Brú na Sí Academy Privacy Policy

1. What information do we collect and what do we do with it?

When you enrol as a student or subscriber (“learner”) on our site or related courses, as part of the enrolling process, we collect the following personal information from you:

• First Name
• Surname
• Email address

We use this information to identify you in our system and to track your course progress. We may also send you emails about our site and related course(s), 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 create an account to become a learner on our site you provide us with personal information. As part of the sign-up process you are required to accept our Terms of Use and this Privacy policy. This action implies that you consent to our collecting your information and using it for the reasons specified in this policy 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. 

How do I withdraw my consent? 
If, after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent at any time, by contacting us at [email protected] and we will remove your account and any data collected on the Brú na Sí Academy website within 48 hours.

3. Disclosure

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do.

4. Thinkific

Our courses and site are hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with the online course creation platform that allow us to bring our course services to you. 

Your data is stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases and the general Thinkific application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall. 

Payment:
If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or PayPal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored 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 help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers. For more insight, you may also want to read Thinkific’s Terms of Service here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/privacy-policy/ or Privacy Statement here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/terms-of-service/.

5. 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. 

However, certain 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, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. 

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 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. 

Once you leave our course website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Use. 

Links:
When you click on links on our course site, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

6. Security 

To protect your personal information, we take 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 an 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. 

Cookies:
We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies. This means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customise 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 either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

Our site uses cookies for the following purposes: 

• To recognise your device and provide you with a personalised experience. 
• To enable automated tracking methods on our website, in communications with you, and in our products and services, to measure performance, course progress and course 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. 

Web Analysis Tools:
We may use web analysis tools that are built into the Brú na Sí Academy website to measure and collect anonymous session information.

7. Age of Consent

The introduction of the GDPR and the adopting of 16 as the Digital Age of Consent in Ireland came into effect on May 25th 2018. The requirements of GDPR also state that “Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such [data] processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.” 

By creating an account and using this site, you agree that you are at least 16 years old. If you are under 16, Brú na Sí Academy requires parental consent before an account can be created. This is achieved via direct contact with parents of those that wish to avail of our courses. A record of that consent will be kept as a record.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, 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.

9. 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 contact us by email at [email protected].