Privacy | OnlineTurkishSchool

Updated: 4/13/2020

We, The Online Turkish School, take our consumers’ privacy seriously. Our mission is to help students learn Turkish in a safe and trusted environment. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect about you, why we collect the information, as well as how we collect and use the information so that we can deliver the best, most refreshing experience that we can.

This Privacy Policy is intended for individuals in the United States. If you live outside of the United States and choose to use the Sites connected with this Privacy Policy, you do so at your own risk and understand that your information will be sent to and stored in the United States. By using any of our websites and mobile applications in the United States (collectively, “Sites”) or otherwise providing Personal Information to us, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Personal Information” generally means any information that identifies you as an individual, and any other information we associate with it. We collect a few categories of information, from a few different sources:

1. Profile information and other content you voluntarily provide us, which may include:

User name and password should we add a membership option in the future
Contact information when you register for courses, such as your name, street address, demographic information (such as your gender), date of birth, phone number, and/or email address. You may also provide us information about other people, such as when you refer a friend to a course.
Any content or contributions you post in a public space on the Site or a course discussion. This includes comments, videos and photos that you might submit. If you contact us through a social media site, we may collect your social media identifier.
Any information you provide in communications with us, such as via social media, e-mail or phone call.
Payment information, such as when you make a purchase with us and we need your billing information to process the transaction. We use Wix Payments to securely process purchases.

2. Information that is passively collected when you use the Sites, such as by our web servers and by third party analytics tools we use:

Our system logs may record certain information about visitors to our Sites, including the web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device and mobile ad identifiers, browser information, interaction with the Sites, pages viewed, app usage, and other such information; we may collect similar information from emails you receive from us that can help us track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients.
In the future we may enable the use certain cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to help us understand how you use the Sites and enable us to personalize your experience. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We may detect the physical location of your device by, for example, using GPS information collected by mobile apps or location information shared by your web browser. We collect this information for purposes of enhancing or facilitating our services, such as enabling certain functionalities of the Sites that can provide you with information about promotions or relevant product information near you. We may use your device’s physical location to better understand how our Sites and other services and functionality are being used and to provide you with relevant and personalized location-based services and content, including advertising. Should you wish to opt out of the collection of this information, please adjust the settings of your device so that information about your physical location is not sent to us or third parties by (a) disabling location services within the device settings; or (b) denying certain websites or mobile applications permission to access location information by changing the relevant preferences and permissions in your mobile device or browser settings. Please note that your location may be derived from your WiFi, Bluetooth, and other device settings. Please consult your device settings for further information.

3. We may receive information from third parties such as advertising and marketing partners, public databases, and social media platforms, to supplement the information we receive from our consumers. If we do so, this policy governs how we can use that information.

4. In addition to collecting Personal Information, we may collect information that does not identify you and is not associated with your Personal Information. We may also de-identify information so it no longer identifies you. We can aggregate and use such information to engage in marketing and other activities in a manner that protects our consumers since it does not use their Personal Information and is outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.

How We May Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information as permitted by law, for the following business purposes:

to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests
to send administrative information to you, such as about your account or purchases or respond to your inquiries and requests for information
to communicate with you about purchases of courses or lessons, refunds, promotions, campaigns, membership, programs, contests, and accounts
to inform you about our courses, lessons, seminars, webinars, promotions, events or other promotional purposes
to re-contact you if we have not heard from you in a while
to send you advertising/promotional material about our services
to improve your experience with our products and services, such as by personalizing your experience with us
to process rewards, prizes, and donations, as applicable
to allow you to participate in polls, contests and other promotions and to administer these activities
to deliver gift cards or gifts to others in accordance with your instructions
to permit you to participate in social sharing, including live social media feeds
to perform analytics, quality control, market research, and determine the effectiveness of our websites, mobile applications, promotional campaigns, and develop new products and services

We may also use Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate for certain essential purposes, including:

to comply with applicable law and legal process
to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence
to detect, prevent, or investigate potential security incidents or fraud
to facilitate the functionality of our mobile applications and websites
to provide important product safety information and notice of product recalls
to enforce our terms and conditions
to protect our operations or those of our affiliates
to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, security and/or that of our affiliates, you or others
to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain

If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people in connection with the Sites, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not sell personal information.