Privacy Policy

Last updated March 13, 2025

Introduction

Our Privacy Policy covers types of information The STEM Playbook (“we,” “our,” or “us”) may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.stemplaybook.org (our “Website”) or use our mobile application (our “App”), our Website and our App being collectively referred to as our “Platform” and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Platform. By accessing or using our Platform, you agree to our Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of our Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Platform is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our Platform or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any other information by which you might be identified. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@stemplaybook.org.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“Personal Information”). Personal Information does not include:

Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

How We Collect Your Personal Information

Direct Collection of Personal Information

The information we collect on or through our Platform or directly from you through other means may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Platform.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email address) if you contact us.
Your search queries on the Platform.
Information submitted when you report a problem with our Platform.
Information submitted when you request further services.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete.
Information required to enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us.
Information used to create your user account.
Information used to subscribe to one or more of our services.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Platform and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Platform.
Information provided while using any other interactive features of our Platform.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Platform, or transmitted to other users of the Platform or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may limit access to certain pages, or may permit you set certain privacy settings for such information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Platform with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Indirect Collection of Personal Information

As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, location, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Platform, including traffic data, logs, location data, other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Platform.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Information, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Platform according to your individual interests.
Recognize you when you return to our Platform.
Speed up your searches.
Serve you relevant location-specific content or advertising.
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

Cookies

We may collect information automatically using cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Platform. For further information, visit https://allaboutcookies.org.

Personal Information Collected During Prior Twelve Months

The chart below specifies whether we have collected information from each category of Personal Information during the twelve months prior to the date listed at the top of this policy. Not all types of Personal Information may be collected for every individual.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Platform are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons, location, or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

To present our Platform and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that Personal Information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your Personal Information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
In order to process any orders for products or services, we may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reporting agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To notify you about changes to our Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Platform users or consumers is among the assets transferred.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your Personal Information.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Platform.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our STEM Playbook goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us at privacy@stemplaybook.org. For more information, see Your Personal Information Rights.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With

Disclosure of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

We may share your Personal Information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose.

Sale of Personal Information

We do not sell your Personal Information to third parties.

Other Sharing

We may also share your Personal Information:

To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Platform users or consumers is among the assets transferred.
To enforce or apply our terms of use found at www.stemplaybook.org/terms-of-use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of The STEM Playbook, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Personal Information Sharing During Prior Twelve Months

Restrictions on Future Collection and Use

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information

You can access, review, and change your Personal Information by logging into the Platform and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at privacy@stemplaybook.org to request access to, correct, or delete Personal Information that you have provided to us. [We cannot delete your personal data except by also deleting your user account.] We may not accommodate a request to change or delete information if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or negatively impact the information's accuracy. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Platform, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or because other Platform users may have copied or stored them. Our terms of use www.stemplaybook.org/terms-of-use govern proper access and use of information provided on the Platform, including User Contributions.

SMS Messaging

If you provide us with a phone number capable of receiving SMS messages, we will send you SMS messages only with your consent. We securely store your phone information and will not share your SMS consent, or any third party.

Nevada Residents

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request by emailing us at privacy@stemplaybook.org.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We employ physical, procedural, and technological security measures to help protect your information from unauthorized access or disclosure. We may use encryption, passwords, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Platform like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Platform.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Platform. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Platform.

Governing Law

Our Platform is controlled and operated by The STEM Playbook. We provide our Platform for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no claims that the Platform or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Platform may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Platform from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. By choosing to visit our Platform or provide your personal information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in our Privacy Policy will be governed in accordance with the governing dispute resolution and arbitration provisions in our terms of use found at www.stemplaybook.org/terms-of-use.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend our Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and through a notice on the Platform home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. When we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post the updated notice on the Platform and update the notice’s effective date. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Platform and our Privacy Policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of our Platform following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which collects and uses your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us by emailing us at privacy@stemplaybook.org.