Quick note: we take your privacy seriously and we will never sell your personal information to other companies. For detail on how we handle and track your information, see our full privacy policy below.
Effective Date: 4th January 2017 This privacy statement ("Privacy Statement") is designed to provide information about Bay Tutoring’s (“Bay Tutoring”, “we”, “our” or “us”) privacy and data collection practices for our network of websites, including but not limited to baytutoringnz.com and baytutoringca.com (each a “Site” and collectively, the “Sites”). This Privacy Statement does not cover any information collected at any other websites, or services (unless specifically stated on the website or service). Please review this Privacy Statement carefully. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Statement, contact us by sending an email to baytutoring@outlook.com. In addition, please review the Bay Tutoring terms and conditions that governs your use of the Sites. By accessing the Sites, you consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your information and data, and other activities, as described below.
Active Collection of Personal Information. So that you may access or take advantage of the Sites, we may ask you to provide Personal Information when you register with the Sites and when you communicate or otherwise interact with the Sites. "Personal Information" is information that can be used to identify a specific individual. Examples of Personal Information we may collect through the Sites include, without limitation: name, gender, birthday, current city, phone number, payment card information, email address, social media profile picture, physical or geographic location data, and information about your use of the Sites, such as the content in your forum posts. You may elect not to submit Personal Information; however, you may not be able to use some of the Sites' features or functionality.
Passive Collection of Information; Online Tracking by Third Parties. In addition to the Personal Information that you actively provide to us, we or our third party service providers may use a variety of technologies to automatically collect certain information about your use of the Sites. This information may include demographic information and IP address. This information may also include clickstream data, which is information about the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through our website. The methods that we and our service providers may use to automatically collect such information may include the following: Cookies: Cookies are data files that are placed on a computer when it is used to visit a website. These cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, tracking user preferences and web pages visited while using the Sites. You may disable cookies using your browser's preferences. However, some features of the Sites may not function properly or may operate slowly if you disable the cookies. In addition, please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected. Web Beacons: We may include small graphic images called web beacons, also known as "Internet tags" or "clear gifs," in our web pages. We may use web beacons or similar technologies for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count the number of visitors to the Sites and to monitor how users navigate the Sites. Embedded Scripts: An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Sites. It is temporarily downloaded onto your computer from our web server or a third party with whom we work, is active only while you are connected to the Sites, and is deleted or deactivated thereafter. Location-identifying Technologies: We may use location-based technologies such as iBeacons (as defined below) to locate you so we may verify your location and deliver relevant content to you based on your location. We may send you promotions that we think you may be interested in receiving based on passively-collected information. Passively-collected information about you, such as how you interact with the Sites, may be combined with your Personal Information, in which case we will treat the combined information as Personal Information under this Privacy Statement. We, along with third parties, may collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use the Sites.
Use of Personal Information. Bay Tutoring may use your Personal Information: (1) to provide you with access to the Sites and to process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive; (2) to process your registration with the Sites, including verifying that your email address(es) are active and valid; (3) to improve the Sites or other products and services; (4) to customize your experience with the Sites; (5) to conduct surveys and promotions regarding the Sites and our other products and services; (6) to send you advertisements for Bay Tutoring products and services; and (7) for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your Personal Information or with your consent, or as described elsewhere in this Policy.
How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, Bay Tutoring currently does not alter its practices when it receives a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you may wish to visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Disclosure of Information. We may, at our discretion, share with third parties information that is not associated with your name or identity, such as website usage information, non-personally identifiable demographic information, and aggregate user statistics. In addition, we may share Personal Information with third parties as described in this Privacy Statement or at the time you provide the information, with your consent, or in the following circumstances: Sites Providers: We may share your Personal Information with third party service providers so that they may perform certain services for us, such as website hosting, delivery of Bay Tutoring promotional materials and product offers, or performing other services on our behalf. Legal and Safety Obligations: To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we may also transfer and disclose user information, including Personal Information: (i) in the event we are required to respond to subpoenas or other legal process or if in our good faith opinion such disclosure is required or permitted by law; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; (iii) to protect and/or defend Bay Tutoring or enforce other policies applicable to the Sites; or (iv) to protect the personal safety, life, health, rights, property or security of any individual. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we may also use IP addresses, mobile device identifiers or any other information we collect to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
Your Choices and Controls. Email. If you do not wish to receive e-mail notices regarding our products or services, you may also opt-out by selecting the "unsubscribe" or similar option included with each email. Analytics and Advertising and Your Choices. Third party analytics service providers may place cookies, web beacons, or other technologies on the Sites to help us compile website metrics and analytics, and thereby improve and customize your experiences on the Sites. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website. Users may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
Community Features and User Content. The Sites may provide you the opportunity to participate and post content publicly through forums, interactive features, or other communication functionality (“Community Features”). We may provide functionality for you to submit or post text (including questions, comments, and suggestions), or other content (collectively, "User Content") through Community Features, by linking Sites to a third party service, or otherwise. Please note that certain information, such as your username and profile picture, may be publicly displayed on the Sites along with your User Content. User Content consisting of uploaded files may contain metadata, which may contain Personal Information or other information about or relating to you. You may wish to remove metadata from your file(s) before transmitting such file(s) to the Service. Note that anything you post through Community Features is public. If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personal Information, that information will be considered public information. If you submit User Content, it may be published online or offline at any time. In addition, we may use your User Content and any excerpt from your User Content for our advertising and promotional purposes.
Social Features. Certain functionality on the Sites may permit interactions that you initiate between the Sites and a third party website or service (“Social Features”). Examples of Social Features include enabling you to “like” or “share” Site content to other websites or services; to log-in to the Sites using your username and password for a third party site or service; to transmit content to the Sites from your account on a third party website or service; and to otherwise connect the Sites to a third party website or service. If you choose to use Social Features, information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed on the Sites or by the provider of the Social Feature that you use. Similarly, if you post information on a third party platform that references the Sites (e.g., by using a hashtag associated with Bay Tutoring in a tweet or status update), your post may be published on the Sites in accordance with the terms of the third party website or service. Also, both Bay Tutoring and the third party may have access to certain information about you and your use of the Sites and the third party site or service. In addition, we may receive information about you if other users of a third party website give us access to their profiles and you are one of their “connections,” or information about you is otherwise accessible through your “connections’” web pages, profile pages, or similar pages on a social networking or other third party website or interactive service. The information we collect in connection with Social Features is subject to this Privacy Statement. The information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party’s privacy practices, including whether the third party continues to share information with us, the types of information shared, and your choices with regard to what is visible to others on that third party website or service.
Complaints, inquiries, and requests for disclosure. You should direct any complaints, inquiries, and requests pertaining to this Privacy Statement (regarding disclosure, correction, or discontinuation of use of Personal information, or anything else) to the email address listed below.
Third party Websites There may be hyperlinks on the Sites to other websites or locations that are operated and controlled by third parties ("Third Party Websites"). These Third Party Websites may use their own methods to independently collect and solicit information about you. We make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of such Third Party Websites and encourage you to familiarize yourself with their privacy policies before providing them with your Personal Information.
Security. Bay Tutoring takes commercially reasonable steps to help protect and secure Personal Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information we collect, and you use the Sites, and provide us with your information, at your own risk.
Changes to this Statement. Bay Tutoring may without prior notice revise this Privacy Statement. Any changes will be effective immediately when the revised statement is posted on the Sites, unless stated otherwise. We will not, however, use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than what was stated in the Privacy Statement posted on the Sites at the time your Personal Information was collected unless we receive your consent.
Who can I ask if I have any additional questions? If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, our practices, or your dealings with the Sites, wish to request access to or correction or update of your Personal Information, wish to withdraw your consent (subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice), or you have reason to believe we may have failed to adhere to this Privacy Statement, you can contact us by email at baytutoring@outlook.com.