This privacy policy document governs what information is collected, how it is collected, and used. The term “Personal Information” used in the document refers to any information from or about a person or, where applicable, a household, that either reasonably identifies that person or, where applicable, a household, directly or that makes that person or, where applicable, a household, reasonably identifiable when it is combined with other information from or about that person or, where applicable, a household from any source. We make changes to this document to match the needs of our users. You bear the complete responsibility for visiting and learning the information mentioned here. If you don’t agree with this document, please stop using the website.
Information We Gather About You
1. Automatically collected Data
The data we collect from the user is generally technical in nature which is generally collected and processed in cookies and similar technologies on websites. Such data may constitute some personal information of the user. Such automatically collected data may include:
- The Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the site you visited before and after coming to our Website;
- Type of device, browser, and operating system being used;
- User’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address;
- Information about the articles, content, or services that you have searched and/or viewed on the Website;
- Website usage history;
- Browsing history,
- Information we collected through cookies
The cookies we use allow Google Analytics to collect and store data about your usage of the website, such as the time of visit and time spent on each page, pages visited, IP address, type of device used, and browser used to visit the website. You can opt out of it by using the plugin provided at this link.
Our partners and we might also use beacons (single-pixel GIF images), which might be embedded in the website code.
2. Data Provided by the User
We may collect Personal Information from you, including your name, email address, physical address, and phone number, when you sign up to receive a newsletter or promotional material, participate in promotions, surveys, or contests. Such information is used for your order processing, responding to your request, and contacting you about your subscriptions.
We may also collect your information regarding your interests, experience with our services, and detailed contact preferences. We may also collect publicly available information about you from other sources, such as information from newspapers, blogs, and commercial websites or third-party data aggregators. We may use such information to supplement your Personal Information maintained by us. We may also collect Personal Information that you voluntarily disclose on the website, absent any request from us.
3. How do we Use Your Information?
We may use the information collected from or provided by you for multiple purposes, including:
- To help us understand your preferences.
- To help us improve our website, products, services, and other offerings.
- To measure and improve the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming;
- Analytics, market research, and/or analyzing trends
- Advertising
- To process purchases, refunds, exchanges, and other transactions.
- To contact you about questions or communications regarding your order.
- To respond to your customer service inquiries.
- To contact you about new products, services, special events, and promotions (unless you have elected otherwise in accordance with the “How Can You Access or Change Your Information?” section of this privacy policy).
- To otherwise enhance your experience on our website.
We extend the choice to the user to receive promotional or marketing communication. Users may opt out of it at any time.
Who Do We Share Your Personal Information With?
The information we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed form), IP address, or information about your device, browser, or operating system, is shared with our identity partners/service providers. You can opt out of it by contacting us at info@searchlearner.com.
We may disclose Personal Information to the following categories of third parties:
- Advertisers;
- Service providers, such as data storage service providers, marketing service providers, and communications service providers, for the purpose of providing us the services and for no other purposes;
- Public authorities, such as law enforcement, if we are legally required to do so; and
- Our subsidiaries and affiliates, if any, or a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the Website and/or the Services and their advisors in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our stock and/or assets, or in connection with bankruptcy proceedings, or other corporate reorganization, in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
Log Files
We use log files which contain information like internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information collected and stored in the log field are not linked to any personally identifiable information. We also use Google Analytics to compile website usage statistics. This service is provided by Google, Inc., and its privacy policy can be found here.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are information-containing files that help identify your browser and that can store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user accesses or visits, and customize webpage content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. When you visit our site, cookies can be stored on your computer. We purposefully store and use the following cookies:
- Required Cookies: These cookies enable you to browse the Website and use its features. If you allow us to identify you, we use these cookies to recognise you, track when you are logged into the Website, and to process your online transactions and requests. The required cookies are essential to operate the Website, and thus there is no option to opt out of these cookies.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies inform about your website use behavior, such as the pages you visit most often or the error messages you receive from the respective page or service you utilize. These cookies are solely used for improving the service quality, functions, and permanence. For such purposes, flash cookies may also be used.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies assist in recognising your choices and interests you make while browsing the website to enhance the personalized features. It also simplifies your use of the website after logging in and helps in remembering the changes you have made to the page inputs, such as text fonts, size, etc. We may use local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based upon interest on the Website to provide personalized services.
- Targeting Cookies: We seldom use cookies from third parties to track the performance of our advertisers, such as cookies to remember the browser used to visit the site. The third parties may use Flash cookies to collect and store information. These cookies vary from the other cookies because of the amount of data, the type of data, and how the data is stored.
You can opt out of saving cookies by reconfiguring the settings of your respective browser.
Advertising
We display advertisements on some of our services. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use certain technology in the advertisements and links that appear on our Website, which are sent directly to your browser. None of the information used for targeting the users is analyzed manually or made available to advertising customers in any situation. The third party may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to further personalize the advertising content. Searchlearner has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. Searchlearner may display advertisements from Google’s AdSense or AdExchange network. The users may review Google’s Ads Privacy Policy here. You can configure your ads settings by using Google’s Ads Preferences Manager. You are advised to consult and go through the privacy policy of any third-party ad servers and also learn the procedure to opt out of them. Searchlearner’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites. To disable cookies, you may configure your individual browser options.
Communication Between Searchlearner and You
The emails and messages you send to us will be stored for processing, compiling information, and to assist us in improving our services and support mechanism, and to contact you.
Amend Your Information
You may access, review, and edit the Personal Information that you provide to us on our website. To change your information, you can contact us at info@searchelarner.com. The request to update the information will take up to 30 days to release the changes, and you will remain in contact with us through your prior communication details until the changes become effective. You can also opt out of the communication you have consented to receive, such as the newsletter, by following the unsubscribe instructions in the mail.
Data Retention Provisions
The information we collect from you will be stored only for as long as it is needed for the respective aims described in this Privacy Notice and for our legitimate business purposes. After serving the purpose, it is scrubbed, de-identified, anonymized, or obfuscated as soon as possible unless otherwise required by applicable legislation. Personal Information that we collect as a result of you subscribing to our newsletter will be stored until you decide to unsubscribe from it.
Links to Other Websites
searchlearner.com may contain links to other websites. If you click on these links, you will leave our website. Once you start browsing their website, your usage will be governed by the terms of service and privacy policy of the respective website. You should exercise caution and review the privacy notice applicable to the website in question.
Children
Our website and the services are not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect, sell, or process the Personal Information of individuals under 16 years of age.
Do-Not-Track-Signals
Our Website does not respond to do-not-track signals. You may disable certain tracking by disabling cookies.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Searchlearner reserves the complete right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. The date when the latest changes were made will be mentioned at the beginning of this policy.