For some reasons, you may want to delete your CodeHS account. Deleting your account can be a simple way to do it, as you can do it through the ‘Account Settings’ page. However, you cannot delete your account automatically, instead the removal account will be performed by CodeHS Support.
If you need step-by-step to delete your CodeHS account, you can dive into our post, as we will show you a guide to remove your CodeHS account. Let’s see the guide of deleting a CodeHS account below!
Deleting a CodeHS Account, Here’s How!
To delete your CodeHS account, you may need to request deletion of your own Personal Information by sending an email to Code HS Support at hello@codehs.com. If you only want to deactivate your CodeHS account, you can do it at any time via the Account Settings page.
In the proper situation, the teacher and your parents can also request deletion of a student’s Personal Information. If you request a deletion of your CodeHS account, you will no longer use the services. They will remove your or your student’s information with reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information in connection with its deletion.
When they remove a user’s personal information, it will be removed from their active database, but they probably retain an archived copy of such user’s records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
CodeHS Support will store your personal information including after the school term where a teacher or student uses the Services, for only as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was gathered. In general, CodeHS will remove your personal information 4 years after the user’s last login to the Services.
CodeHS has implemented reasonable measures that are designed to secure your information from unauthorized access use, disclosure and alteration and also from accidental loss. Need to know, any payment information is transmitted with HTTPS encryption and will be processed through Stripe, a third party payment provider. In this case, CodeHS will not directly gather or store payment instruments.
Furthermore, the safety and security of your personal information will depend on you. Then, you will be responsible to choose a strong password and keep it confidential. If there is a data breach that affects your information, they will comply with a relevant legal or regulatory notification requirements.
Who Can Access Your Personal Information?
In the step of creating your CodeHS account, you may have to enter your name, your email address and a username. If you are a student, you may need to enter a class code given by your teacher to link your account to your classroom and your school. If you are a teacher, you will be prompted to provide information about your school, so they will be able to verify that you are a real teacher.
If you create a CodeHS account, you do not need to worry about information being leaked, as they do not sell or rent your personal information to any third party for any purposes including marketing or advertising.
They also restrict access to your information to CodeHS employees, agents and contractors who have to know that information in order to process it for them and who are subject to strict contractual security standards and confidentiality obligations. If they fail to meet the obligations, they may be disciplined or their contract terminated.
Your account information, grading and coursework, your student subjects, programs and uploaded files can only be accessed by you and your teacher. About messages, they can be accessed by participants in that conversation. All users may need to abide by Terms of Use that include obligations about interacting with other users.
They may disclose information that they collect or you give as described in this privacy policy to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, restructuring, divestiture, dissolution, reorganization or other sale or transfer of some of all of their assets, where the Personal Information that they hold is among the assets transferred.
In this case, the Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your information and any acquirer can only handle your Personal Information as per the Policy, unless you give consent to a new policy.
They may also provide you with prompt notice of an acquisition by posting on their homepage or by email to your email address that you provided to us. If you don’t consent to the use of your Personal Information by such a successor company, you probably request that the company remove it.
What Your Information Will Be Disclosed by CodeHS?
CodeHS will disclose your personal information, including:
- To obey with a court order, legal process or law including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To make sure sire security or to apply their Terms of Use and other agreements including for billing and collection purposes.
- If they believe that disclosure will be needed or proper to protect the property, rights or safety of CodeHS, Inc., and others
- To a state or local educational agency including schools and school districts for K-12 school purposes, as permitted by federal and state law.
Moreover, they may disclose aggregated information about their users and information which does not identify any individual, without restriction.
When you access CodeHS website, they may use automatic data collection technologies to gather information about your equipment, patterns and browsing actions. For instance, they may collect details of your visits to the website including location data, traffic data, logs and other communication data and also information about your computer and internet connection including your operating system, IP address and browser type.
Well, the information they gather automatically is statistical data that does not include Personal Information. However, it helps them to improve their website and to deliver a better and more personalized service including by enabling them to:
- monitor site performance and uptime;
- resolve technical issue for website users;
- predict their audience size and usage patterns;
- store information about your preferences that allow them to customize their Website for you; and
- recognize you anytime you return to CodeHS website.
