Ensuring Your Privacy is Protected

Privacy Policy Statement:

Please read this privacy policy carefully. Your usage of our website is predicated upon your agreement to abide by the terms and conditions presented in this policy.

Study Groups reserves the right to revise this policy at any time. It is your responsibility to review this page from time to time to ensure your understanding of our current policy.

If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please do not access our Website.

Chat with us:

Email us with any questions or concerns you have about personal information you’ve shared with us.

Talk to us:

Give us a call. If you would like to make a request, comment or provide feedback about personal information we may have collected or have on file for you, please give us a call at +1-360-738-3868.

Third parties
Your choices
Cookies and related technologies
Children

Type of information we collect:

We collect anonymous data from every visitor of our website to monitor traffic and fix bugs. We collect information like web requests sent through forms on our website, the data sent in response to such requests, the Internet Protocol address, the browser type, the browser language, and a timestamp for the request.

If you have created a personal login on our website, we collect the information you provide such as your name, phone number, and email address in order to be able to save your profile and the documents and comments associated with it. In order to enable these or any other login-based features, we use cookies to store session information for your convenience.

You can block or delete cookies and still be able to use our website. Although if you do, you will then be asked for your username and password every time you log in to the website. In order to take advantage of certain features of our website, you may also choose to provide us with other personal information, such as your picture, social media accounts or your personal website, but your decision to utilize these features and provide such data will always be voluntary.

You are able to view, change and remove your data associated with your profile. Should you choose to delete your account, please contact us at: info@studygroups.com

How we use your information:

We only use your personal information to provide you access to our services or to communicate with you about the services, payments or our website.

We employ industry standard techniques to protect against unauthorized access of data about you that we store, including personal information.

We do not share personal information you have provided to us without your consent, unless:

• doing so is appropriate to carry out your own request;
• we believe it’s needed to enforce our Terms of Service, or that is legally required;
• we believe it’s needed to detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical issues;
• otherwise protect our property, legal rights, or that of others.

Study Groups is operated from the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside the U.S., you agree to any processing of any personal information you provide us according to this policy.

Study Groups may contact you, by email or other means. For example, we may send you promotional emails relating to Study Groups or other third parties we feel you would be interested in, or communicate with you about your use of our website.

Study Groups may also use technology to alert you via a confirmation email when you open an email from us. You can modify your email notification preferences by clicking the appropriate link included in the footer of email notifications. If you do not want to receive email from us, please opt out of receiving emails by contacting us at: info@studygroups.com or by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

How we share your information:

We don’t share your personal information with third parties. Only aggregated, anonymized data is periodically transmitted to external services to help us improve the our website and service. We currently use Google Analytics (traffic analysis, SEO optimization), Divi DB (website contact forms data management), and Google (email support). We listed below the type of data these third parties extract. Please check out their own Privacy Policies to find out more.

• Google Analytics: anonymous (ad serving domains, browser type, demographics, language settings, page views, time/date), pseudonymous (IP address)

We also use social buttons provided by services like LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. Your use of these third-party services is entirely optional. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third-party services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those third-party services’ privacy policies.

We employ and contract with people and other entities that perform certain tasks on our behalf and who are under our control (our “Agents” or “Subcontractors”). We may need to share personal information with our Agents in order to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, our Agents do not have any right to use Personal Information or other information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information with our Agents.

We may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the transferred business assets. Moreover, if we, or substantially all of our assets, were acquired, or if we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of us or our assets may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

How we store and protect your information:

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How long we keep your information:

We retain personal data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide the services to you and improve the services for all users generally. In some cases, we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. Afterwards, we retain some information in a depersonalized or aggregated form but not in a way that would identify you personally.

Third parties:

If, in your interactions with our website, you are linked or directed to, or click on, a third-party website, we cannot control what information you may provide to that party or on/at that website, and are not responsible for how that party may use or disclose any information you may provide to them. As such, we urge that you exercise caution before providing them with your personal information and to review the third party’s privacy policy for information on its data processing practice.

Your choices:

You have certain rights with respect to your personal data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email info@studygroups.com. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need to you to provide us with additional information, which may include personal data, if necessary, to verify your identity and the nature of your request.

• Access: You can request more information about the personal data we hold about you and request a copy of such personal data. You can also access certain of your personal data by emailing us at: info@studygroups.com
• Rectification: If you believe that any personal data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement personal data by emailing us at: info@studygroups.com
• Erase: You can request that we erase some or all of your personal data from our systems.
• Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your personal data, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Services.
• Portability: You can ask for a copy of your personal data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
• Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your personal data for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes.
• Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.
• Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about our practices with respect to your personal data with the supervisory authority of your country.

Cookies and related technologies:

In collecting the personal data, we sometimes use “cookies” and other tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons and pixel tags). Cookies allow us to recognize your browser or device and “remember” your browser during subsequent visits for purposes of functionality, preferences, and website performance, and they also tell us how and when pages and features in our services are visited and by how many people. The services use the following cookies:

• Essential Cookies. Essential cookies are required for providing you features or services that you have requested. For example, certain cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Site. Disabling these cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
• Functionality Cookies. Functional cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our services, maintain your preferences over time, and recognize you when you return to our services. These cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/analytical cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our website and services such as by collecting information about the number of visitors to the site, what pages visitors view on our site, and how long visitors are viewing pages on the site. Performance/analytical cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the services’ content for those who engage with our advertising.
• Retargeting/Advertising Cookies. Retargeting/advertising cookies collect data about your online activity and identify your interests, so that we can provide advertising that we believe is relevant to you.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies but have an option for blocking or deleting cookies, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. You can usually access these options through the “settings” or similar menu in your browser. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you block or delete cookies, some portions of the services may not work properly. In some cases, cookies may enable us to aggregate certain information with other personal data we collect and hold about you.

Children:

We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for the services or send any personal data about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 may have provided us personal data, please contact us at: info@studygroups.com