This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from our website (the Site).

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

“Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.

In order to receive services from the Site, you need to setup an account. During account creation, we ask you for a username (uniquely identifiable) and your email address. Other users can see your username but not your email address.

We collect any information that you provide to us when you create posts or write comments.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you. For example, when you contact our helpdesk, we may receive your name, email address, phone number, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and other information you choose to provide.

We also collect the content that you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services, like the posts you write and comments receive.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about all these types of information.

We do not intentionally collect User Personal Information that is stored in your profile or other free-form content inputs. Such information belongs to you, and you are responsible for it, as well as for making sure that your content complies with our Terms of Service.

We will never email (or send a message to) you asking for your password or personal information.

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud;

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). We may send emails to an email address you provide to us for customer-service or technical-support purposes, to send you information about topics or content that we think may interest you, or updates about the latest developments or features on the Site. We may also send a newsletter to the email address you provide to us if you subscribe to receive the newsletter.

We may de-identify and aggregate information collected through the Site for statistical analysis and other lawful purpose, including in research studies intended to improve our understanding of how people learn and work with the Site. The results of this research are shared with researchers and practitioners through conferences, journals, and other publications.

We may use your Personal Information to enforce our Terms of Use, to defend our legal rights, and to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies. We moderate all content posted to the Site, including publications, comments, and forum posts.

We share your Personal Information that we collect through the Site with third parties in the following circumstances:

1. We may use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
2. We may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, payment processing, network data transmission, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provisions, customer service, email delivery, and other services.
3. We may also disclose your Personal Information with your permission. We may seek your permission in various ways. For example, we may present you with an “opt-in” prompt when you register to use the Site or access certain content.
4. To a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization or assets. You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned processing of your information differs materially from that set forth in this Privacy Policy.
5. If required to do so by law and regulations or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, such as law enforcement, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
6. We may share certain aggregated, non-personally identifying information with others about how our users, collectively, use the Site, or how our users respond to our offerings, such as our conferences or events. However, we do not sell this information to advertisers or marketers.

As described above, we send emails to your email address to provide you with targeted advertisements, marketing communications or any information related to your work on the Site that we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by turning off messages and updates in your User Profile.

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

If you are a European resident, we only process your Personal Information based on a valid legal ground, including when:

1. You have consented to the use of your Personal Information, for example, to receive electronic marketing communications;
2. We need to fulfill contracts that we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site);
3. We need your Personal Information to provide our services, including for account registration, to respond to your inquiries, or for customer support;
4. We have a legal obligation to use your Personal Information; or
5. We or a third party have a legitimate interest in using your Personal Information. In particular, we have a legitimate interest in using your Personal Information to personalize our services and provide you with tailored content, to make recommendations for you, such as to suggest projects you may be interested, to conduct business analytics, and otherwise improve the safety, security, and performance of our Site. We only rely on our or a third party’s legitimate interests to process your Personal Information when these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

You understand that your content (not including credit card information), may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. Credit card information is always encrypted during transfer over networks.

We have in place administrative, physical, and technical procedures that are intended to protect the information we collect on the Site against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Information in our possession. For example, we use SSL/TLS encryption for all data transfer and strictly limit access to the servers and the data we store on them. However, as effective as these measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot completely guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

We provide the same standard of privacy protection — as described in this Privacy Statement — to all our users around the world, regardless of their country of origin or location. We comply with the applicable data privacy laws wherever we do business. Additionally, if our vendors or affiliates have access to User Personal Information, they must sign agreements that require them to comply with our privacy policies and with applicable data privacy laws.

Personal Information that we collect may be transferred to, and stored at, any of our affiliates, partners, or service providers which may be inside or outside the European Economic Area, Canada and the United States. By submitting your personal data, you agree to such transfers.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at internationalscai@gmail.com.

This Privacy Policy was last updated: Feburary, 2024