TECH CONTRACTS ACADEMY PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy was last revised November 13, 2024.
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 put in an e-mail, contact form, or comment you send us (or them), or provide to set up an account or purchase a Program, (including without limitation) name, e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address, and username. The Website does not collect or store any payment information. Payment information for Programs purchased through TCA’s “school” hosted by our vendor, Teachable, Inc., (“Teachable”) is collected and stored by Teachable and/or its payment processors, subject to its/their policies, not TCA’s.
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. If nonetheless you know of potentially sensitive information, or children’s information, collected through our Website or a Program, please contact us at [email protected].
B. Use of Personal Information; Cookie Policy
We use your personal information to reply to messages you send us via e-mail or otherwise, including comments, to process your transactions with us, to otherwise correspond with you, and 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 Cookie 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) own 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, collect and monitor traffic and other usage statistics at our Website and about our Programs, 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, prospective students, and Program Trainees, 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.)
You are urged to familiarize yourself with those terms and policies (and 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 with which you may (if/where available) opt to register (such as a program not presented by or solely by TCA but at which a TCA representative speaks), sync a registration, “like” or “follow” TCA, or otherwise engage with or about TCA (for example, social media providers such as LinkedIn, Facebook). 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.
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.
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 website, 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 e-mailing us at [email protected]. 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 intended to suggest, and does not mean that, legal responsibilities apply to Tech Contracts Academy that would not otherwise. Standards for personal information are not the same in all jurisdictions, inside and outside and among the United States, and are rapidly evolving and complex. Simply put, not all laws, including collection notice requirements, apply to all entities, individuals, or information, in all locations, or in all circumstances. Individuals in certain jurisdictions, inside and outside the United States, have certain rights when entities governed by those laws process their “personal data” or “personal information” (for example, pursuant to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and other international and U.S. State and federal laws, where applicable). (Depending on the jurisdiction, and subject to various limitations, such rights may include, for example, to access/obtain a copy, update/correct, or delete it; to object to/opt-out of certain processing (or not allow certain processing without consent); to complain to a data protection authority; entities which the CCPA defines as a “business” have special obligations to Californians including more detailed notices than this, and if personal information is “sold,” or “shared” (meaning for certain behavioral advertising) the opportunity to opt-out).
Tech Contracts Academy is a (currently) small, U.S.-based entity with modest types and amounts of personal data processing, that does not “target” internationally, and that does not receive monetary compensation when disclosing personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe that TCA does not fall within most, if any, of such laws’ pre-requisites for coverage. Without limiting that general statement, we believe we do not currently satisfy the threshold to be regulated as a CCPA “business” or as a “controller” pursuant to U.S. state privacy laws adopted to date. And terms used in this Privacy Policy (for example, contractor, third party) are intended as generally understood, not as specially defined in a 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 to the extent required of us under then-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.
J. Contact Us
See our Contact page.