Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy last updated February 10, 2023
WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
1. Terms
By accessing the website at ctcee.org, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms of service, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law. Our website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under 18 may provide any information to or on the website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 years of age without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
2. Use License
- Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials on Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
- modify or copy the materials;
- use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
- attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s website;
- remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
- transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.
- This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.
3. Disclaimer
The materials on Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s website are provided on an ‘as is’ basis. Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.
Further, Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.
4. Limitations
In no event shall Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s website, even if Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence or a Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
5. Accuracy of materials
The materials appearing on Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete or current. Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. However, Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence does not make any commitment to update the materials.
6. Links
Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk.
7. Modifications
Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence may revise these terms of service for its website at any time without notice. By using this website, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these terms of service.
8. Governing Law
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Connecticut, and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in the State of Connecticut.
PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us.
It is Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information. We have outlined our privacy policy below.
- We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
- Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
- We will collect and use personal information solely for fulfilling those purposes specified by us, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
- Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
- We will protect personal information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
- We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
- We will only retain personal information for as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
- We will never disclose text messaging originator opt-in data and consent to a third party unless required to do so by court order, law or governmental agency.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained. Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence may change this privacy policy from time to time at Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s sole discretion.
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it.
1. Non-personally Identifiable Information (Cookies)
As is common practice among web sites, we use “first and third-party cookies” and similar technologies. In general, cookies — the informational files that a web browser places on computers when visiting a website — are used to track and analyze how visitors use ctcee.org. We use these cookies in order to improve ctcee.org, to identify the source of visitors and pages visited, to offer visitors interactive and/or personalized features that would not be possible without the cookies, to recall specific information to save visitors time when they return to Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s website, to provide targeted messaging on digital and social media, and to identify usage and statistical trends.
ctcee.org contains tracking pixels for digital and social media promotion to enhance advertising and site performance. By looking at this traffic Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence can better understand our community, which allows us to improve the site and to provide an optimal experience and better service.
Opt-Out. If you so choose, you may set your browser preferences to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. However, some parts of ctcee.org may not function properly if you do so. Opting out is cookie-based and will only affect the specific computer and browser on which the opt-out is applied. If you subsequently delete your browser cookies, you will need to opt-out again.
2. Personally Identifiable Information
Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence collects personally identifiable information, such as your name, your e-mail address, your telephone number, and/or your credit card information, from ctcee.org for a variety of purposes. This personally identifiable information is provided by you voluntarily.
For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Please email info@ctcee.org or Contact Us to request an exported file of your personal data.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Social Media
Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence may ask visitors to provide personal information for other limited uses specified at the time the information is gathered. Any information you submit on or through social media platforms, as part of a story, post comments and discussions, or in response to Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence’s request for User Generated Content may become public, including the full name and/or nickname you provide when submitting.
Email Subscriptions
Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence offers and may offer in the future several e-mail newsletters and emails. Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence will always provide a clear and convenient method of unsubscribing to our e-mailings. If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, follow the “unsubscribe” instructions located in each newsletter or email, or email info@ctcee.org or Contact Us to send us a message. Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence will update our records as soon as possible.
3. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Policy Revision and notification of changes.
Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence will update this policy as new services and features are added. We will tell our users about policy changes through notices on this page, which will always contain a date. Any information collected under the current policy will remain subject to these terms. Information collected after any changes take effect will be subject to the revised privacy policy.
Contact Information
This website is operated by Connecticut Center for Educational Excellence for Public Policy, PO Box 1332 Hartford, CT 06143. To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, email us at info@ctcee.org or Contact Us.
