Effective Date: July 31st, 2024
This privacy notice for TryClassmate, LLC, 41 State Street Ste 112, Albany, NY, 12207, USA, United States ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") informs you about personal information we collect through our website available at: https://classmate.study/ (“Website”) and through our services that we provide (“Services”) or engaging in sales, marketing, or events, explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information, your rights and choices, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. This privacy notice for TryClassmate, LLC, 41 State Street Ste 112, Albany, NY, 12207, USA, United States ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") informs you about personal information we collect through our website available at: https://classmate.study/ (“Website”) and through our services that we provide (“Services”), explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information, your rights and choices, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. We respect your privacy and are committed to complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have any questions or concerns regarding data protection, please contact us at support@classmate.study.
The subject matter of data protection is your personal information. That is all the information that relates to you (as an identified or identifiable individual). This covers for example, information such as name, postal address, e-mail address, or telephone number as well as information that necessarily originates from the use of our Website, such as details about the start, end, and scope of use, and the communication of your IP address.
We collect and process various types of personal information, including your name, email address, password, username, billing address, and debit/credit card number. We do not process any sensitive personal information, such as health, biometric, or genetic data.
We collect personal information based on your interaction with us online, by visiting our Website, and by using our Services. We may collect your personal information through any of the following methods:
Direct interactions where you provide us with identity, profile, contact, financial, and transaction data through completing documentation for us or communicating by phone, e-mail, post, via our Website or otherwise. This includes personal information that is provided to us when you:
Access or use our Website or our Services;
Register an account. This may include social media login data if you register using your social media accounts, such as Facebook or Twitter;
Subscribe to our Services;
Purchase information - we collect payment data for purchases and store it securely with Stripe, our payment processor. You can find Stripe's privacy notice here;
Provide us with feedback;
Otherwise contact us, or our registered partners in the course of our business.
Automated technology and data where you interact with our Website and/or our Services, we automatically collect technical, usage, and marketing or communications data. We collect this personal information using particular service providers, cookies, and server logs/log files. This includes:
Browser and device information that is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your IP address, computer type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type, and add-ons;
Log Information that is automatically collected in system logs about how you interact with our Website, such as your online activity, search terms, pages you visit, date, and time of access. This information is used to improve your experience on our Website and keep the Website free of bugs and errors;
Cookies and similar technologies which serve us to communicate with your end device and exchange stored information. These cookies are provided by third-party service providers (including Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Facebook Ads, HotJar, Klaviyo, TikTok, Snapchat, Google Adsense, LeadDyno, Rewardful, Braintree, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Venmo, PayPal, PostHog) and will be used to improve the performance and design of the Website. We will obtain your consent to our use of cookies where required by law.
Third parties or publicly available sources where your personal information is made available as follows:
Technical data from advertising networks, search information providers, and analytics providers (including Google Analytics);
Contact, financial, and transaction data from technical and payment services connected to our Services;
Identity and contact data made available from public sources, law enforcement, or government entities (as applicable);
Identity and contact data from third-party applications where services require the import of information about users and their clients to fulfill activities and facilitate payments.
We process your personal information for the following purposes:
We use your personal information as permitted by applicable law to operate, provide, develop and improve the Services. We are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) when processing personal data of data subjects located in the European Union. Under the GDPR we are the data processor and data controller for your personal information when you access and use our Website and Services. We process your personal information based on valid legal reasons, which may include your consent, our contractual obligations, our legal obligations, our vital interests, or our legitimate interests. We will inform you of the specific legal basis for each processing activity when we collect your personal information, or as soon as possible thereafter. You can withdraw your consent at any time, where applicable, by contacting us or using the opt-out links provided in our communications.
We may share your personal information with third-party vendors, consultants, advertising and analytics partners, and service providers who help us provide, support and improve our services. These may include cloud storage providers, data analytics services, payment processors, sales and marketing tools, and artificial intelligence service providers. We only share your personal information with third parties who have agreed to process it in accordance with our instructions and this privacy notice, and who have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect it.
We may also share your personal information with public authorities, law enforcement agencies, courts, or other parties, if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a legal obligation, to protect our rights or interests, or to defend ourselves from claims.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their own purposes, unless you have given us your explicit consent.
We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect and store information about your use of our Services, such as your preferences, settings, and login status. Cookies are small files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. You can refuse or delete certain cookies through your browser settings, but some features of our Services may not function properly without them.
We also use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising companies to display ads on our website, based on your browsing history and interests. These companies may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your visits to our website and other websites, such as your IP address, device identifiers, and web pages viewed. You can opt out of the use of the DoubleClick DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. You can also opt out of the use of cookies by some third-party advertisers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
If you register or log in to our Services using your account details from a third party platform, such as Google or Apple, we may receive information from those providers, such as your name, email address, and profile picture. The information we receive depends on your privacy settings and the terms and policies of the third party platforms. We use this information to create and manage your account, and to personalize your experience on our Services. You can revoke our access to your third party platform accounts at any time by changing your settings on those platforms.
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, or as required by law. We will delete or anonymize your personal information when it is no longer needed, or upon your request, unless we have a legal obligation or a legitimate interest to keep it. We will also erase your personal information if we are obliged to do so for other legal reasons. Applying these general principles, we will usually erase your personal information immediately after the legal permission has ceased to apply and provided that no other legal basis (e.g. commercial and tax law retention periods) intervenes. If the latter applies, we will delete the data after the other legal basis has ceased to apply. We will also usually erase your personal information if we are no longer required to hold it for the purposes we pursue and no other legal basis intervenes, if the latter is the case, we will delete the data after the other legal basis has ceased to apply.
We use organizational and technical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction. These measures include encryption, firewalls, access controls, and staff training. However, we cannot guarantee that your personal information is completely secure, as no method of transmission or storage over the internet is 100% secure. If you suspect any breach of your personal information, please contact us immediately.
We may transfer your personal information to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. These countries may have different data protection laws than the country in which you provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the United States. We rely on adequacy decisions by the European Commission, standard data protection clauses, or other legal basis for the transfer of personal information from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom to the United States.
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:
You can exercise your rights by contacting us at support@classmate.study. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time frame, or as required by law. We may ask you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, to protect your privacy and security.
Some browsers have a "do-not-track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. We do not currently respond to these signals, as there is no common standard for how to do so. However, you can opt out of some of our tracking technologies by following the instructions in the section on cookies and tracking technologies above.
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, such as:
To exercise your rights under the CCPA, you can contact us at support@classmate.study. We will respond to your request within 45 days, or as required by law. We may ask you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, to protect your privacy and security.
California residents also have the right to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those parties, under the "Shine The Light" law. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please contact us at the address below.
We do not knowingly direct our Services to children under the age of 13. The minimum age to use the Services may differ depending on the country or region you are in. If you believe that we have collected personal information from a minor under the minimum age, please contact us at: support@classmate.study
We may update this privacy notice from time to time to reflect changes in our data practices, laws, or regulations. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the updated notice on our website, with the revised date at the top. We encourage you to review this notice periodically to stay informed about how we protect your personal information.
If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this privacy notice or our data practices, please contact us at:
TryClassmate LLC
41 State Street Ste 112
Albany, NY, 12207, USA
United States
support@classmate.study
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