TECH CONTRACTS ACADEMY PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy was last revised October 7, 2025.
This Privacy Policy governs use of TechContracts.com (the “Website”), registration for and/or participation in training programs presented by TCA (“Programs”), and access to any other TCA products or services, including those referenced on the Website or in this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Offerings”).
A. Personal Information Collected
We, and our contractors (such as third party hosts/platforms), may collect and store any information you choose to: (1) put in an e-mail, contact form, or comment you send us (or them); (2) put into chat with the AI-automated chatbot at the Website; or (3) provide to set up an account or purchase a Program. That information could include (without limitation) name, e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address, and username. The Website does not collect or store any payment information. Information related to payment is collected and stored by our training-hosting and e-commerce vendor, Teachable, Inc., (“Teachable”) and/or its payment processors, subject to its and their policies. Also in cases where we invoice a customer directly, we may collect that payment information ourselves, but not through the Website. Our Website, and Programs, are not meant to collect information that may be considered “sensitive” (as various jurisdictions may use the term), nor any personal information from anyone under age 18. Nor are our Website or Programs meant to collect confidential or privileged legal information (and the Website and Programs do not provide legal advice). You of course could choose to enter sensitive information or privileged information into a contact form or e-mail or into our chatbot, but there is no reason to do so, and we ask you not to.
If you do know of potentially sensitive information or children’s information collected through our Website or a Program, please contact us at [email protected].
Finally, through a third party vendor (described under “Geofencing” below in Section E), we may collect IDFAs (identifiers for advertisers) from the phones of attendees at certain conferences. (That information does not include names or phone numbers, and our vendor uses it solely to serve up ads to those phones.)
B. Use of Personal Information; Cookie Policy
We use your personal information to reply to messages you send us via contact form or otherwise, including comments, to process your transactions with us, to correspond with you about sales, support, and other matters, and for other legitimate business purposes such as security and fraud prevention. Also, if you subscribe to our blog, or agree when signing up for any of our Programs, we’ll put your e-mail address and other contact information you provide on our notices list(s), so that you get e-mail notice of future blog posts and announcements, including marketing communications, from us. You can unsubscribe by clicking “unsubscribe” when you receive a marketing e-mail, or at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
As do most websites, ours uses cookies, as may our Programs’ hosts/platforms. For information on our use of cookies and similar technologies, please see our Cookies Policy.
Particularly given the limited amount and type of information and data collected through our Website, and our Programs, we may or may not have identified all possible uses, or restricted contractors’ (see Section E, below) use or disclosure of information or data. TCA does not control and is not responsible for the conduct or policies of our contractors (or their subcontractors), and we urge Website visitors and Program Trainees to familiarize themselves with those policies.
C. Retention of Personal Information
TCA retains your personal information so long as it serves the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy, including to send you blog posts, notices, and other communications we hope will be of interest to you (unless you’ve unsubscribed), to manage your current and potential future Program access and address your questions, to collect and monitor traffic and other usage statistics at our Website and about our Programs, to monitor and improve our Offerings, and to comply with our accounting and legal obligations.
D. Transfer of Personal Information
We may store or process your data outside your city, province, state, or country, including through one of our contractors (described below). So your personal information may be stored in a jurisdiction that operates under privacy and data protection laws different from (and potentially less protective than) those of your home jurisdiction.
We may disclose personal information to attorneys or law enforcement authorities to address contract violations or illegal behavior, or to enforce our rights. We disclose information demanded in a court order, subpoena, or otherwise required by law, or to prevent harm to persons or property. And we may share personal information in connection with a corporate transaction, like a merger or sale of our company, the sale of most of our assets, or a bankruptcy.
E. Contractors and their Access to Personal Information
As described in this Privacy Policy, our contractors (and their subcontractors) help us with Website and Program hosting and storage, security and fraud prevention, monitoring Website and Program use, communicating with and marketing to Website users and Program Trainees (prospective and actual), payment processing, and distance learning Offerings. We change contractors and third parties, and their roles, from time to time.
TCA engages with third party hosts/platforms to host TCA’s Programs including recordings (if offered) (for example, GoTo, via GoToWebinar, GoToMeeting, GoToStage; Teachable), process payments (for example, Teachable and its payment processors, such as Stripe), and market and otherwise communicate with you regarding TCA’s Programs (for example, e-mails via MailChimp, or our school at Teachable). Information you provide (such as your name and e-mail address) or that is passively gathered on-line (such as via cookies) when you register, pay, and use a Program may be disclosed to or from (and may be gathered directly by) the applicable contractor, and can be used (and disclosed) by them in accordance with their terms and policies (such as their terms of use and privacy policies). (Again see our Cookie Policy for more information on cookies.)
We urge you to familiarize yourself with those third parties’ terms and policies, as well as TCA’s, before accessing TCA’s Programs. TCA does not control and is not responsible for such contractors (or their subcontractors), their procedures, or their policies, nor those of any other third party you register with, “like,” “follow,” or otherwise engage (e.g., social media platforms like LinkedIn and third party training where we might appear as a guest speaker). Unless specified when you register, syncing with and/or registering via social media providers is not required to access TCA’s Programs.
Our contractors include, without limitation:
Website Hosting: Accuraty, WPMU DEV; WordPress, Automattic; Plug-Ins
Our Website hosting is managed by Accuraty Solutions, LLC (“Accuraty”), and our Website is hosted by WPMU DEV, owned by IncSub, LLC. For their privacy practices, please visit: https://wpmudev.com/privacy-policy/. Our Website runs on WordPress software, provided by Automattic. Certain data collected through our Website may also be transmitted to WordPress. For information on WordPress’ privacy practices, please visit: Automattic Privacy Notice. Our Website also uses plugin software from various contractors who serve WordPress users. We may change plugins from time to time. These contractors may, subject to their own and WordPress’ policies, access data collected by or through WordPress at our Website.
Website Cookie Management/Banner
Our cookie management platform and cookie banner is implemented by Complianz. If you are interested in its data security and privacy practices, visit: Complianz.
Website Chatbot
Our chatbot is provided and hosted by Vendasta Technologies, Inc. Vendasta does not typically review information you put into a chatbot, but they could review that data to support us or for other reasons. Otherwise, data from the Chatbot goes to us and our outside business development provider, OnTarget Partners. If you’re like to know how those two vendors handle data from chatbots, visit Vendasta’s privacy policy and OnTarget’s Partners’ privacy policy.
E-Mails
Mailchimp sends e-mails for us including substantive blog posts and marketing, and provides us data with which to measure the success of our marketing campaigns, compile statistics, and may (but does not necessarily include) response rates. If you are interested in Mailchimp’s data security and privacy practices, visit: Mailchimp.
Distance Learning Hosts/Platforms: GoTo; Teachable
Our Website (including blog posts and pages) and e-mail communications include links by which to register for certain distance learning Programs, which are hosted by one or more contractors (for example, GoTo (for GoToWebinar, GoToMeeting, GoToStage); Teachable (with which you also have or create an account). Further information about those contractors is available upon enrolling in a Program. For Teachable’s privacy practices, visit: Teachable’s Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service that gathers information about our Website’s traffic and makes it available to us. This information may be used, for example, to understand and monitor Website use, and to assist with advertising. We use Google Adwords to advertise, and this may include advertising to Website users. If you are interested in Google’s privacy practices, and methods that may be available to you to opt out of certain uses such as analytics and personalized advertising, visit: Google Analytics; Google Cookies.
Geofencing, AdCellerant Inc.
As of October of 2025, we are running at “geofencing” project. Our third party vendor, AdCellerant, Inc. records the IDFAs (identifiers for advertisers) of mobile phones at certain conferences related to our field of work. These IDFAs are available because the user has consented to their use, usually in settings or other arrangements with their mobile device manufacturers. IDFA’s identify the phone but not its number or user’s name.
AdCellerant uses IDFAs to serve up ads about our Programs to the phones in question. They do not share information on the phones with us or with our business development vendor, OnTarget Partners, under the normal course of business, but it is possible that they could, e.g., so we or OnTarget can help confirm appropriate function. For more information on OnTarget’s data handling, see the next paragraph. For information on AdCellerant, see their privacy policy.
Sales-Related Information in General
We use OnTarget Partners (mentioned above) to help us sell Programs to larger enterprises. So information we receive through any of the channels above could be shared with OnTarget, including names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other information useful to support the sales process. Again, for more information, see OnTarget’s Partners’ privacy policy.
F. Protection of Personal Information
We store information you send us on password-protected computers and share it with trusted contractors. Data we don’t store ourselves is collected and stored by our contractors, under their policies and procedures. See Section E above for information about contractors. Unfortunately, like most websites, we can’t guarantee the security of personal information or other data, including during transmission and storage. We offer our Website and other Offerings “As Is,” unless we and you execute a contract providing to the contrary).
G. Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information
You can access and change contact information TCA stores about you (i.e., e-mail address) by contacting us through our support page. You can access and change contact information stored in your account with our school at Teachable by logging into your profile there.
H. Data Privacy Laws
We provide this Privacy Policy describing the processing of personal information in the interest of transparency to users of our Offerings, including Website users and Program Trainees. Doing so is not an acknowledgement that any particular law on personal information or data applies to us.
Depending on the applicable jurisdiction and its laws, and subject to various limitations, you may have the rights, for example, to access/obtain a copy, update/correct, or delete personal information a company holds; to object to/opt-out of certain processing (or not allow certain processing without consent); and to complain to a data protection authority. Also, you should be aware that entities considered “businesses” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA),have special obligations to Californians. Those include obligations to provide more detailed notices than this. And if those CCPA business sell personal information or share it (for certain behavior advertising), Californians have must the opportunity to opt-out.
Tech Contracts Academy is a small, California company with modest types and amounts of personal data processing. We do not “target” internationally or receive monetary compensation when disclosing personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe that TCA does not fall within most, if any, pre-requisites for coverage under the laws described above in this Section H. Without limiting that general statement, we believe we don’t satisfy the threshold to be regulated as a CCPA “business” or as a “controller” pursuant to U.S. state privacy laws adopted to date. (Terms used in this Privacy Policy – e.g., contractor, third party – are intended as generally understood, not as specially defined in any particular law.)
If however you believe you have legal rights you wish to exercise regarding your personal data, that are not addressed in this Privacy Policy, contact us at [email protected] We strive to evaluate such requests and comply with applicable law, and we may request that you identify the law you believe applies to you.
And, as noted above, you can access and change contact information TCA stores about you by e-mailing us [email protected], you can access and change contact information stored in your account with our school at Teachable by logging into your profile there, and you can opt out of TCA marketing communications by emailing us or clicking “unsubscribe” on any e-mail.
I. Amendment
TCA may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new version on this page or on a successor page. Without limiting that general statement, policies or terms in purchase orders or other customer purchase documents do not become contract terms, unless executed by each party’s authorized representative, and do not modify this Privacy Policy.