Children's Privacy Policy
Reading does not permit children under the age of 13 ("Child") to create an account and does not knowingly collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13 without the consent and at the direction of a parent.
Reading permits Parents to set up child profiles associated with the Parent account so that children may access the Service under the Parent's supervision. We take special precautions to collect only as much information as is reasonably necessary for the child to use the Service and to ensure that Parents have access to and control of their child's use of the Service.
This Children's Privacy Policy applies to all users of child profiles associated with a Parent account, regardless of the age of the child.
By creating a child profile associated with a Parent account and permitting your child to use the Reading Service, you expressly agree to the practices described in this Children's Privacy Policy and you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your child's personal information as described herein.
1. HOW TO CREATE A CHILD PROFILE ASSOCIATED WITH A PARENT ACCOUNT.
A parent must purchase a user license using a credit card on Our website reading.com/freetrial or in the app store as a free trial and renewing purchase, register for an account with Reading, and agree to the terms of our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Children's Privacy Policy.
During the account creation process, the Parent may create individual profiles for each child(ren) authorized by the Parent to use the Service through the Parent's account. Each child user profile must be associated with a Parent account, and children cannot access account information without the Parent’s involvement. To use the Service, a Parent must select the appropriate child profile to use.
2. WHAT INFORMATION DOES READING COLLECT FROM OR ABOUT A CHILD AND HOW DOES READING USE THIS INFORMATION?
Information you provide us. Through the Parent's account set-up, the Parent provides information about the child(ren) authorized by the Parent to use the Service through the Parent's account under the supervision of an adult, including name and selection of a profile avatar. Reading does not request a birth date (although we require the selection of an age range) and the Parent has the option to include information regarding the child’s gender. Reading does not require additional personal information from the user of the child profile.
Reading uses this information to provide the Service to the user of the child profile. Reading uses the e-mail address provided by users of Parent accounts to communicate messages about the account, such as subscription notices and helpful information related to their child's current progress.
Information collected from the Child's use of the Service. During the course of providing the Service, we collect information about the user of the child profile's use of the Service and information submitted to the Service, such as lesson progressions for the purpose of providing Parents with information regarding the child’s current progress.
When your Child accesses the Service through the Parent's account, we automatically collect and store usage information as well as information about the device used by the Parent and Child to access the Service. For example, we collect an IP address, location (at the city level), browser type, language preferences, and other information about the device used to access the Service, such as the device type, model and manufacturer and a unique identifier which allows us to uniquely identify your browser, device, or account, as well as account usage information as the day/time stamp (collectively, "tracking technologies"), and we may use third party providers to collect this information on our behalf. This data collection is explained in greater detail in Section 1 of our Privacy Policy under the sub-heading "Information we receive when you use the Service."
We use this information to secure and improve the Service, to provide personalized content and information, to remember you when you return to the Service at a later time or using a different device, to improve the Service, to save you time, to provide better technical support, to track website usage and other similar purposes.
3. HOW WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION
Reading may share or disclose a child's personal information as needed to provide our Service or with your consent or permission. For example, we share information with our trusted vendors, third party service providers and individuals to provide services for us on our behalf, which may include analytics providers and hosting services. We may also share personal information if we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Reading, its users, or the public; or (e) as required or permitted by law.
If Reading becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, change of control, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, personal information may be transferred or disclosed in connection with the business transaction, subject to any applicable laws.
We may also share aggregate or de-identified information in a manner that cannot be reasonably used to identify an individual user.
4. THIRD-PARTY TRACKING AND ONLINE ADVERTISING ON THE SERVICE
Reading does not display any targeted advertising on the Service.
5. HOW TO ACCESS AND DELETE YOUR CHILD'S INFORMATION
The Parent may review the information collected from the user of the child profile at any time by contacting Us. The Parent may refuse to permit the further collection of the child user's information by no longer providing the child user access to the Service through the Parent's account.
Reading will retain the personal information collected from and about the user of the profile for as long as necessary to provide the Service and will de-identify or delete the personal information after the termination of the Parent's subscription account in accordance with our standard data retention policy or until we receive a deletion request. To request deletion of personal information of a user of a child profile at any time, please contact us at [email protected].
6. OUR PRACTICES INVOLVING SCHOOLS
When Reading is used by a School in an educational setting, the School may authorize Reading to collect information from a child under 13. If you are a Parent whose child accesses the Reading Service through a School, please contact the child's School to request to access, review and/or delete your child's information. Reading will process such requests promptly as directed by the School.
Please refer to Section 11 of the Reading Privacy Policy to learn more about how Reading protects Student Data, including Students who may be under the age of 13, when the Service is used by a School.
7. REGION-SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES
We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional disclosures relating to the processing of personal information about residents of certain countries, regions or states. Please refer to the Region-Specific Disclosures section of our Privacy Policy to learn more.
8.CONTACT US
If you have questions or concerns about this policy or about our use of information provided by a user of a child profile, please contact us:
Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2024
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