Privacy

Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy. By visiting the Bored Teachers website and any other linked pages, features, content, or any other services we offer, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways. Any capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meaning given to them in Bored Teachers Terms of Service. This Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time, which is communicated by updating the date displayed at the bottom of this page. Please be sure to review this Privacy Policy each time you access the site to stay up to date of any changes to the policy.

This Privacy Policy covers our (Bored Teachers LLC and our respective affiliates and related entities) treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that we gather when you are accessing or using the Site or Services (collectively, the “System”). This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage. This policy also does not apply to information you choose to disclose publicly on the System.

Personal Information Bored Teachers Collects

BoredTeachers.com, directly and through third parties, collects any information you provide to us. The types of Personal Information collected may include your real name, username, email address, IP address, location, browser information, browsing history, transactions, your communications to us, and any other information necessary for us to provide our services. If you provide any third-party account credentials to us, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) may be transmitted into your account with us if you authorize such transmissions, and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to our Site is covered by this Privacy Policy. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features.

Bored Teachers collects your Personal Information whenever you enter such information on the site, including but not limited to subscribing to our email newsletter, entering a giveaway, filling out a form to download free printables/resources, or by submitting a contact form. Whenever you submit your Personal Information on any of these online forms, you are consenting to this Personal Information being processed by Bored Teachers. You may request your information to be removed by unsubscribing from an email using the unsubscribe link or by emailing us at info@boredteachers.com.

Usage Data

If you choose to opt out in our consent form, BoredTeachers.com may be browsed without revealing any personal information.

Personal Information Bored Teachers Collects Automatically

Based on your consent, whenever you interact with the System, we directly or indirectly, receive and record information on our server logs, or through third-party tools such as Google Analytics, from your browser including, but not limited to, your IP address, “cookie” information, device information, certain location information, and the page you requested. “Cookies” are identifiers we transfer to your device through our web interface that allow certain functions to perform as designed within the System, and also to allow us to recognize your device and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. We may also record the referring page or service that linked you to us; other information about the type of web browser, computer, platform, related software, and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on the System; and other usage activity and data logged by our servers. You may be able to change the preferences on your device to prevent or limit your device’s acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of the System’s best features. When we collect usage information (such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to the System), we only use this data in aggregate form, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. For example, this aggregate data tells us how often users use parts of the System, so that we can make the System appealing to as many users as possible. We may also provide this aggregate information to our partners, so that they can understand how often people use their services and our System, so that they, too, can provide you with an optimal online experience.

Bored Teachers employs standard tracking and advertising technologies to deliver relevant ads to you both on BoredTeachers.com and across our other websites. Our site shows ads based on the content you’re viewing or through our involvement with various advertising networks.

Ad Serving – The advertisements displayed on our site are served to you by our advertising partners, including Google Ads Manager and Freestar. If you’d like to opt out of cookies from these advertising providers, you can do so by visiting: Google Ads Privacy and About Ads.

Affiliate Advertising – We participate in affiliate marketing and include affiliate links in some of our content. When you click on a link or make a purchase through these links, we may earn a commission. When we publish content with affiliate links, we include a notice that informs you of our potential earnings from purchases made via these links.

Automatic Usage Data — Based on your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, by accessing BoredTeachers.com, or our social media pages, or opening our emails, we and various third-party vendors—including analytics providers, advertising networks, social media widgets, and affiliate partners—gather certain information automatically through cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and server logs. The Usage Data collected this way helps enhance the services we offer. To learn more about how Google Analytics processes information or how to block data collection, visit  https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites .

Third-Party Advertisers — We work with third-party advertising companies to display ads on our site and other websites where we advertise. These companies may use their own cookies and tracking technologies, which are not covered by our privacy policy, as we don’t have control over any of these third-party technologies.

These advertisers might also use third-party analytics tools to place cookies on your browser, collecting anonymous data about your sessions, like which ads you’ve seen. When you visit a page with our ads, the ad company might add a cookie to your computer or use a web beacon to check cookies they’ve already placed. These companies don’t collect any personal info that can identify you, but they do use data about your visits to our site (and others) to measure ad effectiveness.

We don’t share any personal information with these advertisers. Instead, we share aggregated (non-personal) data about how people use our site, which helps them target ads more effectively. Unless you’re specifically notified, these companies do not link your browsing behavior to personally identifiable information like your name, address, phone number, or email.

These advertising networks track how you interact with websites across the web. They use this data to show you ads related to products or services that might interest you, both on our site and others. This process helps these third party advertising companies create a profile of your interests and preferences, which influences the ads you see when you visit other sites.

For more information, feel free to check out Freestar’s Privacy Policy.

Cookies and Their Purpose

Certain cookies are essential for the functionality of our website. These cookies enable basic features such as navigating pages. Without these cookies, the website cannot operate as intended.

Cookies can be classified as either persistent or session cookies. Persistent cookies are stored on your device and are used to remember information, settings, preferences, or login details, with an expiration date set by the web server. On the other hand, session cookies (also known as in-memory, transient, or non-persistent cookies) exist only temporarily while you’re browsing. These cookies are deleted once you close your browser.

Preference Cookies — Preference cookies are a type of persistent cookie that help the website remember your preferences, such as language choice or region. These cookies are also used to test new designs, layouts, and messages on the site, ensuring content is more relevant and personalized to your experience.

Analytics Cookies — Bored Teachers uses session cookies to analyze how you interact with our website. Analytics cookies can collect details such as your IP address, browser type, the content you view, and more. This information helps us understand user behavior, popular sections of our site, the amount and geographic location of visitors, and the interests and demographics of our users, and which browsers that you are using to access the site. These insights allow us to improve and optimize the site experience.

Understanding Cookies: First-Party vs. Third-Party Cookies

Cookies can come from two different sources: First-party cookies and third-party cookies. The main difference is who sends the cookie to your device. First-party cookies are set by the website you’re visiting or on its behalf. Third-party cookies, on the other hand, are set by other companies that might have their own services or ads on the site.

At Bored Teachers, we use both first-party and third-party cookies.

How We Use Cookies — Our first-party cookies help us collect useful info like when and where you visit our site, what areas you explore, and which site referred you to us. While we may use IP addresses to learn more about businesses visiting our website, we don’t use this information to figure out who exactly is browsing our site.

When you interact with our site—whether it’s by choosing a product, signing up for a newsletter, entering a giveaway, or filling out a form—we may use cookies and other technologies to identify your browser. We might also combine cookie data with other info we already have to make your experience better. This helps us improve our website’s features, content, and marketing, making your visit more useful and enjoyable.

Third-Party Cookies — Some of our partners, such as advertisers, may use cookies that come from their own websites. These cookies help display ads based on your browsing activity. When these ads appear, our third-party partners may place or recognize a unique cookie in your browser.

These partners use the information they gather from your visits to our site (and other sites) to show you ads that could be of interest to you. They also monitor how visitors interact with our website to understand which features are most popular. We may share some general data with these partners, like what products or services are ordered, or non-identifiable details about how people use our website. Rest assured, this information is always aggregated and never tied to specific individuals.

Uses of Personal Information

We may use the Personal Information we collect for our legitimate business purposes, including providing our services and products to you, improving the System, improving our customer service, processing transactions, marketing purposes, and managing our business needs. We do not sell your personal information to third-parties. We may also share Personal Information with our affiliates and trusted third parties and services, such as Google Analytics.

Giveaways—Bored Teachers occasionally offers its users the ability to enter giveaways and other similar promotions for a chance to win certain prizes that we or third parties sometimes sponsor. To enter these giveaway, you agree that your Personal Information submitted to participate will be shared with the partner. We/they use the information to provide you information about the giveaway and occasionally additional marketing content. Please be sure to review all giveaway rules and guidelines before making your decision to participate and entering your Personal Information.

Communications

As part of the System, you may receive communications from us, whether by email or other means. We and our agents may send you email, contact you, or engage you in other communication that we or they determine relate to your use of the System.

Affiliated Businesses and Third-Parties

In certain situations, businesses or third-party websites with which we are affiliated may sell items or provide services to you through the Site (either alone or jointly with us). You can recognize when an affiliated business is associated with such a transaction or service, and we will share your Personal Information with that affiliated business only to the extent that it is related to such transaction or service. One such service may include the ability for you to choose to automatically transmit Third Party Account Information to your Site profile or to automatically transmit information in your Site profile to your third-party account. We have no control over the policies and practices of any third-party.

Protections of Bored Teachers & Others

We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we reasonably believe is necessary to comply with law or court order; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Bored Teachers, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Personal Information Security

Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time. In the event that we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our possession or control has been compromised, we will notify you of that development in accordance with applicable law. If a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, we may do so by email. Using the System, you may find links to third-party websites or apps. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites or apps. When linking to another site or app, you should read the site or app’s privacy policy. User profile information, including without limitation your name, email address, and other information (“User Submissions”) may be displayed to other users if you chose to enter such information on your user profile. Again, any content you voluntarily disclose for other users to view on the System is not Personal Information; it becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others and may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels.

Your Rights

In certain circumstances, you have the following rights: the right to be told how we use your information and obtain access to your information; the right to have your information rectified or erased or place restrictions on processing your information; the right to object to the processing of your information (e.g., for direct marketing purposes); the right to have any information you provided to us on an automated basis returned to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or sent directly to another company, where technically feasible (“data portability”); where the processing of your information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent subject to legal or contractual restrictions; the right to object to any decisions based on the automated processing of your personal data, including profiling; and the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for data protection matters (e.g. in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office). If you request a copy of your information, you may be required to pay a statutory fee. If we hold any information about you that is incorrect or if there are any changes to your details, please let us know so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date. If you withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information for purposes set out in our Privacy Policy, we may not be able to provide you with access to all or parts of the System. We will retain your personal information for the duration of our business relationship and afterward for as long as is necessary and relevant for our legitimate business purposes, in accordance with applicable laws and regulation. In the event we no longer have a legitimate business purpose to retain your personal information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner (without further notice to you).

Other Information

You may opt not to disclose information, but keep in mind that some information may be needed to register with us or to take advantage of some of our special features. If you do not wish to receive email or other mail from us, please email us at info@boredteachers.com. Please note that if you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Policy, those legal notices will still govern your use of the System, and you are responsible for reviewing such legal notices for changes.

California Residents

Because we value the privacy of California residents, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act as it pertains to us. We will not distribute your personal information to parties not mentioned in this Privacy Policy without your consent. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and expressly disclaim any such obligation. If we learn of a security breach, we will attempt to notify you so that you can take appropriate steps. Please click here for our Privacy Notice for California Residents, including information related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals

Please note that we do not alter our data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Access and Use by Minors

The System is not intended for use by minors under the age of 18. We ask that minors not use the System nor submit any personal information to us. We do not knowingly collect information from minors under 18. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a minor under the age of 18, we will take appropriate steps to delete that information from our database. If you are a minor under the age of 18 and you have acceded to this website, do not provide your personal information and please leave this website immediately.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our System or sending you an email. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the System after such changes have been first posted.

Sale and Transfer of Bored Teachers

If Bored Teachers LLC is acquired, all information collected on BoredTeachers.com and our social media pages will be considered as transferable assets.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you may contact us at info@boredteachers.com.

Privacy Policy Last Updated on January, 2025