PTOconnect Privacy Policy

We collect and store e-mail addresses as a primary part of our email and newsletter service. We also aggregate information on what pages people access or visit. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web pages and the quality of our service, and is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes, except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• It is necessary to share 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 Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if SharedCompass or PTOconnect is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, SharedCompass will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

INFORMATION GATHERING AND USAGE

• When you sign-up for PTOconnect we ask for information such as your name and email address.
• SharedCompass uses collected information for the following general purposes: delivering newsletters, producing school directories, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, and research.

COOKIES

• A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
• Cookies are required to use the admininstrator features of the PTOconnect service.
• We use cookies to record current session information, but do not use permanent cookies. Administrators are required to log-in to PTOconnect after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect them against others accidentally accessing their account contents.

DATA STORAGE

SharedCompass uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run PTOconnect. Although SharedCompass owns the code, databases, and all rights to the PTOconnect application, you retain all rights to your data.

DISCLOSURE

• SharedCompass may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Terms of Service.

CHANGES

SharedCompass may periodically update this policy.

QUESTIONS

Any questions about this Privacy Policy should be addressed to support at ptoconnect.com.