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Terms of Use

Last Updated: December 18, 2023.

I. Introduction

Terms of Use

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I. Introduction

These Terms of Use form an agreement (“Agreement”) between you and the Buck Institute for Education doing business as PBLWorks (hereinafter, “PBLWorks”, “us”, “we”, or “our”), and it outlines important terms that you will agree to as a result of your using websites located at: pblworks.org and/or my.pblworks.org via your computer or mobile device, including any PBLWorks mobile application (hereinafter collectively referred to in the singular as “the Site”).

When you visit our Site or create an account to access PBLWorks.org (“PBLWorks”), you will have access to certain resources and services, including, but not limited to, the creation of educational projects or plans using PBLWorks supplied modules or content, access to online educational sessions, the option to participate in online interactions, share educational projects or educational plans with a community of users, and in some instances, obtain educational credit (hereinafter, collectively the “Services”).

In addition to your agreement to be bound by this Agreement, you also agree to be bound by PBLWorks’s corresponding Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, the terms of which are incorporated by reference.

Please read the rules contained in this Agreement carefully. By visiting the Site, and/or downloading, using or registering to use our Services, you agree to comply with these rules.

II. Changes to the Agreement

We will make changes to this Agreement from time to time. Any material changes will take effect immediately for new users and upon the expiration of thirty days after notification for current users. Any use of the Site, resources or Services after the 30-day notice period constitutes your acceptance of any change. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment the current Services, including the release of new Services, shall be subject to this Agreement.

III. Account Registration and Fees

  1. User Accounts

The Site allows for the creation of accounts (known as “User Accounts”). The creation of a User Account will allow you to access different services and features on the Site. Access to some services and features require payment of an annual subscription fee, which is non-refundable.

  1. Personal Information Provided

In order to create a User Account, you must provide certain Personal Information as defined in the Privacy Policy portion of this Agreement. All Personal Information will be subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy.

You agree and represent that all Personal Information provided by you at the time of registration is accurate and up-to-date. You may not impersonate, imitate or pretend to be somebody else when registering and/or setting up a User Account. If you provide any Personal Information that is untrue or inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if PBLWorks suspects that your Personal Information is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, then PBLWorks may, in its sole discretion, suspend, terminate, or refuse future access to the Services or your User Account.

If any of your User Account information changes or if you have reason to believe that your User Account is no longer secure, you must update your account by using the appropriate update mechanism on the Site, if available. PBLWorks is not responsible for any unauthorized use of your User Account. If you believe there has been unauthorized use of your User Account, you must notify PBLWorks immediately. You are responsible and liable for any conduct on the Site under your User Account.

Only the individual assigned to the User Account is permitted to use the password protected Services within PBLWorks. If you loan or disclose your user name and password or otherwise knowingly or unknowingly allow unauthorized access to the Services we reserve the right to terminate access to the Services or your User Account.

  1. Inactive Accounts

Upon non-payment of subscription fees when due, your User Account will be downgraded to an account that does not have access to any of the paid portions of the Site or Services.

In the event that a user fails to renew its annual subscription payment and the User Account is downgraded, PBLWorks will preserve the User Generated Content associated with that User Account for either a commercially reasonable time or a period of three years (at its option) during which time the user will be able to access the content for review and download. There is no guarantee that PBLWorks owned content will remain the same or will be preserved as the PBLWorks content appeared at the time that an account has been downgraded.

IV. Intellectual Property Ownership

PBLWorks owns, or is the licensee to, all right, title and interest in and to the Site and all PBLWorks created materials and PBLWorks created content associated with the Services or its products such as PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics ("Materials"), including all rights under patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, or unfair competition law, and any and all other proprietary rights, including all applications, renewals, extensions and restorations thereof.

The trademarks appearing on the Site are owned by PBLWorks or are trademarks of their respective owners and our reference to them does not imply or indicate any approval or endorsement by their owners unless such approval or endorsement by their owners is expressly made.

By accessing the Materials, utilizing the Services or visiting the Site you agree that you will not violate any of PBLWorks’s intellectual property rights. You will not distribute, film, record (including through the use of transcription applications or artificial intelligence tools), circulate, copy, cause to be copied, or otherwise replicate the Materials for use other than within the Services or Site, or as otherwise set forth herein. You will not create any works that incorporate the Materials except as expressly permitted in Section V of this Agreement or as outlined on the Site. You may use the Materials only for your own personal, non-commercial use. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading the Materials.

You will not copy, modify, adapt, translate, publish, reproduce, decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Site and you will not remove, obscure, or alter PBLWorks’s copyright notice or any copyright notice fixed by a third party content owner, trademarks or other proprietary rights notices that may be affixed to or contained within the Site.

  1. Third Party Video Content

While much of the video content on the Site is created and owned by PBLWorks, some third party video content is used and displayed on the Site under license to PBLWorks. If you see a video on our site, don’t assume that our limited license to you as outlined in Section VI will apply. To the extent possible, all third party content has been identified as such.

  1. Creative Commons Licenses

Select material on the Site is designated with a specific Creative Commons License and you may use that material as provided in the applicable Creative Commons License. Learn more about the different types of licenses, license deeds and license code by visiting http://creativecommons.org/licenses/. For any work not designated as free to use under a creative commons license, contact PBLWorks as outlined in Section XXI to seek written permission to use such works.

V. PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics and User Generated Content

As part of the Services, PBLWorks will provide the user with access to various type of content, including but not limited to, projects, project forms, strategy guides, modules, rubrics, student handouts and/or online product planners created and owned by PBLWorks (“PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics”). Subject to the terms of Section IV, users may download and use these PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics “as is” for their own personal use OR users may: (i) create certain desired changes to tailor his or her own project to his or her own needs using PBLWorks’s Project Forms and Rubrics; or (ii) create their own projects using the Project Forms and Rubrics as only a guide for their own personal use.

  1. User Generated Content

The PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics contain blanks or spaces that a user can “fill in” with their own content. The content that a user “fills in” or otherwise adds to the PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics shall be considered “User Generated Content.” PBLWorks will not claim ownership to such User Generated Content.

You represent and warrant that you own or have a license, right or other type of permission to use and exploit such User Generated Content in all manner contemplated herein. You agree to indemnify and hold PBLWorks, and its affiliates and assigns harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses, and attorney’s fees made against us by any third party arising out of or in connection with your User Generated Content.

  1. Permitted Uses of User Projects

Once a user creates a project, he or she may either: (i) save and use these projects within PBLWorks; (ii) share their projects or plans saved within PBLWorks with other users; or (iii) download his or her own project to their own personal computers or other desired location for his or her own personal use.

  • Sharing Projects Within PBLWorks

PBLWorks encourages users to create and share their projects and to engage with the community of other users of its Services. Users will also be allowed to display, transmit and/or exchange information, ideas, opinions, photographs, images, video, creative works or other information, messages, transmissions or material with each other within PBLWorks.org and with PBLWorks about the shared projects or plans.

  • Downloading Projects and BIE Project Forms and Rubrics

PBLWorks allows users to download the projects that he or she creates onto his or her own computer or other similar location for their own personal use. If the downloaded projects include PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics or if the user’s projects were created using the PBLWorks Project Forms and Rubrics as a guide, the user may NOT sell or otherwise use the downloaded project for any commercial purpose.

VI. Grant of Limited Licenses

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, including the terms of Section IV, PBLWorks grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, royalty-free, revocable, world-wide limited license, subject to certain limitations outlined herein, to use the Materials and to access and use the Site and Services using a Web browser.

The user hereby grants to PBLWorks, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, world-wide license in and to your User Generated Content. Such license of your User Generated Content will allow PBLWorks to use, reproduce, transmit, copy, exhibit, display, print, publish, and otherwise use the User Generated Content.

VII. Site Availability and Updates

While PBLWorks strives to ensure that the Site and the Services are available as close to 99% of the time as possible, it cannot guarantee that the Site and the Services will be available for use at any given time.

PBLWorks acknowledges that it may need to perform maintenance activities for the Site and the Services as may be necessary or appropriate from time to time, including bug fixes, software updates, feature updates, and the addition of new PBLWorks forms, modules, and rubrics. In most instances, there will be no interruption to the functionality of the Site or Services.

If PBLWorks reasonably determines that maintenance activities will require an unavailability or outage of the Services or the Site for an excess of 3 consecutive business days, PBLWorks will provide a notice of scheduled downtime on the Site at least one week before the scheduled outage.

PBLWorks will use commercially reasonable efforts to perform routine scheduled maintenance during non-business hours. In the event that the Site or the Services are unavailable due to technical reasons, force majeure, or for scheduled maintenance or downtime, PBLWorks shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that such downtime will be as minimal as possible.

VIII. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE USING THE SITE AND SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", PBLWORKS AND ITS AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTEE OR REPRESENTATION, WHETHER ORAL, IN WRITING, OR IN ELECTRONIC FORM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN OR PROVIDED BY THE SITE OR SERVICES. SUBJECT TO SECTION VII ABOVE, PBLWORKS AND ITS AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ACCESS TO THE SITE OR SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR THAT THERE WILL BE NO FAILURES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OR LOSS OF TRANSMITTED INFORMATION, OR THAT NO VIRUSES WILL BE TRANSMITTED VIA THE SITE OR SERVICES. PBLWORKS ITS AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ALLEGEDLY SUSTAINED ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES VIA THE SITE OR OTHERWISE, THE SALE OR PURCHASE OF ANY GOODS OR MERCHANDISE, YOUR ACCESS TO OR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE SITE OR SERVICES, INCLUDING FOR VIRUSES ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE SITE OR SERVICES, YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SITE OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, MERCHANDISE, INFORMATION OR MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THE SITE, REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF CLAIM OR THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO RELEASE PBLWORKS ITS AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS FROM CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED (COLLECTIVELY, "CLAIMS"), ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES.

IX. INDEMNIFICATION

YOU WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS PBLWORKS, ITS AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS, SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES, FROM ANY CLAIM MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY DUE TO OR ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OUT OF YOUR CONDUCT OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AND SERVICES, ANY ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT, AND ANY ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. PBLWORKS RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT ITS OWN EXPENSE, TO ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL OF ANY MATTER SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU, BUT DOING SO WILL NOT EXCUSE YOUR INDEMNITY OBLIGATIONS.

X. Rules of Usage

You may not provide to or post any User Generated Content on or through the Site any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that constitutes junk mail, spam, advertising, and/or commercial offers. You may not repeat the same posting multiple times in a day or week. You agree not to use any obscene, indecent, or offensive language or to provide to or post on or through the Site any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is defamatory, abusive, bullying, harassing, racist, hateful, or violent.

You may not provide to or post any User Generated Content on or through the Site any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is encrypted, invades anyone’s privacy, or illustrates, references or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, federal, national or international law or regulation (e.g., drug use, solicitation of sex).

User Generated Content does not reflect the views of PBLWorks. PBLWorks does not have any obligation whatsoever to monitor, edit, or review any User Generated Content on the Site. PBLWorks will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing it to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

XI. Use by Minors and Children Under 13 Prohibited

The Site and the Services are directed to adults. They are not directed to minors or children under the age of 13. We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. This requirement will be posted wherever we collect data within the Site, such as during the registration process.

XII. FERPA

PBLWorks complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. While users are free to upload student programs or projects as part of their own User Generated Content, it is solely the user’s responsibility to ensure that there is no personally identifiable information about any student contained therein.

IN THE EVENT THAT YOU UPLOAD ANY STUDENT PROGRAMS, WORK SAMPLES, IMAGES, PROJECT MATERIALS OR PROJECTS, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS PBLWorks, AS WELL AS ITS AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS, FROM ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF THE UPLOADING OF ANY STUDENT PROGRAMS, WORK SAMPLES, IMAGES, PROJECT MATERIALS OR PROJECTS.

In the event that there is personal information about a student included as part of any User Generated Content, PBLWorks reserves the right to remove the content immediately and without notice to the user.

In the event that you notice the inclusion of any personal information that you believe may be that of a student under the age of 18 and in violation of FERPA, we ask that you notify PBLWorks by sending a description of where the personal information is located on the site to the email provided in Section XXI below.

XIII. Third Party Web sites

As part of the offered Services, you will be able to access third party sites, which provide their own services and content. We do not control those third-party services and content.  We encourage you to carefully review the terms and conditions of use of any such third party sites or applications.

In particular, PBLWorks uses Google’s Application Programming Interface (API) services to enable a feature that allows users to access and copy certain folders and files from certain authorized materials in the PBLW Google Drive cloud storage.  This “Folder Copy” tool and PBLWorks' use of and transfer to any other app of user information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Service User Data Policy, including the Limited Use Requirements.

PBLWorks' policies and procedures define requirements that prohibit the unauthorized use of data within our services. We are committed to maintaining the security and privacy of your user data. We encourage users to reference our Privacy Policy for information on our privacy policies regarding the use of PBLWorks Services and any third party materials or services.

XIV. Purchases

You may also elect to purchase items from third party Web sites accessed through the Site. At no time does PBLWorks act as an agent for such a sale. PBLWorks does not and will not process or retain any of your credit card information associated with any purchase from a third party site. Transactions for the sales of any such item shall be between the user and the third party seller, distributor, or manufacturer without any involvement of PBLWorks or its third party service providers. You agree that PBLWorks is not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to merchandise or products, featured or mentioned on third party sites. PBLWorks does not warrant any of the merchandise or products featured or mentioned on third party sites.

XV. Coursework with Universities or other Academic Institutions

While the coursework of any courses you are enrolled in will be available through the Site, the terms and conditions of any academic credit offered are governed by a separate third-party university and all terms of use associated with the website for that particular university or other academic institution, as well as all intellectual property ownership rules and guidelines for that university or other academic institution shall apply.

XVI. Notice of Infringement Claims

PBLWorks respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. PBLWorks has designated an agent to receive Notices of Infringement with the U.S. Copyright Office in conformity with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). That agent’s contact information is reproduced below. If you believe that your intellectual property has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your trademarks or other intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please contact PBLWorks as outlined below with the following information in a written notice in writing or electronically:

  1. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  2. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site, with enough detail that we may find it on the Site;
  3. Your address, telephone number and e-mail address;
  4. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;
  5. A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf;
  6. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest.

Please note that, because of security concerns, attachments cannot be accepted. Accordingly, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received or processed.

Please direct the information to:

Buck Institute for Education
Attn: Privacy Policy
3 Hamilton Landing
Suite 220
Novato, CA 94949
Email: notices@pblworks.org

XVII. Suspension of Access to the Site

PBLWorks has the right to terminate and/or suspend your ability to access the Site and the Services for any or no reason, without notice.

XVIII. Arbitration

You agree to arbitrate all Disputes between you and PBLWorks, its affiliates and assigns, except disputes relating to PBLWorks’s intellectual property rights. The term “Disputes” means any action or other controversy between you and PBLWorks concerning the Site, the Services or this Agreement, whether in contract, tort, warranty, statute or regulation, or other legal or equitable basis.

In the event of a Dispute, you much send written notice detailing the Dispute to PBLWorks at the address specified in Section XXI to determine whether the Dispute can be resolved immediately. If the Dispute cannot be resolved, you and PBLWorks shall settle the Dispute by binding arbitration before a neutral arbitrator in San Francisco, California whose decision will be binding except for a limited right of appeal under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules and its Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Each party shall bear its own costs.

XIX. Severability

If any provision of this Agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

XX. Waiver

No waiver of any provision of these terms by us shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision, and our failure to assert any right or provisions under these terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

XXI. Contact BIE

Please direct any inquiries or complaints as outlined in this Agreement to the below address:

Buck Institute for Education
Attn: Privacy Policy
3 Hamilton Landing
Suite 220
Novato, CA 94949
Email: notices@pblworks.org

If you do not agree to the above terms and conditions, you are forbidden from utilizing the Site or registering for the Services.

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 15, 2025. 

Welcome! The Buck Institute for Education, doing business as PBLWorks, including subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “PBLWorks“, “We”, “Us” or “Our”) offers products, services, tools, and research designed to build the capacity of K-12 teachers to design and facilitate quality project based learning for students. We deliver Our products and services, in part, by gathering information about Our customers and how they use Our offerings so that We can better understand more about You and Your project based learning needs. 

This Privacy Policy applies to all users of Our products and services (the “Service”) and anyone who visits Our website at www.pblworks.org and/or its subdomains, including any of Our web and mobile application(s) (hereinafter collectively referred to in the singular as “the Site”). By using the Service or Site (jointly the “Platform”), you (referred to as “You” or “Your”) agree to the collection and use of Your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • Contact information (e.g.,Your email address, first name, last name, address, city, state, and ZIP code): To communicate withYou and provide access to the Platform.
  • User ID and Password.
  • State of employment.
  • Name of organization (e.g., school district, non-profit).
  • Address (e.g., organization, school site) and other geographic information.
  • Name of entity (e.g., school, school district or other organization)
  • Location (address, city, state). Academic grade levels offered and academic subject area(s) taught. Demographic information provided by You at Your option (e.g., language preference, gender, and age, and, if applicable, content preferences and personalization information, including, but not limited to a profile picture).
  • Customer support information (e.g., data You share when You contact Us for help): To resolve issues and improve Our Platform.
  • Social media information (e.g., interactions on LinkedIn, X, or YouTube):  To engage with users and promote the Platform.
  • Payment and transaction data (e.g., credit card information): If You sign up and pay for the Platform online, We may collect payment and transaction data.
  • Sign-in services: If You choose to sign into the Platform using sign-in services, then such services may share with Us certain information, such as Your full name, language preference, nickname, e-mail address and picture.
  • Usage information: We use third-party web analytics services to collect and analyze information (e.g., IP address, browser type) about how You interact with Our Platform. Our service providers may use cookies or similar technologies to collect this information. You can prevent analytics tracking on return visits by disabling cookies in Your browser or by using opt-out mechanisms provided by these services, which We can directYou to upon request. We have configured Our analytics implementation to anonymize IP addresses and comply with applicable privacy laws. This means We have enabled IP anonymization (also known as IP masking), which removes identifying portions of Your IP address before it is processed by Our analytics providers.
  • Organizational Visitors (e.g., IP address, pages visited): We also use visitor identification services to identify companies that visit Our Site to help Us understand which organizations are interested in Our Platform. This information is used to identify the company or organization You are associated with. For organizational visitors, Our visitor identification tools may de-anonymize Platform visitors for marketing purposes. If You wish to opt out of organizational visitor tracking, You can do so by adjusting Your cookie preferences in Our cookie banner or by using Your browser's privacy settings to block cookies. 

COOKIE POLICY

We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance Your experience with Our Platform. These technologies include: 

  • Web beacons: These collect data like Your deviceʼs IP address, the page URL, and the other information. These files allow Us to count visitors and track engagement.
  • Cookies: Cookies are small files on Your device, categorized as first-party (set by Our Site) or third-party cookies (set by others). You can manage cookies through Your browser settings. Note, some features may not work without cookies. Persistent cookies stay until they expire; session cookies are deleted when You close Your browser.
    • Necessary / essential cookies. These session cookies are necessary for core functions such as security and authentication.
    • Acceptance cookies: These remember Your cookie preferences to avoid repeated prompts. They last as per Your browser settings or until cleared.
    • Functionality cookies: These remember Your choices, like login details, to enhance personalization. They last as per Your browser settings or until cleared. 

You can set Your browser to signal via a Do Not Track (DNT) setting that You do not want to be tracked. Currently, Our Platform does not respond to DNT signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy. 

You can opt-out or manage cookies in a number of ways. Your options for controlling what information cookies and similar technologies collect about You include:

  • Your cookie settings. When You visit Our Platform, depending on where You are located, We may show You a notice which tells You how and why We use certain cookies and provide You the ability to opt out of certain cookie use (other than necessary/essential cookies).
  • Blocking cookies in Your browser. Most browsers let You remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in Your browser settings. Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, You will need to opt out on every browser and device that You use.

OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use Your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Platform, including monitoring usage.
  • To manage Your account and provide you access to different functionalities.
  • To complete Your order and deliver the services provided by the Platform.
  • To contact You and for marketing purposes such as:
    • Updates about Our terms of service, subprocessors, or other pertinent information.
    • Marketing communications, including offers, newsletters, event invitations, product updates, and information about Our goods and services. We may use Your contact information, browsing behavior on Our Platform, and information about Your interactions, with Our Platform to personalize these communications and make them more relevant to you.
    • We may also use information about You to target marketing messages to Your organization even i You personally have not provided Your contact information. You can opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by clicking the 'unsubscribe' link in any marketing email we send, or by contacting Us at privacy@pblworks.org.
  • To manage and respond to Your requests to Us for customer support or other information.
  • For business transfers: We may share Your information with potential acquirers in the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.
  • For data analysis and improvement purposes: We may analyze data to identify usage trends or enhance user experience.
  • Following the law. We may share Your information with courts, law enforcement or regulatory agencies, or other government bodies when We have a good faith belief We are required or permitted to do so by applicable law, regulation, or legal process. .We may also disclose Your information if We believe it is appropriate to enforce Our Service Terms, to protect the rights, property or safety of Us and Our products and service, or to prtect or assist others as required by law or contract.
  • Credit reporting. We may share information about Your creditworthiness with credit bureaus, consumer reporting agencies, and card associations. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on Your account may be reflected in Your credit report and consumer report. We may also share Your information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents, government agencies, and card associations in connection with issues related fraud, credit, or debt collection.
  • De-identified or aggregated data. We may de-identify or aggregate Your information, alone or in combination with other individuals' information, and share such de-identified or aggregated information freely.
  • For online educational content and registration information:
    • When You register for or participate in Our online classes, webinars, or educational events, We collect information that You provide during the registration process, such as Your name, email address, job title, company name, and other contact details.
    • We also collect information about Your participation, such as attendance records, questions asked, survey responses, and interaction with the content.

This information is used to:

  • Provide You with the education content You requested
  • Improve Our offerings based on participant feedback and engagement
  • Send You relevant marketing communications about future educational opportunities or related services
  • Understand which topics are of interest to You and Your organization
  • Inform Your organization regarding Your usage of the Platform

Other than as set out above, We may also share Your information for other purposes with Your consent or at Your direction.

SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share Your personal information with others in the following situations:

  • With service providers: We may share Your personal information with service providers that perform services on Our behalf, such as delivering communications, operating cloud services, providing analytics, and supporting IT functions. These providers are bound by confidentiality obligations and comply with applicable privacy laws.
  • With affiliates: We may share Your personal information with Our affiliates (entities that We control or that We are under common control with), which will honor this Privacy Policy.
  • With Other Users: If You interact with other users through the Platform, who are part of Your organization or through Our online community, Your personal information may be viewed by the user that You send it to, who have access to the online community where You post the information and/or to the public.
  • Professional advisors: Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, as necessary for their services to us.
  • Authorities and others: Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as We believe in good faith to be neceassary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above. If reasonable and allowable, We will do Our best to notify You in advance.
  • With your consent, We may disclose Your personal information for purposes You consent to, such as linking Your account with another company's product or service.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will retain Your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and retain and use it to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies. We also will retain usage data for internal analysis purposes.

TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your information, including personal information, is processed at Our operating offices and other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction. For a list of subprocessors we use to process personal information an user data, please contact support@pblworks.org. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and per this Privacy Policy and that no transfer of Your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

HOW TO DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the personal information We have collected about You. The Platform may allow You to delete certain information about You from within the Platform. You may update, amend, or delete Your information anytime by signing into Your account if You have one, and visiting the account settings section. You may also contact Us at privacy@pblworks.org to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when We have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so. 

For SMS messages, reply "STOP" or follow the instructions in the message or settings to discontinue the communications. If You are receiving push notifications from Us to Your mobile device and no longer wish to receive these types of communications, You may turn them off at the device level. Remember that even if You choose not to receive marketing communications from us, We will continue to send You mandatory service or transactional communications.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The security of Your personal information is important to us. Please note that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

NO CHILDREN

The Platform is not intended for use by anyone under 18 years of age. If We become aware that We hae collected Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18, including any student, without verification of parental consent, We will delete that information. We reserve the right to create a hard copy of any such information, as may be necessary.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Platform may link to websites and services We do not operate. We do not control those third-party sites and are not responsible for their content, privacy policies, or practices.

SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE TO AUTHORIZED USERS

Where Our Platform is made available to You through an organization (e.g., Your employer), that organization is the administrator of the Platform and responsible for the accounts and/or services over which it has control. For example, administrators can access and change information in Your account or restrict and terminate Your access to the Platform. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of an administrator's organization. Please contact Your organization or refer to Your organization's polications for more information.

For US residents
Under applicable state privacy law, You have the following rights regarding personal information that We have collected and processed about You:

  • Right to know. You have a right to know categories of personal information that We process and the purpose of such processing. We do not "sell" or "share" personal information, as We understand sale to be defined under state privacy law.
  • Access. You have the right to obtain a copy, in a portable format, of personal information that We collect, use, disclose, share, and sell about you.
  • Correct. You have a right to make Us update or correct inaccuracies in Your personal information.
  • Deletion. You can ask Us to delete the personal information that You have provided to Us or that We maintain about you.
  • Transfer. You have a right to make Us transfer a machine-readable copy of Your personal information to You or a third party of Your choice.
  • Opt-out. You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. If You are a California resident, please see this listing of additional notices related to Your privacy under California law, which forms part of this Privacy Policy. This notice for California residents supplements the information contained here, and it applies solely for all all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.

FOR EEA, SWITZERLAND, AND UK RESIDENTS

International users using Our Platform governed by this Privacy Policy, You understand and acknowledge that Your personal information will be transferred from Your location to Our facilities and servers in the United states and possibly from Your location to other countries where Our service providers operate. A list of the subprocessors can be obtained by contacting support@pblworks.org.

We employ appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers of personal information, including compliance with certain privacy frameworks relating to the transfer of data. For example, We comply with the European Commission, IU, and Swiss adequacy decisions by employing the use of Standard Contractual Clauses, as applicable.

Data protection laws give You certain rights regarding Your personal information. If You are located in Europe, You may ask Us to take hte following action in relation to Your personal information that We hold:

  • Access. Provide You with information Our processing of Your personal information, including the categories of personal information We collect, the sources rom which personal information is collected, the business purpose for collecting and sharing personal information, and the categories of third parties to whom We disclose personal information, and give You access to Your personal information.
  • Correct/rectification. Update or correct inaccuracies in Your personal information.
  • Delete/erasure. Delete Your personal information.
  • Transfer/portability. Transfer a machine-readable copy of Your personal information to You or a third party of Your choice.
  • Restrict. Restrict the processing of Your personal information.
  • Object. Object to Our reliance on Our legitimate interests as the basis o Our processing of Your personal information that impacts Your rights.
  • Withdraw consent. If We collected and processed Your personal information with Your consent, where required by law, You may withdraw Your consent. Withdrawing Your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to Your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of Your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You may submit these requests by email to privacy@pblworks.org or to Our postal address provided below. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising Your rights.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Chances to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Notice or your privacy rights, you may contact us:
By Email: privacy@pblworks.org
By US Mail: 
Buck Institute for Education dba PBLWorks
Attn: Privacy Policy
3 Hamilton Landing, Suite 220
Novato, CA 94949
By Phone: (415) 883-0122