Privacy Policy

Last Modified: January 3, 2023

Table of Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
    1. Information You Provide to Us
    2. Information Shared Through Communication on the Platform
    3. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
  3. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
  4. Disclosure of Your Information
  5. Accessing and Correcting Your Information
  6. Your State Privacy Rights
  7. Data Security
  8. Application Interactions with Device
  1. Policies Specific to Children Under the Age of 13
    1. Information We Collect from Children
    2. Information We Collect Directly
    3. How We Use Your Child’s Information
    4. Our Practices for Disclosing Children’s Information
    5. Communication on the Platform
    6. Accessing and Correcting Your Child’s Personal Information
    7. Operators That Collect or Maintain Information from Children
  2. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
  3. Contact Information

I. Introduction

Educational Justice Inc. (“Educational Justice,” the “Organization,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Educational Justice website (“EJ Website,”) web portal (“EJ Web Portal,”) and mobile application (“EJ Connect,”) (together the “Platform”).

This policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On the EJ Website;
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Platform;
  • Through messages and information you submit to the platform or transmit to other users of the Platform (collectively, “User Contributions”);
  • Through downloads or use of our mobile applications from the EJ Website, the iOS App Store, the Google Play App store, or any other source.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through the Platform.

Please read this policy carefully. Familiarize yourself with our policies describing how we treat your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Platform. By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to this privacy policy.

This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). We will notify you of changes to the privacy policy by email to the email address specified in your account and through message on the EJ Connect application or EJ Web Portal. Your continued use of the Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

II. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Platform. This includes information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, and telephone number;
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as name of Primary or Secondary school and other demographic data;
  • Such as data that helps improve our program, like report cards; and
  • Such as User Contributions to monitor proper use of the Platform.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us; and
  • Through your User Contributions when messaging on the Platform.

a. Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Platform may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on the EJ Website, EJ Web Portal or EJ Connect App. This includes information provided at the time of registering, posting material, or requesting further services.
  • Information required at the time of registering on the Platform includes:First and Last name of parent or legal guardian (“Parent”) if applicable;
    • First and Last name of user;
    • Telephone number;
    • Email address;
    • Home addresses; and
    • Name of Primary or Secondary School.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence with us and within the Platform;
  • Your responses to requests for further information that we might request in order to make the program or your tutoring experience better (for instance: grade information to improve your scores or help Educational Justice gather statistics).

b. Information Shared Through Communication on the Platform

You also may provide information to be transmitted to other users of the Platform through messages and scheduling of tutoring sessions (“User Contributions”). These features allow users to chat, share files, images, or reading materials, and schedule tutoring sessions. The content of these chat messages is limited to plain text, emoji from the device’s operating system keyboard, .PNG, .JPEG, and .PDF files.

Educational Justice records and securely maintains these User Contributions. The content of these messages is only accessible to Educational Justice employees and agents, Parents of the user in the case of communications with middle-school aged users (“Scholars”), and our developer, MA Enterprise LLC.

You send User Contributions to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Platform with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

c. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

The platform does not automatically collect data or tracking information and does not use cookies.

III. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Platform are served by third parties including servers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies or other tracking technology to collect information about you when you use our Platform. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

IV. Disclosure of Your Information

With your consent, we may disclose your information for the purpose you provided it, or any other purpose disclosed by us at the time you provided the information.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this privacy policy to:

  • Educational Justice employees and agents; and
  • Contractors, volunteers, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Service https://educationaljustice.org/terms-of-service/ and other agreements.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Educational Justice, our customers, or others.

V. Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review your personal information by accessing your account. Information may be changed by request to Educational Justice at support@educationaljustice.org or by telephone number at (502) 709-8719. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you choose to leave the program your account will be deactivated. Your information will then remain accessible only to Educational Justice employees and agents. You may request to have that information deleted pending review by Educational Justice. Educational Justice may retain a record that you participated in the program.

VI. Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about consumer privacy rights in other states and how to exercise them, visit https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/state-laws-related-to-internet-privacy.aspx.

VII. Data Security

We have contracted with Azure web services and implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any information will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information to other users of the Platform through messaging.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Platform. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Platform.

VIII. Application Interactions with Device

The EJ Connect application has certain interactions with the device on which it is running. These include that the EJ Connect application can access the local file directory of the device and can push notifications and alarms to the device home, notification, and lock screens. The device may provide the user with buttons for adjusting these options.

IX. Policies Specific to Children Under the Age of 13

The audience of Educational Justice’s EJ Connect application includes children under the age of 13 (“Child” or “Children”). Guidelines from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store require applications whose target audience includes Children to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). COPPA has requirements about the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information from Children.

This section describes the COPPA standards Educational Justice applies to information we collect from Children.

Before collecting, using, or disclosing information from Children, Educational Justice must obtain verifiable consent from a Child’s Parent or legal guardian (as used in this section, “Parents” or “you”). Educational Justice obtains that consent during the initial admission process for our program.

COPPA also requires notice of what information Educational Justice collects from Children, how it uses such information, and its disclosure practices for such information. The notice informs Parents of the limited ways that we use Children’s information so that they can decide whether to agree to the collection of their Child’s information. Parents can consent by signing a provided COPPA disclosure and verbally confirming their understanding and agreement with an Educational Justice employee. Children cannot use the Platform without this consent.

This section notifies Parents of:

  • The types of information we collect from Children;
  • How we use the information we collect;
  • Our practices for disclosing that information;
  • Our practices for notifying and obtaining Parents’ consent when we collect personal information from Children; and
  • How a Parent may revoke consent.

This section only applies to Children under the age of 13 and supplements the other provisions of this privacy policy. Only the other provisions of this privacy policy apply to teens and adults.

a. Information We Collect from Children

We only collect as much information about a Child as is reasonably necessary for the Child to participate in our program, and we do not condition their participation on the disclosure of more personal information than is reasonably necessary for the admission and matchmaking processes. This section explains the information we collect and the purpose of collection.

b. Information We Collect Directly

A Child must provide us with the following personal information to register with the Platform:

  • First and Last name of Parent or Guardian if applicable;
  • First and Last name of user;
  • Telephone number;
  • Email address;
  • Home addresses; and
  • Name of Primary or Secondary School.

We may request additional information from your Child, but any additional information is optional. We specify whether information is required or optional when we request it.

We enable users to communicate with others on or through the Platform through chat, and the nature of this features allows Children to disclose personal information about themselves. Educational Justice monitors the content of these communications, but we do not control the actions of users or third parties with whom your Child shares their information. We encourage Parents to educate their Children about safe internet use and to monitor their Children’s use of social features.

c. How We Use Your Child’s Information

We use the personally identifiable information we collect from your Child to:

  • Determine whether they are eligible for the program;
  • Register them for the program;
  • Communicate with them about activities or features of the Platform; and
  • Connect them with tutors.

We use non-identifiable information we collect for writing grants, newsletters, annual reports and other public communications about the Organization.

d. Our Practices for Disclosing Children’s Information

We do not share or transfer Children’s personal information other than as described in this section.

We may disclose aggregated information about users and information that does not identify any individual for grant writing, annual reports, or other public communications.

We may disclose Children’s personal information:

  • To third parties who support the internal operations of our Platform and who are bound by contractual or other obligations to use the information only for such purpose and to keep the information confidential;
  • If we are required to do so by law or legal process, such as to comply with any court order or subpoena or to respond to any government or regulatory request;
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Educational Justice, our customers or others, including:
    • To protect the safety of a child;
    • To protect the safety and security of the Platform;
    • To enable us to take precautions against liability; or
    • To law enforcement agencies or for an investigation related to public safety;
  • For public communications only when we have received a Parent’s prior consent for this specific disclosure.
  • If we have received a Parent’s prior consent for a specific disclosure.

e. Communication on the Platform

There are some features of the Platform which allow Children to chat and share files, images, or reading materials. The content of these messages is only accessible to Educational Justice employees and agents, Parents of the user in the case of middle-school aged users (“Scholars”), and our developer, MA Enterprise LLC. The content of these chat messages is limited to plain text, emoji from the device’s operating system keyboard, .PNG, .JPEG, and .PDF files. The Platform also provides users with the ability to schedule tutoring sessions through a calendar function.

We encourage parents to educate their Children about safety online and to carefully monitor their Children’s use of social features to ensure they do not disclose their personal information through them.

f. Accessing and Correcting Your Child’s Personal Information

At any time, you may review personal information we maintain about your child by logging into your Child’s account and visiting the account profile page. At any time, you may require us to correct the personal information, refuse to permit us from further collecting or using the Child’s information, or request that we deactivate and/or delete your child’s account and the information in it.

You can request a change to your child’s personal information or request the deactivation and/or deletion of your child’s account by contacting us at support@educationaljustice.org or by telephone at (502) 709-8719.

If you choose to remove your Child from the program their account will be deactivated. The information will then remain accessible only to Educational Justice employees and agents. You may request to have that information deleted pending review by Educational Justice. Educational Justice may retain a record that your Child participated in the program.

g. Operators That Collect or Maintain Information from Children

Educational Justice contracts with Microsoft Azure for web services to host the platform and with MA Enterprise LLC. to build and run the platform. Personal information may be shared with these third parties for those purposes. Contracts between Educational Justice and these third parties prevent the disclosure or use of your Child’s personal information.

No other third-party operators may collect or maintain personal information from Children through the Platform.

If you have questions about third-party operators or need to contact them about your child’s personal information, you can reach out to Educational Justice at support@educationaljustice.org or by telephone at (502) 709-8719 to connect you with our third-party operators.

X. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and through a message on the EJ Connect application or EJ Web Portal. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the Platform and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

XI. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us by email at support@educationaljustice.org or via our telephone number: (502) 709-8719.