Privacy Policy

A Note to our Clients:

Ed Leadership Sims, LLC (DBA SchoolSims) is committed to protecting the information we have about our clients.  We only collect and store minimal information in order to provide our client administrators login access to our system. Transparency is our number one goal when it comes to privacy. Please be assured that we will only use the information that we collect to provide services to your school or organization, and we will not sell your data.


1. What This Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy describes how Ed Leadership Sims, LLC (DBA SchoolSims), collect, use, and disclose personal information that we collect and receive through our SchoolSims Portal service (located at admin.schoolsims.com) and schoolsims.com. The use of information collected through our service is limited to the purpose of providing the service for which our client has engaged. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to people who we do not employ or manage. Similarly, this Privacy Policy does not affect any of the privacy policies, terms, and/or agreements between our clients and their constituents.

We may provide links for us in 3rd party systems, such as the Learning Management System as requested by a client. We are not responsible for the collection, use, monitoring, storage, or sharing of any personal information by such third parties, and we encourage you to review those third parties’ privacy policies and to ask them questions about their privacy practices as they relate to you.

This Privacy Policy uses the term “Personal Information” to refer to any information about a person which can be used to identify them or to distinguish them from other people. Personal Information includes information like a person’s name, address, phone number, login information to our Service, and other demographic information.

When Personal Information relates to an individual, we refer to this as “Personal Information.” If it relates to a client, prospective client, vendor, or business partner (or any of their employees), then we refer to it as “Business Information.”

2. Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following Personal Information:

  1. Name, email, and contact information received from visitors to our Public Site at schoolsims.com who request information regarding SchoolSims, or who send us an email or connect with us through social media;
  2. Personal Information received from clients in connection with the implementation and provision of SchoolSims. For example, clients provide basic personal information in order to access the SchoolSims Portal.

3. What we do with Personal Information

We use Personal and Business Information to connect with clients and prospective clients, at their request and to provide access to SchoolSims. We will not sell any information to any third party except as allowed by section 7, which discusses what happens if our company is acquired. SchoolSims is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives under the EU-U.S. DPF and Swiss-U.S. DPF, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. SchoolSims complies with the EU-U.S. DPF and Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.

4. Disclosures for Legal Reasons

In certain situations, we may be required to disclose Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also disclose Personal Information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

In addition, we may share Personal Information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

When we make any disclosure of Personal Information described by this section, we will limit the disclosure to only the minimum amount of information that is necessary and will attempt to ensure that any information we do disclose is kept protected by, for example, submitting it under seal, obtaining a protective order or by requiring the party to whom it is disclosed to agree to keep the information confidential.

5. When we delete Personal Information

We generally keep Personal Information for the duration required to comply with legal requirements. We will, however, hold it longer if needed to provide services to our clients, if we have a legal obligation to keep it for longer or if we require it to resolve a legal dispute.

We may delete Business Information when we determine that it is no longer useful to us such as if a client becomes a former client, and when required by law.

6. Technical Information

We gather certain information about the use of our Service and Public Site automatically. This information includes internet addresses, browser types, internet service providers (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating systems, date/time information, and click-stream data. Mobile devices may record information such as how often our app is used, the events that occur within the app, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the app was downloaded from.

We and our partners, analytics provider, and online customer support provider use this information to analyze trends, administer the Service and the Public Site, track users’ movements around the Service and the Public Site, and to gather overall demographic information about our user base. We do not link this automatically-collected data to other Personal Information.

Visitors to our Public Site can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. Rejecting cookies may, however, limit some features or areas of the Public Site. Our mobile apps may also use and record geolocation data to provide location-based services to users. Users may opt out of location-based services at any time by editing the setting at the device level. This may limit some features of the app.

7. Acquisitions

If we are acquired, either because an unrelated entity has merged with us or has acquired our assets, then we will ensure that the acquirer also commits itself to a similar or more robust privacy policy. If the acquirer’s privacy policy is substantially different than ours, we will notify clients before Personal Information is provided to the acquirer.

8. Access and Changes to Your Data

You may determine if we have any of your Personal Information and access, correct, or request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us through our schoolsims.com public site. Before providing you with any information or allowing you to make changes, we will need evidence of your identity. In addition, much of the Personal Information we have can be updated through the SchoolSims Portal. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

9. The Use of “Cookies”

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:

  • Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
  • Keep track of advertisements.
  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you disable cookies, some features may be disabled but it mustn’t affect your user experience in any material way.

10. Testimonials

We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our website in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at  cx@schoolsims.com.

11. Questions about Data Privacy

If you have questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or our Privacy Practices, please contact us at cx@schoolsims.com.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version on SchoolSims.com. We will notify users of the service about significant changes in how we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email addresses listed in their accounts or by placing a prominent notice in the service before the changes become effective.

 

Effective Date: March 8, 2024