Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Wondervocab.com ("Wondervocab.com", "We", or "Us") collects and uses personal information that you ("you" or "your") provide on Wondervocab.com website and on the Wondervocab.com App (collectively "Wondervocab.com"). This privacy policy was last updated on February 4, 2021.

Guiding Principles

Our privacy policy is guided by the following principles:

1. We’re committed to creating a safe and secure online environment for you.
2. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
3. We collect very little personally identifiable information about you, and what we do collect we store securely.
4. We believe that ultimately, you own your data, and that, whenever possible, you get to decide whether to take it with you, even if your account was provided by someone else.
5. We believe that improving your vocabulary is a worthwhile lifelong pursuit.

How we collect data

Wondervocab.com collects the following information about you and your use of Wondervocab.com:

Personal Information

When you register for Wondervocab.com, you provide to us personal information (such as your full name, email address, occupation and country) that could be used to identify you. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we call this “Personal Information”. Your Nickname may be used to identify you on to other users on Wondervocab.com.

The table below outlines what information about you is visible to others on Wondervocab.com:

Information from Third Party Authentication Providers like Facebook or Google

If you decide to register through or otherwise grant access to a third-party authentication provider (“Authentication Provider”), such as Facebook Connect or Google, Wondervocab.com may also collect Personal Information that is already associated with your Authentication Provider account. You may also have the option of sharing additional information with Wondervocab.com through an Authentication Provider. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving Wondervocab.com the permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Information about Your Use of Wondervocab.com

We collect usage information about certain features of Wondervocab.com, such as the sentences submitted by you or questions you’ve answered, the words mastered, and the amount of time you’ve spent on Wondervocab.com.

Location information

We may collect and use information about your location (such as your country) to provide you with a better experience on Wondervocab.com, but we don’t collect the precise location of you or your device.

Information you Provide as Part of Your User Profile

Users may have a public profile page on Wondervocab.com. This page presents information that you provide such as your nickname, your state, or your favorite word. The profile page may also show information about your use of Wondervocab.com such as achievements earned, lists created, or your level, as well as any comments that you’ve made on the Wondervocab.com. Child Users have a more limited number of options for their profile page. We ask that you or your child do not provide any personally identifiable information as part of the child’s profile. In particular, choose a nickname that is not identifiable as the child’s real name.

Information You Provide while Using Wondervocab.com

Users of Wondervocab.com can create various types of content ("User Content") that may be displayed publicly on Wondervocab.com. User Content includes information such as vocabulary lists, comments, and other types of material that is shared with the community. Any User Content, along with your nickname or username and any image or photo, become public and may be used by us. Your public activities may also be read and collected by other users of the public activity areas on Wondervocab.com. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you provide in these forums.

Information Necessary to Fulfill Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain Personal Information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, phone number and email) and financial information (such as billing address, credit card number, expiration date). This information is used solely for billing purposes by our certified payment service provider. Your credit card information is encrypted and transmitted to the provider securely via HTTPS.

Your credit card details are never stored on Wondervocab.com systems, and no one at Wondervocab.com can access them. A few privileged members of the Wondervocab.com team have access to the last 4 digits of your credit card and its expiration date in order to validate your identity in the case that you need to contact us regarding your payment details.

What we will NOT do with your Personal Information

Wondervocab.com will NOT sell Personal Information provided by you (except in connection of a merger or acquisition).

Wondervocab.com will NOT use Personal Information provided by you:

• To engage in targeted advertising
• To build a profile about users other than for enhancing their experience on Wondervocab.com.

How we use Data

Wondervocab.com uses collected Personal Information in the following ways:

To Enhance Your Experience on Wondervocab.com

Wondervocab.com uses the information you provide or that we collect to enhance our relationship with you and to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on Wondervocab.com. Wondervocab.com, for instance, stores your responses to the questions you’ve answered and the words you’ve had trouble with so we can provide you with the right question at the right time to improve your vocabulary. We may use your Personal Information to provide you with information about Wondervocab.com’s features, services and other offerings that may be of interest to you. Under certain circumstances and if we obtain your consent (for example, if you submit a testimonial and agree to make it public), we may post your Personal Information on Wondervocab.com.

To Understand How You and Others Use Wondervocab.com

Wondervocab.com uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect from other users to understand and analyze the usage trends, learning behaviors, and preferences of our users, to improve the way Wondervocab.com work and look, and to create new features and functionality. For more information, please see the “Technologies” section, below.

When We Share Data

Wondervocab.com will disclose User Information only as described below:

If you want information shared with other users, we’ll share it for you.

Wondervocab.com has a number of features that allow you to share information with other Users or the public at large. For example, you can create a profile, where you list your name, your location, and a short bio. Or you may create and name a word list. Whenever you share information with other Users of our Wondervocab.com, any Personal Information that you choose to include in, or is associated with, such User Postings will be accessible by such Users. As with most online services, once you make your Personal Information available to others in any of these ways, it may be collected and used by the recipients without restriction.

We share your achievements.

We may share certain achievements through our leaderboards and your personal profile. When interacting with Wondervocab.com, you may receive points, achieve particular levels, earn badges for various achievements, and master words (“Achievments”). In certain cases, we will make these Achievements public accompanied by your nickname in a leaderboard, on your Profile page, or elsewhere on Wondervocab.com. Achievements each have leaderboards, and when you earn one, your nickname may appear on that leaderboard, and if you have a profile, your nickname will link back to that profile. In certain cases, leaderboards may be in the form of a map. In this case, your nickname and your Achievement will be associated with a location determined based on your IP address.

We will share data when required by law.

We may access, preserve and disclose account information and User Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with legal process; (ii) enforce our Terms of Use; (iii) respond to claims that any User Content violates the rights of third parties; (iv) provide support relating to Wondervocab.com; or (v) protect the rights, property or personal safety of the company, its users and the public.

We may share data in the context of a change in business, including a merger or acquisition.

We transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you of any such change in ownership or control of your information.

Social Media Widgets

Wondervocab.com includes Social Media Features and widgets, such as the "Share This" button. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on Wondervocab.com, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on Wondervocab.com. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

Advertising on Wondervocab.com

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit Wondervocab.com. These companies may use information (not including your name, email address or any information provided directly to Wondervocab.com) about your visits to this and other websites or apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

We use Google's DoubleClick cookie to serve ads. You may choose to opt out of the DoubleClick cookie at any time. Wondervocab.com does not provide any personally-identifying information to advertisers.

Data Security

Data security is important to us.

We try to ensure that Wondervocab.com and the information sent to us are safe, but no security measures are perfect.

Wondervocab.com uses certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information and other information we maintain in connection with Wondervocab.com. For example, all data is secured and protected at all times, stored on servers located in the US, and only employees with a business need to access this Personal Information are able to do so. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any or all of the information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, we make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. We encrypt the transmission of all data using secure socket layer technology (SSL) or similar technologies. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

We will notify you electronically or via the website if Wondervocab.com experiences a data security incident that could affect you.

If we learn of a data security incident that compromises or appears to compromise your Personal Information, then we will attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may also post a notice on Wondervocab.com if a data security incident occurs.

Data Retention

Unless we receive a deletion request from you or are contractually required to delete your account, we will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as is reasonably useful for operational or educational purposes.

Technical Information

To provide a personalized learning and high-quality experience, we may use various technologies that automatically record certain technical information from your browser or device, including standard log files, web beacons, or pixel tags. This technical information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device or browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring or exit pages, clickstream data, operating system, and the dates and times that you visit Wondervocab.com. We do this to better understand how you are using Wondervocab.com so we can improve functionality and the services we offer you.

Like most websites, whether or not you are a registered member, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on a website and enable us to provide you with a more personalized learning experience. Wondervocab.com may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears automatically after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to Wondervocab.com. You can, however, remove a persistent cookie at any time. Please review your web browser “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. However, without cookies you will not have access to certain services and features on Wondervocab.com.

Wondervocab.com uses a variety of third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics to understand usage. We may allow third-party service providers to place and read their own cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information through Wondervocab.com. This information is collected directly and automatically by these third parties, and Wondervocab.com does not participate in these data transmissions. Wondervocab.com will, wherever feasible, contractually obligate our third-party service providers to abide by the terms of this Privacy Notice.

Wondervocab.com also uses Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on Wondervocab.com may use LSOs such as HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. Please consult your browser’s “Help” function to learn more.

Children

Wondervocab.com is committed to children’s privacy.

We do not knowingly let children under 18 register directly to Wondervocab.com. If you are a parent who discovers that your child has registered to Wondervocab.com without your consent, please contact us atsupport@Wondervocab.com, and request that we delete the child’s personal information from our systems.

How Child Users May Register and Use Wondervocab.com

All Child Users who sign up must do so by providing a parent's email address. The parent is then notified about the signing up to use Wondervocab.com.

Restrictions on Child Users

Children are restricted from certain parts of Wondervocab.com. For example, children cannot comment on articles. In addition, we do not collect children's email addresses, so all email communication from Wondervocab.com will be sent to the parent's email address.

Some other features of Wondervocab.com, however, may permit a Child User to enter free-form text through which the Child User could enter Personal information that would be visible to other Users. This may occur, for example, when a child names his or her word list, or enters his or her notes or sentence examples on a word list. If you are a parent, please advise your child about the risks of posting Personal Information on Wondervocab.com (or any other online service).

If you are a parent, and you agree to let your child use Wondervocab.com, you agree and acknowledge that you permit your child to use Wondervocab.com and all features made available on Wondervocab.com as fully contemplated by us. As a parent, you understand that any personally identifiable information that your child provides in connection with registration or otherwise may be used by us as provided in this Privacy Policy. Except where the context indicates otherwise, the remainder of this Privacy Policy (including any discussion of the personally identifiable information that we may collect, use or disclose) shall apply equally to a Child User account and an account for someone over 18.

Indian Children’s Privacy Rights

If you are under the age of 18, or the parent of a User under the age of 18, residing in India, you are entitled to request removal of content or information you have posted on Wondervocab.com. If you would like to request removal of your or your child’s content or information, please email us at support@Wondervocab.com for assistance. Please note that removal of your content or information does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal, as there may be deidentified or recoverable elements of your content or information on our servers in some form. Additionally, we will not remove content or information that we may be required to retain under applicable laws.

Communication from Wondervocab.com

Customer Service

Based upon Personal Information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your email address and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. By signing up with us, you undertake to allow us to communicate with you by email, your mobile phone number or WhatsApp or any other communication media possible.

Service-related Announcements

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if Wondervocab.com is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.

Weekly Update Emails

If you have registered for Wondervocab.com, we may send you a periodic email that includes a personalized vocabulary question, and information about new content on Wondervocab.com. You may opt out of these emails.

Other Emails

You may opt in to receive other emails, such as newsletters, comment notifications or emails when new material comes out. You may opt out of these emails.

Special Offers and Updates

We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and promotions. You may opt out of these emails.

Choice and Opt Out

We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of some communications sent by us. You may opt-out of receiving them by either changing the email preferences section of the My Account section, or through clicking on the provided link on any communication that we send.

If you would like to opt out or change the behavior of display advertising based on information collected by Google Analytics, follow this link to customize Google Display Network ads.

If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics, follow this link.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy practices, we will modify this Privacy Policy so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices in general, please contact us on support@Wondervocab.com.