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- " <ul>\n<li>\n</li>\n<li>Create</li>\n<li>Explore</li>\n<li>Ideas</li>\n<li>About</li>\n<li>Not
Required</li>\n<li>Join Scratch</li>\n<li>Sign inUsername *Password *Sign inNeed
Help?</li>\n</ul>Privacy Policy<p>\n<i>The Scratch Privacy Policy was last updated:
February 14, 2019</i>\n</p>\n<p>Scratch understands how important privacy is to
our community, especially kids and parents.\nWe wrote this Privacy Policy to explain
what information we collect through our website (scratch.mit.edu) (the \"Site\"),
how we use, process, and share it, and what we're doing to keep it safe.\nIt also
tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your information, and how
you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns.</p>\n<p>If you would like
to build projects with Scratch without submitting any Personal Information to us,
you can download the Scratch Offline Editor.\nProjects created in the Scratch Offline
Editor are not accessible by the Scratch Team, and using the offline editor does
not disclose any personally identifying information to Scratch unless you upload
these projects to the Scratch online community.</p>\n<dl>What personal information
does the Scratch Team collect about me?<p>For the purpose of this Privacy Policy,
“Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable
individual.\nWe obtain Personal Information relating to you from various sources
described below.</p>\n<p>Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must
provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing
to do so.\nIf you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not
be able to benefit from our Site if that information is necessary to provide you
with the service or if we are legally required to collect the information.</p>\n<dt>Account
Information</dt>\n<dd>In order to share projects, create studios, or post comments,
you need to make an account.\nDuring account creation, we ask you for a username,
your country, birth month and year, gender, and your email address (or your parent
or guardian's email address if you are under 16 years old).\nWe ask that you select
a username that does not disclose your real name or other information that could
identify you.\nOther users can see your username and country, but not your age,
gender, or email address.</dd>\n<dt>User-generated Content</dt>\n<dd>We collect
any information that you provide to us when you create Scratch projects (including
unshared projects), write comments, or post on our forums.</dd>\n<dt>Communications</dt>\n<dd>If
you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you.\nFor example,
when you contact our Customer Support Team, we may receive your name, email address,
phone number, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us,
and other information you choose to provide.</dd>\n<dt>Personal Information We Collect
Automatically From Your Use of the Site</dt>\n<dd>When you use Scratch, we and our
third-party service providers collect information about you and your device through
automated means, such as cookies and web server logs.\nBy using Scratch, you consent
to the placement of cookies and similar technologies in your browser in accordance
with this Privacy Policy.\nThe information collected in this manner includes your
IP address, network location, what browser you are using, device IDs and characteristics,
operating system version, language preferences, referring URLs, and information
about the usage of our site.</dd>\n<dd>We use this information, for example, to
ensure that the site functions properly, to determine how many users have visited
certain pages, or to prevent fraud.\nWe use IP address information to derive your
approximate location.\nWe also work with analytics providers, such as Google Analytics,
which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about
use of the site and report on activities and trends.\nThese services may also collect
information about the use of other websites, apps, and online resources.\nYou can
learn more about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.</dd>\n<dd>If
you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers
allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or
accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from
a particular site.\nYou may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.\nIf,
however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your
use of Scratch.</dd>\n</dl>\n<dl>How does the Scratch Team use my personal information?<p>\n</p>\n<dt>Internal
and Service-Related Usage</dt>\n<dd>We use Personal Information for internal and
Site-related purposes, including to operate, provide, and maintain the Site.</dd>\n<dt>Analytics
and Improving the Site</dt>\n<dd>We and our service providers use Personal Information
that we collect on the Site, such as your location and your activities on the Site,
to monitor and analyze usage of the Site and to improve and enhance the Site.</dd>\n<dt>Communications</dt>\n<dd>We
may send emails to an email address you provide to us for customer-service or technical-support
purposes, to send you information about topics or content that we think may interest
you, or updates about the latest developments or features on the Site.\nWe may also
send a newsletter to the email address you provide to us if you subscribe to receive
the newsletter.\nParents and guardians who register their under-16 year olds for
Scratch may also receive additional updates from the Scratch Foundation, a non-profit
that supports Scratch educational initiatives.</dd>\n<dt>Aggregate Data</dt>\n<dd>We
may de-identify and aggregate information collected through the Site for statistical
analysis and other lawful purpose, including in research studies intended to improve
our understanding of how people learn with Scratch.\nThe results of this research
are shared with educators and researchers through conferences, journals, and other
publications.\nYou can find out more on our Research page.</dd>\n<dt>Legal</dt>\n<dd>We
may use your Personal Information to enforce our Terms of Use, to defend our legal
rights, and to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies.\nWe moderate
all content posted to Scratch, including unshared projects, comments, and forum
posts.</dd>\n<dd>If you are located in the European Economic Area, we only process
your Personal Information based on a valid legal ground, including when:</dd>\n<ul>\n<li>You
have consented to the use of your Personal Information, for example, to receive
electronic marketing communications;</li>\n<li>We need your Personal Information
to provide our services, including for account registration, to respond to your
inquiries, or for customer support;</li>\n<li>We have a legal obligation to use
your Personal Information.\nor</li>\n<li>We or a third party have a legitimate interest
in using your Personal Information.\nIn particular, we have a legitimate interest
in using your Personal Information to personalize our services and provide you with
tailored content, conduct business analytics, and otherwise improve the safety,
security, and performance of our Site.\nWe only rely on our or a third party’s legitimate
interests to process your Personal Information when these interests are not overridden
by your rights and interests.</li>\n</ul>\n</dl>How Does Scratch Share my Personal
Information?<p>We disclose information that we collect through the Site to third
parties in the following circumstances:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>To third-party service providers
who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology
and related infrastructure provisions, customer service, email delivery, and other
services.</li>\n<li>We may also disclose your Personal Information with your permission.\nWe
may seek your permission in various ways.\nFor example, we may present you with
an “opt-in” prompt when you register to use the Site or access certain content.</li>\n<li>To
a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any reorganization,
merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or
any portion of our organization or assets.\nYou will have the opportunity to opt
out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned processing of your information
differs materially from that set forth in this Privacy Policy.</li>\n<li>If required
to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a)
under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.\n(b) to
comply with legal process.\n(c) to respond to requests from public and government
authorities, such as school, school districts, and law enforcement, including public
and government authorities outside your country of residence.\n(d) to enforce our
terms and conditions.\n(e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates.\n(f)
to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates,
you, or others.\nand (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages
that we may sustain.</li>\n</ul>Third Party Services<p>This Privacy Policy applies
only to the processing of your Personal Information by Scratch.\nIt does not address,
and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of
any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which
the Site links.\nThe inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement
of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.</p>Your Rights and Choices<p>\n</p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Updating
Your Information</dt>\n<dd>You can update your password, email address, and country
through the Account Settings page.\nYou can also reset your password through the
Account Reset page.\nYou cannot change your username, but you can make a new account
and manually copy your projects to the new account.</dd>\n<dd>If you want to delete
your account, login to Scratch, and then click your username in the top right-hand
corner.\nSelect \"Account Settings,\" then click the \"I want to delete my account\"
link at the bottom of the page.\nDeleting your account hides all information from
public view, but does not remove all of your information from our servers.\nIf you
want to have all of your information removed from our servers, please contact help@scratch.mit.edu
for assistance.</dd>\n<dt>Marketing Communications</dt>\n<dd>If you decide at any
time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, please
follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications.\nYou
may also opt out from receiving email from us by sending your request to us by email
at help@scratch.mit.edu.\nPlease be aware that, even after you opt out from receiving
marketing communications from us, you may continue to receive administrative messages
from us regarding the Site.</dd>\n<dt>Your Data Protection Rights (EEA)</dt>\n<dd>In
certain jurisdictions, you have the right to request access and receive information
about the Personal Information we maintain about you, to update and correct inaccuracies
in your Personal Information, to restrict or object to the processing of your Personal
Information, to have the information blocked, anonymized, or deleted, as appropriate,
or to exercise your right to data portability to easily transfer your Personal Information
to another company.\nThose rights may be limited in some circumstances by local
law requirements.\nIn addition to the above-mentioned rights, you also have the
right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority subject to applicable
law.</dd>\n<dd>Where required by law, we obtain your consent for the processing
of certain Personal Information collected by cookies or similar technologies, or
used to send you direct marketing communications, or when we carry out other processing
activities for which consent may be required.\nIf we rely on consent for the processing
of your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw it at any time and
free of charge.\nWhen you do so, this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing
before your consent withdrawal.</dd>\n<dd>To update your preferences, ask us to
remove your information from our mailing lists, or submit a request to exercise
your rights under applicable law, please contact us as specified in the “How to
Contact Us” section below.</dd>\n</dl>Data Retention<p>We take measures to delete
your Personal Information or keep it in a form that does not allow you to be identified
when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process
it, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period.\nWhen
determining the retention period, we take into account various criteria, such as
the type of services requested by or provided to you, the nature and length of our
relationship with you, possible re-enrolment with our services, the impact on the
services we provide to you if we delete some information from or about you, mandatory
retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.</p>How does the
Scratch Team protect my personal information?<p>The Scratch Team has in place administrative,
physical, and technical procedures that are intended to protect the information
we collect on the Scratch website against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental
loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any
other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Information in our possession.\nFor
example, we use SSL/TLS for all data transfer and strictly limit access to the Scratch
servers and the data we store on them.\nHowever, as effective as these measures
are, no security system is impenetrable.\nWe cannot completely guarantee the security
of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not
be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.</p>Notifications
of changes to the Privacy Policy<p>We review our security measures and Privacy Policy
on a periodic basis, and we may modify our policies as appropriate.\nIf we make
material changes, we will notify you through the Site or by sending you an email
or other communication.\nWe encourage you to review our Privacy Policy on a regular
basis.\nThe “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy
Policy was last revised.\nYour continued use of the Site following these changes
means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.</p>International Cross-Border
Data Transfer<p>Scratch is based in the United States.\nPersonal Information that
we collect may be transferred to, and stored at, any of our affiliates, partners,
or service providers which may be inside or outside the European Economic Area,
including the United States.\nBy submitting your personal data, you agree to such
transfers.</p>What can I do to help protect privacy on Scratch?<p>Please do not
share personal contact information (such as your name, physical address, email address,
or phone number) in projects, comments, profiles, studios, or forum posts.\nPlease
let us know if you see this kind of information by using the “Report” link which
appears on the page.\nIt is also important that you maintain the security and control
of your account credentials, and not share your password with anyone.</p>Contact
Us<p>The Code-to-Learn Foundation d/b/a The Scratch Foundation is the entity responsible
for the processing of your Personal Information.\nIf you have any questions about
this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise your rights to your Personal
Information, you may contact us at help@scratch.mit.edu or via mail at:</p>\n<p>Scratch
Foundation<br>ATTN: Privacy Policy<br>7315 Wisconsin Ave.<br>4th Floor West<br>Bethesda,
MD 20814</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Collection</li>\n<li>Usage</li>\n<li>Sharing</li>\n<li>Third
Party Services</li>\n<li>Rights and Choices</li>\n<li>Data Retention</li>\n<li>Protection</li>\n<li>Notifications
of Changes</li>\n<li>Data Transfer</li>\n<li>How to Help</li>\n<li>Contact Us</li>\n</ol>\n<dl>\n<dt>About</dt>\n<dd>About
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Guidelines</dd>\n<dd>Discussion Forums</dd>\n<dd>Scratch Wiki</dd>\n<dd>Statistics</dd>\n</dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Support</dt>\n<dd>Ideas</dd>\n<dd>FAQ</dd>\n<dd>Download</dd>\n<dd>Contact
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