Privacy Policy

TUTORCIRCLE PRIVACY POLICY

The TutorCircle.com is intended to provide tutoring and academic support to students from K-12 to College over the age of 5. The TutorCircle Privacy Policy details the commitment of TutorCircle to our users' privacy. Please review the following policy to understand how the information you provide TutorCircle, will be treated.

I. Who We Are and How to Reach Us

TutorCircle is the sole provider of this website. You may contact us directly if you have any questions regarding the content and material on this website, or the collection, use, correction or deletion of any personal or non-personal information provided over this website. Please contact us at cs@TutorCircle.com

II. Usage Eligibility

The TutorCircle service is intended for students over the age of 5 Years. For website activities that request personal information, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself. Your membership and/or participation in our website services will be canceled without notice if at any time we discover that you provide false information, or violate any term of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Usage Use Agreement. If necessary, and in accordance with applicable law, TUTORCIRCLE will cooperate with local, state and/or federal authorities to protect its users, parents, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries and operational providers or to prevent unauthorized use of the site.

III. Personal Information

The only personal information this website obtains about you is information voluntarily provided by you.

As per the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), if you are under the age of 13, we must have a parent's permission before we may collect and use your Personal Information. We will need this permission before we are able to create an account for you or provide you with any tutoring.

You are free to visit TutorCircle and based on the tutor availability you can even opt to experience the demonstration of the services; however, if you would like to use the TutorCircle regular services, you must register. When you register with us, we will request certain personal information including - e-mail, phone number, zip code, country and, if your school does not provide the TutorCircle service to you, credit card information. Response to our surveys is entirely voluntary and not required for receipt of services.

This information is used by TutorCircle for (1) billing and account purposes; (2) demographic assessments of and provision of services to the user population; (3) empirical research; (4) communication with you; and (5) internal auditing purposes. Only strictly authorized TutorCircle employees have access to this personal information. It may be given to an institutional administrator or a professor if the service is provided through your school or by a textbook publisher.

In addition to registration information, all electronic text-based conversations between you and TutorCircle's tutors are digitally captured and stored in TutorCircle's databases. It may be given to your school administrator, professor and empirical researchers. TutorCircle may request personal information at other times to better serve your individual needs. As stated above, TutorCircle will not collect any personally identifiable information that you do not voluntarily provide. TutorCircle will not disclose any of your personal information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with legal process, (ii) enforce the Registration Agreement or the Terms of Use, (iii) respond to claims that any content on TutorCircle violates the rights of third parties, (iv) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TutorCircle, its users or the public, or (v) respond to the request of your institutional administrators if the service is paid for by them. Your schools' administrators are within their rights to request access to your personal information and electronic conversations with TutorCircle tutors. Your school, in turn, is subject to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Acts of 1974 (FERPA) restrictions on further disclosure. For further information on FERPA rules and responsibilities, contact your school.

TutorCircle also reserves the right to replicate written comments about the service sent to its representatives on our website and/or in promotional materials and/or in business development materials, along with your name and institution. Your email address and any personal information besides your name and institution will not be used at any time without your agreement. If you do not want your name to accompany your comments, please state this in your written correspondence with TutorCircle, Inc. and its representatives.

TutorCircle contains links to other sites and some features of the TutorCircle Service may be offered in conjunction with a partner company. TutorCircle is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and companies.

In order to provide partner company features, it may be necessary for either you or TutorCircle to share your voluntarily provided personal information with this company. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

IV. Non - Personal Information

Certain non-personal information of visitors is also recorded by the standard operation of TutorCircle's Internet servers. This information is primarily used to provide visitors to TutorCircle with an enhanced online experience. Information tracked includes the type of browser being used by the visitor, the type of operating system, and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider. TutorCircle may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe the TutorCircle service to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

V. How to Add, Change, or Delete Personal Information

You have access to your membership profile collected and maintained by our website. We strive to ensure that the information we obtain and use about our members and visitors is accurate. Therefore, you may add, change or delete personal information on your profile or registration for other activities. Certain information fields are required and cannot be deleted for security purposes or in accordance with various laws. We encourage you to keep us informed about any changes in your membership information and e-mail address. You may change, update or delete certain information in your membership file through the TutorCircle web page: Simply log in to your account, enter the "Profile" page, and change your information as necessary.

VI. Use of Cookies

This site requires cookies. TutorCircle uses cookies to establish a session. We do not use cookies for tracking purposes. Cookies do not allow the website to access personal information that you haven't already provided.

VII. Our Security Procedures

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of all users. We require our employees to protect the privacy of all information collected over our website. Only employees and supervisors with specific authorization have access to databases containing visitors' personal information. The databases are protected in a secure facility. We have a digital certificate that is signed by a recognized certificate authority.

Please be advised that once you leave our website, your use of the Internet will be governed by the privacy policies, if any, of the particular website that you are accessing. TutorCircle is not responsible for the content, activities or privacy practices on the other sites.