1. What information do we collect and what do we do with it?
When you enroll as a user on The Beading Gem Thinkific site or related services, as part of the enrolling process, limited personal information such as your name and email address is collected. We may send you emails about our site and related courses, registration, course content, your course progress or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion.
2. How do you get my consent?
When you provide The Beading Gem with personal information to become a user on this site, make a purchase, or participate in the course, you implicitly give consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
3. May I withdraw my consent?
Yes. If after you opt in you subsequently change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting The Beadinggem through the website.
4. Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information if we are required to do so by law or if you violate our Terms of Use/Service.
5. Thinkific
Course(s) offered by The Beading Gem are hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with the online course creation platform that enables the provision of teaching services to you. Your data are stored within Thinkific’s data storage, databases and the general Thinkific application. Data are stored on a secure server behind a firewall.
6. Payment
If you make a purchase on our site, a third party payment processor, Paypal, is used. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored for only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.
7. Third Party Services
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. Third-party service providers such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, you should read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
When you click on links on The Beading Gem course site, they may direct you away from our site. The Beading Gem is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourages you to read their privacy statements. Once you leave our course website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by our own Privacy Policy and are subject to the policies of that third-party website or application.
Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a remote third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
8. Security
To protect your personal information, we take all reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
9. Cookies
We collect cookies or use similar tracking technologies. We use cookies to recognize your device and provide you with a personalized experience. This means that information from our website’s server transfers to your computer and can be used to track your session on our website for proper tracking and performance. Cookies may also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.
We also use cookies to attribute visits to our websites to third-party sources and to serve targeted ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram and other third-party vendors. Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your prior visits to our websites and elsewhere on the Internet in order to serve you targeted ads. For more information about targeted or behavioral advertising, please visit https://www.
You can opt out of targeted ads served via specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page
We may also use automated tracking methods on our websites, in communications with you, and in our products and services, to measure performance and engagement. Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
10. Web Analysis Tools
We may use web analysis tools that are built into the The Beading Gem's courses to measure and collect anonymous session information to optimize services.
11. Age of Majority
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state, province or country of residence.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time without individual notification, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our site or course is acquired by or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to provide products to you.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information regarding this policy please contact The Beading Gem through this website.