Our priority at Course Keys is to protect your data. We have made a privacy policy in this regard. It is important to read this privacy policy before sharing data on Course Keys. You would accept all terms and conditions of our platform based on accepting or using the services we offer. Our terms and conditions for using services are outlined in the privacy policy given below. You should understand all policies and practices based on which we would share, use and collect your information.
Areas covered in the privacy policy
Users of services are required to provide their personal information to get access to the knowledge and information. The purpose of a privacy policy is to ensure how your personal information is treated. Personal information identifies the particular individual, and it is named as personal data. Privacy policy keeps your personal information secure as per relative regulations, rules, and laws of privacy. All those practices of individuals and organizations which are not under our control are not covered by the privacy policy.
Sources of Personal Data
Some sources that we use for gathering your personal information are given below:
Direct information from you
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When we receive personal information directly from individuals.
- When individuals, contact us by phone, opening an account, or by sending an email.
- When information is provided by participating in the survey, and provides us personal information voluntarily.
- Information provided at the time of creating a new account.
The automated system of collecting information at the time of using our services
- Cookies-based information is defined in the Opt-Out” section, Advertising and Tracking Tools.
- We also collect information based on your mobile device or locations when our mobile application is downloaded, or a location-enabled browser is used.
- We have certain software and applications. When these are used by individuals, then it also gives personal data.
The information that we receive through Third Parties
- Vendors
- We provide customer support through third parties that help us in analyzing how individuals engage and interact with the services we are providing.
- We create user profiles and generate leads by obtaining information on the individuals from vendors.
- Advertising Partners
- Our advertising partners also provide us information about yourself This information is about your interaction with our communication, advertisement, services, products, applications, and websites.
- Social Networks
- If a third-party service or site is used for signing into our services with the provision of the credentials of your social network account, then we receive information about you.
We collect personal data through Our Business Purposes or Commercial
· Improvement, customization, and provision of Services
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- Creation and management of user-profiles and accounts.
- Process multiple transactions or orders such as shipping and billing.
- Provision of the requested information, services, and products.
- Fulfill the reasons you have provided, by providing us information.
- Provide your assistance and help regarding the services.
- Enhancing the services such as product development, internal analytics, and research and testing.
- We value your preferences in terms of personalization of our communication, the contents of the website, and services.
- We protect the personal data of individuals from debugging, security, and fraud.
- We follow privacy laws such as California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) for ensuring that your data is secure.
· Marketing the Services
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- We use online behavioral and interest-based advertising to present our services.
- Market and sell the related services.
· Communication with You
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- We communicate with our members on a regular basis. We have a quick response service towards your quires regarding services available on Course Keys.
- We share materials and content through different communication channels based on considering your interest and preferences.
· We enforce the legal terms and meet Legal Requirements
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- We resolve issues and disputes as per legal criteria.
- We quickly respond to all the claims made against the violation of the rights of third parties.
- We create agreements with our members.
- Protect your safety, property, and rights at Course Keys.
- We follow the court order, regulation, applicable law, and other legal processes fulfill our legal obligations. Legal processes that we consider include prohibited activities, potentially illegal or prevention, detection, and investigation of security incidents.
We are strictly avoiding your personal information for incompatible, unrelated, or materially different purposes. In case of necessity, we send you to notice before using your data.
Disclosure of your personal information
This section is based on providing a list of parties and categories of service providers to whom we share and disclose your personal information. We consider relative state laws about the sharing of your data. You can see this in the state-specific sections below for more information.
- Service Providers. Some of our functions and services are performed by the following parties on our behalf:
- Vendors of customer services and support.
- Providers of analytics.
- Consultants of preventing fraud and security.
- Providers of communication, technology, and hosting.
- Processors of our payments.
- Certain information is required by our partners for payment processing, and these include PayPal and others. This information is necessary for payment processing.
- You can see the process of using your personal data by looking at the terms of service and privacy policy of PayPal and others.
- Advertising Partners. We also market our services by working with our advertising partners. Some of these advertising partners include:
- Marketing providers
- Data brokers
- Ad networks.
- Business Partners. We are taking certain services by working with our business partners. Some of them are given below:
- Partnership Organizations for increasing opportunities and offering joint promotional activities.
- Businesses that have a close relationship with you.
- Parties You Authenticate, Access, or Authorize
- Social media services.
Legal Obligations
By enforcing Legal Terms and Meeting Legal Requirements, we have the right to share your personal information with third parties concerning our business or commercial purposes, as mentioned above.
Information that is not considered as Personal information
We use personal data concerning the creation of anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated data. This also includes eliminating the data that generates information through and identifying a specific user. We meet our lawful business purposes by sharing or using such anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated data with a third party if necessary. Some of our business purposes about which we share your information include analyzing, building, and improving our services. This information is shared in such a way that we protect your identity.
Information related to Interest-Based Advertisements
We offer advertising services in the form of allowing an ad network of third parties to serve advertisements with the use of our services. These ad networks may include research firms, ad technology vendors, ad agencies, and third-party ad servers. The ads on our platforms are Interest-Based Ads that focus on your behavior and preferences, and it fit certain general profile categories. We may be provided with interest-based advertising data (personal account data) or obtained from examples of specific use of the services by clients, as well as third party services. Tracking users’ activities are used for collecting such data and information. These activities are based across unaffiliated properties and time. We use cookies for achieving this goal that includes a file named a “web beacon”. Promotional organizations are allowed by Web beacons to provide anonymous review, exploration, and disclosure to our advertisers and us. Additionally, web beacons allow promotional organizations to offer you an advertising-focused service.
Data Security and Retention
We are implementing administrative, organizational, technical, and physical measures with the aim of increasing the protection of your data and information from disclosure or unauthorized access. The selection of these measures is based on the level to which we process the data and the type of personal data we are collecting. We also expect that you are using effective sign-on mechanisms such as passwords. Appropriate selection of passwords helps you in protecting your personal data. Some other aspects that you should use include limiting the access of other people to your computer system, browser, and devices, and after getting access to the account, you just need to sign off the system. You must have to realize that cybersecurity attacks are common, so it could not be said that data is 100% protected from unauthorized access. Although we have taken some sound measures for protecting your security, it is also your responsibility to take care of your personal data and information.
The time of retaining your personal information in our database is based on the use of our services. We keep your personal data as long as you are using your open account on our platform or as otherwise important for providing you information about our services. If we retain your personal data for a long time, then we follow relative laws and regulations. The purpose of long information may base on collecting owed fees or resolving disputes or is otherwise required or permitted by applicable regulation, the rule of law.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We make changes in our privacy policy on a regular basis with the aim of improving our services. We issue a notice on the website of Course Keys before making any such changes. We will also alert you by use of any other means, such as sending you an email. If you have not provided your email address or even you have not opted for the option of receiving legal notices, then still you would be responsible for understanding or reading these notices. Based on the use of services after such changes, it would be perceived that you are accepting those changes. The use of information comes into effect when we collect such information about the users or members of our platform.