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Knowledge Forum is an electronic group workspace designed to support the process of knowledge building. With Knowledge Forum, any number of individuals and groups can share information, launch collaborative investigations, and build networks of new ideas together.  KF collects information in different ways in order to provide an individualized and robust educational experience for each user, including real-time assessments for use by students and teachers.For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. We obtain Personal Information relating to you from various sources described below.  Personal information that is collected automatically include: names, emailsemail address, IP addresses, network location, browser version, browser type, ---device IDs--- and ---characteristics---, operating system version, language preferences, referring URLs, and information about the usage of our site. Non personal information is collected eveytime any user uses the service. Every request and response which is caused by user's interaction with the service is saved on the disk. This information does have linkable personal information like IP logs and non linkable data like session ID. We do not share any personal information or linkable personal information to any 3rd party unless so is required for  legal compliance by the government. Non-personal information may be shared to analytics partners to extract usage data. This is regulated through seperate aggrements if entered into between University of Toronto and the partner to analyze the page flows or to allow use of specific KF features like linking of google account with KF if to create note over google drive. Access to service to students under 18 is regulated by individual school owners via separate contracts between University of Toronto and respective schools. Individual schools ensure that concent from parental responsibility is obtained. Internal and service-related usage; analytics and improving the site;  aggregate data - this includes research related to learning via Knowledge Forum; if required by law.  KF does not share personal information with any 3rd party for marketing purposes. Personal information of the group can be accessed by the community in which the user decides to write notes and share information.  The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used. KF will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. As a parent, teacher, or school/district administrator, you can view and/or modify your information through your password-protected manager account. Wth a manager acount, you can also  view and/or modify information for your child(ren) and student(s). We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. Community Owners have features to enable Pseudo names of authors to hide personal information. This feature allows manager to hide user's personal information and display pseudo names to prevent idenfication. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Types of Data Collected:  KF uses the collected data for various purposes: To provide and maintain our Service; To notify you about changes to our Service; To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so; To provide customer support; To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service; To monitor the usage of our Service; To detect, prevent and address technical issues Disclosure for Law Enforcement These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. KF will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods. As a parent, teacher or school district administrator, you have the ability to contact us at any time to review Personally Identifiable Information and categories of data being held in education records.  We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Canada and process it there. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Knowledge Forum legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
PERSONAL DATA: While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email addresses, first name and last name, cookies, and usage data (Eg. Information about objects content was accessed / added / modified / deleted) .  Under certain circumstances,Knowledge Forum may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). We do not make personal information available for any kind of advertisement targeting or any commercial purpose Your KF account may limit you from modifying certain information (e.g. the username that you use to log in to your teacher or parent account), and in these cases, we suggest contacting us, as we may be able to modify the information on your behalf. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. Knowledge Forum may process your Personal Data because:
For our research interests Legal Requirements You are able to request that your account be deleted at any time by writing to us. You are also able to request to delete your child/student's account as long as you have a parent or teacher  (manager) account that is linked to that child. In this event, we will delete your and/or your child's personal information from our systems, and will remove access from the account within 10 business days of your request. Knowledge Forum will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. We need to perform a contract with you
USAGE DATA: We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Linkable Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), Session ID and other non-linkable information like browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.  We use your information to research how Knowledge Forum is used in teaching and learning: Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: You have given us permission to do so
Knowledge Forum stores information about all of the communities that are created and all the contributions made by all participants: Metadata related to Knowledge Forum communities that are created, such as institutional affiliation with the person who requested the Knowledge Forum community, subjects, level, number of contributions, and timestamps for creation and modifications. To comply with a legal obligation The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
"KF Communities": We store who created the community, the co-owners, who contributed, and timestamps for creation and modifications. If participants also log in their user identification is stored. Metadata related to contributions, such as length, number of contributors and timestamps. To protect and defend the rights or property of Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology To comply with the law
Contributions: The full name or nickname of the user producing the contribution, the contribution's textual content, any links and pictures that are part of the contribution, all timestamps for creation and modifications, and metadata related to how the contribution is organized in the Knowledge Forum community. If the contributor is authenticated, user identification is also stored. If you have given consent To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
If agreed with the school owner, Knowledge Forum can collect usage data for research purposes. This will be covered by separate agreements, and requires the consent of the teachers and parents of children being part of the data collection. To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public Please send your written request to: support@prodigygame.com or mail it in to: 1100 Burloak Drive, Suite 200, Burlington, ON, L7L 6B2 or call us at 1 866 585 4655. Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Tracking & Cookies Data To protect against legal liability If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Knowledge Forum aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information. Cookies do not collect any information from the user's computer. They are used for uniquely identifying an user on the service. We use this information to track the activity of each user and to provide personalized user experience. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or reuest deletion of your personal data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. 
Examples of Cookies we use: Session Cookies: We use session cookies to store session identification information which aids in maintaining the flow of the information. Preference Cookies: We use preference cookies to store personal preferences for the user which is used to persoanlize the service Security Cookies: We use security cookies to operate our service to validate the legitimacy of each request. The right of rectification. You have the right  You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Knowledge Forum relied on your consent to process your personal information.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).