Teachers, please obtain signed parental permission before registering accounts for students under the age of 13. Print, copy and distribute the following items: •  Scholastic's Privacy Policy Statement •  Scholastic Global Classport Privacy Policy Statement (this page) •  Scholastic Global Classport parental consent form (choose format: Text-only | RTF | PDF)

This Privacy Policy applies to our online practices only.

Scholastic's privacy policy applies to Scholastic Global Classport. In addition, because Scholastic Global Classport is a classroom activity on Scholastic.com that requires personally identifiable information, and that may enable children to disclose personally identifiable information to third parties, Scholastic obtains prior parental consent through teachers in order for children under the age of 13 to participate. The operators of Scholastic Global Classport are Scholastic and ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc. Scholastic's address is Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, New York 10012. Scholastic can be reached by phone at 1-800-scholastic and by email at custserv@scholastic.com. If you have any questions about our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at this address.

Email
Through Scholastic Global Classport, students who have been registered by their teacher as part of a classroom can have monitored email accounts. With monitored email accounts, teachers can preview and approve every message sent to or from the child before it reaches its recipient. The teacher who creates a monitored email account is the only one who has access to and control over the account, until or unless it gets moved to another individual. The teacher who is monitoring the account has total discretion over how tightly to control the account. The default setting is that every message must be seen by the teacher before it reaches its recipient. However, the teacher can reduce the level of control or turn filtering off altogether. Parents are not involved in the monitoring process, unless the teacher wants to inform the parents.

The teacher creating the student's email account inputs the first and last name of the child who will use the account, as well as a password. Scholastic Global Classport proposes a user name, which is typically some combination of the user's first name and some letters of the last name or numbers. The proposed user name will not be the user's actual name. The teacher can later change the user name at the account registration phase. To change the user name after that phase, the account would have to be deleted and a new account created. The first time a child signs on, the child will be asked to pick a new password to access the account.

Teachers must obtain consent on behalf of parents in order to register their students under the age of 13 in Scholastic Global Classport, as described below under "Registration". ePALS acts as the administrator of the student registration and parental consent process.

Registration
Teachers register their students by providing the street address, city, state and zip code where the classroom is located. For students who are under 13, teachers must print out this privacy policy, the Scholastic.com privacy policy and the parental consent form (choose format: Text-only | RTF | PDF), and obtain written parental consent. Once teachers have verified to us that they have received written parental consent (by clicking the appropriate checkbox in the account creation screen), teachers are permitted to register their students and create accounts for them. For students who are 13 or older, teachers are not required to obtain written parental consent. A teacher may inquire about personally identifiable information that has been collected from a student on Scholastic Global Classport, or revoke the consent he or she has provided on behalf of a student's parents by writing to: Scholastic Internet Group, 557 Broadway, New York, New York 10012, Re: Teacher's Request for Information. Teachers can also print, complete and send this letter to the specified address.

Parents can also request to review or have deleted their child's personally identifiable information from Scholastic's records, refuse to permit further use of a child's information, or request that a child's email account with Scholastic Global Classport be removed by writing to: Scholastic Internet Group, 557 Broadway, New York, New York 10012, Re: Parent's Request for Information. Parents can also print, complete and return this letter to the specified address.

Electronic Greeting Cards
Scholastic Global Classport members can send electronic greeting cards, or e-cards, to anyone whose email address they know. E-cards consist of an image supplied by Scholastic Global Classport, and space for a greeting and personal message. The recipient receives an email notification to view the card (which includes the email address of the sender) and given a uniform resource locator (or "URL") to visit where the card will be displayed. Scholastic Global Classport maintains the information required to send and display the e-card for a period of three months, after which all information is deleted. Users with monitored email accounts can only use this feature as part of their monitored email account.

Classroom Projects
Teachers may also create their own personal email accounts through Scholastic Global Classport, with the ability to compose and send messages, upload and add attached files, create and manage folders and store an address book. Using Scholastic Global Classport, teachers can locate other classrooms through a search by country, by keyword and by language. Teachers can use email to participate in collaborative projects with one or more other classes, and may combine offline classwork with online collaboration.

Newsletters
Scholastic Global Classport offers its members a monthly online newsletter on new site features and general internet and educational information, which is sent to users' individual email accounts. Members can subscribe at registration by checking the appropriate box on their registration form. They can unsubscribe at any time by unchecking the appropriate box on the "Settings" page of their account, or by following the unsubscribe link in every newsletter.