Privacy Policy
Who are we?
English Fun Zone is owned and operated by Elizabeth Acker. The website address is: https://www.englishfunzone.com.
English Fun Zone is a site that offers a variety of products designed to help anyone learning English as a second language. The mission is to provide quality materials and information that will help a student succeed in the goals of speaking and understanding the English language. The vast majority of the work is available under the General Public License (“GPL”) and I also utilize works that are in the Public Domain. Students with a membership to English Fun Zone will find topical based lessons, videos and podcasts.
What personal data is collected?
Personal Data
When students leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
When a student signs up for a membership, the student will use Paypal to pay for the subscription. No credit card information is kept at English Fun Zone.
Jetpack is used to protect all data. Information needed to sign-up will automatically be deleted once a student cancels their subscription. All personal data kept at English Fun is as follows; full name, email address, and password.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. WARNING: Visitors who visit the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. It is the responsibility of the student to upload png or jpeg images. NUDITY will NOT be tolerated. Gravatar or a headshot (facial picture) are the only two avatar types allowed.
Contact forms
English Fun Zone uses your full name, email address and password to be able to help you change your password, notify you of updates or events, and may contact you with other information. I will NOT sell your information to another person or business.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who do we share your data with?
Your data is not shared by English Fun Zone. There is no third-party advertisers on this site. If this changes, I will update this information. But it is not my intent to sell or give out your data. Paypal is responsible for your purchasing data and that is through their website. (Please read their privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/va/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full).
How long does English Fun Zone retain your data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you by contacting ely@iteach2help.com. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
This information is only held while the student holds a PAID membership. Once the student cancels the membership, the information is automatically deleted.
Additional information
Changes to this Privacy Statement.
This Privacy Statement may be revised from time to time to reflect changes to our business, the Sites or Services, or applicable laws. The revised Privacy Statement will be effective as of the published effective date.
If the revised version includes a substantial change, You will be notified 30 days prior by posting notice of the change on the “Policy Update” page of our website. You may also be notified of the change by email.
How we protect your data
English Fun Zone works with Bluehost to maintain technical, physical, and administrative security measures designed to provide reasonable protection for your Personal Data against misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. The security measures include firewalls, data encryption. While we are dedicated to securing our systems and Services, you are responsible for securing and maintaining the privacy of your password(s) and Account/profile registration information and verifying that the Personal Data we maintain about you is accurate and current.
What data breach procedures do you have in place?
If a breach should occur, you will be notified immediately. It is recommended that you use a unique password and email address that is not connected to other platforms.