Privacy Policy
Smart and Simple Social Studies®
Operated by The Southern Teach LLC
Effective Date: July 5, 2026
The Southern Teach LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect information when you visit www.smartandsimplesocialstudies.com, purchase our products, join our memberships or courses, download resources, subscribe to our emails, communicate with us, or otherwise use our website, checkout pages, course platform, membership platform, or related services.
By using our website or services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website or services.
1. Business Information
Smart and Simple Social Studies® is operated by:
The Southern Teach LLC
P.O. Box 1102
Hutto, TX 78634
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.smartandsimplesocialstudies.com
2. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through website technology, and through third-party service providers that help us operate our business.
Information You Provide to Us
We may collect information you voluntarily provide when you:
- Subscribe to our email list
- Download a free resource
- Purchase a product, course, membership, or digital resource
- Create an account
- Register for a webinar, training, workshop, bootcamp, or event
- Join a waitlist
- Submit a contact form
- Complete a survey or questionnaire
- Leave a comment, review, or testimonial
- Send us an email or message
- Participate in a promotion, launch event, or giveaway
This information may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Billing information
- Shipping or mailing address, if applicable
- School, grade level, subject area, or teaching-related information you choose to provide
- Account login information
- Purchase history
- Course or membership access history
- Survey responses
- Comments, testimonials, feedback, or messages you submit
Payment Information
When you make a purchase, payment information is processed by third-party payment processors such as Kajabi Payments, Stripe, PayPal, or other checkout providers.
We do not store full credit card numbers or full payment details on our own servers.
We may receive limited payment-related information, such as your name, email address, billing address, purchase amount, order details, transaction status, and the last four digits of a payment card when provided by the payment processor.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website or use our digital platforms, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Links clicked
- Referring website
- Date and time of visit
- Approximate location based on IP address
- Website usage and traffic patterns
- Course, membership, or content access activity
We use this information to understand how visitors use our website, improve our services, troubleshoot technical issues, protect our website, and measure marketing performance.
3. Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, server logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
These technologies may help us:
- Keep the website functioning properly
- Remember preferences
- Understand website traffic and user behavior
- Improve our content and services
- Measure advertising and marketing performance
- Show relevant ads or content
- Track purchases, opt-ins, and conversions
We may use tools such as Google Analytics, Meta/Facebook Pixel, Pinterest Tag, Google Ads, Kajabi analytics, email marketing analytics, or similar services.
You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Some parts of our website or services may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
4. How We Use Your Information
We may use your information to:
- Provide access to products, courses, memberships, downloads, and resources
- Process purchases and transactions
- Deliver free resources or opt-ins
- Create and manage user accounts
- Send login details and access information
- Provide customer support
- Respond to questions or requests
- Send newsletters, promotions, product updates, and educational content
- Notify you about purchases, renewals, cancellations, or account activity
- Improve our website, products, resources, and customer experience
- Personalize content and recommendations
- Administer surveys, promotions, webinars, trainings, bootcamps, giveaways, or events
- Track affiliate referrals, if applicable
- Protect our website, business, customers, and intellectual property
- Enforce our Terms and Conditions
- Comply with legal obligations
5. Email Marketing
If you subscribe to our email list, download a free resource, register for an event, join a waitlist, purchase a product, or otherwise opt in, we may send you emails about resources, offers, promotions, updates, launches, and educational content from Smart and Simple Social Studies and The Southern Teach LLC.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
You may also email us at [email protected] and request to be unsubscribed.
Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send transactional or account-related emails, such as purchase confirmations, login details, billing notices, cancellation confirmations, refund notices, course access information, membership access information, or important updates related to products or services you purchased.
We do not sell, rent, or lease our email list.
6. How We Share Information
We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal information or email list.
We may share information with trusted third-party service providers that help us operate our business, including:
- Website hosting providers
- Course and membership platforms, including Kajabi
- Payment processors, including Kajabi Payments, Stripe, and PayPal
- Email marketing providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising platforms
- Customer support tools
- Survey or form tools
- Affiliate tracking tools
- Accounting, bookkeeping, tax, or legal service providers
- Technology and security providers
These service providers may access personal information only as needed to perform services for us.
We may also disclose information:
- To comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, or legal processes
- To protect our legal rights, privacy, safety, property, business, or users
- To enforce our Terms and Conditions or other agreements
- To investigate fraud, unauthorized access, or misuse of our services
- In connection with a merger, sale, transfer, reorganization, or other business transaction involving some or all of our business or assets
7. Third-Party Websites and Platforms
Our website, emails, courses, memberships, resources, and checkout pages may contain links to third-party websites, tools, or platforms.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites or platforms.
When you click a third-party link or use a third-party platform, that third party’s own privacy policy and terms apply.
8. Affiliate Links and Advertising
Some pages, emails, blog posts, or resources may include affiliate links or sponsored links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.
Third-party advertising platforms may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to show you relevant ads based on your activity on our website or other websites.
We do not control how third-party advertising platforms collect or use your information. You can manage ad preferences through the settings provided by those platforms or your browser.
9. How We Protect Your Information
We use commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect your personal information.
These safeguards may include secure third-party platforms, SSL technology, password-protected systems, limited access to personal information, and reputable payment processors.
However, no website, internet transmission, email, or digital storage system is completely secure. You share information with us at your own risk.
Please do not send sensitive information, such as full credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, student records, or private student information, by email.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide products or services
- Maintain customer accounts
- Complete transactions
- Provide customer support
- Maintain business records
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting, or reporting obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Protect our legal rights and intellectual property
We may retain certain information even after you unsubscribe, cancel, or request deletion if we are required or permitted to do so by law or for legitimate business purposes.
11. Your Choices
You may:
- Unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time
- Disable or delete cookies through your browser settings
- Contact us to update or correct certain personal information
- Request access to the personal information we may have about you
- Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to legal and business recordkeeping requirements
- Contact us with privacy-related questions
To make a privacy request, email us at:
12. Children’s Privacy
Our website, products, courses, memberships, and services are intended for adults, including educators, parents, and other purchasers.
Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. No one under 13 may provide personal information through our website, checkout pages, forms, course platform, membership platform, or services.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verified parental consent, we will delete that information.
If you believe we may have information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at:
13. Student Information
Some of our products and resources are designed for classroom use, but we do not intentionally collect personal information directly from students.
Please do not submit student names, student records, grades, identification numbers, private educational records, health information, or other personally identifiable student information to us unless specifically requested and legally permitted.
If you contact us for support, please remove or redact student-identifying information from screenshots, documents, examples, or messages whenever possible.
14. International Visitors
The Southern Teach LLC is based in the United States.
If you access our website or services from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be collected, processed, stored, and transferred in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate.
Privacy laws in the United States may differ from the laws in your country.
15. GDPR / UK GDPR Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another region with similar privacy laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
Depending on your location and applicable law, these rights may include the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Correct inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Restrict or object to certain processing
- Request portability of your personal information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority
To exercise these rights, email us at:
We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.
16. California Privacy Rights
California residents may have certain privacy rights under California law.
Depending on whether applicable legal thresholds are met, these rights may include the right to know what personal information is collected, used, disclosed, or shared; the right to request deletion or correction; the right to opt out of certain sharing or sale of personal information; and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.
The Southern Teach LLC does not sell personal information in the traditional sense.
Some advertising or analytics tools may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under certain privacy laws. You may be able to limit these activities through cookie settings, browser controls, advertising platform settings, or by contacting us.
To submit a California privacy request, email us at:
17. “Do Not Track” Signals
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” signal.
Because there is not a consistent industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to “Do Not Track” requests.
You may still manage cookies and tracking through your browser settings and other privacy tools.
18. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page.
If we make material changes to how we collect, use, or share personal information, we may provide additional notice by email, website notice, or another appropriate method.
Your continued use of our website or services after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the updated policy.
19. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a privacy request, please contact us:
Smart and Simple Social Studies
Operated by The Southern Teach LLC
P.O. Box 1102
Hutto, TX 78634
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.smartandsimplesocialstudies.com