal information for as long as his or her student account is active, unless we are required by law or the child's school to retain it, need it to ensure the security of our community or our Service, or to enforce our Terms. Please note that deletion does not include student Artwork submitted by the student or teacher or messaging between a teacher and parent (i.e., the electronic newsletters or student activity reports) or teacher and student (i.e., teacher feedback) as we may be required to retain these at the direction of the school (e.g., for legal compliance reasons such as maintenance of "education records" under the FERPA or "student records" under various state student privacy laws)). Please click here to learn how to request deletion of this content.

School provided parent email addresses (including student provided parent email addresses using the Class Portal) are used to obtain parental consent and are not used further by Artsonia unless the parent separately creates an account on Artsonia. If the parent does not provide consent within 90 days, then the provided email address is deleted.

Please click here for more information on our data retention policies surrounding children's personal information.

The Service and the Artsonia Website may now or in the future include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, the Twitter Tweet button, or the ability to register on Artsonia or otherwise grant access to a third-party social networking service, such as through Facebook Connect or Google (collectively "Social Media Features"). These Social Media Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. You may be given the option by such Social Media Features to post information about your activities on our Service or Artsonia Website to a profile page of yours that is provided by a third- party social media network in order to share with others within your network. Additionally, if you decide to register on Artsonia through a Social Media Feature, Artsonia may also collect personal information that is already associated with your account connected to the Social Media Feature. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving Artsonia the permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Service or Artsonia Website. Your interactions with these Social Media Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing each Social Media Feature. If you are not comfortable accessing such social media websites and using such Social Media Features, please don't use them!

The Service and Artsonia Website is hosted and operated in the United States. If you access or use the Service from the European Union, or any other region with laws governing data collection, protection and use that may differ from United States law, please note that you may be transferring your personal information outside of those jurisdictions to the United States.

By using the Service or the Artsonia Website, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside your home jurisdiction, including to the United States, and to the storage of your personal information in the United States, for the purpose of hosting, using and processing the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service. You further acknowledge that these countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country from which you provided your personal information, and that Artsonia may be compelled to disclose your personal information to U.S. authorities. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below.

Artsonia processes personal information both as a Processor and as a Controller, as defined in the GDPR. When teachers, parents, fan club members, customers, or general Artsonia Website users enter information directly into our Service or the Artsonia Website, Artsonia will generally be the Controller for the user data, as outlined above in the Types of Information We Collect section. However, in certain circumstances, where requested by the student's school, Artsonia will be the Processor, and will only delete records per the school's specific instructions and will request that you make any requests for access, correction or deletion of personal information through the school. Artsonia will respond to such requests when received from the school. Please see Artsonia's policy on data retention and deletion.

If you created an account on Artsonia, provided an email or phone number to us, or otherwise opted-in to receive communications from us, we may send you messages and updates regarding your account, including privacy and security notices, updates regarding the Service, and information regarding products, features or services from Artsonia (or third parties we believe you may be interested in). These communications may include, but are not limited to, social media communications, SMS, push notifications, email, telephone calls, and postal mail. If you have an account with us, we'll also use your email address to contact you for customer service purposes, or for any legal matters that arise in the course of business. We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us if your device supports it. We use this confirmation to help us understand which emails are most interesting and to improve our future communications.

If you invite another person to join you on Artsonia by providing their email address or phone number, we may contact them regarding the Service using the appropriate form of communication. If they would prefer not to receive our marketing communications, they may opt-out using the "Unsubscribe" or "STOP" instructions contained in those communications.

You can always unsubscribe from receiving any of our: 1) marketing emails at any time by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any Artsonia email; 2) marketing texts by replying "STOP" if you receive SMS communications; or 3) marketing push notifications by turning off push notifications on your device. Also, you may indicate your preferences regarding marketing emails by contacting us as described in the Contacting Artsonia section below. If you have a teacher or parent account, you may also update your preferences within your logged in account. Please note that opting-out of marketing communications does not affect your receipt of business communications that are important to your interaction with Artsonia, such as support/service communications, security updates, or account management communications. You may not opt-out of receiving these communications.

If you are a resident of the State of California, see the California Privacy Notice for additional information about your rights and our disclosures. The California Privacy Notice is in addition to this Privacy Policy.

We may revise our Privacy Policy from time to time. You can see when the last update was by looking at the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. We won't reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. If we make any significant changes, we'll provide prominent notice by posting a notice on the Service or the Artsonia Website and/or notifying you by email (using the email address you provided), so you can review and make sure you know about them.

In addition, if we ever make significant changes to the types of personal information we collect from children, or how we use it, we will notify parents in order to obtain parental consent or notice for those new practices, and provide schools with the necessary information about these changes where they have obtained permission and either a) chose to act as an agent of the parent and consented on parents behalf using school consent or b) collected the appropriate parental consent for the Class Portal.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time, to stay informed about our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information through the Service and Artsonia Website. If you don't agree with any changes to the Privacy Policy, you may terminate your account. By continuing to use the Service or the Artsonia Website after the revised Privacy Policy has become effective, you acknowledge that you accept and agree to the current version of the Privacy Policy.

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, please contact us in one of the following ways:

privacy@artsonia.com

1-(800)-869-9974

Artsonia LLC
ATTN: Privacy
1350 Tri-State Parkway, Ste 106
Gurnee, IL 60031

Please visit our contact page.

For teachers, parents, students, fans, or administrators seeking more information on how we provide safety on Artsonia, we provide privacy and security related materials on our Privacy Center.