Privacy Policy

Thank you for using LearnSpanish.com! Our mission is to bring high quality reference and education products to every Spanish learner in the world. To do that, we collect some basic personal data from you for the purpose of providing personalized recommendations for language learning products and services.

We recognize the importance of protecting your personal information. We wrote this Privacy Policy to describe how we collect, use, and share your information in connection with your use of the LearnSpanish.com (the "Website").

When we mention "LearnSpanish.com", "we", "us", "our", or "DIctionary Media Group", we are referring to the company that owns and operates LearnSpanish.com, Dictionary Media Group, Inc., a division of IXL Learning.

By using LearnSpanish.com or submitting any personally identifiable information to us, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any comments regarding this policy, please let us know by contacting us at support@learnspanish.com.

Table of Contents

• How We Collect Information
• How We Use the Information
• How We Share Information
• Choices You Have About Information
• Links to Third Party Sites
• Children
• Security
• International Data Transfer
• Explicit Notice
• Do Not Track Signals
• Sensitive Personal Data
• Modifications to This Privacy Policy
• Contact Us
  

How We Collect Information

In order to offer LearnSpanish.com, we rely on the ability to collect, store, and analyze basic information about how people interact with our website and other products. We also engage in agreements with third party partners who help us to provide our services, analyze our data, and deliver a customized and high-quality user experience. As such, we and our third party partners may collect and store personal information about you on our behalf when you use LearnSpanish.com . This information can come from information you provide to us, technical information that is shared with us, and third party information that is shared with us, each of which we describe below.

Information You Provide to Us

When you use LearnSpanish.com, you may provide information to us voluntarily. This information includes:

1. Contact Information: If you provide personal data such as your email address and/or learning preferences to us in order to receive personalized learning recommendations, we may store and use the information you provide. By providing your email address, you are opting to receive messages from Dictionary Media Group. You can unsubscribe from specific marketing communications using the unsubscribe links provided in those communications, but note that you may not be able to opt out of receiving certain administrative, transactional, or legal messages from us. We may also track your actions in response to the messages you receive from us, such as whether you deleted, opened, or forwarded such messages. We may also store information that you provide through communications to us, including from phone calls, letters, emails, and other electronic messages.

Technical Information that we Collect

When you use LearnSpanish.com, we collect certain technical information automatically. This information includes:

1. Log data: When you use LearnSpanish.com, our servers record information ("Log data"). This may include your IP address, searches, browser type and settings, the data and time of your request, how you used LearnSpanish.com, Cookie data, and Device data.
2. Device data: In addition to log data, we collect information about the device on which you’re using LearnSpanish.com, including the type of device, operating system, settings, unique device identifiers and crash data that helps us understand when something breaks. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you’re using and its settings. For example, different types of information are available depending on whether you’re using a Mac or a PC, or an iPhone or Android phone. To learn more about what information your device makes available to us, please also check the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.
3. Cookie data: We, and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, web beacons, scripts, local storage, flash cookies, advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers such as Apple’s IDFA or Google’s Advertising ID) and similar technologies ("Cookies") in connection with your use of LearnSpanish.com. Cookies may have unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of LearnSpanish.com. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session. It may be possible to disable some (but not all) Cookies through your device or browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of the Website. The method for disabling Cookies may vary by device and browser, but can usually be found in preferences or security settings. For example, iOS and Android devices each have settings which are designed to limit forms of ad tracking. You can find more information about Cookies and how they work, what Cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com/uk. For more information on the types of Cookies we use and their purposes, please review the table below:

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How We Use the Information

We use the information we collect on LearnSpanish.com to provide our services to you. Specifically, we use the information to:

• Provide the services you request on the Website, including, for example, connecting you with the best learning and reference tools that match your interests.
• Better Understand our Users, including, for example, analyzing user preferences, usage patterns, pain points, and interests so that we can improve the Website.
• Protect the Rights of LearnSpanish.com and others, including, for example, using personal information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Website, its employees or agents, or other users and to comply with applicable law.
• Recommend Relevant Content, including, for example, suggesting the most useful sites, apps, or content to match your learning goals.
• Provide Customer Support, including, for example, storing your email so that we can respond to messages that we receive and troubleshoot issues that arise on the site.
• Contact You, including, for example, to send information about LearnSpanish.com features and services, including marketing communications, online surveys, legal notices, new features that you are entitled to access, and other important information. You may opt out of receiving commercial email messages from us by following the instructions contained in those email messages.

For these reasons, we have a legitimate interest in using your information in these ways, as it is fundamental to the nature of the services we provide to users of the Website.

How We Share Information

As part of providing LearnSpanish.com to you, we may share information with third parties, which can include:

1. Service Providers: We may rely on third party providers to support or provide some of the services that are available through LearnSpanish.com. We may also rely on third party providers to perform certain services for us in connection with your use of the Website, such as communications and hosting services, network security, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting functions, quality assurance testing, payment processing, our own marketing, and other functions. We may share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their services or complete your requests. These third party providers may share information with us that they obtain from or about you in connection with providing their services or completing your requests. Third party providers may also share this information with their subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control. 
2. Business Partners: We may share information with other third party companies and individuals that we work with to process information on our behalf. For example, we may share data with security consultants to help us better identify spam. Some information we acquire may be collected by third parties on our behalf.
3. Affiliates: We may share information from or about you with our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control, in which case we will require them to honor this Privacy Policy. If another company acquires Dictionary Media Group or all or substantially all of our assets, that company will possess the same information, and will assume the rights and obligations with respect to that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
4. Other Disclosures: We may investigate and disclose information from or about you if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure (a) is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and orders, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on us; (b) is helpful to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with LearnSpanish.com; or (c) protects our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public, such as disclosures in connection with our Consumer Alerts program.

Choices You Have About Information

If you would like to update, correct, modify or delete other personal information you have provided to us, please let us know by contacting us using the information provided in the Contact Us section below. We will comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such a change or deletion. We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

You also have choices available to you through the device or software you use to access the Website. For example:

• The browser you use lets you control Cookies or other types of local data storage
• Your mobile device lets you choose how and whether your location, advertising identifiers and other data is shared with us.

To learn more about these choices, please see the information provided by your device or software provider.

Links to Third Party Sites

LearnSpanish.com may contain links to unaffiliated third party services. When you click on a link to any other website, you will leave the Website and go to another site and another entity may collect personal information from you. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share your personal information with them, and have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy policies and terms of service posted on or applicable to all such third party services, as your use of those services will be subject to the relevant third party policies alone.

Children

Children under 13 are not allowed to use LearnSpanish.com. LearnSpanish.com is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at support@learnspanish.com. If you are based abroad, notably in the European Economic Area or the UK, you may only use the Website if you are over the age at which you can provide consent to data processing under the laws of your country.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

International Data Transfer

For users residing in the European Economic Area (EEA), please note that the personal data information we obtain from or about you may be transferred, processed and stored outside of the EEA for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including in the United States of America. We take the privacy of our users seriously and therefore take steps to safeguard your information to create an adequate level of data protection in accordance with EEA standards. For the purposes of UK and EU data protection legislation, Dictionary Media Group, Inc., a division of IXL Learning, a California corporation with a principal place of business at 777 Mariners Island Blvd., Suite 600, San Mateo, CA 94404, is the "data controller".

Users residing in the EEA also have certain rights related to the collection, storage, use, and retention of your personal information. For example, you may choose to restrict our ability to collect, process, and share your personal data, and you may choose to withdraw consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of your personal data. You may also request access, correction, editing, or erasure of your personal data. If you wish to contact us pursuant to these rights, whether to request access, correction, editing, or deletion of your personal information, to opt out of the use of non-essential data processing, or to withdraw consent previously provided related to your user data, please contact us at support@learnspanish.com. To submit a complaint to a data protection authority regarding our use of your personal information, please contact your local data protection authority directly.

Explicit Notice

Users residing in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia are advised that we may collect limited personal information, and share this information with our partners when you use LearnSpanish.com. (For detailed information regarding the specific types of information we collect, the sharing of this information, and your rights regarding this information under US law, please read this Privacy Policy in its entirety.)

Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites with which the user communicates. There currently is no consensus among industry participants as to what "Do Not Track" means in this context. Therefore, like many websites and online services, we do not alter their practices when we receive a "Do Not Track" signal from a visitor's browser. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Sensitive Personal Data

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal data, which may include, for example, social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership. If you send or disclose any sensitive personal data to us, you consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal data, you must not send us such content.

Modifications to This Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you. We will notify you of changes by posting changes at https://www.learnspanish.com/privacy, or by other appropriate means. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will become effective when the updated policy is posted here. Your use of the Website or your provision of personal information to use LearnSpanish.com following such changes indicates your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at support@learnspanish.com.