You may request a copy of the previous version of this Privacy Policy, dated July 29, 2024, by emailing [email protected].

Scope

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is incorporated by reference into the Data Science Dojo Terms of Service. We at Data Science Dojo (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our” and “Data Science Dojo”) are committed to safeguard your personally identifiable information/personal data (“PII”) in accordance with applicable data protection laws as well as this Privacy Policy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to inform you of the manner in which we collect, use, disclose, retain, transfer and handle (“Use”), and otherwise process the information we may collect about you from (a) your use of our Website and/or our products and/or services or software-as-a-service offerings hosted by or on behalf of Data Science Dojo (collectively, the “Services”), (b) your interactions with us online and at in-person events, or (c) any other circumstances in which we provide you with a copy of this Privacy Policy.

We use cookies on our website. How we ask for your choices depends on where you are. If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we will ask for your consent before we set cookies that are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and Services. If you are in the United States, those cookies are set by default and you can decline them, or turn off individual categories, through our cookie banner. Elsewhere, our cookie banner informs you of our use of cookies. See “Cookies, automatic data collection, & related technologies” below for more information.

Definitions

Under this Privacy Policy:

Personally identifiable information/personal data (“PII”) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on PII or on sets of PII, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of PII.
Processor means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes PII on behalf of the controller.
Recipient means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which PII are disclosed, including both processors and controllers.
Legal basis means a lawful ground for data processing under the GDPR or similar laws.

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 PII.

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 PII 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 PII set forth therein. In these instances, we act as a “Data Processor” under EU privacy law, meaning that we process your PII 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.
We may also provide software-as-a-service offerings to our customers under an agreement with them and solely for their benefit. Our customers designate which of their personnel (including third party contractors, agents, etc.) are authorized as users of the customer’s software-as-a-service accounts (“Authorized Users“). Authorized Users may access and use software-as-a-service offerings from all over the world, subject to the agreement between Data Science Dojo and the customer as well as any applicable laws.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the content that our customers and their Authorized Users upload and store in software-as-a-service offerings (“Customer Content”). Data Science Dojo processes Customer Content solely on behalf of the customer and that customer is responsible for the collection and use of your data. Because of this, that customer’s privacy policy (and not this Privacy Policy) will apply to the customer’s collection and use of Customer Content. Therefore, for any queries related to your data in Customer Content, you should refer to their privacy policy and direct any queries to them. The customer’s agreement with Data Science Dojo governs our use of and processing of Customer Content.

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 categories of personally identifiable information Data Science Dojo collects

The categories of PII about you that we may collect, use, disclose, retain, transfer, handle and otherwise process 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: Includes 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 or provided by you in the course of evaluating or engaging you for employment or other positions at the Company.

Service Data: Includes information about website visits, clicks, page views, background information, dietary preferences and feedback.

Publication Data: Includes information that you post for publication on our website or through our Services.

Inquiry Data: Includes information you provide when submitting inquiries about our Services, whether through our website (such as via web chat functions), social media, or when creating a user account or from your use or trial of our Services.

Customer Relationship Data: Includes 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: Includes information relating to transactions, including purchases of our 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: Includes information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters.

Correspondence Data: This includes information contained in or related to any communication you send to us. The correspondence data may also encompass the content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will automatically generate the metadata associated with communications made through the website’s contact forms.

Aggregated & anonymized, non-identifiable 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 PII but is not considered to be PII 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 PII in such a way that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as PII 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 PII, 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 personally identifiable information

Where we are required to collect certain PII by law or under the terms of a contract with you or your Employer, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform under the respective contract and may not be able to provide access to or use of the Services. In the situation where we have already entered into a contract with you, we may be required to cancel the provision of the Services, but we will notify you in advance of such cancellation if this is the case.

How Data Science Dojo collects your personally identifiable information

Direct Interaction

We collect your PII when you:

Contact us;
Create an account on our website or register to use the Services;
Register or apply for a Course, Webinar, Class, Workshop, or any other Services on our website, through any of the Services or via a third-party website;
Apply for employment or other positions;
Participate in our surveys, promotions, and competitions;
Interact with us on various social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, etc.;
Post information to our website or Services that includes PII, 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;
Sign up, in person or online, for events or programs run by us or by the third-party organizations with which we partner; and
Interact with us or our personnel at in-person events.

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. On some pages, we also use session recording technology (Microsoft Clarity) that records how you move, scroll and click on our pages, so that we can find and fix usability problems. Session recording is part of the Analytics cookie category, and you can turn it off as described below. See below for more information on our use of cookies.

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 PII that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Data Science Dojo) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why Do We Use Cookies

We and our third-party service providers use first-party and third-party cookies for different reasons, including to see which areas and features are popular and to count visits to our website. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, improving user experience, and other purposes. The first and third-party cookies served through our website are grouped into the categories shown in our cookie banner and described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific page you visit).

Cookie Categories

Necessary – keep our website working and secure, and remember your cookie choices. These cookies are always active.
Analytics – help us understand how visitors engage with our website, count visits and record sessions so that we can improve the website. Some analytics data may also be used, together with advertisement cookies, to measure our ads.
Advertisement – measure the results of our ads and show our ads to you on other websites and platforms, based on your visits to our website.
Functionality – remember your preferences and chat history, and support embedded videos, forms, meeting schedulers and web chat.

Your Cookie Choices

If you are in the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, only necessary cookies are set until you accept all cookies or choose the categories you allow under “Cookies settings” in our cookie banner.
If you are in the United States, analytics, advertisement and functionality cookies are on by default. You can turn them off by selecting “Decline” in our cookie banner, or turn off individual categories under “Cookies settings”. Selecting “Decline” or turning off the Advertisement category opts you out of the sale or sharing of your PII for targeted advertising through cookies.
Elsewhere, our cookie banner informs you that we use cookies and links to this Privacy Policy.
Your choices are stored in a cookie in your browser. To change them, clear the cookies for our website in your browser and revisit our website, and the cookie banner will appear again. You will need to make your choices again if you use a different browser or device.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of advertisement cookies and of the sale or sharing of your PII for that browser.
You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. If you block necessary cookies, parts of our website may not work.

First Party Cookies That We Use

We use first party cookies for the following purposes:

authentication – we use first party cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
status – we use first party cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
personalization – we use first party cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you;
security – we use first party 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 and our advertising partners use first party cookies to help us measure our ads and display our advertisements to you on other websites and platforms;
analysis – we use first party cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and Services; and
cookie consent – we use first party cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

Third Party 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. For more information about how Google uses this information and how you can control it, see Google’s page on how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
We use Microsoft Clarity and HubSpot to understand how visitors use our website. Microsoft Clarity records how visitors move, scroll and click on our pages so that we can find and fix usability problems.
We use advertising technologies from Google Ads, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), LinkedIn, Microsoft Advertising (Bing) and X to measure the results of our ads and to show our ads to you on other websites and platforms, based on your visits to our website. We do not publish third-party advertisements on our website. You can also manage how these providers use your information through their own privacy and advertising settings. However, opt-out mechanisms offered by these providers often use cookies themselves, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out may not be maintained.
We embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo, and use HubSpot for forms, meeting schedulers and web chat. These providers may set cookies when you interact with that content.

Purposes for which Data Science Dojo uses your personally identifiable information

We have set forth below the ways in which we may use your PII, 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 PII for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your PII. Our processing includes both automated and manual (human) methods. 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. We do not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you based solely on automated processing.

Please contact us if you need more information about the specific legal ground on which we are relying to process your PII:

To analyze your use of the website, products and/or services. Type of data: Usage Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website, products and/or services. Where we collect Usage Data through analytics cookies, we rely on your consent where the law requires it (for example, in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland).
To measure our advertising and show our advertisements to you on other websites and platforms. Type of data: Usage Data. Lawful basis: Your consent where the law requires it (for example, in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), given through our cookie banner. Elsewhere, our legitimate interests in promoting our products and/or services, subject to your right to opt out.
To operate our website, provide our products and/or services, ensure the security of our website, products and/or services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. Type of data: Account Data, Service Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website, products 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, products and/or services. Type of data: Profile Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website, products 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, products and/or services. Type of data: Publication Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website, products 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 products and/or services to you. Type of data: Inquiry Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website, products 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/or services to customers. Type of data: Customer Relationship Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper management of our customer relationships.
To supply purchased products and/or services and keep proper record of those transactions. Type of data: Transaction Data. Lawful basis: 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, products and business.
To send you relevant notifications and/or newsletters. Type of data: Notification Data. Lawful basis: Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing. Where the law allows, our legitimate interests in sending existing customers information about products and/or services similar to those they have purchased, subject to your right to opt out.
To communicate with you and for record-keeping. Type of data: Correspondence Data. Lawful basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests including proper administration of our website and business and communications with Users.

Change of purpose

We will only use your PII for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you would like an explanation as to how the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at [email protected]. If we need to use your PII for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and will explain the legal basis which allows us to do this.

Notice to job applicants

When you apply for a job posted on our website, we may collect the PII that you voluntarily submit to us, including, but not limited to: name; personal email address; telephone number; postal address; education; employment history, and any other information included in a resume, cover letter, or personal LinkedIn profile; gender, race, or ethnic origin; veteran status; disability status; and information relating to references. We do not require your details of race or ethnic origin or your disability status, and it will not affect your application in any way if you do not provide such information. Where you do provide such information, we will use that information only as permitted by law for the purposes of diversity and equal opportunity monitoring. The PII that you submit in connection with a job application will be used by Data Science Dojo in accordance with this Privacy Policy and may be used for the following purposes: to evaluate your capabilities and qualifications for a job; to conduct reference checks; and to clear conflicts of interest and conduct background checks, if applicable and where applicable law allows. If you become an employee or contractor, any PII you submit will become a part of your file and may be used for other employment/work-related purposes.  If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the PII that you submit will be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States (and may also be stored in the relevant jurisdiction(s), as required by applicable law, if the job relates to one of our affiliated entities outside of the United States). We protect these transfers with the safeguards described below. For more information about the transfer of PII to the United States, please refer to the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Transfers of personally identifiable information to the United States.” We process the other PII you submit with your application to take steps, at your request, before entering into a contract with you, to comply with our legal obligations, and for our legitimate interests in recruiting. If you choose to provide details of your race or ethnic origin, or of your physical or mental health or condition, we will ask for your explicit consent to process that information for diversity and equal opportunity monitoring, or to provide any accommodations you request. Providing this information is voluntary, and you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at [email protected].

Notice to employees, contractors and workers

As your employer, Data Science Dojo is the controller of your PII that is provided, stored, processed or otherwise used by or for Data Science Dojo, and this means we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use PII about you. We will process PII (which may be held on paper, electronically, or otherwise) about you for the specific and explicit purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We recognize the need to treat your PII in an appropriate and lawful manner, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws.

The Type of PII We Hold About You

We will collect, store and use some or all of the following categories of PII, some of which may constitute “sensitive” PII under the CPRA, about you:

Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, phone numbers, and personal email addresses
Date of birth
Gender
Marital status and dependents
Next of kin and emergency contact information
Social Security number/tax identification number
Passport details
Bank account details, payroll records and tax status information
Salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information
Start date
Location of employment or workplace
Recruitment information (including copies of CV/resume, education/qualifications, right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV/resume or cover letter or as part of the application process)
Employment records (including job titles, work history, working hours, training records and professional memberships)
Compensation history
Performance/evaluation information
Information related to/generated in the course of the performance of your job, including without limitation in your emails, laptop files, and your calendar data relating to sales motions and meeting schedules and connected metadata such as, but not limited to, log files and time stamps
Disciplinary and grievance information
Footage and other video and audio information obtained through electronic means such as records, and call recordings
Information about, and included in, your use of our information and communications systems
Photograph(s)

We may also collect, store and use some of the following “special categories” of PII, some of which may constitute “sensitive” PII under the CPRA:

Trade union membership
Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records
Information about criminal convictions and offenses, if a background check is sourced from, and provided by, an authorized background check provider
Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions

How We Will Use Information About You

We will only process your PII where the processing is necessary for the performance and efficient administration and management of your employment contract/relationship with Data Science Dojo and to enable us to meet our legal obligations as an employer, for example to pay you, monitor, evaluate and manage your performance and salary, and to administer and confer benefits in connection with your employment. In other cases, we may process your PII where such processing is necessary for the general conduct, promotion, execution, forecasting, revenue modeling and improvement of Data Science Dojo’s business of marketing/selling, software and Services, for the performance of contracts with our customers, partners and prospects (this may include transfer of information about your education, professional skills, work history and CV/resume), for the protection of your vital interests, for our other legitimate interests as an employer and a provider of technology products and/or services, and to comply with our legal obligations as an employer or the legitimate interests of others. Processing of your PII may be done manually, automatically, or through the use of responsible AI.

Employees should note that, when they choose to participate in online chat and internal community collaboration/blogging tools, then what they post will be visible to any employee (or contractor with access rights) of Data Science Dojo worldwide. Employees should also note that tools and networks provided by Data Science Dojo for the performance by employees of their jobs (including but not limited to company-provided laptops and mobile phones, data networks and email servers) may be accessed by appropriate Data Science Dojo personnel, at all times in compliance with applicable laws. Except as set out in this Privacy Policy and subject to applicable law, Employees should not expect privacy in information they create, store, send or receive using these tools and networks. If employees do not accept the public nature of these tools and networks, they must refrain from using them. Employees must never post any type of offensive material.

Period of Storage

We, and any third parties we use, will not keep your PII for longer than necessary for the purposes specified above. The criteria used to determine that period are the duration of your employment relationship, the duration of the provision of the benefits associated with your employment and the duration of Data Science Dojo’s legal, contractual, accounting and reporting obligations that relate to your employment. Data will be destroyed, erased, or pseudo/anonymized from or in our systems when it is no longer required.

How to opt out of future communications

If you do not want us to contact you with marketing communications or other information regarding our products and/or services (or if you agreed to be contacted for such purposes at the point PII was collected by us but you no longer wish to be contacted or have your information used in such way), you can let us know by following the unsubscribe instructions on any communications sent to you. You can also unsubscribe at any time by contacting us at [email protected].  Please note that if you have registered an account on our website or Services or are registered for a Course or Webinar, opting out of receiving marketing messages will not apply to PII provided to us as a result of signing up to use our website or Services, and we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to your account, your registration, and your use of website and Services, such as messages relating to account management, customer service, and system maintenance. These transactional account messages will thus be unaffected if you choose to opt out of marketing communications.

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 through the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), effective January 1, 2023. Many other U.S. states, including Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia, have passed comprehensive consumer privacy laws extending similar privacy rights to their residents. We use this notice to make disclosures required by these state laws, to the extent they apply to us, and the rights described in this notice and in “Your legal rights” are available to residents of those states.

We review this notice regularly and will update our processes, disclosures, and this notice as these laws and their implementing rules change.

Notice

We do not rent, sell, or share PII about you with third parties who are not our partners, affiliates, or service providers, 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 PII and elected not to opt out, or we are required to do so by law. For more information about how we may share your PII, please refer to the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “How Data Science Dojo may share your personally identifiable information”.

However, we allow our advertising partners (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft Advertising and X) to collect online identifiers, information about your activity on our website and your approximate location through cookies, so that they can measure our ads and show our ads to you on other websites and platforms. Under the CCPA and other U.S. state data privacy laws, this may be considered a “sale” of PII or “sharing” of PII for cross-context behavioral advertising (also called “targeted advertising”). You can opt out as described under “Do Not Sell or Share” below.

“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.

Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your PII, and of targeted advertising, for that browser.

“Do Not Sell or Share” Personally Identifiable Information. You have the right to know whether your PII is being sold or shared. Your PII is “sold” when it is provided to 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 PII at your direction, or when otherwise permitted under law.

Data Science Dojo does not sell your Personally Identifiable Information for money. Our use of advertising cookies, described above, may be a “sale” or “sharing” of PII under U.S. state data privacy laws. You have the right to opt out of this at any time by selecting “Decline” or turning off the Advertisement category in our cookie banner, by turning on Global Privacy Control in your browser, or by emailing us at [email protected]. We do not knowingly sell or share the PII of consumers under 16 years of age.

“Non-Discrimination” Statement. The Company will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.

Categories of PII We Collect, Disclose, Sell or Share. In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of PII, as defined in the CCPA. The sources of this PII and the purposes for which we use it are described in the sections of this Privacy Policy entitled “How Data Science Dojo collects your personally identifiable information” and “Purposes for which Data Science Dojo uses your personally identifiable information”. For each category, we list who we disclose it to for a business purpose and whether it is sold or shared.

Identifiers (such as name, email address, phone number, postal address, IP address, cookie and device identifiers, and account username) – disclosed to our service providers, and to your Employer where you use the Services under an Enterprise Agreement. Online identifiers are shared with our advertising partners.
Customer records (such as name, contact details, billing details and card details) – disclosed to our service providers, including our payment services providers. Not sold or shared.
Characteristics of protected classifications (such as age, gender, race and disability, only where you choose to provide them) – disclosed to our service providers. Not sold or shared.
Commercial information (such as the Services you purchase and your transaction history) – disclosed to our service providers and to your Employer where applicable. Not sold or shared.
Internet or other electronic network activity (such as pages viewed, links clicked, referral source and session recordings) – disclosed to our service providers. Shared with our advertising partners.
Approximate geolocation (such as country, region or city derived from your IP address) – disclosed to our service providers. Shared with our advertising partners.
Professional or employment-related information (such as your employer, job title, résumé and employment status) – disclosed to our service providers and to your Employer where applicable. Not sold or shared.
Education information (such as courses taken, progress, assessments and certificates) – disclosed to our service providers and to your Employer where applicable. Not sold or shared.
Inferences (such as interests and preferences drawn from your use of our website and Services) – disclosed to our service providers. Shared with our advertising partners.
Sensitive PII (such as account login credentials, card details, and race, ethnicity or disability information where you choose to provide it) – disclosed to our service providers. Not sold or shared.

We retain each category of PII as described in the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Data retention and deletion”.

Sensitive PII. We use and disclose sensitive PII only to provide the Services you request, to secure our website and Services, and for other purposes permitted under the CCPA. We do not use sensitive PII to infer characteristics about you. Where a U.S. state data privacy law requires your consent before we process sensitive PII, we will ask for it.

Authorized Agents. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may ask the agent for proof that you authorized them to act for you, and we may ask you to verify your identity directly with us.

Appeals. If we decline to take action on your request, you may appeal our decision by replying to our response with “Appeal” in the subject line, or by emailing [email protected]. We will respond to your appeal within the time required by the law of your state, generally within 45 to 60 days. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your appeal, you may contact the attorney general of your state.

In addition, California residents are entitled to know that third parties may collect PII 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, & related technologies.”

For information about your privacy rights, please refer to the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Your legal rights.”

We may disclose your PII 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 PII 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. 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 allow our advertising partners (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft Advertising and X) to collect online identifiers, information about your activity on our website and your approximate location through cookies, to measure our ads and show our ads to you on other websites and platforms. You can opt out as described in the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Cookies, automatic data collection, & related technologies”.
In addition to the specific disclosures of PII set out in this Section, we may disclose your PII 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 PII 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.
Business Transfers: We may disclose your PII in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of all or part of our business or assets. Any PII transferred will remain subject to this Privacy Policy, or to a privacy policy that provides at least the same level of protection.
With Your Consent: We may also disclose your information, including your PII, 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

We have implemented appropriate physical, technical, and administrative measures designed to secure your PII from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. In addition, we limit access to your PII to only those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who need to have access to such information for the operation of our business, including the operation of our website and Services. They will only process your PII on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.  The safety and security of your PII also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website or the Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our website or the Services like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our website or the Services.  Unfortunately, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be completely secure or error-free. We cannot warrant or guarantee the security of any PII transmitted to our website or services. Any transmission of PII is at your own risk.

Children’s privacy

Our website and the Services are not intended for nor directed toward children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect PII from children under 13 years of age, or from children under 16 years of age in the EEA, the United Kingdom and other places where the law sets a higher age. If you believe that your child under the age of 16 may have provided us with PII without your consent, you may alert us at [email protected]. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected any PII from children under 16, we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the child’s account.

External links

The website or Services may, from time to time, contain links to external websites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We have no control over these third parties, and we are not responsible for the content of such websites or the privacy policies or practices of such third parties. You should carefully review the privacy policy of any such third-party website that you visit.

Transfers of personally identifiable information to the United States

The website and the Services are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that the information we collect about you, including PII, will be transferred to and processed and stored in the United States. For purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), the UK GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and any corresponding or equivalent national implementing law or regulations, if you are located in the United Kingdom, Data Science Dojo is the data controller with respect to any PII collected by it in the United Kingdom and then transferred to Data Science Dojo in the United States.  All transfers of PII from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland to the United States are done pursuant to the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, together with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum and the equivalent safeguards required under Swiss law, or, when possible, the binding corporate rules of our third-party vendors, suppliers, or service providers, if applicable. Our company has offices and facilities in the United States. Our service providers may process PII in other countries, and where the law requires it, we protect those transfers with appropriate safeguards, such as the standard contractual clauses described above. You may request a copy of the relevant safeguards by contacting us. You have a legal right to request the PII about you held by us. On request, we will provide you with a copy of this information. You also have a right to correct, amend, or delete such PII where it is inaccurate or has been processed in violation of applicable data protection law.  Please see “The categories of personally identifiable information Data Science Dojo collects” in this Privacy Policy for more information on types of PII collected, purposes for data collection, types of third parties receiving PII, and purposes of disclosure to such parties and your legal rights.

Data retention and deletion

We retain PII we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements, to enforce our agreements or comply with our legal obligations). To determine the appropriate retention period for PII, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the PII; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your PII; the purposes for which we process your PII and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable legal requirements. In general:

Account Data, Profile Data and Service Data are retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period afterward, so that we can verify certificates and respond to questions about your participation in our Services.
Transaction Data is retained for as long as required by tax, accounting and other applicable laws.
Notification Data is retained until you unsubscribe. We then keep a record of your opt-out so that we can respect it.
Usage Data collected through analytics and advertising cookies is retained for the periods set in our analytics and advertising settings, after which it is deleted or aggregated.
Inquiry Data, Customer Relationship Data and Correspondence Data are retained for as long as needed to respond to you, manage our relationship and keep a record of our dealings.
Job applicant PII is retained for a limited period after the hiring decision, so that we can consider you for future roles and respond to questions about the recruitment process, unless the law requires a different period. You may ask us to delete it sooner. Employee PII is retained as described in the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Notice to employees, contractors and workers”.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your PII, we will either permanently delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your PII has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your PII and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. When processing Customer Content on behalf of our customers, we will retain Customer Content as described in our agreement with that customer.

Your legal rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the GDPR), the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other U.S. state data privacy laws, data subjects located in the EU, UK, Switzerland, California and other U.S. states with such laws have the right under certain circumstances:

To be provided with a copy of your PII held by us.
To request that we correct any of your PII held by us.
To request that we restrict the processing of your PII (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information).
To object to any further processing of your PII, including the right to object to marketing.
To request that the PII you have provided be transferred to a third party.
To withdraw consent, without detriment, where the basis of the processing of your PII is based on consent.
To request that we delete any of your PII held by us unless a legal exception applies.
To opt out of the sale or sharing of your PII and of targeted advertising, as described in the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Notice to California residents”.

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 PII (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.

Verifying your Identity when you make Requests under CPRA

If you are an employee or contractor of Data Science Dojo, we may verify your identity by meeting with you in person to confirm you made the request. For all other requests:

Request to know categories of PII: Data Science Dojo will verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty by matching at least two data points provided by you with data points maintained by Data Science Dojo that we determine to be reliable for the purpose of verifying your identity.
Request to know specific pieces of PII: Data Science Dojo will verify your identity to a reasonably high degree of certainty by matching at least three pieces of PII provided by you with data points maintained by Data Science Dojo that we determine to be reliable for the purpose of verifying your identity, together with, should we deem it necessary, a declaration signed by you under penalty of perjury that it is your PII that is the subject of the request. Data Science Dojo shall maintain all signed declarations as part of its record-keeping obligations.

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. For requests under the CCPA or other U.S. state data privacy laws, we will confirm receipt of your request within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days. If we need more time, we may extend this by up to a further 45 days, and we will tell you why.

If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, and you are located in the EU, UK or Switzerland, you may approach your local data protection authority (see the European Commission’s data protection page) who can provide further information about your rights and our obligations in relation to your PII, as well as deal with any complaints that you have about our processing of your PII.

Additional information for other regions

If you are located outside the EU, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States, you may have rights under the data protection laws of your country, for example under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD), Australia’s Privacy Act 1988, or Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act. We will honor requests made under those laws. To make a request, contact us as described in the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Your legal rights”. You may also lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country, such as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD), the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, or Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission. If you are located in Brazil, you may also request information about the public and private entities with which we share your PII, and about the possibility of not providing consent and the consequences of doing so.

Your privacy rights in respect to customer content

If PII pertaining to you as an individual has been submitted to the Service by or on behalf of a Data Science Dojo customer and you wish to exercise any data protection rights you may have in respect of that information under applicable law, including (as applicable) the right to access, port, correct, amend or delete such information, please inquire with the relevant Data Science Dojo customer directly. We have a limited ability to access Customer Content.

Update your information or pose a question or suggestion

It is important that the PII we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep us informed if your PII changes during your relationship with us. You can update, correct, or delete any information you have provided to us through your use of the website 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

From time to time, we may revise or update our Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any changes by posting updates to the Privacy Policy on this web page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.

Version history:

October 7, 2026 – updated international transfers, cookies, U.S. state privacy rights and data retention, and added information for other regions.
July 29, 2024 – previous version.
March 27, 2023 – earlier version.

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: 5010 148th Ave NE, Suite 200A, Redmond, WA 98052.

Email address for contact: [email protected].

Phone number for contact: +1 (877) 360-3442.

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