Privacy Policy

1. WHAT IS Langium?

Langium helps students learn more effectively through engaging practice and real-time feedback. Educators use Langium to extend their instructional capacity by letting Langium challenge students with questions and providing detailed explanations that students can review at their own pace both in and out of school. Langium covers core academic areas, including reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.

2. FORWARD AND DEFINITIONS

At BFZ (“us,” “we,” or “Langium”), we take the security and privacy of user data extremely seriously. We are committed to complying with the student data privacy laws that apply to your use of the Platform and helping our customers comply with FERPA, COPPA, and other regulatory requirements. Read more below and in our Terms of Use.

We use the term “User Information” in this policy to refer to information that personally identifies a user of Langium’s platform as well as other information we receive or create in the course of a User’s usage of the Platform that is linked to information that personally identifies a User. We use the term “Student Information” to refer to User Information that specifically pertains to Student Users of the Platform.

Capitalized words that are not defined herein have the definitions set forth in our Terms of Use.

3. DATA WE COLLECT

When you register for, and use the Platform, you may provide us with three types of User Information:

Personal Data

For the general purposes of authentication, class roster management, and compliance with applicable laws, we collect information that is used to identify individual Users (the “Personal Data”). Personal Data does not include Data that has been aggregated or made anonymous such that it can no longer be reasonably associated with a specific person.

The Personal Data that we collect from Users includes:

Personal Data

User type

Purpose

Required?

Stored?

Salutation (Title)

Educators only

Identification

Yes

First and last name

Students and Educators

Identification

Yes

Email address

Students (or their Parents/Guardians) and Educators

Identification, authentication, notifications

Yes

Username

Students and Educators

Identification and authentication

Yes

physical address(es)

Students and Educators

notifications

Yes

telephone number

Students and Educators

notifications

Yes

As a general matter, we do not request nor collect any of the following information from Users:

● photograph or physical likeness
● date or place of birth
● social security number
● dates of attendance in school
● grade level
● grades or test scores
● disciplinary records
● medical or health records

You have the right to decline to share certain elements of Personal Data that we ask you to provide, but must note that doing so may limit your use of certain features and functionality of the Platform. You may edit the Personal Data you provide to Langium at any time by accessing your account through the Platform.

Device Data

Like most web-based services, we (or our Service Providers) may automatically receive and log information from your browser or your device when you use our Platform (“Device Data”). Examples of Device Data we may automatically receive and log when you use the Platform include web browser type, IP address, your device’s operating system, and your device’s geolocation, among others.

Usage Data

User interactions with our Platform generate data we refer to as “Usage Data”. Usage Data for Student Users may include, for example, the lessons a student chooses to complete and how they performed on those lessons, when a student starts and stops a lesson, and student responses in the lesson. Usage Data for Educator Users may include their class rosters, the lessons they have created and assigned, and their class preferences. Usage Data will be used for educational and product development purposes only.

4. HOW WE USE DATA

Personal Data

We and our third-party software vendors (“Service Providers”) use Personal Data to: (i) provide the Platform, ii) comply with applicable laws, and (iii) promote our products, systems, and tools. Examples of how we may use Personal Data include:

● To authenticate a user’s identity;
● To customize the features that we make available to you;
● To respond to inquiries, send service notices and provide customer support;
● To communicate regarding a payment, and provide related customer service;
● For regulatory purposes and compliance with industry standards;
● To send communications about new features and products;
● To determine if a student is under 13 for the purposes of COPPA compliance;
● We do not use Personal Data for maintenance, testing, or improvement of the Platform

Device Data

We use other Device Data to improve the product, deliver a consistent and enjoyable experience, debug, provide customer support, and for aggregate analysis.

Usage Data

We use Usage Data for reporting purposes to teachers and educational agencies, and to test and improve our product. We also use de-identified aggregate Usage Data to develop new products, improve or modify our Platform, conduct analysis and develop business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of, our business.

Cookies and similar technologies

We and our Service Providers use cookies and local storage to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience. Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer as you browse the web. Local storage is an industry-standard technology that allows a website or application to store information locally on your computer or mobile device.

Here are some of the ways that we and our Service Providers use these technologies: to log you into the Platform, save your preferences, personalize your experience, and protect against abuse. You may set your browser to reject cookies; however, this may affect some functions of the Platform.

As a general matter, we consciously avoid and do not include Personal, Device and Usage Data in cookies and local storage. While we use these technologies to help identify user sessions, the information contained is only meaningful to the Platform itself.

5. HOW WE SHARE DATA

We do not disclose, share, rent, or sell any User Information to any third parties for commercial uses, such as targeted advertising. We only disclose or share User Information with bona fide Service Providers for purposes related to or arising out of the ordinary course of creation, development, operation, service, and maintenance of the Platform. Such bona fide Service Providers shall only use such User Information for such purposes and not to sell such User Information under any circumstances.

6. EDUCATOR USERS AND STUDENT INFORMATION

If you are a Student User using the Platform in connection with a teacher, school, or district (a “School”), your School administrator(s) and teacher(s) (“Educator Users” and each an “Educator User”) may have the ability to access, monitor, use, edit, delete or disclose data related to Student Information. Additionally, Educator Users may create Student User accounts on behalf of students and in so doing, provide Langium with the Personal Data of students. If you are an Educator User, you agree that you will obtain and maintain all required consents from Student Users or their parents or legal guardians (when such Student Users are under the age of 13 or the age of consent in the state in which the Student resides) to allow: (i) your access, monitoring, use, editing, deleting, and disclosure of their Student Information and our providing you with the ability to do so, and (ii) your Student Users’ use of the Platform.

If a Student User enrolls in a “class” created by an Educator User on the Platform, the Student User grants permission to the Educator User to view their Personal Data and Usage Data. Enrollments are done via a unique class join code, a unique class join link, direct email invitation, or an Integrated Service.

If you are a Student User using the Platform in connection with a School and do not believe you or your parent or guardian has provided consent for the School or its Educator Users to access, monitor, use, edit, delete, or disclose data related to your Usage Data and Personal Data

7. SECURITY

Langium secures User Information both in transit and at rest via encryption. We use modern cryptographic algorithms like AES256 with strict user access control and multi-factor authentication.

8. DATA RETENTION

We retain User Information to provide the Platform to you and our other Users and to provide a useful user experience, and not longer than is necessary to do so. When you update your User Information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time in case you need to need to go back to that version.

Users may deactivate their account at any time by sending an email to info@langium.ai. Deactivating an account means the following:

● Users will no longer be able to access their account.
● No further activity may take place on the deactivated account.
● User accounts will no longer be publicly visible in the Platform.
● All data associated with User accounts will be kept for reporting and compliance reasons.

● School(s) that previously had access to such data will not have access following the deactivation.

● A deactivated account can be restored, with all User Information intact, upon request

For Student Users who deactivate their account, except for Users (including Minor Users) who make a request for deactivation and de-identification (as discussed below), Langium will retain all of their Student Information for four years after their deactivation date. If no request for re-activation is received during that time, all Student Information will be de-identified and the account will no longer be eligible for restoration.

In the case of a request for deactivation and de-identification, the following happens:

● We will retain all Usage Data associated with the accounts to improve the Platform. These reasons include, but are not limited to: internal data analytics and prevention of fraud and abuse.
● This action results in the deactivation of the impacted Student User accounts, preventing them from being used or restored in the future.
● In order to request an account reactivation, please contact us at info@langium.ai

9. STUDENT DATA OWNERSHIP

Any and all student data provided to Langium, or to which Langium has been granted access, are and shall remain the sole property of the educational agency or school that provided or granted access to such records.

11. USERS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE

Langium does not knowingly permit Child Users to register directly for our Platform without the consent of a Parent (defined below) or Educator User on behalf of a Parent. If Langium learns that Personal Data of a Child User has been collected on our Service without parental consent, then Langium will take appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian (“Parent”) and discover that your child under the age of 13 has an account with our Platform without your consent, please alert us at info@langium.ai

12. DATA BREACHES

Within 48 hours of learning about a data breach, or longer reasonable time as may be required by the legitimate needs of applicable law enforcement or as to take measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity of its systems, we will notify all Users, teachers, Parents, principals, and district administrators whose information may have been improperly disclosed, via email communication to the email address on file for each User. We will inform any Users who oversee those students (i.e. relevant teachers, Parents, principals, and district administrators) if any Student Information or Child User data is involved. This email notification will describe the nature of the data breach, the date of the breach, the types of information that were subject to the breach, and steps that are being taken to protect their Langium accounts going forward.

13. USER DATA RIGHTS AND DATA REQUESTS

Certain Users may have additional personal information rights and choices based on where they live. We have tried to provide links to websites that provide more information below. If you feel that this list does not cover your rights, please alert us at info@langium.ai

● The right to know what information Langium collects from you, why it is collected, and how it is shared.
● The right to have access to your User Information in a portable format, to the extent technically feasible.
● The right to have your User Information deleted by Langium and its Service Providers and to be notified when such deletion has been completed, colloquially known as the “right to be forgotten”.
● The right to have incomplete or inaccurate User Information rectified and to be notified upon rectification.
● Withdraw your consent to the processing of your User Information.

Langium is committed to the free exercise of these rights without fear of being denied the opportunity to use the Platform. If you would like to request to review, correct, restrict or delete personal information that you have previously provided to us, object to the processing of User Information, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your User Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), or exercise any other rights according to applicable law, please contact us at info@langium.ai

14. NOTICE OF CHANGES

If we are going to make any changes to this Privacy Policy that would change our practices around what data we collect, how we collect that data, or that would lessen the previously noted protections around student data privacy in a material way, we will notify all users at least 30 calendar days in advance of making such a change. We will provide notification via the emails associated with the profiles of our users.

15. CONTACTING US

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Privacy Director
BFZ LTD ŞTİ
Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Muradiye Kampüsü Teknokent No:22/210
info@langium.ai

17. INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY PRACTICES

If you are using the Platform, including the Site outside of the Turkey, your data and information is collected in the country in which you are located and is transferred to the Turkey or another country where our servers are located.

18. CHANGE OF CONTROL

Over time, Langium may grow and reorganize. We may share your User Information with affiliates such as a parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us, in which case we will require those companies to agree to use your User Information in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

In the event of a change to our organizations such that all or a portion of Langium or its assets are acquired by or merged with a third-party, or in any other situation where User Information that we have collected would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by that third-party, this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your User Information, and any acquirer would only be able to handle your User Information as per this policy (unless you give consent to a new policy). If you do not consent to the use of your Personal Data by such a successor company, subject to applicable law, you may request its deletion from the company.

In the unlikely event that Langium goes out of business, or files for bankruptcy, we will protect your Personal Data, and will not sell it to any third-party.