Privacy Policy

To contact us. The K12Academics.com (our "Web Site") is owned and operated by Huddelson (LLC). If you have any questions concerning our Web Site or its terms, conditions, or policies, please contact us at P.O.Box 175 , Ambler, PA 19002-4101 or using the Contact form above.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

1. Warranty. K12 Academics makes no representations about the suitability of the information on our Web Site for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. K12 Academics disclaims all warranties with regard to this information, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. K12 Academics shall not be liable to any party for any special, indirect or consequential damages that arises from any information derived from of our Web Site.

2. Purpose of this Site. K12 Academics is a national education resource website with a community based approach. The site serves as a terrific tool for teachers, students, district officials and parents involved in the K-12 education system with thousands of informative pages. We have a terrific team of columnists, bloggers and lesson plans to view. The site also has national directories with profiles of schools, camps, businesses, organizations, etc. to help you make the best choice for your child's future.

3. Protecting your Information. K12 Academics protects your privacy at all times. If you provide sensitive information, we use secure servers and protocol to encrypt all information. We also enable security measures to protect personal information in storage. K12 Academics uses payment information only for profile registrants; we do not retain card numbers for marketing purposes. We are supported by Verisign- one of the most trusted forms of online payment transactions on the internet. We will never provide any personal information to other companies or individuals. Many of the pages on our site provide links to third-party sites, K12 Academics may review these sites to ensure your "safety"; however, because we do not control the Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes you gave it to us, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

You may have found this Site through a Link located on a third-party website operated by another company or you may choose to click on a link on this Site to websites operated by third parties. For example, we may at times include links to various social media platforms on this Site, but know that if you interact with these social media tools through this Site, then your experience on those social media sites will be governed by the privacy and other policies of those sites and the privacy settings you have chosen on those sites will determine the degree to which your information is made public. In short, please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information gathered through any website operated by other companies. Even if the third party is affiliated with us through a business partnership or otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. If you submit Personal Information to any third party site, your information is governed by that site's privacy policy. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of such websites to determine how they handle any information separately collected from you. Please be aware that we do not warn you when you have chosen to click through to another website or property when using the Site.

4. Cookies. Like many online services, we use cookies to collect information. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing the Site. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive user experience. This type of information is collected to make our Site more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs. We also use the following tracking software to enhance your user experience and to measure the website performance: Quantacast, Alexa and DoubleClick.

5. Copyright and Trademark Notices. All contents on this site are: Copyright. K12 Academics. All rights reserved. K12 Academics and K12academics.com, and the K12 Academics and K12academics.com logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of K12 Academics. ©2004 K12 Academics. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks or trade names of their respective owners. Permission to use, copy and distribute images and information from our Web Site will only be granted with specific written permission of K12 Academics (excluding the information related to profile registrants). However, written permission is hereby granted for the use of the K12 Academics logo for the specific purpose of "linking" from another web site to www.K12academics.com. All other rights reserved.

6. Use of Material. K12 Academics authorizes you to view and download a single copy of the material on our Web Site solely for your personal, non-commercial use. The contents of our Web Site, such as text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software and other "Material", are protected under both United States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. All Material is the property of K12 Academics or its content suppliers or clients. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) of all content on our Web Site is the exclusive property of K12 Academics and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Unauthorized use of the Material may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You must retain all copyright, trademark, service mark and other proprietary notices contained in the original Material on any copy you make of the Material. You may not sell or modify the Material or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Material in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Material on any other Web Site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. You shall not copy or adapt the HTML code that K12 Academics creates to generate its pages. It is also protected by K12 Academics copyright.

7. General Non-acceptable Site Use Rules: Users may not use our Web Site in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others.

8. Web Site Security & Operational Rules. Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of our Web Site, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorized to access, (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to our Web Site, overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mail bombing" or "crashing", (d) sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting, (f) using any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Web Site or any activity being conducted on this site, (g) taking any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our Web Site's infrastructure, (h) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, using or attempting to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search our Web Site other than the search engine and search agents available from K12 Academics on our Web Site and other than generally available third party web browsers (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer), and/or (i) attempting to decipher, de compile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of our Web Site. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. K12 Academics will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

9. Articles & Blogs. K12 Academics does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of communications posted by columnists or bloggers nor endorse any opinions expressed by users. K12 Academics acts as a passive conduit for the online distribution and publication of user-submitted information and has no obligation to screen communications or information in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by users. If notified by a user of communications which allegedly do not conform to this Agreement, K12 Academics may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of the communication. K12 Academics has no liability or responsibility to users for performance or nonperformance of such activities. K12 Academics reserves the right to expel users and prevent their further access to our Web Site for violating the Agreement or the law and the right to remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive. K12 Academics may take any action with respect to user-submitted information that it deems necessary or appropriate in its sole discretion if it believes it may create liability for K12 Academics or may cause K12 Academics to lose (in whole or in part) the services of its ISP's or other suppliers.

10. Liability. Because user authentication on the Internet is difficult, K12 Academics cannot and does not confirm that each profile is who they claim to be. Because we do not and cannot be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the behavior of participants on K12 Academics, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, you release K12 Academics (and our agents and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code ?1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."

We are under no legal obligation to, and generally do not, control the information provided by other users which is made available through our Web Site. By its very nature, other people's information may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. We expect that you will use caution and common sense when using our Web Site.

The Material on our Web Site may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. K12 Academics makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of our Web Site or the Material. The use of our Web Site and the Material is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to our Web Site and may be made at any time.

11. Disclaimer of Consequential Damages. Our Web Site and material are provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind. K12 Academics, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied, including the warranty of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose and non-infringement. K12 Academics makes no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the material, services, software, text, graphics, and links.

12. Termination. K12 Academics reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to pursue all of its legal remedies, including but not limited to deletion of your postings from our Web Site and immediate termination of your registration with or ability to access our Web Site and/or any other service provided to you by K12 Academics, upon any breach by you of this Agreement or if K12 Academics is unable to verify or authenticate any information you submit to our Web Site registration with or ability to access our Web Site.

13. Contact K12 Academics. K12 Academics welcomes any questions or comments regarding this policy form. We are decicated to protecting your personal information and keeping your information secure. This Private Policy may change from time to time. Please be sure to check this page periodically, or contact us at the form above.