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Mandarin Matrix (MMX) Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy

  • All Mandarin Matrix material is intended exclusively for academic use within the valid subscription period of the Mandarin Matrix Online Classroom. 

    No part of any of the material may be reprinted, reproduced, or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without express written permission. Any usage beyond the designated period and the specified district is strictly prohibited. Any other use, including commercial reproduction or distribution, without the express permission of Mandarin Matrix Limited, is prohibited.

    Although every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within the publication, the publisher and its employees accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors or omissions howsoever arising, whether through negligence or otherwise. All rights reserved.

  • We design and operate our technology and services with our users’ protection and privacy in mind, and we make every effort to be transparent in our data collection and use practices.
  • Our flagship education products include individual and school accounts that enable schools and parents to keep track of individual student learning and maintain control over their student data.
  • We do not use student or children’s personal information for advertising purposes, including targeted advertising.
  • We do not rent or sell student data.
  • MMX uses industry standard protocol to ensure that student data is encrypted and transmitted securely from end to end and at rest.
  • We limit the data collected from students or children to only that which is necessary to meet the educational purposes of MMX.
  • We are proud supporters of the K-12 School Service Provider Pledge to Safeguard Student Privacy.
  • We will provide prominent notice to users and send out email notices to customers before making any material changes to our Privacy Policy.
  • MMX complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
  • MMX agrees to operate as a school official as the term is used in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and operates at the direct control of our school and district customers with respect to our use and handling of their student records.
  • MMX complies with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) insofar as it applies to our products being used in schools. MMX has no control over the School’s internet policy as it is affected by CIPA, nor the internet filters and hardware used by individual schools or school districts. However, MMX’s online platform contains no unlawful material, nor any content that may be harmful, obscene, or inappropriate for use by minors, nor any connecton to unauthorized websites outside the normal usage of our products.

Privacy Questions? 
If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at privacy@mandarinmatrix.org

This privacy policy applies to MMX and its affiliates (“MMX”) owned and operated websites and mobile applications (which we collectively refer to as “Services”). By accessing or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Definitions
For purposes of this policy, we will use the following definitions:

Personally identifiable information (PII) is information that can identify a user of the Services, including his or her e-mail, name, and address.

De-identified information is information from which personally identifiable components have been removed and a reasonable determination made that an individual is not identifiable.

Student Records are records that are directly related to a student and maintained by MMX on behalf of a school or district subscriber.

What Type of Information Do We Collect and Why?

Education Product Subscribers:

Information collected during the subscription process: During the registration process for any of our subscriptions, we ask the subscriber to provide us with a name, email address, school or district affiliation (when applicable), phone number, and billing information. We may also ask you to provide username and password. We use the information to create and service the account, fulfil the subscription and send you service-related announcements. For instance, we may send emails about routine maintenance, new feature launches or product recommendations related to your subscription. We may also use this contact information to request feedback on our products and services, to inform future customer service and product improvements. If you are registering for a free trial, we will use the information to create a free trial account and to send occasional promotional emails and other marketing campaigns. You may opt out of promotional email messaging at any time as described in the Opt Out section below.

MMX At Schools:
Whether engaging with MMX through a free trial or a paid subscription, schools or districts are required to appoint an administrator (“Administrator”), who is authorized by the school or the district to be responsible for the Students Records.

Each school or district Administrator has access to a dashboard that allows them to change passwords, review and modify individual accounts, and monitor logins within the individual accounts.

To create the teacher accounts, we require a full name, email address, class name, and a password security question. We also use the email address to send product updates and use recommendations, password recovery information, effectiveness and efficacy data, invitations to participate in surveys and research and more (messaging may not be available in all jurisdictions). An unsubscribe option is included in promotional messaging.

If a school or district uses and accesses individual accounts through any of the single sign on services that we support, we collect the information we use for the individual accounts function from the third-party integrated service.

Students:
Students accounts are created by MMX. We collect students’ full name, class, graduation year/grade, username, password and security question(s). Students will be able to store their activities, within their individual accounts. We collect student’s voice-recording if they use the recording feature.

MMX At Home:
To create a family subscription for home use, parents or legal guardians are asked to provide their full name, email address and other minimally required personal information.

For family subscriptions that permit individual accounts, we also ask parents or guardians for their children’s name (first or full name, depending on product), graduation year/grade, username, password and security question(s), an avatar image, when applicable. We use this information to create the individual child accounts. Some of the family subscriptions allow children to store their activities, and badges or goals they have achieved.

Parents or guardians subscribing to this service will receive occasional emails with information about usage of the accounts, new features, product use recommendations, effectiveness and efficacy testing, backup schedules, survey and research participation invitation and more. An opt-out will be included at the bottom of promotional messaging.

Children Under Age 13
In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), MMX does not collect personally identifiable information from children under 13, without a parent or guardian’s consent, or that of a school if applicable. Parents and guardians of children under 13 who use any of the MMX products have certain rights under COPPA and MMX recognizes those rights. At any time, parents/guardians using a home product may request to review the personal information we collected from their child, request that we make no further use of that information or request that we delete it. To exercise your right to delete information, please use the contact information below. Parents/guardians of children using MMX through a school account should contact their school to exercise their rights and we will work with the parent/guardian and school together to facilitate those requests.

A child’s participation or access to an activity on MMX cannot be conditional on him or her providing more personal information than is reasonably necessary for that activity.

Connecting With MMX:

Contact information for newsletter and surveys: 
On mandarinmatrix.com, mandarinmatrix.org and other adult-facing pages of our Services, including pages that do not require log in, adult users may choose to sign up for newsletters, promotional offerings, or participation in surveys, all of which require contact information. The submitted contact information will be used for promotional purposes, and you may opt-out at any time. An opt-out link or instructions on how to opt-out will be included at the bottom of such messages. Registration for newsletters, promotional offerings, and surveys participation are not intended for minors.

Information we collect when you contact us: 
When you send us messages through our system or by email or through other online platforms, we collect the information you provide, including your message and any contact information you include. We use and retain such information to respond to your request, facilitate support to you in the future and to optimize our support services. We will respond once to messages from children under age 13 and then we delete those messages and any personally identifiable information contained in them.

Feedback: 
Certain features we offer include an option to provide us with feedback. The feedback feature does not identify the user submitting it. If we receive personally identifiable information through a feedback form, we take steps to immediately delete that information. We reserve the right to use feedback for any purpose with no obligation to you.

Applying for a job: 
For any resumes submitted by applicants through our website, we will only use the information for the application process.

Information Collected Automatically
We automatically receive and record information on our server logs from a user’s browser. This may include the IP address, pages of MMX visited, the time spent on those pages, and access times and dates. We use this information to better display our Services, maintain a user’s session, identify the country the user is located in, monitor, analyse use of and administer MMX, and to better tailor it to your needs. We may also use this information to serve advertising to adult users.

To collect this information, we use technological tools including:

Cookies. A cookie is a small data file sent from a website or application and stored on your computer or device. Cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you return to MMX, remember your login information, enable access to paid content and monitor potential account misuse. Cookies also allow us to better understand how you interact with MMX and to monitor aggregated usage. You can set your browser to detect some cookies, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie. Disabling our cookies will prevent access to paid content and limit some of the functionalities within our Services. To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, look in the Tools, Help or similar section of your web browser, or visit allaboutcookies.org.

Pixel Tags. A pixel tag (also known as a “clear GIF” or “web beacon”) is a tiny image – typically just one-pixel – that we place in our marketing emails, newsletters, promotional offerings and surveys. We use pixel tags and line tracking to analyse the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

We use Google Analytics to assist us in collecting and assessing automatically collected information. For more information about Google Analytics, see Google Analytics Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting information about you and recognizing you on return visits to our Services by disabling cookies on your browser or by installing the Google Analytics opt-out plug in. Note that we are not responsible for Google’s opt-out tools.

By using our Services, you agree to our use of these tracking technologies.

We do not track users across unaffiliated sites and services, however, when you use the Internet, unaffiliated parties such as ad networks, web analytics companies and social networking platforms may collect information about your online activities over time and across our and other websites. This information may be used to provide advertisements for products and services that may interest you, and those companies may use cookies, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies.

How Long We Retain Personal Information:
We will delete student personally identifiable information at any time upon written request. Once that is requested, it is deleted from our servers – first from our servers and then, one month later, from any back-up server. If information is not requested to be deleted by the school or the district before the subscription expires, we will retain such information for a period of two years after expiration.

Student classroom accounts and the student identifiable information within them will be deleted after two years of inactivity – first from our server and then, one month later, from any back-up server. At that point it cannot be restored.

If your jurisdiction requires the deletion of student data within a shorter time period, or upon immediate termination of the subscription, please contact us for assistance at info@mandarinmatrix.com.

Districts and schools may request copies of their student personal information, which shall be provided within four (4) weeks of the written request.

Individual accounts created on the MMX Academy subscription will automatically be deleted 12 months after the expiration of the subscription.

We will retain, use and share anonymous or aggregate and de-identified information for lawfully permissible purposes, including developing and improving educational products and services, educational research purposes, evaluating, informing and demonstrating the effectiveness and efficacy of our products and services.

How We Share Your Information
We may provide Personally Identifiable Information to our partners, business affiliates, and third-party service providers who work for MMX and operate some of its functionalities. These may include hosting, streaming, credit card processing services and companies that provide marketing emails on our behalf. These third parties service providers are bound contractually to practice commercially reasonable security measures and to use your Personally Identifiable Information solely as it pertains to the provision of their services. They do not have the independent right to share your Personally Identifiable Information or use it for any unrelated purposes.

We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or others’ safety, investigate fraud, and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or legal process.

We also reserve the right to transfer your Personally Identifiable Information in case of a corporate restructuring (such as a merger, acquisition or other disposition of our business), as long as the receiving entity adopts this Privacy Policy regarding your information.

Security
We strive to maintain security policies and procedures that are designed to protect your information.

Our servers are located in a secured, locked, and monitored environment to prevent unauthorized entry or theft, and are protected by a firewall. The servers are located in a data centre in Singapore, and also within our Hong Kong and US offices.

We apply a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL or HTTPS) encrypting technology to encrypt data in transit between the server and the browser remains encrypted.

Governance policies and access controls are in place to ensure that the information of each district, school, or other subscriber is separated, and all subscribers can only access their own data.

Only limited MMX personnel have access to the database, and personnel only access it when necessary to provide services.

We follow standardized and documented procedures for coding, configuration management, patch installation, and change management for all applicable servers.

While we strive to maintain industry-standard privacy and security practices, it should be noted that no industry system is fail proof, and we are not responsible for security incidents not reasonably foreseeable or reasonably within our control. In the event of unauthorized access to Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify the affected subscriber(s) in accordance with applicable law, and as appropriate, coordinate with the subscriber to support notification of affected individuals, students, and families.

Links to Third Party Sites
While using our Services, you may be referred to or linked from or to third party sites. While we contractually require our third-party partners to adhere to our privacy policies, you should keep in mind that once you leave MMX and visit a third-party site, our privacy policy is no longer in effect. We are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies on these other sites. By browsing and interacting with any other website, you are subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read those rules and policies carefully before proceeding.

Social Networks
If you follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or any other messaging or social media site, these sites may provide information to their associated social networks or third-parties about your interactions with our web pages that you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with them.  Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking websites, you should read their privacy disclosures, to learn what information they collect, use, and share. We are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies at these social networks or third-party sites.

Opt Out
If you have subscribed to receive marketing messaging from us, or if you receive an unwanted email from us, you can opt-out of receiving future emails by clicking the opt-out link in the email or alternatively by sending an email to info@mandarinmatrix.com, with “Opt out” in the subject line. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt. Note that you will continue to receive operational emails regarding the products or services you are subscribed to.

Using MMX Outside The US
If you are using the Services outside the United States, you consent to having your information and data transferred to the United States. If you are in any jurisdiction with laws or regulations governing internet use, including collection, use, and disclosure of personal data, different from those of the United States, you may only use the Services in a manner that is lawful in your jurisdiction. If your use of the Services may be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use them. If your use of the individual accounts may be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use it.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Changes to this policy or any of the pages linked in this policy may be required in order to address changing technology and threats, changing laws, or as we release new or amended services. Should we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice and request your consent. In the event of any non-material changes, we will provide prominent notice as required by law. Posting the modified privacy policy on our Services and providing notice as stated above will give effect to the revised Privacy Policy Your continued use of the Services constitutes your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the revised Privacy Policy, please refrain from using the Services and/or leave this website(s) or app(s).

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by either:

  • Email at privacy@mandarinmatrix.com
  • Mail at MMX, Attn: Legal Department, Unit 1005-1006, 10th Floor, Hua Qin International Building, 340 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

Term & Conditions and Privacy Policy
Last updated July 1, 2024