COOKIES & PRIVACY POLICY
Last revised: June 25, 2020
INTRODUCTION
Your privacy and security of your personal information are very important to us. This Cookies & Privacy Policy describes how we, Beyond College Access LLC (the "Company", "we," “our,” or "us"), collect, store, use, and disclose personal information (as defined below) of users ("you," "your," or “user”) of the website located at www.beyondcollegeaccess.com (the “Site”) and any materials and services associated with it (collectively, the “Services”).
We aim to limit our collection of personal information to only such personal information as required for legitimate purposes. We take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information and we respect your right to access your personal information or have it corrected or deleted, at your request. If you have any questions or want to know exactly what personal information, we keep about you, please contact us. All capitalized terms not defined herein are defined in our Terms & Conditions.
We may amend this Cookies & Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to this Cookies & Privacy Policy here so that you always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone. Please refer to this Cookies & Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By using the Site, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Cookies & Privacy Policy and you hereby consent that we will collect, store, use, and disclose your personal information in the following ways. If you do not agree with any practices in this Cookies & Privacy Policy, please stop using the Site and/or the Services.
This Cookies & Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any other company or third parties that is not owned or controlled by us.
USER INFORMATION WE COLLECT OR RECEIVE
Personal Information
“Personal information” is any information which is related to an identified or identifiable natural person. When you interact with the Site or purchase any Service, we may collect the following personal information from you: first name, last name, entity name (optional), email address, phone number, and any other personal information provided by you voluntarily.
Non-personal Information
We may collect data which is anonymous and pseudonymous, including, but not limited to, browser type, browsing history, number of logins, information concerning user interaction with the Site, page views, language settings, device type, settings and software used, how you heard about us, comments, Web Beacons (as described below) and time/date of login.
All Personal Information and Non-Personal Information that we hold about you shall be collectively referred to in this Cookies & Privacy Policy as "User Information."
INFORMATION USAGE
We only use information about you to support your experience throughout the Site or to communicate with you about our Services. In particular, we collect information about you for the following purposes:
● Delivery of Services: We use your User Information to process your orders, process payments, deliver Services, and communicate with you about your orders, Services, and promotional offers.
● Provide, troubleshoot, and improve our Site and Services: We use User Information to provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of the Site and Services. We also work with third parties to provide analytics information regarding your usage of our Site and Services.
● Recommendations and personalization: We use User Information to recommend features, and services that might be of interest to you, to identify your preferences, and to personalize your experience with the Site and Services.
● Comply with legal obligations: In certain cases, we collect and use User Information to comply with laws.
● Communicate with you: We use your User Information to communicate with you in relation to our Site or Services via different channels (e.g., by phone, email, chat).
We reserve the right to use and disclose Non-Personal Information and anonymous aggregate statistics for any purpose and to any third party at our sole discretion.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH OUR PARTNERS & VENDORS
We employ or utilize the services of other third-party vendors, consultants and service providers who need access to your User Information (such as your name, address, email, or other identifiers) in order to enable them to perform services on our behalf and help us provide you with our Services. We use third party vendors for a variety of services across our Services, such as email message deployment, email address validation, subscription fulfillment, research, statistical analysis, cross-device user tracking, data and website hosting, Online Course hosting, marketing, advertising, and other data and transaction processing.
We also engage third party service providers for the purpose of processing payments such as Stripe and PayPal for our Services, to fulfill your orders, to honor your request to be removed from promotional mailings. We do not collect your financial information; our partners and vendors do it for us. Please be sure to read the privacy policies of any such partner and vendor. You accept and agree that it is those partners’ and vendors’ responsibility to protect any information you give them, and we cannot be held liable for their wrongful use of your personal information.
For newsletters and email marketing campaigns we use Mailchimp. Please read Mailchimp’s privacy policy to learn more about their privacy practices.
For hosting our Online Program, we use Thinkific. Please refer to Thinkific’s privacy policy to learn more about how they collect and process your personal information.
In addition to receiving your User Information from us, our partners and vendors may also:
● Collect information directly from you and/or your device, such as your IP Address, Device ID, Advertising ID, and information about your browser or operating system.
● Combine User Information about you received from our Site with information about you from other sites or services; and/or
● Place or recognize a unique cookie or other tracking mechanism on your browser.
FEEDBACK
If you leave any feedback or suggestions (“Feedback”) on the Site or in an email to us, you hereby assign to us all rights in the Feedback and agree that we shall have the right to use such Feedback and related information in any manner it deems appropriate. We will treat any Feedback you provide to us as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that you will not submit to us any information or ideas that you consider to be confidential or proprietary.
COOKIES POLICY
This Cookies Policy provides information about our use of cookies and plug-ins in connection with your use of and interaction with our Site. Some of the User Information is collected on the Site through the use of cookies and/or Web Beacons.
"Cookies" are small data file identifiers that are transferred to your computer or mobile web browser that allow us, and third parties with whom we partner, to recognize your browser or mobile device and transfer information about you and your use of our Site. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember certain information (such as items added in a shopping cart) or to record a user’s browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past). Cookies are intended to help you access a site faster and more efficiently because they can store information to help you enter a website without having to log in. In effect, cookies tell the website that your browser has been to the site before. It does not need to know your exact identity. Cookies can also be used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields such as names, addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers.
Browsers may accept or reject Cookies automatically but allow you to change these settings. The help menu on most browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s settings and how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies all together. You can also disable or delete cookies you have previously accepted if you wish to.
Like many other websites, we also use cookies on our Site. Different cookies have different purposes but also different lifespans. The lifespan of a cookie determines how long a cookie will remain on your computer before it deletes itself.
We use cookies to make navigation easier and to analyze usage of our Site (including, your preferences). You do have the right to opt-out and to object against the further use of any cookies. However, if you do so, please keep in mind that our Site may no longer work properly for you.
By using the Site, you agree that we may install the following cookies:
We (and third parties with whom we partner) may also deliver a file known as a web beacon, pixel, or pixel tag ("Web Beacons") to you through our Site or Services. Web Beacons are small, invisible graphic images that may be used on a website interface or in emails relating to services to collect certain information and monitor user activity on the website interface, such as to count visits, access cookies, understand usage effectiveness and to determine if an email has been opened and acted upon.
"Pixels" or "Pixel Tags" also known as clear GIFs, beacons, spotlight, tags, or web bugs, are a method for passing information from the user's computer to a third-party website.
Web Beacons allow ad networks, marketing partners and other service providers that we use to provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for us, for advertisers and our other partners. Web Beacons also enable ad networks and other partners to track your behavior for their own analysis and use, and to serve targeted advertisements to you when you visit other websites or platforms. These Web Beacons enable third party companies to view, edit, or set their own cookies when you visit the Services, just as if you had visited a web page from their site.
DATA RETENTION
Your personal information is only processed for as long as needed to achieve the purposes which are described above or up until such time where you withdraw your consent for processing it, unless we or any other third party have an overriding interest in keeping your personal information identifiable or when there is a legal or regulatory obligation or a judicial or administrative order that prevents us from de-identifying your personal information.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including your personal information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
DATA STORAGE
We use Squarespace’s and Thinkific’s servers to safely store your information. The data centers where we store your information are located in the United States. Please keep in mind that the data protection and privacy laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as the laws in your country. For example, personal data transferred to the United States may be subject to lawful access requests by federal and state authorities in the United States. By providing your personal information, you consent to any transfer of your data and processing in accordance with this Cookies & Privacy Policy.
SECURITY
The security of your information is very important to us. We and our partners (Squarespace, Thinkific, and Mailchimp), maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately protect against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse and any other unlawful form of processing, of the personal information in our possession. We and those partners employ security measures such as using firewalls to protect against intruders, building redundancies throughout our network (so that if one server goes down, another can cover for it) and testing for and protecting against network vulnerabilities. Moreover, Thinkific processes payments exclusively through PCI DSS Level 1 payment providers, which is the highest level of compliance available.
Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are impenetrable. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Thus, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure and do not warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
When you use your login credentials on our Site, you are solely responsible for keeping them confidential. Do not share them with anyone. If you believe your password has been misused, please contact us immediately. You are also responsible for the security of your personal devices and for making sure they are protected against unauthorized access.
DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
We currently do not participate in any "Do Not Track" frameworks that would allow us to respond to signals or other mechanisms from you regarding the collection of your information. We may engage third parties, such as marketing or analytics partners, who may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our website.
MINORS
Our Services are not intended for children, and we do not target our Services to minors. If you are a minor, please do not register to use the Services and do not give us any information about yourself.
HOW YOU CAN CHANGE OR CONTROL WHAT IS COLLECTED
Changing Your Account Settings
You may add, update, or delete information about you that is stored by us by logging into your Account and changing your information including your Account’s password and credit card details.
If you have any trouble accessing, correcting or deleting any of your User Information, or would like to make a request about whether we hold any of your Personal Information, please contact us at contact@beyondcollegeaccess.com and we will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Cookies
You can usually instruct your browser by changing its settings to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from our Site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may not be able to access our Site at all sections or all functionality of the Services.
Opt-out Option
You may receive updates, newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials from us via your email. If you do not want to receive emails from us, please contact us at contact@beyondcollegeaccess.com, or click the "unsubscribe" link in an email we send to you. Despite your indicated preferences, we may send you service-related communication, including notices of any updates to Site’s Terms & Conditions, Cookies & Privacy Policy, warranty, or other statements.
If you do not wish to receive emails from third party partners, please refer to the applicable third-party Cookies & Privacy Policy and request an opt-out directly with them.
Deactivating Your Account
You may request deactivation of your account by contacting us at contact@beyondcollegeaccess.com.
CONTACT US
Questions about our Cookies & Privacy Policy should be sent to us at contact@beyondcollegeaccess.com.