Our Privacy Notice (below) explains how we, collect and use personal data when you use our website or apps. We address this Supplemental California Privacy Notice (“CA Notice”) to you if you reside in California and use our websites, applications, or activities offered through either (collectively “Services”). This CA Notice does not reflect our collection, use, or disclosure of California residents’ personal data where an exception under the CCPA applies.

California Rights and Choices

If you are a California resident, you have certain legal rights related to your personal data. Except as otherwise provided or excepted by applicable law, you may exercise the following rights:

Right to Know/Portability You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information about personal data we collected about you within the past twelve months. Once we confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you:

the categories of personal data we have collected about you;
the categories of sources from which the personal data is collected;
our business or commercial purpose for collecting personal data;
the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed or sold personal data; and
the specific pieces of information we have collected about you.

Right to Opt-Out You have a right to opt out of future “sales” of personal data. Note that the CCPA defines “sell” and “personal data” very broadly, and some of our data sharing relating to cookie data and other tracking methods used for analytics and advertising purposes described in this CA Statement may be considered a “sale” under those definitions. To opt out of this limited “sale” of personal data, please visit our Personal Data Opt-Out section of this document. We do not “sell” the personal data of California residents we know are less than 18 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt in”) from either the California resident who is between 13 and 18 years of age or the parent or guardian of a California resident less than 13 years of age. California residents who opt into personal data sales may opt out of future sales at any time.
Right to Deletion You have the right to request the deletion of the personal data that you provided that we have retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once the deletion request is approved, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete, as applicable) your personal data from our records. Please know that if your account is deleted, you will no longer be able to access the account. You would have to create a new account.
Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercise of California Privacy Rights We will not discriminate against you because you exercise any of the above rights, or any other rights under the CCPA. Specifically, if you exercise your rights, we will not deny you access to our services, charge you different prices or rates for services, or provide you with a different level or quality of services.
How to Submit A Request You may submit a request to exercise the rights listed above by emailing us at privacy@uncommonsenseschool.com. or mailing us at 10487 Saint Clair Street, Ventura CA, United States. In your request, please include (1) the full name used to create your account; (2) the email address with which you created your account; (3) your phone number in case we need to contact you; (4) what CCPA rights you would like to exercise.
Verifiable Request As required under applicable law, we take steps to verify your identity before responding to your request. We may require you to provide information sufficient to allow us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal data or an authorized agent. We may limit our response to your exercise of the above rights as permitted under applicable law.
Agent Authorization You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child if they reside in California. As permitted by law, we may require additional verification in response to a request.
Responding to Requests We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days from receipt and provide information about how we will process the request, our verification process, and when you can anticipate a response to the request. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request within 45 days of receipt. If additional time is needed, we will notify you of the same, along with an explanation and anticipated timeline for the extension which shall not exceed 90 days from the date of receipt.

Other California Privacy Rights

California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services, or applications have a right under California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 to remove, or request and obtain removal of, content or information they have publicly posted. To remove content or information you have publicly posted, please send a detailed description of the specific content or information you wish to have removed to privacy@uncommonsenseschool.com. Please be aware that your request does not guarantee the complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes how ("The Uncommon Sense School") by Baumsteiger Consulting, Inc., (“we,” “us,” “our”) an online marketplace platform for education and engagement, collects, uses, and otherwise processes your personal information. Below, we provide more details about our practices, including the types of personal information, individuals, activities, and third parties.

This Notice applies to the information that we process including what we do with personal information that is provided to us by organizations we work with, such as schools, non-profit organizations, or employers. However, we can only tell you what we do with the personal information, not what any other organization does unless they are our vendor, hired to process data according to our instructions. In particular, when a Student is enrolled in another organization’s program, the organization is directly communicating with Students and their Parents/Guardians about the program; the other organization’s privacy notice will apply and you should ask them how they process personal information.

Please also keep in mind that our sites and applications may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our sites or applications and to read the privacy notices of other sites that may collect your personal information.

We may change this Notice at any time and will include the last date it was updated. If necessary or there are material changes, we will provide notice or obtain consent regarding such changes if required by law.

Please review the sections below and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at privacy@uncommonsenseschool.com.

Key Terms

We use some key terms in our Notice that you should know as you read the information.

Customers include Students and their Parents/Guardians, Instructors, and Partners

Students are the minors (18 years and younger) who participate in ("The Uncommon Sense School") by Baumsteiger Consulting, Inc., activities.
Parents/Guardians are the Parents/Guardians or legal guardians of the Students.
Instructors are independent contractors - either individuals or organizations - who offer, classes through ("The Uncommon Sense School") by Baumsteiger Consulting, Inc., a platform.
Partners are companies (third parties) that we work with, such as schools, technology vendors, employers, or non-profit organizations, and who are not “Instructors”.
Services means the Classes or Activities or other engagement by Customers with "The Uncommon Sense School" by Baumsteiger Consulting, Inc.,
Classes means the courses developed/taught by Instructors, whether individuals or organizations.
Activities means the groups, challenges, and other types of engagement through or with ("The Uncommon Sense School") by Baumsteiger Consulting, Inc., in which any Customers may participate, whether paid or free.

Personal Information/Data means information linked to an identified (or identifiable) person.
Process means any activity with personal information, e.g., collecting, using, sharing, storing, etc.

Website Visitors and General Consumers (anyone)

We collect information through technology for website visitors who do not engage with us directly, please see the Technology and Cookies and Trackers section below for more information. If you interact on our website, we will track your activities online, but we do not know who you are.

However, if you submit a form with your contact information, we will engage with you as requested and may follow up with you to further build a relationship, generally through Communications and Marketing. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time.

Anyone can engage with us in certain areas: Communications, Social Networking and Marketing. Each is addressed below in more detail.

How do we collect this information? This information is typically provided by you voluntarily. Where it is not voluntary, it may be in the realm of employment or legal proceedings and follow the requirements of applicable law. In addition, we buy services or information that help us learn more about you and communicate with you.

Why do we collect this information? We respond or initiate communications in the provision of the Activities or in response to a request. This is based on the requirement to provide you services or our legitimate interest to grow our business and understand our Customers and their needs better. Our legitimate interest in this relates to sending you the request, in which you may choose to respond or not and can choose to ask us not to contact you for those purposes. Given this, our legitimate interest is not outweighed by the risk to you.

Communication

When you communicate with us, regardless of the channel, we keep records of communications and act on them as appropriate, whether email, messaging, or other forms of communication. Communications may be managed by various departments and/or third parties, including Trust & Safety or Legal. We may also communicate with you to better understand our market, and ask you to participate in study groups, surveys, video interviews, etc. We will provide more information to you at that time.

Social Networking

We may interact with you using social media in a variety of ways. We may “follow” you or ask you to “follow” us. We may create groups on social media for interaction. We may ask for your social media handles or tags to use in advertising. We may copy your posts or statements and follow up internally or with you.

Marketing

We will use your contact information to communicate with you unless you instruct otherwise. We do not collect Student information for marketing purposes. We may obtain information from third parties, such as matching your email address to a publicly available physical address and sending physical marketing materials, like postcards. You can request that your email or other information in your profile not be used for marketing purposes. If you opt out of marketing emails, we will continue to send emails related to Classes or Activities and respond to any requests from you. Please contact info@uncommonsenseschool.com for questions.

Individuals with Third Parties

If you work for (or are with) a Partner, vendor, or other third party, we engage with you as required for the relationship to be built, maintained, and terminated. We will only process your business-related information in furtherance of our relationship and engagement in the potential or actual relationship, such as payments, contracts, and via technology. You may also engage with us as a "member of the general public" as described above or as a "customer" described below.

Customers (Instructors, Parents/Guardians, Students, and Partners)

The personal information we process can be grouped into three main categories: information you (or your Students) provide to us, information we get from third parties about you, and information we get from cookies and trackers. Just below, we provide a summary of information and you can click on any of them to get a more detailed explanation. Plus, we provide information on inferring data and combining data.

Any Information you provide to us.

Account information, Services
Sensitive Information

Information provided by third parties (such as partners or via social media).
Information gained through technology: including device info, cookies, and trackers.
Inferred and combined information

1. Customers - information you provide to us

By engaging with us, you provide us with information directly for your Account, Services, and Finance. More detail is provided below for each one of these, but here we explain how and why we process this information.

How do we collect this information? If you engage with us directly, we collect this information from you or from linked accounts (like Google or Facebook log-ins) that you choose to share the data with us. You also volunteer information when you complete parts of your profile. You can choose not to provide this information. If you come to us through a partner, some of the data comes from them, but some are provided by you when you complete the registration. If you are a Student, your Parent may provide your information. When engaged with classes or activities, participants may be requested to submit some information to complete the assignment, and some information is volunteered through your engagement, like comments or feedback.

Why do we collect this information? We collect this data to add you to our platform and let you engage with us - generally at your request or consent, which you may revoke at any time. Revoking consent may end your classes, activities, or account, depending on your request. You can participate without providing any voluntary information, but you must provide the required information. We may also use information provided to us to prevent fraud. In general, we use your information to provide Services, and customer support, and to improve our platform and Services.

1.1 Account Information

When you join The Uncommon Sense School, we may ask for your name or publicly posted name from a linked account (such as Facebook, Google, or Apple), email address, phone number, and postal address. We collect information about the Activities you can or wish to be involved with (as an Educator or as a Parent or Student) and keep a history of your Activities. Where necessary, an account may require a contract to be in place.

1.2 Services

We collect information about the Classes, Activities, or other Services for which you or a Student engages, comments and communications, instructions, the information you share such as drawings or photos, class or Instructor reviews, video and audio, and the history of activity in and with The Uncommon Sense School. This may include uploaded items, such as photos, videos or drawings. If information is uploaded to The Uncommon Sense School Social Accounts, or website it may contain metadata such as who created or last modified it, the date created or modified, its location, and such. You can generally check metadata by clicking on the properties for that item. We do not require any metadata on submitted items and we do not purposefully use any. We do not support or encourage communication outside our platform, except where required and specifically approved by the course, e.g. At times, we may want to test if certain parts of the website or Services work better than others and if so, may present one version to some group (of Customers, general consumers, etc.) and one to another. There is no substantive difference between the options, mainly just presentation, such as testing whether more people like the “load more” option or the page clicking. We do this to better determine how to design our site for engagement.

1.3 Finances

For purchases, we collect name, credit card, or other payment information, billing address, and information about the Services purchased. For payments to you, we collect your financial account information if necessary, payment details, and information about our payments, such as the reason or history. We also use financial information to detect or prevent fraud.

1.4 Sensitive Data

“Sensitive data” has different meanings depending on location. Where possible, we apply heightened protection to sensitive data. In some places, information from a child may be considered sensitive information itself. You or a Student may voluntarily provide sensitive information, such as health or disability information included in forms, messages, or with a complaint or concern. Students may also be enrolled in special classes offered for Students with disabilities and Instructors may volunteer their disabilities within a class. Instructors and Students are otherwise not allowed to have discussions that may elicit or result in the sharing of sensitive information, and where they do learn sensitive information, they are not permitted to share that outside The Uncommon Sense School or use it in an inappropriate way.

Fraud. If we suspect that a Student is over the age of 18 or misrepresenting their identity, for the safety of other Students, we may request proof of appropriate age or identity, such as a video clip or the Student’s birth certificate, passport, or driver’s license. This documentation may contain sensitive data such as full date of birth, place of birth, and government ID numbers. We only retain the information necessary, such as date of birth.
Background Check Information. Instructors and potential employees must provide information as part of our background check process, including criminal history information, professional education and qualifications, work history, references, and teaching abilities. We provide separate notices and consent forms before performing background checks.

2. Information we get through Third Parties

We may get information on you from Customers, Partners, third parties, vendors Customers, or potential Customers. This may include us getting the information directly or it may be getting your information from Partners. More detail is provided below for each one of these, but here we explain how and why we process this information.

How? We get information from third parties either by purchasing or leasing it, indirectly through our own vendors, or by engaging with you through third parties, like social media (see "Social Networking" above). Also, our current Customers may share information in our referral program. We do not buy or lease information from third parties on Students.

Why? In most cases, we obtain or purchase data so we can grow our business - so this is in our legitimate interests as a business to do so. We may use this data to report suspicious activity to a local agency. If so, this is either for addressing fraud or for the safety of Students.

Information from Partners. The Uncommon Sense School partners with other organizations, such as schools, non-profits, and employers to provide services. In general, these Partners would provide your information to us for you to participate in Classes or Activities in which they have control (such as schools) or where they are offering the Services to you as a joint effort. Partners will likely provide you with specific information when the relationship is set up, especially if they have control over the Classes or Activities. If so, you need to look at their privacy notice for how they handle your information.

We also partner with technology companies to jointly provide some services. In some cases, you need to create an account with the partner to use their services and when you link your account there with your account with us, they may provide information to us.

Information from Vendors. At times, we may purchase (or lease) data from third parties for certain reasons. We don’t know how these third parties get your data, but it is generally through advertising services or other companies you have used who are able to share your information. We do not sell that information, but we may share it with our vendors, such as if we buy a mailing list of Parents/Guardians in a certain area, we will share those addresses with a vendor who may print and mail the postcards. The data we get may be just on a group of people where we provide characteristics we want or we may provide the names (not on Students) to get more information on them, such as addresses for marketing materials or for reporting an event to the local agencies.

Information from other third parties. At times, you may decide to log in to our services using a linked account, such as Facebook or Google. We make sure that you can do this, but it does mean you may be providing us with more information about you. You should check the privacy notices of these providers to see what they share with us. We may also get information through third parties if you use them in Classes or Activities. We try to control the use of third-party tools, but we are not perfect.

3. Information we get through Technology

Some data we get through technology, such as cookies and trackers on the website. We do not knowingly track children. More detail is provided below for each one of these, but here we explain how and why we process this information.

How do we collect this information? This data is collected through technology. This means simply by coming to our website or using our app, you are providing certain information automatically. Of this, you can opt-out through our Cookies Page or through your computer or browser settings, but others are necessary.

Why do we collect this information? More details are below, but some data is necessary for the operations of the website and app and some are optional. Optional reasons include analytics, and preferences as discussed above about testing certain features or preferences on our site, assessing user behavior and tech problems, along with other useful information. Unless it is necessary for the website or app to work, our reasons are linked to our legitimate interests in having this information that we do not believe impacts your rights and freedoms. This information also helps us personalize your experience with us. It also helps us detect, and investigate fraud and violations of our policies.

Technical, Device, and Usage Data: This is information that we automatically collect about your device and connection when you engage with The Uncommon Sense School and it includes your IP address, device identifiers such as cookie identifiers and mobile device identifiers, operating system type, and the type of browser. This may include data about your usage (such as login times, search terms, items you click on, error messages, and pages you viewed) and location data. For information about what cookie and mobile device identifiers are and how we use them, please see our "Cookie Notice". We do not collect data from third-party ad trackers on Students.

4. Inferred and Combined Data

We provided information on how and why we collect and process your information and provided a lot of information about the sources of information and the purposes for which we use your information. However, you need to know that using your information is not always so straightforward, we infer information about you and we combine data to have a more complete understanding of you.

Inferred Data: We may infer new information from other data we collect to generate information about your likely interests. For example, we infer the class subjects your family may be interested in from searches you may perform. We may also infer your general geographic location (such as city, state, and country) based on your IP address.

Combined Data: We may obtain information from you from sources other than you, such as through partners, employers, third parties, or social media. For example, you may have accounts through your school or employer, and also directly. Where possible, we combine these sources to have one extensive view of individuals engaged with The Uncommon Sense School.

As we explained in the sections above, we may use any of the above categories of your personal data to:

Provide services to Customers, Partners, third parties, and employees;
Perform our business operations;
Manage our relationship with Instructors, Parents/Guardians, and other individuals.

We may disclose your personal data to the following categories of third parties:

· Instructors: When Parents/Guardians sign up for Services, they agree that Instructors may receive certain personal data about the Parents/Guardians and their Students including classes they have taken and requests or needs. Instructors are not our employees or agents and do not process personal data on our behalf, but we do have requirements they must agree to follow on what they can do with personal data. We act as limited agents for our instructors to process payments from Instructors for Classes. Please note that in some cases, classes are taught by an “Instructor” who is actually an organization, group, or team of instructors. In such cases, class recordings may be accessed by the entire organization, and access would not necessarily be limited to a single individual Educator. Instructors may also need to engage others to assist.

· Other Customers: Members of a class or activity will be able to see, hear, and read the interactions with the other members unless a Student private messages an Instructor. This may include other Parents/Guardians, Students, and other individuals any member of the activity or class requires in order to participate, such as an interpreter. However, no one should have other individuals involved in a class that should not be there for a legitimate and pre-approved purpose. The Uncommon Sense School prohibits non-approved people on our site from engaging with Students or other Customers.

· Instructors using third-party sites or tools: We request that Instructors only share or use tools / third-party sites that are COPPA-compliant. However, at times, Instructors prefer to use tools or sites that have not been reviewed by our team. Parents/Guardians should review what sites or tools the Instructors list for specific Classes. Parents/Guardians should review those sites and tools and either agree or let us or the Instructor know you disagree. Parents/Guardians should check email registrations carefully and review your Student’s Activity description or listing.

When we send you the COPPA Notice / Children's Privacy Notice for your consent, you are also consenting to the pre-approved third-party sites and tools. We will keep an updated list of these sites and tools here. We review requests for third-party sites and tools on a quarterly basis and determine if they are approved or prohibited. At any time, you are able to decline to use these sites or tools. It may have an impact on the Classes or Activities, but you are not required to use them if you disagree with them.

· Partners: Where we work with organizations (schools, employers, non-profits, tech companies, etc.) that provide opportunities or funding to you for Services, we will share information back to them about Student engagement. As mentioned above, you will be aware of these engagements as generally, that is how you came to The Uncommon Sense School or used their codes/vouchers to pay for Services or you specifically connected your account with them to us.

· Vendors/Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to perform certain activities on our behalf, such as hosting, communications (e.g., Google), marketing (e.g., Hubspot), analytics, payment processing (e.g., Paypal, Venmo, Zelle), video hosting (Zoom, Google, Facebook Messenger Videos), and website maintenance. This is not a complete list, but a sample of some third parties we use.

· Business Transactions: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be transferred to a successor or affiliate alone or as part of that transaction along with other assets. This may occur before the transaction is complete as part of the transition or evaluation, although where possible, we will ensure the other entity honors the privacy protections.

· Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or when we believe that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation or a request from someone with legal authority to do so, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of us or those of Customers or Partners, (iii) operate and maintain appropriate security, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks, (iv) to protect the personal safety of Customers or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability. Instructors are required to report to us any suspected case of child abuse or neglect they become aware of during their work with Students. Instructors and Partners may also be required to report suspected abuse or neglect to local authorities, and we expect all Instructors and Partners to comply with their individual reporting responsibilities. We may also report instances of suspected abuse or neglect.

· Third-Party Analytics and Advertising Companies: We allow third-party analytics and advertising vendors to collect personal information, including the Technical Data described above, data about your usage, and inferences about you based on such data. Except for data collected from Students in Student Space, these third-party vendors may combine this data across multiple sites to improve analytics for their own purposes and others. If you reside in California, you can opt out of this processing by emailing us here privacy@uncommonsenseschool.com (Please also see our CA+ Supplemental Notice). We do not sell your data for money, but we may receive services or a discount in exchange for some data collected online (not Student data). For more information about the cookies and other technologies we use and your choices regarding what personal data they collect, please see our "Cookies Policy".

· Information Disclosures Requested by You: You may transmit information to third parties or request us to do so, including the general public. For example, you may voluntarily: (i) message others using The Uncommon Sense School or our team; (ii) upload personal data to your user profile which is accessible to other users; (iii) disclose information about yourself to Instructor(s) and other participants in your Classes or Activities; and (iv) participate in discussion boards, social media, and public forums that may also be available to the general public. We expect everyone to respect the privacy of others and follow our requirements on posting other activity, such as disclosing private material, communications, or information, or disclosing other personal data about others that may cause harm, embarrassment, or conflict. Please also see our "Terms of Service".

Please note that Classes and Activities may include references or links to or suggestions to engage with third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. Instructors may also suggest third-party resources for Parents/Guardians and Students. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties, or instruct us to disclose personal data to them, that data is governed by their privacy notices.

We are located in the United States. Our service providers are located and process personal data in various countries, primarily the United States. Our third-party analytics and advertising vendors are located in the same countries, but may also include vendors from other countries. This may not be a complete list and not all personal information may go to each country listed. Please contact us if you would like more information.

If transferring your data outside your country requires your consent or other transfer process, we intend to follow the requirements. In most cases, our legal reason for processing your information is to complete a contract with you, generally to provide the Services you have engaged in with us, whether free or paid or to allow you to provide Services on our platform. Please let us know if you have any question, please contact us.

Where permitted under applicable law, you have the right to request access to your Personal Information, delete, change, or correct your Personal Information collected by The Uncommon Sense School. If you are a Parent, Instructor, or a Partner you can access and update the information associated with your The Uncommon Sense School account directly by logging into your The Uncommon Sense School account and viewing the Account Settings tab on your profile.

To exercise your rights mentioned above or if you are a Parent/Guardian and want to correct, edit, update, or delete information about your child, please contact us at privacy@uncommonsenseschool.com. If you are a Parent/Guardian, your account deletion may impact multiple Students and if you do not specify a specific Student, all will be deleted. Once deleted, you will not be able to reinstate your activity, class, or other history, including interactions with Instructors or payment. Please note that as part of your request, we may require additional information and documents, including Personal Information, in order to authenticate and validate your identity and to process your request. Such additional information will be then retained by us for legal purposes (i.e., as proof of the identity of the person submitting the request).

Some of the features on our websites or in our applications may be blocked or provided in a limited form to restrict the collection or sharing of data from children (typically those under 13 or the age indicated by law) or to prevent them from interacting with adults. For more information, please also see our "Children’s Privacy Notice" and our "Student's Privacy Guide".

Please contact us if you have any comments or questions about this Notice or our information processing practices by emailing privacy@uncommonsenseschool.com. or mailing: The Uncommon Sense School 10487 Saint Clair Street, Ventura CA, 93004

We take steps intended to protect the personal data that we collect from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be fully secure, and we cannot ensure the security of any content or information you provide to us. You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your account credentials. For instance, never give out your password, and make sure to safeguard your username, password, and personal credentials used to access The Uncommon Sense School, so that other people will not have access to your personal data. Please do not use the username and password you use with us with any other services.

We retain the information we collect for the duration of the services with you. For Parents/Guardians and Students, this is generally one year past the time you cease interacting with us, or at your request. For Instructors, local law may dictate certain retention periods for payment purposes.

Please also see our supplemental notices for additional privacy-related information for the following:

· For California or other U.S. states

· Children's Privacy Notice

If your area is not listed, please reach out to us if you would like additional information. info@uncommonsenseschool.com