ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. THIS PAGE PROVIDES
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIVACY POLICY OF THIS WEBSITE.

1. The contents of this website are owned and operated by Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education, Inc., whose address is 1900 E. Lake Ave., Glenview, IL 60025. You can contact us by telephone at (847) 729-3000 or by email at sfwebmaster@scottforesman.com. Pearson Education is very concerned about the protection of online privacy for all our website visitors and especially children. Pearson Education's policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users. This statement tells you if and how we collect personally-identifying information from you and how we use it. Using the Internet should be a fun and safe experience and we want to help you make it so.
   
   WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
   
2. We consider the following to be personally-identifying information: your first and last name, email address, home address, phone number, social security number and if linked with your other personally-identifying information, your date of birth and other personal interests and hobbies.
   
   
3. This website does not collect personally-identifying information about a user except for information that is voluntarily provided to us so that we can serve the user's needs and our legitimate business purposes. (For example, when the user posts a message to a bulletin board or makes an online purchase, we need to retain certain personally-identifying information on the website in order to respond to the order). A user's personally-identifying information may be used by our company to help us improve the website, and also for our company's marketing and promotional purposes. It will be treated confidentially within our company. Our policy is not to share this information with third parties, but we may share this information with other companies within Pearson Education. Although we may employ "cookie" technology on this website, it will only be used to track non-personal information such as type of browser, operating system, and domain names in order for us to improve our visitors' experience online.
   
   SPECIAL NOTICE TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN
   
4. PARENTS: We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their Children (Children 12 and under) and to participate in the activities offered on this website. No personally-identifying information should be submitted to or posted on this website by Children without the consent of their parent or guardian. We encourage parents to monitor their Children's online use, and to help us protect their privacy by instructing them never to provide personally-identifying information on this website or any other website without permission. We are also prohibited by law from conditioning a Child's participation in any activity on this website on the Child disclosing more personally-identifying information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.
   
   
5. CHILDREN: Please do not give your full name, email address, home address, telephone number or any other personal information that would enable someone to contact you either online or offline, without first asking your parent or guardian for permission.
   
   
6. We do not collect personally-identifying information from Children on this website either directly or passively except when a Child may voluntarily submit such information through (i) a "Contact Us" link on a Child's area of this website or (ii) a public posting area. If a Child e-mails us via a "Contact Us" link on any child directed area of this website, any personally-identifying information submitted will only be used to respond on a one-time basis to such Child and will thereafter be deleted from our records. In addition, if we have actual knowledge that a Child is sending or posting personally-identifying information on any area of this website, we will delete such personally-identifying information before it is made public. We will never request personally-identifying information from a Child in any of our public postings areas.
   
   
7. Except as stated below, we can assure you that a Child's personally-identifying information will never be provided to third parties. We may disclose a Child's personally-identifying information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may also disclose a Child's personally-identifying information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
   
   PUBLIC POSTINGS
   
8. Users (and especially Children) should note that any personally-identifying information that is voluntarily posted to any public area of this website may always be collected and used by others. While we monitor such posting area from time to time and will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete a Child's personally-identifying information prior to posting, we strongly encourage Children not to post such information.

Our privacy policies are under frequent review. If you have questions or comments, about our privacy policy, you may contact us by e-mail at sfwebmaster@scottforesman.com.