Privacy
Privacy Policy
Effective August 14, 2026 · Last revised October 12, 2026
This policy describes what Mentor Teaching actually collects, stores, and shares. It is written for working educators, and it avoids claiming protections the site does not provide. If anything here is unclear, contact work@laclear.us.
Who operates the site and how to reach us
Mentor Teaching is an independently maintained teaching-resource library. Privacy questions, deletion requests, and data-related concerns can be sent to work@laclear.us or through the contact page.
Information the site collects automatically
Like nearly every web server, the hosting server records routine technical information when pages are requested:
- IP address of the requesting device or network
- Browser type and operating system (user agent)
- Requested URL and referring page
- Date and time of the request
- HTTP status code and transfer size
These server logs help the operator diagnose errors, understand which pages are requested, and protect the site from abuse. Logs are retained on the hosting server for approximately 14 days (daily rotation, 14 compressed archives) and are not sold or shared with third parties.
Information you choose to send
Contact-form submissions
The contact form stores only the fields shown on the form: request type, page URL (optional), grade band (optional), subject (optional), teaching goal, planning constraint (optional), desired resource type (optional), source suggestion (optional), and email address (optional unless you request a reply). Submissions are stored in a private database used for editorial review.
- Why it is collected: to review, act on, or reply to your request.
- Who can access it: the site operator. No third party is given access for their own purposes.
- How long it is retained: submissions are kept only as long as needed to act on the request. There is no fixed automated retention period; the operator can delete a submission on request at any time.
- How it can be deleted: email work@laclear.us from the address you submitted with (or with enough detail to identify the submission) and ask for deletion.
- Whether a reply is sent: only when you ask for a response and provide an email address.
- Processing providers: the hosting server and the operator's email service process the submission. No advertising or analytics vendor sees it.
Student data: Do not submit student names, student records, medical details, disability information, safeguarding information, or any other identifiable student data. The form is for educators' planning questions, not student information of any kind. The site is designed for adult educators and is not directed to children.
Email sent to work@laclear.us is processed by the operator's email provider, which operates under its own terms and privacy policy.
Spam prevention
The contact form uses a hidden honeypot field, a minimum time-between-open-and-submit check, and request rate limiting. The honeypot field is discarded and never stored. No IP address is stored with form submissions or interaction events.
Analytics
The site does not currently use third-party analytics. No analytics cookies, beacons, or trackers are loaded. Anonymous in-site usefulness events (for example, that a copy or print control was used, or that a library search returned no results) are recorded without IP addresses or personal identifiers to help the operator improve the site.
Cookies and local storage
Serving the site’s pages requires no cookies. If you turn off advertising using the "Privacy choices" control in the footer, a small first-party record (in a cookie and, where available, local storage) remembers that preference on this device. Existing advertising refusals remain in effect. Google may store its regional privacy choices and use advertising storage when permitted by those choices and applicable requirements. You can review your choices using the footer and Google’s regional controls.
Advertising technology
Google’s privacy service checks which regional advertising choices apply on suitable teaching articles. Google and its advertising partners may receive your IP address, browser details, page URL and, when permitted, advertising identifiers to provide privacy choices and serve and measure ads. Google may receive device and page information while loading regional privacy choices. Where consent is required, the site’s inline ad waits for your choice; refusing advertising storage for Google prevents that inline ad request. Google also applies its US state privacy controls where applicable. Resources and printables have no advertising. Details appear in the Cookie and Advertising Disclosure.
To learn how Google uses data when it serves advertising, visit Google's advertising data-use page. To control personalized advertising from Google, visit Google Ad Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at AboutAds choices.
Consent records
The site remembers an explicit preference to turn off advertising and when that preference was saved. It does not turn a missing site preference or a previous site opt-in into consent for Google. Google manages its own regional consent and opt-out records. Refusing advertising does not block access to any content. You can remove the site’s opt-out preference through the footer’s Privacy choices control without granting Google consent.
Information sharing
The site shares information only in the ways described above: hosting and email providers process routine technical data and messages; Google’s privacy service and advertising vendors receive regional privacy signals and provide privacy choices or serve ads when permitted; no data is sold. The site does not claim that data is never shared, because hosting, email, spam prevention, and advertising providers necessarily process some data.
Retention and deletion
Server logs are rotated and deleted after approximately 14 days. Contact submissions are retained only as long as needed to act on them and can be deleted on request. You can remove the site's advertising opt-out by choosing "Resume Google privacy choices" in the footer's Privacy choices panel. Use Google's regional controls to review its choices, or your browser's cookie and site-data controls to clear other stored records.
Security limitations
The site uses HTTPS and standard hosting safeguards, but no internet transmission or storage system is completely secure. Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information through the form.
International visitors
The site is hosted on servers in the United States. Visitors from other countries should know that routine technical data and any voluntary submissions are processed on those servers. Google supplies regional privacy messages where applicable. You can turn off advertising in the site’s Privacy choices panel, reopen Google’s regional consent message where available, or use Google’s Do Not Sell or Share control where applicable. The site does not replace those regional choices with a global consent prompt.
Your choices
- Advertising choices: use the footer's "Privacy choices" control to turn off Google advertising or remove the site's advertising opt-out. Review Google's choices through its regional controls. Clear stored records through your browser's cookie and site-data controls.
- Request deletion of a submission: email work@laclear.us.
- Control personalized advertising: see Google Ad Settings and the AboutAds choices link above.
Changes to this policy
If the site's data practices change (for example, when advertising is enabled), this policy and the Cookie and Advertising Disclosure will be updated with the date of the change before the new practice takes effect.