Legal Notices

All images, text, programs, and other materials found in the ReadWriteThink Website ("Website") are protected by the United States copyright laws and are owned or licensed by the National Council of Teachers of English (“NCTE”). Educators may use and make a limited number of copies of the Website images, text, programs, and other materials for non-commercial, classroom and instructional use. All other rights are reserved. Except as set forth above, no part of the Website images, text, programs, and other materials may be used, reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior permission in writing from the National Council of Teachers of English.

Under no circumstances may any individual or organization charge for the use of ReadWriteThink images, text, programs and other materials, including Professional Development resources, without prior written permission from the National Council of Teachers of English.

Resale of ReadWriteThink images, text, programs, and other materials is not permitted.

For more information, please contact us.

 

The names, logos, and taglines identifying ReadWriteThink's images, text, programs or materials are proprietary marks of the National Council of Teachers of English. Use, reproduction or modifications to any such names, logos or taglines associated with ReadWriteThink are strictly prohibited.

The National Council of Teachers of English makes available this Website and the images, text, programs and other materials contained herein in furtherance of their nonprofit and tax-exempt purposes. While the parties make every effort to present accurate and reliable information on this Website, they do not endorse, approve or certify any information on this Website, nor guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of such information. Use of such information is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review by qualified experts. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or preference by any of the parties.

The Website is provided on an "As Is" and "As Available" basis. The National Council of Teachers of English and their affiliates do not make any expressed or implied warranty as to the accuracy or merchantability of any images, text, programs or other materials on the Website, or any implied warranties of fitness or non-infringement.

At certain places on this Website, live "links" to other websites can be accessed. Such external sites contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of the parties. The parties do not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external sites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of information located at such sites. Use of any information obtained from such sites is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review by qualified experts. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the parties.

The parties assume no responsibility for consequences resulting from use of the information contained on the Website, or from use of the information obtained at linked sites, or in any respect for the content of such information. The parties are not responsible for, and expressly disclaim all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, reliance on, or performance of such information.

 

Effective Date: June 1, 2021

This Privacy Policy discloses our privacy practices and how we may use the information that the National Council of Teachers of English (“NCTE” or “we” or “our” or “us”) gathers on the ReadWriteThink (RWT) website, http://www.readwritethink.org/ (the “Site”), from the Site visitors (“you” or “your”). By using the Site or voluntarily providing personal information to us, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion and will post the current version on the Site. It is your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy for any changes when you use the Site. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or any revised version of it, please do not use the Site. 

Please note that this Privacy Policy is applicable only to the Site and does not apply to other websites operated by NCTE. 

Personal Information Collected

We collect personal information from you when you submit it to us, including by using our educational resources available on the Site; contacting us via the Site; completing any forms provided by us; registering on the Site; signing up for an event through the Site; and otherwise interacting by the Site. Such personal information may include, for example, your first name, last name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and any other information you choose to provide to us. We may combine personal information we collect from you with information we receive about you from other sources, such as address update services. 

Each time you visit the Site, we may also automatically collect certain types of information about your computer or device, such as your IP address, operating system, browser, domain, and other technical information that may be collected and linked with your personal information. For more information, see our Cookie Policy, below.

How we use collected information

We may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To provide you with educational resources. 
• To send you materials that may interest you.
• To answer your questions about the Site, educational resources, or anything else.  
• To improve the Site.
• To notify you about updates to the Site.
• To contact you.

How we protect your information

​​​​​​​We adopt appropriate and industry-standard data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information and data stored on our Site.

Sharing your personal information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, services providers, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

In the event that a division, assets, or part or all of NCTE is bought, sold, or otherwise transferred, or is in the process of a potential transaction, information collected through the Site will likely be shared for evaluation purposes and included among the transferred business assets.

We may also disclose specific information when such disclosure appears necessary to comply with the law, a subpoena, or other litigation process or to protect the interests or safety of the Site visitors as well as NCTE members, customers, employees, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Cookie Policy

We may use tracking technology (“Cookies”) to help make the Site more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. This Cookie Policy provides you with information on the use of Cookies on the Site, as applicable. Most of the Cookies that we use on the Site are session cookies, which are deleted automatically at the end of your visit. 

Cookies will not harm your PC and do not contain any viruses. Nevertheless, if you do not want to use Cookies, this will not prevent you from accessing the Site. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers may provide information on how your browser may be configured so that Cookies can be accepted with your permission or completely blocked. You may be able to change your browser settings so that they do not allow Cookies to be accepted or saved at any time. You can also delete Cookies that have already been saved at any time. 

Kindly note however that if you decline Cookies on the Site, some functions on the Site may be limited or unavailable. As a result, to make it easier to use the Site, we recommend that your browser settings accept Cookies on the Site.

Interest-Based Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies that use tracking technologies such as Google Analytics to serve our advertisements across the internet. These companies may collect information about your visits to the Site and other websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. These advertising companies serve ads on behalf of us and others on nonaffiliated sites, and some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information collected about your visits to the Site and elsewhere over time. Other companies may also use such technology to advertise on our Site. 

You have the choice to tell us not to collect and use this information, and in some jurisdictions, we will only engage in interest-based advertising if you opt in. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices concerning interest-based ads, visit

http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and www.aboutads.info/choices.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals. Therefore, NCTE and the Site do not recognize DNT. 

Third-Party Websites and Accounts

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, such as social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not in any way responsible for the activities and practices that take place on these websites. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any external site before disclosing any personal information. Please contact those websites directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies. 

You may choose to create accounts on websites or platforms owned or controlled by third parties to interact with us. These third parties may use your information for their own purposes, including for behavioral advertising and analytics purposes. We do not control and are not responsible for the collection, use, or other processing of your information by these third parties through the accounts you create with them. Please refer to their privacy policies to learn about how they handle your personal information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

NCTE has the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will post the current version on the Site. 

Children’s Privacy

We take children’s privacy very seriously and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us promptly as described in the “Contact Us” section below, and we will endeavor to investigate and delete such information from our systems. 

Visitors from Outside the United States—Cross-Border Transfer

The Site is intended for use of residents of the United States. If you are visiting the Site or using the educational resources available on the Site from outside the United States, you understand and agree that your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The data protection and other applicable laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. Your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable in such jurisdictions. By using the Site and/or providing personal information to us, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States as described in the Privacy Policy. 

Your California Privacy Rights

This Privacy Policy describes how we may share your information for marketing purposes. You may contact us with any questions and, to the extent applicable, to request a list of third parties to whom we may disclose information for marketing purposes, and the categories of information we may disclose.  

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at

National Council of Teachers of English
340 N. Neil St. #104
Champaign, IL 61820
Email: CustomerService@ncte.org 
Phone: 877-369-6283

ReadWriteThink.org receives many permission requests to link to, reprint, or adapt our materials. Our policies for such requests are listed below; these reiterate the information appearing in the Copyright portion of this page.

All information or queries should be submitted to ReadWriteThink using the Contact Us form unless noted below.

• You may link to ReadWriteThink from a school, class, educational, or personal website under the following stipulations:
• You acknowledge ReadWriteThink as the provider of the resource
• You charge no fee to access ReadWriteThink's resources.

You submit the specific URL(s) that indicate to the ReadWriteThink staff where our information will reside so that we may review the context and confirm the purpose.

• You confirm receipt of these conditions.​​​​​​​

Note that the resources on our site may only be linked to - not copied, reproduced, or modified in any way, nor placed within a frame.

You may not link to ReadWriteThink from any fee-based educational website.

You may reprint a limited number of copies of ReadWriteThink materials to share with colleagues, families, or students.

You may cite or excerpt ReadWriteThink materials in a curriculum or teacher's guide.

Note, however, that ReadWriteThink.org integrates the Internet into the teaching and learning process. We spend a considerable amount of time updating links as external websites reorganize or remove content from the Internet. A hard copy reprint from ReadWriteThink would therefore be dated before long. Rather than reprint the entire resource, we encourage you to print the title, author, overview, and URL, along with a copyright line citing ReadWriteThink as the publisher.

We would appreciate receiving two complimentary copies of any published material so that we may track how ReadWriteThink materials are being used and presented to teachers. If this is possible, please send them to the address below.

National Council of Teachers of English
ATTN: ReadWriteThink
340 N. Neil St., #104
Champaign, IL 61820

You may cite or excerpt ReadWriteThink materials in a professional book or journal article under the following stipulations:

• You include the URL of the material so that your readers may access it online.
• You do not reprint entire lessons, activities, or other materials. Rather than reprint the entire lesson, we encourage you to print the title, author, overview, and URL of the lesson, along with a copyright line citing ReadWriteThink as the publisher.
• You include our branding information: "ReadWriteThink.org is a nonprofit website powered by the National Council of Teachers of English."
• You confirm receipt of these conditions.

If your publisher requires a signed permission form from the copyright holder, you may email it to profdev@ncte.org or mail it to:

National Council of Teachers of English
ATTN: ReadWriteThink
340 N. Neil St., #104
Champaign, IL 61820

You may reprint ReadWriteThink materials for presentations to literacy professionals. For our records, please send us the title of the conference, title and date of your presentation, a brief (1-2 sentences) description of the presentation and how the ReadWriteThink material will be used, and the number of expected attendees.

You may adapt ReadWriteThink resources (e.g., lessons, activities, rubrics, assessments, booklists) for classroom or out-of-school use to fit the needs of the children or teens you work with.

You may not adapt any ReadWriteThink student interactives, podcasts, or videos