Privacy policy.

Date of last revision: October 23, 2023

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is provided by PACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT D/B/A TEACH-LA (“TEACH-LA”, “we” or “our”) and applies to all users of our website, https://www.teach-la.com/ (“Website”) and our social media accounts.

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we access, collect, process, store, use and share your personal information, which is any information that may be associated with a particular individual (“Personal Information”).

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This Policy may be changed, modified, supplemented, or updated at any time. While we will endeavor to notify you of any changes to our Policy through our Website or direct communications as may be authorized by you, we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

To alert you to changes to this Policy, we will provide a notice at the top of this Policy stating the effective date of such changes. By using our Website after changes to the Policy are made, you agree to the terms of the revised Policy.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT AND USE

We define “Personal Information” as information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual. We may collect, use, and/or share some or all of the following Personal Information categories.

  • Identifiers, such as your name, your school’s name, postal address, email address, phone number, and similar identifies;

  • Internet activity, such as browsing history, IP address, device type, search history, cookies and similar technologies, or information on your interaction with our Website or our advertisements.

  • Financial information, such as debit or credit card information for the purposes of processing purchases.

  • Geolocation data, such the city and state or country associated with the IP address linked to the device from which you visit our Website or interact with our advertisements.

  • Inferences: From some of the information that we collect it may be possible to infer your gender, national origin, and other similar information that may be defined under state or federal laws as protected classification characteristics. We may collect such information incidentally while collecting your contact information for the purposes of providing the services that you requested from us. From your browsing activity and your purchase history, we may also infer your academic or teaching preferences and interests

We collect your Personal Information in order to provide our services to you, to provide you with the information that may be of interest to you, and for other related purposes as set forth in this Policy. If you do not provide the Personal Information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing foods and services to you.

HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

We collect your Personal Information directly from you via our Website, including our Website’s form submissions, by email, and/or verbally (in person or by phone).

PURPOSES OF COLLECTION

TEACH-LA is a workforce development initiative focused on preparing educators to provide early education services to children aged from 18 months to 4 years old. TEACH-LA offers educational, teaching and networking opportunities for teachers, and also offers teacher staffing services for schools. In order to provide our products, services and information to you, we need to collect your Personal Information. Information is collected for the following purposes.

  • To provide the information and services you request from us;

  • To communicate with you and/or your authorized representatives about the requested information or services;

  • To conduct background checks of teachers for staffing purposes;

  • To process payments and other financial transactions;

  • To personalize, troubleshoot or improve our online content and experiences;

  • To market and advertise our service offerings to you;

  • To comply with our legal obligations and to enforce our rights;

  • To combat fraud and prosecute bad actors;

  • For internal recordkeeping and archival purposes;

  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, or similar corporate transaction or proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with an advance notice, including by updating this Policy.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, (b) protect and defend our rights or property or our customers or users, or (c) under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users, customers, or the general public.

We may also share your Personal Information with certain service providers in order to provide you with the information or services you request of us; to conduct background checks of teachers for staffing purposes; facilitate the creation of accounts; provide technical and customer support; personalize, customize, and improve your use and experience of our services and our Website; process payments and other financial transactions; send email and push notifications; enable security support and technical maintenance; send you newsletters, surveys, messages, and promotional materials related to our services; verify your identity; prevent harmful or unlawful uses of our Website, including fraud; deliver you customized or personalized content, information, and advertising; analyze our customers’ interaction with our Website and advertisements; request user feedback; send users links; monitor the health of our servers; manage search engine optimization; and improve and optimize the performance of our services and our Website.

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (such as scripts and tags) on our online services. In some cases, we may link the information gathered by cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to a user’s Personal Information. We also use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about how users interact and use our online services.

You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies, alert you about the cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies.

We classify cookies in the following categories:

  • Necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary for the functions of our Website and cannot be switched off as otherwise our Website will not work for you correctly and your request cannot be properly delivered. They are usually set to manage actions made by you, such as to maintain user session variables including a logged-in status for a user between pages.

  • Performance cookies: These cookies are set by our service providers to provide quantitative measures of Website visitors and pageviews. Information collected with these cookies is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier; to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports; to count and track pageviews, etc.

  • Functional cookies: These cookies are set by us or by our service providers to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and Website performance. These cookies, however, may not be directly related with the services you requested. Services and functionalities implemented by these cookies support features like automatic filled text box, non-necessary forms and optional security parameters.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to other sites (“Third Party Websites”). These links are provided solely for the convenience of our customers. We do not necessarily endorse, sanction or verify the accuracy of the information contained on Third Party Websites. Once you access a Third-Party Website through a link on our Website, you are no longer covered by the Privacy Policy of our Website. Concerns regarding a Third-Party Website should be directed to the Third-Party Website itself. We bear no responsibility for any action associated with any Third-Party Website.

OUR WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN

This Website is not intended for children or individuals under the legal age of majority in their place of residence, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from or relating to such individuals.

Policy for Children Under 13: In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, we will delete the child's Personal Information in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Please see the Federal Trade Commission's website for information on this Act.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230 (d), as amended, we hereby notify you that parental control protections are commercially available to assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. More information on the availability of such software can be found through publicly available sources. You may wish to contact your Internet Service Provider for more information.

TERRITORIALITY

Our computer systems are currently based in the United States and the content of our Website is directed to U.S. residents, and is not directed to residents of other countries. We do not supply products or services to any territories other than the United States. As such, we do not intentionally collect or process personal information of non-U.S. residents and do not market our services to non-U.S. residents. However, if you visit our Website, we will collect and process your Personal Information in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may or may not be equal to the level of protection as in other parts of the world. BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE, YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED OR OBTAINED BY US THROUGH YOUR VOLUNTARY SUBMISSIONS, AND THAT UNITED STATES LAW GOVERNS ANY SUCH COLLECTION AND PROCESSING.

STORING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store your Personal Information in the form of electronic records via cloud-based storage systems provided by our vendors, as well as in the form of hard-copy records stored in our offices. Only TEACH-LA and its authorized representatives have access to Personal Information that is stored by TEACH-LA.

Consistent with our legal obligations, we will keep your Personal Information for the duration of time necessary to provide the information or services you requested to you or the duration of time you maintain an account with us, unless our legal or contractual obligations require us to retain your Personal Information for a longer period.

We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of Personal Information. When it is no longer necessary to retain your Personal Information, we will delete or anonymize it.

KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE

We have implemented reasonable security measures to prevent Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. These measures offer appropriate reasonable security level, taking into account the state of the technology, the implementation costs and also the nature, the scale, the context and the processing purposes. We limit access to your Personal Information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. The measures are also intended to prevent unnecessary collection and further processing of Personal Information. The Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

PLEASE KEEP YOUR DEVICES AND PASSWORDS SECURE

You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse. Please keep your devices secure and do not share devices, logins or passwords to such devices with others as there is a risk that they make access Personal Information that you stored on your device or that you request be transmitted to you from us to your device. If you receive login information, including passwords, to an encrypted account or application, please do not share this information with others. PLEASE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION AND DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR PASSWORDS AND ANY SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO ANYONE ELSE. If you believe that your Personal Information was compromised while requesting or receiving services from us, or if your device or login and password have been stolen, please notify us immediately at info@teach-la.com. We will not be responsible for anyone accessing your information if they use your device or login and password.

YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

By using our online services, you are agreeing to our practices described in this Policy, which includes the collection and use of your Personal Information. Your continued use of our online services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes. Our Privacy Policy will contain the Effective Date, indicating the date it was last updated. Please review our Privacy Policy from time to time to check on whether there have been any updates since your last visit. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or seek to make any changes, please contact us at the contact information below.

CONTACT INFORMATION

TEACH-LA
1055 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1475
Los Angeles, CA 90017-5652

Phone: (213)-785-8966
E-mail: info@teach-la.com