Privacy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Biz Academy we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals. If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact support.
Biz Academy, a division of Reality Marketing LLC (“Biz Academy”) operates BizAcademy.us. It is Biz Academy’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Biz Academy collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Biz Academy’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Biz Academy’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Biz Academy may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate (e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.)
Biz Academy also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Biz Academy only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Biz Academy’s websites choose to interact with Biz Academy in ways that require Biz Academy to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Biz Academy gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a course hosted on BizAcademy.us to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Biz Academy — by purchasing access to the BizAcademy.us service, for example — are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Biz Academy collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Biz Academy. Biz Academy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Do We Collect Information From Minors?
We know that children deserve extra privacy protection. That’s why we treat child users differently to ensure their parents are in control and we only collect the bare minimum information we need to make Biz Academy work.
We only allow users over the age of legal majority (“Adult Users”) to create accounts. Adult Users may then configure the account for any individual under the age of legal majority that they serve as a parent or legal guardian, as needed (“Child Users”). Each user must create a username. Child Users are prevented from supplying their own name and must create a unique anonymous username immediately upon their first login.
With regards to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA”), Biz Academy only collects limited personal information from children under the age of 13 for the sole purpose of performing internal operations of the Service. If we discover that we have unknowingly collected additional personal information from these children we will delete it. If you believe this to be the case, please contact us at info @ bizacademy.us.
Aggregated Statistics
Biz Academy may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Biz Academy may monitor the most popular courses on the BizAcademy.us site. Biz Academy may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Biz Academy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Biz Academy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Biz Academy’s behalf or to provide services available at Biz Academy’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Biz Academy’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Biz Academy will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Biz Academy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Biz Academy believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Biz Academy, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Biz Academy website and have supplied your email address, Biz Academy may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Biz Academy and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Biz Academy takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookie
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Biz Academy uses cookies to help Biz Academy identify and track visitors, their usage of Biz Academy website, and their website access preferences. Biz Academy visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Biz Academy’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Biz Academy’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Biz Academy, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Biz Academy goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquiror of Biz Academy may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Biz Academy may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Biz Academy’s sole discretion. Biz Academy encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Creative Commons
Our privacy policy is based on the privacy policy that Automattic.com released under the Creative Commons Sharealike license. As such, our version of the privacy policy is also available under the same Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to take it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you. We’d appreciate a link back to us and I’m sure Automattic would also appreciate some link juice, too.