Last Updated and Effective as of: December 31, 2019
This California Privacy Notice does not apply to Personal Information we collect from job applicants or independent contractors, or from our current or former full-time or part-time and temporary employees and staff, officers, directors or owners.
This California Privacy Notice also does not apply to any Personal Information collected by us in connection with our educational software products. Requests for access to Personal Information collected through our educational software products should be directed to your school district.
California Consumer Privacy Act
As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), we are providing the following details, in addition to those set out in the rest of our Privacy Policy, regarding the categories of Personal Information (as defined under the CCPA, and including applicable Personal Information collected online or offline, “CCPA Personal Information”) about California residents that we have collected or disclosed within the preceding 12 months.
What We Have Done in the Preceding 12 Months
(1) We collected the following categories of CCPA Personal Information:
- Identifiers, such as name, contact information, online identifiers;
- Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, signature, payment card number or other payment information, employment information;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as sex and marital status;
- Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history;
- Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our website;
- Geolocation data, such as device location and IP location;
- Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as call and video recordings;
- Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer; and
- Inferences drawn from any of the CCPA Personal Information listed above to create a profile/summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.
As described above in our general Privacy Policy, we collected this CCPA Personal Information from you and/or from other categories of sources such as data brokers.
Also as described above, we may use this CCPA Personal Information to operate, manage, and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives, including, for example, to: develop, improve, repair, and maintain our products and services; personalize, advertise, market, sell and distribute our products and services; communicate with customers; conduct research, analytics, and data analysis; maintain our facilities and infrastructure; undertake quality and safety assurance measures; conduct risk and security control and monitoring; detect and prevent fraud; perform identity verification; perform accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations; comply with law, legal process, and internal policies; maintain records; and exercise and defend legal claims.
(2) We disclosed the following CCPA Personal Information to third parties for our operational business purposes:
- Identifiers, such as name, contact information, online identifiers;
- Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, signature, payment card number or other payment information, employment information;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as sex and marital status;
- Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history;
- Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our website;
- Geolocation data, such as device location and IP location;
- Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as call and video recordings;
- Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer; and
- Inferences drawn from any of the CCPA Personal Information listed above to create a profile/summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.
We shared CCPA Personal Information with our affiliates, service providers, third-party sponsors of and prize providers for sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions, and our business partners, for our operational business purposes.
(3) We have “sold” the following categories of Personal Information:
- Identifiers, such as name, contact information, online identifiers;
- Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our website;
- Geolocation data, such as device location and IP location; and
- Inferences drawn from any of the CCPA Personal Information listed above to create a profile/summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.
For purposes of this California Privacy Notice, “sold” or “sale” means the disclosure of CCPA Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration but does not include, for example, the transfer of CCPA Personal Information as an asset that is part of a merger, bankruptcy, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business.
What You Can Do
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request that we:
(1) Disclose to you the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request:
- The categories of CCPA Personal Information we collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected such CCPA Personal Information;
- The specific pieces of CCPA Personal Information we collected about you;
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling (if applicable) CCPA Personal Information about you;
- The categories of CCPA Personal Information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom we sold such CCPA Personal Information (if applicable); and
- The categories of CCPA Personal Information about you that we otherwise shared or disclosed, and the categories of third parties with whom we shared or to whom we disclosed such CCPA Personal Information (if applicable).
To make a request for any of these disclosures, please fill out the CCPA Request to Know Form. You can also contact us at (877) 713-3114.
(2) Delete CCPA Personal Information we collected from you.
To make a request for data deletion, please fill out the CCPA Request to Delete Form. You can also contact us at (877) 713-3114.
(3) Opt you out of any future “sale” of CCPA Personal Information about you by filling out the CCPA Request to Opt Out Form. You may also contact us at (877) 713-3114.
We will respond to your requests consistent with applicable law. We may need to verify your identity.
You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the CCPA.
Children’s CCPA Personal Information
Under the CCPA, sale of CCPA Personal Information of children ages 13 through 16 requires opt-in consent from the child. CCPA Personal Information under the age of 13 cannot be sold without parent or guardian permission. We do not knowingly sell children’s CCPA Personal Information.
Scholastic’s child-directed Site is kids.scholastic.com, and it is governed by our Scholastic Kids Privacy Policy, not this Privacy Policy.
Your California “Shine the Light” Rights
California residents have the right to opt out of disclosures of Personal Information (collected online or offline) to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You can exercise that right by emailing us at customerservice@scholastic.com or by completing this Third-Party Opt-Out Form. We will comply with these requests consistent with applicable law. You may also opt out of receiving marketing emails from us by clicking on the opt-out link in those emails.
California Minors
If you are a resident of California, under 18, and a registered user of the Services, you may ask us to remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by writing to customerservice@scholastic.com. Please include a description of the content you would like removed, and if possible, the URL for the site and the name of the feature where the content was posted. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by another user.
Changes to this California Privacy Notice
We may change or update this California Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised California Privacy Notice in this section or as otherwise required by law, with a new “Last Updated” date.