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This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is between you and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, also known as LACOE (“we”, or “us”), and describes how we collect, use, and share information we obtain about you through your use of our websites located at www.ngss-atlas.com , www.ngss-atlas.org, and any of our other websites, their respective subdomains, and software applications containing a link to these Terms (collectively, our “Sites”).

By using any of our Sites, you are consenting to the collection, use, and sharing of your information in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not use our Sites if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not govern our use of any information you provide to us when you call us, write to us, or communicate with us in any manner other than through the Sites.

  1. Collection of Personal Information
    We collect personally identifiable information (such as first and last name, email address, zip code, occupation, and organizational affiliation) (“Personal Information”) provided to us voluntarily through our Sites, as well as through services offered by third parties on our Sites. For example, if you submit a request for our electronic newsletter, sign up for updates, participate in our forums (including logging in, posing questions, making comments, and subscribing to forums), or request information (including media requests) through our Sites, we (or a third party service provider) will collect your email address and other Personal Information. In addition, we collect Personal Information you choose to send to us in other ways, such as if you send a message through the “Contact Us” link on our Sites. We do not intentionally collect any government identification numbers, payment or other banking information, religious affiliation or medical information. Please do not submit your Personal Information to us if you do not want us to collect, use, and share it under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

    If you visit us and do nothing more than browse the site, read pages or download information, the site's operating system will automatically record some general information about your visit.

    During your visit, the LACOE.edu operating system will record:

    ⦁The type of browser (such as Chrome version X or Microsoft Edge version Y) that you are using.

    ⦁The type of operating system that you use (such as Macintosh, Unix, or Windows).

    ⦁The date and time you visit our site, and the Web pages that you visit on our site.

    ⦁The address of the previous Web site you were visiting, if you linked to us from another Web site

    We use this information for statistical analysis and to help make the LACOE.edu site more useful to visitors. This tracking system does not record information about individuals.

  2. Use of Personal Information
    We may use your Personal Information to send you newsletters, updates, promotional materials, and notices (for example, in the form of email messages or mailings), and otherwise to respond to your requests. We also may use your Personal Information (both on an individual basis and in the aggregate) to enhance the operation of our Sites, statistically analyze use of our Sites, update and enhance our records, maintain and improve our Sites, and for other purposes identified on portions of our Sites where information is collected. We also may use Personal Information to contact you regarding us or our Sites, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce and investigate your compliance with our agreements with you, including the Terms of Use, for any of our Sites. We will not provide your personal information to unaffiliated marketers.

    If you have provided us with your email address to subscribe to our newsletter, we may periodically send you emails that promote or otherwise contain information relating to our organization. When you receive emails from us, you may indicate a preference to “opt out” of, and thus to stop receiving, further emails from us by following the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in the email(s) you receive. Even if you request not to be contacted by us, we may use your contact information to send you crucial information about our Sites, including information about changes to this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use.

  3. Sharing of Personal Information.
    We share the Personal Information we collect among our affiliates and, as described below, with certain non-affiliated entities (“third parties”).• Third Party Service Providers. From time to time, we may enter into relationships with third-party service providers to help with certain aspects of our operations, which may require disclosure of your Personal Information to them. For example, we may use a third party to: (a) send information to you or otherwise communicate with you (via email) about us or our Sites, such as in our newsletters; (b) help us collect data relating to your use of our Sites; or (c) provide portions of the services on our Sites or to otherwise perform other work that we may need to outsource.• M     • Legal Obligations. We may disclose your Personal Information to law enforcement and other government authorities, and to other third parties when compelled to do so by any government authorities or as otherwise required or permitted by law, including in response to court orders and subpoenas. We may also disclose your Personal Information in the event that we have reason to believe someone is causing or threatening to cause injury to or interfere with our rights or property (including by enforcing and investigating your compliance with our agreements with you, including the Terms of Use, relating to any of our Sites), the rights or property of others, the operation of our Sites, Site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; as well as to protect against fraud. 

  4. Automatically Collected Usage Information.
    On certain LACOE.edu Web pages, "cookies" are used to help with interactive usage of the site. A cookie is a small file that a Web site transfers to your hard disk, usually to keep track of you while you are connected to that site.

    The cookies on LACOE.edu's pages do not collect information about you, but only about your browser "session." The cookie makes it easier for you to use the dynamic features of these Web pages, without having to provide the same information again as you move from one page to another.

    To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished conducting business with a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies.

  5. Security.
    We have implemented measures to help protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure. However, no security system can guarantee against unauthorized access and we therefore cannot fully eliminate security risks with respect to your Personal Information. You should be mindful of these security limitations when you submit Personal Information to us. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty with respect to your Personal Information, you agree that the standard used to measure our compliance with that duty will be one of intentional misconduct.
  6. Other Websites or Applications.
    Our Sites may contain links to other websites or may allow you to use third party services (such as payment processing services or social networking services). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any other websites or service providers. Information you submit to those websites and service providers is subject to the privacy policies of those websites and service providers, not this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these other websites and service providers before you submit any information to them.
  7. Accessing, Updating or Deleting Your Personal Information.
    You may request that we update or delete your Personal Information at any time by contacting us at the email address listed in Section 12 below. If you are legally entitled to receive a copy of the Personal Information we have about you, you may request a copy of such Personal Information and we will comply with such request as required under applicable Law. We will use reasonable efforts to fulfill your request to change or delete or provide a copy of your information in a timely manner. We may keep a record of all information that is changed or deleted, and we may determine what may be changed or deleted. For example, if we are required to keep track of certain kinds of transactions, you may be prevented from changing or deleting information relevant for those transactions. Even if we delete or change your information from our ‘live’ database, it may still be stored on other databases (including those kept for archival purposes). Please note that if you delete certain information, you may be required to re-submit that information in order to use certain features of our Sites in the future. We are not responsible for changing or deleting information about you from the databases of any third parties.
  8. International Users.
    Because the Internet is global, information about you that we collect or that you submit may be transferred to, processed in, and held in countries (including the United States) other than the one in which you reside. WHEN YOU SUBMIT INFORMATION TO US THROUGH THE SITES, THAT INFORMATION (INCLUDING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION) WILL BE PROCESSED IN THE UNITED STATES. THE DATA PROTECTION AND OTHER PRIVACY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES MAY NOT AFFORD THE SAME LEVEL OF PROTECTION AS THE LAWS OF CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRIES. BY USING ANY OF THE SITES FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, AS COLLECTED BY THE SITES AND USED, PROCESSED, AND DISCLOSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, TO THE UNITED STATES.
  9. Privacy of Children.
    Our Sites are not directed at minors. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from, or maintain any Personal Information regarding, persons under the age of 13.
  10. Updates to Our Privacy Policy.
    We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post notice of such changes on our Sites or will email notice of such changes to you at the email address we have on file for you. If you continue to use our Sites after a change is made, your use indicates your agreement that you have read, understood, and accepted the changed Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any change to this Privacy Policy, you should stop using our Sites and request removal of your information from our databases.
  11. Questions about this Privacy Policy.

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
  12. Mail:
    Los Angeles County Office of Education
    9300 Imperial Highway, Downey, CA  90242
  13. Email: communications@lacoe.edu

Content Standards

Last Updated: October 17, 2024

These content standards apply to any and all of Your Content and uses of our Sites. Your Content must in its entirety comply with all applicable Laws. Without limiting the foregoing, Your Content must not:

  • Contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable.
  • Promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
  • Infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person.
  • Violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms or our Privacy Policy.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote, or assist any unlawful act.
  • Be intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm, or annoy any other person without any other redeeming intended value.
  • Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.
  • Involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes, and other sales promotions, barter, or advertising.
  • Give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.