Privacy Policy | Admissions Academy

Introduction

Thank you for your interest in Admissions Academy, a membership site for educational resources and materials related to university/college admissions. We at Admissions Academy share this Privacy Policy with you as a user or viewer of admissionsacademy.net. We want you to know how we use the information you share with us. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our members' personal information. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and disclose personal information in compliance with Canadian privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

Collection of Personal Information

We may collect personal information, including name, email address, and payment information when you sign up for Admissions Academy. We may also collect other personal information that you provide to us when you use our services, such as your academic background, goals, and interests. We collect this information to provide you with access to Admissions Academy's resources and to improve our services.

We collect information from you when you place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, navigate the website, or enter information on our site via survey or marketing communication. We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps

We share this information with Wix, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Using Google Analytics, as a third-party vendor, we collect the following data:

Demographics and Interests

All of our activity complies with Google Analytics Terms of Service. More information on how Google uses data can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

You may decline to provide certain information to us, in which case we may not be able to provide you access to certain features and functionalities of the site.

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Use of Personal Information

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data. We may use your personal information to communicate with you about Admissions Academy's services and to provide you with customer support. We may also use your personal information to personalize your experience on our site and to improve our services. We will not use your personal information for any other purposes without your consent.

We may use the information we collect in the following ways:

We collect your name in order to:
- Address you appropriately and verify your identity
We collect your email address in order to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
- Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
- Send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after an original transaction has occurred.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Non-personally identifiable information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Security of Personal Information

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use secure servers and encryption technologies to protect your personal information. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.

All transactions are processed through a secure gateway provider and credit card information is not stored or processed on our servers.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For mailing list subscriptions, we retain your information for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe).

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Access and Correction of Personal Information

You may request access to and correction of your personal information held by Admissions Academy by contacting us at hello@admissionsacademy.net with “Privacy Policy” in the subject line. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time frame and may require additional information from you to verify your identity. We must be able to verify your identity before providing you with an electronic copy of your information. We will comply with any request to correct, delete, or withdraw consent to our use of your information. If you feel the rights granted to you have been violated, you agree to contact Admissions Academy, as soon as possible by emailing hello@admissionsacademy.net with “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically. Your continued use of Admissions Academy's services after any changes to this privacy policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.

Unsubscribing

You reserve the right to opt-out of receiving future emails. If you wish to do so: Follow the instructions located at the bottom of each email. We will remove you from all correspondence.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or Admissions Academy's privacy practices, please contact us at hello@admissionsacademy.net with “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.

Updated March 2023