Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement for carnegiecyberacademy.com
(including information about kids' privacy)
Last updated: October 11, 2007
We value visitors to the www.carnegiecyberacademy.com web site ("Site") and take your personal privacy seriously. We have posted this privacy statement to inform you of our practices regarding the collection and use of data by Carnegie Mellon University ("CMU") through this Site. This Privacy Statement states CMU's privacy practices solely with respect to information collected by it online via this particular Site, and it does not apply to information collected via other mechanisms and/or by other departments or areas of Carnegie Mellon University. By using the Site, you are indicating your assent to the Privacy Statement described here. This Privacy Statement is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Terms of Use for this Site. We may change our practices and Privacy Statement from time to time. You agree that by using the Site or the materials or information available through the Site after changes have been made to this Privacy Statement, you are agreeing to accept those changes.
THE SITE WAS CREATED IN THE UNITED STATES AND IS DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH LOCAL UNITED STATES LAWS. USERS WHO ARE NOT RESIDENT TO THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT USE OR SUBMIT INFORMATION TO THIS SITE UNLESS THEY AGREE THAT THEIR INFORMATION WILL BE TREATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH UNITED STATES LAWS AND THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE USING THIS SITE OR SUBMITTING ANY INFORMATION.
Kids' Privacy
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. The point of this Site and the MySecureCyberspace game is to teach children about online safety and such things as protecting their privacy. To allow them to access and retain game progress, children create a user account profile by providing information such as a username and password (which should not be their real name), gender, age group, and secret answer (i.e., a favorite color) to a question. However, CMU does not collect their name or other personally identifying information and does not attempt to tie a profile to an identifiable person. CMU does not want to collect any personal information from children, directly or indirectly, and requests users not to provide any. If anyone (child or adult), nevertheless provides personal information about a child under 13, a parent or guardian may so inform us by writing us at the following address and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete it: INI, 4616 Henry Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, email info@carnegiecyberacademy.com. You may wish to visit the resources on our mysecurecyberspace.com web site for more information about children's privacy on the Internet, or http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm to learn about some commercially available Internet protection measures.
Collecting Non-Personal Information Through Technology
When you visit the Site or click on internal links within the Site, we collect information that has no personal reference to or connection with you (impersonal information). By using this Site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by CMU. By itself, this information does not identify you and may include the following:
- The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address (the address of a file or resource accessible on the Internet) of the web site that you left to visit the Site
- The web pages you visit on the Site
- The browser application you used to come to the Site
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet)
- Cookie resetting password
- Statistical game data (for example, time spent in certain areas of the game, number of attempts at a mission, points earned, etc.) that is not tied to personal information.
We use the impersonal information we gather to, among other things, help us improve our understanding of how visitors are playing and performing on the MySecureCyberspace game. We may also use such information for other purposes, including but not limited to as a way to enhance users' experiences on our Site or to better prepare future game content.
Collecting Non-Personal Information Through Creation of a User Account
In order to play the MySecureCyberspace game, users must create a user account. Users are not asked to provide any personal information to create a user account. The information required to set up a user account includes:
- Username
- Password
- Gender
- Age group
- Reminder question
- Answer to reminder question
Collecting Personal Information Through Group Registration
In order for you to complete a group registration (so that you are able to download the MySecureCyberspace game for use by a group), we may require you to provide us with certain information that personally identifies you (which may include, without limitation, contact data like your name, email address, postal address, country and telephone number).
Choice Regarding Collection of Personal Information Through Group Registration
You may choose not to provide us with any individually-identifiable information. In such an event, you may not be able to complete those group registration portion(s) of our Site that requires your individually-identifiable information.
How We Use and Share Personal Information Collected
We will use personal information collected from you through the group registration to, among other things, provide you with information related to the MySecureCyberspace game, to send you information about CyLab and/or CMU's activities and/or offerings, and/or to contact you when necessary.
In the event that some of CMU's assets and/or information are sold or transferred or used as security, the personal information collected through our Site may be transferred to third parties as part of that transaction. CMU may also provide such information and/or provide access to such information to any of our affiliated entities or to our business collaborators, vendors and/or service providers.
CMU may also use your personal information to reply to you and send information to you. CMU may also provide aggregated personal information received through the Site to third parties. CMU does not intend to reveal such personal information to third parties except in the manner stated in this Privacy Statement.
If CMU is requested by law enforcement officials or judicial authorities to provide information on individual users, we may, without your consent, provide such information. In any matters involving claims of personal or public safety, CMU may provide your personal information to appropriate authorities without your consent or court process. CMU may also use your information to enforce CMU's rights, intellectual property or other property, including but not limited to enforcing our Terms of Use or other agreements with you relating to this Site or its materials.
Your Ability to Access, Update and Correct Personal Information
If you do not want to receive informational emails from CyLab or if you wish to check the personal information that we have about you that was collected through the Site, please contact us through the contact information that appears at the end of this Privacy Statement. We may retain in our files information you have requested us to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and/or enforce our Terms of Use or license agreements with you. In addition, please note that such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical constraints and the fact that we back up our systems (therefore we cannot guarantee every trace of your information will be completely removed from our systems in response to your requests).
Site Security
This Site makes use of firewalls, password protection mechanisms, and a SSH certificate on our server designed to protect transmissions of personal information through the Site. However, as you know, even with the best technology, no web site is 100% secure. CMU takes reasonable measures which it believes are appropriate to protect the information collected through this Site from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.
Links to Other Sites
Links to third-party web sites may appear on some pages within the Site for your convenience and information. Using these links will cause you to access web sites that are not part of the Site, even though they may contain CMU logos, information, etc. CMU is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non-CMU Sites, and this Privacy Statement does not apply to other CMU-related web pages and sites. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, you may contact CMU through:
INI
4616 Henry Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email info@carnegiecyberacademy.com
Terms of Use
TERMS OF USE:
Last updated: October 11, 2007
Use and Acceptance.
This www.carnegiecyberacademy.com web site (the "SITE") and any and all information and/or materials offered and/or provided by Carnegie Mellon University ("CMU") through or as a result of your use of this Site (collectively, the "MATERIALS"), are offered to you conditioned upon and in consideration of your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions and notices contained below and in our Privacy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference (together, the "TERMS OF USE").
CMU may from time to time also require that you agree to other specific terms and conditions at the time you use or sign up for use of and/or access to certain Materials and/or portions of the Site. Your use of this Site or of any Materials constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices. Please read these Terms of Use carefully. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not use this Site or any Materials offered or provided through this Site.
Privacy; Kids' Privacy.
As mentioned above, our Privacy Statement describes the information collection online through the Site and its related registration pages. Please review it carefully.
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. The point of this Site and the MySecureCyberspace game is to teach children about online safety and such things as protecting their privacy. To allow them to access and retain game progress, children create a user account profile by providing information such as a username and password (which should not be their real name), gender, age group, and secret answer (i.e., a favorite color) to a question. However, CMU does not collect their name or other personally identifying information and does not attempt to tie a profile to an identifiable person. CMU does not want to collect any personal information from children, directly or indirectly, and requests users not to provide any. If anyone (child or adult), nevertheless provides personal information about a child under 13, a parent or guardian may so inform us by writing us at the following address and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete it: INI, 4616 Henry Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, email info@carnegiecyberacademy.com. You may wish to visit the resources on our mysecurecyberspace.com web site for more information about children's privacy on the Internet, or http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm to learn about some commercially available Internet protection measures.
Complete information about privacy and the information collected through the Site appear in our Privacy Statement.
Modification.
CMU may update and change the Site, along with these Terms of Use (including but not limited to the Privacy Statement) from time to time without notice to you. You must review these Terms of Use each time you use this Site or Materials to make sure you are still in agreement to abide by them. You agree that by using this Site or Materials or engaging in any of the activities described in these Terms of Use after changes have been made to these Terms of Use, you are agreeing to accept and comply with those changes.
Authority
You agree that you have the legal right and ability to agree to these Terms of Use and that you will use this Site, the Materials, and any products or services received as a result of your use of the Materials in a manner consistent with these Terms of Use and applicable law.
Authorized Use; Copyrights and Trademarks
By using this Site, you do not get any ownership rights to the Site or any of the Materials. This Site and the Materials contain copyrighted works and trademarks and other proprietary material owned by CMU. If no restrictions are displayed, you may view and use the information available from this Site for your non-commercial personal use provided that you retain any and all copyright, trademark or service mark notice or attribution as they appear. However, except as stated above or in other specific terms and conditions posted by CMU regarding certain Materials, you may not copy, reproduce, publish, post, transmit, display, store, sublicense, transfer or distribute material or images from this Site without the express prior written permission of CMU. You may not modify, alter, revise, paraphrase, omit, or change any Material or images on or from this Site without the express prior written permission of CMU. You may not create derivative works, whether based in whole or in part upon the information on this Site or any portion thereof, except as expressly authorized. You may not modify, amend, reduce the size of or in any way obliterate any warning, notice, liability limitation, or other license provision in Material or images on or from this Site. You may not assign, sublicense, transfer, pledge, lease, rent or share your rights under these Terms of Use unless agreed to in advance in writing by CMU. Nothing contained on this Site and/or the Materials should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right in and to CMU trademarks or copyrighted material of CMU or any third party without the express written permission of the applicable party. You also agree not to use the Site and/or Materials for any unlawful purpose. You agree to comply with reasonable written requests by CMU to protect CMU's rights in the information contained in this Site and/or as a part of the Materials.
You may not engage in any conduct which violates these Terms of Use or restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Site, and/or any conduct that may constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law, and CMU reserves the right to prohibit access to and/or take legal action with respect to any individual or entity engaging in such conduct. Please note that unauthorized entry (commonly referred to as hacking) into any portion of the Site may constitute a crime under state and/or federal law. CMU reserves its right to prosecute these violations to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Links To Other Web Sites or Mention of Other Products/Services.
This Site may from time to time provide links to other web sites that we think might be of interest to our users ("LINKED SITES") or reference other entities and/or their products or services ("THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS"). Please note that when you click on one of these links and go to a Linked Site, you may be moving to another provider's web site. Such Linked Sites are not under the control of CMU, and CMU is not responsible for the contents or the proper operation of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. The inclusion of any link to a Linked Site or reference to Third Party Products does not imply endorsement by CMU or any association with its operators or owners. CMU cannot control the activities of any such provider once a user leaves this Site. We encourage you to read the terms of use of these Linked Sites as their policies may differ from ours.
Disclaimers.
CMU MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR COMPREHENSIVENESS OF CONTENT ON THIS SITE AND ANY MATERIALS. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS SITE AND ANY MATERIAL IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CMU DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS SITE AND ANY MATERIALS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. CMU DOES NOT GUARANTEE ONGOING, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE ACCESS TO THIS SITE AND/OR THE MATERIALS. CMU DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THE FILES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING FROM THIS SITE AND ANY MATERIALS WILL BE FREE FROM INFECTIONS OR VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, OR OTHER CODE THAT MANIFESTS CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG IMPLIED WARRANTIES LAST OR THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN IMPLIED WARRANTIES -- IN SUCH EVENT, THESE DISCLAIMERS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Indemnification.
YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD CMU HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY'S FEES, DUE TO OR ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE MATERIALS, YOUR CONNECTION TO THE SITE, YOUR VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF USE, OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY RIGHTS OF ANOTHER USER.
Limitation of Liability
BY ACCESSING THIS SITE AND/OR USING OR RECEIVING ANY MATERIALS, YOU AGREE TO HOLD HARMLESS AND WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY REGARDING THE MATERIALS PROVIDED ON THIS SITE AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF USING THE MATERIALS, AND ANY USE BY YOU OF SUCH MATERIALS. YOU AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CMU OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENTS OR MATERIALS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOOD WILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, USE, DATA, EQUIPMENT OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF CMU HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) THAT RESULT FROM (1) THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE OR ANY MATERIALS (2) THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION OR NON-ACTION TAKEN BY YOU OR BY ANYONE TO WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE SUCH INFORMATION, OR FOR ANY ERRORS BY YOU IN COMMUNICATING SUCH INFORMATION; (3) THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; OR (4) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS THROUGH THIS SITE. CMU SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGE OR INJURY TO PERSONS (INCLUDING DEATH) OR PROPERTY ARISING FROM ANY USE OF ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PROCEDURES, OR OTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THIS SITE.
CMU'S ENTIRE LIABILITY AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO ANY DISPUTE OR CLAIM RELATED TO THESE TERMS OF USE AND/OR ANY MATERIALS IS YOUR CESSATION OF THE USE OF THIS SITE AND/OR ANY AND ALL MATERIALS. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN KINDS OF DAMAGES, IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS CMU'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. CMU CANNOT AND WILL NOT ASSUME ANY LIABILITY FOR UNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT USE OF THIS SITE AND/OR ANY MATERIALS.
Severability
If any provision(s) of these Terms of Use shall be held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Security
CMU is not responsible for the security of your internet access services provider; you should review the security and privacy policies of your internet services provider carefully.
Entire Agreement; Jurisdiction And Choice Of Law And Forum; Arbitration
These Terms of Use constitute your entire agreement with CMU regarding this Site and any Materials, and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written between the user and CMU with respect to the Site or the Materials (except for any other additional specific terms and conditions to which you agree in order to gain access to certain Materials, such as a click-through license in order to download software through the Site). These Terms of Use, the Site, the Materials, and any and all claims relating thereto are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. You expressly and irrevocably agree that exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any claim or dispute with CMU, its employees, contractors, officers, directors, and content providers or relating in any way to your use of this Site and/or the Materials resides in an appropriate federal or state court located in the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and you further irrevocably agree and expressly and irrevocably consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in those courts over any action brought relating to these Terms of Use, the Site, or the Materials.
You agree that CMU, at its sole discretion, may require you to submit any disputes arising from the use of this Site, the Materials, and/or these Terms of Use concerning or including any disputes arising from or concerning their interpretation, violation, nullity, invalidity, non-performance or termination, as well as disputes about filling gaps in this contract or its adaptability to newly arisen circumstances to final and binding arbitration under the International Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association, by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said Rules. Notwithstanding these rules, however, such proceeding shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the venue for such arbitration will be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Any award in an arbitration initiated under this clause shall be limited to monetary damages and shall include no injunction or direction to any party other than the direction to pay a monetary amount. Further, the arbitrator shall have no authority to award punitive, consequential or other damages not measured by the prevailing party's actual damages in any arbitration initiated under this section, except as may be required by statute.