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K12Buy.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

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What This Privacy Policy Covers

  • This policy covers how K12Buy.com treats personal information that K12Buy.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of K12Buy.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that K12Buy.com does not own or control, or to people that K12Buy.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

     General

  • K12Buy.com collects personal information when you register with K12Buy.com, when you use K12Buy.com products or services, or when you visit K12Buy.com pages or the pages of certain K12Buy.com partners. K12Buy.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, year of birth, zip code, occupation, and personal interests. Once you register with K12Buy.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  • K12Buy.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.
  • K12Buy.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser.
  • K12Buy.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the shopping and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • K12Buy.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you or your company with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with K12Buy.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help K12Buy.com communicate with you about offers from K12Buy.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
    • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of K12Buy.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • We transfer information about you if K12Buy.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, K12Buy.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • K12Buy.com works with vendors, partners, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Cookies

  • K12Buy.com may set and access K12Buy.com cookies on your computer.
  • K12Buy.com may use web beacons to access K12Buy.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with K12Buy.com products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

     General

  • You can edit certain information in your K12Buy.com Account, however, most information in your account is assigned and maintained buy your supervisor.
  • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the K12Buy.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the K12Buy.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your K12Buy.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
  • Your supervisor can delete your K12Buy.com account by visiting our Staff setup page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
  • To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security at K12Buy.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • K12Buy.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your K12Buy.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

  • If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at:

Privacy Policy Issues
c/o K12Buy.com Inc.
PO Box 6410
Ellicott City, MD 21042
By fax: (410) 442-5695
By email: copyright@K12Buy.com

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