Who Are We
We are Vernier Software & Technology and our address is 13979 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton, OR 97005. You can contact us by mail, phone (1-888-837-6437), or email (info@vernier.com).
The terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to people using our website and services.
Mailing List
We do not sell, lease, or loan our mailing list or portions thereof to anyone at any time. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, simply write to us at info@vernier.com, and we will remove you immediately.
Privacy Notice
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Website
Web Analytics
We use Google Analytics™ to research the usage of our website. The information collected helps us understand our visitors’ behavior, view technology trends, improve usability, and test functionality. The data collected are stored for 26 months to allow us to see trends.
Web Accounts
You can create accounts on our website to place orders, post on our forum, and download software and resources. Optionally, you can provide your school address on your profile to help fill out forms on our website and allow us to personalize information we show to you, such as workshops near your location.
Server Logs
The website server maintains a log of activity that includes IP addresses. This information is stored for a year in case of security incidents. The logs are only available to our server administrators.
Software
Software published by Vernier Software & Technology does not collect any personal information from students or instructors, nor does it include any advertising. Software that is only distributed or promoted by Vernier is governed by its own privacy policy.
Third-Parties
Your information is securely stored on our internal systems and only shared with third parties to operate business functions such as email campaigns, customer support, geodetection, and search.
Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
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Chatra | third party | 1 week | Used for chat widget |
CloudFlare (__cfduid) | persistent | 1 month | Used by CloudFlare service for rate limiting |
Cookie Consent: Necessary | session | 12 hours | Used to preserve cookie consent answer for necessary cookies |
Cookie Consent: Non-Necessary | persistant | 1 year | Used to preserve cookie consent answer for non-necessary cookies |
Cookie Consent: Viewed Cookie Policy | persistent | 1 year | Used to remember if user viewed the cookie policy |
Google Analytics (_ga) | persistent | 2 years | Used to distinguish users for Google Analytics |
Google Analytics (_gat) | persistent | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate of Google Analytics |
Google Analytics (_gid) | persistent | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users for Google Analytics |
PHP Session | session | session | Used to store API results for better performance |
WooCommerce: Cart | temporary | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
WooCommerce: Items in Cart | session | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
WooCommerce: Session | persistent | 2 days | Helps WooCommerce by creating an unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. |
WordPress: Login Session | persistent, session | Session or 2 weeks (if user clicks remember me) | Used by WordPress to indicate that a user is signed into the website |
WordPress: Secured Account Details | persistent, session | Session or 2 weeks if user chose to remember login | Used by WordPress to securely store account details |
WordPress: Test Cookie | session | Session | Used by WordPress to check if the browser accepts cookies |
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.