PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: July 11, 2021
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Grey’s Digital Online LLC collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the http://www.Usbiologyteaching.com and www.usbtonlinecourses.com website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Company.
PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The purpose of this privacy policy is to help you better understand how we store, collect, and process your personal data. This policy is meant to help you understand more about why we collect and use your data whether you’re a customer or even if you’re just visiting Company’s services.
In particular, by using our website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy, including any updates or revisions to this privacy policy. This policy does not apply to personal information collected by any third party.
BY ACCESSING OR USING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, YOU MAY NOT USE THE WEBSITE. THE COMPANY REQUIRES ALL USERS TO UNDERTAKE TO ABIDE BY THE PRIVACY POLICY AND THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Grey’s Digital Online LLC. has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
CCPA DISCLOSURE
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), Grey’s Digital Online LLC. must affirmatively inform California consumers of the categories of personal information collected about the consumer, the sources from which that personal information is collected, the commercial or business purpose for which the personal information is collected, the categories of third parties the personal information will be shared with, and specific pieces of personal information collected about the consumer.
WHO WE ARE
We are a data Processor and Collector. We process data received from our services and take proportionate precaution in storing such personal information for short periods on our secure servers until permanently destroyed.
PURPOSE FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOW WE USE COLLECTED PERSONAL INFORMATION
Grey’s Digital Online LLC. collects and use user personal information for the following purposes:
- The information provided helps us respond to customer service requests and support needs more efficiently;
- To personalize user experience;
- To improve our Service;
- We use feedback provided to improve our products and services;
- We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service;
- To run a promotion, survey or other service feature;
- To send periodic emails;
- Process Payments;
We use the email address to send User information and updates pertaining to their order. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Our Service collects personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (”personal information”). In particular, our Platform has collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
- Category A: Identifiers
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- Examples: A real name, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
- Collected: YES
- Category B: Personal information categories;
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- Examples: A name, physical characteristics or description, financial information, credit card or debit card information, address, or telephone number.
- Collected: YES
- Category C: Protected classification characteristics;
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- Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
- Collected: NO
We obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete on our Platform.
- Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Platform or interactions with our advertisers.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE SHARE
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal information to others. We do not use third-party service providers to help us to operate our business or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys.
We do not share personal information with third parties unless Users have given us permission.
PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS
Financial transactions relating to our services will be handled by our payment services providers. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.
We will disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies, this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.
We will disclose your inquiry data to one or more of those selected third-party suppliers of services via APIs identified on our services for the purpose of enabling them to connect your account with their Services. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the inquiry data that we supply to it. Each such third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party’s use of your personal data.
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COMPANY COLLECTS
When you engage in certain activities via the Company Service, including but not limited to creating an account, sending feedback, or otherwise participating in the Company Service (collectively, “Identification Activities”), we will ask you to provide certain information about yourself. We also collect the following:
- Identity Data
- Contact Data
- Technical Data
- Usage Data
- Transaction Data
- Assessment Data
- Profile Data
- Marketing and Communications Data
If you elect to use our service we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information about yourself, such as your name, address (including zip code), email address, credit card information, telephone number and/or any other information you provide to us, to process your transaction, send communications about them to you, and populate forms for future transactions. We may also ask you to provide us with additional information, such as credit card information for future paid features. If you do not provide mandatory information for an Identification Activity, you will not be permitted to engage in that Identification Activity with the Company Service.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not identify a specific person. We use Non-Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, administer the Company Service, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. We will also share this information with our authorized Third-Party Service Providers to measure the overall effectiveness of our products and services.
VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES WHO ARE NOT OUR SUPPLIERS
You may choose to provide personal information to our service or other third parties who are not our suppliers. Please use caution when doing so. The privacy policies and customs of these third parties determine what is done with your personal information.
THIRD PARTY TOOLS AND PI PROCESSORS
In order to provide our services, we use third-party platforms and tools, such as those provided by “Paid Membership”, Stripe, and Google among other providers. Please be aware that such platforms are governed by their own terms, policies and personal data collection practices and policies. Accordingly, by acknowledging your consent to this Policy, you are also acknowledging the applicable terms and conditions of such third-party platforms, which provide functionalities that include aggregated statistics. Upon the case of any discrepancy or conflict among this Policy and the terms of them, the terms of the latter entities will govern.
DATA RETENTION
Our data retention policies and procedure are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall be kept until such time as we receive a request for deletion from you. This time period shall not exceed three (3) months.
Notwithstanding the other provisions, we will retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) The right to access;
(b) The right to rectification;
(c) The right to erasure;
(d) The right to restrict processing;
(e) The right to object to processing;
(f) The right to data portability;
(g) The right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) The right to withdraw consent.
You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by visiting your profile when logged in.
You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) Consent; or
(b) That the processing is necessary for the performance of a service
If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY LAWS
If you are visiting the Services from outside the United States, please be aware that you are sending information (including Personal Data) to the United States where our servers are located. That information may then be transferred within the United States or back out of the United States to other countries outside of your country of residence, depending on the type of information and how it is stored by us. These countries (including the United States) may not necessarily have data protection laws as comprehensive or protective as those in your country of residence; however, our collection, storage and use of your Personal Data will at all times continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
If you have a complaint about Grey’s Digital Online LLC.’s privacy practices you should contact us. We will take reasonable steps to work with you to attempt to resolve your complaint in accordance with the “Terms” incorporated with these policies.
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)
The GDPR requires Grey’s Digital Online LLC. and Servicers using the Service to provide Users with more information about the processing of their Personal Data. The GDPR requires us to tell you about the legal ground we’re relying on to process any Personal Data about you. The legal grounds for us processing your Personal Data for the purposes set out above will typically be because:
- You provided your consent; it is necessary for our contractual relationship;
- The processing is necessary for us to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations;
- And/or the processing is in our legitimate interest as a service platform.
NEVADA RESIDENTS
Under Nevada law, certain Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information to additional persons. “Personally identifiable information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.
We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased or leased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law by emailing us. Please note we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request. Once verified, we will maintain your request in the event our practices change.
RIGHTS FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may provide you with additional rights regarding the use of your personal information. These rights include:
- The right to access the personal information we process about you
- The right to know what personal information is collected about you and if any information is sold or disclosed, and to whom
- The right to request the deletion of your personal information
- The right to opt-out from the sale of your personal information
- The right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights above
You can exercise any applicable rights by emailing admin@usbiologyteaching.com or sending a letter to the address below. You may be required to submit proof of your identity and/or address, if we are unable to confirm your identity or cannot verify that you are a California resident. We will try to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt.
TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA
As Grey’s Digital Online LLC. is a global company, we may need to transfer your Personal Data outside of the country from which it was originally provided. This may be intra-group or to third parties that we work with who may be located in jurisdictions outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK which have no data protection laws or laws that are less strict compared with those in Europe.
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
If we are subject to a merger or acquisition with/by another company, we may share information with them in accordance with our global privacy standards. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy notice with respect to your personal information. If we intend to handle your personal information for any purposes not covered in this privacy notice, you will receive prior notification of the processing of your personal information for the new purposes.
HOW TO OPT OUT OF FUTURE COMMUNICATIONS
Consumers may opt-out of notifications and personal information storage at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by visiting the following our webpage and sending us a message.
Once you make an opt-out request, we will wait at least six (6) months before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales. However, you may change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time by visiting our service and sending us a message. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
You can access your Personally Information via the Company Service with your password and username. If you access your account via a third-party site or service, you may have additional or different sign-in protections via that third-party site or service. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-in mechanism appropriately and limiting access to your mobile device by signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user personal information at any time.
If we believe that the security of your personal information may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. In addition, your Personally Information resides on a secure server that only selected personnel and contractors have access to.
We encrypt certain sensitive information using SSL technology to ensure that your Personally Information is safe as it is transmitted to us. However, no data transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies that do the same, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from or via the Company Service, and we are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Although users may transmit work assignments, Company doesn’t not collect information regarding transmitted documents, names, or information related thereof. If you are a minor, please do not provide us or other service visitors with any personal information and do not use this service. We do not knowingly provide services or sell products to children. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information. If you believe we have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at admin@usbiologyteaching.com
EXTERNAL LINKS
Users will find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by applications or websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services will have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Interaction on any other service, including applications which have a link to our Site, is subject to that companies’ own terms and policies.
COMPLAINTS & CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
admin@usbiologyteaching.com