Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") applies to stickitgames.com, and Stick It Games ("Company") and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Company include stickitgames.com. The Company website is an Educational Games site. By using the Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

I. Collection of Your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, the Company may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

• First and last name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Phone number

If you purchase the Company's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Company's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We may also gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

II. Use of Your Personal Information

The Company collects and uses your personal information in the following ways:

• To operate and deliver the services you have requested.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To provide you with notices about your account.
• To carry out the Company's obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our stickitgames.com or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• To maintain the security of the Company's services and prevent fraud or misuse.
• To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests.
• Account creation and management, including setting up, maintaining, and authenticating user accounts and student profiles, and saving in-game progress; order fulfillment and billing, including processing payment transactions, sending invoices or receipts, and delivering educational game products; customer support and communications, including responding to inquiries, providing technical assistance, and sending essential account notifications or service updates; and platform improvement and analytics, including monitoring site performance, diagnosing technical issues, and understanding how games are played to enhance educational features.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

The Company may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Company and its affiliates.

III. Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Company does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

The Company does not sell biometric data to third parties.

The Company may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Company, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Company may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Company or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Company, or the public.

IV. Opt-Out of Personal Information to Third Parties

In connection with any personal information we may disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt out of the sale of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt out of the sale or disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from selling or disclosing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale or disclosure of your personal information. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under applicable privacy laws. If you have questions about our privacy practices or wish to submit a privacy request, please contact us at hello@stickitgames.com.

V. Tracking User Behavior

The Company may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the Company, in order to determine which of the Company's services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Company to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

VI. Automatically Collected Information

The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company website.

VII. Use of Cookies

The Company website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Company pages, or register with the Company site or services, a cookie helps the Company to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Company website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Company features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Company services or websites you visit.

VIII. Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, and provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise, use your personal information internally in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

IX. Children Under 13

Stick It Games provides educational games that may be used by children under the age of 13. We are committed to protecting children's privacy and complying with applicable children's privacy laws, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Depending on how a child uses our website and its features, we may collect the following categories of information:

• Account and profile information: First and last name, username, and information associated with a student profile, if these features are used.
• Educational and gameplay information: Quiz answers, scores, game progress, and other information generated through the use of our educational games.
• Technical information: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, device or browser identifiers, access times, and other technical information collected automatically through our website.
• Cookies and similar technologies: Information collected through cookies or similar technologies used to operate the website, maintain sessions, remember preferences, and support permitted analytics and website functionality.
• Information provided voluntarily: Information submitted through forms or communications with us, where applicable.

We do not require children to provide personal information beyond what is reasonably necessary to participate in the educational features they use. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without obtaining verifiable parental consent when required by law.

We use children's information only for purposes permitted by applicable law, including to:

• Provide and operate our educational games and website.
• Create and manage student profiles and accounts, where applicable.
• Record quiz answers, scores, and game progress when these features are available.
• Maintain website functionality, security, and reliability.
• Diagnose technical issues and prevent fraud, misuse, and unauthorized access.
• Provide customer support and respond to inquiries.
• Analyze and improve the performance and educational functionality of our platform, where permitted by law.

We do not use children's personal information for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy without providing any additional notice and obtaining any consent required by law.

When required by COPPA or other applicable law, we will provide parents or legal guardians with direct notice of our information practices and obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13.

Our notice to parents will describe the types of personal information we collect, how we use that information, the categories of third parties with whom it may be shared, and how parents can provide consent.

Where required by law, we will obtain separate verifiable parental consent before disclosing children's personal information to third parties for purposes that require separate consent, including applicable advertising-related disclosures.

If a parent does not provide consent within a reasonable time after we request it, we will delete the parent's online contact information collected solely for the purpose of obtaining consent, as required by applicable law.

Parents and legal guardians may refuse consent, withdraw previously provided consent, and request that we stop collecting, using, or maintaining their child's personal information, subject to applicable legal requirements.

We do not sell children's personal information.

We may use service providers to support the operation and maintenance of our website, including services related to website hosting, security, technical support, analytics, and communications. These providers may process personal information on our behalf only as permitted by applicable law and under appropriate contractual restrictions.

We will not disclose children's personal information to third parties for purposes requiring parental consent unless the required consent has been obtained. Where applicable law requires separate consent for a disclosure, we will obtain that consent separately.

We do not knowingly permit third parties to collect or use children's personal information through our website except as permitted by applicable law and our disclosed privacy practices.

Parents and legal guardians have the right, subject to applicable law, to:

• Review the personal information we have collected from their child.
• Request deletion of their child's personal information.
• Refuse to permit further collection or use of their child's personal information.
• Withdraw previously provided parental consent.
• Request that their child's information no longer be maintained by us.

To exercise these rights, parents or legal guardians may contact us athello@stickitgames.com with the subject line "Children's Privacy Request."

We may take reasonable steps to verify the identity of the parent or legal guardian before providing access to or deleting a child's information. We will respond to verified requests within the time required by applicable law.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect children's personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

We retain children's personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the specific purposes for which it was collected, provide the requested educational services, maintain security, and comply with legal obligations.

We do not retain children's personal information indefinitely. We will establish and follow a data retention schedule that specifies the purposes for retaining children's information and the time periods for deleting it. When information is no longer reasonably necessary for its intended purpose, we will securely delete it or de-identify it, as appropriate and permitted by law.

X. Email Communications

From time to time, the Company may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

XI. Changes to This Statement

The Company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice by sending an email to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modification of this Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by this modified Policy.

XII. Contact Information

The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Company has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the Company at: