Wizerme Privacy and Cookie Policy

Last Revised: July 14, 2020

Welcome to the Wizer.me Platform a unique, user-friendly education platform for teachers ("Wizer.me Platform" or  “Platform” )  brought to you (“you”, “user”, or “teacher”) by Wizerme L.S (2019) Ltd. (“Wizerme”, “we”, “us”, “our” or the "Company").

We respect the privacy of our users and are committed to protect the personal information that users share with us in connection with the use of the Wizer.me Platform .

This Privacy and Cookie Policy (the "Privacy Policy") is intended to describe our practices regarding the information we may collect from you when you use the Wizer.me Platform , the manners in which we may use such information, and the options and rights available to you.

Capitalized terms which are not defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in our Terms and Conditions available at https://wizer.me/tos (the "Terms"), which this Privacy Policy is incorporated thereto by reference.

Your Consent

BY ACCESSING AND/OR USING THE WIZER.ME PLATFORM, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, INCLUDING TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION (AS DEFINED BELOW). IF YOU DISAGREE TO ANY TERM PROVIDED HEREIN, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL, ACCESS, OR USE THE WIZER.ME PLATFORM IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, AND PROMPTLY ERASE AND REMOVE THE WIZER.ME PLATFORM AND ANY PART THEREOF FROM YOUR SYSTEMS.

Personal Identifiable Information from Children

In accordance with COPPA we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under the age of 13. You represent and warrant that you are a teacher or school administrator or otherwise authorized by a school or district to sign up on behalf of students for the Service. You further represent and warrant that you are solely responsible for complying with COPPA, meaning that you may either act as the parent’s agent and consent to the collection of the children’s information on the parent’s behalf or obtain advance written consent from all parents or guardians whose children under 13 will be accessing the Service. When obtaining consent, you must provide parents and guardians with the Terms and this Privacy Policy. You must keep all consents on file and provide them to us if we request them. If you are a teacher, you represent and warrant that you have permission and authorization from your school and/or district to use the Services as part of your curriculum, and for purposes of COPPA compliance, you represent and warrant that you are entering into these Terms on behalf of your school and/or district. If you are a parent, guardian, and teacher and believe that your child or student has provided Wizerme with Personal Identifiable Information, you should notify us at support@wizer.me so that we may immediately delete the information from our servers.

Please note: you are not obligated by law to provide us with any Personal Information. You hereby acknowledge and agree that you are providing us with Personal Information at your own free will, for the purposes described below, and that we may retain such Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any applicable laws and regulations.

Information Collected from Users

We may collect two types of data and information from our Users:

(1) The first type of information is un-identified and non-identifiable information pertaining to a User(s), which may be made available or gathered via the User's use of the Wizer.me Platform ( “ Non-personal Information ” ). We are not aware of the identity of the User from which the Non-personal Information was collected . Non-personal Information which is being collected consists of technical information and aggregated usage information, and may contain, among other things, the activity of the User on the Wizer.me Platform , type of operation system, User's 'click-stream' on the Wizer.me Platform and/or any e-commerce websites operated by third parties (including Third Party Services, as such term is defined in the Terms), browser type, language and keyboard language, etc.

(2) The second type of information is individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or may with reasonable effort identify an individual, or may be of private or sensitive nature (“Personal Information”).

Personal Information which may be gathered consists of the following:

  • The User's IP address or other persistent user identifier, which is automatically provided by the User and used mainly for enhancing the User's experience and for geolocation personalization and security purposes, as further detailed below;
  • Any Personal Information provided voluntarily by the User via the Wizer.me Platform, such as the User's e-mail address in order to be contacted, the User's answers to questions presented to the User through the Wizer.me Platform, including the User’s full name and password, and/or other actions performed by the User in connection with the Wizer.me Platform;
  • Any Personal Information provided voluntarily by the User via their Third Party Service accounts;
  • Personal Information regarding Student Activity including timestamps and events for when a student accomplishes a particular assignment as designated by a User; and/or
  • Personal information regarding User’s transactions on the Marketplace.

For avoidance of doubt, any Non-personal Information connected or linked to any Personal Information shall be deemed as Personal Information as long as such connection or linkage exists.

We do not collect any Personal Information from you or related to you without your approval, which is obtained, inter alia , through your active acceptance to the Terms and this Privacy Policy.

How We Collect Information on Our Users

There are two main methods we use:

  • (1) We collect information through your use of the Wizer.me Platform . In other words, when you are using the Wizer.me Platform we are aware of it and may gather, collect and record the information relating to such usage, either independently or through the help of third-party services as detailed below.
  • (2) We collect information which you provide us voluntarily . For example, we collect Personal Information which you voluntarily provide when you contact us directly. We may also collect Personal Information you voluntarily provide through integration with your Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Gmail and/or Edmodo account.

We store the Personal Information either independently or through the help of our authorized third-party service providers as detailed below.

 Purposes of the Collection of Information

We collect Non-personal and Personal Information in order to provide and operate the Wizer.me Platform , including for statistical and research purposes; to enable us to further develop, customize and improve the Wizer.me Platform based on Users common preferences and uses; and to enable us to provide our Users with a better user experience, with more relevant features and other materials, and with technical assistance and support.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. Their Privacy Policies can be viewed at: Bluesnap https://home.bluesnap.com/privacy-policy/

PayPal https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Wizerme will not share any Personal Information it collects with any third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may disclose Personal Information in the following cases: (a) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (b) to enforce this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (d) to respond to User's support requests; (e) to respond to claims that any content available on the Site violates the rights of third-parties; (f) to respond to claims that contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; (g) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Wizerme, its Users, or the general public; (h) when Wizerme or any of its affiliates is undergoing any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of all or substantially all of its assets; (i) to collect, hold and/or manage your Personal Information through the Wizerme 's authorized third party service providers, as reasonable for business purposes, which may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction; (j) pursuant to your explicit approval prior to the disclosure; or (k) to cooperate with third parties for the purpose of enhancing the User's experience.

For avoidance of doubt, Wizerme may transfer and disclose to third parties or otherwise use Non-personal Information at its sole discretion.

Deletion of Personal Information

If for any reason you wish us to delete your Personal Information stored with us and identifying to you, please send us an e-mail to:  support@wizer.me and we will make reasonable efforts to delete any such Personal Information pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.  Note that unless you instruct us otherwise we may retain your Personal Information for a period of 7 years or a longer period as reasonably and legally required.  A parent of any student may contact us to delete the Personal Information of their child and we will make reasonable efforts to delete any such Personal Information pursuant to any applicable privacy laws

Security

We take great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Wizer.me Platform , and the User's Personal Information. The Personal Information is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides advanced security features. The Company employs industry standard procedures and policies to ensure the safety of its Users’ Personal Information, and prevent unauthorized use of any such information. However, we do not and cannot guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur.

Third Party Software/Service

While using the Wizer.me Platform we may be using third party software and/or service, in order to collect and/or process the information detailed herein. Such software includes without limitation, Google Analytics, which privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html [a]; and Amazon Web Services, which privacy policy is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.

Wizer.me uses YouTube API Services as an online resource to which our website may link or otherwise reference that you may access through our website (“Third-Party Services”). Therefore, our website utilizes the YouTube API Services, and you are agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service ,The Google Privacy Policy and Youtube API Services Terms of Service  when engaging YouTube content and services through our website .

Third Party Services

While using the Wizer.me Platform you may encounter links to Third Party Content and/or Third Party Services. Please be advised that such Third Party Services are independent from the Company, and if you click on any of these third party links, these Third Party Services may use cookies and other web-tracking technologies to collect non-personal and/or personal information about you.  We assume no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to privacy matters or any other legal matter with respect to such services. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies and the terms of use or service of such third parties, as their terms, not ours, will apply to any of your interactions with such third parties.

Cookies

When you access or use the Wizer.me Platform, Wizerme may use industry-wide technologies such as "cookies" (or similar technologies), which store certain information on your computer ("Local Storage") and which will allow us to enable automatic activation of certain features, and make your service experience much more convenient and effortless. The cookies used by the Wizer.me Platform are created per session, do not include any information about you other than your session key, and are removed as your session ends. It is easy to prohibit the Local Storage. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer's hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, if you block or erase cookies your online experience may be limited.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
  • Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
  • Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
  • Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

Wizerme undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

  • Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
  • Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
  • Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
  • Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
  • Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EE

Data Protection Officer Contact Information

Wizerme L.S (2015) Ltd

Attention: Data Protection Officer

privacy-GDPR@wizer.me

Your Rights under the CCPA

Wizerme takes great care to protect the information you provide us. We do not rent or sell Personal Information that we collect from Users with third parties. We also take great measures to restrict any collection or disclosure of Personal Information from students. Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

  • The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
  • The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes.
  • The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following: (1) The categories of Personal Data collected (2) The sources from which the Personal Data was collected (3) The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data (4) Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data (5) The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You.
  • The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.
  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer's rights, including by: (1) Denying goods or services to You (3) Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties (4) Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You (5) Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, You can email us at privacy@wizer.me.

The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Wizerme reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and at its sole discretion, so please re-visit this page frequently. We will provide notice of substantial changes of this Privacy Policy on the homepage of the Site and/or we will notify you via the Wizer.me Platform regarding such changes. Such substantial changes will take effect seven (7) days after such notice was provided on any of the above mentioned methods. Otherwise, all other changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” date and your continued use of the Wizer.me Platform after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Privacy Policy, you are welcome to send us an e-mail at : support@wizer.me and we will make an effort to reply within a reasonable time-frame.