We are TeachThought, LLC., a small, family-owned company operated by founder/director Terrell Heick), a former classroom teacher. We are not a large company by design, as we seek to keep business operating costs low to ensure sustainability in our mission–to innovate education through the growth of innovative teachers.
Heick can be reached through email. Additionally, you can find him on twitter, as well as other social media platforms.
Occasionally, services such as cybersecurity, social media management, graphic design, and more are contracted out by Terry when he lacks the time, tools, or expertise to perform duties necessary to operate TeachThought, LLC.
TeachThought, LLC is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.
By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
Preface: We do not sell your information nor collect personal information for any reason other than fulfilling a request by you that requires a response.
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations that is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 21 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) –
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
The Data Subject has the following rights:
Information you have provided us with
This might be your email address, name, billing address, home address etc.,–mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and email address.
Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.
Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See the list of our partners here.
Publicly available information
We might seek information about you that is publicly available–a social media account, for example, when we embed a tweet in a post, perform an internet search to research topics, attributions, the credibility of information/models/frameworks, and more.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website–e.g., YouTube, Google Drive, etc.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. You should seek out the data collection and storage policies of each site to ensure it aligns with your expectations.
We use many Google tools to operate TeachThought, LLC, including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Calendar, Google Classroom, Google Adsense, Google News, Google Search (internal and external, Google Doubleclick for Publishers, and more.
You can find Google’s policy on privacy of these and other tools here.
We use Google Analytics to identify traffic patterns and sources, as well as general geographic and demographic data. We never use it to identify individual ‘human beings’ but rather to monitor content trends and anonymized user behavior on the site. You can find a tool to opt-out of Google Analytics here.
In the event of cyber-attacks or malicious website usage of any kind, we use technology to identify individual user IPs for the purpose of mitigating/blocking such attacks. We do not use this information to identify individual ‘people’ and/or their contact information unless we are contacting them directly in pursuit of the safety and integrity of our website.
We use your Personal Data in order to:
We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.
On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same as your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligations rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law, but not longer than five years/60 calendar months.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:
Google Analytics
None
This Site is affiliated with Adnimation. You can read more here.
Connected third parties
Contact us for a list of ad networks that collect non-personal/’big data’
We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.
1. We rarely collect non-anonymous information that could be used to ‘identify’ you, and when we do we are very clear about what we’re collecting and why
2. We do not directly ‘store’ any personal information about individual users on any /server’ or other database operated directly by TeachThought, LLC.
3. The most frequent data we collect is used to communicate directly with you or send a newsletter you requested, confirmed the request, and otherwise directly signed up for.
4. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as https).
5. TeachThought contracts expertise in cybersecurity that regularly reviews our safety protocol, identifies vulnerabilities, and makes any necessary changes/improvements to reduce threats to your data, our data as a company, and our shared experience as education professionals trying to work together in a sometimes dangerous social/digital/internet context. This security expertise responds to any malware attacks and/or data breaches, works closely with our Director Terry Heick to identify threats/compromises, and reinforces practices and tools/technology to reduce the chance of future attacks.
6. We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable.
7. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks through both automated and non-automated means.
8. We use the very latest and most credible firewall and cybersecurity technology to protect everything related to TeachThought–including your data.
Even though we try our best, no company can guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
TeachThought is made for adult users 18+. We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services nor allow children to register for or use the services provided with our website or company.
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalize and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. Left unadjusted by you, these cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select ‘Remember Me,’ your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
You can remove cookies stored in/’on’ your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd-party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
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.
If you submit information through a contact form, we will use that information to respond to you.
Representative Contact for the EU: Terry Heick [email protected]
Website: https://www.dataprotection.ie/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +353 57 868 4800
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy
Last modification was made January 2024.