Your privacy is very important to us and we take our responsibility to take it seriously. This policy describes what information Maple Bear Global Schools – Intranet collects when you access the Maple Bear Global Schools intranet.
Information We Collect
Information You Give Us Directly
We collect information that you give us directly, such as when you create an MBGS Network Intranet Account or contact MBGS Support.
We collect information that you provide us, such as:
- Your MBGS Network Intranet Account information, including your email address, username, real name, country and date of birth.
- Information you provide when seeking help from us, such as your name, username and email.
Other Information We Collect When You Use Our Services
We may collect other information when you use our Services, such as information about your device, hardware and software information, IP address, or browser information.
We may collect other information automatically when you use our Services, such as:
- IP address;
- Information about your device and software, such as your hardware identifiers, mobile device identifiers and System.
- Approximate geolocation data (derived from IP or device settings);
- Browser information, including your browser type and the language preference;
- Referring and exit pages, including pages viewed and other interactions with web content;
- Details of your activities on MBGS Network Intranet;
We also may collect and store information locally on your device, using mechanisms like cookies, browser web storage (including HTML 5), and application data caches.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We use your personal information, both individually and combined together, in the following ways.
To operate our business and to enhance and personalize your experience, including to:
- Operate, improve, and develop our services;
- Undertake research and analysis to develop and demonstrate our technology, and to better understand our users;
- Facilitate sharing on social networks;
- Measure the health of our Services;
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity;
- Set up and maintain accounts for which you register;
- Provide platform experiences that you may like;
- Facilitate your navigate on multiple devices and/or platforms, as applicable;
- Identify, fix, and troubleshoot bugs or functionality errors;
- Provide platform updates;
- Perform audits and other compliance activities;
- Help keep our Services safe and fair, investigate and help curb fraud and illegal behavior, comply with the law, and to enforce our agreements and policies; and
- Other purposes you consent to, are notified of, or are otherwise disclosed to you when you provide personal information.
To provide you support, including to:
- Help identify and troubleshoot problems with your account or platform;
- Communicate with you and respond to your specific requests or questions; and
- Manage and send you confirmations and important information about your account, platform and subscriptions.
To personalize our communications with you, including to:
- Information relating to Platform you might like;
- Provide you with Platform updates.
We retain the information we collect for as long as necessary to provide our Services, and we may retain that information beyond that period if necessary for legal, operational, or other legitimate reasons.
We may also de-identify, anonymize, or aggregate the information we collect, or collect it in a way that does not directly identify you. We may use and share such information as necessary for our business purposes and as permitted by applicable law.
Comments
When visitors 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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
When you submit a form we automatically collect the following data such as full name, user name, user id, login date, user email, day, month and year, ip address, geolocation and text fields of the form that the user types.
We retrieve this data to know how we should contact the user and the geolocation we use to define the time that we should contact the user.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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
We analyze users’ access to improve our services and increase intranet security. We collect data such as location, browser, operating system, resolution and device that access the intranet.
How long we 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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.