Bookji Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: 11/03/2023

Welcome to Bookji. A modern and fun way to get your students excited about books and reading. Bookji is a social reading platform that emphasizes collaboration with peers, emoji integration, and geographical awareness to better captivate young readers with books. Bookji will help create an environment and culture where students see themselves, their classmates, friends and teachers as readers.

Bookji harnesses the most powerful tool to excite kids about reading—peer influence. On Bookji, classmates and friends can create book posts and share book-related content.

Bookji and Student Privacy

We value the privacy of all of our users and we know you care about your privacy and the privacy of your students, so we created this Privacy Policy. It explains the information we collect from users and how and when we disclose or use it. By accessing or using the Bookji website, services, software, applications, and/or content made available by Bookji, you are consenting to collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to our collection and use of data collected from schools, teachers, and students.

Protecting your privacy is fundamental to our mission and business. The following summarizes our promises to you with regard to student data:

We have built a safe online platform to support, promote and foster independent reading activities of children of all ages. Because our users include children who are 12 and younger, we take extra precautions to keepall Bookji users safe and protected. Our information practices are designed to comply with the United States Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our Privacy Policy will help you understand the different measures we take to help create a safe and fun digital platform for kids.

Registration

Bookji does not allow students to register without a unique eight digit class code, which needs to be provided by their teacher or school administrator. By providing a student with a class code, we are assuming, and you represent and warrant, that you have the authority to provide consent on behalf of the student’s parents, and for us to collect information from students for the purpose of providing the Services to you as described in our Terms of Service. Do not provide a class code to a student prior to receiving written consent from the parent.

Information We Collect

In providing our Services, we collect the following information:

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use information about you for the following general purposes:

The profile name of a student will not appear to anyone outside of the student’s school.

We may disclose information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

We may use and disclose information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We may use and disclose information that does not identify or otherwise directly relate to an individual for any purpose, subject to any restrictions imposed by applicable law.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

Bookji has gone to great lengths to keep your information safe. We have implemented both technical and organizational measures designed to secure your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. These include, but are not limited to:

Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe the security of your account has been compromised, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

If you communicate with us by email, please do not include confidential or private information. By sending sensitive or confidential email messages or information which are not encrypted you accept the risk of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet.

Also, Bookji does not encourage minors to make personal information publicly available.

Third party services

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Bookji Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service.

If there is a breach or suspected breach of data,

Your Right to Access Information

You are entitled to see the information held about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us using information at the end of this page. We may require you to provide verification of your identity and to pay an administration fee to provide a copy of the information we hold. Please note that, in certain circumstances, we may withhold access to your information where we have the right to do so under current data protection legislation.

Updating Your Information & Decommissioning

You may review, correct, update or change your Personal Information at any time by accessing your account on gobookji.com. If you would like us to delete your record in our system, please contact us using information at the end of this page and we will accommodate your request, if we do not have any legal obligation to retain the record.

After the product is no longer in use by the school, we will:

Upon request by the school, we can transfer any students’ personally identifiable information we held to the school or its designated third party. A school can request such a transfer not more than once a year.

Our Policy Towards Minors

As stated in our Terms of Service, minors are only allowed to use our Website and Services with their legal representative’s consent. Bookji strictly adheres to the Family Education Rights Protection Act of 1974 (FERPA). FERPA protects the privacy of students' data by specifying how and with whom schools can share information from these records.

We agree that students’ personally identifiable information stays under the direct control of the school. We will not use personally identifiable information in student records to engage in targeted advertising. Nor will we use any information in the student record for any purpose other than those required or specifically permitted by our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Services.

If a legal representative becomes aware that his / her represented minor has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at support@gobookji.com. We will delete such information from our files within 5 working days.

Disclosing Information

We may disclose Personal Information if we have to comply with legal obligations or to law enforcement requests, to protect and defend our rights and property or the safety of other users, and with your permission.

If we are involved in a change in control, merger, acquisition, reorganization, receivership, bankruptcy, transition of Services to another provider, or any similar transaction, your information may be transferred or sold as permitted by law and/or contract.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

This policy may be amended from time to time. If we amend the Privacy Policy in any way we will:

The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

This policy and all matters arising out of or related to this policy shall be governed by the substantive laws of the State of Colorado, USA, without regards to conflicts of laws and principles thereof.

Any controversy, claim or dispute between you and Bookji arising out of or relating to this policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Colorado, USA.

Your Consent

By using Bookji, you expressly consent to our Privacy policy.

Contact us

If you would like to contact us with questions or feedback, please contact us here at support@gobookji.com.