Online Privacy, Content Rating & Accessibility Policies

CoSN respects your privacy. To protect the privacy of its members and other visitors to CoSN, Taking TCO to the Classroom, K-12 School Networking Conference, Data-Driven Decision Making and Safewired Schools, CoSN has implemented the following policy:

Websites: You can visit parts of the CoSN Website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. However, CoSN can and may collect the following information regarding visitors to our Web site: domain name; name; information regarding what pages are accessed; information volunteered by you, such as survey information, e-mail address and your preferred means of communication, and information related to transactions such as registrations to conferences and online courses and events, and the ordering of CoSN products. In order to continuously improve our products and services, we may ask you to provide us with information regarding your professional interests, demographics, experience with our resources and any contact preferences. Access to the Member-Only section of the CoSN Website is provided through use of a PIN number that is issued to members in good standing. Visitors seeking access to certain free materials may be asked to provide certain information about themselves as a condition of accessing that information.

Disclosure of Contact Information to Third Parties: On occasion, CoSN may provide limited data to third parties that are sponsors of CoSN projects and events. This limited data may include names; job titles; and companies and business addresses. However, they do not include business phone numbers, business fax numbers or e-mail addresses. In addition, CoSN only provides information to third parties that have adopted privacy policies that meet the criteria established by CoSN and its Board of Directors.

This policy is subject to change at any time.

Content Rating

This Website, as well as all Web sites sponsored by the Consortium for School Networking, has been rated by CoSN, based on the content rating standards of the Internet Content Rating Association. ICRA is an independent, non-profit organization with offices in the United States and Europe. The ICRA standards are designed to promote the online safety of children, while protecting the free-speech rights of content providers. Browsers can be set to bar access to those Web sites that include certain kinds of content that educators and parents consider to be inappropriate for children or to sites that have not rated themselves. For more information, see www.icra.org.

Accessibility

CoSN uses Bobby Worldwide software created by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) to ensure its site is compliant with Section 508 and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative These initiatives are designed to help Web page authors identify and repair significant barriers to access by individuals with disabilities, and are fully supported by CoSN.