PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
We thank you very much for being part of our visitors, customers, learners or subscribers. You will find below our privacy policies.
ARTICLE 1 – PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED
Courses
When you enroll as a student or subscriber (“learner”) on our site or related courses, as part of the enrolling process, we collect the personal information you give us, such as your name and email address on our website and/or the Thinkific platform.
Email marketing: we may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress, newsletters or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion. We may send you emails through the Thinkific or Mailchimp platforms. Only your first name, last name, and email address are transmitted to Mailchimp when you enroll. You can unsubscribe anytime.
ARTICLE 2 – CONSENT
How do you obtain my consent?
When you provide us with personal information to become a learner on our site, purchase any product, return a product, or participate in the course, you imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent or give you an opportunity to say no.
How can I withdraw my consent?
If, after you have given us your consent, you change your mind and do not consent that we contact you, collect your information, or disclose it, you can notify us at any time by contacting us at [email protected]. Also, if you receive an email through Mailchimp, you can always unsubscribe using the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
ARTICLE 3 – DISCLOSURE
We may disclose your personal information if we are legally required to do so or if you violate our Terms and Conditions.
ARTICLE 4 – ONLINE COURSES PLATFORM THINKIFIC
Our courses are hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with an online course creation platform that allows us to sell our products/services to you. The link to our Thinkific online courses is courses.ploomevolution.com.
Your data is stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases, and the general Thinkific application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment
If you make a purchase on our online courses platform, Thinkific, we use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Thinkific’s Terms of Service here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/privacy-policy/ or Privacy Statement here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/terms-of-service/ .
ARTICLE 5 – SERVICES PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES
In general, the third-party providers we use will only collect, use, and disclose your information to the extent necessary to perform the services they provide to us.
However, some third-party service providers, such as the payment gateways, have their own privacy policies regarding the information we are required to provide them for your purchase transactions.
With respect to these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies carefully to understand how they will treat your personal information.
Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
As an example, if you are located in Canada, and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave our website or you are redirected to the website or the application of a third party, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or by the Terms and Conditions of our website.
Links
When you click on links on our course site, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
ARTICLE 6 – SECURITY, LOG FILES AND COOKIES
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to ensure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
The personal information we collect is kept in a secure environment. People working for us are required to respect the confidentiality of your information.
If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
Log files and cookies
We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies. This means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.
We use cookies to recognize your device and provide you with a personalized experience.
We also use cookies to attribute website visits to third-party sources and to serve targeted ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram, and other third-party vendors.
Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your prior visits to our websites and elsewhere on the Internet to serve you targeted ads. For more information about targeted or behavioral advertising, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising.
Opting out: You can opt out of targeted ads served via specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page.
We may also use automated tracking methods on our websites, in communications with you, and in our products and services to measure performance and engagement.
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of responding to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Web Analysis Tools
We may use web analysis tools that are built into the Google Analytics website to measure and collect anonymous session information.
ARTICLE 7 – AGE DE CONSENT
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence.
ARTICLE 8 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at anytime, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our site or course is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
ARTICLE 9 – QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at [email protected] or mail us at Ploom Evolution, 247, 32ème Avenue, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Qc, Canada, J0N 1P0.