Coirle Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 21, 2023

Coirle Privacy Principles:

  • We’re deeply committed to creating a safe and secure online environment for you.
  • We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
  • We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us, and we take the protection of your information very seriously.
  • We take extra precautions for our younger learners, including restricting student accounts to automatically block features that would allow a student to post or disclose personal information.
  • We do not advertise on Coirle. We use your information to provide you with a better learning experience, not to sell you products.

About Coirle and our Privacy Policy

We understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to creating a safe and secure environment for learners of all ages. This Privacy Policy applies to coirle.com. This Privacy Policy describes how Coirle collects and uses the information you provide on coirle as well as the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Our Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from our members and others who visit and use coirle, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. By visiting or using coirle, you consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Your use of coirle and any information you provide on coirle 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 appropriate meaning given to them in our Terms of Service.

Regulatory Compliance

We strive to adhere to U.S. federal, certain state, and certain international regulations. This includes (but may not be limited to) FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and California AB 1584. We highly recommend that you read our policies and terms of service to make sure that we adhere to your local regulatory needs as we make no guarantee of compliance for your specific needs. If you have any questions about how we handle User Data, please email us at admin@coirle.com .

Exceptions for Students

The policies in this Privacy Policy apply to all Users with exceptions for how we handle student data, which is set forth below:

  • We do not collect or use student data for any purpose other than as strictly necessary to provide the Coirle services to students through coirle.
  • We collect and store student data in accordance with applicable law, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
  • We do not share any identifiable student data or information with third parties other than as strictly necessary to provide the Coirle services to students through coirle.
  • We do not provide behaviorally targeted ads to students.
  • We do not provide personal information with other third-party organizations for their marketing or promotional use even if consent were given, which we won’t ask for.
  • We will comply with the obligations set forth in the “Extra Information for Student Users” section below.

How we collect and use data

We take the information you provide to us very seriously, and we strive to put you in control of decisions around your information.

Coirle collects the following information about you and your use of coirle:

Personal Information.

When you register for, browse, and use coirle, you may provide to Coirle what is generally called “personally identifiable information” or “personal data” (such as your full name, email address, or a photograph of yourself) that can be used to identify you. At Coirle, we call this data “Personal Information.”

Information from Integrated Services like Google or Clever.

If you decide to register through or otherwise grant access to a third-party integrated service (what we call an “Integrated Service”) such as Google, Coirle may also collect Personal Information that is already associated with your Integrated Service account. You may also have the option of sharing additional information with Coirle through an Integrated Service. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving Coirle the permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Please be sure to review Google’s Privacy Policy here. You can also update or revoke your Google Permissions here.

Information obtained from other Users.

We make available certain features on coirle that allow other Users to provide us information about you. This information may include Personal Information. Generally, this occurs when parents or teachers provide information relating to a Student User.

Coirle uses this information in the following ways:

To enhance coirle and the services we provide.

Coirle uses the information you provide or that we collect to enhance our relationship with you and to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on coirle. Coirle, for instance, remembers your recent activity so we can recommend the most appropriate content for you on your next visit. If you have given Coirle consent, we may use your Personal Information to provide you with information about Coirle’s features, services, and other offerings that may be of interest to you. Under certain circumstances and if we obtain your consent (for example, if you submit a testimonial and agree to make it public), we may post your Personal Information on coirle.

To understand how you and other Users use coirle.

Coirle uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect from Users to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Users; to improve the way coirle work and look; and to create new features and functionality. For more information, please see the following “Technologies” section.

To enable your participation in Coirle partnership arrangements.

Coirle will not share Personal Information with other third-party organizations for their marketing or promotional use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in. You can grant us permission to share your Personal Information with authorized partners, not-for-profit organizations, and other entities that are not affiliated with Coirle. In these cases we will only provide to these third parties the information you have authorized or asked us to share to these third parties.

Data Retention.

A core part of our service is to relay data to school administrators and other authorized stakeholders. Because of this, school organizations frequently need to look back at previously collected data as well as whether the User is still active or not. For these purposes, we will retain your information for as long as your account is active, as is authorized by your school organization, or as is reasonably useful for your school organization’s potential use. An authorized school representative or you (if you are so authorized or using for personal reasons) may request deletion of your account and data by emailing admin@coirle.com  If the account is no longer active and the school organization has not requested the data within 10 years, we will purge your data.

Technical Information.

To provide a personalized learning and high-quality experience for our Users, we may use various technologies that automatically record certain technical information from your browser or device, including standard log files, web beacons, or pixel tags. This technical information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device or browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring or exit pages, clickstream data, operating system, and the dates & times that you visit the Website. We do this to better understand how our Users are using our Website so that we can improve site functionality and the services we offer you.

Like most websites, whether or not you are a registered member, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on a website and enable us to provide you with a more personalized learning experience. Coirle may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears automatically 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 Website. You can, however, remove a persistent cookie at any time. Please review your web browser “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. However, without cookies you will not have access to certain services and features on the Website.

Coirle will disclose User information only as described below:

If you want information shared with other Users, we’ll share it for you.

We provide certain features that may allow you to share information with other Users. For example, if you are a teacher, you may choose to populate your profile with your name, school, and the grades & subjects that you teach. Or you may ask questions that are visible to other Users of Coirle. Whenever you share information with other Users of coirle, any Personal Information that you choose to include in, or is associated with, such User Postings will be accessible by such Users. As with most online services, once you make your Personal Information available to others in any of these ways, it may be collected and used by the recipients without restriction.

We may share data with third-party applications that you authorize.

In the future, Third-party application developers and service providers (commonly known as “App Developers“) may build complementary services for our platform, such as a mobile application for visually-impaired learners to access our resources. You may request we share your information with App Developers by connecting to the application or service and approving access to your Coirle account.

We may share anonymous or aggregate data to improve our services and learn more about our Users.

In certain occasions, Coirle may work with business partners to improve our services or offerings. We may disclose automatically collected and other aggregate non-Personal Information to authorized business partners to conduct research on online education or assist in understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns for certain programs, content, services, promotions, and/or functionality on coirle.

We may share identifiable data with research organizations to improve our services and learn more about our Users for research purposes.

To better understand how we can improve Coirle for our Users, we may share automatically collected data about how you use Coirle with independent research organizations for the purposes of research only. Our research partners must abide by strict standards when working with your data, including those standards described in the “Third Parties” section above.

We will share data when required by law.

Coirle may also disclose User information if required to do so by law or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with local, state, federal, international, or other applicable laws (such as U.S. Copyright law); or to respond to a court order, judicial, or other government subpoena, warrant, or administrative request. In some cases, we may make such disclosures without first providing notice to Users.

We may share data in the context of a change of business, including a merger or acquisition.

In the event that Coirle is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, we may transfer or assign the information that we have collected from Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. We will only transfer this information in one of the following cases:

  • The Successor Entity does not reduce our security and privacy practices with regards to student data. One way to achieve this is through the entity similarly signing the Student Data Privacy Pledge.
  • If, after we send a notice telling Users of the sale and potential transfer of data and giving them the option to deny the data transfer, a User has not replied within 15 days.

If both of the two above scenarios do not hold true, we will not transfer your data.

We may share data when necessary or appropriate to protect Coirle or others.

Coirle may disclose information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; to protect Coirle from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of coirle; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Coirle, our Users, or others.

Limitations on Access to your Personal Information by Employees and Authorized Parties.

Coirle’s employees, agents, and contractors must have a legitimate business reason to access Personal Information you provide to Coirle. We may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers, including outside contractors or agents who help us manage our information activities, but they may only use your Personal Information to provide us with a specific service and not for any other purpose. Wherever feasible, Coirle will require our third-party service providers to comply with this Privacy Policy.

General Policies on Working with Third Parties

When dealing with Third Parties in any data transfer context mentioned above, we will only do so if they adhere to similar privacy policies to ourselves, safeguarding student data at a similar or definitively same level to the Student Data Privacy Pledge.

Your choice and options in our data collection, use, and transfer

You can choose to not provide us with Personal Information.

You may always decline to share your Personal Information with Coirle. Registration is not required to access many portions of coirle. If you decline to register, however, Coirle will not be able to provide to you certain features and functionalities found on coirle. You may later enable or access those features by providing Coirle with the necessary Personal Information.

You can edit or delete Personal Information in our records.

We want you to have access to your information so that you can help keep it as accurate as possible. If you register and provide Coirle with Personal Information, you may update your account and information at any time by reviewing your profile information. To delete your account permanently or make other changes, email admin@coirle.com. Parents can modify or delete Student User accounts. If you experience any difficulties in this process, please contact us as described below.

You can disconnect us from Integrated Services.

At any time, you may revoke Coirle’s access to your account on any Integrated Service (such as Google) by updating the appropriate settings in the account preferences of the respective Integrated Service. You should check your privacy settings on each Integrated Service to understand and change the information sent to us through each Integrated Service. Please review each Integrated Service’s terms of use and privacy policies carefully before using their services and connecting to coirle.

If you approve the collection of Personal Information, you may provide the following:

  • Name
  • Nickname (what your students call you)
  • Email
  • School/Organization
  • Position at your School/Organization
  • Grades and Subjects Taught
  • Names of your Classes/Sections

Extra Information for Student Users

Coirle is committed to children’s privacy.

Different regions require extra precautions for creation of student accounts and handling of student data under certain ages. In the United States, COPPA requires extra restrictions for students under the age of 13. Similarly in many EU countries under GDPR, precautions are required under 13, 14, 15, or 16 years of age, depending on each country’s individual rules. Because of this, we take the same level of care to student accounts regardless of age or location.

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to Coirle. For that reason, we created certain features designed to help protect Personal Information relating to all students creating accounts on our site (“Student Users”). Coirle also seeks parental consent for all “Student Users.” If you are a parent or guardian (“Parent”) and discover that your child has a registered account with coirle without your consent, please alert Coirle at admin@coirle.com  and request that we delete that child’s personal information from our systems.

In most cases, we will have to reach out to the educator and/or school overseeing the account to confirm identities before we can make changes to a student account at the parent’s direction.

How children may register for and use coirle.

A child can be registered to use coirle through his or her school; or through an integration with coirle  that is supported by the child’s school; or by teachers, tutors, and other similar adults that assist in the educational process (“Teachers”) and have taken steps to obtain parental consent. Parents always have the option to delete their Student User’s account by contacting admin@coirle.com .

Children must always sign up as a Student – never as a Teacher – during the account creation process.

If a Student User attempts to register for coirle, Coirle will request an Authorization Code, which must be created and provided by their Teacher. Teachers must not give these codes to or create accounts for children unless they have the authority to give consent for the sharing of that student’s personal information (name, email, answers, etc). Again, we will never sell student data. It is up to the Teacher and Student to determine if and how this information is shared.

Alternatively, if you are a Parent, you may provide consent for your child’s registration via email. Parents may revoke a child’s permission to use coirle by emailing admin@coirle.com  to delete the account.

Restrictions on Student Users.

Coirle attempts to restrict a Student User’s access to certain features that could result in disclosure of Personal Information by the Student User. A restricted account limits sharing and displaying private information about the Student User in various ways, including:

  • The profile is not shared publicly, and only the Parent and other permitted Teachers can see the User’s profile
  • The Student User cannot post to public discussion forums
  • The Parent can edit Personal Information found in the restricted account by emailing admin@coirle.com
  • The Parent can remove Student Users from view of any Teachers

Some other features of coirle may, however, permit a Student User to enter free-form text through which the Student User could enter Personal Information that would be visible to other Users. This may occur, for instance, if a Student User enters Personal Information in answering an exercise problem or creating other projects on coirle. If you are the Parent of a Student User, please advise your Student User of the risks of posting Personal information on coirle or any other online services as information posted may be used by others without restriction.

As a Parent, you can choose to share information about your child as you deem appropriate. Coirle will not share Personal Information about your child or his/her/their progress with anyone other than you, your child, and any permitted Teachers unless we receive your permission (or as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy).

California Children’s Privacy Rights

If you are under the age of 18 or are the parent of a User under the age of 18, and you reside in California, you are entitled to request removal of content or information you have posted on coirle. If you would like to request removal of your or your child’s content or information, please email us at admin@coirle.com  for assistance, or you can delete specific information (or delete your or your child’s account) directly. Please note that removal of your content or information does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal as there may be deidentified or recoverable elements of your content or information on our servers in some form. Additionally, we will not remove content or information that we may be required to retain under applicable federal and state laws.

‍Our approach to Data Security

Data 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 information. For example, we may ask you to provide certain Personal Information to confirm your identity, and we may require that you create and use a password to access certain parts of coirle. You should create and maintain a strong password to help ensure the security of your account.

We try to ensure that coirle and information sent to us are safe, but no security measures are perfect.

Coirle uses certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information and other information we maintain in connection with coirle. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any or all of the information you transmit to Coirle, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Coirle makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. When you enter sensitive information, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) or similar technologies. 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.

We will notify you electronically if Coirle experiences a data security incident that could affect you.

If we learn of a data security incident that compromises or appears to compromise your Personal Information, then we will attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may also post a notice on coirle if a data security incident occurs.

We will notify each educational agency with which we have a contract of any breach or unauthorized release of personally identifiable information in the most expedient way possible – and without unreasonable delay – but no more than seven calendar days after the discovery of such breach.

How we maintain data integrity

At Coirle, we only use Personal Information as needed for the purposes for which it was collected or where you have consented to our use of Personal Information relating to you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information we store and use is accurate, complete, and up-to-date. If you discover that Personal Information or other data pertaining to you is inaccurate, incomplete, or out-of-date, please update your account information or contact us as outlined below.

Links to other sites

Coirle may link to and may be linked by websites operated by other entities or individuals. Some of these websites, such as the Coirle Facebook page, may be co-branded with our name or logo. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot always control the activities of, such other third-party websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of those third-party websites.

International visitors

Coirle are operated and managed on servers located within the United States. If you choose to use coirle from other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that differ from U.S. law, then you acknowledge and agree that you are transferring your Personal Information outside of those regions to the United States and that, by providing your Personal Information on coirle, you consent to that transfer.

In some special requirements, we may be able to create and manage isolated servers outside of the United States based on specific international partnerships. Please contact us at admin@coirle.com regarding this requirement.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Policy

Coirle may modify or revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Coirle will notify Users of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy with an updated date of revision on coirle. To the extent any modification to this Privacy Policy materially affects your rights or obligations under this Privacy Policy, the updated Privacy Policy will be presented to you upon your next log-in to coirle and you will be required to accept the updated Privacy Policy before proceeding to and continuing your use of coirle. If you do not agree to the updated Privacy Policy, you must cease using coirle.

Contacting Coirle

Please contact Coirle with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, our third-party disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at admin@coirle.com .