Our Privacy Policy
Account (Individual/Student):
When you use or interact with a website, mobile application or other digital service (each a “Digital Service”) operated or owned by the DigitalUPcourse, listed here (“we”, “us”, “our” ), we and third parties obtain personal and other information about you. In this Highlights section, we provide an overview of our privacy practices related to the Digital Services. Please review our full Privacy Policy below for a detailed explanation of our practices.
The Digital Services, including the articles, reports, solutions, training and other products and services made available through the Digital Services (collectively, the “Materials”), are made available for informational and research purposes and are intended for users acting in a professional capacity. Please note that access to certain Digital Services may require a subscription and may be subject to additional terms.
What Information We Obtain
Information you provide or that we collect directly from you when you use the Digital Services, including when you create an account, complete a form or subscribe to a mailing list. This may include your contact or demographic information.
Certain Digital Services or Materials may require a payment for access. We use payment information for the limited purposes of processing your transaction, providing you with the requested service or information and to protect our rights or the rights of others.
Information you provide us about others, such as the name and email of a contact with whom you want to share the Materials or the name, job title and contact information of a member of staff for whom you are purchasing a training.
Information collected by automated means such as cookies or similar tools. This may include information about your device and browser, including IP address or mobile.
A. Information automatically collected
The Digital Services automatically log certain information about visits to the Digital Services, such as the number and frequency of visitors, technical information about browsers and devices used to access the Digital Services, and information about crashes or other technical issues. In addition, in accordance with your expressed preferences, we and third parties automatically collect certain information through cookies and similar tools (referred collectively as “Cookies and Similar Technologies”) about your activities over time across the Digital Services as well as across third-party sites, apps or other media. Some Cookies and Similar Technologies assign or collect unique cookie IDs or other identifiers associated with your browser or device. Cookies and Similar Technologies may collect information while you are using the Digital Services or while they are running in the background of your device. More information about the Cookies and Similar Technologies used on the Digital Services, including how to manage your preferences, is set out in the Cookie Policy.
The information automatically collected includes the following:
Information about your computer, device, browser and operating system (e.g., type, model, and/or version).
Internet protocol (IP) address, which is used to derive your general geographic area (e.g., city and country).
Device identifiers.
Information about your interactions with the Digital Services, including browsing activities and clickstream data that reflect the Materials you have accessed, clicked on, or viewed.
Information about how you accessed the Digital Services, including details about websites or apps visited immediately before or after accessing a Digital Service.
Demographic and interests information (e.g., region, industry sector, preferred language, topics of interest).
Information about your interactions with email messages and other communications, such as whether you opened or forwarded the email or clicked on links contained in the email.
For more information about the use of automated means in the context of interest-based advertising and how you can limit tracking, see the Cookie Policy.
B. Information we obtain from other sources
DigitalUpcourse receives information about you from other sources which may be combined with information obtained about you as a result of your interactions with the Digital Services or Materials. For example, we obtain data from:
Third-party data suppliers such as data aggregators, data resellers, public databases and business partners. These suppliers provide us with demographic information, information about your organization, and other information that helps us learn about you and other users of the Digital Services.
Operators of third-party sites, platforms or other devices and technologies when you interact with the Materials on those channels and platforms.
Social Media Platforms and similar services (“Social Media Platforms”). We obtain information from Social Media Platforms such as LinkedIn, which may include your username, user ID, demographic information and other information, subject to the settings and privacy practices of the relevant Social Media Platform.
How We use the information provided
How We Use Information We Obtain
To process your requests and provide you with the Digital Services, including to customize and improve the Digital Services or Materials and provide recommendations.
To learn about users of the Digital Services and Materials and analyze how you and others interact with and respond to the Digital Services.
To communicate with you, including to send you marketing and promotional communications.
For our advertising and marketing purposes.
To protect our rights and the rights of others.
For advertising and marketing purposes, including interest-based advertising.
This activity includes:
Developing, managing and conducting advertising and marketing campaigns, promotions and offers, including about the Digital Services, Materials and other products, services or initiatives.
Cross-device linking. If you access the Digital Services from multiple browsers or devices, we, our service providers and third parties may try to establish connections among and link the different browsers and devices you use to access the Digital Services. This helps us provide you with a seamless experience across the browsers and devices you use and serve you with the relevant Materials.
Interest-based advertising (also known as targeted or personalized advertising or ads) is advertising based on your interests as inferred from your activities over time on the Digital Services and online services operated by third parties, as well as other information. Interest-based ads consist of text ads, images, animations or videos and are displayed to you based on various factors, including the context of the site or app in which they appear (e.g., sport or travel section), information you provided to the operator of the site (e.g., when you created an account), your activities on the site (e.g., pages viewed, searches performed or ads clicked), and information such as your demographic, interests information.
In line with your expressed preferences we, our service providers and third parties use automated means including Cookies and Similar Technologies on the Digital Services and on third-party sites, apps or other media to (a) collect information for interest-based advertising purposes or (b) serve you interest-based ads. When you agree to the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies on the Digital Services, unique identifiers may be associated with your browser or device to support interest-based advertising.
We use online and offline information we obtain about you, including your personal information, for interest-based advertising purposes. We aggregate the information we obtain to create audiences that are most likely to respond to ads based on demographic, interests or household information.
There are steps you can take to limit the collection of your information by Cookies and Similar Technologies and the use of your information for interest-based advertising purposes. These steps vary for the web and mobile environments and are browser and device specific. To learn more about these choices, see the Cookie Policy.
D. To protect our rights or the rights of others. This protection includes:
Interest-based ads may be displayed to you by third parties, such as ad networks or exchanges.
Detecting, preventing and responding to fraud or potentially illegal activities, misuse of the Digital Services, intellectual property infringement or other violations of law, this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use or other policies.
Backing up our systems, including for disaster recovery purposes, and enhancing the overall security of the Digital Services.
YOUR CHOICES, INCLUDING OPT-OUTS Direct Marketing Opt-Outs
You may opt out of receiving marketing or promotional emails from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “Preference Center” links contained in such emails. Depending on the Digital Service you use, you may also be able to opt out of marketing or promotional emails by logging into your account and managing your email preferences. Please keep in mind that if you opt out of receiving marketing or promotional emails we will still send you transactional emails or other communications relating to your use of the Digital Services or Materials (e.g., to confirm your access to the relevant Materials, to inform you of changes to a Digital Service or in response to your password recovery request). You may request that we stop sending you direct mail marketing communications by notifying by email at contact@digitalupcourse.com.
