Castle Software, Inc. Privacy Policy

Castle Software, Inc. ("Castle") is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. Because Castle gathers certain types of information about the users of the CastleLearning.com web site ("Service"), we believe you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the use of the information we collect. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the CastleSoftware.com and the CastleLearning.com web sites.

Please review the following statement to understand how the information you provide to Castle through our web sites will be treated.

Information Castle collects

You can visit the CastleSoftware.com web site without identifying yourself. You can sign-up for the company newsletter where you need to supply an email address plus other optional information (name, organization, title). You can opt-out of the newsletter at any time and modify or delete any personal information that you previously provided. We will not share any of your personal information with any outside organization.

The Castle Learning Online service, located at the CastleLearning.com web site, requires that you have a subscription. Each subscription is associated with a Login ID and a Password which are used for accessing the information and activities on the web site.

Other information, including names and email addresses may be supplied to us.

For home subscriptions, the purchaser of the subscriptions supplies the subscription-holders names.

For school subscriptions, a representative from the school specifies some or all of the following information about the subscription-holders:

  • First and Last Name - this information is used to identify students and teachers in various student, teacher, and administrator reports.

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  • Email Address - this is optional and is used only to email forgotten login information to a student or teacher. The school can disable this feature.

  • Grade - this is the student's current grade level or year of graduation and is optional. It is used to help teachers identify their students in the database.

  • Login IDs and Passwords - the school representative optionally supplies this information. Otherwise, Login IDs are generated by Castle. Passwords not supplied to us are specified by each individual user the first time they sign in.

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  • Identification Number—this is optional information that helps identify a user in the database. It is possible that some features of the web site will be affected if this information is not made available.

What Castle Learning Online does with the information collected

The Login ID and Password assigned to users are used to login and participate in Castle Learning Online's activities.

The personal information supplied to Castle will not be given, sold, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed to any third parties outside of Castle, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with legal process, (ii) enforce the Terms of Use, (iii) respond to claims that any content on the Castle web sites violates the rights of third parties, or (iv) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Castle, its customers, or the public. Note that our database is stored in a co-location facility owned and managed by InetU, Inc., located at 744 Roble Road Suite 70, Allentown, PA 18109. InetU's privacy policy can be found at http://www.inetu.net/privacy.php

Castle may use aggregated personal information to determine the demographics of our users and to distribute statistics and general marketplace information about Castle Learning Online. These demographics will always represent aggregate information and will never identify a specific user.

Access to your information

Depending on options specified by school representatives for the school version of Castle Learning Online, users have the ability to correct or change some or all the information specified when the subscription was created.

Security

All personal information is stored on servers at a location designed specifically to ensure that no unauthorized individuals have access to the server or its data.

Castle Software Privacy Policy statement changes

Changes to this privacy policy will be posted on the CastleSoftware.com and CastleLearning.com web sites. By using these web sites, you signify your assent to Castle's Privacy Policy Statement. If you do not agree to this statement, please do not use the Castle web sites or its Services. Your continued use of these web sites or its Services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Contact Castle Software, Inc.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or this Web site, please contact us:
Castle Software, Inc.
626 Layport Drive, Suite 100
Sebastian, FL 32958
800-345-7606