Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or comments on our privacy policy please Email support@esacademy.com
Privacy Policy
Introduction
Privacy is very important to us. We collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you as part of the normal operation of our services. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. The practices described in this privacy policy statement apply to the Embedded Systems Academy website.
Some of your personally identifiable information is disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties as described below. By registering at My Academy, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information and accept this privacy policy.
Table of Contents
- Information We Collect
- How We Use The Information
- Our Disclosure of The Information
- Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
- Control of Your Password
- Security
- Notice
Information We Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a customized view of our web site. This allows us to provide services to try and meet your needs and to customize the services we provide.
If you wish to purchase services from our web site then we require some financial information, such as, a credit card number and expiry date. We use your financial information to bill you for your use of our services.
We automatically track certain infomation based upon your behavior on our web site, such as, but not limited to, viewing of online classes. We use this information to enhanced the usefullness and quality of our web site, for example, restricting access to online tests if the corresponding online class has not be sufficiently viewed and therefore taking the test will likely result in failure. We may also use this information to perform internal research on the the usefullness of our web site and to improve the services we offer.
We may use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our site to remember who you are from web page to web page. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. You may turn "cookies" off in your web browser or on your computer, and doing so will not hinder or restrict access to our site.
We may collect the following personally identifiable information about you:
- First name
- Last name
- Email address
- Password
- Company
- Address
- City
- State
- Zip
- Country
- Credit Card number
- Credit card expriation date
Some of these items may be optional or dependant on which services you choose on our site, for example credit card numbers and expiration dates.
How We Use The Information
We use information we obtain about you, and information we obtain from your usage of our site to troubleshoot problems and provide services.
You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
You agree that we may use your information to contact you by Email and deliver information such as administrative notices, product and service offerings and communications relevent to your use of our site. By accepting this privacy policy you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive this information then you may opt out by choosing the appropriate options when registering for My Academy. You may change your opt out preferences at any time. Note however, that you may miss out on important information related to your account if you choose to not receive Emails from us.
Our Disclosure of The Information
Unfortunately we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For example (and not limited to) we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.
We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party as a matter of policy. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
External Services. We use an external service when handling credit card transactions. If you choose to use this optional service, disclose information to the external service, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. We will provide for your convenience some of your personally identifiable information to the external service. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services. Below is a link directly to their privacy policy.
Advertisers. For marketing and promotional purposes we may analyze personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers. However, in these situations, we do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and bank account number, will never disclosed to marketing advertisers.
Legal Requests. Embedded Systems Academy cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws. We can (and you authorize us to by accepting this policy) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with any activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
Other 3rd Parties. For all services that are free (such as online classes and tests) and sponsored by a 3rd party, personally identifiable information and test results may be passed on to the sponsor to determine if you qualify for the drawing of any prizes, gifts, etc. To the extent that these sponsors have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from other users. It is possible that Embedded Systems Academy could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that Embedded Systems Academy would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service. We will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
Once registered you can review and change the information you submitted during registration at any time. We ask that you promptly update your information if it changes.
If you request, we will deactivate your account and any
personally identifiable information from our databases. To make this request
Email support@esacademy.com. We will deactivate such information as soon as
possible and in accordance with applicable law.
Due to technical and legal constraints however, personally identifiable
information may be retained in "back up" systems. Therefore you
should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be
completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.
Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your password. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your My Academy password to any third parties. You are responsible for all actions taken with your password if you choose to share your password or your information with third parties. If you disclose your password, you will provide access to your personally identifiable information to the persons or organizations who know your password. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason or you suspect it may have been compromised, you should immediately change your password.
Security
Embedded Systems Academy uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, including passwords, "firewalls", Secure Socket Layers (for the transmitting and processing of credit card information) and DES encryption of passwords. Embedded Systems Academy protects all data against loss and unauthorized access as is reasonably possible.
Notice
Embedded Systems Academy reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and without notice in order to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. If you do not agree to such changes, then you may request that your account is deactivated as described in this Privacy Policy. We will be happy to accept any comments you may have regarding this policy.
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