Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 27, 2023
INTRODUCTION
- This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is incorporated by reference into Data Science Dojo Terms of Service. We at Data Science Dojo. (“Company”, “we”, “us”. “our”) are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, website users and service users (“you”, “your”). This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors, website users and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
- We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
PURPOSE OF PRIVACY POLICY
APPLICATION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
By engaging with the website and Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
For users based in the EU and the UK, we are required to describe our role and our responsibility for Personal Information.
- If you access and use our website and/or the Services in your individual capacity, we are the “data controller” under EU privacy law.
- If you access and use our website and/or Services in connection with an agreement entered into between your former, current, or prospective employer (referred to herein as “Employer”) and Data Science Dojo (the “Enterprise Agreement”), and in accordance with that Enterprise Agreement, your Employer remains the data controller for certain Personal Information you may be required to disclose in connection with your use of our website and/or Services, the terms of that Enterprise Agreement shall apply with respect to the processing of the Personal Information set forth therein. In these instances, we act as a “data processor” under EU privacy law, meaning that we process your Personal Information to provide a service to your Employer and do so at their direction. If you have any questions about specific privacy practices in connection with your use of our website and/or Services through your Employer, please contact your Employer.
By using our website and/or Services, you are authorizing us to gather, share and retain data related to the provision of website and Services in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and (for non-EU residents) you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the law of the state of Washington and the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with Data Science Dojo website and/or Service will be in accordance with our Terms of service or the Enterprise Agreement, as applicable.
THE CATAGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DATA SCIENCE DOJO COLLECTS
Personal Information includes any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (i.e., anonymized or aggregated data).
The categories of Personal Information about you that we may collect, use, store, and transfer include the following:
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website and Services. The usage data may include your internet protocol (IP) address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use.
Account Data: Include information about your name and email address.
Profile Data: Includes, if applicable and, in most cases, only when you choose to provide such information to us as part of the Services, your interests; preferences; website browsing history; social media account(s); demographic information, including but not limited to age, gender, race; education level; resume information; professional portfolio link; economic information or employment status; disability or accommodation information; and feedback and survey responses. Profile Data may also include information that you provide to us voluntarily throughout your journey as our student.
Service Data: Include information about website visits, clicks, page views, background information, dietary preferences and feedback.
Publication Data: Include information that you post for publication on our website or through our services.
Inquiry Data: Include information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding products and/or services.
Customer Relationship Data: Include your name, your employer, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between us and you or your employer.
Transaction Data: Include information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website. the transaction data may include [your contact details, your card details and the transaction details.
Notification Data: Include information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters.
Correspondence Data: Include information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us. the correspondence data may include [the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms.
AGGREGATED & ANONYMIZED, NON-INDENTIFIABLE DATA
We also collect, use, and share aggregated and anonymous data such as statistical or demographic data for various purposes. We may use this type of data to analyze trends with respect to skills, jobs, employment, and the workforce generally; to administer, analyze, and improve the content and functionality of our website and/or Services; for marketing; and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We utilize unstructured machine learning technologies to understand user behaviors and to provide user-specific recommendations and other personalization of our website and/or Services experience.
Aggregated or anonymized data may be derived from your Personal Information but is not considered to be Personal Information under applicable privacy laws as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect aggregated or anonymized data with your Personal Information in such a way that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Personal Information and only use it in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to use anonymous or aggregated data for any purpose, including, but not limited to, those set forth above. We may also disclose such anonymous aggregate information to our Enterprise clients, partners or third-party service providers, excluding any Personal Information, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act De-identified Data Disclosure. The Company may use de-identified data in some instances. The Company either maintains such data without attempting to re-identify it or treats such data as personal data subject to applicable law.
FAILURE TO PROVIDE REQUIRED PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOW DATA SCIENCE DOJO COLLECTS YOUR INFORMATION
Direct Interaction
We collect your Personal Information when you:
- Create an account on our website or register to use the Services;
- Register or apply for a Course, Class, Workshop, or any other Services on our website, through any of the Services or via a third-party website;
- Participate in our surveys, promotions, and competitions;
- Interact with us on various social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.;
- Post information to our website or Services that includes Personal Information, for example, by posting in a chat room or on a blog post;
- Communicate with us, for example, by submitting queries regarding our website or the Services, interacting with our customer support, marketing, or sales teams, or requesting additional information from us, including newsletters or other marketing materials; and
- Sign up, in person or online, for events or programs run by us or by the third-party organizations with which we partner.
Automated Technologies or Interactions
As you interact with our website and/or Services, we also collect technical data such as anonymous usage statistics about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this information by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technology. See below for more information on our use of cookies.
COOKIES, AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION, & RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
About cookies
- A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
- Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
- Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies that we use
- We use cookies for the following purposes:
- authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
- status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
- personalization – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you;
- security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
- advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;
- analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services and;
- cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
Cookies used by our service providers
- Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
- We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
- We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. OR We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This behaviour tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website). You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
Managing cookies
- Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop?redirectslug=enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences&redirectlocale=en-US (Firefox);
- http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
- https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
- https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy(Edge).
- Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
- If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH DATA SCIENCE DOJO USES YOUR INFORMATION
We have set forth below the ways in which we may use your Personal Information, along with the legal bases and legitimate business interests on which we rely to do so where appropriate.
Please note that we may process your Personal Information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose includes both automated and manual (human) for which we are using your Personal Information. Our automated methods often are related to and supported by our manual methods. For example, our automated methods include artificial intelligence (AI), which we think of as a set of technologies that enable computers to perceive, learn, reason, and assist in decision-making to solve problems in ways that are similar to what people do. To build, train, and improve the accuracy of our automated methods of processing (including AI), we manually review some of the predictions and inferences produced by the automated methods against the underlying data from which the predictions and inferences were made.
Please contact us if you need more information about the specific legal ground on which we are relying to process your Personal Information:
Purpose/Activity | Type of Data | Lawful basis for processing |
To analyze your use of the website and services. | Usage Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services. |
To operate our website, provide our services, ensure the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. | Account Data Service Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract. |
To enable and monitor your use of our website and services. | Profile Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract. |
To enable publication and administer our website and services. | Publication Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract. |
For the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant good and/or services to you. | Inquiry Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract |
To manage our relationship with customers, communicate with customers, keep record of these communications and promote our products and services to customers. | Customer Relationship Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper management of our customer relationships. |
To supply purchased goods and services and keep proper record of those transactions. | Transaction Data | Necessary for performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business. |
To send you relevant notifications and/or newsletters. | Notification Data | Necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract. |
To communicate with your and record-keeping. | Correspondence Data | Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business and communications with Users. |
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CHANGE OF PURPOSE
NOTICE TO JOB APPLICANTS
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NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Overview
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) became effective on January 1, 2020 and created a variety of privacy rights for California consumers. In November 2020, California amended the CCPA, effective January 1, 2023. Additionally, Virginia (effective January 1, 2023), Colorado (effective July 1, 2023), Connecticut (July 1, 2023), and Utah (December 31, 2023) have passed laws extending similar privacy rights to their consumers. We use this notice to make disclosures required by these state laws.
Please note that the rules implementing some of these laws have not yet been finalized. We are continuously working to better comply with these laws, and we will update our processes, disclosures, and this notice as these implementing rules are finalized.
Notice
We do not rent, sell, or share Personal Information about you with third parties who are not our partners, affiliates, or service providers, or third-party suppliers, including for their own direct marketing purposes, unless you have opted in to such a disclosure or were offered the opportunity to opt out of such a disclosure at the time you provided your Personal Information and elected not to opt out, or we are required to do so by law. For more information about how we may share your Personal Information, please refer to the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “How Data Science Dojo May Share Your Personal Information
“Do Not Track” Signals. Some web browsers may transmit “do not track” signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. There is currently no standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals. Therefore, our website, like many others, may not respond to “do not track” signals.
“Do Not Sell” Personal Information. You have the right to know whether your personal information is being sold. Your personal information is “sold” when it is provided with a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration for a purpose that is not a “business purpose” as set forth in the CCPA or other U.S. state data privacy laws. Please note a “sale” does not include when we disclose your personal information at your direction, or when otherwise permitted under law.
Data Science Dojo does not sell your personal information.
“Non-Discrimination” Statement. The Company will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.
In addition, California residents are entitled to know that third parties may collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you visit our website. For additional information about this, please refer to the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Cookies, Automatic Data Collection, and Related Technologies.”
For information about your privacy rights, please refer to the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Your Legal Rights.”
HOW DATA SCIENCE DOJO MAY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- We may disclose your personal data to any member of our company insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.
- We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
- Financial transactions relating to our website and services may be handled by our payment services provider Stripe. 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 may disclose your Inquiry data to one or more of those selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant products and/or services. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the inquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, 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.
- In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 3, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
- With Your Consent: We may also disclose your information, including your Personal Information, where you have specifically provided your consent for disclosure. You may withdraw consent to disclosures where you have previously given specific consent by emailing us at [email protected]
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
CHILDERN’S PRIVACY
EXTERNAL LINKS
TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES
DATA RENTENTION
We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information; the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable legal requirements.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your Personal Information are available on request by emailing us at [email protected].
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), data subjects located in the EU, UK, and California have the right under certain circumstances:
- To be provided with a copy of your Personal Information held by us.
- To request that we correct any of your Personal Information held by us.
- To request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information, for example).
- To object to any further processing of your Personal Information, including the right to object to marketing.
- To request that the Personal Information you have provided be transferred to a third party.
- To withdraw consent, without detriment, where the basis of the processing of your Personal Information is based on consent.
- To request that we delete any of your Personal Information held by us unless a legal exception applies.
To exercise your rights, please submit your verifiable request at [email protected] California residents may also exercise their privacy rights by calling us at +1 (877) 360-3442.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Information (or exercise any other rights). We may, however, charge a fee if we believe your request is excessive, unfounded, or repetitive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
In response to any of the requests outlined above, we may need to request specific information from you to enable us to confirm your identity and to ensure you have the right to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that your Personal Information is not disclosed to any person who does not have the right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request in order to speed up our response time.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, and you are located in the EU or UK, you may approach your local data protection authority (see https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en.html) who can provide further information about your rights and our obligations in relation to your Personal Information, as well as deal with any complaints that you have about our processing of your Personal Information.
UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION OR POSE A QUESTION OR SUGGESTION
It is important that the Personal Information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep us informed if your Personal Information changes during your relationship with us. You can update, correct, or delete any information you have provided to us through your use of the Site or Services by sending an email to [email protected]
If you have questions about unsubscribing from email or other communications, you may send an email to [email protected].
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY & PRACTICES
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any further questions about this Privacy Policy or Data Science Dojo’s privacy practices, please contact us at the information below:
Physical address: 2205 152nd Ave NE Redmond, WA 98052.
Email address for contact: [email protected].
Phone number for contact: +1 (877) 360-3442.