Personal Information
- Browsing LingoHut You can take lessons on LingoHut without having a LingoHut Account. You also can contact us through the LingoHut contact page without having to register for an account.
- Your LingoHut Account. For some activities on LingoHut, like creating lessons, posting comments, or flagging lessons, you need a LingoHut account. We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
- Usage Information. When you use LingoHut, we may record information about your usage of the site, such as the activities take you do and favorites you subscribe to, and information you display about yourself as well as information you click on in LingoHut (including UI elements, settings). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your LingoHut Account. In order to ensure the quality of our service to you, we may place a tag (also called a "web beacon") in HTML-based customer support emails or other communications with you in order to confirm delivery.
- Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (e.g., lessons, comments, your profile page) may be collected and used by others.
Uses
- If you submit personal information to LingoHut, we may use that information to operate, maintain, and improve the features and functionality of LingoHut, and to process any flagging activity or other communication you send to us.
- We do not use your email address or other personal information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent. We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major LingoHut changes or for customer service purposes).
- We use cookies, web beacons, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit LingoHut; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
Information That is Publicly Available
- When you create a LingoHut Teacher Account, some information about your LingoHut Account and your account activity will be provided to other users of LingoHut. This may include the date you opened your LingoHut Account, the date you last logged into your LingoHut Account, the city, state, and country and the lessons you have created.
- Your LingoHut Account name (only for teachers), not your email address, is displayed to other users when you create lessons on LingoHut. Other users can contact you by leaving a message or comment on the site.
- Any lesson that you submit to LingoHut may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by other LingoHut users or the general public.
- For teachers only: You may also choose to add personal information which may include your name, gender, profile picture or other details, that will be visible to other users on your LingoHut teacher profile page. If you choose to add certain features to your LingoHut Account channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other users and may be aggregated and shared with your friends or other users. Such shared activity may include your favorite lessons, lessons you rated and lessons that you have created (teachers only).
Your Choices
- If you have a LingoHut Account, you may update or correct your personal profile information, email preferences and privacy settings at any time.
- (Teacher account only) You may control the information that is available to other users at any time by editing your LingoHut Account and the features that are included on your profile page.
- You may, of course, decline to submit personal information through LingoHut, in which case you can still view lessons and explore LingoHut, but LingoHut may not be able to provide certain services to you.