SPIN Safe Browser Privacy Policy
Last updated: Mar 24th 2024
OVERVIEW
Welcome to the SPIN Safe Browser (“SPIN,” “we,” “us” or “our”). SPIN is an absolutely free safe web browser built on proven Mozilla Firefox technology that is designed for children and K12. SPIN is free for individuals, companies and organizations. SPIN provides a safe environment for their child’s browsing experience. Here’s what SPIN does:
✓ Blocks millions of bad websites
✓ Built-in filters for 20 categories such as porn, hate, weapons, etc.
✓ Integrated Google SafeSearch for Websites and Images
✓ Friendly home screen with popular educational sites
✓ SPIN does not deliver any Advertisements
✓ SPIN does not collect any personal information
✓ No registration required to use SPIN
SPIN is owned and operated by National Education Technologies Inc. and is located in British Columbia, Canada. We collect and store your personal information in Canada and the United States.
✓ Our Privacy Policy explains how we use, share and protect information in relation to our mobile services, web site, and any software provided on or in connection with SPIN services (collectively, the “Service”), and your choices about the collection and use of your information.
✓ By using our Service you understand and agree that the service by its nature collects personal information from the device (location, browsing and call history, applications usage, etc). This means that other Users (your group administrators) may see this information.
✓ Our Policy applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service (“Users”).
1. SPIN PRIVACY POLICY
SPIN requires no registration to be used therefore no personal information is collected.
Communications between you and SPIN. For example, you may contact us via the SPIN app via a feedback form. At this point, we would be collecting the information that you provide to us.
To provide the safe browsing experience, SPIN collects anonymous information about websites that our service filters against a list of core categories deemed inappropriate.
2. SPIN PRIVACY POLICY
SPIN requires no registration to be used therefore no personal information is collected.
Communications between you and SPIN. For example, you may contact us via the SPIN app via a feedback form. At this point, we would be collecting the information that you provide to us.
To provide the safe browsing experience, SPIN collects anonymous information about websites that SPIN blocks.
3. WORKING WITH BOOMERANG
SPIN works with the Boomerang Parental Control (www.useboomerang.com) app. Parents that want to “lock in” the SPIN Safe Browser can use Boomerang Parental Control to prohibit all other browsers except SPIN Safe Browser. Additionally, parents can elect to enable Browsing History and customize the categories of websites that SPIN blocks or even specify blocked sites. Therefore, it is important to take note of the Boomerang Privacy Polices which is available at https://useboomerang.com/privacy-policy.
4. HOW WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION
✓ Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which SPIN, its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities.
✓ SPIN, its Affiliates, or Service Providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.
✓ By registering for and using the Service you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. or to any other country in which SPIN, its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
✓ We use commercially reasonable safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Service secure and take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. However, SPIN cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to SPIN or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
✓ Please do your part to help us. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to emails between you and SPIN, at all times.
5. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
SPIN may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of SPIN or the Service after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.
6. LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, please note that:
SPIN makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this web site and related products and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this web site and related products. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this web site or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. In no event shall SPIN be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of SPIN, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.
7. PERSONALIZED ADVERTISING
Our freemium version of SPIN Safe Browser uses Google’s Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob) to serve ads. Anonymous information is being reported so the ads you see in SPIN Safe Browser are appropriate and relevant. These ads will only show for our freemium users. Users with an active SPIN+ Subscription or using Boomerang Parental Control as a companion app, will not get ads served. More information about how Google’s Admob can be found here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.