Benchmark Universe is an interactive learning portal for students and teachers, providing the most effective, efficient, and easy-to-use tools for today's classroom environment. It's a portal where students find the tools necessary to keep them engaged in content and enhance their learning... right at their fingertips! With Benchmark Universe, teachers will have everything they need to bring their classrooms into the 21st Century.
Access all of your interactive e-books and teaching materials from one library. Use drag-and-drop to create customized bookshelves and assignments.
Customize your lesson plans using a drag-and-drop interface.
Create and manage your reading groups with an intuitive interface.
Create, track, and customize assignments based on your students' needs.
Deepen your students' comprehension. Benchmark Education's e-books provide opportunities for your students to experience deep, meaningful encounters with text.
No Whiteboard? No Problem!
Use a computer or tablet with a projector.
Customize your posters and save them for use from year to year.
Use to activate prior knowledge and support predictions.
Embed videos into your e-posters.
Add hyperlinks to extend learning.
Read-aloud audio is synchronized and includes highlighted tracking of the text.
Prepare students for the new online CCSS assessments.
Use powerful reports to inform your instruction.
This policy statement sets forth information practices concerning the type of data that is collected at Benchmark Education Company, LLC.com site (the "Web site"). This policy is accessible via a link at the bottom of each page. This policy applies to our online practices only.
The following paragraphs describe the type of information Benchmark Education Company, LLC collects and the reasons why Benchmark Education Company, LLC collects the information. By providing the information requested by Benchmark Education Company, LLC online forms and by continuing to use the Web site after having an opportunity to review the Benchmark Education Company, LLC privacy policy, you have consented to the Benchmark Education Company, LLC use of the information it collects as described at the point of collection or in this policy.
User Supplied Information
You may be asked to supply contact information in order to receive information or materials that you request from the Web site. We use contact information to send you the information you request when you submit the form.
Benchmark Education Company, LLC may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Benchmark Education Company, LLC rights or property or other users of the Web site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Benchmark Education Company, LLC may use or disclose user information to address violations or possible violations of the Terms of Use of the Web site. Benchmark Education Company, LLC will disclose your information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to enforce our terms of use or to protect the security, quality or integrity of our service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Company, our users, or others."
Benchmark Education Company, LLC may share aggregate information about our users with business partners and other third parties. For example, we may disclose that the Web site audience comes x percent from east of the Mississippi River and y percent from west of the Mississippi River.
Your IP Address
Benchmark Education Company, LLC collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to generate aggregate information, and to audit the use of the Web site. When you request pages from the Web site, our servers log your IP address. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms of use of the Web site or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
You may access the data collected by Benchmark Education Company, LLC about you by sending a request to the address listed below. If you believe that an error has been made in the accuracy of the data collected from you, Benchmark Education Company, LLC will correct such error upon adequate verification of the error and the identity of the person seeking the correction. If you wish to access, remove or correct any personally identifying data you have supplied to Benchmark Education Company, LLC you may do so either by:
Please understand that in order to protect your privacy and security, we may also need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Benchmark Education Company, LLC has put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
If for some reason you believe that Benchmark Education Company, LLC has not adhered to its privacy policy, please notify us by either of the methods set forth above. Benchmark Education Company, LLC will do its best to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate, take steps to correct a problem.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Web site, you signify your assent to this policy statement regarding online privacy. Benchmark Education Company, LLC may change the terms of its privacy policy with or without notice to you. It is your responsibility to review the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy statement, then you may not use the Web site. Your continued use of the Web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. If you have any questions about this policy statement, the practices of this Web site, or your dealings with Benchmark Education Company, LLC, you may contact us at addressed given above.