Last updated: November 17, 2020
Privacy Policy
OBGYN Academy (“we,” “us,” or “our”) recognizes the importance of safeguarding your personal information. This policy includes information that we collect about you and that you provide to us online through www.obgynacademy.com website. This policy also includes how we use cookies and similar technologies. By visiting our website and/or our services and providing us with your personal information, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.
Definitions
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 18 years of age.
Data Protection Principles
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
- Processing is transparent. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request. If you require access to the information we have about you, please send your request in writing to mag640@mail.usask.ca. Any request may be subject to a fee that we are permitted to charge in order to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information that we hold about you.
- Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
- Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
- We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
- We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.
Data Subject’s rights
The Data Subject has the following rights:
- Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; which data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
- Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
- Right to rectification and/or erasure – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to restrict and/or object processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to request restriction or objection of Processing of your Personal Data.
- Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
- Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled, please contact us.
- Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.
Data we gather
Information you have provided us with
We may collect your personal information such as your name, e-mail address, contact information, postal code, etc.. This is mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. You will typically know when we collect this information since you will be asked to provide us with this information. We may also collect your information when you send an email/mail to us, post on our website, make an inquiry through our website, or post or comment on any of our content on our website or any other websites (ex. Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook). Please visit other websites to review their individual Privacy Policies. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website.
Information automatically collected about you
When you visit our website or view our content, we may collect, using electronic means, technical information. When you use our services or look at the content of our website, Youtube channel, or social media, your activities may be logged. This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your geographical location, gender, age, subscription status, shopping cart information, your internet protocol (IP) address, number of times you viewed particular content, the browser you used, your operating system, your language settings, the site you came from, searched for keywords to arrive to our content, etc. This information is aggregated and used to improve the effectiveness of our website and your experience.
Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.
How we use your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data in order to:
- enhance your experience;
- fulfil an obligation under law or contract;
- for other purposes;
We process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned in this policy but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered.
Who else can access your Personal Data
Except as mentioned in this policy, unless we have your consent, we do not share, sell, rent, or trade your Personal Data with any third party, except for internal service providers that we use to facilitate or outsource 1 or more aspects of the operation of this website. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:
- YouTube, Paypal
- Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
- Bluehost
We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities, that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may release certain personal information when we believe such release is reasonably necessary to protect safety, rights, and/or property of others or ourselves.
How we secure your data
We will use reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Data. We use anonymising and pseudonymizing where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
Even though we try our best we cannot guarantee the security of information. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
Children
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect or solicit information from individuals under 18 years of age. We do not target children with our services. If you are under 18 years of age, you should not register or provide personal information to OBGYN Academy. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a person under 18 years of age, please contact us at mag640@mail.usask.ca.
Cookies and other technologies we use
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer or digital device. Cookies store information that is used to help improve our website. This is statistical data about users’ browsing actions and does not identify you as an individual. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will automatically issue cookies when you access our content. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
- Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
- Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services.
- Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation. Please check the privacy policy of advertiser websites to find out how they manage cookies.
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Contact Information:
Questions, comments, complaints, inquiries, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be sent to mag640@mail.usask.ca. Please be careful whenever sending personal information to us via email, since email is generally not a secure means of transferring information. We cannot guarantee that this information will not be lost or used in a fraudulent manner. We encourage to use email encryption to communicate with us.
The parties acknowledge that they have required that these terms and conditions and all related documents be prepared in English. Les parties reconnaissent avoir exigé que la présente convention et tous les documents connexes soient rédigés en anglais.
Changes of Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy. If there are any changes, the revised policy will be posted on our website without notice. Regardless of the any changes that we make to our policy, we will only use your personal information in accordance with the version of the policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you later give your consent for us to do otherwise.