Privacy Statement

By accessing this website ("Website"), you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to use this Website. Bless a Teacher/ Mic’s Way (hereafter "Mic’s Way") shares your concerns regarding the privacy of personal information collected on the Internet. The following Privacy Policy discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices of Mic’s Way in connection with its Website. If you feel that Mic’s Way is not abiding by its posted Privacy Policy, you should contact School Specialty by email at [email protected].

Information Collection and Use

Mic’s Way is the owner of the information collected on this Website. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this Policy. Mic’s Way collects information from our users at several different points on our Website. We use your information to facilitate the services we provide you in the sale and distribution of products and services that you request. We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Website, to troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems. You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze Website usage, improve our content and product offerings, solve technical problems and customize our Website's content, layout, and services. These uses improve our Website and better tailor the Website to meet your needs. Mic’s Way reserves all rights and exemptions under applicable privacy legislation.

Registration and Profile Information: When you create an account, we may collect your personal information such as your username, first and last name, email address, mobile phone number, things you like, more about yourself, company name where you work, age, home address, phone contact list and a photo, if you chose to have a photo associated with your account. Also credit card and other payment information may be collected, but not stored unless you allow us to.

Messages and User Content: We collect information when you message other members who use our service. We may also keep any messages you send to us. We use this information to provide to you the features and functionality of the Service and to communicate directly with you, such as to send you alerts on the movements of your connections and others connected to you through some degree of separation or others you may not know.

Cookies

We use this information to remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Service; provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising; track your location and movements; identify and contact you across multiple devices; provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Service and our marketing campaigns; monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, users, traffic, and demographic patterns; diagnose or fix technology problems reported by our Users or engineers that are associated with certain IP addresses or User IDs; and detect or prevent fraud or other harmful activities; automatically update our mobile application on your system and related devices; and otherwise plan for and enhance our Service.

If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; disable existing cookies; or set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may have an impact your experience using the Service, as some features and services on our Service may not work properly. Depending on your mobile device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. These browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on non-cookie technologies. You may also set your e-mail options do the same thing. We will do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our Users. At this time, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser

User ID and Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your Username and Password, including fees or expenses related to its misuse. Therefore, we do not recommend that you disclose your Mic’s Way Username or Password to any third party, with whom you do not wish to be completely liable for their actions. If you choose to share your Username and Password or other information with a third party, you are responsible for all actions taken with your Username and Password. If you lose control of your Password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your Password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your Password and notify us by email at [email protected].

Sharing

Personal Information: We share your personal information with third parties outside the Company and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates in some circumstances, as follows:

  • We may share your personal information with third parties for their marketing and business purposes, including without limitation, to inform and improve third-party advertising. These third-party partners may use this information according to their own privacy policies. Please see “Your Choices About Your Information” to learn how you may be able to limit some third-party data sharing.
  • Any information or content that you voluntarily post to the website or to our Facebook page will automatically be available to the public. We may publicly post your reviews and comments online on our website or mobile app, or link your reviews to third party websites. Furthermore, you grant a perpetual license to us to use reviews and comments, in perpetuity on our website, unless you notify us in writing.

Other instances in which we may share your information:We may also share your information for business purposes, as follows: We may share your personal information with our third-party business partners, vendors and consultants who perform services on our behalf or who help us provide our Services, such as accounting, managerial, technical, marketing or analytic services.

We may at any time buy or sell/divest the company, or any combination of its products, services, assets and/or businesses. Personal information such as customer names and email addresses, and other user information related to the Service will likely be one of the items transferred in these types of transactions. We may also share, transfer or assign such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, dissolutions or similar transactions or proceedings.

We may disclose personal information to third parties (including law enforcement, other government entity, or civil matter) when required to do so by law or subpoena or if in our sole discretion, we determine it is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply with legal process, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b)to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any claims or allegations, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Mic’s Way or others.

Unidentifiable, Aggregated, or Otherwise and Anonymized Information:We share your information with third parties in non-identifiable aggregated or otherwise anonymous form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual or your device. These third parties may use the anonymized information for any purpose.

Information from Other Sources

For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for example, providing better product recommendations or special offers that we think will interest you), we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. We also sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.

Links

This Website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Mic’s Way is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Website.

Protecting your information

Mic’s Way 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. However, no security system is without safety concerns and we cannot guarantee that our systems to be fool proof. 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 users whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Security

This Website takes reasonable precautions to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the Website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our Website asks users to enter sensitive information, that information is encrypted. While we use encryption to protect most sensitive information online, we also seek to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Except as otherwise stated in this Policy, only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a Customer Service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. If you have any questions about the security at our Website, you can send an email to [email protected].

Correction/Updating Personal Information

If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done by email to [email protected].

Choice/Opt-out

Our users are given the facility to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes for any reason. If you wish to opt out of Mic’s Way using your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

Deleting Your Account

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you delete your account, we will no longer keep any of your information.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Service is only meant for people aged 13 and older. Any user under this age is not allowed to use our Service. We comply with local jurisdiction’s policies for such occurrences, such as (but not limited to) the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and its accompanying FTC regulations.
If you believe that we might have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].
Notification of Changes
If we decide to modify our Privacy Policy, we will post those modifications on our Website so our users are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it. Your use of this Website following any such modification constitutes your agreement to the modified Policy. For this reason, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy whenever you use this Website.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you live in California, this section may apply to you. If Mic’s Way does not meet the minimum requirements needed to be liable, they may not have to provide this information. Mic’s Way collects various types of personal information about you both online and offline, as described in this privacy policy. Under California law, Mic’s Way customers who are residents of California may request certain information about our disclosure of personal information during the prior calendar year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. The CCPA provides various rights to California consumers. These include rights to access, deletion, opt-out, and non-discrimination. This section provides more information about each right and how California consumers can exercise these rights under the CCPA.

For Mic’s Way to fulfill your request, you must provide sufficient information for us to reasonably verify that you are the consumer from whom we collected the personal information. The information you send for us to verify your identity will be used for this purpose only. If we are unable to verify your identity or if we suspect fraudulent activity, we may decline to comply with your request.

We will make commercially reasonable efforts to identify your personal information that we collect, process, store, disclose and otherwise use and to respond to your requests. We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee, or decline to act upon a request, if it is excessive or overly burdensome. If we deny your request, we will explain the reasons in our response.

You have the right to request that we disclose the personal information that we collect, use, disclose, and sell. This includes the right to request the categories of personal information we have collected about them, the categories of sources of personal information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information, the third parties with whom we share or sell personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected. To make such a request, please email us at [email protected] and add Mic’s Way California Privacy Rights to the subject line.

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