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This Privacy Notice explains how information about you, that directly identifies you, or that makes you identifiable (“personal information”) is collected, used and disclosed by Learners Collective Inc. (“Learners,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) in connection with our website, https://www.joinlearners.com/ (the “Site”), our mobile application, and other online products and services that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, the “Service”).
Region Specific Disclosures
We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional disclosures relating to the processing of personal information about residents of certain countries, regions, or states. Please refer below for disclosures that may be applicable to you:
We collect personal information in connection with your visits to and use of the Service. This collection includes information that you provide in connection with the Service, information from third parties, and information that is collected automatically, such as through the use of cookies and other technologies.
Information That You Provide
We may collect personal information from you. The categories of information we collect can include:
Information Automatically Collected
As is true of most digital platforms, we collect certain personal information automatically when you visit our online services, including:
If you access the Service on a mobile device, in addition to your device identifiers, we may also collect:
If you want to adjust your privacy preferences on your device, please see Control Over Your Information section below.
For information about our and our third-party partners’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices you may have in relation to its collection, please see the How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technology to Collect Information section below.
Information from Third Party Sources
We may receive personal information about you from our business partners and service providers and combine this information with other data we collect from you, in accordance with applicable law. The third parties may include website and service operators and marketing partners. The information may include contact information, demographic information, information about your communications and related activities, and information about your orders.
Other Uses of Personal Information
In addition to the uses described above, we may collect and use personal information for the following purposes, in accordance with applicable law:
We may share your personal information in the instances described below, in accordance with applicable law. For further information on your choices regarding your information, see Control Over Your Information.
We, and our third-party partners, automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit our Service, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, file information, and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”).
We, and our third-party partners, use tracking technologies to automatically collect usage and device information, such as:
We use the data collected through tracking technologies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) identify you across multiple devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Service; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our Site; (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for and enhance our Service.
For more information on how manage your cookies preferences, please see Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Opt-Out.
We and our third-party partners may also use cookies and tracking technologies for advertising purposes. For more information about tracking technologies, including your choices regarding this technology, please see Third-Party Tracking and Online Advertising below.
We may share, or we may permit third-party online advertising networks, social media companies, and other third-party services, to collect information about your use of our Site over time so that they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests on other websites or apps, or on other devices you may use. Typically, though not always, the information we share is provided through cookies or similar tracking technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including hashed data, clickstream information, browser type, time and date you visited the Site and other information. This information is used to display targeted ads on or through our Services or on other websites, apps, or services. We or the online advertising networks use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests. We may also display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others. These companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our Service while those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics. These advertisements are governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide them.
Google Analytics and Advertising. We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to our services. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences, or by using the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
For more information on how manage your online advertising preferences, please see Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Opt-Out.
Email Communications. From time to time, we may send you emails regarding updates to our Service, products or services, notices about our organization, or information about products/services we offer (or promotional offers from third parties that we think may be of interest to you. If you wish to unsubscribe from such emails, simply click the “unsubscribe link” provided at the bottom of the email communication. Note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain services-related email communications (e.g., account verification, confirmations of transactions, technical or legal notices).
Mobile Application Communications. If you want to stop receiving push notifications, which are messages an app sends you on your mobile device even when the app is not on, you can turn off push notifications by visiting your mobile device’s “settings” menu.
Modifying Account Information. If you have an account for our Service, you have the ability to modify certain information in your account (e.g., your contact information) through the account setting page or a similar option provided on the Service. If you have any questions about modifying or updating any information in your account, please contact us at the email or postal address provided below.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Opt-Out. Depending on your browser or mobile device, you may be able to set your browser to delete or notify you of cookies and other tracking technology by actively managing the settings on your browser or mobile device.
If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may negatively impact your experience using the Site, as some features and services on our Site may not work properly. Depending on your mobile device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. You may also set your e-mail options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our e-mail and performed certain functions with it.
To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources and/or the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources, at www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and you can opt-out of receiving some interest-based advertisements on mobile apps by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings menu on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android).
Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.
We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfill our business purposes as described in this Privacy Notice and consented to by you (where required by applicable law), unless otherwise required or permitted by law. We store data on servers in the U.S.
For your convenience, our Service may provide links to third-party websites or services that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from the Service, including the information or content contained within them. Your browsing and interaction on any other website or service are subject to the applicable third party’s rules and policies, not ours. If you are using a third-party website or service, you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website or service before providing any personal information.
Our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that any personal information has been collected inadvertently from a child under 13, we will delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at hello@joinlearners.com.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Notice from time to time in our sole discretion. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Learners account and/or by placing a prominent notice on our Site. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Notice periodically. When we do change the Privacy Notice, we will also revise the “last updated” date.
If you disagree with any change to this Privacy Notice, please refrain from using our Service or otherwise providing us with your personal information.
For additional inquiries about this Privacy Notice, please send us an email at hello@joinlearners.com, or contact us at:
Learners Collective Inc.
129 Langarth st E, London ON, N6C 1Z4
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Additional Notice for Canadian Residents
Control Over Your Information
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Opt-Out. In addition to the opt-out options described above, Canadian users may also learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada at http://youradchoices.ca/ and by downloading the mobile AppChoices app at https://youradchoices.ca/en/appchoices.
Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located. As a result, your personal information may be subject to the laws of the United States and may be accessible without notice to you by the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of the United States.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from minors in Canada (i.e., those under the age of majority in their province/territory of residence) unless such minors have the capacity at law to consent to the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information, or with the consent of their parents or legal guardians. If we learn that any personal information has been collected inadvertently from a minor in Canada, we will delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have collected information from a minor in Canada, please contact us at hello@joinlearners.com.
Your Privacy Rights
You have the right to access, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may also withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, however, such withdrawal of consent will not have retroactive effect and may restrict your ability to use the Service going forward.
You may exercise the above rights or raise any questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices by emailing us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of identity verification.
Security Safeguards
We have implemented reasonable security measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control to protect against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure.
Such measures, which may necessarily evolve over time as the availability and effectiveness of methods vary, include physical, organizational and technological safeguards, such as:
While Learners employs advanced data encryption technology when interfacing with Users, third party service providers and other partners, you should be aware that there is a residual risk in transmitting any data electronically. Despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. This risk is inherent in all Internet dealings.
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