Privacy Policy

Welcome to WadeAcademy.com ("Site"), an online service designed to help users learn languages online. Wade Academy is committed to safeguarding your privacy, and this privacy policy explains our data collection, use, and disclosure practices. If you have specific questions about these practices, please contact us by email at support@wadeacademy.com.

1. Information Collected
When you register with WadeAcademy.com, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your gender, and any other personal or preference information that you enter.

When you use WadeAcademy.com, you may set up your personal profile, send messages, perform searches and queries, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.

We automatically collect some information about your computer when you visit the Site. For example, we may collect your IP address, Web browser software (such as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer), and referring web site. We also may collect information about your activity on this Site. One of our goals in collecting this automatic information is to help improve your user experience.

Finally, when you visit the Site, we may assign your computer a "cookie" (a small, unique identifier text file) to remember who you are. For example, if you register on the Site, we may record your username in a cookie for verification purposes. We also may include other information in our cookie files; for example, if you arrived at our Site via a link from third party site, we may include the URL of the linking page.

Please note that, at this time, the Site is not designed for children under 13 years old. Accordingly, we will not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under 13 through the Site.

2. Use of Personal Information
We will use personal information about you for the following general purposes: to provide you with the products and services you request; to respond to your questions and comments; to communicate with you via regular mail and email (or other electronic means) about our programs and services; to measure interest in and improve our services and Site; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and otherwise as described to you at the point of collection.

Please review “Your choices with respect to the Collection and Use of Personal Information” below.

3. Disclosure of Personal Information
We display your profile information (minus your email address and password) to people browsing for friends, and to support other Site functions. We also may disclose your personal information to the following entities:

(a) Third-party vendors who provide services or functions on our behalf, including customer service, business analytics, marketing, and services to us in connection with operating the Site. These companies have access to personal information needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other purpose.

(b) To business partners with whom we may jointly offer a product or service offering. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party business partners;

(d) As necessary, in our sole discretion, to protect the perceived rights, safety and property of Wade Academy, users of the Site, and the public; and

(e) In connection with a change of control or operations, including without limitation in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, restructuring or any other transfer of Wade Academy’s assets, or a transfer of the Site operations.

Please note that when you provide Wade Academy with personal information through the Site, the information will be housed on servers located in the United States.

Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal information about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information.

We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors to the Site. This information does not contain any personal information and is most often used to develop content and services that we hope you find of interest.

4. A Special Word About Chat Rooms and Email
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, that information can be collected and used by others. By posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

5. Access To Personal Information
You may obtain a copy of any personal information about you that you provide through the Site or otherwise request that Wade Academy update or make changes to such personal information by sending an email to support@WadeAcademy.com.

6. Your Choices With Respect To The Collection and Use of Personal Information
(a) As noted above, you can choose not to provide Wade Academy with personal information, although it may be needed to register as a member on the Site and to participate in certain features offered through the Site.

(b) You can access or update your personal information by sending an email to support@WadeAcademy.com.

(c) You may stop the delivery of email communications by following the instructions accompanying a particular communication or by contacting us at support@WadeAcademy.com.

(d) The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

7. Security
While no web site can guarantee security, Wade Academy has implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect personal information. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they only may do so for permitted business functions.

8. Children Under 13
As noted above, the Site is not intended for use by children. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that the Site is not intended for children under the age of 13 and we will delete that information from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@WadeAcademy.com.

9. Third Party Websites
Web sites to which this Site links do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on those other web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

10. Changes To This Privacy Policy
Wade Academy may update this Privacy Policy in the future to reflect changes in our privacy practices, our website functionality, or applicable legislation, so please check back often. We will notify you about material changes to this Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the e-mail address you provided to us or by placing a prominent notice on the Site.

11. How You Can Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at support@WadeAcademy.com. You may request a copy or send a correction of the personal information we hold about you by contacting the Privacy Officer at support@WadeAcademy.com.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 1, 2009.