Privacy Policy for Bright Horizon Institute
Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 25, 2023
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the
collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and
tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using
the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance
with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation
and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings
defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have
the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account
created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that
controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where
“control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity
interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or
other managing authority.
- Company (referred to as either
“the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”
in this Agreement) refers to Bright Horizon Institute, 591 Summit Ave,
Suite No. 400, Jersey City, New Jersey, NJ 07306.
- Cookies are small files that
are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a
website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website
among its many uses.
- Country refers to: New Jersey,
United States
- Device means any device that
can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital
tablet.
- Personal
Data is
any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Website.
- Service
Provider means
any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the
Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the
Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the
Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the
Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Third-party
Social Media Service refers to any website or any social
network website through which a User can log in or create an account to
use the Service.
- Usage
Data refers
to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the
Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the
duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Bright
Horizon Institute, accessible from https://brighthorizoninstitute.com
- You mean the individual
accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on
behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as
applicable.
Collecting and
Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain
personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify
You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email
address
- First
name and last name
- Phone
number
- Usage
Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet
Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of
our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on
those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may
collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the
type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of
Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet
browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You
visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Information from Third-Party Social
Media Services
The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the
Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:
- Google
- Facebook
- Twitter
- LinkedIn
If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a
Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that is already
associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service’s account, such as Your
name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with
that account.
You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the
Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service’s account. If You choose
to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or
otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in
a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity
on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are
beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and
analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies
or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your
Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate
when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You
may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted
Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use
Cookies.
- Web
Beacons. Certain
sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files
known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel
gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have
visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website
statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and
verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies.
Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You
go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web
browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out
below:
- Necessary
/ Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These
Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the
Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to
authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these
Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only
use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
- Cookies
Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent
Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These
Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Functionality
Cookies
Type: Persistent
Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These
Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as
remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these
Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You
having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding
cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy
Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To
provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our
Service.
- To
manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of
the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to
different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a
registered user.
- For
the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and
undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services
You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To
contact You: To
contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of
electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push
notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to
the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the
security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To
provide You with
news, special offers and general information about other goods, services
and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already
purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such
information.
- To
manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to
Us.
- For
business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate
or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization,
dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or
similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service
users is among the assets transferred.
- For
other purposes: We
may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis,
identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional
campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services,
marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With
Service Providers: We may share Your personal information
with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to
contact You.
- For
business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal
information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger,
sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of
Our business to another company.
- With
Affiliates: We
may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will
require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include
Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or
other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
- With
business partners: We may share Your information with Our
business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
- With
other users: when
You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas
with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be
publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register
through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party
Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description
of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions
of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
- With
Your consent: We
may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your
consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and
use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal
obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with
applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and
policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.
Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this
data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our
Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time
periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s
operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the
processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to —
and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country
or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ
than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such
information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your
data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no
transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country
unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data
and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the
Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about
You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing
in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section
that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to
request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have
provided to Us.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information
when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your
Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal
Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose
Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests
by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief
that such action is necessary to:
- Comply
with a legal obligation
- Protect
and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent
or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect
the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect
against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that
no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is
100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect
Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children’s
Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not
knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age
of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has
provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We
have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without
verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from
Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your
information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require
Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other
Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by
Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third
party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site
You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content,
privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this
Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You
of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service,
prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated”
date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any
changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on
this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By
email: training@brighthorizoninstitute.com