Disclosure and Policy Statement
Using our Services
You must follow the policies of the services (“Services”) made available to you within the Mobiles for Education (mEducation) Alliance website. Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights to the content you access. You may not use content from our Services for any other purpose unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. It is not permissible to remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services. Content is the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available on this Web site. We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we always review content. In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt out of some of those communications.
Your Content in our Services
Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give the mEducation Alliance a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the website Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services. When you submit content you also simultaneously confirm and warrant that you have the required authority to grant the license.
Copyright Notice
This notice applies only to this website and not to web sites which are owned and operated by other entities but which may be displayed as a link on this website.
If copyright is attached to any material (including graphics and photos) on this website, permission to use that material must be requested from the owner of the copyright. In the absence of a copyright, the information on this website is considered in the public domain and no permission is required to use, copy, reproduce and distribute said information. Appropriate reference to the author or source, including mEducationalliance.org, is requested.
Limitation of Liability
You understand and agree that the mEducation Alliance shall in no event be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages. This shall include, but not be limited to, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, business reputation or goodwill, loss of programs or information or other intangible loss arising out of the use of or the inability to use the service, or information, or any permanent or temporary cessation of such service or access to information, or the deletion or corruption of any content or information, or the failure to store any content or information. The above limitation shall apply whether the mEducation Alliance has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of such damages.
Endorsement Disclaimer
Our website has links to many other organizations, institutions, federal agencies, and private organizations. You are subject to that site’s privacy policy when you leave our site. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, process, service, manufacturer, or company does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the mEducation Alliance and the Alliance is not responsible for the content of any “off-site” web page.
Information Disclaimer
It is not the mEducation Alliance’s intention to provide specific advice to users of the web site. Instead we provide users with information to help them better understand the field and the current approaches related to mobile technologies for improving learning outcomes, particularly in low resource environments. The mEducation Alliance does not make any warranty, expressed or implied, including warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title and warranties of fitness for particular purposes, with respect to content available from this website.
Change to the Terms
The mEducation Alliance reserves the right to modify these Terms from time to time at our sole discretion and without any notice. Changes to our Terms become effective on the date they are posted and your continued use of our Services after any changes to Terms will signify your agreement to be bound by them.
Privacy Notice
The following privacy policy explains how we treat your data and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our Services, you agree that we can use such data in accordance with our privacy policies.
Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our Web site links to other organizations’ sites, federal agency sites and occasionally to private organizations. Once you leave the primary meducationalliance.org site, you are subject to the privacy policy for the site(s) you are visiting.
We do not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) about you during your visit to mEducation Alliance Web sites unless you choose to provide it to us. We do, however, collect some data about your visit to our Web site (see “Types of Information Collected” below) to help us better understand how the public uses the site and how to make it more helpful. We collect information from visitors who read, browse, and/or download information from our Web site. We never collect information for commercial marketing or any purpose unrelated to the mEducation Alliance mission and goals.
When visitors send email messages containing personal information, you have voluntarily provided potentially personally identifiable information. The mEducation Alliance will use this information to respond to your request. Only designated staff members requiring access to the emails to respond may view or answer them. The mEducation Alliance will not use the information for any other purposes.
Types of Information Collected
When you browse through this web site, certain information about your visit can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following type of information about your visit:
- Domain from which you access the Internet
- IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when surfing the Web)
- Operating system and information about the browser used when visiting the site
- Date and time of your visit
- Pages you visited
- Address of the Web site that connected you to the mEducation Web site (such as google.com or bing.com)
We use this information to measure the number of visitors to our site and its various sections and to help make our site more useful to visitors.
How the Site Collects Information
This website may use a variety of different measurement software tools and specific information regarding information collection can be found on their respective web sites. The mEducationAlliance.org web site primarily uses Google Analytics measurement software to collect the information in the bulleted list in the Types of Information Collected section above. Google Analytics collects information automatically and continuously. No personally identifiable information is collected.
How the Site Uses Cookies
When you visit the website, our server may generate a piece of text known as a “cookie” to place on your computer. The cookie allows the server to “remember” specific information about your visit while you are connected. The cookie makes it easier for you to use the dynamic features of Web pages. Cookies from this Web site only collect information about your browser’s visit to the site; they do not collect personally identifiable information about you. There are two types of cookies, single session (temporary) and multi-session (persistent). Session cookies last only as long as your web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer for longer periods. Session Cookies: We use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through our site. These cookies let our server know that you are continuing a visit to our site. Persistent Cookies: We use “persistent cookies” to enable Google Analytics to differentiate between new and returning mEducationAlliance.org visitors. Persistent cookies remain on your computer between visits to mEducationAlliance.org until they expire.
How to Opt Out or Disable Cookies
If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies placed on your computer, you can disable them using your Web browser. If you opt out of cookies, you will still have access to all information and resources at mEducationAlliance.org. Instructions for disabling or opting out of cookies in the most popular browsers are located at www.usa.gov/optout_instructions.shtml. Please note that by following the instructions to opt-out of cookies, you will disable cookies from all sources, not just those from this website.
How Personal Information is Protected
However, if you choose to receive alerts or eNews, we collect your email address to complete the subscription process.
When you initiate certain actions such as, (a) sending an e-mail message or registering on the site, (b) requesting information in paper or electronic form, (c) completing a questionnaire, customer satisfaction survey, or research study, etc., you have chosen to provide us with personally identifiable information. The mEducation Alliance will maintain the information you provide only as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. If you decide to send us personally identifying information, such as in an e-mail, that information may be subject to disclosure. It will be handled in accordance with the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act, which restricts our use of it, yet permits certain disclosures. We do not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information we receive to any outside parties, unless required for law enforcement or statute. For further information about this privacy policy, please contact the mEducation Alliance.
