Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
Effective date: June 2023
Gallatin River B.V., a company registered in The Netherlands with registered number 59641258 whose registered office is at Amsterdam, The Netherlands, along with its subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates (“SDCourses.org”), understands the importance of protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you use our website. This Privacy Statement tells you about the information SDCourses may collect on this website, how the information is used, and how you can access and correct certain information that we may collect.
If you as a visitor choose to register or submit information to SDCourses via this website (the “Site”), you agree to the use of such data in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Please note that this Site contains links to other websites, including, without limitation, websites maintained by SDCourses, and other affiliated entities of SDCourses. Also note that the SDCourses may use third parties to host all or portions of, or to assist in maintaining, the SDCourses websites.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, or do not feel that your concerns have been addressed, please direct your questions to us using the appropriate email link set forth in the “Contact Us” section below.
Collection of Your Personal Data.
You can access many areas of our Site without submitting any personally identifiable data. You may voluntarily choose to provide SDCourses with identifiable personal data by completing forms, sending emails, or other means as may be provided from time to time on the Site. The personally identifiable data that we would collect from you if you so choose would typically include your name and title, email address, mailing address, telephone and information about your company. In addition to information that you voluntarily submit, SDCourses may, at its option, collect additional information about you from third party sources. Personal data collected by SDCourses will be as reasonably necessary to fulfil your requests and to provide the most relevant, targeted offers and information from SDCourses. All such information collected shall be referred to herein as “Personal Data”.
Furthermore, SDCourses monitors incoming and outgoing Site traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers and to administer its Site. SDCourses also uses this data to assemble broad demographic information about its visitors, customers, and partners in general .
The following is a list of examples where you may choose to specifically and voluntarily submit Personal Data to SDCourses through this Site, which SDCourses may use for each purpose indicated at the time of your submission:
Request a copy of SDCourses publications, such as whitepaper(s);
Register for access to certain areas of the Site;
Request access to demos;
Contact us for further information about products, services, events, and programs or to submit questions or comments to SDCourses;
Subscribe to receive newsletters, information, alerts, offers, and other communications;
Submit a resume and/or job application for possible employment with SDCourses;
Participate in surveys, quizzes, promotions, and contests as may be available on the Site from time to time; and/or
Register for attendance or sponsorship at events, webinars and conferences.
Use of Your Personal Data.
SDCourses uses Personal Data submitted through the Site to provide a way for customers, partners, customer and partner prospects, and other contacts to communicate with our team. SDCourses collects the Personal Data from you in order to establish and maintain relationships, and in order to serve you better. When appropriate, SDCourses may also use the Personal Data separately or in combination with pre-existing information.
By voluntarily submitting your Personal Data, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Statement. In some circumstances, SDCourses may share Personal Data that you voluntarily submit with trustworthy business partners. We will only use such third party business partners in order to deliver services to us or on our behalf, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Personal Data collected on this Site may be stored and processed in any country in which SDCourses (or its affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions and their respective third party business partners and suppliers) maintain facilities. This may include transfer to countries without data protection rules similar to those in effect in your country of residence. You acknowledge and agree that by providing Personal Data to SDCourses through this Site, you consent to the transmission of such Personal Data over international borders as necessary for processing your requests.
Due to the existing legal, regulatory, and security environment, SDCourses may be required, under certain circumstances, to disclose aggregate level and/or personally identifiable data submitted to SDCourses through the Site. SDCourses will use reasonable efforts to limit such disclosures to the following circumstances: (i) where SDCourses believes in good faith that it is required to do so in response to a subpoena or other legal process; (ii) where reasonably required to do so in order to maintain, update or otherwise implement SDCourses data security measures, equipment, technical operations and the like; (iii) where reasonably necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against persons or entities to preserve and/or enforce SDCourses rights, including but not limited to enforcing the Terms of Use for this Site; (iv) protect and defend the rights or property of SDCourses; or (v) in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of the public or of users of the SDCourses products, services, and the Site.
In addition, SDCourses may also disclose Personal Data in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the SDCourses business or any part thereof, or as part of a security audit.
Protection of Your Personal Data.
SDCourses undertakes substantial efforts to protect the confidentiality of the Personal Data, preferences and other information it has collected through this Site and will never knowingly allow access to this information to anyone outside SDCourses other than as described herein. SDCourses has made a substantial investment in its server, database, backup and firewall technologies to protect the information assets of the SDCourses network, including the confidentiality of Personal Data collected through this Site. These technologies are deployed as part of a sophisticated security architecture and protocol.
You should also do your part in protecting your information. Your SDCourses username and any password (if such is provided or enacted) are confidential, and we recommend that you not divulge them to anyone. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Internet as a public transmission network, neither SDCourses network nor data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect Personal Data that is transmitted to us by you, SDCourses cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information. Thus, any Personal Data transmitted to us is done so at your own risk. Once we receive Personal Data, SDCourses undertakes substantial efforts to protect the confidentiality of this information consistent with this Privacy Statement.
Cookies.
If you review or download information, we may track the visit through the use of “cookies”. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and you will find cookies at most major websites. Cookies help SDCourses to tailor information to your preferences and to see which areas of the website are frequented most. SDCourses never uses cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can change your browser settings to refuse cookies. However, in doing so, you may not be able to fully utilise the Site. Further details on the types of Cookies we use may be found in our cookie policy.
Web Beacons.
Pages on this Site may contain electronic images referred to as Web Beacons and also sometimes referred to as single-pixel gifs or clear gifs. The Web Beacons may be used to assist in delivering cookies throughout our Site to track the number of users and Site activity tracking purposes.
Links to Other Websites.
This Site may contain links to websites which are owned and operated by third parties and do not operate in accordance with this Privacy Statement. When you link to other websites through this Site, this Privacy Statement and our privacy practices no longer apply. We encourage you to review each website’s privacy policy before disclosing any personally identifiable information. SDCourses is not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party websites.
Choices Regarding Use of Personal Information.
Upon voluntarily providing your Personal Data to SDCourses through this Site, SDCourses will use your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Should you at any time decide that you do not want to continue to receive electronic communications, you will have the ability to unsubscribe or “opt out” from such communications by means of a link provided in each such communication to the preference center, or if not provided therein, by sending an email or contacting us at the contact details provided in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Statement.
Corrections, Access and Updates to Your Personal Information.
SDCourses aims to keep your Personal Data as accurate as possible. Should you at any time desire to review, correct or update your Personal Data, you may update your relevant profile or registration (when applicable) or contact us using the contact information outlined in the Contact Us section below; SDCourses will comply with such requests as soon as commercially reasonable or determined by statutory law. In order to ensure the safety of Personal Data, please note you will be subject to providing sufficient evidence of your identity at the time of any such request before any Personal Data records will be made available by SDCourses.
Data Retention.
The Personal Data that you submit to SDCourses will only be retained for as long as required for the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law. Our retention of your Personal Data allows SDCourses to continue to provide you with highly personalised services without interruption.
Changes to this Privacy Statement.
SDCourses reserves the right to change this policy at any time and without prior notice to you. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. SDCourses will take reasonable measures to notify you if there is a material change in our privacy practices with respect to use of the information you have provided to SDCourses. SDCourses will conspicuously post these changes in our Privacy Statement. SDCourses also will post a message on the homepage of its Site that states that the Privacy Statement has been changed, and will provide a link to the Privacy Statement.
Students and Subscribers
Effective date: June 2023
What information do we collect and what do we do with it?
When you enrol as a student or subscriber (“learner”) on our site or related courses, as part of the enrolling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name and email address.
Email marketing: we may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion.
How do you get my consent?
When you provide us with personal information to become a learner on our site, make a purchase, or participate in the course, you imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
How do I withdraw my consent?
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at info@sdcourses.org
Disclosure.
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service [INSERT LINK to your Terms of Service].
Thinkific.
Our course and site is hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with the online course creation platform that allow us to sell our product/services to you.
Your data is stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases and the general Thinkific application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment:
If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Thinkific’s Terms of Service: https://www.thinkific.com/resources/privacy-policy/ or Privacy Statement: https://www.thinkific.com/resources/terms-of-service/ .
Third Party Services.
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave our course website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
Links.
When you click on links on our course site, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
Security.
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
Cookies.
We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies. This means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customise our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.
We use cookies to recognize your device and provide you with a personalised experience.
We also use cookies to attribute visits to our websites to third-party sources and to serve targeted ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram and other third-party vendors.
Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your prior visits to our websites and elsewhere on the Internet in order to serve you targeted ads. For more information about targeted or behavioural advertising, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising.
Opting out: You can opt out of targeted ads served via specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page.
We may also use automated tracking methods on our websites, in communications with you, and in our products and services, to measure performance and engagement.
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Web Analysis Tools.
We may use web analysis tools that are built into the SDCourses.org website to measure and collect anonymous session information.
Age of Consent.
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our site or course is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
Questions and contact information.
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at info@sdcourses.org