Privacy policy.
Public Health Media privacy policy.
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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 established Khan Academy as a nonprofit organization so that our mission of education and your trust will not be in conflict with a for-profit motive.
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 as described in our Children’s Privacy Notice, including restricting child accounts to automatically block features that would allow a child to post or disclose personal information.
We do not display third party advertising on Khan Academy. Our mission is to provide you with a world class education, not to sell you products.
Overview
Welcome to Public Health Media, Inc. ("Public Health Media," "we," "us," or "our"). We are a U.S.-based charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding your privacy while providing free, premier public health education. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we prioritize your privacy while fulfilling our mission. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our website at www.phmlearning.org/home, our mobile application, and online services (collectively, our "Service").
Use by Children and Students
Our Children’s Privacy Notice (scroll down) explains how we handle personal information from children under 13.
Collection of information
We collect information in the following ways, depending on your use of the Service and your account settings:
We collect information from you directly, such as when you create an account, communicate with us, participate in activities, events or surveys, or otherwise provide information during your use of the Service.
We may collect information from others, such as your parent, teacher, or School, or third parties (meaning organizations outside of Public Health Media), such as third party applications that you use to connect to the Service.
We collect some information automatically, such as information about your use of the Service and the devices you use to access the Service. We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information as explained in our Cookie Notice.
Examples of information we may collect includes:
Account registration information (username, birthdate, and email)
Information about your browser or device, and general location
Information you choose to include in your profile or post in public areas of the Service
Information you may provide in connection with specific features or special programs
Non-personal information which may be linked to your personal information, including Information about your use of our Service
Additional information about our collection of Child and student data is provided in our Children’s Privacy Notice (scroll down). Further information about how Public Health Media collects your information is provided below. You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies, but some portions of the Service may be inaccessible.
Privacy Policy
Welcome to Public Health Media, Inc. ("Public Health Media," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to safeguarding your privacy while providing free, premier public health education. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our website at www.phmlearning.org, our mobile application, such as BeeWell, and online services (collectively, our "Service").
Use by Children and Students
Our Children’s Privacy Notice explains how we handle personal information from children under 13.
Collection of Information
We collect information, including "Personal Information," which could reasonably be used to contact or identify you. This includes first and last names, mailing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and other information. Some information is collected automatically when you visit the Platform.
Public Health Media, Inc. supports Do Not Track. You can enable or disable Do Not Track in your web browser settings.
Personal Information
The Platform generally does not collect personal contact information from Children, except for limited circumstances. We may collect "Device Identifier" information associated with the device used to access the Platform (e.g., IP address), considered Personal Information for Children. This information is used for internal operations and serving contextual ads.
Occasionally, we may collect a Child's first name and online contact information for one-time use or for the sole purpose of protecting the security or integrity of the Platform. In some game instances, a user may provide a name, stored locally on the device.
Child participation in Platform activities is not conditioned on disclosing more information than necessary. Personal Information is used only for the provided purpose and internal operations.
For adults, we collect Personal Information to process transactions, provide products/services, offer information or special offers, contact regarding accounts or policies, improve products/services, and for disclosed purposes with consent.
Other Information
When using the Platform, we collect "Usage Information" such as browser, operating system, arrival information, and visited areas. Usage Information is used to enhance the Platform and improve products/services.
Thank you for entrusting us with your privacy as we work towards accessible public health education worldwide.
Use of information
Public Health Media uses information collected for the purposes of:
Providing the Service
Personalizing your experience
Communicating with you about your account and our Service (including responding to inquiries and sharing information about new features and offerings that may be of interest)
Enabling your participation in special programs that we may offer in partnerships with third parties (if you choose to participate in such special programs)
Understanding and improving our Service, and developing new or improved educational offerings
We may also use non-personal data elements (such as de-identified, anonymized or aggregated usage information and feedback) for product development, research, analytics and other purposes, including for the purpose of analyzing, improving or marketing our Service, for demonstrating the impact of our Service, or conducting educational research.
Additional Information from Public Health Media, Inc.
Additionally, we would like to inform you of Public Health Media, Inc.'s Privacy Policy for the BeeWell service.
Public Health Media, Inc. Privacy Policy
Public Health Media, Inc. operates the https://www.beewell-learning.org website ("Service"). This section informs you of their policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use their Service.
Public Health Media, Inc. will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in their Privacy Policy.
Information Collection And Use
While using the BeeWell Service, Public Health Media, Inc. may ask you to provide personally identifiable information, including your email address.
Log Data
Public Health Media, Inc. collects Log Data, including your computer's IP address, browser type, browser version, pages visited, time and date of visit, and other statistics.
Disclosure of information
Public Health Media takes great care to protect the personal information you provide to us. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. This section explains circumstances in which we may disclose personal information with third parties.
We may disclose personal information:
With other users of our Service, if you use features that enable you to share your information with (or make it accessible to) others.
With vendors, consultants and other service providers working on our behalf
With other users that are associated with your account, such as a parent.
With your consent (including third party applications that you choose to use, such as complementary services or an Authentication Service). If you choose to use a third party application or service, the use of your information by the third party will be governed by that party’s privacy policy.
In connection with business transfers (due to mergers and acquisitions).
For compliance purposes, such as when reasonably necessary to protect the security and safety of our users or Service, or when permitted by law.
We may also disclose de-identified or aggregated information that does not reasonably identify any individual.
Sponsorship and Advertising
As a nonprofit organization, Public Health Media relies on our sponsors, donors, and other contributors to provide funding necessary to provide the Service to our users. From time to time, we permit third parties to sponsor content displayed on our Service.
For example, for-profit organizations may wish to sponsor all content related to a particular public health educational topic, such as injury prevention or environmental health.
Sponsored content will always be labeled (e.g., “Sponsored by ___”).
Public Health Media does not disclose any of your personal information with these sponsors without your consent. We do not provide these sponsors with the ability to track or collect information about our site visitors or users.
Public Health Media does not display third party advertisements on our Service. We may, from time to time, incorporate content or link to content provided by third parties that may be of interest to you and relevant to the educational context of our Service. Some of these materials or websites may include branding or advertisements as permitted by the third party owner or operator. For more information, please review Links to third parties.
We take steps to avoid the collection of information for targeted advertising purposes when we believe the Service is being used by Students or Children.
For example, we seek to prevent third party advertising networks from collecting information for targeted advertising purposes on webpages with child-directed content or when a Student or Child User logs into the Service.
Public Health Media uses the privacy functionality in YouTube to display video content on YouTube.
Please review our Children’s Privacy Notice (scroll down) for more information.
Transparency and your choice
We take privacy very seriously. We strive to put you in control of the choices and decisions regarding your personal information.
We understand that your personal information is important to you, and that is why you have choices in how your personal information is used and disclosed. We want you to have access to your personal information, so that you can help keep it as accurate as possible.
For example, you can choose whether to create an account (or use the Service without registering). If you register for an account, you can:
Limit optional information you provide
Choose whether you wish to disclose personal information with (and use) third party services
Choose whether to add a coach to your account
Choose whether you wish to receive optional email
Update, correct, and delete your account information through your account settings
We encourage you to regularly check your account settings.
In some cases, administrative controls for accounts used in a school setting, including the ability to modify or delete the account, are held by the school. For more information, please review our Children’s Privacy Notice (scroll down).
Your account settings
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 Public Health Media with information, you may update, correct, or delete your account and information at any time by reviewing your profile information and preferences on your account settings page.
Parents (not Children) can modify or delete Child User accounts, as described in our Children’s Privacy Notice.
Security of your personal information
Public Health Media is committed to securing your personal information. We use reasonable organizational and technical safeguards designed to help protect the privacy and security of your personal information
Some of the ways in which we encourage you to protect your personal information include:
We encourage you to create a username that does not reveal your identity
We encourage you to create (and keep) a strong password
We encourage you to be thoughtful about what you post and continue to learn about online safety
We use reasonable safeguards to protect our Service and your personal information, but no method security measures is 100% secure.
Links to Third Parties
The Service may link to and may be linked by websites operated by other entities or individuals. If we include links to third parties and you click on that link, you will be leaving Public Health Media and the privacy policy of that third party applies. Similarly, if you see a link to Public Health Media on a third party website, then the privacy policy of that third party applies.
For example:
If you click on a link to College Board, then you will go to College Board’s website and College Board’s privacy policy applies.
If you are on the Public Health Media Instagram page, the privacy policy of Instagram applies to that Public Health Media Instagram page.
This Public Health Media Privacy Policy does not apply to (and we cannot control the activities of) such other third party websites.
You should consult the privacy policies of those third party websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Public Health Media may modify or revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Public Health Media will notify users of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy with an updated date of revision on our Service. If we change this Policy in a material manner, we will do our best to notify you of the changes by posting a notice on our website before those changes take affect. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Service to stay informed of our privacy practices.
Contact Public Health Media
Please contact Public Health Media with any questions or comments. Navigate to our Contact Us page.
You may also wish to visit the FAQs and see if you may find any of the information helpful.
Children’s Privacy Notice
This privacy notice supplements our Privacy Policy and provides additional information about how we collect, use and disclose personal information from children under the age of 13 (a “Child” or “Children”).
Public Health Media is committed to Children’s privacy.
Protecting the privacy of Children is especially important to Public Health Media. For that reason, we created certain features designed to help protect personal information relating to Children (“Child Users”). When a Child creates an account, we collect their information in compliance with applicable laws, including by seeking the consent of a parent or legal guardian (“Parent”) for creation of that account. When Public Health Media is used by a School in an educational setting, we rely on the School to provide the requisite consent, including applicable parental consent, for Public Health Media to collect information from a School User under the age of 13 for educational purposes.
Please review “Learn More” for more information about:
How Children can use and register for our Service
Restrictions placed on Accounts for Child Users
Information collected and how the information is used
Information disclosed
No Third Party Tracking and No Targeted Advertising
Choice: Access, Modify and Delete Child Accounts
Our data practices strictly comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). For users under 13, we provide clear details about the types of information collected, its intended use, and the security measures implemented. This ensures transparency and empowers parents to make informed decisions regarding their children's online engagement.
Donor information
This Donor information notice supplements our Privacy Policy in connection with donors. If you donate to Public Health Media and do not donate anonymously, we obtain information such as your name, email address, and mailing address. If you donate using our online form, our payment processor will also collect your credit or debit card number or other payment information. Please note that information collected by these payment processors is subject to their own privacy policy.
We may use donor information to communicate with you about your contribution and to send fundraising updates and information regarding the advancement of our mission.
We do not disclose personally identifiable donor information except with your consent or as required by law.
If you have registered for an account with us, then you may update your preferences in your account settings to opt out of donor emails. If you do not have an account with us, then you may opt out by clicking the unsubscribe link on the donor email message or responding back to the email asking to be removed. Please note that if you have previously unsubscribed but subsequently donate (or attend a donor event), then we may send you follow up communications regarding your support of our mission.
Applicant information
This Applicant information notice supplements our Privacy Policy in connection with applicants. If you apply for a job with Public Health Media via an online application or recruiting site, we will obtain the information you choose to provide in your application for that purpose. For example, we collect professional or employment-related information that typically includes details regarding your employment history, experience, and qualifications; as well as education information, including degrees obtained and academic records.
Regional information
This Regional information notice supplements our Privacy Policy. In certain regions, you may have certain additional rights. This may include the right to request access or to update or review your information, request that it be deleted or anonymized, or object to or restrict Public Health Media using it for certain purposes.
If you wish to exercise a right, please Contact Public Health Media. Our ability to respond to specific requests may be limited by applicable law and the functionality of our Service.
International Data Transfer: Our Service is operated and managed on servers located within the United States. If you choose to use our Service from Europe or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that differ from United States law, then you acknowledge and agree that Public Health Media will transfer, store, and process your personal information to the United States for the purpose of performing the Service according to our contract (e.g., our Terms of Service) and for any other purpose for which you provide explicit, informed consent.
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If you are a registered user under the age of 18 residing in California, you are entitled to request removal of content or information you have posted publicly on our Service. To request removal, please Contact Public Health Media for assistance. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal, as the content or information may be retained subject to applicable law.
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If you are a resident in the European Union, United Kingdom, or other countries part of the European Economic Area, you may have certain additional rights:
Right of access and portability. The right to obtain access to your personal information, along with certain related information, and to receive that information in a commonly used format and to have it transferred to another data controller
Right to rectification. The right to obtain rectification of your personal information without undue delay where that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete
Right to erasure. The right to obtain the erasure of your personal information without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed
Right to restriction. The right to obtain the restriction of the processing undertaken by us on your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of that personal information
Right to object. The right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal information, and to object to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, to the extent it is related to such direct marketing
Right to withdraw consent. The right to withdraw your consent at any time (though withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before you withdrew your consent).
You may also have the right to make a complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority. If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact us and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law. In some cases our ability to uphold these rights for you may depend upon our obligations to process personal information for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request.
For personal data subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, we rely on several legal bases to process the data. These legal bases include where:
The processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations in our Terms of Service or other contracts with you
The processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, such as in improving, personalizing, and developing the Service, marketing the Service, such as new features or products that may be of interest, and promoting safety and security as described above
You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose
The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, a court order or to exercise or defend legal claims
Date of last revision: January 10, 2024
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