Privacy Policy

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Turtle Academy aiming to teach kids programming using the Logo programming language in your own native language free of charge.

Your privacy is important to us. We want to be transparent with you on what personal data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. Moreover, we want you to know your rights regarding this personal data. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you read this Privacy Policy carefully before accessing or using the Website. If you have any questions, you can contact our support

Turtle Academy Privacy Principles

1. We’re deeply committed to creating a safe and secure learning environment for our students and teachers. We take the protection of this information seriously.
2. We do not require you to provide any Personal Information in order to try our lessons
3. The only reason we collect any data from Students or Teachers is to provide better materials.
4. We do not sell your Personal Information or exploit it; we do show ads as a mean to support the development.
5. We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us (as detailed below), and we take the protection of your information very seriously.

Privacy Policy

We are committed to creating a safe and secure environment for learners of all ages on our websites located at https://turtleacademy.com and online services (collectively, our “Website”). Visitors and users of the Website and participants in our education programs are referred to individually as “User” and collectively as “Users”. Any User that creates a student account is referred to as “Student” even if they are using the Turtle Academy Website outside of a school setting. Similarly, any User that creates a teacher account is referred to as “Teacher.” We use the data we receive only insofar as it helps our mission of providing a great programming education to everybody.

Our Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from our Users, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. Your use of the Website and any information you provide on the Website are subject to the Terms of this Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Service. Any capitalized terms used but not defined within this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms of Service. By visiting or using our Website, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Collection and Use of Your Information

The sections below describe the ways Turtle Academy collects and uses personal data, which refers to any information that identifies you as an individual (directly or indirectly). This includes things like the name, display name, email address, school name and address, etc. from Users (“Personal Information”), persistent cookies or IP addresses (“Persistent Identifiers”), as well as some of the non-Personal Information and technical information (described below) we collect. We collectively refer to any of this data we collect from Students, along with any Student information, Student records, and Student-generated content as “Student Data.”

Our collection, use, and disclosure of Student Data are governed by our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and also by the provision of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and applicable state laws that relate to the collection of Student Data, including California’s Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA). Turtle Academy shall not use Student Data for any purposes other than those authorized pursuant to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Data stored by Turtle Academy when creating an account	How and when is the data collected?	How this data is used
Display Name ( Optional e.g., “Turtle or “Mona Logo”) and username (eg "turtle57")	Required by User (or their Teacher) on account creation	Display name is used to provide Students a welcoming login and to identify the Student. Usernames are generated on registration and can be used to sign into an account. Students have the option to set a Display for the profile public display.
Email address	Email address is required on account creation if Student signs up directly. Email address is not required if account is created by teacher.	A Student's email address is only used for the purposes of login.
Parent or guardian email address	Can be optionally provided by parent to create a login for their child at home.	A Student may want to create a personal login to access their account independently of their Teacher or school, especially if the Teacher decides to delete the classroom section that the Student belonged to or the Student signs in with a school-sponsored account like Google, Microsoft, Clever, or PowerSchool. If the Student doesn’t have a personal email address and wants to create a personal login, we require the parent to create a teacher account and add the student under his students. The Student will then be able to sign in at home with a username and password.
Progress in the course. Information on how the Student solved the lessons.	Collected as Students work through lessons progression.	This data, in de-identified form, also helps Turtle Academy improve lesson effectiveness. For example, if a level is too hard, Turtle Academy may take action (like providing better hints) to improve the learning process.
Student projects.	Collected as Students creating a new program .	The code and underlying assets for these apps are stored by Turtle Academy, so that Students can retrieve their projects each time they log in. When Students work in the context of a classroom, their Teacher also has access to view the projects created by any Students in the classroom. Student projects and code creations each have a custom URL that Students can use to share with others.
Written comments and ranks of other programs	Collected as Students chose to rank or comment programs.	Students have the ability to rank other programs they like ( between 1-5 starts). Students might have the ability to comment other progrmas as well. this data will be use to show the coolest progrmas when looking into others projects.

Additional* data stored by Turtle Academy if you create a Turtle Academy Teacher account	How and when is the data collected?	How this data is used
School name and Country, short Description and Website are optional	Required by User when upgrading to teacher account	We would like to have this info under the teacher control in order to analyze school performance better.

* A Teacher account on Turtle Academy has all the functionality of a Student account, and as a result the data collected and stored for a Teacher account is a superset of the data stored for a Student account.

Information from Third Party Authentication Services.

If you decide to register for a Turtle Academy account through an Authentication Service (such as Google Accounts, Facebook Connect, you give Turtle Academy the permission to store and use information already associated with your Authentication Service consistent with this Privacy Policy and the table above.

When using third party authentication systems, Turtle Academy will only store the prvoider Id and Email.

Third Party Service Providers.

Turtle Academy may use a variety of third-party service providers, such as email services to send email, analytics companies to understand our Website usage, and social networking platforms to host our videos. We may allow third-party service providers to place and read their own cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information through the Website. This technical information is collected directly and automatically by these third parties.

We are using Google ads to in order to support the project.

Certain capabilities linked from the Turtle Academy Website may be implemented by third parties who collect data. For example, donations to TUrtle Academy might processed by Paypal. Other third-party websites, such as the Turtle Academy Facebook page and Twitter page, may be co-branded with our name or logo. Use of these third-party services are completely optional to Users, typically meant only for adults, and governed by the privacy policy of these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policy at the third parties for details about how they may collect, store, and use your Personal Information.

How We Share or Transfer Data

We do not rent or sell Personal Information, Persistent Identifiers, or any other information that we collect from Users, or exploit it for financial gain in any other way. Turtle Academy will never share or grant rights to Personal Information with other third-party organizations to use without your consent, except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the explicit ability and choice to opt-in. Whenever we share Student personal data, we hold our partners to privacy and security practices no less stringent than our own. In particular, we do not share any Personal Information you provide with our donors or sponsors (other than the "Public Reporting" of de-identified reports as described below).

We may share Student data with your Teacher and limited Teacher information with the Student

If a Student belongs to a Teacher’s section, we will share Student account information, course progress, and standalone projects with that Teacher so the Teacher can help manage the Student’s progress. The Student will also see limited information about their Teacher including their Teacher’s display name and section information.

Our Approach to Data Security

Website security is important to you, and to us

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you account access or making corrections to your Personal Information. If you have any questions about how we handle or protect your personal data, please contact us

Data we choose not to store

We will not store any phone number, location info and any payment method.

We will delete Student display names, coding projects, apps, uploaded images and other assets associated with Student accounts that have remained unused and inactive for a period of time, in accordance with our data retention policy.

You can review or delete your Personal Information at any time

We keep your personal data only as long as necessary or for the purposes for which it was collected or as required under any contract or by applicable law.
If, at any point, you wish to access, amend, export (i.e., data portability), or object to or restrict the processing of Personal Information collected via our Website, send us a request by email. We will promptly review all such requests in accordance with applicable laws. If you wish to delete your information on the Turtle Academy learning platform, you may delete your account from the account settings page.
Note that deleting a Turtle Academy account will not delete data that you may have submitted outside of Turtle Academy's learning platform (such as signing our petition to support advocacy in your area) or on related services hosted by third parties such as our support forum or the teacher forum. Please send us a request by email if you would like to have this information deleted. Furthermore, there is a buffer period before permanent deletion of your account (to allow for account recovery in case a teacher or student accidentally deleted an account.) You can contact us to have any account permanently deleted sooner.
We also automatically delete any Personal Information associated with inactive Student or Teacher accounts per our data retention policy.

Your Rights Regarding to Your Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws. This means we collect and use your information only where:

• We need it to provide you the functionality of the Website, including to operate the Website, provide customer support and personalized features, and to protect the safety and security of the Website;
• t satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the Website, and to protect our legal rights and interests;
• You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose; or
• We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.

If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your information because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you may have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using the Website.
Additionally, once you have provided us your data, either actively or automatically, you will have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we have from you;
• Request a rectification, erasure, restriction of processing of your personal data;
• Object to processing in certain circumstances;
• Data portability (meaning you can request your data to be transferred to another organization in machine readable standard format);
• File a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that we have violated any of the rights concerning Personal Information about you. We encourage you to first reach out to us by email so we have an opportunity to address your concerns directly before you do so.

Updates to our Privacy Policy

From time to time our Privacy Policy will change. Turtle Academy will notify Users of any change to our Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy with an updated date of revision on our Website. If we make any significant changes to the policy these will be called out with a short notice of the revision conspicuously posted on the Website homepage. We may also contact Users and notify them of the changes if required by law. We stand behind the promises we make, and will not change how we use any Personal Information we have already collected from Users in any material way without also providing notice of the change via email, through this Website, or through other means, and obtaining consent via your continued use to any new policies. We take the protection of the personal data you provide to us very seriously, and we strive to put you in control of decisions around your personal data.