Welcome to www.tapybl.com, the website and online service of tapybl, a brand of Anitech Solutions. Tapybl is the protected intellectual property of Anitech Solutions Ltd, and this page explains the terms by which you may use our online and/or mobile services, website, APIs, and software, including any manuals, instructions, or other documents or materials that we make available to you and which describe the functionality, components, features, or requirements of the service, including any aspect of the installation, configuration, integration, operation, use, support, or maintenance thereof provided on or in connection with the service (collectively the “Service”).
BY ACCEPTING THIS TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), EITHER BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, CLICKING A BOX INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE, OR EXECUTING AN ORDERING DOCUMENT OR ONLINE ORDER SPECIFYING THE SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED HEREUNDER, INCLUDING ANY ADDENDA AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO THAT REFERENCES THIS AGREEMENT (AN “ORDER”), YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THE TAPYBL PRIVACY POLICY, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE A REGISTERED USER OF THE SERVICE.
It is effective between you and us as of the date you accept this Agreement or first access the Service, whichever is earlier (“Effective Date”). Tapybl reserves the right to make unilateral modifications to these terms and will provide notice of these changes as described below. This Agreement applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service (each a “User” and collectively, “Users”).
IF YOU ARE ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF A COMPANY OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BIND SUCH ENTITY AND ITS AFFILIATES TO THIS AGREEMENT, IN WHICH CASE THE TERM “YOU” SHALL REFER TO SUCH ENTITY AND ITS AFFILIATES. ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU ARE USING THIS SERVICE AS AN EDUCATOR, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE ACTING ON BEHALF OF (OR HAVE PERMISSION FROM) THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION YOU ARE EMPLOYED BY TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND TO USE THE SERVICE AS A PART OF YOUR CURRICULUM AND THAT, WITH RESPECT TO ANY STUDENT YOU AUTHORIZE TO USE THE SERVICE PURSUANT TO YOUR AGREEMENT, YOU HAVE OBTAINED APPROPRIATE PARENTAL CONSENT FOR SUCH STUDENT’S USE OF THE SERVICE, AS APPLICABLE.
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND EACH PROVISION. THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A MANDATORY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS OR CLASS ACTIONS.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make any changes to the Service that we deem necessary or useful to:
Some areas of the Service allow Users to post or provide content such as profile information, videos, images, music, comments, questions, and other content or information on the Service (any such materials a User submits, posts, displays, or otherwise makes available on the Service is referred to as “User Content”). We claim no ownership rights over User Content created by you. The User Content you create remains yours; however, by providing or sharing User Content through the Service, you agree to allow others to view, edit, and/or share your User Content in accordance with your settings and this Agreement. Tapybl has the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to remove any User Content that is shared via the Service.
You agree not to post User Content that: (i) may create a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to you, to any other person, or to any animal; (ii) may create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property; (iii) seeks to harm or exploit children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise; (iv) may constitute or contribute to a crime or tort; (v) contains any information or content that we deem to be unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, profane, obscene, or otherwise objectionable; (vi) contains any information or content that is illegal (including, without limitation, the disclosure of insider information under securities law or of another party’s trade secrets); (vii) contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; or (viii) contains any information or content that you know is not correct and current or (ix) violates any school or other applicable policy, including those related to cheating or ethics. You agree that any User Content that you post does not and will not violate third-party rights of any kind, including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below) or rights of privacy. To the extent that your User Content contains music, you hereby represent that it does not violate copyrights, including without limitation the performance, mechanical, and sound recordings rights, with respect to each and every musical composition (including lyrics) and sound recording contained in such User Content and have the power to grant the license granted below. Tapybl reserves the right, but is not obligated, to reject and/or remove any User Content that Tapybl believes, in its sole discretion, violates any of these provisions. You understand that publishing your User Content on the Service is not a substitute for registering it with the U.S. Copyright Office, the Writer’s Guild of America, or any other rights organization.
For the purposes of this Agreement, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.
Tapybl takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content that you or any other User or third-party posts, sends, or otherwise makes available over the Service. You shall be solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting, publishing it, sharing it, or otherwise making it available on the Service, and you agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. You understand and agree that you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate, objectionable, inappropriate for children, or otherwise unsuited to your purpose, and you agree that Tapybl shall not be liable for any damages you allege to incur as a result of or relating to any User Content.
The Service does not replace the need for you, as applicable, to maintain regular data backups or redundant data archives. WE HAVE NO OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS, ALTERATION, DESTRUCTION, DAMAGE, CORRUPTION OR RECOVERY OF YOUR USER CONTENT.
By posting or otherwise making available any User Content on or through the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to us a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and any name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and Tapybl’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.
Except for your User Content, the Service and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music, and User Content belonging to other Users (the “Tapybl Content”), and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of Tapybl and its licensors (including other Users who post User Content to the Service). Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any Tapybl Content. Use of Tapybl Content for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.
You may choose to or we may invite you to submit comments or ideas about the Service, including without limitation about how to improve the Service or our products (“Ideas”). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place Tapybl under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and/or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone. You further acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, Tapybl does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to Tapybl, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.
We care about the privacy of our Users. You understand that by using the Service you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personally identifiable information and aggregate data as set forth in our Privacy Policy, and to have your personally identifiable information collected, used, transferred to, and processed in the United States, Ireland, and/or other countries for storage, processing, and use by Tapybl.
Tapybl cares about the integrity and security of your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.
Tapybl respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, Tapybl will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site if submitted to Tapybl’s Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, Tapybl will take whatever action it deems appropriate within its sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright protected content.
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by Tapybl or by a third party who has uploaded materials to our website, please provide the following information to the designated Copyright Agent listed below:
Tapybl may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event Tapybl removes the allegedly infringing materials, Tapybl will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that Tapybl removed or disabled access to the materials. Tapybl may also provide the responsible person with your email address so that the person may respond to your allegations.
Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(c). Tapybl designated Copyright Agent can be emailed at dmca@tapybl.com
Please allow 1-3 business days for an email response. Note that emailing your complaint to other parties such as our Internet Service Provider will not expedite your request and may result in a delayed response due to the complaint not properly being filed.
FEDERAL LAW, SOME STATES, PROVINCES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION AND LIMITATIONS OF CERTAIN IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS AGREEMENT GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. THE DISCLAIMERS AND EXCLUSIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TAPYBL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT; (II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SERVICE; (III) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN; (IV) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICE; (V) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SERVICE BY ANY THIRD PARTY; (VI) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE; AND/OR (VII) USER CONTENT OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY. IN NO EVENT SHALL TAPYBL, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS, PROCEEDINGS, LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, DAMAGES, LOSSES OR COSTS IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO TAPYBL FOR THE SIX (6) MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE HEREUNDER OR ONE HUNDRED EURO ($100.00)., WHICHEVER IS GREATER.
THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SECTION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF TAPYBL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW IN THE APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS AGREEMENT GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. THE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Welcome to Tapybl.com! Our mission is to provide Tapybl users with innovative, accessible and affordable tools for building visual learning experiences in the cloud. Here we describe how we collect, use, and process your personal information when you use our Service, the types of personal data we process and how you may use your rights as a data subject.
Some of our services might be subject to a separate privacy policy. If a separate privacy policy applies to a particular service, we will post it in connection with the service in question.
This Privacy Policy applies to processing of personal data carried out by Tapybl as a data controller. This Privacy Policy does not address and is not applicable to the processing of personal data collected by our organizational customers. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of such third parties.
E-mail address:info@tapybl.com
What’s collected and why?
We collect and use the following information to provide, improve, and protect our Services:
Information You Provide:
You can browse our site without providing personal information, but you must register in order to access most of the features of Service. Depending on how you interact with the Service, we may ask for certain information such as your name (first name, last name), email address, a description of your purpose when using the Service (business or education), your industry if you are using the Service for business purposes, your role (teacher or student) and your school name and school district, if you’re using the Service for educational purposes. Depending on your Settings, some of this personal information may be displayed on your public profile and viewable to others on the Service. You can modify these Settings yourself in the Service. Student accounts and profile data are not public to people outside of the student’s organization. Please note that we process only your direct account information as data controller. We process your personal data collected via the Service and used for educational purposes decided and controlled by one of our organizational customers, in the role of data processor. Therefore, such personal data shall not be within the scope of this Privacy Policy.
We also collect credit card or payment information for paid subscriptions. This information will be securely stored with a third party specialized in the handling of such information, such as a credit card payment gateway or other payment vendors. Tapybl does not receive or process your payment card data.
Our Service is designed to make it simple for you to store your User Content, collaborate with others, and work across multiple devices to create unique, engaging visuals (“Interactive contents”). To make that possible, we store, process, and transmit your User Content as well as information related to it. This related information includes your profile information, which makes it easier to collaborate and share your User Content with others, as well as things like the size of the file, the time it was uploaded, collaborators, and usage activity. Our Service provides you with different options for sharing your User Content. You may provide us with information about you in draft and published User Content (such as for your Interactive contents). For example, if you create an Interactive content that includes biographic information about you or someone else, we will have that information, and so will anyone with access to that Interactive content if you choose to publish the Interactive content publicly. We process the User Content as our customers’ service provider and in the role of data processor. This data is processed for purposes decided and controlled by one of our organizational customers. Therefore, such personal data shall not be within the scope of this Privacy Policy.
If you correspond with us, you may also provide us personal information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our engineering or support teams about a question regarding the Service, or post a question about your User Content in our public forums.
If we call you, or you call us, to discuss our Service, we may collect personal information from you, including your name, company name, business address, phone number, job title, email address, whether you use the Service, information about your business needs, the number of users of our Service you require as well as other similar information you decide to share with us.
Information We Collect Automatically:
Information We Collect from Other Sources:
Third Party Analytics Services. As noted above, sometimes we receive information about you from third party analytics services. In order to gain useful insights, these analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. Please see our Cookies Policies for more information.
Purposes for Collecting this Information:
We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:
Legal basis for collecting and using information
When choosing to use your data on the basis of our legitimate interests, we weigh our own interests against your right to privacy and e.g. provide you with easy to use opt-out from our marketing communications and use pseudonymized or non-personally identifiable data when possible.
Disclosure of information to third parties (categories of recipients)
We won’t transfer information about you to third parties for the purpose of providing or facilitating third-party advertising to you. We won’t sell information about you either. We may share your personal information in the limited instances described below. For further information on your choices regarding your information, see “Your Choices Regarding Your Information.”
We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), and those that help us deliver our Service (like hosting and content delivery providers). These vendors process personal data as our data processors on our behalf. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them. When your personal data is processed by third parties as data processors on behalf of Tapybl, Tapybl has taken the appropriate contractual and organizational measures to ensure that your data are processed exclusively for the purposes specified in this Privacy Statement, and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Other vendors are listed in our more specific policies (e.g. our Cookies Policies).
Our Services display information like your name, profile picture, and profile description to other users in places like your user profile and sharing notifications. For our student users, this profile data is displayed only to users belonging to the same organization. You can also share your Interactive contents with other users if you choose.
If your use of the Service is pursuant to an Agreement entered into by your employer, education institution, or other organization to which you belong, (e.g., Tapybl Business plans or Tapybl Education), your administrator may have the ability to access and control your Tapybl team account. Please refer to your organization’s internal policies if you have questions about this.
Certain features let you make additional information available to the public. You may have the option to share your Tapybl activities with your friends, or through email, SMS text, or various social media sites or on your blog or website. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.
You can also give third-party providers access to your information and account, for example, via Tapybl APIs. Please remember that their use of your information will be governed by their privacy policies and terms.
Other parties in connection with any company transaction, such as a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings. Your information, including user names and email addresses, User Content, and other user information may be among the items sold or otherwise transferred in these types of transactions. In this case, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of all personal data. We will give notice to all the Users concerned when the personal data are transferred or become subject to a different privacy statement, as soon as reasonably possible; and
Third parties as required to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoena/court order, legal process or other government request, (b) enforce our Terms of Use Agreement, including the investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Tapybl, its users or the public as required or permitted by law and (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address criminal (including fraud or stalking), security or technical issues.
We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified. In this case, the personal data is permanently anonymized so that no personally identifiable data is shared. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Service.
Your choices and rights regarding your information
Tapybl does not verify the accuracy of the personal data you provide. All Tapybl profiles are typically made available to the public, however you may elect to make your content private. If you make all of the content on your profile private, then your profile will not appear in a directory search of the Service, but a user may still be able to access your profile if they know the uniform resource locator (URL) address for your profile. For our student users, this profile data is displayed only to users belonging to the same organization. You can edit and change your profile and account data through the Settings of your account. You have the right to inspect the personal data we have stored about you in the Tapybl User Register either via the Service (if we, in our sole discretion, offer such functionality) or by requesting it in writing from Tapybl. You have the right to access and be informed about your personal data processed by us. You may contact us and request a copy of your personal data. You can also choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services, for example, paid, premium Services, may not be accessible.
Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the ability to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information via our mobile apps. If you do so, you may not be able to use certain features (like adding a location to a photograph, for example).
Tapybl has no direct relationship with the end users (usually students or employees) of our Users, whose personal information is contained within the personal data processed by our Services. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete personal information provided by our Users should direct their request to the specific User. You may also contact us at info@tapybl.com if you have additional questions or concerns.
We or a third party will obtain your consent before sending you electronic direct marketing. If you do not wish to receive promotional emails, you can click the “unsubscribe” button on promotional email communications. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices. We sometimes contact people who do not have a Tapybl account, for example if you subscribe to our newsletter or marketing list or request more information about our Service.
Of course, while it’s hard to say goodbye, we understand that sometimes you just need to move on. You can delete your information from within your account or close your account. To close your account, please info@tapybl.com, and keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after closing your account, as described in How Store Your Information below, for example, when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests. We’ll use all commercially reasonable efforts to delete or anonymize your User Content upon request, but please be aware that due to the social nature of our Service, it may not be possible to completely remove all of your personally identifiable User Content if, for example, that content has been stored, republished, or reposted by another user or a third party.
You can ask us for a copy of personal data you provided to us.
In case the processing is based on a consent granted by the User, the User may withdraw the consent at any time. Withdrawing a consent may lead to fewer possibilities to use the Services. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
The abovementioned rights may be used either directly in the Service (as described above) or by sending a letter or an e-mail to us on the addresses set out above, including the following information: the full name, e-mail address and a phone number. We may request the provision of additional information necessary to confirm the identity of the User. We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive or manifestly unfounded.
How we process your information
Tapybl cares about the security of your information and uses commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information we collect and that we share with our service providers. Personal data and backups are stored in protected databases located behind a firewall and with both physical and software-based access controls. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.
We do not store your personal data longer than is legally permitted and necessary for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. The storage period depends on the nature of the information and on the purposes of processing. The maximum period may therefore vary per use. When you sign up for an account with us, we’ll retain information you store on our Services for as long as your account is in existence or as long as we need it to provide you the Services. If you delete your account, we will initiate deletion of this information within 30 days of your request. But please note: (1) there might be some latency in deleting this information from our servers and backup storage; and (2) we may retain this information if necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.
Important notice
This Privacy Policy does not govern the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information through the Service by the educational institution or organization which has given you (or your child) access to the Service. Please contact this organization to better understand its privacy practices.
Processing of data regarding children
In some instances, children may use the Service and personal data of children may be collected to the Service. We take many special precautions to protect the privacy of children under 13. Children may only access the Services at the direction of their teacher or school district when their teacher or school has subscribed to the Service and enabled the option for their students to join the Service. In this case, the school or another institute shall be a data controller and shall be responsible for the processing of personal data, including the collection of parental consents when necessary. Please see our Kid’s Privacy Policy to learn more about how we protect the privacy of our users who are under 13 years of age.
Transferring your data
Because the Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, other members of our group of companies, or third party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the What We Collect and Why section above. When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include, in the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them, unless Tapybl has adopted an alternative method other than the Standard Contract Clauses, that ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data in a third country.
You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU by contacting us by using the contact details set out in this Privacy Policy.
Updates to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to modify this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page and will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page.
Contact and lodging a complaint
Have questions or concerns about tapybl, our Services, and privacy? Contact us at info@tapybl.com.
Tapybl’s Kid’s Privacy Policy
We recognize that from time to time we may have children under 13 use the site under the supervision of a parent or an educational institution acting as an agent of their parent. When that happens, we take additional precautions to protect the privacy of children under 13. This Kid’s Privacy Policy is designed to inform how we process personal data of children, in addition to the information provided in our general Privacy Policy.
In case the User considers our processing of personal data to be inconsistent with the applicable data protection laws, a complaint may be lodged with the local supervisory authority for data protection.
Personal Information we collect from kids under 13.
When a user creates a Tapybl account, we may ask for name, email address, a description of your role when using the Service, and password and a birth date. Children may only access the Services at the direction of their teacher or school district when their teacher or school has subscribed to the Service and enabled the option for their students to join the Service. In this case, the school or another institute shall be a data controller and shall be responsible for the processing of personal data, including the collection of parental consents when necessary.
Information collected through cookies and other technology.
We automatically collect certain types of usage information when a kid uses our Service. For example, we may collect an IP address, browser type, information about the kid’s mobile device, and other information. This data is collected using technologies such as cookies, web beacons and other unique identifiers. This information may be collected by Tapybl or by third parties. To learn more about this type of data, see “What is collected and why” in our general Privacy Policy. We use this information to remember information so that the kid will not have to re-enter it during a later visit; provide custom, personalized content, monitor site analytics, and improve our service. We do not permit third party behavioral advertising on our site. We do not target any advertisements or product marketing to children. Kids will not receive any marketing or promotional messages via our Service, as long as they have signed up for a correct account type, i.e. if they have signed up as a student.
How we use and share information collected from kids.
We use this information to operate, maintain and provide the functionality of the Service and to communicate with the kid and the parent about activities on the Service. We may also send Service-related emails (e.g., account verification, changes or updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices). Registered users cannot opt-out of Service-related emails.
Our Service generally permits users to connect with others on the Service and to share information with others. Members under 13 have restricted sharing capabilities, though a kid under 13 may be permitted to share information in the following manner:
In addition, we may share a kid’s personal information with:
We may also share information with others in an aggregated and anonymous form that does not reasonably identify any user, including our kid users, directly as an individual.
Processing of kids’ personal data.
Where the Service is used by a child for educational purposes, the educational institution decides the purposes and means of processing and therefore acts as a data controller. The educational institution is responsible for the processing of kids’ personal data, including the collection of parental consents and informing the parents. At that time, the kid will be able to participate in the Service as permitted by the educational institution.
How parents can access, change or delete information collected from their kids.
A registered user can modify personal data or delete a Tapybl account at any time by visiting the “Account settings” page. A parent or child may contact us at any time by emailing us or by contacting us at the address below to review, change, and/or delete any information we have collected from a kid under 13 as well as to disallow any further collection or use of the child’s information. We will take steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting personally identifiable information about a child and to ensure that the person is in fact the child’s parent or legal guardian. You can also contact the relevant teacher or school organization if you wish to delete the data.
If you have any questions concerning this Kid’s Privacy Policy, or if you feel that we have inadvertently collected information from a child without notifying a parent or obtaining consent, you can contact us at: Email: info@tapybl.com.
COPPA compliance
Some users of the Service may include young children. We take many special precautions to protect the privacy of children under 13. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects children under the age of 16. Children may only access the Services at the direction of their teacher or school district by using an invitation code provided to them by their teacher or educational institution. School officials and teachers are authorized under COPPA to provide consent on behalf of parents; therefore, Tapybl does not obtain parental consent directly from parents of children who are using the Service. A teacher or school district official provides consent for a child under the age of 13 to use the Service when they create an account on the Service for that child. Please see the ‘Tapybl’s Kid’s Privacy Policy’ above to learn more about how we protect the privacy of our users who are under 13 years of age.
FERPA compliance
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) provides parameters for what is permissible when sharing student information. Tapybl is authorized by schools and districts under the FERPA “school official” exception to receive and use educational data to provide educational services. This data has significant educational value; apart from enabling the creation of accounts with which students access the Service, the data allows teachers to track student activity and assess student performance. This information is used only for academic purposes. We do not collect data for collection’s sake, and access is limited and appropriate. For specific information regarding our data handling practices with regard to student data, please refer to our ‘Kid’s Privacy Policy’ above.
Tapybl’s Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”) sets out the acceptable and non-acceptable uses of our Tapybl service. It forms part of our Terms of Use and terms defined in the Terms of Use have the same definition in this AUP. This is a binding document, and by accepting the Terms of Use you also accept this AUP. Please thus review these rules carefully and ensure that your use of the Tapybl service complies with the rules set out in this AUP. We reserve the right to change this AUP at our sole discretion, and will notify you of any changes by posting the new version on the Website.
General rules for the use of the Tapybl service
We reserve all rights to take appropriate action in case of a breach of these rules, including, but not limited to, removing the offending content, or either suspending or terminating the account of the person in breach. We need to do that because we want to make sure that all of our users can enjoy the service, and not get harmed by the actions of the few who might not have others best interests at heart.