Privacy Policy
BUILD LEARNING HUB PRIVACY POLICY
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This BUILD Learning Hub Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how Businesses United in Investing, Lending and Development, a California [and 501(c)(3)] nonprofit organization (“BUILD” or “we”) collects, uses, discloses, and secures personal information when we provide our services to you through our online learning management platform (https://learninghub.build.org/) (the “Platform”). The Platform is intended for students, teachers and educators, and administrators to access our professional development resources, take assessments, and communicate with each other. As used in this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information that relates to an identified or reasonably identifiable natural person.
Note that this Privacy Policy only applies to our online learning management platform and does not apply to other BUILD websites or applications. Our BUILD Privacy Policy can found here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND PROCESSING
2. DISCLOSING INFORMATION
3. INFORMATION SECURITY
4. LINKED TO UNAFFILIATED THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
5. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
6. CONTACT
7. POSTING OF A REVISED BUILD LEARNING HUB PRIVACY POLICY
8. COOKIE POLICY
1. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND PROCESSING
We collect and process personal information to provide services through the Platform, and in order to provide, improve, and enhance the Platform and the services we offer.
Information You Provide to Us
Contact or support request submissions. When you contact us or request support, we collect the personal information you provide to evaluate and respond to your request. We may also use the information to improve our Platform or other aspects of our services and in the normal course of our operations. Also, we may use this information to send you email messages with program information, news, notifications, and other updates relevant to our services and the Platform. The information we collect may include your name, email address, and telephone number, and the content of any messages or submissions.
Accounts and Registration. You must register for an account to use the Platform and when you do, we will collect the personal information you provide, including your username, password, and email address. We also collect the personal information you provide to customize your profile, including your name, profile photo, and class information.
Information We Collect When You Use the Platform
Assessment Performance. We collect your scores and other performance information when you take assessments, tests, and other performance-measurement tools through the Platform. We collect this information in order to provide you with our services and improve our Platform.
Messaging on the Platform. The Platform allows users to send messages to each other. When you use this aspect of the Platform, we collect the content of your messages and any files or materials you upload or attach to such messages. We use this information in order to provide the Platform and our services. Your communications should not contain any sensitive information and you should not upload any documents or materials to the Platform that contain sensitive information.
Automated Data Collection; Cookies and Similar Technologies. When you use our Platform, we and our third-party partners, such as website hosting providers, to collect information by automated means.
We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect your IP address, information about your device (such as your browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, and operating system version) and information concerning your usage of our Platform (including the link you used to reach a given webpage). We use this information to determine how many users visited particular webpages, viewed particular content, or opened messages or alerts, and we may also use such information to improve the performance of the Platform, to improve our services, and to enforce our service terms and prevent malicious conduct.
You may be able to change a web browser’s settings to block and delete cookies when you access the Platform through the web browser. However, if you do that, the Platform may not work properly; also, we will still receive basic information (such as last URL visited) when you navigate to the Platform. Note that the Platform does not respond to browser do-not-track signals.
2. DISCLOSING INFORMATION
We may share any of the categories of personal information listed above for our operations and services as described below.
Schools and educational institutions. For teachers and administrators that use our Platform, we may share personal information with your school or educational institution. We do so for our operational purposes, such as to ensure you have access to the correct materials and content, to communicate with you, and to promote and provide our Platform and services.
Teachers, administrators, schools, educational institutions, parents, or legal guardians. For students that use our Platform, we may share personal information with your teacher(s), administrator(s), school, educational institution, parent, and/or legal guardian. We do so for our
operational purposes, such as to ensure you have access to the correct materials and content, to track your performance on assessments, to communicate with you, and to promote and provide our Platform and services.
Vendors and service providers. We share personal information with vendors and service providers that process such information to perform services for us in connection with the Platform and our other operations, including operating and securing the Platform.
Legal and similar disclosures. We may share personal information with law enforcement, the courts, our advisors, attorneys, and others who participate in legal processes or proceedings, if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: comply with legal requirements and law enforcement requests (such as a court order or subpoena), comply with legal process (such as discovery), or protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Merger, sale, or other asset transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your personal information may be shared with the other parties and advisors involved under an obligation of confidentiality in connection with the negotiation of such transaction, and your personal information may be transferred as part of such a transaction (subject to compliance with applicable laws).
3. INFORMATION SECURITY
We endeavor to process your information securely, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and in accordance with information security requirements imposed by applicable law. Note, however, that certain aspects of Internet communications are inherently not completely secure.
4. LINKS TO UNAFFILIATED THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
The Platform may contain links to unaffiliated third-party websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of such other websites, and we are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of the third parties that operate or interact with those websites.
5. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
We take children’s privacy seriously. All students who use the Platform will be invited by a teacher or administrator. When the teacher or administrator invites their students to the Platform, we rely on consent obtained from the teacher or administrator or the school/educational institution acting as an agent of the student user’s parent or legal guardian in order to process the student user’s personal information.
A parent or legal guardian of a student may contact us using the methods set forth below to request that we delete the information from our records or otherwise cease the use of that student’s information.
6. CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or if you would like to make a suggestion about our privacy practices, please contact us: (i) via email at: info@BUILD.org, (ii) via phone at: (650) 688-5840, or (iii) via our mailing address: BUILD, P.O. Box 3316 Redwood City, CA 94064.
7. POSTING OF A REVISED BUILD LEARNING HUB PRIVACY POLICY
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted and will apply to personal information received after that date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice of such changes on the Platform or in any other pertinent location where this Privacy Policy may be posted for a reasonable period of time (which we estimate will be approximately two weeks). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, especially if you do not visit the Platform regularly.
COOKIE POLICY
We use cookies and similar technologies (referred to herein simply as “cookies”) to facilitate and improve the performance and security of our Platform and to enhance user experience.
The Platform may utilize or permit several different categories of cookies, as follows:
- Essential cookies – These cookies are essential for the proper operation of a website. For example, they may facilitate page navigation or assist with security checks.
- Functional cookies – These cookies allow us to remember your preferences (such as a username, language, or the region you are in) and allow us to make the website experience better for you.
- Analytics cookies – Analytics cookies allow us to analyze how visitors use a website and to measure website and mobile application performance, and they also allow us to provide a quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and addressing issues that arise.
- Advertising cookies – These cookies may be used to highlight articles, other content, or services that we think will be of interest to you based on your use of a website. They may also be utilized by third parties when a third-party content feed has been included in a website so that you can view videos and similar media streams.
Use of cookies on our Platform
We do use or allow certain third parties to serve cookies on the Platform. We may allow third parties to serve cookies to help identify fraudulent or automated traffic on the Platform. In addition, third parties that provide content feeds may serve cookies. We may use third-party
cookies to help us with market research, improving functionality, and enforcing Platform terms and policies.
The Platform may use the following cookies:
| Cookie and Cookie Provider | Purpose | Duration |
| WordPress (wordpress_logged_in_****, wp-settings-****) |
Essential – authentication | Persistent (varies) |
| LearnDash Progress (ld_course_*, quiz session cookies) |
Functional – tracks course progress, assessment data | Persistent/session |
Cookie Choices
Your browser may allow you to disable certain cookies. Also, third party cookie providers may provide an opt out tool for their cookie(s). Note that disabling cookies may in some instances impact the functionality of the Platform.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may revise this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in our use of cookies, changes in the law, changes in our services, or best practices. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.
