Privacy Policy

Happy Teacher Professional Development Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for using the Happy Teacher Website. Happy Teacher knows you care about how your personal information is used and shared.

We do not ask for information unless we need it. Happy Teacher is the sole owner of the information collected on this Website. Except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, we only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you.

  1. We’re committed to creating a safe and secure online environment for you.
  2. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
  3. We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us.

Overview

Happy Teacher Professional Development (“Happy Teacher, “our”, “us”, or “we”) is a Colorado corporation. We use the information we collect to provide you with a better experience and fulfill our mission of providing educational classes for teachers.

We understand how important privacy is to you, and we endeavor to protect your privacy and to creating a safe and secure environment. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, shared, and protected by Happy Teacher when you use (or access) our website at www.happyteacherpd.com (“Website”) and our online services or classes (collectively, our “Service”).

The privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Policy are for this Website only. If you link to other websites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites. The policy herein does not apply to the practices of companies that Happy Teacher does not own or control or to people that Happy Teacher does not employ or manage even if you are linked to sites for payment of the tuition or attending classes.

Collection of information

We collect information in the following ways, depending on your use of the Service and your account settings:

  1. We collect information from you directly, such as when you create an account and purchase a class, communicate with us or otherwise provide information during your use of the Service.
  2. We collect some information automatically, such as information about your use of the Service and the devices you use to access the Service. We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information as explained in our cookie section.

Examples of information we may collect includes:

  1. Account registration information (e.g. username and email)
  2. Information about your browser or device, and general location

Use of information

Happy Teacher uses information collected for the purposes of:

  1. Providing the Service
  2. Personalizing your experience
  3. Communicating with you about your account and our Service. If you are a registered user of the Website and have supplied your email address, Happy Teacher may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new available information, products and services, or to solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Happy Teacher. All emails and newsletters from this Website allow you to opt out of further mailings at any time.
  4. Understanding and improving our Service, and developing new or improved educational offerings
  5. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our Website, and their website access preferences. Happy Teacher visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our Website, with the drawback that certain features of Happy Teacher’s Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

We may also use de-identified or aggregated information for product development, research, analytics and other purposes, including for the purpose of analyzing, improving or marketing our Service, for demonstrating the impact of our Service, or conducting educational research.

Sharing and disclosure of information

Happy Teacher protects the personal information you provide to us. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. This section explains circumstances in which we may share personal information with third parties.

We may share personal information:

  1. With Vendors, consultants and other service providers working on our behalf and to perform business functions.
  2. With other users that are associated with your account, such as a teacher.
  3. Certificate information may be shared with boards of education in approved states upon request
  4. In connection with business transfers (due to mergers and acquisitions).
  5. We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforce government request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service including of potential violation thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights of property or safety of Happy Teacher, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Transparency and your choice

We strive to put you in control of the choices and decisions regarding your personal information.

We understand that your personal information is important to you, and that is why you have choices in how your personal information is used and shared. We want you to have access to your personal information, so that you can help keep it as accurate as possible.

If you register for an account, you can:

  1. Limit optional information you provide
  2. Choose whether you wish to share personal information with (and use) third party services
  3. Choose whether you wish to receive optional email
  4. Update, correct, and delete your account information through your account settings

Your account settings

We want you to have access to your information, so that you can help keep it as accurate as possible. If you register and provide Happy Teacher with information, you may update, correct, or delete your account and information at any time by reviewing your profile information and preferences on your account settings page.

Security of your personal information

Some of the ways in which we protect your personal information include:

We use reasonable organizational and technical safeguards designed to help protect the privacy and security of your personal information

Some of the ways in which we encourage you to protect your personal information include:

  1. We encourage you to create a username that does not reveal your identity
  2. We encourage you to create (and keep) a strong password

We use reasonable safeguards to protect our Service and your personal information, but no security measures are perfect.

Links to Third Parties

The Service will link to websites operated by other entities or individuals. If we include links to third parties and you click on that link, you will be leaving Happy Teacher and the Privacy Policy and security measures of that third party applies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

As Happy Teacher’s products and services change from time to time, this Privacy Policy is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason. The date of the last revision to the Privacy Policy will be indicated by the "Effective Date" at the bottom of this page. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Service to stay informed of our privacy practices.

We do not track

We do not track visitors to the website over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore we do not respond to DNT signals.

Contact Happy Teacher

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at

  1. Website
  2. Mail
  3. Applicant information

This Applicant information notice supplements our Privacy Policy in connection with applicants. If you apply for a teaching position with Happy Teacher via an online application or recruiting site, we will obtain the information you choose to provide in your application for that purpose. For example, we collect professional or employment-related information that typically includes details regarding your employment history, experience, and qualifications; as well as education information, including degrees obtained and academic records.