Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

What are the Terms of Use for this media?

By using the PBS Wisconsin Education website or any of the resources provided to you through the website, you signify your agreement to our Terms of Use.

Copyright

All videos, images, text, interactives, audio files and other materials found in the PBS Wisconsin Education website are protected by the United States copyright laws and are owned or licensed by PBS Wisconsin Education.

Streaming Audio and Video

You may play these videos and/or audio files and share them with a classroom or group of students for educational purposes.

Download Video

You may download a single copy of an audio or video file for educational, non-commercial use. You may not reproduce, modify, upload to another site or sell any of the contents. You may retain one copy of the file for the duration of the instructional period.

Sample Citation

Producer’s Name (Producer). (year). Program number: Name of program [Video file]. In Name of series in italics. Retrieved from http://pbswisconsineducation.org.

Example: PBS Wisconsin Education (Producer). (2014). 4: Bill Harley & Arthur Davidson: Innovation on Two Wheels [Video file]. In Wisconsin Biographies. Retrieved from http://pbswisconsineducation.org/biographies/harley.html.

Ancillary Materials

Resources may include certain ancillary educational materials, such as lesson plans, background essays, student activity sheets, and other printouts. (“Ancillary Materials”). You may modify, alter, and revise Ancillary Materials to meet specific instructional needs, provided that the following statement is prominently displayed on all such revised Ancillary Materials, in addition to any other proprietary notices, and with the understanding that PBS Wisconsin, or any other indicated copyright holder shall continue to own the Ancillary Materials: “Revised with the permission of PBS Wisconsin (or other copyright holder indicated on the page). PBS Wisconsin (or other indicated copyright holder) is not responsible for the content or accuracy of the revision.”

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting PBS Wisconsin Education. PBS Wisconsin Education is a service of the Educational Communications Board and UW-Madison. This website provides educational resources for Wisconsin educators and learners in classrooms, libraries and at home.

We do not collect, use, or disclose your personal information online without your consent or unless required by law. To learn more about the measures we have taken to help protect your personal information online, please refer to the information below.

Collection of Information

We may automatically collect certain information from you when you visit this Site, including:

  • Your browser type and operating system;
  • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is the number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet and that can sometimes be used to derive your general geographic area;
  • Other websites you may visit before and after visiting this Site;
  • Web pages you may view and links you may click-on within this Site;
  • Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers that can identify the physical location of such devices in accordance with applicable law;
  • Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies;
  • Information about your interactions with video content, such as the type of content viewed, and information about your interactions with e-mail messages, such as the links clicked on and whether the messages were opened or forwarded; and/or
  • Standard server log information.

If you access Third-Party Services through this Site, such Facebook, Google, or Twitter to share information about your experience on this Site with your connections on those services, we may collect information about you from those services. These Third-Party Services may also collect information about you, including about your activity on this Site, and may notify your connections on the Third-Party Services that you are a user of this Site or about your use of this Site, in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Use of Collected Information

We may use the collected information to analyze the use of this Site and information about visitors to this Site to understand and improve our service offerings, such as determining which pages are most popular, which browsers are most used, how long users spend on this Site, and which websites users have come from, and other purposes as permitted by law.

PBS Wisconsin Education Cookies Statement

PBS Wisconsin Education is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. By using the PBS Wisconsin Education website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

During your visit to pbswisconsineducation.org (website), information that is not readily identifiable to an individual is automatically collected and stored by PBS Wisconsin. This information is used solely to improve our web services. This information will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by state and federal law, including the Wisconsin Public Records Law.

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This website uses cookies for the following purposes.

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Your Consent

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

As this site develops, we may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law, our practices, or the features of this Site. You should periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of the current policies and practices. Under certain circumstances, we may also choose to notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy by other means, such as posting a notice on the front page of this Site or by emailing you. Any changes we may make are effective immediately upon posting.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at education@pbswisconsin.org.