The Vanguard Group (“Vanguard”), sponsor of the My Classroom Economy program, is committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information.
My Classroom Economy, https://myclassroomeconomy.org (the “Site”), is a website owned and operated by Vanguard. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) solely governs the collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of personal information that we collect at the Site. This Privacy Notice does not apply to any other website operated by Vanguard.
By visiting this Site and providing information to Vanguard through this Site, you acknowledge the practices described in the Notice. Please also refer to the terms and conditions, which are incorporated herein by reference, for additional information related to your use of this Site.
Vanguard collects information directly from you when you request order kit materials, register on the site for My Classroom Economy updates, or enroll in the My Classroom Economy Digital experience. This information can include:
We also collect information about you automatically as you navigate the Site using cookies, and similar mechanisms, as described further below. This information helps us measure traffic to the site and improve functionality (so-called website analytics; for further information, see below). The information collected can include:
Website Analytics: We use Adobe Analytics to help collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed above. The information generated about your use of the Site may be transmitted to and stored by Adobe Analytics on servers outside the United States. You may opt out of the use of cookies by Adobe Analytics here.
Cookies: A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other device when you visit a website. Cookies contain information that is transferred to or read on your device and allow websites to recognize devices and store certain information, such as user preferences. Cookies are used to distinguish you from other users of the Site. This helps us to provide you with a useful experience when you browse the Site and allows us to improve the Site. We and our third-party service providers use session cookies, which link your actions during a particular browser session and expire at the end of that session, as well as persistent cookies, which remain on your device and allow us to remember your actions or preferences across multiple browser sessions.
How to refuse and delete cookies: If you are concerned about having cookies on your computer, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being set, allowing you to decide whether to accept it. You can also delete cookies from your computer. The help feature on most web browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to receive notice when a new cookie is set, and how to disable cookies altogether. However, if you choose to block or delete cookies, certain features of the Site may not operate correctly.
The cookies used on our Site are categorized as follows:
We use personal information that we collect for the purposes described in this Notice, for the purposes for which it was provided to us, and for our business purposes, including:
Third Party Service Providers: We disclose personal data about you to our service providers to process your kit order, maintain your contact information and send you updates on new My Classroom Economy offerings. Our service providers are selected partly on the basis of their information security capabilities, and we put in place contract terms to protect the confidentiality of your personal information.
Legal purposes: We may use and disclose information about you as we believe reasonably necessary to courts, parties to litigation, government authorities, law enforcement agencies, and legal and professional advisers to protect the rights and property of Vanguard and Vanguard Affiliates, including to establish legal claims or defenses, to obtain legal advice, to defend our legal rights, to protect our rights or property and those of Vanguard Affiliates, to protect other users of our services and our Sites, and to protect the life, body, or property of others (individuals or entities). We also may disclose information about you in order to comply with the law, judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or direction or in other legally limited circumstances.
We keep the categories of Personal Information described above for as long as necessary or permitted for the purposes described in this Notice or otherwise authorized by law. This generally means holding the information for as long as one of the following apply:
Where personal information is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the purpose with the latest period expires. For more information about our retention policies, please contact us using the contact details below.
This privacy notice for California residents supplements the information above and applies solely to residents of the State of California. We provide this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act, as modified by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CCPA) and the regulations issued under it; accordingly, this notice addresses the specific requirements of the CCPA and should be read together with above Notice. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice; that may differ from what those terms mean when we use them in other policies or disclosures.
The CCPA provides specific privacy rights to California residents, including the right to receive a privacy notice and certain rights you may choose to exercise relating to your personal information. Personal information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular person or household. Personal information does not include aggregate or deidentified information or publicly available information.
If you are a resident of California, you have the right to submit certain requests relating to your personal information as described below.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose the following to you (unless an exception applies):
You have the right to request that we delete personal information we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
If you believe that personal information we maintain about you is inaccurate, you have the right to request that we correct that information.
Although we do not sell personal information in exchange for money, some of the ways in which we share personal information for advertising may be considered “sales” or “sharing” under the CCPA. We and our digital advertising providers collect certain information from your devices when you visit our websites, through cookies and other technologies, and when you use our mobile applications. This includes the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Personal Records, Commercial Information, Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information, Geolocation Data, and Inferences. We share these categories of personal information with our digital advertising providers to deliver Vanguard ads that may be of interest to you. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of California residents under 16 years of age.
The manner in which you may opt out of interest-based advertising may vary depending on your relationship with Vanguard. For further information visit our Privacy Center. If you wish to opt out of sharing your personal information in connection with our interest-based advertising described above, please visit https://optout.aboutads.info/ and follow the opt out instructions for each of your browsers and devices. If you opt out of sharing this information, we will not deliver ads based on your interests and activity, but you will still receive ads. Note that any choice you make here will only affect this browser and device. Because your opt-out preferences are stored in cookies, if you reset your advertising ID or clear your cookies, we will no longer recognize your device or your choices, so you must opt out again. To opt back in to interest-based advertising, visit https://optout.aboutads.info/ again and select your preferences.
If you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights under the CCPA, you also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us.
If you are a California resident, you may exercise the rights described above by submitting a verifiable request to us by either:
Using this form; or
Emailing us at: support@myclassroomeconomy.org
If you have questions regarding the My Classroom Economy program or need support please contact us using this form.
If you have any privacy related questions, please email us at privacy@vanguard.com.
We will post changes to this Notice on this Site along with the effective date of the changed Notice. We recommend that you review this Notice periodically.
Updated August 2024