STEPUPTOTHEPLATE.COM PRIVACY POLICY

1. Under 18's
We ask that minors (under 18 years of age) do not submit any personal information to us.

2. Information We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience while using our services. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience easier and quicker.

To participate in our Point Award Program, you will need to register using our online registration form, where you will be required to provide us with your contact information (e.g. e-mail address) and some other information relating to your employment (e.g. name of the school district you work for, your position there). We automatically track certain information about you based upon your behavior on our site. We use this information to do internal research on our users' interests and behavior to better understand and serve our users. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated vs. individual basis.

Using the Site's web server log files, we use IP addresses to analyze trends, track users' movement, and gather broad information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser and operating system you are using, your IP address etc.

In addition, we use cookies on certain pages of our site. We may also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. The other type of cookie we use is a 'persistent' cookie. This stays on your hard drive and we use this to automatically identify who you are. We use this cookie so that you do not need to log in manually every time you visit the site if you are a registered user. The cookie itself contains no personally identifiable information but it does pass an ID to our server which allows us to tie the cookie to your personal information. We also use the cookie to track how often you visit the site so we know who our most loyal users are. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you will not be able to use certain features on our site. For example, if you disable cookies, you will need to log in manually each time you visit the site as we cannot use a cookie to remember who you are.

Surveys & Contests. From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys, contests or for a particular service (e.g. newsletter). Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested will include contact information (as supplied to the site during registration) and supplementary information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences. We will use the contact information to notify winners. We may or may not publish winners' names on the site though upon request we will provide details of any winners' name. If the survey or contest has a sponsor then we will share information given by entrants with the sponsor.

3. Our Use of Your Information.
We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users' needs.

We use your e-mail address to send you communications (for example: sponsor product introductions) that you have requested from the Site. Out of respect for our users we offer an opt-out (see 4. below).

We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular on rare occasions we may evaluate your information to look for users using multiple User IDs or alias.

Your Personal Information is stored in our databases. Please note that the information you enter may at some time be transferred to current program sponsors for their marketing analysis and communication usage. By submitting your information, you consent to this transfer.

4. Opt-Out of Email Communications
If at any stage you wish no longer to receive any e-mails from the site you can stop them coming by changing your preferences in the "E-mail services" section under "Your profile" which can be found at http://www.stepuptotheplate.net/account/email.asp. On this page you can edit what e-mails you receive from the site (if any) and save your settings.

5. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

W e do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.

Advertisers. We do aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes such as the solicitation of program sponsors. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you.

STEPUPTOTHEPLATE.NET community. Throughout the Site, you are identified by your User ID, which is thereby disclosed to other users and third parties. Your User ID can be used to identify you and your activities throughout the Site. Other people may be able to see your communications on the Site. Please be aware that if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you risk receiving unsolicited messages from other parties in return. StepUpToThePlate.net cannot be liable for any such communications.

Legal Requests. StepUpToThe Plate.net cooperates with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Local and international law enforcement agents can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.

Suppliers and Other Service Providers. From time to time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.

6. Discussion Forums

If you choose to post messages in our forums, or leave a message or comment in other areas of the site, or leave feedback for us or other users, we will store such information in a file personal to you. This is so that we can see what contributions you have made to the site.

Where you make such comments or forum posts, your User ID will also be given on the site allowing other users to click on it to find out more about you. Although you may update and choose your own User ID, it is always publicly available information. For all other personal profile information you may choose what other site users can see using the 'Modify Profile' section of the site at http://www.stepuptotheplate.net/account/modifyprofile.asp

We track which forum messages individual site users read. This is in order to help us understand which content that user is most interested in. We use this intelligence to help personalize the site to match the interests of the user.

7. "Tell a friend" services
Stepuptotheplate.net offers a service whereby you can e-mail site content (for example, a particular forum post) to a friend or colleague. This will involve entering the e-mail address of your friend. We do not use the e-mail addresses you enter for any purpose other than to send your e-mail. We do not store, rent or sell these e-mail addresses.

8. Control of Your Password
Except as specifically permitted by this section, you may not disclose your stepuptotheplate.net password to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password by visiting the preferences page on the Site.

You may, however, disclose your password to certain third parties with whom stepuptotheplate.net has entered into specific contractual and technical arrangements designed to safeguard your password, in order to enjoy the benefits of those third parties' services in relation to the stepuptotheplate.net services.

If you wish to change your password you can do so at any time through the 'Modify Profile' section of the site at http://www.stepuptotheplate.net/account/modifyprofile.asp

9. Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information

You can at any time review and change the information you submitted during registration by visiting the preferences page on the Site. ( http://www.stepuptotheplate.net/account/modifyprofile.asp).

You must promptly update your information if it changes. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in our forums or other message areas or the feedback area.

You can at any time ask to see and have removed any information that we have stored on you, though we reserve the right to charge for this service. Please contact Mitchell Salzstein if you would like your personal information removed. We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical constraints and the fact that we back up our systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests that it be removed.

10. Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.

11. Security
On the stepuptotheplate.net site we use best endeavors to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information. We use encryption and/or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. This is because we believe the personal information and purchase/usage report date we currently collect warrants such measures. You should be aware, however; that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

12. Changes to Privacy Policy
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice, before changes go into affect, on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

13. Physical Mailing Address