Talesconnect

At Talesconnect ("Talesconnect," "we," "us," "our"), we know you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take protecting the privacy of our users very seriously. This Privacy Notice explains how your personal information is collected, used and disclosed by Talesconnect when you visit or use our website, Talesconnect (our "Website"), and our related software and online or mobile services provided on or in connection with our Website (collectively, our "Service"). By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read and understood our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Notice.

All capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Notice have the meaning given to them in the Terms of Service.

Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It

We collect personal information in connection with your visits to and use of the Service. This collection includes information that you provide in connection with the Service, information from third parties, and information that is collected automatically such as through the use of cookies and other technologies.

Information that You Provide

We collect personal information from you. The categories of information we collect can include:

Account and profile information: We collect personal information when you create a registered user account, sign up for our mailing list, purchase or register a product, or otherwise communicate with us. The personal information we collect during account registration may depend on your account type but could include name, phone number, date of birth, email address, mailing address and other contact information. We also collect additional information if you provide it in your profile, which could include the name of your college or university (name, city, state), graduation year, photo, and social media handle(s). If a user enrolls for the Service using a Student Account, we may request additional pieces of personal information to verify your eligibility for the Service, such as by verifying your enrollment status in a college or university.
Communications and payment: We collect personal information when you sign up for our mailing list or otherwise communicate with us, including by contacting us in person (for example, at conferences, workshops, seminars and other events), via telephone, facsimile or email. We also collect payment information if you make a purchase or sign up for a subscription. Please note that we use third party payment processors to process payments made to us. As such, we do not retain any personally identifiable financial information such as credit card numbers. Rather, all such information is provided directly by you to our third-party processor. The payment processor's use of your personal information is governed by their privacy notice.
Data collected through the use of the Service: We collect User Content (as defined in our Terms of Service) as part of the provision of the Service.

Information from Third Party Sources

We may receive personal information about you from third parties and combine that with the information we collect through the Service. For example, we receive information about your activities on third party websites you access through the Service. We may also receive information from any third-party services that you link to the Service. For example, if you link your Talesconnect account to your account on a social network such as Discord or Slack, these services will authenticate your identity and may provide some of your personal information to us. We may also receive personal information from website and service operators, payment processors, marketing partners, and shipping providers. The data we receive is dependent on that third party's policies and your privacy settings on that third-party service. We will store your authentication token and any personal information the service provides to us in order to provide you with the Service.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the information that we collect from or about you from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Service may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.

Further, we limit access to personal information to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

More Details on Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It

Usage Data

We automatically collect certain information about your use of the Service ("Usage Data"). Usage Data may include your IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We use Usage Data to monitor the usage of the Service, to detect, prevent and address technical issues, and to improve the Service.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Your Rights

Talesconnect aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

You have the right to:

To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you
To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate
To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you

You have the right to data portability for the information you provide to Talesconnect. You can request to obtain a copy of your Personal Data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last modified" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.