Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Data Processing Addendum
Welcome to PHLEARN’s website! The use of our website, phlearn.com and our tutorials (collectively, the “Services”) is governed by our terms and conditions of use and the following privacy policy (“Legal Notices”). Our Services are provided by PHLEARN, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company. By using our Services, whether you are a registered user or not, you expressly agree to these Legal Notices which are provisioned to protect both you and us.
Updated January 14th, 2020
Information Collection And Use
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your IP address, your email address, name, phone number, credit card information, and postal address (“Personal Information”).
We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, servicing your purchase orders, and improving our services.
Personal Information
Personal information can be used to identify you. It may also be used with other pieces of personal information to identify you. To provide our Services, PHLEARN sometimes may collect personal information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and billing, credit card information, and may sometimes be combined with additional information such as zip code and IP address.
Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information can’t be used or combined to identify you. This would include information such as your web browser, device type, and time spent on site.
Log Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. We use the information gathered to analyze user behavior or to evaluate and improve our Services.
The most common ways we capture this information:
- if you visit this website
- if you contact us about our services or another information request
- if you register on PHLEARN.com
- if you become a PHLEARN PRO Subscriber
- if you reach out to our customer support team
In addition, we may use third-party services that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.
Currently, PHLEARN uses the following third-party services, which each have their own privacy policies: Google Analytics, Facebook Analytics, Chartbeat, Crazy Egg, Help Scout, Sendgrid, Brightcove, YouTube, Linkedin, Twitter, Pingdom, Mailchimp, Jilt, OneSignal, OptinMonster, Fomo, Kinsta, and Cloudflare.
If you send us an e-mail with questions or comments, we may use your personal information to respond and emails are stored for future reference.
Cookie Policy
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and transferred to your device. We use cookies to collect information in order to provide our PHLEARN PRO and free services. For example, allowing you to save tutorials to your account, saving the spot where you left off last while watching a tutorial, or your account information page.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. You can turn off cookies in your web browser using the following links.
If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on. For example, you will not be able to login to PHLEARN PRO if your cookies are disabled.
If you would like to read more about how cookies are used on the internet plus how to control or disable them, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org. Many third-party advertising networks (for example Google) allow you to opt-out of or customize your preferences.
Information We Share with Third Parties
PHLEARN collects data that is critical to the function of our Services and delivering the best experience possible. As a general rule, we will not share or otherwise disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the following circumstances: 1) Under a confidentiality agreement, we may match user information with third-party data. 2) We may disclose aggregated user statistics (for example, we have customers in 148 countries) in order to describe our Services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Sharing by You
You will have the ability to share your User Content with another user(s). If you share your User Content with anyone, we shall have no liability to you (or anyone you share your User Content). We will not make any User Content that you keep private and do no share available to any third party except to a third party authorized by you to access such information or if the law requires.
Information You Generate, Submit and/or Post
You are solely responsible for the information you generate, submit and/or post on our website using our Services (as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Use). PHLEARN assumes no liability for the information you generate, submit and/or post on our website using our Services.
Accessing Your Personal Information
You may edit your personal account information with PHLEARN at any time by using your unique identifier and password and accessing your Account page.
You have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information. You can contact us in order to update or correct your personally identifiable information. You may change your communications preferences as to what you receive from us. You may request the deletion of personally identifiable information about you on our systems, but only subject to the following condition: you must cancel your PHLEARN PRO Subscription (if applicable) and delete your entire account. Keep in mind, any updates, corrections, and deletions will have no effect on other information PHLEARN maintains or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, or deletion. In order to request personal information or account changes, you will be asked to verify your identity.
Please be aware that it is not possible to remove every record of the information you have provided to us from all of our systems. For security reasons, the secure backups of our system’s information to prevent data loss will mean that a copy of your information may still exist in some form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate or delete. After receiving your request, all personal information stored in databases we actively own and control will be updated, corrected, or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically possible.
Protecting Your Information
Your personal account information with PHLEARN is password protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information and the User Content therein. We recommend that you do not disclose your unique identifier or password to anyone. Also, remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished using our Services. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information or User Content.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online Services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
For example, PHLEARN sends welcome e-mail after you create an account, when you signup for our newsletter, when you enter a contest on our website, and when you purchase any product on our website. We also may send other e-mail related to the website and your account, such as product announcements, changes in your account, and changes to our company policies. We give you the option to unsubscribe in the emails we send you.
Outside Service Providers & Third-Parties
We may employ third party companies, outside service contractors, vendors, and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services and/or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. For example, these services may include our website hosting (Kinsta), credit card processing (Braintree & PayPal), and our mailing list (MailChimp & Sendgrid).
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose. PHLEARN requires that these third parties agree to protect the privacy of your personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy and not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than providing the products or services as contracted or required by law.
YouTube API Services
At PHLEARN.com, we use the YouTube API Services to embed and play YouTube videos on our website. The YouTube API Services enable us to display relevant video content to enhance your user experience. By accessing and using our website, you consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your data in accordance with YouTube’s privacy policy. Please note that YouTube may collect information about your viewing habits, device information, and other data as described in their privacy policy. We encourage you to review YouTube’s privacy policy before using our website. If you do not wish for YouTube to collect data about your usage of our website, please refrain from using our embedded YouTube videos.
We also want to inform our users that by accessing Third-Parties through our website, you are also agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions of those services. PHLEARN.com takes no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any Third-Parties. We use the YouTube API Services and you are agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms), Privacy Policy ( http://www.google.com/policies/privacy), and API Services Terms of Service (https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service) when viewing YouTube content and services through our website. By accessing and using our website, you acknowledge and agree that PHLEARN.com shall not be liable for any damage or loss arising from your use of any Third-Parties, including YouTube API Services.
Compliance With Laws
PHLEARN may disclose your information if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with an applicable statute, regulation, rule or law, a subpoena, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or another valid legal process. We may disclose personal information in special circumstances when we have reason to believe it is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Service, uncover fraud, or to protect the safety and/or security of our users, website, or the general public.
Business Transaction
If PHLEARN, LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Information may be transferred as a business asset. In such cases, we will provide notice before your Personal Information is transferred and/or becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.
International Transfer
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Behavioral Remarketing
PHLEARN, LLC uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We, and our third party vendors, use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads/#568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
Do Not Track Disclosure
We support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.
You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
PHLEARN.COM “KIDS” NOTICE
PHLEARN will not solicit and does not intend to collect personal information from people under eighteen (18) years of age. We will specifically instruct people under eighteen (18) not to submit personal information on the Web Site. If a person under eighteen (18) provides us with personal information and that person’s parent or guardian wants it removed from our records, the parent or guardian should contact us by sending an email to info@phlearn.com. We will use reasonable efforts to delete the person’s information from our existing files. For additional information about parental control tools, please consult the “Consumer Assistance” page of the Direct Marketing Association home page (DMA Notice)
CA Residents Only – California Consumer Protection Act
Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) allows California residents, upon a verifiable consumer request, to request that a business that collects consumers’ personal information to give consumers access, in a portable and (if technically feasible) readily usable form, to the specific pieces and categories of personal information that the business has collected about the consumer, the categories of sources for that information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared. California residents also have the right to submit a request for deletion of information under certain circumstances.
We do not sell your personal information.
You have the right to request the categories of personal information that the business collected about you and the right to request the business to delete the personal information it has collected from you, subject to certain legal exceptions, for example, to comply with a legal obligation.
The right to be protected from discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights. Businesses are prohibited from discriminating against you for exercising your rights under the statute, including by: (A) denying you goods or services; (B) charging you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; (C) providing you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or (D) suggesting that you will receive a different price, rate, level, or quality of goods or services. Nothing prohibits a business from charging a different price or providing a different level or quality of service if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the consumer by the consumer’s data.
Additional Disclosures Under the CCPA
PHLEARN does not sell your personal information to third parties.
List of categories of personal information collected about visitors to our website:
- Information you provide to us. This includes the information you provide when you register as a Subscriber, such as your first name, last name, and email address and information you provide when you submit information in forms or through other features of our website.
- Information we automatically collect. We collect information about how you access and interact with our website. This includes device information, log information, geolocation information, and Internet or other electronic network activity information collected through technologies like cookies, web beacons, and browser web storage.
Right to Request
Under the CCPA, you have a right to request information about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information over the prior 12 months.
Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”)
To comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), we have updated our internal data collection policies to adhere to those outlined in the GDPR.
“PHLEARN”, “we”, “us”, or “our” refers to the owners of the PHLEARN website and services, (collectively referred to as the “PHLEARN.”).
“User” or “You” or “Customer” refers to the customer or user that signs up to use PHLEARN.
“Party” refers to PHLEARN and/or the Customer depending on the context.
1. Personal Data Protection Policies
- Each party agrees that personal data shall be treated as confidential information under this DPA.
- Personally identifiable information shall remain the property of the disclosing party. PHLEARN recognizes that User is the controller and maintains control over personal data.
- PHLEARN will process User’s personal data only to the extent strictly necessary for the purpose of providing the services in accordance with our Terms of Service and any further written instructions from the customer that are mutually agreed upon in writing.
- PHLEARN Will:
- Implement and maintain a reasonable and appropriate security program comprising adequate security, technical and organizational measures to protect against unauthorized, unlawful or accidental processing, use, erasure, loss or destruction of, or damage to, customer personal data.
- Not modify, alter, delete, publish or disclose any customer personal data to any third party, nor allow any third party to process such personal data on PHLEARN behalf unless the third party is bound to similar confidentiality and data handling provisions.
- Only allow give access to customer personal data to employees, contractors, and vendors on a “need-to-know” basis to the extent necessary to perform its obligations under the Terms of Service.
- Only process customer personal data to the extent necessary to perform its obligations under the Terms of Service, upon written instructions of the customer (only as mutually agreed upon), and in accordance with applicable laws.
- Notwithstanding any other provision, we partner with third parties that collect information across various channels, including offline and online, for purposes of delivering more relevant advertising to you. Our partners may place or recognize a cookie on your computer, device, or directly in our emails/communications, and we may share personal information with them if you have submitted such information to us, such as your name, postal address, email address, or device ID. Our partners may link the nonpersonal information we share with them to the cookie stored on your browser or device, and they may collect information such as your IP address, browser or operating system type and version, and demographic or inferred-interest information. Our partners use this information to recognize you across different channels and platforms over time for advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes. For example, our partners may deliver an ad to you in your web browser based on a purchase you made in a physical retail store, or they may send a personalized marketing email to you based on the fact that you visited a particular website. To learn more about interest-based advertising in general and to opt out, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices. To opt-out of the use of your mobile device ID for targeted advertising, please see http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
- Upon termination of your account PHLEARN will delete, destroy, or anonymize the personal data in accordance with our standard backup and retention policy per the Terms of Service This process shall occur within 60 days. If we are required to retain personal data due to Union, Member State, or United States laws, then PHLEARN reserves the right to retain personal data.
2. Information Breaches and Incidents
- When either party becomes aware of an incident that impacts the processing of personal data, it shall promptly notify the other. Parties agree that they shall reasonably cooperate in order to enable the other party to perform an investigation, craft a response, and to take necessary steps in regards to the incident.
- Any notifications made under this section shall be made to info@phlearn.com. Please include a description of the nature of the incident, the name and contact details of the point of contact where more information can be obtained, a description of the incident; and measures taken or proposed to be taken to address the incident.
3. Liability and Indemnity
- Each party indemnifies the other and holds them harmless against all claims, actions, third party claims, losses, damages and expenses incurred by the indemnified party and arising directly or indirectly out of or in connection with a breach of this DPA.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy and Data Processing Amendment are effective as of May 25, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
For Additional Information
If you have any questions regarding our Legal Notices, please contact info@phlearn.com.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF OUR LEGAL NOTICES, YOU MUST NOT USE OUR WEBSITE OR OUR SERVICES. BY USING OUR WEBSITE AND OUR SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND OUR LEGAL NOTICES AND YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
CONTACT US: For questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy and/or the Web Site, please send an email to info@phlearn.com.