Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 28, 2023
Our Guiding Approach:
Your privacy is important to us. PolicyAnalysisLab.com endeavors to use, collect and store data only where it is necessary to help us:
- Improve your experience as a user;
- Provide users with access to our products or services;
- Ensure the security of the PolicyAnalysis.Lab.com platform; and
- Share information relevant to our users (such as through our newsletter).
Policy Overview:
PolicyAnalysisLab.com provides online courses and resources to assist public policy professionals conduct applied policy analysis. Our privacy policy outlines how we collect, store, use, and protect your personal information. Specific information is provided against common ways that users might interest with our platform, while the points below provide a summary of our approach:
- Collection and Use of Personal Information: We collect limited personal information such as your name, email address, and location when you register for an account on our site. When visiting this site, some information may be collected for the purposes of ensuring the security of the platform and goods and services that relate to this.
- Data Retention: Your personal data is retained only as needed to provide the stated services.
- Data Sharing: We do not share your personal information with third parties unless required by law or with your explicit consent.
- Your Rights: You have the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal information. You may also limit or object to the processing of your data. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us.
- Cookies: Our website uses cookies to improve your experience. These are small files stored on your device that allow us to recognize you on future visits and enhance the functionality of our platform. You can choose to disable cookies through your browser.
Please note that this privacy policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our data practices or relevant laws. Your continued use of our website following any changes signifies your acceptance of these updates.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.
What data we collect:
When visiting this site, some information may be collected for the purposes of ensuring the security of the platform and providing goods, services and resources to our users, such as IP addresses, hostnames, user agents and referrers.
We collect limited personal information such as your name, email address and location when you register for an account to provide you with access to goods and services provided by PolicyAnalysisLab.com. For registered users, we may also store information provided to us from your user profile and data related to course progression, such as: completion status, quiz scores, assignment and/or essay submissions and comments or posts made by the user.
Website administrators, tutors and group leaders may also have access to the information necessary for fulfilling their role(s).
When processing payments some data will be passed to the relevant payment gateway (PayPal, Stripe, SamCart, and/or 2Checkout depending), including information required to process or support the payment, such as the email address, purchase total, and billing information.
What rights you have over your data:
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Who we share your data with:
We do not share your personal information with third parties unless required by law or with your explicit consent.
How long we retain your data:
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Cookies:
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be recorded and included in the reset email.
Payments:
We accept payments through payment providers (such as PayPal and Stripe). When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to the payment provider you select. Data passed to payment providers are those required to process or support the payment, such as the item purchased, the total amount and related billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy and Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
Comments:
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media:
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Newsletter Subscribers:
If you have subscribed to our newsletter or if you are a member of our website you may receive emails from us. We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.
To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site may log the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.
This website can send emails through the MailPoet Sending Service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.
No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.