Privacy Policy
123 Students values the privacy of the users, subscribers, publishers, members, and others who visit and
use the 123 Students Platform (collectively or individually, "You" or "Users").
By using the 123 Students Platform, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described
in this notice.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the 123 Students Platform Terms of Use. Your
use of the 123 Students Platform and any personal information you provide through the 123 Students Platform are subject at all time to this Privacy Notice and the Terms of Use. Terms for "123 Students"
and the "123 Students Platform" apply to any site or mobile application owned and operated
by 123 Students.
- The Information 123 Students Collects
- The Way 123 Students Uses Information
- When 123 Students Discloses Information
- Your Choices
- Third-Party Advertisers
- Data Security
- Children's Privacy
- International Visitors
- In the Event of Merger or Sale
- Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice
- 123 Students Contact Information
1. The Information 123 Students Collects
- User-provided Information: You may provide to 123 Students what is generally called
"personally identifiable" information (such as your name, email address, postal mailing address,
home/mobile telephone number) if you log in to the 123 Students Platform, or otherwise use the
features and functionality of the 123 Students Platform. You may also provide other information
to 123 Students, including your age, location, and gender, through use of its functionality and
features, such as by creating a user profile.
- "Cookies" Information: When you access the 123 Students Platform, we or one of our
advertising partners, may send one or more cookies - small text files that contain a string of
alphanumeric characters - to your computer. 123 Students may use both session cookies and persistent
cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you
close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the 123 Students Platform. One type of persistent cookie that may be installed on your computer when you
use 123 Students is called a "Flash cookie" or an "LSO." Persistent cookies can be removed. Please
review your web browser's "Help" file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. For more
information on how to manage Flash cookies, you can go here. For more information about cookies and how
they are used, you can go here.
- "Automatically Collected" Information: When you access the 123 Students Platform or open one
of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using different
types of tracking technology. This "automatically collected" information may include Internet Protocol
address ("IP Address"), a unique device or user ID, version of software installed, system type, the
referring search query used to locate content and pages on the 123 Students Platform, the content
and pages that you access on the 123 Students Platform, the dates and times that you visit
the 123 Students Platform, and information from your Facebook account that you make publicly
available, which is provided to us by Facebook via the Facebook APIs.
2. The Way 123 Students Uses Information
- 123 Students uses the information that you provide or that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance,
and provide all of the features and services found on the 123 Students Platform as well as to track
user-generated content and Users to the extent necessary to comply as a service provider with the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- 123 Students may also use the information that you provide or that we collect to serve you with
advertisements.
- We will use your email address, without further consent, for administrative communications such as
notifying you of major 123 Students Platform updates, for customer service purposes, to address
copyright infringement or defamation issues, or to contact you regarding any content that you have
posted to or downloaded from the 123 Students Platform.
- 123 Students uses all of the information that we collect to understand the usage trends and
preferences of our Users, to improve the way the 123 Students Platform works and looks, and to
create new features and functionality.
- 123 Students may use "Automatically Collected" information and "Cookies" information to: (a)
automatically update the 123 Students application on your system; (b) remember your information so
that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the 123 Students Platform; (c) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed;
(d) provide such metrics to Users as they pertain to such User's uploaded content; and (e) track your
entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.
3. When 123 Students Discloses Information
- 123 Students does not share your personally identifiable information with other organizations for
their marketing or promotional uses without your prior express consent, except that if you have provided
us with an email address, 123 Students may provide a hashed version of it to its advertising
partners, RapLeaf, Bizo, and LiveRamp, to enable better targeted advertising where RapLeaf, Bizo, and
LiveRamp already possesses your email address. If RapLeaf, Bizo, or LiveRamp do not already have your
email address in their records, they cannot use the hashed version that we provide. For more information
on RapLeaf's privacy practices, and to opt out, please visit https://www.rapleaf.com/privacy. For more
information on Bizo's privacy practices, and to opt out, please visit
http://www.bizo.com/businessProfessionals/index. For more information on LiveRamp's privacy practices,
and to opt out, please visit http://liveramp.com/data-privacy-policy/.
- 123 Students may disclose aggregated or other types of non-personally identifiable information to
third parties for various purposes, including marketing or promotional uses. For
example, 123 Students may disclose non-personally identifiable information to interested third
parties to assist them in understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns on the
the 123 Students Platform.
- Please be aware that any personally identifiable information that you voluntarily choose to display on
the 123 Students Platform - such as when you publish attribution credits for documents or profile
information - becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others without restriction.
- We may disclose User information to affiliated companies or other businesses or persons to: provide web
site hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create
reports; offer certain functionality; and assist 123 Students in improving the 123 Students Platform and creating new services features. We require that these parties process such information in
compliance with this Privacy Notice, we authorize only a limited use of such information, and we require
these parties to use reasonable confidentiality measures.
- 123 Students may disclose User information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief
that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright law) or
respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant in the manner required by
the requesting entity.
- 123 Students also reserves the right to disclose User information that we believe, in good faith, is
appropriate or necessary: to take precautions against liability; to protect 123 Students from
fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or
allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of
the 123 Students Platform; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety
of 123 Students, our Users, or others.
- 123 Students shows aggregate geographical information about visitors on 123 Students document
pages in our analytics section. This information includes the cities and countries of people viewing
documents, the document which was viewed, and the time the document was viewed. This information is
publicly available to all 123 Students users.
4. Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to share your personally-identifiable information with 123 Students, in which
case 123 Students will not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on
the 123 Students Platform. You may update, correct, or delete your user information and preferences at
any time here.
You may also choose to opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from many of our advertising partners
and others by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you
account access or making corrections to your information. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF
YOUR UNIQUE PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES.
5. Third-Party Advertisers
123 Students adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online
Behavioral Advertising, available at http://www.aboutads.info. Our advertising partners, such as RapLeaf,
Bizo and BlueKai, may use technology to provide the advertisements that appear on the 123 Students Platform and to use data collected through the 123 Students Platform, as described above and in this
section, to better target ads shown on 123 Students and other websites. For a list of many of the
advertisers that may work with 123 Students please visit http://www.aboutads.info/participating.
Our advertising partners may also use cookies or pixel tags to enable the serving of customized
advertisements and content to you both on 123 Students and on other websites and services based on your
visits to, and use of 123 Students, as well as based on your visits to third-party sites and services on
the Internet. These cookies or pixel tags may contain non-personally identifiable demographic or other data.
You may opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from many of our advertising partners by visiting
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
6. OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
123 STUDENTS USES COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE PHYSICAL, MANAGERIAL, AND TECHNICAL SAFEGUARDS TO
PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. WE CANNOT, HOWEVER, ENSURE OR WARRANT THE
SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU TRANSMIT TO 123 STUDENTS, AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
ONCE WE RECEIVE YOUR TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION, 123 STUDENTS MAKES COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE
EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF OUR SYSTEMS.HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT SUCH
INFORMATION MAY NOT BE ACCESSED, DISCLOSED, ALTERED, OR DESTROYED BY BREACH OF ANY OF OUR PHYSICAL,
TECHNICAL, OR MANAGERIAL SAFEGUARDS.
IF 123 STUDENTS LEARNS OF A SECURITY SYSTEMS BREACH, THEN WE MAY ATTEMPT TO NOTIFY YOU
ELECTRONICALLY SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE APPROPRIATE PROTECTIVE STEPS. 123 STUDENTS MAY POST A
NOTICE ON THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM IF A SECURITY BREACH OCCURS. DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU
LIVE, YOU MAY HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO RECEIVE NOTICE OF A SECURITY BREACH IN WRITING. TO RECEIVE A FREE
WRITTEN NOTICE OF A SECURITY BREACH YOU SHOULD NOTIFY US AT PRIVACY@123 STUDENTS.
7. OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM
AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF YOUNG CHILDREN IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT. FOR THAT
REASON, 123 STUDENTS DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT OR MAINTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION FROM PERSONS UNDER 13 YEARS-OF-AGE. IF 123 STUDENTS LEARNS THAT
PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OF PERSONS LESS THAN 13-YEARS-OF-AGE HAS BEEN COLLECTED ON OR THROUGH
THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM, THEN 123 STUDENTS WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATE STEPS
TO DELETE THIS INFORMATION.
IF YOU ARE THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A CHILD UNDER 13 WHO HAS BECOME 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM MEMBER, THEN PLEASE CONTACT 123 STUDENTS AT PRIVACY@123 STUDENTS TO
HAVE THAT CHILD'S ACCOUNT TERMINATED AND INFORMATION DELETED.
THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME RESOURCES THAT MAY HELP PARENTS AND LEGAL GUARDIANS IN MONITORING AND LIMITING YOUR
CHILDRENS' ACCESS TO CERTAIN TYPES OF MATERIAL ON THE INTERNET. WHILE 123 STUDENTS DOES NOT
ENDORSE THESE PRODUCTS, WE PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM AS A PUBLIC SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
- "OnGuard Online," maintained by the Federal Trade Commission.
- WiredSafety
- Netsmartz.org
- The Child Safety Network
- Control Kids
- Cyber Sitter
- Net Nanny
8. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
FOR USERS VISITING THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM FROM THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA OR OTHER
NON-U.S. TERRITORIES, PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY DATA YOU ENTER INTO THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM
WILL BE TRANSFERRED OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA OR SUCH OTHER NON-U.S. TERRITORY FOR USE
BY 123 STUDENTS AND ITS AFFILIATES FOR ANY OF THE PURPOSES DESCRIBED HEREIN.IN ADDITION,
BECAUSE 123 STUDENTS OPERATES GLOBALLY, WE MAY MAKE INFORMATION WE GATHER AVAILABLE TO
WORLDWIDE BUSINESS UNITS AND AFFILIATES. BY PROVIDING ANY DATA ON THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM,
YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO SUCH TRANSFERS OF YOUR DATA TO THE UNITED STATES OR OTHER COUNTRIES.
9. IN THE EVENT OF MERGER OR SALE
IN THE EVENT THAT 123 STUDENTS IS ACQUIRED BY OR MERGED WITH A THIRD-PARTY ENTITY, WE RESERVE
THE RIGHT, IN ANY OF THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, TO TRANSFER OR ASSIGN THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED FROM
USERS AS PART OF THAT MERGER, ACQUISITION, SALE, OR OTHER CHANGE OF CONTROL.
10. CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
THIS PRIVACY NOTICE MAY BE REVISED PERIODICALLY WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE TO YOU AND THIS WILL BE REFLECTED BY A
"LAST MODIFIED" DATE BELOW. PLEASE REVISIT THIS PAGE TO STAY AWARE OF ANY CHANGES. IN GENERAL, WE ONLY USE
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED IN THE PRIVACY NOTICE IN EFFECT WHEN WE RECEIVED THAT
PERSONAL INFORMATION.YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE 123 STUDENTS PLATFORM CONSTITUTES YOUR
AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE AND ANY FUTURE REVISIONS.
FOR REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE THAT MAY BE MATERIALLY LESS RESTRICTIVE ON OUR USE OR DISCLOSURE OF
PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED TO US, WE WILL MAKE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO NOTIFY YOU AND OBTAIN YOUR
CONSENT BEFORE IMPLEMENTING REVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH INFORMATION.
11. 123 STUDENTS CONTACT INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT 123 STUDENTS WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND OUR THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES OR YOUR CONSENT CHOICES
AT: 123 STUDENTS. WE WILL RESPOND TO YOUR INQUIRY WITHIN 30 DAYS OF ITS RECEIPT.