To Learners of all Ages:

We value:

• Your privacy
• Your knowledge, skills, and experience
• Your part in the process of teaching and learning

We also value:

• Connecting learners with other learners who solve problems
• Connecting learners with resources that solve problems

Our intent:

We envision that all those who use the hprtec.org resources are part of a broad network of solutions for educators. hprtec.org is designed to sustain a vibrant learning community supporting collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. So while you are finding resources to help you, you will also find colleagues who are also dealing with the same issues and developing their own solutions. This network becomes stronger as we get to know one another, develop a shared vision, create jointly, and help solve problems.

While we will never require that, in using any of our resources, you make your name and e-mail available to others — we hope that you will. It is only through your willingness to share your skills and expertise and connect with others that the network of learning and support available through HPR*TEC has value.

What we will do with information if you ... :

1. access hprtec.org: If you access hprtec.org to view resources and retrieve information we do not collect personal information about you.
   
   If you want to, for example, read Edlines or www4teachers.org, use a track in TrackStar, find resources on project based learning, or learn how Profiler works, etc. we collect general information about the requests for pages that are found across all the domains on our site. These include: daily and hourly summaries of users' domains, organizations, hosts, and browsers.
   
2. register:
   If you complete the online registration, or register with us at a conference, we will send you e-mail notices for our online newsletter Edlines and webzine www4teachers. We also use this information to report numbers of registered users and any of the demographic information you wish to provide to our funding agency, the U.S. Department of Education. This information is voluntarily provided by you and may include: grade levels and subjects taught, whether you address the needs of traditionally underserved populations, your school's location such as state and rural/urban/suburban, etc. Only aggregate data will be shared. Summaries transmitted to the federal government will not contain individual information.
   
3. use a resource that requires your name and e-mail address:
   If you are using a resource, such as TrackStar or Profiler, that requires your name and e-mail we will provide this information to other persons accessing the same tool only with your permission. We may also request your permission to contact you regarding the impact of the resources you have used and our plans for further development of the resources on our Web site. This information is used to report aggregated numbers of users and any of the demographic information, you voluntarily provided, to our funding agency, the U.S. Department of Education.
   
4. use a resource that asks for information about you:
   If you use a resource that asks for further information, such as Interest Finder, we will first use this information to more specifically respond to your request. We will additionally use this information to report numbers of users and types information being requested and provided to our funding agency, the U. S. Department of Education.
   
5. e-mail us: If you e-mail us we will, of course, respond to you. We will then erase your e-mail address from our data bank but will keep your comment. All the comments are analyzed regularly to determine whether there are specific issues that we are overlooking, whether our site is meeting your needs, and how we might improve our relationship with our users.

What we will never do:

• share your information with any commercial entity
• share your personal information without your permission
• contact you without your permission

Thank you for sharing.