Our Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 19, 2025

The Math Court (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our students, adult learners, website visitors, and all individuals who interact with our services. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website at https://mathcourt.com and use our educational services.

1. Who We Are

The Math Court is an educational initiative dedicated to empowering individuals with practical numeracy and essential legal literacy, fostering holistic understanding and personal transformation within a values-laden teaching environment. Our website address is: https://mathcourt.com.

2. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services, including:

a. Information You Provide Directly:

  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (e.g., name, email address, comment text).
  • User Accounts: If you register for an account on our website (for courses, etc.), we collect the personal information you provide in your user profile (e.g., username, email address, and any other information you choose to provide).
  • Communications: Information you provide when you contact us directly (e.g., via email or contact forms).

b. Automatically Collected Information:

  • IP Address and Browser Information: When visitors leave comments, we collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our website, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and navigation paths.

c. Media:

  • If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

3. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience and for functional purposes:

  • Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
  • Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
  • Article Editing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes, including:

  • To provide and maintain our website and educational services.
  • To manage your account and provide you with access to courses and content.
  • To enable interactive features of our website, such as comments.
  • To improve our website, services, and user experience.
  • To detect and prevent spam and other malicious activities.
  • To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide support.
  • To send you updates, newsletters, and promotional materials related to The Math Court, where you have consented to receive them.

5. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

  • Service Providers: We may share data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users (e.g., hosting providers, payment processors, analytics services). These third parties are obligated to keep your information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (e.g., Akismet). An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  • Legal Requirements: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

6. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

7. How Long We Retain Your Data

We retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered Users: For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. This information is retained for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services.

8. Your Rights Over Your Data

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to Access: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
  • Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
  • Right to Erasure: You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
  • Right to Object/Restrict Processing: You may have the right to object to or request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

9. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our services are generally not directed to individuals under the age of 13 without parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by visiting the Contact page on our website.