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Our privacy notice governs the privacy practices of our website https://www.privacyinstructor.com and all sub-domains.
These definitions may vary slightly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
'NONPERSONAL DATA' (NPD) means any information that is in no way personally identifiable.
'PERSONAL DATA' (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. PD is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, PD is broader in scope and covers more data.
'SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA' (SPD) means a consumer's social security, driver's license, state identification card, or passport number; a consumer's account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security, access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; a consumer's exact geolocation; a consumer's ethnic or racial origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer's mail, text messages, and email unless the business is the intended receiver of the communication; a consumer's genetic data; the processing of biometric data to uniquely identify a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed about a consumer's health; sex life or sexual orientation.
When using our website and submitting PD to us, you may have certain rights under privacy laws in the United States, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CaCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and other U.S. state laws. You may also have rights under privacy laws of other countries, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the EU GDPR), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (the UK GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act of 2018, Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and other global privacy laws. Even if not listed here, we will make reasonable efforts to honor data subject access requests, even though we may be under no legal obligation to do so. However, we reserve the right to decline any data subject access request that we are not legally obligated to comply with. Your rights may include, but are not limited to the following:
Based on our current data collection methods, and including our practices over the last 12 months, we collect the following categories of PD, SPD, and other information about you:
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information may include the IP address of your computer or the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider's name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use this type of information to help improve our website and marketing.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text in the cookie consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.
Where applicable, our website uses a cookie banner that allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. Only strictly necessary cookies are used unless you give your consent. By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us and the third parties with which we partner permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer and or mobile device.
We may also use cookies for: identifying the areas of our website that you have visited; personalizing the content that you see on our website; our website analytics; remarketing our products or services to you; remembering your preferences, settings, and log-in details; targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests; allowing you to disclose content with social networks.
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
We may use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically watch the number of people who open our emails.
Based on our current practices when you provide information to us (including our practices over the last 12 months), we collect some or all of the following categories of PD when you register as a user or when buying our products or services: first name, last name, phone number, email address, physical address, billing address, payment information, password, and other information listed.
Our website contains chat software or contact forms that enable visitors to communicate with us live online or offline by email. In some cases visitors can communicate with us without buying our products and services. When you use our chat software or contact forms, we may collect some or all the following information: your email address, first name, last name, location, and any other information you willingly choose to give us. You should limit the information you give to us to one that is necessary to answer your questions.
Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics may collect information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic and improve our marketing, advertising, and website. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with PD. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you buy our products and services are based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract.
If you do not provide us with enough PD, we may not be able to provide you all our products and services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your PD.
We use the information we receive from you to:
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a user or customer. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your contact preferences at any time through your account or by contacting us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
At times, we disclose your PD to third parties, service providers, and contractors whom we hire to provide services to us. These service providers and or contractors may include, but are not limited to, payment processors, web analytics companies, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies. We have contracts with qualified third parties, service providers, and contractors that obligate them to comply with specific requirements under the law.
We may disclose your PD if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal processes; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and or other users; or (d) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal and or real property, or the personal safety of our company, users, employees, and business partners.
If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice, as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or company.
Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate through online community discussion boards, blogs, or other mechanisms. If you choose to post on these discussion mechanisms, you should use care when exposing any PD, as such information is not protected by our privacy notice nor are we liable if you disclose your PD through such postings. Also, PD which you post on our website for publication may be available worldwide on the Internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
We retain your PD and SPD if necessary to provide our services and or products to you and to fulfill the purposes outlined in our privacy notice. We retain PD for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable legal, regulatory, or contractual obligations. At this point, we will destroy, delete, or erase it unless you request that we retain it.
| Data Type | Retention Period | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Password | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Account access and security |
| First Name | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Record-keeping and compliance |
| Email Address | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Communication and support |
| Marketing Data | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Legitimate interest in marketing |
| Communications Data / Support Emails / Forms | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Equal opportunity monitoring |
| Payment Information | Retained while account is active; 7 years after | Comply with financial reporting requirements |
| Device Type & Operating System | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | App performance and debugging |
| IP Address & General Location | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Security and regional compliance |
| Community Posts & Comments | Retained while account is active; 2 years after | Community engagement and content moderation |
If you make any postings on our website that contain information about third parties, you agree that you have permission to include that information. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings about which we are notified if such postings violate the privacy rights of others.
We do not respond to browser-based Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. We have no responsibility for these websites, and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You accept that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk.
Our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18.
You can always opt out of receiving email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission, except in the sale or transfer of our company, or if our company files for bankruptcy as described in the section "Disclosures to Successors".
We have built our website and services using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your PD. We and the third parties who provide services to us also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your PD. SPD is protected at a higher level than most PD. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the prevention of loss or misuse of your PD or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not disclose it to anyone.
You may have to provide a credit or debit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over them. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
International Transfers. We transfer personal data as needed to provide our services. Where the European Economic Area (EEA), U.K., or Switzerland is the source, we use a lawful transfer mechanism: (i) an adequacy decision (e.g., EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for certified U.S. recipients); or (ii) the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, as applicable, the U.K. IDTA/Addendum. In exceptional, non-repetitive situations where no other mechanism is suitable, we may rely on a GDPR Article 49 derogation (e.g., your explicit consent or contract necessity).
We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy notice, we will post those changes on our website so our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your PD in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email sent to the email address on file in your account. Otherwise, we will use and disclose our users' and customers' PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. Your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you have questions about our privacy notice, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
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